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On 19/07/16 20:48, mr meowski wrote: > Any Gentoo wizards here? > > I have a very outdated and tatty instance that I'd like to bring back to > life but it's been effectively abandoned for months and months after > portage choked on the systemd upgrade debacle and it's now hopelessly > out of date and effectively un-upgradable. I've spent a fair while > fiddling with it and reading forums but no amount of trickery or package > masking (or just plain brute force) seems to be able to untangle the mess. > > Anyone know of a way to effectively 'reset' a mangled gentoo install? > Perhaps some kind of chrooting, or reinstalling a current stage3 over > the top of the existing borked system followed by emerging world? > > The instance isn't critical and all important data/accounts have been > extracted but for $REASONS I don't really want to just wipe and > reinstall (and if I did, it wouldn't be with Gentoo this time around). > I'd like to take one last proper bash at getting it back up and running > before I give up and abandon it. Pathetic fallacy or not, I actually > feel sorry for it if you know what I mean. > > Any advice gratefully received. > > Cheers > You could try #gentoo on irc.freenode.net or ask on the #dcglug channel. Paul -- http://www.zleap.net diaspora : zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Torbay Tech Jam http://torbaytechjam.org.uk Software freedom day 17th September 2016 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq