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 1Ola5z-0006Cy-5N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:17:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9DF9E0954; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:17:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE456E0954 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:17:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk1 with SMTP id 1so64902gxk.40 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:17:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HM64JX2YtRTfmtbceXUqOhbafIsvInqQotD3EXKoC8Y=; b=JMqnXESZf8zT/BFVL27mKTK8ovTeREEtpETqVvHHOM6ugq+4foPZYLQ5S0nQKDj558 EEQSuvxMqvALqCFGxKzMnpKDnL7/Q8eIGy4GjHuR+j983RWzWAkiPa2hVat0ltNKJmR6 3vjQNFsDIhCTSf1hJoImwt2Nyetyh2LOfgp9o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gSssr/Zc2V2RXrH0fYXD3pP+2hEoiXZFpEaMsE6njpc14iQg2CRfYL9fPjwcyWWFOR EJkOiu5mxgHdJpCDbkMVVC9W/ysvgKybaVqpqvY7SsHz950Stt9GVqc2/7FPja72crSe nVTVPWmNzW4bKkKXCKyebqnIfckkw+btZKY9E= Received: by 10.150.75.17 with SMTP id x17mr8257568yba.279.1282105043436; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-123-240.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.123.240]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q1sm834904ybk.20.2010.08.17.21.17.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C6B5ECD.3080801@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:17:17 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100801 Gentoo/2.0.6 SeaMonkey/2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerate portage cache from scratch following a big toe crash? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 29324351-64c4-40f3-8b39-0f49e967f235 X-Archives-Hash: 507fc9b4033f7a0f7fdfdb6f573a7a41 Mark Knecht wrote: > OK, this is too funny. I'm sitting here in the dark browsing around on > my home machine while I'm doing an eix-sync. I have my legs crossed, > sitting in my chair that swivels, and guess what...my big toe is at > __exactly__ the height of the main power button on my APC UPS, and > darn if I don't hit it and power is gone! > > The machine booted and came back up with no obvious problems but when > I tried to continue with the eix-sync I get some pretty messed up > messages, ala: > > Can't read cache file > /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success > Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. > Can't read cache file > /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success > Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. > Can't read cache file > /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success > Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. > Can't read cache file > /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success > Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. > Can't read cache file > /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success > Reading category 154|154 (100%) Finished > > I tried removing the timestamp file to get it to sync again but that > didn't fix it. > > How does a big-toe guy regenerate the database emerge --sync normally > keeps for my machine? > > Too funny! (Hey - at least I provided a laugh I hope!) :-))) > > - Mark > > I think this will help: emerge-webrsync That should download the complete tree. It will be a pretty good size file tho just in case you have dial-up or some other slow connection. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Careful with the toe next time. lol