On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:44:37 pm Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > > On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote: > >> Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > >>> I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept > >>> keywords > >> > >> reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out > >> there. Your system is broken and fixing takes the same effort than > >> reinstalling. > > > > Except reinstalling raises the specter of losing all my key data. The > > guides are written for a blank system. That is not what I have. The > > problem is with glibc. Why can't I fix glibc and then to an emerge -eav > > from there? > > > > Jeff > > boot livecd, mount the disc as described in the official manuals [1], > extract a propriate tarball, remove all /etc/portage/packages*, review > make.conf, emerge -e system, will bring back your system.
OK - since I'm no gentoo expert, I need to define the exact procedure here before I'm going to attempt this, so I have a number of questions: (1) If I remove /etc/portage/packages*, nothing will be removed, as nothing matches that search string, so what exactly should I be removing? Do you mean remove the entire contents of /etc/portage? If I do this, I'll lose all the package.use, keywords, mask information that I have set up. Why is this necessary? It seems that this will just break my system further. (2) In my system, swap is /dev/sda2, boot is /dev/sda5, and root is /dev/sda3 I should skip the fdisk commands, then swapon /dev/sda2 mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/gentoo/boot cd /mnt/gentoo Is this correct? (3) After extracting the stage3 tarball for an amd64 system, downloaded using links http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml with the command tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2, I can then proced with editing make.conf, as I don't need to reinstall a portage snapshot (since I already have one set up from my present install). Is this correct? (4) After editing the make.conf file, verifying that it is correct for a 64 bit system, I then can run the command emerge -e world, and everything should compile correctly? (5) With this method, I will not lose any other key settings such as video, kde etc. Is this correct? Jeff
