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khayyam
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| nobody13 wrote: | | I'm thinking I might just cut my losses and reinstall from scratch instead of fighting with it. |
nobody13 ... really? I would at least try copying mkdir from a backup, or stage3, and give that a go (as you can see it only requires glibc)
| Code: | # ldd /bin/mkdir
linux-gate.so.1 (0xb7757000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb759e000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7758000) |
So, you might try finding a working 'mkdir', test, replace the broken one, and merge coreutils.
best ... khay |
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 7:14 am Post subject: |
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For a temporary fix:
| Code: | | install --mode 0755 /bin/busybox /bin/mkdir |
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khayyam
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 7:27 am Post subject: |
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| Ant P. wrote: | For a temporary fix:
| Code: | | install --mode 0755 /bin/busybox /bin/mkdir |
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... what he said ;) ... only then 'emerge --oneshot coreutils'.
best ... khay |
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Goverp
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:20 am Post subject: |
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| cboldt wrote: | | I didn't try as root, but as a user, both "./mkdir --help" and "mkdir --help" produced the help message, and neither one of those commands resulted in zero-byting ~/mkdir or /bin/mkdir |
You missed the (significant) ">"
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cboldt
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:46 am Post subject: |
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| Goverp wrote: | | You missed the (significant) ">" |
That's significant? Who knew? !! Well, yeah, that would tend to wipe things out, for sure! Looked right past it, took it as a prompt character, but on review, obviously it isn't. |
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nobody13
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| I did copy mkdir from another computer and it worked when i used mkdir aaa but had other issues. Add to that this computer is dreadfull slow. I had enough - went and put ubuntu on it. I have Gentoo running nicely on two other computers that i use regularly. This thing is just a dvr experiment. Thank you all for helping |
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Goverp
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| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:22 am Post subject: |
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| cboldt wrote: | | Goverp wrote: | | You missed the (significant) ">" |
That's significant? Who knew? !! Well, yeah, that would tend to wipe things out, for sure! Looked right past it, took it as a prompt character, but on review, obviously it isn't. |
That was a made up example to show how easy it is to inadvertently wipe a file as root. As a real example of my own incompetence, spot the typo below:
| Code: | cd /usr/src/linux-4.6.8
cp ../linux/.config ,
make oldconfig |
How not to upgrade a kernel config 
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cboldt
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| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:38 am Post subject: |
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Hahahah. I've probably done that. At least the file "comma" existed, I presume 
When I do that operation, I cite the original or existing .conf similarly, except using the full directory name, e.g., "../linux-4.4.10-gentoo" So far, I haven't managed to copy the existing (old) config to comma, but give me time ... |
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