Broken system: no root account, read only user account

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

Still epiphany is gving trouble

equery belongs webkitgtk
* Searching for webkitgtk ...
net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.3-r300 (/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkitgtk)

DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:55 pm Post subject:

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

nano /etc/portage/package.mask

there was an orphan character at the end
=net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.3-r300 |
which I deleted

DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:59 pm Post subject:

I was halfway through emerging chromium when I missed minimise and hit close on my chroot terminal
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auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

emerge --unmerge =net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.3-r300
!!! '--unmerge ' is not a valid package atom.
!!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.

I can try with -C

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DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:04 pm Post subject:

-C is good probably because it is now masked skipping the unmerge also good
chromium is soooo llooonng
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auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

I already unmerge, now emerging r201.. it is also loooong

DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:14 pm Post subject:

if you bother with the equery 's webkitgtk probably nil, webkit-1.0 hopefully r201
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auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

but ephphany won't compile..

* ERROR: www-client/epiphany-2.30.6-r1::gentoo failed (compile phase):
* compile failure
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3640: Called gnome2_src_compile
* environment, line 2753: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* emake || die "compile failure"

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

Do we really need epiphany?

DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:19 pm Post subject:

can you paste the new build log
just built here with r300 on and apparently r201 just left hanging out
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:21 pm Post subject:

auddoula,

In the rescue chroot?
Unlikely - you should not need it to repair your broken main install.

In your mail install, only you can tell. It is a part of Gnome.
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DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:22 pm Post subject:

no do seem to have an extraneous gnome and epiphany in the world file
a couple of unmerges might be just fine
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auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

wgetpaste /var/tmp/portage/www-client/epiphany-2.30.6-r1/temp/build.log
Your paste can be seen here: http://bpaste.net/show/132735/

or did you mean webkit build? not sure where to find the log file though.

I am in rescue chroot.

DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:25 pm Post subject:

Good to see you Neddy
Does

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:40 pm Post subject:

DONAHUE,

With the bind mounting I was suggesting, packages in the rescue chroot and packages in /usr/portage/packages in the broken install were the same place, so no cp -a was required.

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

I am a bit a t loss by now;

mount -o bind /usr/portage /home/<username>/rescue/usr/portage

of course now the latter resides in /root/rescue.

Do I issue thiscommand from main install chroot or rescue chroot?

DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:57 pm Post subject:

mount -o bind /usr/portage /home/<username>/rescue/usr/portage

I think too late now

suggest sticking to the road we started (my last post above) when mount -o bind /usr/portage /root/rescue/usr/portage seemed to bork
which chroot are you in now?
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auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

I never exited rescue chroot, i.e. chroot within chroot...

I am ready to follow the road you laid out, but I guess there has to be some changes to quickpkg. I am all ears now.

I guess you made that change already... I am ready to give it a shot.

DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:04 pm Post subject:

does emerge -uavND world show any thing to emerge?
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DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:09 pm Post subject:

those should not be a problem
may reappear in the other chroot
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auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

Ok, we shall see...

In the meantime '*/*' for quickpkg appears to be working. I don't know how long it will take, but it will be nice to have the system back before I go to sleep..