From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MyFc0-00083V-FZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:58:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 036C6E07B5; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:58:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailserv.unb.ca (mailserv.unb.ca [131.202.1.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E17DBE07B5 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jupiter.csd.unb.ca (iapetus.its.unb.ca [131.202.3.6]) by mailserv.unb.ca (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.6) with SMTP id n9F1wcRN025310 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:58:38 -0300 Message-Id: <200910150158.n9F1wcRN025310@mailserv.unb.ca> Received: by jupiter.csd.unb.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:58:38 -0300 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: failing to emerge update In-reply-to: <20091014234930.GA9199@mars.lan> References: <20091013035841.GA20128@mars.lan> <225000070910122331h374f8c6ar5eb883410b83c7be@mail.gmail.com> <20091013132513.GA23274@mars.lan> <20091014234930.GA9199@mars.lan> Comments: In-reply-to Mansour Al Akeel message dated "Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:49:32 -0300." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 22.3.1 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:58:37 -0300 From: David Fellows X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.1, clamav-milter version 0.94.1 on mailserv.unb.ca X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on mailserv.unb.ca Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 9875e561-43ba-47cd-8c9d-ebc9b07b7a3c X-Archives-Hash: ab97b0187d6b29f9695223603e3bccba On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:49:32 -0300 Mansour Al Akeel wrote - > Ok, I think I did something rally bad. I am unable to install emacs. Have you checked the obvious? Do you have gigabytes of free space on the volume housing /var/tmp/portage? Portage leaves its temporary workspace on failure. You have had a lot of falures lately. Sufficient free space on / and /usr? Hardware problems? cpu overheating - is the cpu fan running? general overheating? all fans running? Memory problems? perhaps reseat the memory modules. I/O errors? Corrupted file system? Try fsck. Dave F