Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> [09-12-13 15:04]: > 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
...was my first idea...no nothing ... plenty of space... -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
