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 1MO1lx-0002Av-Sy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:55:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2719E03C1; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 03:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81DD0E03C1 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 03:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so1853165wfc.10 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:55:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=59yEQFqF8eWAuRO+AIzujySJlcc64L7yL9YNngGoVAE=; b=ayERqXkqhEhxn4z290o39gcIREsuTsvDr3M1rY2LyxOTM6gRsEI5MVIVcZuoJO0QLa VDbZ3rBDknohlmynhjxmbpRZFirNnOsmLf1dY0RXpZmjYtlpdoExq2sfwX8KJ1d0Zlkm qk0tOhn939KjlnsU9qR2MIQKX7OSRBKHz/NEA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=S9vux/IOQKoY8AEY5noCa1DxM7Xz7zi5utp98NG7kM6lcwp9R7OF9GVOm1UeFkiymt zIV7yn7msAJJYRagiHlHSgzfVAzlmJg+dy9yycpr54rfxvpe9qDqMrvCYHJV2qQFO7ib Slu8PtQxjB6qCy7k7ja3f3gXINsDbHrtmFbcw= 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 Received: by 10.142.165.15 with SMTP id n15mr1679195wfe.167.1246938912078; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:55:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <7bef1f890907061321t6212879ev9a2e9c7bcfbd23a4@mail.gmail.com> From: "Alan E. Davis" Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:54:52 +1000 Message-ID: <7bef1f890907062054l67145293x43246f1648e48992@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 60b560eb-a350-4f70-9fab-aa455a86d67f X-Archives-Hash: de5ad1a369ae090f692e2f407ad86af4 thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random things. When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. Alan "...can the human soul be glimpsed through a microscope? Maybe, but you'd definitely need one of those very good ones with two eyepieces." -- Woody Allen, quoted by B. A. Palevitz On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:43 AM, walt wrote: > On 07/06/2009 01:21 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: >> >> Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. =A0I think it is >> unrecoverable. =A0I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now, >> since I shut the machine down, it will not boot. >> >> Is this hopeless? =A0It happened during an emerge -uDvNa world > > It's never hopeless unless the hard disk is damaged, e.g. from a > head crash or similar catastrophe. =A0The important thing is to avoid > trying random things without knowing what you're doing. You can > turn a simple recovery into a hopeless mess that way. > > I find that I can usually get myself out of a 'hopeless' mess just > by downloading a live gentoo boot CD and using that to install a > recent gentoo snapshot. =A0You need a second (working) computer to > do that, of course. =A0(Everyone should have as many computers as > possible for exactly that reason :o) > > Meanwhile, more info would help, as the others have already said. > > >