SOLVED broke my system - any chance to recover short of rein

JohnN · Last edited by JohnN on Tue May 22, 2012 5:02 pm; edited 1 time in total

I was clearing blocks too quickly prior to a troublesome 'emerge -auvDN @world' and I managed to unemerge gawk. None of the binaries I have on other machines are compiled against the right glibc. Is there anything I can do beside scrubbing everything and starting over? It's a laptop that has been difficult, and I so do not want to lose the delicate balance I have working. Thanks in advance for any help!

desultory · Administrator Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 7449

If you are willing to squash a bug with a sledgehammer, you could fetch a new stage 3, set up a chroot based on it, and once you have glibc sorted out in the chroot, which may well be the default in a sufficiently new stage tarball, use the chroot to build a package which you can then install in the containing system. Another, less general, option would be checking tinderbox for a suitable package.

JohnN · Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:28 am Post subject:

Seems like I'd have to roll back glibc from the stage3 to match what's on the system (2.10), though, right? Will that work without breaking the stage3 chroot?

Dont Panic · Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 1:51 pm Post subject:

I've run into a similar problem recently where I wanted to find an older stage3 to avoid downgrading glibc.

At the suggestion of a helpful person on #gentoo in IRC, I just did a Google search for:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 9:15 pm Post subject:

JohnN,

I have some old gawk package tarballs for a Phenom II.

I may have them for an Athlon buts that harder as the Atlon boxes are switched off.
Let me know if you want me to look.
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JohnN · Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 6:29 am Post subject:

Don't Panic: that sounds like a really good idea. The link you gave seems to have only livecds. I haven't had much luck finding an archive site for stage3 releases, even googling the one you used. Any ideas on other sites with archived releases?

Dont Panic · Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 5:53 pm Post subject:

The stage3 releases are under the autobuilds subdirectory.

For example, I found a stage3 release with glibc-2.10.1-r1 at:

http://debian.ihug.co.nz/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/20100408/

If you need an x86 release, just look under gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/

JohnN · Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 5:01 pm Post subject:

That worked for me. Thank you so much! I am now (un)happily back in the land of blocked packages :-)