I emerged electricsheep and downloaded a sheep pack from http://sheepserver.dreamhosters.com/. This was unzipped into ~/.sheep, forming subfolders based on their package numbers. Running electricsheep works initially, but over time some of the .mpg's get deleted and replaced with empty files whose names end in .xxx but otherwise have the same names as the deleted .mpg. For example, ~/.sheep/2176/00202=71987=69254=71330.mpg, of size 4874756, will be replaced with 00202=71987=69254=71330.xxx, an empty file. This continues until there are only 20 sheep left overall, no matter how many I started with (or in how many folders; the number of all extant .mpg's in all folders under ~/.sheep is 20).What is causing this? Am I doing some sort of update? Downloading new sheep from online? Do I need to change my firewall? What's going on? Here's emerge --info: ascenddescend ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-suspend2-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-suspend2-r2 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.40GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:20:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://toughguy.caltech.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en ja" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi aim alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd eds emboss encode esd exif fam firefox fortran gdbm gif glitz gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv icq immqt ipv6 isdnlog jabber java jpeg ldap libg++ mad matroska matrox midi mikmod mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wifi win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="kbd keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ja" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 i915 vesa fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Are you running electricsheep directly from the command line or from xscreensaver? Either way, look at the --max-megabytes option, you may be overfilling your cache.
sorry don't know whats causing this. hope you work it out.
