[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

wabenbau@gmail.com wrote:
> wraeth <wraeth@wraeth.id.au> wrote:
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>> On 14/09/15 13:46, Dale wrote:
>>> So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it.  What the heck
>>> is this about?  Anyone else ever run into this?  Is there a way to
>>> "find" it??  Can I remove it somehow??
>> I'm not certain, but I believe the -MERGING-* files are left over from
>> an interrupted Install phase. Dr. Google suggests manually removing
>> [1,2] and while I did come across this many moons ago, I can't recall
>> how I dealt with it myself.
>>
>> 1:
>> http://negativesum.net/tech/linux/gentoo/log/fixing-portage-when-it-has-
>> wedged-a-package-as-merging
>> 2: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-882687.html
> @Dale
>
> Have you tried to install it again? If that works, you can maybe remove
> it afterwards.
>
> --
> Regards
> wabe
>
>


Well, I'd be chicken to have two packages dealing with /dev at the same
time, although portage says it is not a blocker. 

For future reference, I went and dug in this path:

/var/db/pkg/sys-fs

It turned out it was just a empty directory and deleting it cleared it
up.  Since it was empty, I guess that was safe enough.  If anything was
in it, then I'd be wanting to make sure it was safe to remove first. 

So, it's fixed.  I get a clean eix run and if its happy, I'm happy.  ;-) 

Thanks all.

Dale

:-)  :-)