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nomplume n00b
Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 12
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Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:49 am Post subject: Partly deleted var directory: Is rebuilding world possible? |
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Hi,
In a moment of monumental stupidity, I accidentally deleted my world file (among other files in the /var directory).
Now when I try to emerge anything I get errors of the following sort (truncated):
Quote: | * Error: circular dependencies:
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-proto/xcmiscproto-1.1.2', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/autoconf-2.63-r1', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/automake-1.10.2', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/libtool-2.2.6a', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-misc/util-macros-1.3.0', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.24-r1', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.4', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r1', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.3-r2', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'app-admin/eselect-python-20090824', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/autoconf-2.63-r1', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/automake-1.10.2', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/libtool-2.2.6a', 'merge') (buildtime)
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Although everything works, it means I will not be able to upgrade or install new packages.
Is it possible to recover from this mess, or do I need to do a fresh install?
Any other major impact of having (partly) deleted the /var directory?
FYI, I kept a fairly minimal install (XFCE desktop, no KDE/Gnome etc).
Thanks,
NP |
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