[solved] Recovering from unmerged linux-headers

[vaxbrat]

So I'm an idiot....

I was cleaning out some debris (old kernels, kde 3.3 and 3.4, etc.) and threw the baby out with the bath water by unmerging the linux-headers. When emerge updates started falling on their faces I found that I couldn't re-emerge linux-headers. The errors I was getting looked suspiciously like some of the errors found in other threads such as

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-459466-highlight-linuxheaders+error.html

Some of the suggestions didn't look too helpful so I thought I'd throw in my two cents worth:

1) Grab a stage1 tarball (in my case stage1-amd64-2006.0.tar.bz2) and play it out somewhere

2) Cd in and push all of the usr/include over to your /usr/include
# cd <wherever>/usr/include
# tar cvpf - . | (cd /usr/include; tar xpf -)

3) push over the portage db entry
# cd <wherever>/var/db/pkg/sys-kernel
# tar cvpf - . | (cd /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel; tar xpf -)

You should now be able to do an emerge -e glibc to get things back to sanity. In my case, there were pending updates for both glibc and linux-headers, so I cheated and did an emerge -uD glibc

[nixnut]

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