I crashed my portage and emerge stopped working. It's normal. But i suggest we'd add troubleshooting/recovery section to the handbook, some guidelines to help users solve critical problems like this. I didn't see any documents refer to portage_rescue. Gentoo x86 tips and trick have some guidelines for malfunctioning installation when installing, not when using. Portage recovery is one problem. Another may be accidentally removed /var/db/pkg ... What do you think?
I think this can't be done in a guide but using a knowledge base of some sort. See http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/gentoo/proposals/troubleshooting.html for a proposal that we can't deliver currently.
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BTW, a good start would be to identify a few recovery items you can think of and provide solutions already for them. Building a KB without content is stupid :)
You know what? I'll bite... start with this KB I've been thinking about for more than a year now.
I've had a local portage-related troubleshooter/link collection for quite some time. I've started to put it on my dev space. Not much, but a start. Most of it are forum FAQs already. http://dev.gentoo.org/~kallamej/
ok. I didn't mean that. But that is over-great :D I think we should close this bug as WONT FIX and discuss further on gentoo-doc@ or gentoo-dev@ then :)
If you don't mind I'll keep it open so that I can fully work this out. Since I'll probably have to decrease my online development time in the near future it might be interesting for me to dedicate time on such a project :)
*** Bug 104217 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Timing out
Reopening; I'm now going to focus mainly on the gentoo knowledge base thingie (yes, seriously :p). Stay tuned, information to follow soon.
(In reply to comment #10) > Reopening; I'm now going to focus mainly on the gentoo knowledge base thingie > (yes, seriously :p). Stay tuned, information to follow soon. > I've started a topic on forums.gentoo.org which contains some suggestions about organising KB, may be you'll find some nice ideas there. Here is the link: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462377.html
Last time I stopped an emerge run with ^C I was reported for Information of portage recovery and where to find a minimum portage to run recovery of portage. Please check this. Maybe this Information can be included in the Handbook?
(In reply to comment #6) > ok. I didn't mean that. But that is over-great :D I think we should close this > bug as WONT FIX and discuss further on gentoo-doc@ or gentoo-dev@ then :) KB project has its own mailing list. Check http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kbase/
