On Wednesday 08 Jan 2014 11:58:01 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

> Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> Unpacked /usr/portage/distfiles/portage-2.2.7.tar.bz2 right now etc
> 
> Still getting segfaults with the replaced emerge-command :-(

This does not look good.

Can you get someone to reboot the machine with a sysrescue or Gentoo LiveCD 
for you to connect to it remotely and then chroot into the borked installation 
to essentially reinstall the required packages with a functional portage and 
toolchain from the LiveCD?

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Regards,
Mick