Re: [gentoo-server] can't boot anymore!

[Andreas Tasch <ta_list@gmx.org>]

Davide Cittaro schrieb:
> 
> On Apr 10, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Randy Barlow wrote:
>>
>> What did you do?
> 
> If I only knew :-(
> The fact is that I've never rebooted in a year but, in the meanwhile, 
> I've kept system up-to-date by regular emerge syncing and system 
> upgrade... evidently I've emerged (or unmerged) something wrong...
> 
> d
> 
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Hi Davide,

sounds like the problem I had some time ago. I did an gcc upgrade but 
did not do an emerge -e system after that. Something was broken after 
that and the system did not boot anymore after I had to reboot some 
months later (it was a remote machine :(). What solved my problem: boot 
with a live cd or rescue image via pxe and chroot in your system. Do an 
source /etc/profile and env-update (afairc). Then re-emerge gcc glibc 
binutils and baselayout and reboot. Do a backup before trying this - you 
never know :)

Good Luck,
Andy

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