From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DCE61393F1 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 05:35:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60F8C21C0A7; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 05:34:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yk0-f181.google.com (mail-yk0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D03B21C097 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 05:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ykdt18 with SMTP id t18so122764763ykd.3 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:34:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MRatL2m0uxgSpyFxTPMh/OT/C0B9DssY5On8eh6ZTAY=; b=pBHutWJSZjwCXOfIKDFAXblAb+z+Af223TX/LcNgwL1KqLlI7vyQibmWPBsUGFPVL2 4EWu4BPpBkmSR1WF5HjyD5tmI6xJ8D8NWeHGLOJ2QG9Zk+r38UE411PCcqeaylhtCENh X5tL7Cra4YAw4XhICNBB55bVW86S/w3j2i8Ca3D3ZXphMOoxM5Iv0mXeM/By4zoFM9Ys kv1moCpcH8Ixzhro0GIQ370rpBj1MaWVXjR0jpdG8iwTYdYRhGmYIHANYM9ilrFHaTxY hCfkuYU9frgIJ5IqsvJhk6YSGOCiMNOQc7P0xevMg9uKYiAI/rNbAI9xMIcEMSuEVgmf uCCQ== X-Received: by 10.13.223.6 with SMTP id i6mr12071579ywe.7.1442208892416; Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:34:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-115-33.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.115.33]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h205sm8685037ywc.2.2015.09.13.22.34.51 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55F65C7B.6090608@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:34:51 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1 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: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it References: <55F642F9.5020402@gmail.com> <55F6560C.1070404@wraeth.id.au> <20150914071411.40174343@hal9000.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20150914071411.40174343@hal9000.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 77dc9198-6cad-421b-b2e0-0a0136ea4893 X-Archives-Hash: 08c463232b8d0fff95ac3772f3ef791e wabenbau@gmail.com wrote: > wraeth wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> 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 :-) :-)