Re: [gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says expr binary missing

2007-03-02 Thread Denis
Many thanks - it worked... the Portage is now current, which I cannot say for the rest of my system... ugh. I think eventually I'll just have to make an archive of my home directory and clean-slate install the latest Gentoo distro. There are too many dangling ends from back when - would

[gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says expr binary missing

2007-03-01 Thread Denis
I was emerging coreutils to update portage, and it failed with the following: emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 to / --- SNIP md5 messages --- /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1: /bin/expr: No such file or directory * Your expr binary appears to be broken, please fix it. * For more

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says expr binary missing

2007-03-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 01 March 2007 18:35:54 Denis wrote: I was emerging coreutils to update portage, and it failed with the following: emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 to / --- SNIP md5 messages --- /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1: /bin/expr: No such file or directory * Your expr

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says expr binary missing

2007-03-01 Thread Denis
You really need to tell us more about your system. What did you do preceding this? emerge --info gives the following: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.1-r2,glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says expr binary missing

2007-03-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 02 March 2007 01:40:10 Denis wrote: You really need to tell us more about your system. What did you do preceding this? emerge --info gives the following: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.1-r2,glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.19-gentoo-r10