thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random things.
When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other
line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting
/sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Alan
"...can the human soul be glimpsed through a microscope? Maybe, but
you'd definitely need one of those very good ones with two eyepieces."
-- Woody Allen, quoted by B. A. Palevitz
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:43 AM, walt<w41...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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