I've never done this, but take a look at : /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE
..just trying to be helpful On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 23:20, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > My galeon web browser mysteriously stopped working today. In an > attempt to get it to work again, I did the following: > > emerge -euv galeon > > The idea was to recompile galeon and absolutely everything it > depends upon. > > I had to stop the compilation at one point with a control-c, > although this was at a point that should have been safe to do this. > When I then tried to run emerge again, I got this: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 14, in ? > import portage > File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 10, in ? > from select import * > ImportError: No module named select > > This happens whatever arguments I give to emerge, and obviously > means that the python select module is for some reason not > installed. Python was not the ebuild that I interrupted, so I am > confused why this should be the case. > > So, I am now completely unable to run emerge to do anything else. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get a working portage > setup now? > > I am sorry if this is explained in the forum, I am having difficulty > viewing web pages at the moment due to having no working web > browser (I have wget though!). > > Regards, > Andy. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb ? Answer : None, they just declare darkness a new standard.
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