[SOLVED] system broken after "emerge --depclean"

z_sfeng · Last edited by z_sfeng on Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:34 am; edited 1 time in total

after an emerge --depclean, my laptop is broken:
It's not completely broken it can boot, and login normally, and most command like bash, vi, etc are ok, excpet:
1. any portage-related command is broken, shows something like "syntax error"
2. X windows and some other command broken with missing libstdc++.so.6 error. however, the libstdc++.so.6 is right there.
3. "gcc-config -l" says $CHOST not defined.

I checked the emerge.log. something might related is python-2.5 which is removed. python-2.6 and python-3.1 are still there, but "python -V" shows "3.1", it should be "2.6".
So I think my problem might be, after uninstall python-2.5, the portage automatically updated to 3.1, which causes my portage broken.

Any way, how I can I fix my system? Actually most commands still work, except portage.

purak · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:03 pm Post subject:

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

You can fix emerge like this - if that is really the problem. If python is broken try this.

Run

z_sfeng · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:18 am Post subject:

The problem is I can't run any portage related program: emerge, equery, eix, eselect, python-update...

Yes, I run "emerge -av --depclean". and didn't see any important package. The only thing might be related is python-2.5, which is not used I think.

z_sfeng · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:31 am Post subject:

Sorry, I think eselect is not in my tried list.

The eselect actually works, because it is a pure bash script.

The problem is solved by following steps:
1. select python-2.6 using eselect;
2. revdep-rebuild and emerge still failed. Emerge any ebuild failed at configuration: