Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot, chroot no help

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I had a similar problem before and I solved it by start my computer
using boot CD then reemerge e2fsprogs-libs and sys-fs/e2fsprogs.

Hung

Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> I ran  emerge -avuDN world and came up with blocked packages which I
> eliminated by  un-merging device-mapper and e2fsprogs-libs. When I
> rebooted was greeted by a maintenance console and the message
> "libblkid.so.1 cannot open shared object file". A little googling
> later I realized that e2fsprogs-libs should not have been removed. No
> problem, I'll chroot and fix it.
>
> After the chroot I was able to mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt/gentoo but
> couldn't mount /dev/sdb2
> on /var where portage is kept on this system. The error was identical
> to the original one when the pc was first rebooted:
>
> "mount: error while loading shared libraries: libblkid.so.1..."
>
> I tried to run e2fsck on /dev/sda2 but got this error msg:
>
> "e2fsck: error while loading shared libraries: libcom_err.so.2: cannot
> open shared object file..."
>
> Any one see a way past this impasse? I'm using ext2 with the journal option.
>
> Maxim
>
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