[gentoo-user] Re: glibc completed screwed my system
A very small step in the right direction...I unzipped the quickpkg I made into the /mnt/gentoo and now I am able to chroot in there. If I try to re-emerge glibc-2.3.6 though it complains that downgrading is a sure way to destruction. I'm pretty sure it would be safe for me to downgrade because I didn't really do much of anything after installing 2.4 so I'm not sure what the problem would be. The problem is that it still think 2.4 is installed. Ah, here we go. emerge -C =glibc-2.4* worked fully this time (it didn't work fully before, which I forgot to mention). Now it will let me re-emerge =glibc-2.3* overtop of the quickpkg that I unpacked. I am also not compiling with nptlonly (which came in to my profile through 2006.1), so it is now emerging with the exact same use flags that it was before (and the same as what the quickpkg is made from). So hopefully everything will be cool and I will be able to reboot into this machine (I couldn't even boot into it after this b0rking happend). Dave On 9/1/06, David Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I did: I have sticking with gcc-3.x for now... I wanted to upgraded glibc to 2.4. I upgraded it and at the end of the emerge I got this error similar to this one, mine involved libresolv: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443051-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-libresolv+glibc-start-0.html I then did emerge -C =glibc-2.4-r4 to remove glibc-2.4 completely and leave 2.3. Now my whole system is b0rked. I can't even chroot in because it can't run /bin/sh or /bin/bash on the new system. Basically all binaries are screwed on the new system. I do have a quickpkg of glibc2.3 but I'm not sure what good that will do. If anyone can help me I'm desperate to save this system and not have to reinstall. -- David Grant http://www.davidgrant.ca -- David Grant http://www.davidgrant.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: glibc completed screwed my system
David Grant davidgrant at gmail.com writes: If anyone can help me I'm desperate to save this system and not have to reinstall. Well, I have lost xwindows/kde on (2) systems because of an upgrade of make.profile to point to 2006.1. I'm sure glibc was part of the problem. A third syxtem, an amd64, sits just slobering and drooling about; it will not even allow ls or cat to run. so I'm not so sure this one can be saved without a re-installation. It'd sure been nice if there was a little bit more detail on this, problem and recovery options. I've googled for links that help, but found nothing. So how is the new 2006.1 liveCD working these days? I'm soon to find out, on at least one system, maybe (3), Any ideas on recovery mechanisms, for this make.profile/glibc problem are most welcome.. I think I'll just drink (quite a lot) and read this list to see how the smarter half of this list dance around these pending upgrades. I'm quite sure it's my fault, I just do not have the fortitude to fight through another twisted hack-fest of a weekend. Besides it's labor_day weekend and this is one wage-slave that is feeling throughly defeated. My solution is to drink enough that my singing actually starts to sound acceptable ymmv: (Tequila!) cheers! James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc completed screwed my system
On 9/1/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Grant davidgrant at gmail.com writes: If anyone can help me I'm desperate to save this system and not have to reinstall. Well, I have lost xwindows/kde on (2) systems because of an upgrade of make.profile to point to 2006.1. I'm sure glibc was part of the problem. A third syxtem, an amd64, sits just slobering and drooling about; it will not even allow ls or cat to run. so I'm not so sure this one can be saved without a re-installation. It'd sure been nice if there was a little bit more detail on this, problem and recovery options. I've googled for links that help, but found nothing. So how is the new 2006.1 liveCD working these days? I'm soon to find out, on at least one system, maybe (3), Any ideas on recovery mechanisms, for this make.profile/glibc problem are most welcome.. I think I'll just drink (quite a lot) and read this list to see how the smarter half of this list dance around these pending upgrades. I'm quite sure it's my fault, I just do not have the fortitude to fight through another twisted hack-fest of a weekend. Well all I can say is that without my quickpkg I would probably have been screwed. Although there is still one other thing I could have done. I could have grabbed a quickpkg of glibc from another box (although that box has the newest glibc so actually that wouldn't have worked). It would probably be possible to find someone on the mailing list with similar hardware and the correct version of glibc that you want and they could send you the glibc quickpkg'd up for you. Here is pretty much the bug as I experienced it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125868 You can see detail there on how I solved it. My system is now fully working and recovered. -- David Grant http://www.davidgrant.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
