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Mark Kirkwood writes: |
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> Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > Of course I did that. emerge --depclean showed me (along many other |
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> > things) two installed baselayouts, one to remove, the current one to |
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> > keep. And most of the things were kept, like man pages, but some |
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> > essential files were not. |
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> > Looking at emerge.log, I see that I had the old 1.7.8-r1 in parallel |
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> > for quite a while. For about three weeks, I had masked 1.12.10-r5, |
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> > because I wanted to stay with 1.12.9-r2 until I had physical access |
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> > to the system. I removed the mask, upgraded world, and did the |
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> > depclean then. |
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> It might be worth trying revdep-rebuild and seeing if it brings any of |
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> the missing stuff back... (assuming you are able to boot the machine |
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> somehow - install cd + chroot etc). |
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Um, system is up and running - as I wrote, I had a backup and just copied |
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the missing files back, so the system came up again. I re-emerged |
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baselayout then to make sure all is back in place. |
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I just wondered how this could have gone wrong and thought I'd post what |
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happened. |
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Wonko |
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