Killed my coreutils -- HELP

kirikou · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 83

Hello.
I run an emerge -uavDN world and have the following problem:

Nick C · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject:

and mktemp is needed by debianutils and gentoolkit, also not stuff i really want to remove. Has anyone found a safe way to resolve this?
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gigs94 · n00b Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 52 Location: DC

You guys might want to sync again. I did a emerge -C mktemp && emerge -uavDNt world and it worked fine on all of my systems. I am running ~amd64 which means that I'm running sys-apps/debianutils-2.28.2 and app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4_pre7. Neither of which depend on mktemp. debianutils has a PDEPEND line with the newer version of coreutils or mktemp, and coreutils has a !mktemp directive, so I'm thinking that mktemp got rolled into the newest coreutils.

kirikou · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 83

Effectively, it seems to have been resolved.
However, do I need to re-emerge mktemp after that? Or has it been merged with coreutils?
Thanks.

gigs94 · n00b Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 52 Location: DC

It's been merged (or rewritten into coreutils). You can't have any version of mktemp installed with the new version of coreutils.

kirikou · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 83

Thanks a lot.

Edweirdo · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:

Okay, I hate to admit this, but I stupidly unmerged coreutils. I wasn't thinking and now I'm hosed. Any advice how to recover from this?
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Edweirdo · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject:

Nevermind.

On another computer I did an "equery b coreutils" and dumped that to a file. Then I tar'ed up all the files I needed from /bin and /usr/bin, extracted that tar file on my broken computer. After that I was able to emerge coreutils. I never had to exit KDE or restart anything.
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scumm_boy · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 30

Edweirdo, was the other system also Gentoo? I've done the same thing, but I don't have access to another Gentoo machine

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titanium972 · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 3

Thx u

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laurelin · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject:

thanks for pointing this out. I almost did think of emerging-minus-capital-C coreutils... You saved me there!

luismanson · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 123

anyone made a bug report about the mouse problem?
i found some, keyboard related
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dilbot · Apprentice Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 153 Location: Canada

KingYes

hey guys.. i try use with emerge -uDNe world. and i have blocking packet. i try to del this, and i set reboot.. and now i can't boot my system.

how i can fix this ?

nixnut · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Portage & Programming.
Not about getting gentoo installed, so moved here.

It would help if you could tell which blocking package you're talking about.
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TravisBy · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2007 Posts: 69

mktemp and coreutils? I'm having the same problem this morning :X

I'm guessing that's what you're talking about, at least, KingYes.

gentoo_dude · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject:

Use a bootcd to mount your partitions (just like when you installed the system), then change root (chroot) where you mounted your root partition and fix it.

Wojtek_ · Guru Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 397 Location: London

You should have unmerged mktemp and then upgrade coreutils. If unmerged coreutils, you definitely did see a warning sign so now you can only blame yourself. Here's the solution: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-687008-highlight-.html
Cheers,

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KingYes · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject:

Hey guys.. i see this msg:

nixnut · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject:

merged some posts here.
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Fenixoid · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject:

Bobthegiant · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 8

Ok, I'm a bone head!

Now that we have that out of the way...

I wasn't paying attention and accedentally unmerged coreutils to resolve some package blocking. Now I'm hosed! I can still fuction somewhat with busybox, but not well and I'm not able to emerge anymore. Is there some way out of this mess?

Can I force install the coreutils binary package without using the emerge script? Call ebuuild directly perhaps

Or maybe link into the busybox function some how?

Any advice would be great.

Thanks