Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On 3/12/11, Peter Humphrey wrote: > when I got an error saying that /boot was mounted read-only. On > investigating, I found that everything I'd put on those two disks had > disappeared, as though in a puff of smoke. All that was left was the > underlying partition layout, but with no content. Vanished, without trace, > just like your kernel tree. Are we seeing a pattern emerging? Were you possibly installing an ~arch system? And using ext4 or btrfs on the partitions? And emerged coreutils-8.10 as well? See the message Mr Jarausch posted yesterday. He referred to this bug as well: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353907 -- Arttu V.
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On Sunday 13 March 2011 09:34:31 Arttu V. wrote: > On 3/12/11, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > when I got an error saying that /boot was mounted read-only. On > > investigating, I found that everything I'd put on those two disks had > > disappeared, as though in a puff of smoke. All that was left was the > > underlying partition layout, but with no content. Vanished, without > > trace, just like your kernel tree. > > Are we seeing a pattern emerging? Were you possibly installing an > ~arch system? And using ext4 or btrfs on the partitions? And emerged > coreutils-8.10 as well? It would be nice to think it was that easy, but no, it was straight amd64 with coreutils 8.7. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On 03/12/2011 01:28 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: > > But if this was a pre-existing build, he should have had numerous > kernels configured, unless he removed/moved the config each time he > upgraded. > > Sean, > > Two questions. I don't think you ever replied as to whether /usr/src is > a mounted partition, is it? Also, did you have multiple kernels emerged > into different slots before this happened? if so, does portage still > think they're installed? It was not a mounted partition. No multiple kernels. I try to clean up after myself.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/src/linux gone
On 03/09/2011 07:01 PM, walt wrote: > Just as an example, I use the "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" package for > my kernel source code. I use gentoo-sources as well.
