On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky
<michael@orlitzky.com> wrote:
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?
>
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
File's there, permissions are correctly set, the filesystem isn't mounted separately and according to smartctl, the hard drive is doing quite well. I'm at a loss!