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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp/portage not empty?
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On Wednesday 09 June 2010 09:32:40 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:03:51 +0000, Mick wrote:
> > Thanks I used reiser4progs to check and repair the fs. The weird
> > thing is that I had to repeat this on the /var partition, after I
> > zero'ed it, reformatted it and reinstalled gentoo on it. O_O
> >
> > How is it possible that the same directory/file gets corrupted again
> > after a reinstall?
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> The first thing I'd do it set PORTAGE_TMPDIR to somewhere less important
> than /var. You don't want to risk corrupting system files while sorting
> this out. It would also show whether the problem was with an ebuild or
> the filesystem. Use a tmpfs filesystem if you have the memory.
I had to reinstall because I didn't catch this early enough the first time =
and=20
it corrupted my other system partitions. This corruption happened when I=20
installed gcc-4.4.3-r2.
After I reinstalled and while still running the LiveCD I updated gcc to the=
=20
same gcc-4.4.3-r2 version. As I said, again I ended up with a corrupted =20
'/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-
r2/work/gcc-4.4.3/libjava/classpath/resource/gnu/java/locale' directory.
Running fsck.reiser4 --check and then --fix corrected the corruption and th=
at=20
was that. Before I reinstalled, the corruption must have been more pervasi=
ve=20
because fsck.reiser4 could not fix it - a simple reboot would bring it back.
So, my conclusion from this sad story is that on my system reiser4 was=20
attacked by gcc! O_O
I'd be interested to know if any other gentoo systems running a separate /v=
ar=20
partition on reiser4 noticed this, in which case I'd file a bug for it. If=
=20
I'm alone in having this problem then I'll wait until it happens again befo=
re=20
I open a bug report.
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick
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