ok, I have seen this befor. Try rebuilding the existing portage tree on your system...
# emerge meta-data Make note of ant errors. ciao On 4/23/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To me that doesn't look like filesystem stuff. I think something murdered > > your portage cache. I'd try and axe the whole thing (if possible) and > > rebuild it all. Could take a long time, but it could work. > > > > Also, if those two packages aren't installed right now, it looks like all > > it's > > complaining about is the absence of one line. You could possibly find a way > > to hand-write the missing data, and see if that shuts it up. > > Unfortunately, its not just those two packages which I've quoted here > as an example . . . it is every single package! > > If I were to delete something it has to be the lot. Which directory > am I supposed to rm? > > Is it /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage perhaps? > -- > Regards, > Mick > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list