On Sunday 30 January 2011, BRM wrote: > A little while back my server ran out of hard disk space (due to a > failed hard drive) and as a result my local portage mirror got > destroyed. Well, I fixed there server - initially by just grabbing a > new copy of portage like a new install since it was just completely > hosed, and the server is back up and working. However, now my > desktop and laptop are both having problems. They sync just fine > against the server, but I get a series of errors about not having > various ebuilds in the manifest files - so many that I can't emerge > anything (even portage).
It seems your three systems share a broken portage tree, try with the latest portage snapshot, for example from http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/ You can also skip the sync and put it directly on the clients to see if the rsync service on server is broken... Once you stabilize the root cause, it's time to focus on the other issues (for example run a non-X runlevel on the laptop to fix the login issue, use nano until vim is ok, and so on). HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.36-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 3 11:54:58 CET 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth