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 7C112139894 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:26:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBE111425F; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:26:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f179.google.com (mail-ig0-f179.google.com [209.85.213.179]) (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 DAA8014088 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igfj19 with SMTP id j19so62809673igf.1 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:26:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=EXl3kCAkqJzcob9dQRAb/+2SAkqjiVKXef4m1ek5Cqo=; b=C2+Ghpf/wX4LIqWK/lIy81NzpYoH7OrzabHFBgeKWp1E8lV3PbGKmumiow7sv7yrIh HChCxQEcHBv97dxz7HYYbSZxwqLRiwjqKL3NgTsdRREZXPMjt3pfRrsf1DJxZDjce61k ZtdU0FgxkAVuimI2vKpqtf9Ha1sz+3LZ9UJNq9fmUC5JFrofpjGALB6Zxoqoxke4h9R3 8nRzxv8MzyF6OZfQbx89qmZdOQs2emBZhxMRzV3QqI/ScfR65l8OSjMniC2fvL37ufpu DtvXfPON0PIoLIV3qHdn6b6EkFaT5lh90dZhUDZsOhFn2aihI+5xUxYrNQ2i6F2NQBEo 4aXQ== 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 X-Received: by 10.50.78.161 with SMTP id c1mr17198125igx.35.1440440805035; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.79.103.67 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:26:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87bndwiw0s.fsf@reader.local.lan> References: <87lhd1ig1t.fsf@reader.local.lan> <20150824131744.GA2518@acm.fritz.box> <55DB1F2B.4060706@gmail.com> <87bndwiw0s.fsf@reader.local.lan> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:26:44 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: SgMmSbwxi-ShnDL1Rlse8dgtoEw Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 31c27ee7-f734-4bc5-bb29-2d6d4137e8a6 X-Archives-Hash: 7b1b2af74b9dea220cfd941f5faebe47 On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > So, I've made the mess considerably worse... maybe unsolvable since I > have no gcc now and so no way to grind out the builds.... plus other > truly boneheaded uninstalls that appear to have rendered my system > unusable .... just like the little warning says when you > gentoo -vC pkg ....... wheeeeee. > Uh, not to drag you through the mud, but what gave you the idea to try that? I'm mainly interested so that we can go fix it if there is some document that is leading people astray. The suggestion was to check gcc-config -l, and then set a recent version of gcc if it isn't already selected. That should be the correct fix, though you might need to install a newer gcc version. You don't need to use emerge -C to do any of that. That command is one of those "I know what I'm doing" commands which will happily mess up your system. At this point your simplest solution is to create a binary package of whatever it is you got rid of and re-install it, but that is going to be a lot more complex than the minor issue you were having before. Your email is pretty light on details, so I don't even know what it was that you uninstalled. I'd suggest not doing stuff like this in the future. I can pretty much guarantee that emerge output like the one you posted will happen to you a few times a year and is fairly routine if you have a system with many packages on it. Granted, you won't have quite as much to deal with if you update daily/weekly, but still, you probably shouldn't go into panic mode everytime portage wants help with something because it happens fairly often. -- Rich