Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerate portage cache from scratch following a big toe crash?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Thanks Dale, and to Andrea also.

On my machine I'm not finding a man page on emerge-webrsync so I'm a
bit hesitant to run it until I find maybe some information on line.

Andrea's emerge --metadata command is one thing I thought about last
night, along with maybe --regen, but decided it wasn't worth messing
things up. I think maybe the removal of eix completely, then removal
of the cache database, and then re-emerging eix and starting clean
with that program might be the safest first step, assuming that I
don't find a problem with emerge itself this evening.

Thanks for the ideas.

Cheers,
Mark