Well, I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry.
After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I got in a hurry, did not think and ran: emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err sys-fs/e2fsprogs sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs So now I cannot emerge anything to fix this. Here I tried (re) emerge wget: Downloading 'ftp://rm.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/gnuftp/gnu/wget/wget-1.11.1.tar.bz2' wget: error while loading shared libraries: libcom_err.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Can I just copy some file over from another amd64 machine? If so, which ones exactly? If not, any other ideas to fix this? James