Look that this command....
tar -clf - | ( cd /mnt/altroot/ & tar -xvf - ) See what's wrong? Yep... on one amper... Result: completely fubared root file system. (this command makes empty files of every file in the root file system). I did kill it before it completed... but I know the system will not boot. I was able recover things (using the RESCUE tar ball in /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/file...) I was able to restore /usr/bin and /lib from an other system so that emerge would run. I was able to emerge portage I was able to emerge -e world... and it completed about 34 of the 482 packages to be rebuilt before it traced back on file that should have been a directory in /var/tmp/portage... while emerging xfree-4.3. Then emerge was broken again: It just segfaults with no information. So I did the resume tar ball again... But to now avail. it just segfaults: # emerge portage Segmentation fault # Any ideas on where to go from here? Am I stuck? and starting over with a fresh install in my alternate root? -- Lincoln A. Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
