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