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