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thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random things. |
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When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other |
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line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting |
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/sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: |
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cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. |
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Alan |
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"...can the human soul be glimpsed through a microscope? Maybe, but |
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you'd definitely need one of those very good ones with two eyepieces." |
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-- Woody Allen, quoted by B. A. Palevitz |
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:43 AM, walt<w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 07/06/2009 01:21 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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>> Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. I think it is |
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>> unrecoverable. I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now, |
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>> since I shut the machine down, it will not boot. |
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>> Is this hopeless? It happened during an emerge -uDvNa world |
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> It's never hopeless unless the hard disk is damaged, e.g. from a |
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> head crash or similar catastrophe. The important thing is to avoid |
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> trying random things without knowing what you're doing. You can |
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> turn a simple recovery into a hopeless mess that way. |
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> I find that I can usually get myself out of a 'hopeless' mess just |
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> by downloading a live gentoo boot CD and using that to install a |
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> recent gentoo snapshot. You need a second (working) computer to |
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> do that, of course. (Everyone should have as many computers as |
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> possible for exactly that reason :o) |
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> Meanwhile, more info would help, as the others have already said. |
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