Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
Yes. It's working. It emerged without complaint. Thank you for the useful advice. I am very pleased that this system is working now. Alan Davis "...can the human soul be glimpsed through a microscope? Maybe, but you'd definitely need one of those very good ones with two eyepieces." --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:10:23 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > As I type, the system is booting, after untarring a Sabayon package of > ncurses into the / partition, mounted in a parallel ubuntu setup. Now you need to emerge the proper Gentoo package to get your database consistent with what is instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:54:52 +1000 Alan E. Davis wrote: > thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random > things. > > When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other > line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting > > /sbin/rc: error while loading shared librarie

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
As I type, the system is booting, after untarring a Sabayon package of ncurses into the / partition, mounted in a parallel ubuntu setup. The system has booted, and I am typing this message from it. Thank you everyone. Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 07/07/2009 Alan E. Davis(lngn...@gmail.com) wrote > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > It doesn't matter. Once you have chrooted you are using software > > installed in the chroot. > > > > However, it may not be possible to use revdep-rebuild without ncurs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > It doesn't matter. Once you have chrooted you are using software > installed in the chroot. > > However, it may not be possible to use revdep-rebuild without ncurses, in > which case you need some kind soul with a similar setup to provide you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:08:01 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I think you are telling me to use Gentoo Live CD specifically, and > mount my installed "/" (on /mnt/gentoo?), chroot into it (as described > in the install docs) and run revdeb-rebuild. > > Is revdep-rebuild part of the live cd? It doesn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you for your response, Sebastian: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Use a live-linux from usb-stick or CD, mount your root, chroot into it > and give revdep-rebuild a try. That should help. I think you are telling me to use Gentoo Live CD specifically, and mount my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-06 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Alan E. Davis schrieb: > thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random things. > > When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other > line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting > > /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: > cannot open s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-06 Thread Alan E. Davis
thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random things. When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or di

[gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-06 Thread walt
On 07/06/2009 01:21 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. I think it is unrecoverable. I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now, since I shut the machine down, it will not boot. Is this hopeless? It happened during an emerge -uDvNa world It's neve