So last night I do "emerge sync", and all of a sudden portage is giving me a whole lot of I/O errors right before "emerge sync" is completed, like
stat app-misc/esekeyd : Input/output error rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "app-misc/esekeyd/files": Input/output error (2) stat app-misc/esekeyd/files : Input/output error io timeout after 180 seconds - exiting rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(85) The emerge will not complete successfully. Tried it again this morning - no luck. Thought I'd reboot, and on boot-up I get a message telling me that my "/dev/sda4" filesystem, which is where my /usr is mounted, contains errors. So as Gentoo is trying to repair it, I hear periodic beeps coming from inside my PC. Finally, the PC boots. I run "emerge sync", and again - same errors that I posted above. But this time, I hear beeps from inside my PC even as emerge is running trying to complete syncing. The sync will not complete successfully, so I cannot even use portage until I get a successful sync (right?). Do I have a problem with my hardware in this case, or is it something software related? I am using two big old Seagate SCSI drives (47 GB each), with Adaptec drivers. My partition table is as follows, if it helps resolve this: /dev/sda1 --> /boot (200MB) /dev/sda2 --> SWAP (2GB) /dev/sda3 --> / (25GB) /dev/sda4 --> /usr (20GB) /dev/sdb1 --> /home (47GB) I am running an Intel x86-based system. Would appreciate any help. Denis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
