From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HypSj-0001FE-5J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:34:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5EDWoum031375; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:32:50 GMT Received: from mta-fe.casema.nl (cas-mta3-fe.casema.nl [83.80.1.28]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5EDSQ7T026584 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:28:26 GMT Received: from localhost (cas-filter2.mgmt.casema.nl [10.42.32.69]) by mta-fe.casema.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B69463B for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:28:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mta-fe.casema.nl ([10.42.32.28]) by localhost (cas-filter2.mgmt.casema.nl [10.42.32.211]) (amavisd-new, port 20024) with ESMTP id 19055-07 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:28:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 535150d6.cable.casema.nl (535150D6.cable.casema.nl [83.81.80.214]) by mta-fe.casema.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D672D463A for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:28:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Rudmer van Dijk To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:28:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200706141100.47328.rudmer.van.dijk@casema.nl> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706141528.23389.rudmer.van.dijk@casema.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at casema.nl X-Archives-Salt: d7e0201f-9f17-4dd5-91b0-079d137df80f X-Archives-Hash: 45b06ba9ba9ddc5b969a215a1cd2b706 On Thursday 14 June 2007, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: > On 6/14/07, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > > hmm, then it really looks like your filesystem is screwed... > > > > what filesystem are you using? > > and have you tried to do a fsck on it? > > It is ext3 filesystem ; I have executed fsck on it, which reported no > errors. It looks like the fs is out of sync with itself : some files are > listed, which do not really exist. > > Better backup that data, and prepare for re-installing the system > soon, I suppose. well, re-installation is not necessary: you can tar the contents of the affected partition, umount partition, re-create the filesystem and then untar the backup (do not forget to use --preserve-permissions). if it is your root partition you need a live-cd or installation-cd to accomplish this. Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list