Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

[Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@gmail.com>]

On Friday 31 October 2008 19:53:28 Joshua Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:07 AM, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > Well,
> >
> > I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry.
> >
> > After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I
> > got in a hurry, did not think and ran:
> >
> > emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err
> > sys-fs/e2fsprogs sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs
> >
> >
> > So now I cannot emerge anything to fix this.
> >
> > Here I tried (re) emerge wget:
> >
> > Downloading
> > 'ftp://rm.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/gnuftp/gnu/wget/wget-1.11.1.tar.bz2'
> > wget: error while loading shared libraries: libcom_err.so.2: cannot open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> >
> > Can I just copy some file over from another amd64 machine?
> >
> > If so, which ones exactly?
> >
> >
> > If not, any other ideas to fix this?
> >
> >
> >
> > James
>
> Hmm, here's a random thought... if you've not already gotten things
> working again... Gentoo installs Busybox... try
>
> FETCHCOMMAND="/bin/busybox wget \${URI} -P \${DISTDIR}" emerge wget
>
> and see if that overcomes your troubles.

emerge e2fsprogs again after unemerging the older version. If wget doesnt work 
put the .tar.gz of sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.2 on your /usr/portage/distfiles and 
emerge it :)

-- 
Markos Chandras