[gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Lord Sauron]

This is - for me - an emergency.  No pun intended.

I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with
gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such
that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released.

I gave it some pretty explicit instructions AFTER emerging
gcc-3.4.4-r1.  emerge --unmerge gcc-3.4.5 gcc-3.4.5-r1 (the only two
greater that 3.4.4 that I had installed).

For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone.  Totally.
Completely.  Not there.

I know some of you are going to be laughing your heads off at what can
only be a gigantic error in syntaxing my command to emerge, however, I
don't find it at all funny.  I can't start KDE, I can't emerge gcc to
fix the problem, I can't eix gcc to see what versions of gcc are still
there, and other things.  To me it looks like Python is totally
broken.  It keeps asking for libstdc++.so.6, which apparently no
longer exists.

I'm totally and completely devoid of all ideas to fix this problem.
My best idea has been to try and distcc with my desktop a version of
gcc, however, if even emerge --search won't work, I'm willing to bet
that adding FEATURES="distcc" to my make.conf won't do much more than
make a minor footnote in the list of problems I face.

I'm pretty much scared of having to either 1) reinstall Gentoo or 2)
go back to Kubuntu, so help here would be beyond excellent.

I'm not sure how violate an idea this is, but I think it might (some
gigantic emphasis on the might part) be possible to take another
generic i386/i686 copy of libstdc++.so.6 and paste it into where it's
needed.  I think this might fix the problem so that I can the get
emerge to work enough to distcc my way into patching up my critically
wounded system.

Before anyone makes me confess, YES!  I KILLED MY SYSTEM!  However, I
have to defend my pride in saying it wasn't something dumb like
blindly following some rm -r command from some website.

Any help here would be just great.  Thanks for any help you can give in advance.

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Richard Fish]

On 5/31/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:
> there, and other things.  To me it looks like Python is totally
> broken.  It keeps asking for libstdc++.so.6, which apparently no
> longer exists.

Yes, on Gentoo unmerging gcc will break all programs that depend on
libstdc++.so.  You should have done a "revdep-rebuild
--library=libstdc++.so.6" after running gcc-config to select the
version of gcc on your system.

At this point, if you have some version of gcc installed, try to run
gcc-config to select the remaining gcc version.  If that doesn't work,
and you used FEATURES=quickpkg, you can just untar the binary package
of gcc-3.4.5-r1.

Otherwise I think you will have to resort to copying stuff from the
livecd, or restoring from a backup.

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Alan]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:28:45PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> This is - for me - an emergency.  No pun intended.
> 
> I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with
> gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such
> that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released.
> 
> I gave it some pretty explicit instructions AFTER emerging
> gcc-3.4.4-r1.  emerge --unmerge gcc-3.4.5 gcc-3.4.5-r1 (the only two
> greater that 3.4.4 that I had installed).
> 
> For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone.  Totally.
> Completely.  Not there.

Couple of things first.  Does 'gcc-config -l' show anything (ie: a list
of compilers still installed).  Secondly, you can relatively easily
restore a gcc by creating a binary package from another gentoo server
(I forget the exact steps for this, basically you can dump all the files
provided by an ebuild into a binary that you can install by simply
untarring it in your /) or use the binary package that is on one of 
the install/complete CDs.

HTH

alan

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 5/31/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is - for me - an emergency.  No pun intended.
>
> I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with
> gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such
> that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released.
>
> I gave it some pretty explicit instructions AFTER emerging
> gcc-3.4.4-r1.  emerge --unmerge gcc-3.4.5 gcc-3.4.5-r1 (the only two
> greater that 3.4.4 that I had installed).
>
> For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone.  Totally.
> Completely.  Not there.
>
> I know some of you are going to be laughing your heads off at what can
> only be a gigantic error in syntaxing my command to emerge, however, I
> don't find it at all funny.  I can't start KDE, I can't emerge gcc to
> fix the problem, I can't eix gcc to see what versions of gcc are still
> there, and other things.  To me it looks like Python is totally
> broken.  It keeps asking for libstdc++.so.6, which apparently no
> longer exists.
>
> I'm totally and completely devoid of all ideas to fix this problem.
> My best idea has been to try and distcc with my desktop a version of
> gcc, however, if even emerge --search won't work, I'm willing to bet
> that adding FEATURES="distcc" to my make.conf won't do much more than
> make a minor footnote in the list of problems I face.
>
> I'm pretty much scared of having to either 1) reinstall Gentoo or 2)
> go back to Kubuntu, so help here would be beyond excellent.
>
> I'm not sure how violate an idea this is, but I think it might (some
> gigantic emphasis on the might part) be possible to take another
> generic i386/i686 copy of libstdc++.so.6 and paste it into where it's
> needed.  I think this might fix the problem so that I can the get
> emerge to work enough to distcc my way into patching up my critically
> wounded system.
>
> Before anyone makes me confess, YES!  I KILLED MY SYSTEM!  However, I
> have to defend my pride in saying it wasn't something dumb like
> blindly following some rm -r command from some website.
>
> Any help here would be just great.  Thanks for any help you can give in advance.
>

Well, the world is not lost, you still have a working machine, so, you
CAN fix this as long as you can BOOT your system in any way, I'm
assuming you get it running (most of it), so, there's still hope. AND
you have a complete working machine (your desktop), so, calm down and
think straight.

My best bet would be "quickpkg gcc for libstdc++ glibc" at the
Desktop, then you'll need to find and and put some libs to the right
places at your broken machine, till portage start working. After you
get emerge working, you can use the packages generated by quickpkg to
quickly restore gcc and glibc and start fixing your GCC installation.

If you can't get portage to work, you may need to extract a snapshot
to $PORTDIR. If you can't, in any way, you can still extract the
quickpkg's using tar... Those are guesses, but, well, worth a try?!

Anyway, some guru will point you in the right direction anytime.

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Mike Williams]

On Thursday 01 June 2006 00:28, Lord Sauron wrote:
> I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with
> gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such
> that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released.
>
> I gave it some pretty explicit instructions AFTER emerging
> gcc-3.4.4-r1.  emerge --unmerge gcc-3.4.5 gcc-3.4.5-r1 (the only two
> greater that 3.4.4 that I had installed).
>
> For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone.  Totally.
> Completely.  Not there.

gcc-config -l
or poke around in /var/db/pkg

I thought libstdc++.so.6 was the gcc 3.4 c++ abi, if it really is gone, you'll 
need someone to send you a binary package of gcc matching your USE settings.
Python will be broken until it can fine the libstdc it's linked against.

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:45 -0700, Alan wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:28:45PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> 
>   Secondly, you can relatively easily
> restore a gcc by creating a binary package from another gentoo server
> (I forget the exact steps for this, basically you can dump all the files
> provided by an ebuild into a binary that you can install by simply
> untarring it in your /) or use the binary package that is on one of 
> the install/complete CDs.

quickpkg can help you here.  "if portage can emerge it, quickpkg can
make a package" On a working machine, type `quickpkg gcc` or `quickpkg
=gcc-3.4.5-blah`.

I think the result goes int /usr/portage/packages.  Then take that to
your broken machine, and unpack it.

Hope it works!
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[gentoo-user] Re: EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Thomas Kirchner]

* On May 31 16:28, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> This is - for me - an emergency.  No pun intended.

Just a quick note in addition to the good advice given in the rest of the 
thread.  One of the Gentoo devs (I forget which, but I'm sure someone 
knows) keeps a bunch of tarballs on a server that can be used for 
emergency restoration.  It has things like pre-compiled gcc packages, 
glibc, python, etc. from a working Gentoo system, and compiled for 
bare-bones hardware so it'll work anywhere.  Actually, it's saved my butt 
a few times now.  You can just download gcc from there, and install with 
emerge -K.

Tom
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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, 31 May 2006 20:46:54 -0300
Daniel da Veiga wrote:

> On 5/31/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is - for me - an emergency.  No pun intended.
> >
> > I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with
> > gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such
> > that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released.
> >
> > I gave it some pretty explicit instructions AFTER emerging
> > gcc-3.4.4-r1.  emerge --unmerge gcc-3.4.5 gcc-3.4.5-r1 (the only two
> > greater that 3.4.4 that I had installed).
> >
> > For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone.  Totally.
> > Completely.  Not there.
> >
> > I know some of you are going to be laughing your heads off at what can
> > only be a gigantic error in syntaxing my command to emerge, however, I
> > don't find it at all funny.  I can't start KDE, I can't emerge gcc to
> > fix the problem, I can't eix gcc to see what versions of gcc are still
> > there, and other things.  To me it looks like Python is totally
> > broken.  It keeps asking for libstdc++.so.6, which apparently no
> > longer exists.
> >
> > I'm totally and completely devoid of all ideas to fix this problem.
> > My best idea has been to try and distcc with my desktop a version of
> > gcc, however, if even emerge --search won't work, I'm willing to bet
> > that adding FEATURES="distcc" to my make.conf won't do much more than
> > make a minor footnote in the list of problems I face.
> >
> > I'm pretty much scared of having to either 1) reinstall Gentoo or 2)
> > go back to Kubuntu, so help here would be beyond excellent.
> >
> > I'm not sure how violate an idea this is, but I think it might (some
> > gigantic emphasis on the might part) be possible to take another
> > generic i386/i686 copy of libstdc++.so.6 and paste it into where it's
> > needed.  I think this might fix the problem so that I can the get
> > emerge to work enough to distcc my way into patching up my critically
> > wounded system.
> >
> > Before anyone makes me confess, YES!  I KILLED MY SYSTEM!  However, I
> > have to defend my pride in saying it wasn't something dumb like
> > blindly following some rm -r command from some website.
> >
> > Any help here would be just great.  Thanks for any help you can give in advance.
> >
> 
> Well, the world is not lost, you still have a working machine, so, you
> CAN fix this as long as you can BOOT your system in any way, I'm
> assuming you get it running (most of it), so, there's still hope. AND
> you have a complete working machine (your desktop), so, calm down and
> think straight.
> 
> My best bet would be "quickpkg gcc for libstdc++ glibc" at the
> Desktop, then you'll need to find and and put some libs to the right
> places at your broken machine, till portage start working. After you
> get emerge working, you can use the packages generated by quickpkg to
> quickly restore gcc and glibc and start fixing your GCC installation.
> 
> If you can't get portage to work, you may need to extract a snapshot
> to $PORTDIR. If you can't, in any way, you can still extract the
> quickpkg's using tar... Those are guesses, but, well, worth a try?!
> 
> Anyway, some guru will point you in the right direction anytime.
> 

Some OK ideas have been floated here, but what if our friend doesn't
have another working gentoo machine? he needs that for quickpkg.

Suggestions for finding the packaged file on one of the dev sites is
fine, but someone needs to give the poor guy a url. Also he isn't going
to be able to install it with portage because portage isn't working
because python isn't working. Hopefull untarring it into the filesystem
will work, but any post install scripts are not going to be executed.
Therefore something like gcc-config will need to be executed, and OP
will also need to check the ebuild for other steps that may be missing
from a simple untar.


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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Iain Buchanan]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:33 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> 
> Some OK ideas have been floated here, but what if our friend doesn't
> have another working gentoo machine? he needs that for quickpkg.

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:28 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> My best idea has been to try and distcc with my desktop 

I assumed the presence of a separate desktop machine from this comment.

>  Also he isn't going
> to be able to install it with portage because portage isn't working
> because python isn't working. Hopefull untarring it into the filesystem
> will work,

tar is how I'd start.

>  but any post install scripts are not going to be executed.
> Therefore something like gcc-config will need to be executed, and OP
> will also need to check the ebuild for other steps that may be missing
> from a simple untar.

untar gcc, then emerge gcc, and you'll fix the post-install and other
ebuild stuff.  I hope :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:19:27 +0930
Iain Buchanan wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:28 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> > My best idea has been to try and distcc with my desktop 
> 
> I assumed the presence of a separate desktop machine from this comment.


ahh ok missed that bit.

And I think you are right, untar the gcc and then emerge it again (from
the binary)

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Ryan Tandy]

Iain Buchanan wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:28 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
>> My best idea has been to try and distcc with my desktop 
> 
> I assumed the presence of a separate desktop machine from this comment.

His desktop is a Windows machine, running distcc under Cygwin.
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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Rumen Yotov]

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Lord Sauron wrote:
> This is - for me - an emergency.  No pun intended.
> 
> I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with
> gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such
> that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released.
> 
> I gave it some pretty explicit instructions AFTER emerging
> gcc-3.4.4-r1.  emerge --unmerge gcc-3.4.5 gcc-3.4.5-r1 (the only two
> greater that 3.4.4 that I had installed).
> 
> For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone.  Totally.
> Completely.  Not there.
> 
> I know some of you are going to be laughing your heads off at what can
> only be a gigantic error in syntaxing my command to emerge, however, I
> don't find it at all funny.  I can't start KDE, I can't emerge gcc to
> fix the problem, I can't eix gcc to see what versions of gcc are still
> there, and other things.  To me it looks like Python is totally
> broken.  It keeps asking for libstdc++.so.6, which apparently no
> longer exists.
> 
> I'm totally and completely devoid of all ideas to fix this problem.
> My best idea has been to try and distcc with my desktop a version of
> gcc, however, if even emerge --search won't work, I'm willing to bet
> that adding FEATURES="distcc" to my make.conf won't do much more than
> make a minor footnote in the list of problems I face.
> 
> I'm pretty much scared of having to either 1) reinstall Gentoo or 2)
> go back to Kubuntu, so help here would be beyond excellent.
> 
> I'm not sure how violate an idea this is, but I think it might (some
> gigantic emphasis on the might part) be possible to take another
> generic i386/i686 copy of libstdc++.so.6 and paste it into where it's
> needed.  I think this might fix the problem so that I can the get
> emerge to work enough to distcc my way into patching up my critically
> wounded system.
> 
> Before anyone makes me confess, YES!  I KILLED MY SYSTEM!  However, I
> have to defend my pride in saying it wasn't something dumb like
> blindly following some rm -r command from some website.
> 
> Any help here would be just great.  Thanks for any help you can give in
> advance.
> 
Hi,
I keep binaries for all major/critical packages of my system - gcc,glibc
But their usage depends on processor family, USE flags for gcc etc.
Will put a binary tarball of "gcc-3.4.6-r1" (gcc-3.4.6-r1.tbz2)-25MB.
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1  USE="boundschecking fortran gcj gtk nls objc
-bootstrap -build -doc -hardened -ip28 -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp
-vanilla"
Place: ftp.qrypto.org
PS: to install put it in / (root dir), tar xjvf gcc-3.4.6-r1.tbz2
(ignore last massages). Then if lucky remerge any GCC you want.
HTH.Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Lord Sauron]

On 5/31/06, Alan <alan@ufies.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:28:45PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> > This is - for me - an emergency.  No pun intended.
> >
> > I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with
> > gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such
> > that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released.
> >
> > I gave it some pretty explicit instructions AFTER emerging
> > gcc-3.4.4-r1.  emerge --unmerge gcc-3.4.5 gcc-3.4.5-r1 (the only two
> > greater that 3.4.4 that I had installed).
> >
> > For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone.  Totally.
> > Completely.  Not there.
>
> Couple of things first.  Does 'gcc-config -l' show anything (ie: a list
> of compilers still installed).  Secondly, you can relatively easily

No, I must miserably admit that it does not list anything.

> restore a gcc by creating a binary package from another gentoo server
> (I forget the exact steps for this, basically you can dump all the files
> provided by an ebuild into a binary that you can install by simply
> untarring it in your /) or use the binary package that is on one of
> the install/complete CDs.

Is there a manual?  This wouldn't have anything to do with GRP, would
it?  I'm just throwing that out there as a guess since I think it was
GRP that installed Gentoo without compiling, something that saved me
soooo much time when installing.

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Lord Sauron]

On 5/31/06, Rumen Yotov <rumen@qrypto.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> I keep binaries for all major/critical packages of my system - gcc,glibc
> But their usage depends on processor family, USE flags for gcc etc.
> Will put a binary tarball of "gcc-3.4.6-r1" (gcc-3.4.6-r1.tbz2)-25MB.
> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
> sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1  USE="boundschecking fortran gcj gtk nls objc
> -bootstrap -build -doc -hardened -ip28 -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp
> -vanilla"
> Place: ftp.qrypto.org
> PS: to install put it in / (root dir), tar xjvf gcc-3.4.6-r1.tbz2
> (ignore last massages). Then if lucky remerge any GCC you want.
> HTH.Rumen

So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2?
That's significantly less painful than I was expecting this to be.
I'm working on that now.  I'm downloading it, and then I'll be putting
it to a USB drive to then migrate to the afflicted machine (I'm not
pro enough to know how to download something without the crux of a GUI
- sorry, it's the horrible truth.)

Thanks a million for the help.  I was really making some great
progress as far as learning more and more about Gentoo and linux in
general, and it'd be a shame to waste time on reinstalling because I
was a dork and did something stupid like killing gcc.  I should be
able to say whether your steps worked within an hour or so.  Thanks
again.

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Justin R Findlay]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> 
> So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2?

No.

root@host # cp gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages
root@host # emerge -k "=gcc-3.4.5-r1"

And make sure PKGDIR is set to /usr/portage/packages in your
/etc/make.conf.


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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Lord Sauron]

On 5/31/06, Justin R Findlay <justin@jfindlay.us> wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> >
> > So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2?
>
> No.
>
> root@host # cp gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages
> root@host # emerge -k "=gcc-3.4.5-r1"

Oh.  Not /usr/portage/distfiles or whatever?  Oh, yeah, distfiles is
for the sources, right...

My download is still at 4%, so this could take a while ; )

Not anywhere near as long as compiling without a compiler though.

> And make sure PKGDIR is set to /usr/portage/packages in your
> /etc/make.conf.

I'll check that out.

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Lord Sauron]

On 5/31/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/31/06, Justin R Findlay <justin@jfindlay.us> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> > >
> > > So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > root@host # cp gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages
> > root@host # emerge -k "=gcc-3.4.5-r1"
>
> Oh.  Not /usr/portage/distfiles or whatever?  Oh, yeah, distfiles is
> for the sources, right...
>
> My download is still at 4%, so this could take a while ; )
>
> Not anywhere near as long as compiling without a compiler though.
>
> > And make sure PKGDIR is set to /usr/portage/packages in your
> > /etc/make.conf.
>
> I'll check that out.

A little bit more help here is needed.  You know you're in trouble
when man make.conf gives an error code.

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Richard Fish]

On 5/31/06, Justin R Findlay <justin@jfindlay.us> wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> >
> > So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2?
>
> No.

No:

cd /
tar -xjvf <path>/gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2

Justin, remember the original problem...no libstdc++.so.6, so all C++
dependant packages are broken, and this includes python and thus
portage.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Justin R Findlay]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:40:13PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> 
> Justin, remember the original problem...no libstdc++.so.6, so all C++
> dependant packages are broken, and this includes python and thus
> portage.

OK.  I guess I should read the whole thread before spouting off
directions.  (-:


Justin
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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Rumen Yotov]

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Hi,
Lord Sauron wrote:
> On 5/31/06, Rumen Yotov <rumen@qrypto.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I keep binaries for all major/critical packages of my system - gcc,glibc
>> But their usage depends on processor family, USE flags for gcc etc.
>> Will put a binary tarball of "gcc-3.4.6-r1" (gcc-3.4.6-r1.tbz2)-25MB.
>> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
>> sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1  USE="boundschecking fortran gcj gtk nls objc
>> -bootstrap -build -doc -hardened -ip28 -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp
>> -vanilla"
>> Place: ftp.qrypto.org
>> PS: to install put it in / (root dir), tar xjvf gcc-3.4.6-r1.tbz2
>> (ignore last massages). Then if lucky remerge any GCC you want.
>> HTH.Rumen
> 
> So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2?
Yeah, FYI untar it in some test directory and check the contents.
> That's significantly less painful than I was expecting this to be.
> I'm working on that now.  I'm downloading it, and then I'll be putting
> it to a USB drive to then migrate to the afflicted machine (I'm not
> pro enough to know how to download something without the crux of a GUI
> - sorry, it's the horrible truth.)
> 
wget ftp://ftp.qrypto.org/gcc-3.4.6-r1.tbz2. It's a 3.4.6 version.
Use "quickpkg package" to generate a binary tarball of it.
> Thanks a million for the help.  I was really making some great
> progress as far as learning more and more about Gentoo and linux in
> general, and it'd be a shame to waste time on reinstalling because I
> was a dork and did something stupid like killing gcc.  I should be
> able to say whether your steps worked within an hour or so.  Thanks
> again.
> 
PS:check again your processor architecture (athlon-xp - here), the USE
flags are not so important but some might be. I should have used
-mcpu=athlon-xp which will work with i686 too, but it's too late now.
HTH.Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Rumen Yotov]

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Justin R Findlay wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
>> So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2?
> 
> No.
> 
> root@host # cp gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages
> root@host # emerge -k "=gcc-3.4.5-r1"
> 
> And make sure PKGDIR is set to /usr/portage/packages in your
> /etc/make.conf.
> 
> 
> Justin
Hi,
How to do this when python (so emerge) isn't working?
Otherwise this is the proper way.
Please don't confuse him.
Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[leszek]

Le mercredi 31 mai 2006 à 16:28 -0700, Lord Sauron a écrit :
> 
> For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone.  Totally.
> Completely.  Not there.

there is a page in the wiki explaining how to solve this :
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Recover_from_%22emerge_--unmerge_gcc%22


-Leszek

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:23 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:

>   I should be
> able to say whether your steps worked within an hour or so.  Thanks
> again.

*meep*

no news is good news?
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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Teresa and Dale]

leszek wrote:

>Le mercredi 31 mai 2006 à 16:28 -0700, Lord Sauron a écrit :
>  
>
>>For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone.  Totally.
>>Completely.  Not there.
>>    
>>
>
>there is a page in the wiki explaining how to solve this :
>http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Recover_from_%22emerge_--unmerge_gcc%22
>
>
>-Leszek
>
>  
>

I have to take my fiance to the doctor but I would be glad to email you
any files you need,  I have a Athlon XP with this in make.conf:

USE="acl acpi alsa amd arts artsd artswrappersuid bzip2 cdr chroot
clanJavaScript crypt dbus doc esd ethereal exif f-prot fdftk gaim gcj
gif gimpprint gkrellm -gnome gphoto2 gtk hal hbci hpijs ipv6 java
javascript jbig jpeg2k justify kde mmx mozilla nsplugin ofx offensive
openoffice -oss postgres ppds pysol scanner scribus sse tcltk tiff
tkinter truetype tuxracer udev usb wmf X xml xprint yahoo 3dnow "

CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
-momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe"

I have buildpkg turned on here too.  I delete them every once in a while
but save some of the critical stuff.  I have a cable modem here so it
will not take me long to send it, whatever you need.  I should be back
in a while.  Depends on long the Doctor takes really.  She's seeing a
neurologist.

Let me know of you need anything.  If I am not here I'm sure someone
else could share.  You may want to CC my regular email to make sure I
see it ASAP.

Hang in there, this can be fixed.  I've done some things similiar before.

Dale
:-) :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Lord Sauron]

I fixed it.  Thank God that's over...  it was good to go back to the
command line a bit for me.  Keeps me sharp... even despite the huge
allergies I'm experiencing right now.

I've also added a note in my notes files to NEVER run anything like
"emerge --unmerge gcc" ever again.  That was a huge mistake.  Rather,
I've found through this experience gcc-config.  Never knew that was
there...  much to my misfortune.

Thanks a lot for your help - Without you I'd have to reinstall, since
I'm not skilled enough to brave the world of a live-cd and chroot (I
think) into my drive to then install gcc.  At least, that's what I
think my next best option was...  I'm not at all familiar with chroot
though, so all I can do is speculate.  I think I'll go read its man
page now in celebration of the restoration of my system.

Also, right before I killed my system, I made something, a very very
elementary bash script (my first bash script - yay!) to toggle distcc
on and off.  It's NOT terribly advanced, but it's a start...  here it
is:

localhost ~ # cat /bin/ch_distcc
#!/bin/bash

# alternates between using make.conf and make.conf.other
# in other words, toggles between using distcc or not

# this should be where your make.conf lives.
MAKE_DIR="/etc/";

mv "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf "$MAKE_DIR"buffer
mv "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf.other "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf
mv "$MAKE_DIR"buffer "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf.other

I know it's not terribly good, it assumes that make.conf and
make.conf.other are exactly the same - except for the distcc part in
FEATURES="".  But hey, it's something I can work on while chipping my
way through a excellent reference on bash I found and downloaded.

Thanks again for your help!
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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Teresa and Dale]

Lord Sauron wrote:

> I fixed it.  Thank God that's over...  it was good to go back to the
> command line a bit for me.  Keeps me sharp... even despite the huge
> allergies I'm experiencing right now.
>
> I've also added a note in my notes files to NEVER run anything like
> "emerge --unmerge gcc" ever again.  That was a huge mistake.  Rather,
> I've found through this experience gcc-config.  Never knew that was
> there...  much to my misfortune.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help - Without you I'd have to reinstall, since
> I'm not skilled enough to brave the world of a live-cd and chroot (I
> think) into my drive to then install gcc.  At least, that's what I
> think my next best option was...  I'm not at all familiar with chroot
> though, so all I can do is speculate.  I think I'll go read its man
> page now in celebration of the restoration of my system.
>
> Also, right before I killed my system, I made something, a very very
> elementary bash script (my first bash script - yay!) to toggle distcc
> on and off.  It's NOT terribly advanced, but it's a start...  here it
> is:
>
> localhost ~ # cat /bin/ch_distcc
> #!/bin/bash
>
> # alternates between using make.conf and make.conf.other
> # in other words, toggles between using distcc or not
>
> # this should be where your make.conf lives.
> MAKE_DIR="/etc/";
>
> mv "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf "$MAKE_DIR"buffer
> mv "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf.other "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf
> mv "$MAKE_DIR"buffer "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf.other
>
> I know it's not terribly good, it assumes that make.conf and
> make.conf.other are exactly the same - except for the distcc part in
> FEATURES="".  But hey, it's something I can work on while chipping my
> way through a excellent reference on bash I found and downloaded.
>
> Thanks again for your help!


I recently changed mine to this:

> # FEATURES are settings that affect the functionality of portage. Most of
> #     these settings are for developer use, but some are available to non-
> #     developers as well. 'buildpkg' is an always-on setting for the
> emerge
> #     flag of the same name. It causes binary packages to be created
> of all
> #     packages that are merged.
> FEATURES="buildpkg ccache sandbox"


It sort of helps me in case I screw up.  It happens sometimes, usually
when we least expect it too.

Glad you got it working.

Dale
:-)  :-) 

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Lord Sauron]

On 6/1/06, Teresa and Dale <teendale@vista-express.com> wrote:
> I recently changed mine to this:
> > # FEATURES are settings that affect the functionality of portage. Most of
> > #     these settings are for developer use, but some are available to non-
> > #     developers as well. 'buildpkg' is an always-on setting for the
> > emerge
> > #     flag of the same name. It causes binary packages to be created
> > of all
> > #     packages that are merged.
> > FEATURES="buildpkg ccache sandbox"
>
> It sort of helps me in case I screw up.  It happens sometimes, usually
> when we least expect it too.

I'll have to look into that.  It's options like those that mean I
really need to work more on my distcc toggle command.  It's not used
to much other than what I already built into it.  I would have made it
more complex, however, I don't know enough bash yet to do that.

> Glad you got it working.

So am I.

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Teresa and Dale]

Lord Sauron wrote:

> On 6/1/06, Teresa and Dale <teendale@vista-express.com> wrote:
>
>> I recently changed mine to this:
>> > # FEATURES are settings that affect the functionality of portage.
>> Most of
>> > #     these settings are for developer use, but some are available
>> to non-
>> > #     developers as well. 'buildpkg' is an always-on setting for the
>> > emerge
>> > #     flag of the same name. It causes binary packages to be created
>> > of all
>> > #     packages that are merged.
>> > FEATURES="buildpkg ccache sandbox"
>>
>> It sort of helps me in case I screw up.  It happens sometimes, usually
>> when we least expect it too.
>
>
> I'll have to look into that.  It's options like those that mean I
> really need to work more on my distcc toggle command.  It's not used
> to much other than what I already built into it.  I would have made it
> more complex, however, I don't know enough bash yet to do that.
>
>> Glad you got it working.
>
>
> So am I.
>

>From what I understand, which may be as wrong as it gets, if I use the
buildpkg thing, it stores a binary in /usr/portage/packages/All/ and if
I really screw up something, like portage, gcc or something like that, I
can untar it to / and rescue myself from my evil doing.  That is what I
understand and have never actually used this "feature" before.  I have
used the portage rescue before though, twice I might add. 

One thing I can say about Linux and Gentoo, there are tons of options. 

Dale
:-)  :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:42:29 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote:

> From what I understand, which may be as wrong as it gets, if I use the
> buildpkg thing, it stores a binary in /usr/portage/packages/All/ and if
> I really screw up something, like portage, gcc or something like that, I
> can untar it to / and rescue myself from my evil doing.  That is what I
> understand and have never actually used this "feature" before.

That's right. It came in handy a few months back when a glibc update
broke things. It also means you can quickly roll back to the previous
version of a package with emerge --usepackage =cat/pkg-version.


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Read the docs? What a RADICAL concept!

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Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Lord Sauron]

Just to close this all up on a funny note, look at this:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Recover_from_%22emerge_--unmerge_gcc%22#.22I_Did_This.22_Wall_of_Shame
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