I created a chroot environment using the stage3 tarball and copied across my make.conf and did: emerge --sync emerge portage
Everything was fine up until this point. I then executed an emerge of glibc and left it to build. It failed with: --- /etc/init.d/ >>> /etc/init.d/nscd --- /sbin/ >>> /sbin/ldconfig >>> /sbin/sln >>> Safely unmerging already-installed instance... !!! FAILED prerm: 35584 I then attemed to re-emegre glibc and saw a repeat of the failure I reported before: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc # emerge glibc Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 to / [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc # I then rm'd the incomplete glibc and re-extracted the stage tarball et voila: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # rm -rf /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -p vim These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] dev-util/ctags-5.5.4 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1 [ebuild N ] app-editors/vim-core-6.3-r3 [ebuild N ] app-editors/vim-6.3-r2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge vim Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 4) dev-util/ctags-5.5.4 to / >>> Downloading http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/ctags-5.5.4.tar.gz --23:49:46-- http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/ .. .. Everything seems to be working again in the chroot environment. So it seems the incomplete emegre of glib is whats clobbering the system. Is there any debugging infomation people want to work out what went wrong? -- Alex http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
