I've found, keeping a backup kernel from my last update and loading busybox instead of the system has recued my ass on more then one occassion.
Ironicly, I encounted this problem on both my Gentoo Desktop *and* my Gentoo Laptop roughtly a month to two months ago. At this time, there was no evidance of this issue yet and I blindly unmerged mktemp and all was well and never thought about it again till today when I saw this thread. Like I said, I just blindly unmerged mktemp w/ little though, I guess just seeing coreutils and quickly comparing it against mytemp kinda spoke for itself. Either way, your system is back, and that is all that matters. On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Question: Is there a way to recover from this? > > you should have busybox installed. > > Just create a symlink for every tool needed. > > ln -s bb ls and something like that. If even ln is gone, do it from busybo > itself - it has everything needed built-in. > > After that, emerge coreutils (with the buildpkg option). This creates are > tarball. Now check. Have been all symlinks replaced with the right tool? > If yes. Goto end. Everything is ok. > If not. Open tarball, cp the tools. > > > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
