Loads of failed equery checks

chocolatefrog123 · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2022 Posts: 21

Hello,

i ran "equery check --only-failures "*"" and it looks like loads of packages failed validation with error messages such as:

"/etc/portage/savedconfig/x11-wm/dwm-6.3 has wrong mtime
19 out of 20 files passed",

"/etc/conf.d/hostname has incorrect MD5sum
* Checking sys-apps/openrc-0.45.2 ...
347 out of 350 files passed"

and

"/usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules.cache has incorrect MD5sum
1641 out of 1642 files passed".

There are loads of similarly (corrupted?) packages, but many validate perfectly fine and everything seems to run smoothly. I firt ran the command on dwm only and though that it was due to something having to do with the patching i had recently done, but seeing that it happens to openrc as well that doesnt seem probable.

The gentoo stage3 tarball passed the checks outlined in the installation guide.

What has gone wrong? Is this something to worry about?

freke · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:20 am Post subject:

I believe the wrong MD5sums is only natural?

Ie. files that has been changed (/etc/*, *.cache etc.) versus the originals from the ebuild.

Other than that I have a single wrong mtime (is 1654430005, should be 1654363859) - which I think might be ie. due to ntp/chrony correcting the time when that file was installed?

And loads of missing files (I deleted all .keep-files from my system - and it complains about those).

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 23092

equery check will find for you packages that, as installed, are not exactly as they were when Portage installed them. Differences are not automatically corruption.

Wrong mtime can mean that you changed the file's contents, then later changed them back. The mtime now reflects when you undid your change, and the contents are now the same as they were at install time.