Dieter Ries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 28 May 2006 00:30:04 +0200:
> THANK YOU DUNCAN! > > YOU FIXED IT. > or better, i fixed it, but i would have been lost without your help. the > quickpkg thing did the trick. > > first i was in doubt, cause quickpkg is not on the livecd fs, but then i > started thinking, and then i untared stage and portage and made the > package. > > first i untar'ed the package over /etc, but the i did it on root and it > worked. > > once again THANK YOU, you saved me a LOT of work! Very glad to be of help! =8^) As I said, I've been there, so I know it's not a pleasant feeling! Fortunately, I had read about the glibc thing over a year earlier, in O'Reilly's Running Linux, which I had picked up on a recommendation when I started getting serious about Linux. That book paid for itself many times over, and that was one of them! Had it not been for that, I too would have been posting a frantic HELP!! message to an appropriate list, in my case, after booting from my backup root. So now I can say I've passed on the wisdom to at least one other person in dire need! As I said, very glad I could help! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
