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I have a little Mac Mini - my first attempt at Gentoo on a PowerPC - |
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that I brought up this week. It was (is) working but I'm not using it |
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for anything yet. Just playing around with the machine. Nothing |
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serious. |
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This morning I wasn't paying much attention and wanted to do an emerge |
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-DuN world. The process had blocking issues: |
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MacMini ~ # emerge -pv coreutils |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.10.1 [1.10] 897 kB |
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[ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1 [6.9-r1] USE="acl nls |
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(-selinux) -static -vanilla% -xattr" 3,670 kB |
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[blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) |
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[blocks B ] >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5) |
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Total: 2 packages (2 upgrades, 2 blocks), Size of downloads: 4,566 kB |
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so without any real thought I did an emerge -C coreutils and walked |
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away. Well, that, it seems, was a *very* bad idea. Now nothing much |
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works. There were some messages that had I been watching I would have |
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stopped the process but I wasn't so there you go. Oops. |
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Anyway, the machine is still up and running but I suspect that it |
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might not reboot or allow logins if it did reboot. I'm unable to |
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emerge anything right now. coreutils, as folks probably know, includes |
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stuff that once gone pretty much stops the machine from being |
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interesting or useful. |
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Question: Is there a way to recover from this? |
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It's not a huge issue even if I have to completely rebuild the |
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machine. As I say this was mostly a Gentoo build on a lark to test out |
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how the machine might work for a couple of different ideas - |
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mythfrontend and a simple router. Everything was quick and dirty and |
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there are a few things I might change anyway, but if I can get it |
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working again I figure I should learn how. |
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Thanks in advance, |
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Mark |
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