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On 07/06/2009 01:21 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. I think it is |
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> unrecoverable. I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now, |
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> since I shut the machine down, it will not boot. |
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> Is this hopeless? It happened during an emerge -uDvNa world |
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It's never hopeless unless the hard disk is damaged, e.g. from a |
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head crash or similar catastrophe. The important thing is to avoid |
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trying random things without knowing what you're doing. You can |
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turn a simple recovery into a hopeless mess that way. |
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I find that I can usually get myself out of a 'hopeless' mess just |
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by downloading a live gentoo boot CD and using that to install a |
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recent gentoo snapshot. You need a second (working) computer to |
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do that, of course. (Everyone should have as many computers as |
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possible for exactly that reason :o) |
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Meanwhile, more info would help, as the others have already said. |
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