error loading ... libreadline.so.4

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I updated a couple of packages today and now bash complains about this missing library.

Now, since bas does not work I cannot reemerge readline or bash itself. But with out rebuilding readline/bash I cannot continue using the system ...

Kind of a bad situation here I gues ...

Any ideas apart from rebuilding from scratch?


thanks
Jens
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thanks
Jens

[rac]

Several things I can think of (assuming you don't have a binary package of bash you can install from):

• try setting root's shell to /bin/sash or some other shell and try remerging libreadline and bash
  
• temporarily make /bin/sh run "/bin/bash --noediting", which should avoid the need for readline
  
• try extracting the necessary files in the bash and/or readline packages from a stage tarball

Hope you get it fixed soon!
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