On 07/06/2009 01:21 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. I think it is
unrecoverable. I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now,
since I shut the machine down, it will not boot.
Is this hopeless? It happened during an emerge -uDvNa world
It's never hopeless unless the hard disk is damaged, e.g. from a
head crash or similar catastrophe. The important thing is to avoid
trying random things without knowing what you're doing. You can
turn a simple recovery into a hopeless mess that way.
I find that I can usually get myself out of a 'hopeless' mess just
by downloading a live gentoo boot CD and using that to install a
recent gentoo snapshot. You need a second (working) computer to
do that, of course. (Everyone should have as many computers as
possible for exactly that reason :o)
Meanwhile, more info would help, as the others have already said.
