I was using my gentoo system, and then i rebooted, and the next thing i know, emerge, xmms, autoconf, are missing. Those are the only ones i know about, others could be gone without me knowing. The things i did before this happened: -used RPM to install lexmarkz13 print drivers -emerged foomatic (which ultimately gave me problems as well) -and after a reboot, it said harddrive had not been checked in 29 mounts, so it forced it to check the file system and i was unaware of this so i hit ctrl-c to skip it, but then it happened again and i let it go, and it said it was fixed...
You almust must complete checks, but this shouldn't be the problem here. Do you still have the files in the directories (/usr/bin/emerge and such)? If so, there is probably a problem with the PATH settings. Issue "env-update && source /etc/profile" and check if the PATH is recreated.
where's the bug?