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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] libacl mess : further thoughts
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:10:32
Message-Id: 4C6EB6FE.8050208@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] libacl mess : further thoughts by Philip Webb
1 On 08/20/2010 11:02 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
2 > 100820 Philip Webb wrote:
3 >>> The next step seems to be to unpack the whole Stage 3 tarball
4 >>> in the netbook's / dir& see what happens. After that, a full reinstall.
5 >
6 > Further examination of what's in Stage 3
7 > + review of my detailed notes from installation last year suggest
8 > that the correct attempt wb to unpack the tarball somewhere temporary,
9 > then copy /bin /lib /sbin /usr /var into the existing set-up;
10 > also to unpack the latest Portage snapshot into /usr/portage ;
11 > after that, copy carefully selected parts of /etc .
12 > After all, I do have a working kernel + system configuration,
13 > which is partly what needs to be created during a basic install.
14 >
15 > Of course, if there's a simpler method anyone can suggest, I wb thankful.
16 > Can anyone explain why it's choking on the ELF header ?
17 >
18
19 You might be able to grab the 'acl' and 'attr' packages from here:
20
21 http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/
22
23 Hopefully, replacing them will fix your coreutils. If not, try replacing
24 coreutils too.
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26 Note that this probably has the potential to make things worse, and I
27 obviously can't test it.

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