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From: Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:39:45
Message-Id: 1139135665.12482.3.camel@mach.qrypto.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils by Bogo Mipps
1 On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 23:13 +1300, Bogo Mipps wrote:
2 > Hi
3 >
4 > Have stuffed up and accidentally un-merged my coreutils: now can't emerge
5 > either what was current (5.2.1-r7) or newer version (5.3.0-r1) and needless
6 > to say have lost all coreutils tools which doesn't help. Google makes it look
7 > like no-one else has been so stupid.
8 >
9 > This is what I get:
10 >
11 > <snip>
12 > Traceback (most recent call last):
13 > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3228, in ?
14 > mydepgraph.merge(pkglist)
15 > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1912, in merge
16 >
17 > retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,tree="porttree")
18 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2768, in doebuild
19 >
20 > retval=spawnebuild("install",actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=1,logfile=logfile)
21 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
22 > retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
23 > ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
24 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
25 > retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
26 > ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
27 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
28 > retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
29 > ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
30 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
31 > retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
32 > ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
33 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2334, in spawnebuild
34 > droppriv=actionmap[mydo]["args"][1],logfile=logfile)
35 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1615, in spawn
36 > return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords)
37 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in spawn_bash
38 > return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords)
39 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 83, in spawn
40 >
41 > mypid.extend(spawn(('tee','-i','-a',logfile),returnpid=True,fd_pipes={0:pr,1:1,2:2}))
42 > TypeError: iteration over non-sequence
43 > <snip>
44 >
45 > Can anyone help? Please!
46 >
47 > Bogo
48 >
49 >
50 > --
51 > Sent via KMail 1.8.3, & o/s Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10
52 Hi,
53 One way to go is find a binary package for coreutils, but watch out it
54 must match your -arch or -mtune settings.
55 Another way is to boot any recent install-cd chroot to your existing
56 install and emerge only "coreutils".
57 HTH.Rumen
58
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