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   From: jmcbride@mail-on.us   
      
   Anthony.Youngman@eca-international.com wrote:   
      
   > On May 13, 6:43 pm, "J.O. Aho"  wrote:   
   >> Anthony.Young...@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.   
   >>   
   > Thanks. But I managed to use another distro (SuSE) to get onto   
   > #gentoo, and someone kindly suggested "emerge -DavuN system". So I had   
   > to chroot because the network was dead otherwise, and it appears to   
   > have worked.   
   >   
   > At least, it now boots and shuts down fine, with a working network. I   
   > probably ought to do an emerge deep world, and then I'll be pretty   
   > confident it's back to normal.   
   >   
   > Thanks,   
   > Wol   
      
   Just a small tip... If you follow the Gentoo handbook on install... you   
   wouldn't have these problems. It really pays to read the manual from time   
   to time. I've built dozens of servers... production servers... using Gentoo   
   and have had no problems in the process. But then, I've printed the manual   
   and have read it and know what the correct course is before I start.   
      
   Cheers, and most of all, welcome to Linux and welcome to Gentoo.   
      
      
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   Jerry McBride (jmcbride@mail-on.us)   
      
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