For info, there used to be a website with pre-built binaries provided by one of the devs for just such rescues.
Also, dont the current livecd's do a stage 3 install, which means there should be a quickpkg'd glibc on them? I dont have a system with squashfs on it, or able to boot one to check att, but someone may be able to confirm this. BillK On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 22:39 -0500, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Graham Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I do not think it will be that simple. The problem is that once you > > chroot to /mnt/gentoo all subsequent commands (including emerge and > gcc) > > will be looking for /lib/libc.so.6 and /lib/ld-linux.so.2 neither of > > which will be present following an unmerge of glibc. > > This is true. After booting from a CD, > > chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash > > does not work. > > > If you have a binary glibc package, then you could untar it into > > /mnt/gentoo while booted from the CD. Otherwise I suspect that you > will > > either have to find a binary glibc package on the internet or rebuild > > your system from a stage3 tarball in the usual way. > > Indeed the solution was to build glibc-2.6.1.tbz2 with quickpkg on > another machine (luckily I had one) and scp into the damaged machine > when booted from the CD. Then copying all the files into their > respective places inside /mnt/gentoo/... > Also need to check symbolic links etc. Not a pleasant work. > > Then chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash finally works. After that, an emerge > of glibc solves the problem. > > Thanks for the inputs. > > -- > Valmor > > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
