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From: Edward Muller <edwardam@interlix.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems with emerge
Date: 05 Feb 2002 23:10:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1012968635.9072.3.camel@palin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9923.1012584887@www26.gmx.net>

I would check your hardware/configuration. I've successfully merged X11
several times over the last few weeks on different machines without a
hitch and I'm new to Gentoo as well.

On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 12:34, Ruud Huijssoon wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> After I installed LFS awhile back, I wanted to try out gentoo, and so I did
> 
> The basic install worked great!
> 
> After that, I tried emerge x11-wm/WindowMaker because I wanted Xwindows and
> WindoMaker and then it started
> 
> Lockups while d/l X420src-1.tgz. I wasn't able to login through another
> console nor ^C the operation so I had to do a cold reboot
> 
> Tried again, part -2 and -3 d/l oke but now de install failed the checksum
> of the -1 file. So I removed it and did emerge x11-wm/WindowMaker again.
> Lockup while d/l. Now I was getting annoyed so I did ftp ftp.xfree86.org and d/l
> the source myself and put it in /usr/src/port*/dist*/ 
> 
> Again I did emerge x11-wm/WindowMaker and now it passed the checksums. i was
> happy until...
> 
> Again that -1 file! Now it lockup my system while it was u npacking the
> file!
> 
> So I have 2 questions for you: 1) how do I succesfully install X11 and
> WindMaker on my gentoo system and 2) can you program emerge in such a way that it
> doens't lock up the entire system when there is a problem during the install?
> I'm having M$ flashbacks here!
> 
> Anyway, this email isn't meant as a flame, the Gentoo project looks great
> but at the moment I have just these two annoying problems :)
> 
> I hope you can help me out here
> 
> Sincerely,
> Ruud
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-06  4:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-01 17:34 [gentoo-dev] Problems with emerge Ruud Huijssoon
2002-02-06  4:10 ` Edward Muller [this message]
2002-02-06  9:52 ` gentoo-user
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-14  8:04 [gentoo-dev] problems " Karas Michael
2001-12-14 14:32 ` Mikael Hallendal

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