my drunk ass screwed up emerge

christopher · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2003 Posts: 14

Well, being the idiot that I am, i was logged in as root lastnight and rather saucy, and did a 'emerge dep-clean', as to why i did it i have no clue. anyhow, now it gives me error messages similiar to this (i say similar cause my install is now broken, so i cant check verbatim) :

if i attempt to 'ls' the system gives me some nonsense about the /bin/sh/WHOAMI file being gone or something, so i cannot issue any commands what so ever. any help in resolving this issue would be appreciated.

any commands i issue, it gives me the 'bin/sh/WHOAMI file missing' error message..

Thanks ,

Chris

mrhodes · Guru Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 310 Location: Halifax, NS

lol, sorry to hear about your troubles

This is why I never use linux when I drink...

I wish I knew how to help...

Good Luck,
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ronmon · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 3:32 pm Post subject:

You are found guilty of Computing Under the Influence and hereby sentenced to three days of compiling your Gentoo from scratch.

Sorry, I couldn't resist

But seriously, maybe you can restore some critical stuff from a stage2 or stage3 image. It's worth a shot.

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

Can you log in at all? It sounds like there may be some issues with your user configuration files /etc/passwd and /etc/groups. But I don't know what to make of that since that file does not exist on my system (/bin/sh -> /bin/bash is the bash executable).

christopher · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2003 Posts: 14

well,i can login and i get this error message when i log in as root:

login(pam_unix)[664]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
-bash: /usr/bin/whoami : No such filr or directory.
-bash: [: =: unary operator expected

plus a ton of output error messages from dmesg...
ie: /sbin/rc: line 1: ls: command not found

so i assume somethingis fubarred with bash..any ideas?

Thanks.

Chris

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

No its not bash just some core utilities got fubared. In particular at least

escott@localhost 11:17 AM Sun Dec 07 [H=502 C=2]
~:> qpkg -f /bin/whoami
sys-apps/coreutils *

escott@localhost 11:17 AM Sun Dec 07 [H=503 C=3]
~:> qpkg -f /sbin/rc
sys-apps/baselayout *

will need to be rebuilt. I don't know if enough of your system exists for portage to be able to do this. If not you might need to boot into your install disk :-/.

christopher · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2003 Posts: 14

well, i attempted to emerge coreutils, however, i have no netaccess, is there a way to emerge without a connection? i remember editing a file, maybe it was make.conf...ill check though any other ideas ?

thanks

chris

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

If it want's to download something then you must not have the tarball on the system, so somehow you have to get that tarball on the box.

christopher · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2003 Posts: 14

ok, ill take the stage 3 off the install disk that i used for the GRP install. that should be ok then. i hope. lol. no more beer.

thanks

chris

christopher · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2003 Posts: 14

damn - cp and mv are not available commands thanks to my fubar. looks like i got no choice now but to reinstall. damnit.

chris

dabooty · Guru Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 482 Location: Belgium

try booting from a livecd and copying them over
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zeek · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 4:56 am Post subject:

emerge depclean is simply drain bramaged. On my system the first thing it wants to delete is grub. Okayyyyy.

christopher · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2003 Posts: 14

yep, its stupid. its all fixed now, but what a hassle it was. i wonder what legit uses there are for that command. oh well. thanks all.

chris

augustwest · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 6:33 pm Post subject:

Were you able to fix it without doing a total reinstall?
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Antti Alien · Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 1:44 pm Post subject:

Another reason why to use long and complicated passwords to protect your system: You can't write them correctly and login if you're too drunk