On Wednesday 08 Jan 2014 12:06:47 Mick wrote:
> 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?

Another idea, in case you have a fs corruption:  if awk/gawk segfaults can you 
use a binary package from your local machine to see if the segfault goes away?

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Regards,
Mick