On 4/15/06, Rohit Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Unfortunately there have been no responses on my question below - since
> most likely none of us have faced/solve this bloody problem before.  A
> conflict between mc and ln [part of coreutils] would be fatal to my
> system - I would assume. God knows what may have already broken down there.
>
> I am very tempted to do the following:
>
>    1. reiserfs --rebuildtree for all of my partitions, especially for /
>       and /usr [by booting off a gentoo install CD]
>    2. Rebuild it from scratch with the latest Gentoo ISO [but it is a
>       HELL of work, getting USB internet modem and nVIDIA module
>       rebuild.. working again etc etc]
>
> If anyone has a better idea, kindly let me know.

You can use equery to figure out packages are messed up and how.  You
need gentoolkit if you don't already have it:

cd /var/db/pkg
for x in */* ; do equery check $x ; done

-Richard

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