[gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Bogo Mipps]

Hi

Have stuffed up and accidentally un-merged my coreutils: now can't emerge 
either what was current (5.2.1-r7) or newer version (5.3.0-r1) and needless 
to say have lost all coreutils tools which doesn't help. Google makes it look 
like no-one else has been so stupid. 

This is what I get:

<snip>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3228, in ?
    mydepgraph.merge(pkglist)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1912, in merge
    
retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,tree="porttree")
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2768, in doebuild
    
retval=spawnebuild("install",actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=1,logfile=logfile)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
    retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
    retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
    retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
    retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2334, in spawnebuild
    droppriv=actionmap[mydo]["args"][1],logfile=logfile)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1615, in spawn
    return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in spawn_bash
    return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 83, in spawn
    
mypid.extend(spawn(('tee','-i','-a',logfile),returnpid=True,fd_pipes={0:pr,1:1,2:2}))
TypeError: iteration over non-sequence
<snip>

Can anyone help?  Please!

Bogo


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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Rumen Yotov]

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 23:13 +1300, Bogo Mipps wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Have stuffed up and accidentally un-merged my coreutils: now can't emerge 
> either what was current (5.2.1-r7) or newer version (5.3.0-r1) and needless 
> to say have lost all coreutils tools which doesn't help. Google makes it look 
> like no-one else has been so stupid. 
> 
> This is what I get:
> 
> <snip>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3228, in ?
>     mydepgraph.merge(pkglist)
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1912, in merge
>     
> retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,tree="porttree")
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2768, in doebuild
>     
> retval=spawnebuild("install",actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=1,logfile=logfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
>     retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
> ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
>     retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
> ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
>     retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
> ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
>     retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
> ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2334, in spawnebuild
>     droppriv=actionmap[mydo]["args"][1],logfile=logfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1615, in spawn
>     return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in spawn_bash
>     return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 83, in spawn
>     
> mypid.extend(spawn(('tee','-i','-a',logfile),returnpid=True,fd_pipes={0:pr,1:1,2:2}))
> TypeError: iteration over non-sequence
> <snip>
> 
> Can anyone help?  Please!
> 
> Bogo
> 
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Hi,
One way to go is find a binary package for coreutils, but watch out it
must match your -arch or -mtune settings.
Another way is to boot any recent install-cd chroot to your existing
install and emerge only "coreutils".
HTH.Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Mike Williams]

On Sunday 05 February 2006 10:13, Bogo Mipps wrote:
> Have stuffed up and accidentally un-merged my coreutils: now can't emerge
> either what was current (5.2.1-r7) or newer version (5.3.0-r1) and needless
> to say have lost all coreutils tools which doesn't help. Google makes it
> look like no-one else has been so stupid.

Umm, yeah, that's pretty serious...
I think the only real option is to post your CFLAGS, and perhaps someone will 
be nice enough to send you a statically compiled binary package of coreutils.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Bogo Mipps]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 01:30, Mike Williams wrote:
> I think the only real option is to post your CFLAGS, and perhaps someone
> will be nice enough to send you a statically compiled binary package of
> coreutils.

Thanks guys - will start with this one, in the hope that someone out there 
will take pity.

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"

TIA.

Bogo 


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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Benno Schulenberg]

Bogo Mipps wrote:
> Thanks guys - will start with this one, in the hope that someone
> out there will take pity.

No no, don't take pity.  This is too good a chance to see busybox in 
action.  :)  Please report back how you are getting along.

Start with these:

busybox ln -s busybox /bin/ln
ln -s busybox /bin/install
ln -s busybox /bin/cp

Then try to emerge coreutils, and make more links for the things 
that are missing.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Rumen Yotov]

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On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 07:10 +1300, Bogo Mipps wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 01:30, Mike Williams wrote:
> > I think the only real option is to post your CFLAGS, and perhaps someone
> > will be nice enough to send you a statically compiled binary package of
> > coreutils.
> 
> Thanks guys - will start with this one, in the hope that someone out there 
> will take pity.
> 
> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Bogo 
> 
> 
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Hi,
I have one (CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer")
Normal except ~x86 (all testing) system - coreutils-5.93: 2.1M.
Putting the binary here: ftp://ftp.qrypto.org (my router).
As emerge doesn't work (assume) put it in / (root dir) and run:
tar xjvf coreutils-5.93.tar.bz2 (ignore final warnings, that's service
data). Will take some 5-10 minutes.
HTH.Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Bogo Mipps]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 07:47, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> I have one (CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer")
> Normal except ~x86 (all testing) system - coreutils-5.93: 2.1M.
> Putting the binary here: ftp://ftp.qrypto.org (my router).
> As emerge doesn't work (assume) put it in / (root dir) and run:
> tar xjvf coreutils-5.93.tar.bz2 (ignore final warnings, that's service
> data). Will take some 5-10 minutes.

Thanks Rumen - the bug in busybox meant that solution failed (see Benno's 
post) so I used your tar as suggested above.  Extracted fine, but most (not 
all) require libacl.so.1, and acl etc. now missing, of course.  And won't 
emerge because I'm missing coreutils.  The vicious circle.  Not sure which 
way to go now.

Maybe I should try Martins' idea with the Install CD.

Bogo   


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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Rumen Yotov]

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On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 15:53 +1300, Bogo Mipps wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 07:47, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> > I have one (CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer")
> > Normal except ~x86 (all testing) system - coreutils-5.93: 2.1M.
> > Putting the binary here: ftp://ftp.qrypto.org (my router).
> > As emerge doesn't work (assume) put it in / (root dir) and run:
> > tar xjvf coreutils-5.93.tar.bz2 (ignore final warnings, that's service
> > data). Will take some 5-10 minutes.
> 
> Thanks Rumen - the bug in busybox meant that solution failed (see Benno's 
> post) so I used your tar as suggested above.  Extracted fine, but most (not 
> all) require libacl.so.1, and acl etc. now missing, of course.  And won't 
> emerge because I'm missing coreutils.  The vicious circle.  Not sure which 
> way to go now.
> 
> Maybe I should try Martins' idea with the Install CD.
> 
> Bogo   
> 
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Hi,
Yeah it's due to "acl" USE flag, which i have/use.
$ emerge coreutils -pv

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.93  USE="acl nls -build -static" 59
kB
Will compile only (not merge) another instance w/o 'acl' but with 'nls'
and replace the prev. one.
Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Martin Ullrich]

Hi again!

I've now compiled 3 new binary packages for you:

http://members.chello.at/martin-ullrich/coreutils-5.2.1-r7.tbz2

http://members.chello.at/martin-ullrich/coreutils-5.93.tbz2

Whichever you want to use.
If they don't work, I've also compiled a statically linked package:

http://members.chello.at/martin-ullrich/coreutils-5.93-static.tbz2 (12,5 MB!!)

ACL support should now be disabled in all packages (USE="-* nls" and
configure-output showed that it was disabled). I don't know whether
you should extract the package from your gentoo or from a live-cd, but
don't forget to set the "-p" flag for extracting with tar or you might
end up having an unaccassible version just because of wrong
permissions.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils [SOLVED]

[Bogo Mipps]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:42, Martin Ullrich wrote:
> I've now compiled 3 new binary packages for you:
>
> http://members.chello.at/martin-ullrich/coreutils-5.2.1-r7.tbz2
>
> http://members.chello.at/martin-ullrich/coreutils-5.93.tbz2
>
> Whichever you want to use.
> If they don't work, I've also compiled a statically linked package:
>
> http://members.chello.at/martin-ullrich/coreutils-5.93-static.tbz2 (12,5
> MB!!)
>
> ACL support should now be disabled in all packages (USE="-* nls" and
> configure-output showed that it was disabled). I don't know whether
> you should extract the package from your gentoo or from a live-cd, but
> don't forget to set the "-p" flag for extracting with tar or you might
> end up having an unaccassible version just because of wrong
> permissions.

Hi Martin

Many thanks - time differences meant I'd used Rumen's by the time I read this.  
See other SOLVED post.  Hope all this helps someone else in future. BTW 
extracted from gentoo OK not the live-cd. All your effort much appreciated. 

Bogo     



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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils [SOLVED]

[Bogo Mipps]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:27, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> Yeah it's due to "acl" USE flag, which i have/use.
> $ emerge coreutils -pv
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.93  USE="acl nls -build -static" 59
> kB
> Will compile only (not merge) another instance w/o 'acl' but with 'nls'
> and replace the prev. one.

Hi Rumen

Yes, that installed like a dream. I then emerged 5.93 immediately so that it 
was officially in my tree.  Phew, back to work. Also appreciated the Busybox 
1.1.0 which I saw on your URL and downloaded as a backup - especially after 
Benno Shulenberg's heads-up.  Great info. Thanks also to Martin Ullrich who I 
just see (time differences) has posted a selection of binaries with different 
use flags. Hope this thread proves useful for someone else some day.  Thanks 
all, and what a great community is this Gentoo! And especially this list.

Bogo      

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Benno Schulenberg]

Bogo Mipps wrote:
> Have stuffed up and accidentally un-merged my coreutils: now
> can't emerge either what was current (5.2.1-r7) or newer version
> (5.3.0-r1) and needless to say have lost all coreutils tools
> which doesn't help.

Yours is a up-to-date system and you have busybox installed?  Then 
type in that command and read carefully:  "Most people will create 
a link to busybox for each function they wish to use, and BusyBox 
will act like whatever it was invoked as."

You have a lot of links to make.  :|  You won't need all of these, 
but to give you an index of what coreutils contains, here's the 
output of 'equery files coreutils':

/bin
/bin/basename
/bin/cat
/bin/chgrp
/bin/chmod
/bin/chown
/bin/chroot
/bin/cksum
/bin/comm
/bin/cp
/bin/cut
/bin/date
/bin/dd
/bin/df
/bin/dir
/bin/dircolors
/bin/dirname
/bin/du
/bin/echo
/bin/env
/bin/expr
/bin/false
/bin/head
/bin/hostid
/bin/id
/bin/install
/bin/link
/bin/ln
/bin/logname
/bin/ls
/bin/mkdir
/bin/mkfifo
/bin/mknod
/bin/mv
/bin/nice
/bin/nohup
/bin/printenv
/bin/ptx
/bin/pwd
/bin/readlink
/bin/rm
/bin/rmdir
/bin/seq
/bin/sleep
/bin/sort
/bin/split
/bin/stat
/bin/stty
/bin/sync
/bin/tee
/bin/touch
/bin/tr
/bin/true
/bin/tty
/bin/uname
/bin/uniq
/bin/unlink
/bin/vdir
/bin/wc
/bin/who
/bin/whoami
/bin/yes
/etc
/etc/DIR_COLORS
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/[
/usr/bin/basename
/usr/bin/cat
/usr/bin/chgrp
/usr/bin/chmod
/usr/bin/chown
/usr/bin/chroot
/usr/bin/cksum
/usr/bin/comm
/usr/bin/cp
/usr/bin/csplit
/usr/bin/cut
/usr/bin/date
/usr/bin/dd
/usr/bin/df
/usr/bin/dir
/usr/bin/dircolors
/usr/bin/dirname
/usr/bin/du
/usr/bin/echo
/usr/bin/env
/usr/bin/expand
/usr/bin/expr
/usr/bin/factor
/usr/bin/false
/usr/bin/fmt
/usr/bin/fold
/usr/bin/head
/usr/bin/hostid
/usr/bin/id
/usr/bin/install
/usr/bin/join
/usr/bin/link
/usr/bin/ln
/usr/bin/logname
/usr/bin/ls
/usr/bin/md5sum
/usr/bin/mkdir
/usr/bin/mkfifo
/usr/bin/mknod
/usr/bin/mv
/usr/bin/nice
/usr/bin/nl
/usr/bin/nohup
/usr/bin/od
/usr/bin/paste
/usr/bin/pathchk
/usr/bin/pinky
/usr/bin/pr
/usr/bin/printenv
/usr/bin/printf
/usr/bin/ptx
/usr/bin/pwd
/usr/bin/readlink
/usr/bin/rm
/usr/bin/rmdir
/usr/bin/seq
/usr/bin/sha1sum
/usr/bin/shred
/usr/bin/sleep
/usr/bin/sort
/usr/bin/split
/usr/bin/stat
/usr/bin/stty
/usr/bin/sum
/usr/bin/sync
/usr/bin/tac
/usr/bin/tail
/usr/bin/tee
/usr/bin/test
/usr/bin/touch
/usr/bin/tr
/usr/bin/true
/usr/bin/tsort
/usr/bin/tty
/usr/bin/uname
/usr/bin/unexpand
/usr/bin/uniq
/usr/bin/unlink
/usr/bin/users
/usr/bin/vdir
/usr/bin/wc
/usr/bin/who
/usr/bin/whoami
/usr/bin/yes
[...man pages left out...]

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Benno Schulenberg]

Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> here's the output of 'equery files coreutils':

Hmm... equery behaves different when its output is redirected.  
Here's a list without any of the duplicates (symlinks) in /usr/bin.

/bin/basename
/bin/cat
/bin/chgrp
/bin/chmod
/bin/chown
/bin/chroot
/bin/cksum
/bin/comm
/bin/cp
/bin/cut
/bin/date
/bin/dd
/bin/df
/bin/dir
/bin/dircolors
/bin/dirname
/bin/du
/bin/echo
/bin/env
/bin/expr
/bin/false
/bin/head
/bin/hostid
/bin/id
/bin/install
/bin/link
/bin/ln
/bin/logname
/bin/ls
/bin/mkdir
/bin/mkfifo
/bin/mknod
/bin/mv
/bin/nice
/bin/nohup
/bin/printenv
/bin/ptx
/bin/pwd
/bin/readlink
/bin/rm
/bin/rmdir
/bin/seq
/bin/sleep
/bin/sort
/bin/split
/bin/stat
/bin/stty
/bin/sync
/bin/tee
/bin/touch
/bin/tr
/bin/true
/bin/tty
/bin/uname
/bin/uniq
/bin/unlink
/bin/vdir
/bin/wc
/bin/who
/bin/whoami
/bin/yes

/usr/bin/[
/usr/bin/csplit
/usr/bin/expand
/usr/bin/factor
/usr/bin/fmt
/usr/bin/fold
/usr/bin/join
/usr/bin/md5sum
/usr/bin/nl
/usr/bin/od
/usr/bin/paste
/usr/bin/pathchk
/usr/bin/pinky
/usr/bin/pr
/usr/bin/printf
/usr/bin/sha1sum
/usr/bin/shred
/usr/bin/sum
/usr/bin/tac
/usr/bin/tail
/usr/bin/test
/usr/bin/tsort
/usr/bin/unexpand
/usr/bin/users

The ones in /usr/bin you probably won't need anyway.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Maarten]

Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
>>here's the output of 'equery files coreutils':
> 
> 
> Hmm... equery behaves different when its output is redirected.  
> Here's a list without any of the duplicates (symlinks) in /usr/bin.
> 

> /bin/link
> /bin/ln
  ^^^^^^^

Ehm. Which possibly creates a chicken-egg problem.  How do you make the
symlink from ln -> busybox without having /bin/ln in the first place ?

Maarten

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Renat Golubchyk]

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On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:07:37 +0100 Maarten <gentoo@ultratux.org> wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > /bin/link
> > /bin/ln
>   ^^^^^^^
> 
> Ehm. Which possibly creates a chicken-egg problem.  How do you make
> the symlink from ln -> busybox without having /bin/ln in the first
> place ?

Boot from a Live-CD.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Benno Schulenberg]

Maarten wrote:
> > Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > /bin/ln
>   ^^^^^^^
>
> Ehm. Which possibly creates a chicken-egg problem.  How do you
> make the symlink from ln -> busybox without having /bin/ln in the
> first place ?

busybox ln -s busybox /bin/ln

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Alexander Skwar]

Maarten wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>> Benno Schulenberg wrote:


>> /bin/ln
>   ^^^^^^^
> 
> Ehm. Which possibly creates a chicken-egg problem.  How do you make the
> symlink from ln -> busybox without having /bin/ln in the first place ?

There's no requirement for ln being a symlink. Instead, you could
also copy busybox to ln - cp busybox ln.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Mike Williams]

On Sunday 05 February 2006 18:27, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > Ehm. Which possibly creates a chicken-egg problem.  How do you make the
> > symlink from ln -> busybox without having /bin/ln in the first place ?
>
> There's no requirement for ln being a symlink. Instead, you could
> also copy busybox to ln - cp busybox ln.

cp is from coreutils too :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Manuel A. McLure]

On Sunday 05 February 2006 11:35 am, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Sunday 05 February 2006 18:27, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > > Ehm. Which possibly creates a chicken-egg problem.  How do you make the
> > > symlink from ln -> busybox without having /bin/ln in the first place ?
> >
> > There's no requirement for ln being a symlink. Instead, you could
> > also copy busybox to ln - cp busybox ln.
>
> cp is from coreutils too :)

Ah, but busybox does not have to be linked to the command names - you can do

	busybox ln -s busybox ln

Any of the commands that busybox provides when linked/symlinked are available 
by just calling busybox with the name of the command as the first argument.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Bogo Mipps]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 01:54, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Yours is a up-to-date system and you have busybox installed?  Then
> type in that command and read carefully:  "Most people will create
> a link to busybox for each function they wish to use, and BusyBox
> will act like whatever it was invoked as."

Thanks Benno 

Yes, it's up-to-date and busybox is installed.  Never had the occasion to use 
it, but this could be the time. If some kind soul doesn't come up with the 
binary package (see other post) I'll be making the few dozen links I guess. 

Presmably this will get me back to where I can get coreutils emerged again ok.

Bogo


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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Benno Schulenberg]

Bogo Mipps wrote:
> Yes, it's up-to-date and busybox is installed.  Never had the
> occasion to use it, but this could be the time.

Yes!  :)  What's the fun in taking binaries from others when you 
have busybox aboard, and it is there exactly for this purpose.

If you don't like trial and error, first make the link for cat:

  busybox ln -s busybox /bin/cat

Then cut and paste the previously given list of /bin/* to a file 
named 'list', and then make all the links in one go:

  cat list | while read name; do busybox ln -s busybox $name; done

And then emerge coreutils.  Much more interesting.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Bogo Mipps]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:36, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Yes!  :)  What's the fun in taking binaries from others when you
> have busybox aboard, and it is there exactly for this purpose.

Agree!

So did it manually - 

> And then emerge coreutils.  Much more interesting.

- all seems to go well except it "hiccups" a bit on wc, but then moves on:  
all looks fine until I get to the following:

<snip>
test -z "/bin" || /bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs 
"/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin"
mkdir /usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image/bin
  /bin/install -c '[' '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/['
  /bin/install -c 'chgrp' 
'/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/chgrp'
  /bin/install -c 'chown' 
'/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/chown'
  /bin/install -c 'chmod' 
'/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/chmod'
  /bin/install -c 'cp' '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp'
install: unable to open 
`/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp/cp': No such file or 
directory
install: cannot change permissions 
of /usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp/cp: No such file or 
directory
install: cannot change ownership 
of /usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp/cp: No such file or 
directory
make[3]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/work/coreutils-5.2.1/src'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/work/coreutils-5.2.1/src'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/work/coreutils-5.2.1/src'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
<snip>

I've tried three times and error is always similar i.e. last one (snipped) 
was:

<snip>
 /bin/install -c 'dir' '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/dir'
  /bin/install -c 'vdir' '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/vdir'
install: unable to open 
`/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/vdir/vdir': No such file or 
directory
install: cannot change permissions 
of /usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/vdir/vdir: No such file or 
directory
install: cannot change ownership 
of /usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/vdir/vdir: No such file or 
directory
make[3]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1
<snip>

Any ideas Benno - while it's still fun!

Bogo

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Benno Schulenberg]

Bogo Mipps wrote:
>   /bin/install -c 'cp'
> '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp' install:
> unable to open

> /bin/install -c 'vdir' 
> '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/vdir' 
> install: unable to open

Hrrm...  No idea why it's doing that...  On a secondary gentoo 
partition I've unmerged coreutils too, made all the symlinks, and 
am trying to remerge the package with:

  ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0-r2.ebuild merge

And here too it keeps failing at different places all the time.

If you're still having fun, get yourself to #gentoo and ask there 
what to try next.

Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Benno Schulenberg]

Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> here too it keeps failing at different places all the time.

This is a bug in busybox 1.00, it's fixed in busybox-1.1.0.

On my primary partition I've emerged the newer version, copied it to 
the other partition, and did the 'ebuild install' again: it worked 
flawlessly.  ...  This won't help you now, however, so use the 
binary package posted by others.  Sorry for wasting your time.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Iain Buchanan]

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 01:02 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > here too it keeps failing at different places all the time.
> 
> This is a bug in busybox 1.00, it's fixed in busybox-1.1.0.
> 
> On my primary partition I've emerged the newer version, copied it to 
> the other partition, and did the 'ebuild install' again: it worked 
> flawlessly.  ...  This won't help you now, however, so use the 
> binary package posted by others.  Sorry for wasting your time.

It is far from a waste of time!  Now myself (and how many others?) know
how to use busybox to restore a broken coreutils (ok, I'll admit thats a
fairly obscure use, but the principle can be used elsewhere).

I feel like trying it out just to see if it works...
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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Bogo Mipps]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:02, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> This is a bug in busybox 1.00, it's fixed in busybox-1.1.0.
>
> On my primary partition I've emerged the newer version, copied it to
> the other partition, and did the 'ebuild install' again: it worked
> flawlessly.  ...  This won't help you now, however, so use the
> binary package posted by others.  Sorry for wasting your time.

Not a waste of time!  A great temp fix anyway - and it's keeping me afloat 
right now.  Thanks for something else learned from this great list.

The binaries didn't work because coreutils are looking for libacl.so.1, and I 
can't emerge acl again without coreutils it seems (see other post) 

Thinking about Martins' Install CD suggestion.

Bogo


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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Benno Schulenberg]

Bogo Mipps wrote:
>   /bin/install -c 'cp'
> '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp' install:
> unable to open
> `/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp/cp': No such
> file or directory

Ahrrr!  We were _so_ close...

All it would have taken to get around this was 'rm /bin/install' and 
'cp /var/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.93/work/coreutils-5.93/src/ginstall /bin/install' 
and then coreutils would have emerged fine.

Have done it here: it worked perfectly.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils [SOLVED]

[Bogo Mipps]

On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:21, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Ahrrr!  We were _so_ close...
>
> All it would have taken to get around this was 'rm /bin/install' and
> 'cp /var/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.93/work/coreutils-5.93/src/ginstall
> /bin/install' and then coreutils would have emerged fine.
>
> Have done it here: it worked perfectly.

Whatever, Benno, it's been a great lesson in the powers of Busybox for which 
many thanks. Just emerging 1.1.0 now, btw.

Bogo  

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Martins Steinbergs]

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On Sunday 05 February 2006 12:13, Bogo Mipps wrote:
> Hi
>
> Have stuffed up and accidentally un-merged my coreutils: now can't emerge
> either what was current (5.2.1-r7) or newer version (5.3.0-r1) and needless
> to say have lost all coreutils tools which doesn't help. Google makes it
> look like no-one else has been so stupid.
>
> This is what I get:
>
> <snip>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3228, in ?
>     mydepgraph.merge(pkglist)
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1912, in merge
>
> retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,tree="port
>tree") File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2768, in doebuild
>
> retval=spawnebuild("install",actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=1,logfile
>=logfile) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
> retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
> ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
>     retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
> ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
>     retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
> ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
>     retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
> ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2334, in spawnebuild
>     droppriv=actionmap[mydo]["args"][1],logfile=logfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1615, in spawn
>     return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in spawn_bash
>     return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 83, in spawn
>
> mypid.extend(spawn(('tee','-i','-a',logfile),returnpid=True,fd_pipes={0:pr,
>1:1,2:2})) TypeError: iteration over non-sequence
> <snip>
>
> Can anyone help?  Please!
>
> Bogo
>

I would boot with install cd and extract latest stage3 or try to extract only 
missing files. then chroot, emerge --sync, emerge coreutils and emerge 
--update

dont know is this best solution, at least i did it some time ago when after 
update system was broke.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Martin Ullrich]

Hi!

I compiled coreutils 5.2.1-r7 with your CFLAGS and only the NLS
USE-flag. Assuming you have gcc-3.4 installed it should work.

http://members.chello.at/martin-ullrich/coreutils-5.2.1-r7.tbz2

Just boot from a live-cd (e.g. the gentoo install-cd), and extract the
file with "tar -xjpf coreutils-5.2.1-r7" (adjust the command to fit
your needs).

If it doesn't work, tell me/us.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Bogo Mipps]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 07:54, Martin Ullrich wrote:
> I compiled coreutils 5.2.1-r7 with your CFLAGS and only the NLS
> USE-flag. Assuming you have gcc-3.4 installed it should work.
>
> http://members.chello.at/martin-ullrich/coreutils-5.2.1-r7.tbz2
>
> Just boot from a live-cd (e.g. the gentoo install-cd), and extract the
> file with "tar -xjpf coreutils-5.2.1-r7" (adjust the command to fit
> your needs).
>
> If it doesn't work, tell me/us.

Martin, thanks for that - but like Rumen's some/most of the coreutils  seem to 
require the libacl.so.1 and my acl's gone as well it seems (see my other 
post) and I can't emerge again becaue I'm missing coreutils.

Mmmm.  Moral of the story - never answer the phone in the middle of a critical 
update.  Won't happen again but I'm a bit stuffed meantime. 

Bogo


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