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From: KH <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Crippled system
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:20:57
Message-Id: 4805B6ED.6020807@konstantinhansen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Crippled system by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon schrieb:
2 > On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Richard Marzan wrote:
3 >
4 >> I had a circular dep problem with mktemp and coreutils and emerge
5 >> -C'd coreutils. Now I can't do anything significant just cd. how can
6 >> i repair this?
7 >>
8 >
9 > Boot off a LiveCD somehow. Use one that has a fairly recent coreutils on
10 > it, and merge the coreutils pkg onto your actual system on disk. You
11 > will have to mount your disk-based system somewhere convenient and tell
12 > portage off the LiveCD to use that as the ROOT system to merge to.
13 >
14 > Next time portage tells you that unmerging something in system is a very
15 > very very bad idea, you should take it seriously.
16 >
17 >
18 Hi,
19 you are not the only one who removed coreutils.
20 http://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?mode=results&show_results=topics&search_keywords=coreutils
21 k
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