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 1MNwtp-00066h-Ku for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:43:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B40D5E0510; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF47E0510 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3054B667AC for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:43:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.105 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.105 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.506, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id d6ww900eq+Um for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:42:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B3E667C2 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MNwta-0000b5-Vj for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:42:46 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-213-73.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.213.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:42:46 +0000 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-213-73.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:42:46 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:43:52 -0700 Message-ID: References: <7bef1f890907061321t6212879ev9a2e9c7bcfbd23a4@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-213-73.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090706 Shredder/3.0b3pre In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890907061321t6212879ev9a2e9c7bcfbd23a4@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 948f2b10-8a07-48c1-b643-b6031c74bba7 X-Archives-Hash: 92731f6136c939907a6d556ec0252d52 On 07/06/2009 01:21 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. I think it is > unrecoverable. I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now, > since I shut the machine down, it will not boot. > > Is this hopeless? It 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. The 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. You need a second (working) computer to do that, of course. (Everyone should have as many computers as possible for exactly that reason :o) Meanwhile, more info would help, as the others have already said.