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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:15:17 +0200
From: Daniel Wagener <stelf@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] You have no world file
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:15:12 -0700
Dan Cowsill <danthehat@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky
> <michael@orlitzky.com>wrote:
> 
> > On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > I've been having a strange issue every so often.  I'll do a world
> > > update (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely,
> > > installing new packages and suchlike.  I'll then do a little bit
> > > of the old emerge -pcv to check for dangling packages and I will
> > > get the following:
> > >
> > > !!! You have no world file.
> > > !!! Proceeding is likely to break your installation.
> > >
> > > Portage will then politely inform me that it needs to remove 190
> > > packages and I thank FSM I added -p.
> > >
> > > So!  Googling that little tidbit produced nothing meaningful.
> > > What's the story?  Gremlins?
> > >
> >
> > Basically. Do you have a world file (/var/lib/portage/world)? If
> > not, why not? Is /var or one of its subdirectories mounted
> > separately? Hard drive going bad? Do you see gremlins anywhere?
> >
> > Permissions on /var/lib/portage should be drwxrws--- root:portage
> >
> > /var/lib/portage/world should be -rw-r--r-- root:portage
> >
> >
> File's there, permissions are correctly set, the filesystem isn't
> mounted separately and according to smartctl, the hard drive is doing
> quite well. I'm at a loss!

Have you ever looked at the size world or maybe even into it?