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On Sunday 09 October 2005 00:20, scotthathcock@×××××××.net wrote: |
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> My system has developed serious problems related to the emul libs. |
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> The advice given as a reply to my bug has made the system impossible |
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> to upgrade using emerge. It is possible the problem dates back to the |
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> 2004.3->2005.0 upgrade, I don't know. |
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I had a lot of problem upgrading from 2004.3, that made my system unable |
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to compile toolchain properly. |
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I experienced any kind of misterous erorrs and rebuilt my system many |
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times. In the end was a very very idiot error on my side. When it was |
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removed the upgrade was really smooth and following one to 2005.1 was |
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so even that I hardly noticed it... |
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Are you sure it don't wort a try? If you post any details maybe someone |
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can help without rebuilding from scratch; and, believe me, it's much |
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more instructive! |
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> Is there a way to build a "from scratch" 2005.1 system over the net |
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> without having to download and boot from a CD? Will it leave my user |
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> directories alone? The installation docs assume that you don't have a |
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> runnig gentoo system and start with a boot CD. |
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There are a lot of other possibilities... |
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In addition to other methods posted I would say you can do something |
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useful (depending on your problem) even without repartition... |
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Unpack a stage 3 in a folder, mount $PORTDIR $PKGDIR $DISTDIR on it, |
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update and then extract the packages tou need with quickpkg (if you set |
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buildpkg FEATURES in /etc/make.conf, it's faster). |
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When I lastly decided to rebuild my system I again used a rather |
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aggressive method: |
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make available two partition and rsync their contents. At this point |
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mount the one to upgrade, save /etc and unpack a stage3 over it |
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(overwrite files with same name), edit /etc files from saved one, |
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edit /etc/fstab and lilo or to boot from it, chroot into the new |
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partition and update lilo (lilo -v, I don't know what you have to do |
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with grub...). It's quite a dirty way, but it is really fast (rsync |
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just what is really needed) |
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Anyway I think the best thing to do is try here to debug you problem |
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before restart from scratch. |
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HTH... |
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Ciao |
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Francesco |
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Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, Compiled #2 Wed Aug 24 18:43:16 CEST |
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2005 |
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One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4325.37 Bogomips Total |
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aemaeth |
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