unmerged comm_err, now can't use portage - help!

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nickiank · Post by **nickiank** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:09 pm

I stupidly unmerged comm_err and ss (long story, don't ask). Now I can't seem to do anything with portage, and fear more problems besides. Of course, I also can't re-emerge them:

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nkeiser@wykydtron ~ $ sudo emerge com_err
sudo: error while loading shared libraries: libcom_err.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

A guide on how to replace these manually and then allow for a proper re-emerge thereafter would be appreciated, but so would better ideas.

poly_poly-man · Post by **poly_poly-man** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:20 pm

su
(root password)
emerge e2fsprogs-libs
OR
emerge ss com_err (for stable)

nickiank · Post by **nickiank** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:24 pm

Worked wonderfully, so thank you very much for squashing a nightmarish situation quickly.

Although I'm thoroughly perplexed as to how I couldn't emerge anything via my normal user and sudo but could as root if the libs removed were gone. In short: how did this still work?

poly_poly-man · Post by **poly_poly-man** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:38 pm

nickiank wrote:Worked wonderfully, so thank you very much for squashing a nightmarish situation quickly. Although I'm thoroughly perplexed as to how I couldn't emerge anything via my normal user and sudo but could as root if the libs removed were gone. In short: how did this still work?

sudo uses com_err.

su does not.

renrutal · Post by **renrutal** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:05 am

To make things more interesting, unmerging com_err will stop wget from working, meaning you can't get anything through the default portage.

The workaround is to download the e2fsprogs-libs file manually with your browser, and drop them in the distfiles folder, and emerge e2fsprogs. It shall build the libs, saving your gentoo life.

poly_poly-man · Post by **poly_poly-man** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:06 am

renrutal wrote:To make things more interesting, unmerging com_err will stop wget from working, meaning you can't get anything through the default portage.

The workaround is to download the e2fsprogs files manually with your browser, and drop them in the distfiles folder.

or do fetchonly first

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234907

renrutal · Post by **renrutal** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:08 am

poly_poly-man wrote:or do fetchonly first

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234907

too late after you unmerged them, which is the problem of the topic author.

poly_poly-man · Post by **poly_poly-man** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:10 am

renrutal wrote:
poly_poly-man wrote:or do fetchonly first

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234907
too late after you unmerged them, which is the problem of the topic author.

just remerge the version you had....

Polynomial-C · Post by **Polynomial-C** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:15 am

Rumors say that there are people out there doing rm -rf ${DISTDIR}/* quite often, not using some useful tool like eclean for managing stuff in ${DISTDIR}...

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:40 pm

renrutal wrote:To make things more interesting, unmerging com_err will stop wget from working, meaning you can't get anything through the default portage.

Only if you have the kerberos useflag enabled.

billk · Post by **billk** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:25 am

yes, on a laptop with a small HD, and nothing in distfiles ...

X went blank - wont come back, links and lynx wont run from the console. Mount doesnt work on the usb key, mtools dont work ...

but

had ncftp installed which worked and my ISP has an ftp server ... so its back

What a screwup