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From: George Garvey <tmwg-gentoou@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage dead -- don't know how to proceed
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:50:01
Message-Id: 20050718114505.GA32085@inxservices.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Portage dead -- don't know how to proceed by George Garvey
1 On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:30:10PM -0700, George Garvey wrote:
2 > /usr/portage itself is NFS mounted from a server and is fine.
3 > However, emerge --metadata and emerge -av1 glibc both report problems
4 > with some bdb stuff and doesn't work.
5 > This all happened after a failed glibc emerge. It detected that it
6 > was nptlonly, said it was removing /lib/tls, does with a preinst
7 > problem (on the rm as far as I can tell), and emerge has been hosed
8 > ever since.
9
10 Never mind. I restored /lib/tls from backup, which emerge deleted,
11 rendering emerge unusable. It couldn't even install the newly compiled
12 glibc (which I have since deleted: yuck ;)
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