walt wrote:
On 07/10/2011 12:40 PM, Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:55:01 -0500, Dale wrote:
My old rig was in the middle of a update and we just had a nasty
little thunderstorm here. It was OOo of course. It was 7 hours
into a 9 hour compile when the lights blinked.
It won't have reached the install stage, so the only filesystem
being written to would have been the one holding $PORTAGE_TMPDIR.
It would be advisable to restart the emerge though :)
My deal was the lost compile time. If I had started it about 3 hours
earlier or the lights would have blinked a few hours later then not
so much would have been lost.
That's when I use ebuild instead of starting the emerge from scratch.
Let's say I'm emerging libreoffice and the machine goes down (shudder).
After fixing the problem I would try the following:
#cd /usr/portage/app-office/libreoffice/
#ebuild ./libreoffice-3.3.3.ebuild install
That should pick up where the previous emerge stopped, although the
patches may be reapplied before continuing the compile/install phase.
But, hold on. The "install" phase does only a temporary install in
the portage build directory, not the 'real' install in /usr.
That final step is very easy, though:
#ebuild ./libreoffice-3.3.3.ebuild qmerge
For more detail see man ebuild and search on 'qmerge'. Pretty nifty
for situations like yours. Never hurts to use fsck beforehand. even
if the journal was "recovered" during your first reboot after the
disaster.
I just had to do some of that with KDE. Some things were still buggy in
the tree. It may work but I won't be needing the machine while it
compiles anyway. It's my spare rig. I learned not to let it go to long
between updates tho. Funny thing is, I was still trying to dodge storms
and update the last KDE. It wasn't even finished with it yet and there
is a new release of KDE.
I always boot, let it clean up a little then reboot again. If no errors
are found, I'm good to go. I've gotten pretty good at cleaning up after
a power fail or hard reset. Sort of had some experience here lately. :-(
Thanks.
Dale
:-) :-)
