dchpcd eth0 fixed the network after chrooting. After rthat I could do an emerge --sync, which did not help in itself. I then prefetched all the packages. this was suggested by http://www.odi.ch/weblog/posting.php?posting=524
After this I could uninstall sys-libs/ss & sys-libs/com_err after which a normal emerge system actually worked. On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Daiajo Tibdixious <[email protected]> wrote: > 2 days ago I did > emerge --sync > emerge -aDuv system > > which blocked on (I'm going from memory here, my system is down & > unbootable except off CD): > sys-libs/ss > sys-libs/ something else > something/e2fsprogs-libs > > I have auto packages built for everything, so figured it was safe to > emerge -C the 3 offending packages. > I did that & found all of them are critical. > I then restored the first 2 from package with any problem. > > However I have no package for esfsprogs-libs & emerge --sysnc & much > else in portage does not work. > In particular mount & some other critical tools are non-functional. > One particular critical missing library is liblkid.so.1, which I > believe is part of e2fsprogs-libs > > Note e2fsprogs-libs is blocking a later version of itself. > > I booted off the live CD, did all the bits up to chrooting, however > after chrooting I can't emerge --sync, can't mount, can't resove DNS > names, etc, > so I'm stuffed. So I need to fix my system before chrooting to it & > I'm at a loss as to what to do. > > I'm familar to manually downloading tar balls & installing from them, > however I don't know how to do an emerge --sync > without chrooting first. > > Also e2fsprogs-libs tarbal is already downloaded, however portage will > not install it, as the 3 offending packages are still blockers. > Thats why I want to emerge --sync in the hopes that the dependencies > have been made into something rational, as I could see > no way around the blockages. > > P.S. there is a step in the installation handbook to > cp -L /etc/resolve.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc > however I have no resolve.conf. I think this is why I have no DNS > after chrooting. > My CD is several years old and I have downloaded a 2008.0-r1 minimal ISO. > However I'm using a windows XP system with a broken Nero burning S/W > and this may take a while to fix. >
