RE: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident (solved)

[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 att, but someone may be
able to confirm this.

BillK


On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 22:39 -0500, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Graham Murray [mailto:graham@×××××××××××.uk]
> >
> > 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
> > which will be present following an unmerge of glibc.
>
> This is true. After booting from a CD,
>
>    chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
>
> does not work.
>
> > If you have a binary glibc package, then you could untar it into
> > /mnt/gentoo while booted from the CD. Otherwise I suspect that you
> will
> > either have to find a binary glibc package on the internet or rebuild
> > your system from a stage3 tarball in the usual way.
>
> 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 /mnt/gentoo/...
> Also need to check symbolic links etc. Not a pleasant work.
>
> Then chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash finally works. After that, an emerge
> of glibc solves the problem.
>
> Thanks for the inputs.
>
> --
> Valmor
>
>
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William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
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