On Saturday 28 Jan 2017 08:40:04 Daniel Frey wrote: > 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 :/)
Yes, nothing but one 256 GB NVMe drive in this box. Is there something like hdparm that will keep an eye on it for me? I hope it isn't that already: the whole system only dates from last May. -- Regards Peter
