On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> [09-12-13 14:28]: > > On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> [09-12-13 13:40]: > > > > 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. > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > as soon I do the command sequence described above, qsearch fails with > > > > > > > > > opening '/usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x' failed: Permission > > > denied search: initialize_flat(): You should run this command as root: > > > q -m > > > > > > and an > > > > > > sudo ls /usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x > > > > > > fails with > > > > > > ls: cannot access /usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x: No such > > > file or directory > > > > > > There is no symlink to /var and subfolders as far as I can see... > > > > > > What part/file is on /var/... which gets corrupted in case of an > > > filesystem damage ? > > > > how long are you using linux? > > 15 years ... but what does this matter? >
then you should know where /var is. or /usr/portage. fsck /var, fsck the partition containing /usr/portage
