I learned something simlair, by doing a emerge -u world, but afterwards I didnt do etc-update. same problem.
fix : boot from gentoo cd, do the mounting and chroot, and then do the etc-update. I guess this would apply to the emerge -u world as well. wotrth a shot. On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:22:47 -0800 (PST) Ajay Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Last night I was doing a big 'emerge -u --deep world' but wanted to go > to bed and *didn't* want to leave my computer on all night. So I just > hit 'CRTL-C' and figured that I'd finish the building later. It's not > like I was building anything crucial to the system. > > This morning when I booted up to check email, I was slammed with all > kinds of errors and the system wouldn't boot. I've been *very* lucky > with Linux systems so even though I've been a sys admin for a few years, > I have very little experience recovering machines. > > So step 1 was figuring out grub to get it to boot into single-user mode. > The last time I had to boot into single-user mode was when I was still > using LILO. Anyway, it wasn't very difficult at all. > > After I booted the kernel, I still got slammed with a bunch of errors > and it looked like devfs wasn't being loaded. But in single user mode > I was promted to enter 'Crtl-D for normal bootup or the root password > for maintainance'. I entered the root password and I've got a shell. > yippie! > > So as I poke around I notice that the root filesystem is still mounted > read only even though mount clearly shows it mounted "(rw)". So I > remount the root filesystem: > > mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda2 > > Simple enough. I wanted to get networking up and running so before I > loaded the natsemi module I ran a 'depmod -a' and it came back with > unresolved symbols for the emu10k1 module. That led me to belive that > there was a problem with my emerge last night because one of the > packages that I installed was an update to the emu10k1-utils (or > something like that??). So I did an 'emerge -s emu10k1' and saw that > two versions were loaded. So I unmerged the old one and at the very end > it says, "You have 34 config files to update" (or whatever the message > is, I forgot now that I'm at work...) > > And there's the problem. One of the other updates I did last night was > baselayout and that changed damn near everything. So I quickly ran > through etc-update, rebooted and the system was back up in running. So > as usual, it's not Gentoo's fault, just user error. :) > > later, > ajay > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Satyajot (Ajay) Sharma > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
