Mark Kirkwood writes:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Of course I did that. emerge --depclean showed me (along many other
> > things) two installed baselayouts, one to remove, the current one to
> > keep. And most of the things were kept, like man pages, but some
> > essential files were not.
> >
> > Looking at emerge.log, I see that I had the old 1.7.8-r1 in parallel
> > for quite a while. For about three weeks, I had masked 1.12.10-r5,
> > because I wanted to stay with 1.12.9-r2 until I had physical access
> > to the system. I removed the mask, upgraded world, and did the
> > depclean then.
>
> It might be worth trying revdep-rebuild and seeing if it brings any of
> the missing stuff back... (assuming you are able to boot the machine
> somehow - install cd + chroot etc).
Um, system is up and running - as I wrote, I had a backup and just copied
the missing files back, so the system came up again. I re-emerged
baselayout then to make sure all is back in place.
I just wondered how this could have gone wrong and thought I'd post what
happened.
Wonko
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