Phantom Updates; emerge won't update

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lousyd · Post by **lousyd** » Mon May 02, 2005 5:57 am

Weird. I was running "emerge --update --deep world" when I ran out of disk space. I still had about ten more emerges to go. I deleted /var/tmp/portage/* and /usr/portage/distfiles/* and then did "emerge sync". That went okay, but then I tried to run "emerge --update --deep world" again. There was only one update. What happened to all the others?

I remember that mozilla (and firefox) was one of the updates, so I ran "emerge search mozilla" and, sure enough, it says that there's a newer ebuild than what I have installed, yet it's not there when I "emerge --update --deep world"! Das schmeckt mir nicht so gut.

_Max_ · Post by **_Max_** » Mon May 02, 2005 6:00 pm

Is mozilla still in your /var/lib/world file?

lousyd · Post by **lousyd** » Mon May 02, 2005 8:50 pm

_Max_ wrote:Is mozilla still in your /var/lib/world file?

Sweet Jesus it's empty! Where'd my world file go?!??

_Max_ · Post by **_Max_** » Tue May 03, 2005 9:10 am

Maybe portage was trying to modify the world file when you ran out of disk space.

I guess this is another argument for having PORTAGE_TMPDIR, /usr and /var on separate partitions.

In any case, I guess this answers your question as to why things are not updated with an emerge -u world...

rhill · Post by **rhill** » Tue May 03, 2005 9:26 am

now would be the time to run regenworld.

tomk · Post by **tomk** » Tue May 03, 2005 12:11 pm

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