RE: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident (solved)

2007-11-18 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > However you do it, you should emerge glibc, either from source or the > package, once you have a working system. > Yes. After it became operational, still booted from the cd, I did a total rebuild over the weekend;

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident (solved)

2007-11-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:05:24 -0500, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > > What's wrong with "tar xf glibc-2.6.1.tbz2 -C /mnt/gentoo"? It's > worked > > for me in the past when I "upgraded" to a broken glibc. > > > > I was not sure what would happen with other files in some of the > existing direc

RE: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident (solved)

2007-11-18 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What's wrong with "tar xf glibc-2.6.1.tbz2 -C /mnt/gentoo"? It's worked > for me in the past when I "upgraded" to a broken glibc. > I was not sure what would happen with other files in some of the existing directori

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident (solved)

2007-11-17 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:56:02 +0900 William Kenworthy wrote: > I stand corrected. > > BillK > > On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 09:23 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:30:17 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > > > Also, dont the current livecd's do a stage 3 install, which means > >

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident (solved)

2007-11-17 Thread William Kenworthy
I stand corrected. BillK On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 09:23 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:30:17 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > Also, dont the current livecd's do a stage 3 install, which means there > > should be a quickpkg'd glibc on them? > > A stage 3 is one large tar

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident (solved)

2007-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:39:11 -0500, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > Indeed the solution was to build glibc-2.6.1.tbz2 with quickpkg on > another machine (luckily I had one) and scp into the damaged machine > when booted from the CD. Then copying all the files into their > respective places inside /

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident (solved)

2007-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:30:17 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: > Also, dont the current livecd's do a stage 3 install, which means there > should be a quickpkg'd glibc on them? A stage 3 is one large tarball, not separate packages. -- Neil Bothwick All general statements are false. signature

RE: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident (solved)

2007-11-17 Thread William Kenworthy
For info, there used to be a website with pre-built binaries provided by one of the devs for just such rescues. Also, dont the current livecd's do a stage 3 install, which means there should be a quickpkg'd glibc on them? I dont have a system with squashfs on it, or able to boot one to check at

RE: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident (solved)

2007-11-16 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
> -Original Message- > From: Graham Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I do not think it will be that simple. The problem is that once you > chroot to /mnt/gentoo all subsequent commands (including emerge and gcc) > will be looking for /lib/libc.so.6 and /lib/ld-linux.so.2 neither of > w

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Shields
On Nov 13, 2007 10:49 AM, de Almeida, Valmor F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Incidentally, how did you miss the big red warning that emerge gives > when > > you try to unmerge a system package? > > > > I was unlucky and stupid for using cut a

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 November 2007, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > Hello, > > After a successful upgrade from profile 2006.1 to 2007.0, I decided > to unmerge some unused packages from world and accidentally had glibc > on the emerge command line from a cut and paste operation. > > glibc was unmerged and

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 15:35:37 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 schrieb ext Florian Philipp: > > "busybox ash" > > And then? I guess Python will still not work -> no emerge. Then unpack the binpkg (which is needed either way as mentioned in other replies) on /. After t

RE: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Incidentally, how did you miss the big red warning that emerge gives when > you try to unmerge a system package? > I was unlucky and stupid for using cut and paste commands while distracted looking at another screen. I didn't look back until th

RE: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
> From: Graham Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you have a binary glibc package, then you could untar it into > /mnt/gentoo while booted from the CD. Otherwise I suspect that you will I think I can do that. I have other machines I can build a binary glibc package on. Then once I boot from

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Graham Murray
"de Almeida, Valmor F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am thinking that to fix this I will have to boot from a cd and emerge > glibc. I do not think it will be that simple. The problem is that once you chroot to /mnt/gentoo all subsequent commands (including emerge and gcc) will be looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:36:09 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > I am thinking that to fix this I will have to boot from a cd and > > emerge glibc. > > > > Is there another way to do this? > > No. Unless you already have buildpkg in FEATURES, then you can unpack the tarball from $PKGDIR/All to th

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 schrieb ext Florian Philipp: > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 15:35 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 schrieb ext Florian Philipp: > > > "busybox ash" > > > > And then? I guess Python will still not work -> no emerge. > > He just wanted to copy ov

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 15:35 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 schrieb ext Florian Philipp: > > > "busybox ash" > > And then? I guess Python will still not work -> no emerge. > > Bye... > > Dirk He just wanted to copy over some files from backup. Specifically h

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 schrieb ext de Almeida, Valmor F.: > glibc was unmerged and now I can't use common shell commands such as ls > or cp to list and copy files from a backup. > > I am thinking that to fix this I will have to boot from a cd and emerge > glibc. > > Is there another way to

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 schrieb ext Florian Philipp: > "busybox ash" And then? I guess Python will still not work -> no emerge. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail:

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Florian Philipp
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 18:49 -0500, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > Hello, > > After a successful upgrade from profile 2006.1 to 2007.0, I decided to > unmerge some unused packages from world and accidentally had glibc on > the emerge command line from a cut and paste operation. > > glibc was unmer