/proc problem after big screw-up

[ikshaar]

Ok, I should not have tried to compile Mozilla beta but I did....

As I upgraded several unstable dependencies to satisfy Mozilla (xft2, pango, gtk+, bonobo,etc...), I , of course, screwed up everything.

- Mozilla did not start after successfull completion of emerge,
- I reboot, then unable to log into Gnome, session died after 3 sec.
- From console, I tried to undo the damage, unmerge everything I upgraded, then try to re-emerge what I needed but in a brutal way : emerge -e gnome
- Failed on Gtk+ and Pango (found solution only later)
- Try to chroot from RedHat 8 to my Gentoo partition,
- From there, try to emerge KDE (failed, bug with kdeaddons)
- Solve Gtk+ and Pango (I forgot to remove xft2)
- Re-emerge gtk+
- Now I cannot even boot into Gentoo, because I lost the /proc !!!

Everything I did was supposed to affect only the WM and graphical stuff (except the emerge -e gnome). The thing I suspect now is the chroot from RedHat. Could it break something like that ?

I have procfs in the kernel and my fstab is correct (as indicated in other thread about /proc), is there any way I can fix that ? Or is my Gentoo time is over
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[rac]

Before chrooting from RedHat, you need to issue the "bind mount" command to mount the /proc filesystem in the chroot environment, as is described in the install guide. However, that shouldn't affect anything once you reboot into Gentoo. Does the mount point /proc exist? What error messages are you getting?
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[ikshaar]

Don't laught, but you were right. /proc did not exist. Making the dir from the chroot environment solve it. Thx a lot.

In fact from the other thread about /proc, I understood that /proc was created by the kernel but in fact, you have to create the directory, the kernel just mount it.

Anyway, I'm glad to be back to my ugly desktop without browser....
Now I will wait a little bit more... if only mozilla 1.2 was ready.
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