Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

["Paul Hartman" <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:07 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?

Hi,

As your error shows, the problem is wget is broken so you cannot
download anything using wget. If you can use another tool to FTP the
wget archive to /usr/portage/distfiles, or copy it from another
machine, then you should be able to rebuild wget and proceed with
emerging everything else. I ran into the same problem on my laptop a
while back.

There were lots of people who got bit by this, if you do some
searching on this list or on the forums, or this bug:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234907

you can get additional info that might help you some more.

Good luck! :)
Paul