OK I successfully thrashed /etc on my laptop. O can boot up on livecd and most everything else seems to be there, except the /etc/stuff. I did get it to emerge sync, but now complains about /usr/portage/profiles having bad lines, they are there but I assume the problem is that I placed some files in my /usr, and /etc from teh forums that were binaries to get portage going. I can't seem to solve this. I am thinking about doing a re-install, though I hate to do that. If I do a reinstall how far do I have to go? I have backed up /home, and all my data so that is not an issue, but I would like to try and rebuild just / and save teh problem of restoring /home if possible. Actually kde and really everything is there, just /etc and apparently a few /usr are trashed...
Any suggestions appreciated before I start a mad all nighter trying to get teh ~x86 back running w/kde etc... Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
