Bug 63984

Summary:	Portage and power failure cache issues (resuming)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Xake <kanelxake>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Xake 2004-09-14 04:50:41 UTC

I wanted to do a "emerge -e world" to rebuild.
I typed it and all went fine. Then it came a power interupption.
Started my system and wanted to do "emerge --resume" to resume the process (witch had gone for some hours and had some let).
To my dissapointment:
"emerge: It seems we have nothing to resume..."

my /var/tmp/portage indicates something else.


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-21 17:09:36 UTC

Corruption is not fixable by any means available to portage.

Comment 2 Xake 2004-09-21 17:48:59 UTC

But then I have a question: Why if I cancel a emerge then it is possible to resume, but not after powerfailure/terminal faliure. 
I have had the same problem a while ago when my X was unstable and randomly restarted. Any emerge right then going on in an open term.window had to be restarted from scratch.

I believe this has something to do when portage write the information --resume uses to know where from to continue and then comes my question: is this information not presented during the emerge only to be written when error/canceled out?