Hi, Davide. On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 03:38:03PM +0000, Davide Carnovale wrote: > Hi all! > i was going through a world update today and during --depclean emerge throw > an error complaining about possible corrupted binaries or hw failure. > since then it has stopped working, no matter what i try to emerge, the > command simply return to the shell without any kind of error or any other > output at all. > i fired and usb stick with the gentoo 11 live dvd and i copied over both > bash and emerge binaries to my machine, in case they were corrupted (bash > was given as the most likely) but nothing changed. > now i simply have no clue on what's wrong and how can i fix it, apart from a > full reinstall, which i'd like to avoid. > > can anyone point me somewhere to solve this problem?
Try testing your RAM. There is a RAM tester (I think it's called memtest2) on the minimal installation CD. > D -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
