On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:15:12 -0700 Dan Cowsill <danthe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky > <mich...@orlitzky.com>wrote: > > > On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > I've been having a strange issue every so often. I'll do a world > > > update (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely, > > > installing new packages and suchlike. I'll then do a little bit > > > of the old emerge -pcv to check for dangling packages and I will > > > get the following: > > > > > > !!! You have no world file. > > > !!! Proceeding is likely to break your installation. > > > > > > Portage will then politely inform me that it needs to remove 190 > > > packages and I thank FSM I added -p. > > > > > > So! Googling that little tidbit produced nothing meaningful. > > > What's the story? Gremlins? > > > > > > > Basically. Do you have a world file (/var/lib/portage/world)? If > > not, why not? Is /var or one of its subdirectories mounted > > separately? Hard drive going bad? Do you see gremlins anywhere? > > > > Permissions on /var/lib/portage should be drwxrws--- root:portage > > > > /var/lib/portage/world should be -rw-r--r-- root:portage > > > > > File's there, permissions are correctly set, the filesystem isn't > mounted separately and according to smartctl, the hard drive is doing > quite well. I'm at a loss! Have you ever looked at the size world or maybe even into it?
