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 1QCZmG-0004Xb-3Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:57:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D785E1C003; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:55:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.viabit.com (mail2.viabit.com [65.246.80.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FD21C003 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:55:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.17.29.6] (unknown [65.213.236.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.viabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9407E37AD8 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:55:38 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=orlitzky.com; s=mail2; t=1303314938; bh=HDSw7LDrpb6uU40Rqagsfz/MrLqlKtjSFfhyRwF4Jr8=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=GgK8N1/p1SN+zIcDnYhn8ED9rwKR1vkloWfq9fhHq5nKETo6KW/9MWq9FC3P+YCQc 3HZOcssGmmPYScF5F3IMIX5CFbfwJIDUh2ZCccaCkYFTU8LDRBVeMWJ30u+O6AUgv7 nUYOtLLG8Rkv2eGvTb3xY2MPy8SBYesZ5j9iWZ3Q= Message-ID: <4DAF01FA.50509@orlitzky.com> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:55:38 -0400 From: Michael Orlitzky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110404 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 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] You have no world file References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0cea303bb56c824f16e1e01be589cb21 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