Bug 33354

Summary:	emerging Xfree is unmerging portage and binutils
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Shoan Motwani <shoanm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	critical	CC:	dev-portage
Priority:	Highest
Version:	1.4
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Shoan Motwani 2003-11-12 17:56:50 UTC

After having accidently uninstalled/unmerged Python, I rescued gentoo by booting into the livecd and extracting stage2 and modifying the required files. All worked fine.

After rebooting into gentoo on HD, I noticed that mirrorselect was not emerged. So  I tried emerging mirrorselect. The emerge of mirrorselect wiped out the ebuild, emerge and the compiler. This was not listed when I did emerge -p mirrorselect.

Went back to the livecd and rescued it again from stage2 as per the install guide.

rebooted back to HD and noticed that the libraries of xFontServer were missing. Since I didn't know how to fix it, I ummerged and emerged xfree. Again emerge wiped out the ebuild system and the compiler.

Can you fix this?

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-15 20:19:27 UTC

What version of portage are you using when it does this?
Please be verbose with what you are doing.

AUTOCLEAN=no emerge portage
try 'fix-db.pl' and 'fix-db.py'

Comment 2 Shoan Motwani 2003-11-16 18:48:14 UTC

I needed to get the machine up an running again on priority. So I had to re-install gentoo.

I am sorry :(

I don't think I will be able to give you any details of the old config. I am closing this bug, since I will not be in a position to give you adequate information at this point in time.