[gentoo-user] can't boot, chroot no help

[Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@gmail.com>]

Hi group,

I ran  emerge -avuDN world and came up with blocked packages which I
eliminated by  un-merging device-mapper and e2fsprogs-libs. When I
rebooted was greeted by a maintenance console and the message
"libblkid.so.1 cannot open shared object file". A little googling
later I realized that e2fsprogs-libs should not have been removed. No
problem, I'll chroot and fix it.

After the chroot I was able to mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt/gentoo but
couldn't mount /dev/sdb2
on /var where portage is kept on this system. The error was identical
to the original one when the pc was first rebooted:

"mount: error while loading shared libraries: libblkid.so.1..."

I tried to run e2fsck on /dev/sda2 but got this error msg:

"e2fsck: error while loading shared libraries: libcom_err.so.2: cannot
open shared object file..."

Any one see a way past this impasse? I'm using ext2 with the journal option.

Maxim