Hi, after making a stage 4-backup i tried to test gcc 4.02 with glibc-2.3.5.20050722, but i got certain errors compiling kde3.5 beta2. So i restored from stage4-backup, but now: Every time i emerge a package (yesterday tried 'emerge portage') the package compiles correctly, but after that all packages from 'system' are unemerged (like the prior version of the package i installed: 5-4-3-2-1 - bumm!). So that every emerge ends in: ---------------------------------snip------------------------------------------ --- !empty dir /etc Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3206, in ? unmerge("clean", ["world"]) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2251, in unmerge retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,mysettings,unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2901, in unmerge mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld,cleanup=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6336, in unmerge a=doebuild(myebuildpath,"postrm",self.myroot,self.settings,use_cache=0,tree="vartree") File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2611, in doebuild return spawn(EBUILD_SH_BINARY+" "+mydo,mysettings,debug=debug,free=1,logfile=logfile) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1603, in spawn return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in spawn_bash return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 164, in spawn raise str(e)+":\n "+myc+" "+string.join(myargs) [Errno 2] No such file or directory: /bin/bash [glibc-2.3.5-r1] bash -c /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh postrm -----------------------------snap----------------------------------------------
and the system is dead, because the bash in also gone... Help welcome.... Bernhard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list