From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE25C1397E9 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:42:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C583514211; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:41:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yk0-f178.google.com (mail-yk0-f178.google.com [209.85.160.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8820714120 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ykll84 with SMTP id l84so112726618ykl.0 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:41:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JzD46HsSoXRyOX8E7iHy8ujIQjkpKSxgOjDnZmiIghA=; b=BQtpBjpV7rq3kGAJi+CxItz4F6VEOqWDcynZtUOIdAUtcLDRJvRx1ocuhXhD9CSJBj DCaIaXy8XSAgdG+RTu6slMhrzDboaTEXk18Cp4GIPATtJTdpXkcgx2g8HZodgXgkuVfo 6AgcTa0cUn6TrlwUYpv4+letSx7CPgU/8aJRHEtWay5JWxiYxM6JKrqK75OXturErGWg 7Az0RnwbkV+u8Y1NQuwjk3d6AuggyL1cPUnCCMq8F6nDG5owwe21oLuXESWXzV+H+vai 7ZN/QN1fbSlqpnIMeeURBeZBMre55Hos/v2Ivx65TUlGxKtkfMPRYhXilm80cK9U269Q 4fxw== X-Received: by 10.170.211.214 with SMTP id c205mr10908033ykf.67.1439944917989; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-123-251.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.123.251]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id j2sm5604866ywj.12.2015.08.18.17.41.57 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55D3D0D4.3070908@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:41:56 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: !!!! References: <55D38D15.3040800@verizon.net> <20150818172938.5a9d7d24@a6> In-Reply-To: <20150818172938.5a9d7d24@a6> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4ae3ee2d-1ee9-4b83-9270-7196f993d661 X-Archives-Hash: 7a308df9908477c9a50b35a5232a9c95 walt wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:52:53 -0400 > Alan Grimes wrote: > >> Like a stupid dumbfuck, I tried to update my machine today.... >> >> tortoise ~ # revdep-rebuild >> /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot >> open shared object file: No such file or directory >> tortoise ~ # ufed >> sh: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open >> shared object file: No such file or directory >> sh: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open >> shared object file: No such file or directory >> sh: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open >> shared object file: No such file or directory >> sh: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open >> shared object file: No such file or directory >> sh: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open >> shared object file: No such file or directory >> sh: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open >> shared object file: No such file or directory >> >> Couldn't determine EPREFIX and PORTDIR from Portage >> INIT failed--call queue aborted. >> tortoise ~ # >> >> !!!! >> >> GOOD JOB, PENGUINS!!! >> I won't even be able to reboot my machine!!! > In addition to the suggestions already made by other posters, it's good > to keep busybox in mind. Depending on how you boot your machine, there > is usually a way you can pass 'init=/bin/bb' to the kernel at boot time. > > You can do wonderful stuff with busybox when you're in a bind. > > And for the future, this could be very handy. FEATURES="buildpkg" That goes in or added to the current line in make.conf. That little thing has saved my bacon more than once. Dale :-) :-)