Ed Budd wrote:
Okay, I seem to have inadvertently messed up my main workstation while running 'emerge depclean' (yeah, I know...kicking myself repeatedly for not scrutinizing the list more thoroughly though I didn't think there was anything there that was so critical).
Anyway, the primary symptom seems to be the loss of libacl.so.1. I can't do any critical commands without seeing this:
"ls: error while loading shared libraries: libacl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
Trying to use cp, even shutdown gives me the same thing. Of course I can't emerge anything either.
I've tried booting from the 2004.3 Universal CD and sure enough there is no shared library by that name in /lib. My laptop (which I'm writing this message on btw) is set up similarly and has the file.
I'll happily name my next child after anyone who can help me out of this.
TIA for ANY assistance,
EB
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I hate to reply to my own post (kind of lonely tonight :)) but I just tried to run revdep-rebuild and, not surprisingly, it's picked up on the problem and wants to re-emerge coreutils and rsync. However, it fails when it tries. Specifically, I get this:
install: error while loading shared libraries: libacl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
!!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r2 failed.
!!! Function dyn_unpack, line 632, Exitcode 127
!!! Failed to create dir '/var/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r2/work'
So my most pressing concern at this point is how to emerge this without the automagic. I'm at a bit of loss and certainly don't want to make things any worse than they already are.
Again, thanks for any help in advance,
Okay, after my initial panic I rallied to the cause and I think I've managed to break out of the wet paper bag.
I found a lead on the gentoo user forums archives for where I could obtain binary versions of coreutils, acl, and attr. With the help of lynx and my Universal CD I've been able to untar them and get revdep-rebuild to complete successfully. In hindsight, the problem was thinking that my system would be okay removing acl and attr (which I recall now were in the list of "orphaned" packages -- uh, not quite).
Thanks to any and all who read my posts and felt compassion
cheers,
EB
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