Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alex Schuster wrote: Um, system is up and running - as I wrote, I had a backup and just copied the missing files back, so the system came up again. I re-emerged baselayout then to make sure all is back in place. I just wondered how this could have gone wrong and thought I'd post what happen

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Kirkwood writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Of course I did that. emerge --depclean showed me (along many other > > things) two installed baselayouts, one to remove, the current one to > > keep. And most of the things were kept, like man pages, but some > > essential files were not. > > > > L

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alex Schuster wrote: Of course I did that. emerge --depclean showed me (along many other things) two installed baselayouts, one to remove, the current one to keep. And most of the things were kept, like man pages, but some essential files were not. Looking at emerge.log, I see that I had th

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > deface wrote: > > It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated > > as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any > > baselayout, not just the version you are stating. > > > > *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-27 Thread deface
Not sure how far behind he was w/ the baselayout. It may have been removed from portage, and him masking it blocked. although he says he had recently installed it. but yes, it sounds as though something else went wrong. On Jan 27, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Dale wrote: deface wrote: It sounds lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-27 Thread Dale
deface wrote: > It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated > as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any > baselayout, not just the version you are stating. > > *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is > *** WARNING *** re

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-27 Thread deface
It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any baselayout, not just the version you are stating. *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is *** WARNING *** recommended to use a