Messed up my System. How to repair from live-CD?

Bennsn · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 5

Hi!

Mindlessly playing around with portage i really messed up my System. I think i unmerged pam-login and some other stuff because old versions of it blocked updates somehow. Like i said - i was mindlessly playing around.

Now the problem is, that i can still boot the system, but i can't login. Is it possible to circumvent reinstalling the whole system? Or at least keeping my kernel and my "/home/"-data?

I thought about booting from live-CD, chrooting to my harddisk, but i am not sure what to do then.

Thanks for your help!

nixnut · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject:

Run etc-update (or dispatch-conf) to update any config files that need updating and check the output of emerge -puD world to see what packages need to be updated.
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Bennsn · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 5

Thank you very much!

But i still have the problem with the login. If i try to login i get the message:

"This is notebook.unknown_domain"

and another login-prompt...

Bennsn · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 5

Ok is solved the problem with the login.

I unmerged pam-login again and emerged shadow.