On 01/28/2017 03:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 26 Jan 2017 22:42:06 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Somethng has gone wrong with your installation of portage or your copy >> of the tree - that "no ebuilds" message is impossible. > > Indeed so. So I've now built a fresh system and I'll see how that goes. > >> It will probably be a cruel task to track down exactly what is wrong, my >> intuition says something in a local cache somewhere. Might be easiest >> just to delete all portage data (*except* /var/db/pkg), download a new >> tree tarball and let portage sort itself out > > [OT] > Recent versions of System Rescue CD have a different web browser, and on my > screen it's unusable because any change of style in the text (bold, italic > etc. or an embedded link) causes overlapping. So I had to revert to an older > version for the installation handbook. > [/OT] >
Do you have a SSD? That sounds like symptoms of a failing SSD to me (it's happened more than once to me :/) Dan
