begin quote On 09 Aug 2003 08:22:05 -0400 "Lincoln A. Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Look that this command.... > > > tar -clf - | ( cd /mnt/altroot/ & tar -xvf - ) > > See what's wrong? Yep... on one amper... > Result: completely fubared root file system. (this command makes empty > files of every file in the root file system). I did kill it before it > completed... but I know the system will not boot. > > I was able recover things (using the RESCUE tar ball in > /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/file...) > > I was able to restore /usr/bin and /lib from an other system so that > emerge would run. > > I was able to emerge portage > > I was able to emerge -e world... and it completed about 34 of the 482 > packages to be rebuilt before it traced back on file that should have > been a directory in /var/tmp/portage... while emerging xfree-4.3. > > Then emerge was broken again: > > It just segfaults with no information. > > So I did the resume tar ball again... > > But to now avail. it just segfaults: > > # emerge portage > Segmentation fault > # > > Any ideas on where to go from here? > > Am I stuck? and starting over with a fresh install in my alternate > root? > I guess you are daring right now, so just fetch a stage2 tarball for your architecture, untar that (dont forget ownership flags when untarring) and you should be able to get something working again. then do "emerge system" (not -e world) and after that things should start becoming better. Other than that, the command you just pasted would have messed up your altroot anyhow, you didn't preserve ownership properly //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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