From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MNuy4-0007MU-RF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:39:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A5A72E05E6; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:39:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B27BE05E6 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:39:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 3so921010eyh.36 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:39:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=mV4/TKwMFYKsLMoTPkfTRlbEnB2HdRJIVedxuVj8tIU=; b=NxjPtXzUHiVajwF0CDGZ9Zbz43DEcmEtzGI4L0psrJP+ECBTWuc+bJzPf3HqqXhboA udQ+FrjxuYmjJkXC5LLwnklNTsnFhc0JAYmw71OdjEujX7KHAGJSLr88NGAdOhfZmEY/ m5lBcmUUE3hPM9aPzJm5yZjiCv4r1fPLqcVQ0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=w5MGAA9eDs7KkIPIIb4id5ESSr/cyQ1SkbFQGNcaYtJqRdG9ZUd9y9sYH72+yZPt1W MrZgcSoGCQzfGk31Yljx/odU7aKoSzfMnyhUpIO28LyMHlCid3eajPOrXmQDN+KYhqG9 5CXwimCJYK9twcyKdYV2IVzd/R2FQnfH4Idi8= Received: by 10.210.58.17 with SMTP id g17mr3546194eba.39.1246912754790; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm673985eyb.55.2009.07.06.13.39.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:39:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses is gone Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:37:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "Alan E. Davis" References: <7bef1f890907061321t6212879ev9a2e9c7bcfbd23a4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890907061321t6212879ev9a2e9c7bcfbd23a4@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907062237.31649.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 37e826b9-834d-4de8-b656-36817db8594e X-Archives-Hash: 14a8a03a66306e5b0282fd51575085f6 On Monday 06 July 2009 22:21:39 Alan E. Davis wrote: > Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. I think it is > unrecoverable. I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now, > since I shut the machine down, it will not boot. > > Is this hopeless? It happened during an emerge -uDvNa world What are the errors or other relevant output to the console? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com