I have a little Mac Mini - my first attempt at Gentoo on a PowerPC - that I brought up this week. It was (is) working but I'm not using it for anything yet. Just playing around with the machine. Nothing serious.
This morning I wasn't paying much attention and wanted to do an emerge -DuN world. The process had blocking issues: MacMini ~ # emerge -pv coreutils These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.10.1 [1.10] 897 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1 [6.9-r1] USE="acl nls (-selinux) -static -vanilla% -xattr" 3,670 kB [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) [blocks B ] >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5) Total: 2 packages (2 upgrades, 2 blocks), Size of downloads: 4,566 kB so without any real thought I did an emerge -C coreutils and walked away. Well, that, it seems, was a *very* bad idea. Now nothing much works. There were some messages that had I been watching I would have stopped the process but I wasn't so there you go. Oops. Anyway, the machine is still up and running but I suspect that it might not reboot or allow logins if it did reboot. I'm unable to emerge anything right now. coreutils, as folks probably know, includes stuff that once gone pretty much stops the machine from being interesting or useful. Question: Is there a way to recover from this? It's not a huge issue even if I have to completely rebuild the machine. As I say this was mostly a Gentoo build on a lark to test out how the machine might work for a couple of different ideas - mythfrontend and a simple router. Everything was quick and dirty and there are a few things I might change anyway, but if I can get it working again I figure I should learn how. Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
