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Re: [gentoo-user] Crippled system

KH

2008-04-16

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Alan McKinnon schrieb:
> On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Richard Marzan wrote:
>  
>> I had a circular dep problem with mktemp and coreutils and emerge
>> -C'd coreutils. Now I can't do anything significant just cd. how can
>> i repair this?
>>  
>
> Boot off a LiveCD somehow. Use one that has a fairly recent coreutils on
> it, and merge the coreutils pkg onto your actual system on disk. You
> will have to mount your disk-based system somewhere convenient and tell
> portage off the LiveCD to use that as the ROOT system to merge to.
>
> Next time portage tells you that unmerging something in system is a very
> very very bad idea, you should take it seriously.
>
>  
Hi,
you are not the only one who removed coreutils.
http://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?mode=results&show_results=topics&search_keywords=coreutils
k
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