I assume I'll have to download some gentoo system binaries. Can someone point me to what I need?
Here's what happened. I did a regular "emerge --sync" and then tried an update. There seemed to be a circular blockage involving both coreutils and mktemp. As I've done in similar situations in the past, I removed the blocking packages and re-tried emerge. Apparently, I unmerged something vital. Emerge dies like so... ====================================================================== * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... * [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... * [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... * [ ok ] * checking alsa-driver-1.0.16.tar.bz2 ;-) ... * [ ok ]Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6971, in ? retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6965, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6339, in action_build retval = mergetask.merge( File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3981, in merge return self._merge(mylist, favorites, mtimedb) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4259, in _merge prev_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4806, in doebuild alwaysdep=1, logfile=logfile) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3705, in spawnebuild retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3705, in spawnebuild retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3705, in spawnebuild retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3705, in spawnebuild retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3717, in spawnebuild mysettings, debug=debug, logfile=logfile, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2824, in spawn set_term_size(rows, columns, slave_fd) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/output.py", line 347, in set_term_size spawn(cmd, env=os.environ, fd_pipes={0:fd}) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 179, in spawn raise CommandNotFound(mycommand[0]) portage_exception.CommandNotFound: stty [m3000][root][~] ====================================================================== -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stop the Squeegee Kids in Pinstripe Suits Fight SAC's Canadian internet tax http://walterdnes.wordpress.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list