On Sunday 13 December 2009 12:36:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > it seems, something has screwed up my system.
> >
> > The symptoms are: Updateing a certain package with emerge (which
> > successfully compile and install that package) has no effect.
> > Next time exactly the same package is reported again as to be
> > updated.
> >
> > And qsearch reports that my metadatabase has gone with the wind
> > and I have to do a 'w -m' as root, which helps for that moment,
> > but next it is again not present. I think (read:dont know for sure)
> > that the
> >     eix-sync && emerge -pv --verbose --update --deep world
> > has "killed" it.
> >
> > Unfortunately I am not that deeply involved in the internal
> > data handling of the gentoo package manager to have an idea
> > what is going wrong here.
> >
> > What can I do to fix this problem ?
> >
> > Kind regards and have a nice weekend!
> > mcc
> 
> fsck your partition containing /var.

and also check that you have not run out of disk space.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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