On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Dan Cowsill <danthe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@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?
>> >
>>
>> Basically. Do you have a world file (/var/lib/portage/world)? If not,
>> 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
>>
>>
For the sake of brevity, here's emerge --info

Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.3-r0,
2.6.36-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r8-i686-Pentium-R-_Dual-Core_CPU_E5200_@
_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-lang/python:     2.6.6-r2, 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r9
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.5
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1
virtual/os-headers:  0
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL"
CBUILD="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/
/etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/
/etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages
news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict
unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/
ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo";
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl apache2 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm gpm
iconv jpeg ldap modules mudflap ncurses nfsv3 nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam
pcre perl php png pppd python readline session ssl sysfs tcpd unicode x86
xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106
cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel
intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null
plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic
auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file
authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user
autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires
ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config
logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer
proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id
userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface
irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech
aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea
ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2
timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216
lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3"
RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64
mga neomagic nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware
dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset
ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark
ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

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