Cannot delete non-existent file weirdness!

woZa

Running emerge sync always gives me this error

gearmonk · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 43

Issues like this usually point to some corrupted data on that part of your disk. Boot to single user mode, or use a livecd, and run a scan on the partition where your /usr/portage lives with the appropriate tool for your filesystem. If you need other help, post back with which type of filesystem you are using, though on a hunch I'm going to guess it's ReiserFS, since it's done that to me as well.

woZa · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:00 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your reply. I have managed to check all partitions except /usr & /(root) - (/var & /home had errors on them which reiserfsck --rebuild-tree managed to fix).

The pc is a remote one that I can only access via ssh and I am stumped as to how to unmount /usr. Killed/stopped all processes that I can but still device is busy. How do I boot to single user mode?

Thanks for your help so far...
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gearmonk · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 43

You need to be sitting at the machine to boot to single user mode, since it only allows you to login locally. You can try using lsof to figure out what processes are accessing /usr. Check 'man lsof'

MagnusBerg · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject:

A lasy solution is to rename the old /usr/portage, make a new one and emerge sync until you feel for doing "reiserfsck --rebuild-tree managed". After that process all files on the partition will be placed in a lost+found directory and you will need to move them back too the toplevel manually to make the system work again..