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xstaticxgpx
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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:36 am Post subject: Emerge and Paludis making me reinstall my entire world |
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| Exactly as the topic says... for some reason both paludis and emerge want me to reinstall all 700 files in my world spec... why?!?!! I'm not going to waste my time and energy trying to actually do it, so... what's wrong and how can I fix it without going on vacation |
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desultory
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| Supplying the commands which produce this behavior would be greatly accelerate the process of locating a cause. |
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xstaticxgpx
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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For example; i would just do "paludis -pi gnomebaker" or "emerge -av gnomebaker" and it will want to reinstall gcc, glibc, python, perl... and the wierd thing is they mark the packages as new and not as reinstalls or upgrades... even though i obviously have them installed
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mv
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Perhaps your /var/db/pkg database is damaged (or has strange permissions). Does eix display the installed packages as "installed"? |
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xstaticxgpx
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| mv wrote: | | Perhaps your /var/db/pkg database is damaged (or has strange permissions). Does eix display the installed packages as "installed"? |
No, neither eix, paludis, or emerge show any of my installed packages as installed.  I'll check out var/db/pkg permissions, because I know it's complete.
EDIT** What the hell!!! /var/db/pkg got deleted or something, I only have a few categories in there!
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xstaticxgpx@killerkarebears ~ $ ls -la /var/db/pkg
total 72
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2007-06-26 21:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-06-26 08:40 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-06-26 08:09 app-admin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-06-26 08:09 app-misc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-06-26 07:35 app-shells
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-06-26 20:59 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-06-26 08:08 dev-lang
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-06-26 08:05 dev-libs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-06-26 07:55 dev-perl
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-06-26 08:09 dev-python
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-06-26 20:59 dev-util
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-06-26 08:00 net-misc
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-06-26 07:55 perl-core
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-06-26 08:09 sys-apps
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2007-06-26 07:56 sys-devel
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-27 01:28 sys-kernel
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2007-06-26 08:06 sys-libs
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-06-26 07:35 virtual
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2007-06-26 07:23 world -> /var/lib/portage/world
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but /usr/portage is complete... idk what happened, should i just copy over /usr/portage to /var/db/pkg ?
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xstaticxgpx@killerkarebears ~ $ ls /usr/portage
app-accessibility dev-python media-gfx sci-mathematics
app-admin dev-ruby media-libs sci-misc
app-antivirus dev-scheme media-plugins sci-physics
app-arch dev-tcltk media-radio sci-visualization
app-backup dev-tex media-sound scripts
app-benchmarks dev-tinyos media-tv sec-policy
app-cdr dev-util media-video skel.ChangeLog
app-crypt distfiles metadata skel.ebuild
app-dicts eclass net-analyzer skel.metadata.xml
app-doc experimental net-dialup snapshots
app-editors games-action net-dns sys-apps
app-emacs games-arcade net-firewall sys-auth
app-emulation games-board net-fs sys-block
app-forensics games-emulation net-ftp sys-boot
app-i18n games-engines net-im sys-cluster
app-laptop games-fps net-irc sys-devel
app-misc games-kids net-libs sys-freebsd
app-mobilephone games-misc net-mail sys-fs
app-office games-mud net-misc sys-kernel
app-pda games-puzzle net-nds sys-libs
app-portage games-roguelike net-news sys-power
app-shells games-rpg net-nntp sys-process
app-text games-server net-p2p virtual
app-vim games-simulation net-print www-apache
app-xemacs games-sports net-proxy www-apps
dev-ada games-strategy net-voip www-client
dev-cpp games-util net-wireless www-misc
dev-db gnome-base net-www www-servers
dev-dotnet gnome-extra net-zope x11-apps
dev-embedded gnustep-apps perl-core x11-base
dev-games gnustep-base profiles x11-drivers
dev-haskell gnustep-libs releases x11-libs
dev-java grp rox-base x11-misc
dev-lang header.txt rox-extra x11-plugins
dev-libs kde-base sci-astronomy x11-proto
dev-lisp kde-misc sci-biology x11-terms
dev-ml licenses sci-calculators x11-themes
dev-perl mail-client sci-chemistry x11-wm
dev-php mail-filter sci-electronics xfce-base
dev-php4 mail-mta sci-geosciences xfce-extra
dev-php5 media-fonts sci-libs |
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AllenJB
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| xstaticxgpx wrote: | | mv wrote: | | Perhaps your /var/db/pkg database is damaged (or has strange permissions). Does eix display the installed packages as "installed"? |
No, neither eix, paludis, or emerge show any of my installed packages as installed. I'll check out var/db/pkg permissions, because I know it's complete.
EDIT** What the hell!!! /var/db/pkg got deleted or something, I only have a few categories in there!
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but /usr/portage is complete... idk what happened, should i just copy over /usr/portage to /var/db/pkg ? |
No, that won't work. The content is different. |
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xstaticxgpx
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| AllenJB wrote: | | xstaticxgpx wrote: | | mv wrote: | | Perhaps your /var/db/pkg database is damaged (or has strange permissions). Does eix display the installed packages as "installed"? |
No, neither eix, paludis, or emerge show any of my installed packages as installed. I'll check out var/db/pkg permissions, because I know it's complete.
EDIT** What the hell!!! /var/db/pkg got deleted or something, I only have a few categories in there!
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but /usr/portage is complete... idk what happened, should i just copy over /usr/portage to /var/db/pkg ? |
No, that won't work. The content is different. |
I thought so... so what should I do? |
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xstaticxgpx
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:07 am Post subject: |
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| Theres no way in hell I'm reinstalling my entire world... I just tried and got collision-protect errors on the first package... should I just reinstall gentoo or what? |
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mv
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:52 am Post subject: |
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What is strange in your listing is the .cache directory. Maybe this is due to your filesystem? Or maybe this is because some path of some tool (e.g. ccache or something similar) was set falsely to /var/db/pkg and this tool deleted this directory, assuming it should be the tool's working directory.
In any case, I would try a filesystemcheck, maybe then the directory re-appears (although this is unlikely).
| xstaticxgpx wrote: | | Theres no way in hell I'm reinstalling my entire world... |
Without the /var/db/pkg database, portage has no chance of knowing which packages are installed and which files they contain. You must recreate this database.
| Quote: | | I just tried and got collision-protect errors on the first package... |
This is not surprising, because portage would overwrite files which (according to the /var/db/pkg database) belong to no package. Probably the only reasonable way to restore the database is to re-emerge all packages (i.e. emerge -eD world or something smiliar), using FEATURE='-collision-protect'. If you are sure that exactly the same version will be re-emerged as those which are actually installed, this will work fine. Otherwise you should look afterwards for files which are on your disk but still not in the /var/db/pkg database (there are "findcruft" scripts which do this - check in the forums). Most of these files can then probably be deleted if they are older than your emerge -eD world (you should of course verify that these are not configuration files or similar things which you intentionally want to keep). |
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zlin
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| mv wrote: | | What is strange in your listing is the .cache directory. Maybe this is due to your filesystem? Or maybe this is because some path of some tool (e.g. ccache or something similar) was set falsely to /var/db/pkg and this tool deleted this directory, assuming it should be the tool's working directory. |
That's the default location for the names and provides cache for Paludis. Nothing strange about that.
| xstaticxgpx wrote: | | Theres no way in hell I'm reinstalling my entire world... I just tried and got collision-protect errors on the first package... should I just reinstall gentoo or what? |
Without /var/db/pkg you're pretty much screwed. All you can do is reinstall everything as suggested by your package manager. Just disable collision-protect while doing it. That's ok. The benefit to reinstalling the packages in place is that unless you've left that problem out your system is usable while you do it... In the future you might want to backup /var/db/pkg (including your world file of course) and /etc/{make.conf,portage/,paludis/}. I don't really see what you gain by reinstalling from scratch rather than just letting Paludis do it's best at reinstalling the missing packages in place. |
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