Dieter Ries <clip2@...> posted 200605280030.06641.clip2@...,
excerpted below, on  Sun, 28 May 2006 00:30:04 +0200:

> THANK YOU DUNCAN!
> 
> YOU FIXED IT.
> or better, i fixed it, but i would have been lost without your help. the
> quickpkg thing did the trick.
> 
> first i was in doubt, cause quickpkg is not on the livecd fs, but then i
> started thinking, and then i untared stage and portage and made the
> package.
> 
> first i untar'ed the package over /etc, but the i did it on root and it
> worked.
> 
> once again THANK YOU, you saved me a LOT of work!

Very glad to be of help! =8^)

As I said, I've been there, so I know it's not a pleasant feeling!

Fortunately, I had read about the glibc thing over a year earlier, in
O'Reilly's Running Linux, which I had picked up on a recommendation when I
started getting serious about Linux.  That book paid for itself many times
over, and that was one of them!  Had it not been for that, I too would
have been posting a frantic HELP!! message to an appropriate list, in my
case, after booting from my backup root.

So now I can say I've passed on the wisdom to at least one other person in
dire need!  As I said, very glad I could help!  =8^)



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