upgrade followed by request to remove 208 packages! [Solved]

[sabayonino]

sabayonino, there is a problem with the dependencies. Please stop saying for us not to worry. If we follow the recommended removal of the packages that equo suggests, all of kde is removed. Reinstalling kde, those same removed packages are installed again and equo suggests that they should be removed.

You could very well be right that packagenames changed or packages were moved to a new slot, but this should not happen.

For anyone else running into this issue, lxnay is aware and it should be sorted out soon.

Sorry.Maybe I'm lucky ...I'm running sabayonlinux.org repository.

lxnay wrote :

Right.

It seems that this only affected the sabayon-weekly repository users.

anyway ... you should learn how to use the database entropy backup

backup entropy db before upgrade. if something goes wrong you can restore.usually older packages are maintained in the mirror/s for quite a while.

see

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# equo rescue --help

for the options.

[chayclon]

Right.

It seems that this only affected the sabayon-weekly repository users.
So, I am working on fixing this, in the meantime, the very first workaround is to switch from "sabayon-weekly" to "sabayonlinux.org", run a repository update (or "equo update"), then switch back to sabayon-weekly. You can do this easily through Rigo, in the repository management menu, just click on sabayon-weekly, then "Rename" then write "sabayonlinux.org".

how switch to sabayonlinux.org ?

In my system networkmanager doesn't work and can not access partitions

[lxnay]

I fixed it. Just update the repositories again and it should automatically fix everything.

[sabayonino]

In my system networkmanager doesn't work and can not access partitions

Plug your wired network. dhcp shuold help you

[tohi99]

When you've booted up and you see that crappy GUI, press Alt + Ctrl + F3 (or F1 or F2, you should currently be on F7). This should get you to a command prompt. Login as root.
Then:

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#equo install kde-meta

Will install all of kde and a reboot should get you back to a wonder graphical state. If you don't want everything kde-meta pulls in you can go for a more minimalistic

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#equo install kdebase-meta kdm

Thanks, I had managed to get sort of there using gentoo=nox on command line, but same as with using Alt+Ctrl+F3 I was getting a blank screen. I had fixed this before using nomodeset but it don't seem to work anymore. Still managed to login blind and run the command, then wait until disk activity stopped. Working OK now