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   From: user@example.net   
      
   Anthony.Youngman@eca-international.com wrote:   
   > My fault (partly... :-)   
   >   
   > Emerge wouldn't emerge - blocking apps. So I did an "emerge -C" (can't   
   > remember the package - sys-apps/something ...!) and assumed that an   
   > emerge world would put it back. Bad assumption, I think ...   
      
   If I recall it right, among those applications you have system important   
   stuff, I suggest that you take a look at emerge.log and see which   
   package you did remove.   
      
      
   > So now my system boots fine, but keeps on asking for me to run /sbin/   
   > depscan.sh (which doesn't appear to do anything). I also keep getting   
   > the message "dependency information missing". Shutdown doesn't work,   
   > and my network has disappeared ... I get the impression /etc/inet.d or   
   > rc.d has been trashed :-(   
   >   
   > What do I do? Is there any option I can run to emerge or portage that   
   > will rebuild the system from what I've got on disk?   
      
   One way would be to copy those files missing from the tarball that you   
   installed gentoo from (do not apply the tarball directly on your system   
   as you will make other kind of damage that way), then you should have   
   what you need to emerge the current version.   
      
      
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      //Aho   
      
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