waben...@gmail.com wrote: > wraeth <wra...@wraeth.id.au> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 14/09/15 13:46, Dale wrote: >>> So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it. What the heck >>> is this about? Anyone else ever run into this? Is there a way to >>> "find" it?? Can I remove it somehow?? >> I'm not certain, but I believe the -MERGING-* files are left over from >> an interrupted Install phase. Dr. Google suggests manually removing >> [1,2] and while I did come across this many moons ago, I can't recall >> how I dealt with it myself. >> >> 1: >> http://negativesum.net/tech/linux/gentoo/log/fixing-portage-when-it-has- >> wedged-a-package-as-merging >> 2: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-882687.html > @Dale > > Have you tried to install it again? If that works, you can maybe remove > it afterwards. > > -- > Regards > wabe > >
Well, I'd be chicken to have two packages dealing with /dev at the same time, although portage says it is not a blocker. For future reference, I went and dug in this path: /var/db/pkg/sys-fs It turned out it was just a empty directory and deleting it cleared it up. Since it was empty, I guess that was safe enough. If anything was in it, then I'd be wanting to make sure it was safe to remove first. So, it's fixed. I get a clean eix run and if its happy, I'm happy. ;-) Thanks all. Dale :-) :-)
