From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GJFlT-0008V7-HD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:37:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k81KZfuv020698; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:35:41 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k81KSnVg011286 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:28:50 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id s2so1192736uge for ; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:28:49 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lbIK9ZAY0drfc9lJJH9LoQSxN8RQTyZnZfq61hz1+CMQowTqCkvj62hmnT2NN1aEj7ApYXuAI3ng3kNtTNrJQES97Pu99ikUQXER7R5bs28h/Q6YVFeKNhobJhCWNa+Bmo9hQFCajUNKvbeVEfHKul63R6dA3M73lE+olb4MV74= Received: by 10.67.119.5 with SMTP id w5mr1423837ugm; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.245.16 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:28:49 -0700 From: "David Grant" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc completed screwed my system In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Archives-Salt: 9a939bd7-0306-47df-8113-be036f8988a3 X-Archives-Hash: 9ee93d8ee99d94593551c29c242d789c On 9/1/06, James wrote: > David Grant gmail.com> writes: > > > > > If anyone can help me I'm desperate to save this system and not have > > > to reinstall. > > > Well, I have lost xwindows/kde on (2) systems because of an upgrade of > make.profile to point to 2006.1. I'm sure glibc was part of the problem. > > A third syxtem, an amd64, sits just slobering and drooling about; > it will not even allow ls or cat to run..... > so I'm not so sure this one can be saved without a re-installation. > > It'd sure been nice if there was a little bit more detail on this, > problem and recovery options. I've googled for links that help, but found > nothing. > > So how is the new 2006.1 liveCD working these days? I'm soon to find > out, on at least one system, maybe (3), > > Any ideas on recovery mechanisms, for this make.profile/glibc > problem are most welcome...... > > I think I'll just drink (quite a lot) and read this list to see how > the smarter half of this list dance around these pending upgrades. > I'm quite sure it's my fault, I just do not have the fortitude > to fight through another twisted hack-fest of a weekend. Well all I can say is that without my quickpkg I would probably have been screwed. Although there is still one other thing I could have done. I could have grabbed a quickpkg of glibc from another box (although that box has the newest glibc so actually that wouldn't have worked). It would probably be possible to find someone on the mailing list with similar hardware and the correct version of glibc that you want and they could send you the glibc quickpkg'd up for you. Here is pretty much the bug as I experienced it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125868 You can see detail there on how I solved it. My system is now fully working and recovered. -- David Grant http://www.davidgrant.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list