[gentoo-dev] emerge unmerges all system-packages

[Bernhard Derks]

Hi,

after making a stage 4-backup i tried to test gcc 4.02 with 
glibc-2.3.5.20050722, but i got certain errors compiling kde3.5 
beta2.
So i restored from stage4-backup, but now:
Every time i emerge a package (yesterday tried 'emerge portage')
the package compiles correctly, but after that all packages from 
'system' are unemerged (like the prior version of the package i 
installed: 5-4-3-2-1 - bumm!).
So that every emerge ends in:
---------------------------------snip------------------------------------------
--- !empty dir /etc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3206, in ?
    unmerge("clean", ["world"])
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2251, in unmerge
    
retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,mysettings,unmerge_action 
not in ["clean","prune"])
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2901, in unmerge
    mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld,cleanup=1)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6336, in unmerge
    
a=doebuild(myebuildpath,"postrm",self.myroot,self.settings,use_cache=0,tree="vartree")
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2611, in doebuild
    return spawn(EBUILD_SH_BINARY+" 
"+mydo,mysettings,debug=debug,free=1,logfile=logfile)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1603, in spawn
    return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in 
spawn_bash
    return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 164, in spawn
    raise str(e)+":\n   "+myc+" "+string.join(myargs)
[Errno 2] No such file or directory:
   /bin/bash [glibc-2.3.5-r1] bash 
-c /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh postrm
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and the system is dead, because the bash in also gone...

Help welcome....

Bernhard
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