Re: [gentoo-user] fsck + emerge => crash

[Loupy <il.loupy@googlemail.com>]

Hi all,

2009/11/16 Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>:
> My advice would have been to do periodic backups.  But I guess it's too
> late for that.
Eeeeek, backups: She needs backup because she can't hang with the big dogs.
Well now I learned a lesson.

> For the encoding error, that character qualifies as latin1 (â) so maybe
> it's an issue where your system (or python) encoding got out of wack.
> You may be able to fix it easily changing that, but my guess is along
> the way you'll find little errors here and there with other things
> (that's why backups are so handy).
I will try this first, but I think you are with the little errors.

2009/11/16 Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:
> I assume that you ran fsck from a LiveCD?  May want to use the same to rebuild
> your toolchain.
As for the toolchain: is python part of it?

> Have a look here: <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-
> portage.xml> in case it helps.
That's where I first looked for advice, but the procedure doesn't help
me fixing this issue over here. I think it would be nice if one sets
up an article how to rebuild the current system.

2009/11/16 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>:
> probably that files endet in LOST+FOUND. You also can get them from a portage
> tarfile
Well, I found some of the files, but not all, so I will have to
remerge at least the ones I didn't find.

> best thing you can do - remove the directories affected and re-emerge the stuff.
Jip, that's what I heading for now. The funny thing is, that the
system as whole runs charming, just emerge seems to be broken.

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Will report soon which way I gone.

Stay tuned!
~Loupy