Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
Alan E. Davis schrieb: thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random things. When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. Use a live-linux from usb-stick or CD, mount your root, chroot into it and give revdep-rebuild a try. That should help. Greetings Sebastian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
Thank you for your response, Sebastian: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Sebastian Beßlerwebmas...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Use a live-linux from usb-stick or CD, mount your root, chroot into it and give revdep-rebuild a try. That should help. I think you are telling me to use Gentoo Live CD specifically, and mount my installed / (on /mnt/gentoo?), chroot into it (as described in the install docs) and run revdeb-rebuild. Is revdep-rebuild part of the live cd? I'll try it. Thank you VERY much. I have installed Ubuntu, but these steps will save my having to deal with that. Alan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:08:01 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: I think you are telling me to use Gentoo Live CD specifically, and mount my installed / (on /mnt/gentoo?), chroot into it (as described in the install docs) and run revdeb-rebuild. Is revdep-rebuild part of the live cd? It doesn't matter. Once you have chrooted you are using software installed in the chroot. However, it may not be possible to use revdep-rebuild without ncurses, in which case you need some kind soul with a similar setup to provide you with a binary package of ncurses, which you can unpack into your root directory. -- Neil Bothwick Locutous for Pontiac: Excitment is irrelivent. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: It doesn't matter. Once you have chrooted you are using software installed in the chroot. However, it may not be possible to use revdep-rebuild without ncurses, in which case you need some kind soul with a similar setup to provide you with a binary package of ncurses, which you can unpack into your root directory. This is exactly what happened. I used the systemrescuecd, chrooted, and, lo and behold, the same error message was coming up. What I might be able to do is symlink to libncursesw ? Don't know whether it's even on the system. On the other hand, with a binary ncurses, I could see that might work. Is there a binary repo? (Back to sabayon?). I suppose I need to know the exact version. Does it matter which use flags it was compiled with? Thank you! Alan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
on Tuesday 07/07/2009 Alan E. Davis(lngn...@gmail.com) wrote On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: It doesn't matter. Once you have chrooted you are using software installed in the chroot. However, it may not be possible to use revdep-rebuild without ncurses, in which case you need some kind soul with a similar setup to provide you with a binary package of ncurses, which you can unpack into your root directory. This is exactly what happened. I used the systemrescuecd, chrooted, and, lo and behold, the same error message was coming up. What I might be able to do is symlink to libncursesw ? Don't know whether it's even on the system. On the other hand, with a binary ncurses, I could see that might work. Is there a binary repo? (Back to sabayon?). I suppose I need to know the exact version. Does it matter which use flags it was compiled with? I wonder if you say -C and -P would it still use ncurses since you are turning off color and progress indications? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
As I type, the system is booting, after untarring a Sabayon package of ncurses into the / partition, mounted in a parallel ubuntu setup. The system has booted, and I am typing this message from it. Thank you everyone. Alan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:54:52 +1000 Alan E. Davis wrote: thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random things. When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. Alan Might you just be missing a symlink? I have the following on my system: lrwxrwxrwx ... /lib/libncurses.so - libncurses.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx ... /lib/libncurses.so.5 - libncurses.so.5.6 -rwxr-xr-x ... /lib/libncurses.so.5.6 HTH, David
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:10:23 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: As I type, the system is booting, after untarring a Sabayon package of ncurses into the / partition, mounted in a parallel ubuntu setup. Now you need to emerge the proper Gentoo package to get your database consistent with what is installed. -- Neil Bothwick MS-DOS: if you believe in a flat Earth, this is the OS for you. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
Yes. It's working. It emerged without complaint. Thank you for the useful advice. I am very pleased that this system is working now. Alan Davis ...can the human soul be glimpsed through a microscope? Maybe, but you'd definitely need one of those very good ones with two eyepieces. -- Woody Allen, quoted by B. A. Palevitz On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:10:23 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: As I type, the system is booting, after untarring a Sabayon package of ncurses into the / partition, mounted in a parallel ubuntu setup. Now you need to emerge the proper Gentoo package to get your database consistent with what is installed. -- Neil Bothwick MS-DOS: if you believe in a flat Earth, this is the OS for you.
[gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
On 07/06/2009 01:21 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. I think it is unrecoverable. I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now, since I shut the machine down, it will not boot. Is this hopeless? It happened during an emerge -uDvNa world It's never hopeless unless the hard disk is damaged, e.g. from a head crash or similar catastrophe. The important thing is to avoid trying random things without knowing what you're doing. You can turn a simple recovery into a hopeless mess that way. I find that I can usually get myself out of a 'hopeless' mess just by downloading a live gentoo boot CD and using that to install a recent gentoo snapshot. You need a second (working) computer to do that, of course. (Everyone should have as many computers as possible for exactly that reason :o) Meanwhile, more info would help, as the others have already said.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random things. When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. Alan ...can the human soul be glimpsed through a microscope? Maybe, but you'd definitely need one of those very good ones with two eyepieces. -- Woody Allen, quoted by B. A. Palevitz On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:43 AM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/06/2009 01:21 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. I think it is unrecoverable. I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now, since I shut the machine down, it will not boot. Is this hopeless? It happened during an emerge -uDvNa world It's never hopeless unless the hard disk is damaged, e.g. from a head crash or similar catastrophe. The important thing is to avoid trying random things without knowing what you're doing. You can turn a simple recovery into a hopeless mess that way. I find that I can usually get myself out of a 'hopeless' mess just by downloading a live gentoo boot CD and using that to install a recent gentoo snapshot. You need a second (working) computer to do that, of course. (Everyone should have as many computers as possible for exactly that reason :o) Meanwhile, more info would help, as the others have already said.
