Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

[Chris Brennan]

I've found, keeping a backup kernel from my last update and loading
busybox instead of the system has recued my ass on more then  one
occassion.

Ironicly, I encounted this problem on both my Gentoo Desktop *and* my
Gentoo Laptop roughtly a month to two months ago. At this time, there
was no evidance of this issue yet and I blindly unmerged mktemp and
all was well and never thought about it again till today when I saw
this thread. Like I said, I just blindly unmerged mktemp w/ little
though, I guess just seeing coreutils and quickly comparing it against
mytemp kinda spoke for itself. Either way, your system is back, and
that is all that matters.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
> On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > Question: Is there a way to recover from this?
>
> you should have busybox installed.
>
> Just create a symlink for every tool needed.
>
> ln -s bb ls and something like that. If even ln is gone, do it from busybo
> itself - it has everything needed built-in.
>
> After that, emerge coreutils (with the buildpkg option).  This creates are
> tarball. Now check. Have been all symlinks replaced with the right tool?
> If yes. Goto end. Everything is ok.
> If not. Open tarball, cp the tools.
>
>
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