Re: [Vserver] gentoo guest wont start up or find anything after failed emerge

On Wednesday 23 November 2005 09:45 pm, Grzegorz Nosek wrote:
> 2005/11/24, Chuck <chuck@sbbsnet.net>:
> >
> > i just found something VERY odd (at least to me) in the emerge log.
> >
> > it unmerged glibc even though the only command given it was
> >
> > emerge -v mozilla-firefox-bin
> >
> > and that was it. here is the log snippet
> >
> > 1132791518: Started emerge on: Nov 23, 2005 19:18:38
> > 1132791519: *** emerge --verbose mozilla-firefox-bin
> > 1132791519: >>> emerge (1 of 1) www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7 to /
> > 1132791519: === (1 of 1) Cleaning
> >
(www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7::/usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7.ebuild)
> > 1132791529: === (1 of 1) Compiling/Merging
> >
(www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7::/usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7.ebuild)
> > 1132791657: === (1 of 1) Updating world file
> > (www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7)
> > 1132791657: === (1 of 1) Post-Build Cleaning
> >
(www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7::/usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7.ebuild)
> > 1132791669: >>> AUTOCLEAN: www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin
> > 1132791669: --- AUTOCLEAN: Nothing unmerged.
> > 1132791670: ::: completed emerge (1 of 1)
> > www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7 to /
> > 1132791670: *** Finished. Cleaning up...
> > 1132791677: === Unmerging... (sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r1)
> > 1132791764: *** terminating.
> > 1132791764: *** terminating.
> >
> > i noticed when i installed open-office-bin back in october it did the same
> > thing for the same version of glibc so maybe thats normal?
> >
> > even more confused now.
> >
>
> Hello
>
> I have never used gentoo but have you checked that your libc inside
> the guest is actually installed? If a shared library is missing,
> you'll (AFAIK) get "No such file or directory" while trying to execute
> the binary, so that seems like it. If you *do* have the libc files
> installed, try running ldconfig.
>

without knowing much about the library system, i would say it is installed.
see below... ldconfig would be very hard to run within the guest when i
cannot chroot the guest.

/vservers/davin/opt/OpenOffice.org/program/libstdc++.so
/vservers/davin/opt/OpenOffice.org/program/libstdc++.so.5
/vservers/davin/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.4
/vservers/davin/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6
/vservers/davin/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.3-r1
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/libstdc++.la
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/libstdc++.so
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/libstdc++.a
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/libstdc++.so.5
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/libstdc++_pic.a
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/libstdc++.so.5.0.7
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.9
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8.0
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.9.0
/vservers/davin/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
/vservers/davin/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libstdc++.mo
/vservers/davin/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libstdc++.mo

> Best regards,
> Grzegorz Nosek
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-- 
Chuck
"...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger,
and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath
or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose 
for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. "
The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book
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