On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > Has something happened to the gnome overlay. > > It seems to exist > > oldlap ~ # layman -L | grep gnome > * gnome [Git ] (git://git.o.g.o/proj/gnome.git, > h...) > * gnome-live [Git ] > (git://git.o.g.o/proj/gnome-live.g...) > > But it seems to not exist > > oldlap ~ # layman -s gnome > > * Fetching remote list,... > * Remote list already up to date: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml > * Last-modified: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:30:15 GMT > * Fetch Ok > > * Syncing selected overlays,... > * > * Errors: > * ------ > * Failed to select overlay "gnome". > * Error was: Exception: Overlay "gnome" does not exist.
I have not used that overlay, and don't know what's happening, but in general when the overlay address changes, you need to delete and re-add the overlay. So I always try that if I get a strange error like you're getting.
