[gentoo-dev] Install problems

[gentoo-dev] Install problems

[Wesley Moxam - CSCI/P2000]

Hello

I attempted to install gentoo on my system last night and I hit a snag. I
used the minimal build ISO, and everything went well right up until I ran
the command 'emerge rsync' after chrooting over to the build installation.

The problem is that emerge at first seemed to hang, then I got the
message: eth0: Too much work (or something to that effect). After a
while emerge finally quit with the message 'cvs.gentoo.org not found'. So,
I rebooted and went through the install process again, but this time after
I had set up the networking I tried pinging a few machines, which worked,
but when I pinged cvs.gentoo.org I got the IP address of my
firewall/gateway (192.168.1.1).

Could anyone give me a clue to what I'm doing wrong? To my knowledge I
have followed the exact installation instructions, and there shouldn't be
any problems with my hardware setup since it works fine with Slackware and
kernel 2.4.2. The ethernet card uses the epic100 module. 

Any help at all would be appriciated.

-- wes

RE: [gentoo-dev] Install problems

[Sean Mitchell]

Have a look at your /etc/hosts and your /etc/resolve.conf. I think you've
still got some leftovers from the tarball. Specifically, I think your
/etc/hosts file contains a defintion for cvs.gentoo.org, or possibly your
resolve.conf has set you domain to gentoo.org.

Cheers,

Sean

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-----Original Message-----
From: Wesley Moxam - CSCI/P2000 [mailto:wmoxam@scs.ryerson.ca]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:18 PM
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Install problems



Hello

I attempted to install gentoo on my system last night and I hit a snag. I
used the minimal build ISO, and everything went well right up until I ran
the command 'emerge rsync' after chrooting over to the build installation.

The problem is that emerge at first seemed to hang, then I got the
message: eth0: Too much work (or something to that effect). After a
while emerge finally quit with the message 'cvs.gentoo.org not found'. So,
I rebooted and went through the install process again, but this time after
I had set up the networking I tried pinging a few machines, which worked,
but when I pinged cvs.gentoo.org I got the IP address of my
firewall/gateway (192.168.1.1).

Could anyone give me a clue to what I'm doing wrong? To my knowledge I
have followed the exact installation instructions, and there shouldn't be
any problems with my hardware setup since it works fine with Slackware and
kernel 2.4.2. The ethernet card uses the epic100 module. 

Any help at all would be appriciated.

-- wes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Install problems

[Daniel Robbins]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:17:32PM -0400, Wesley Moxam - CSCI/P2000 wrote:

> The problem is that emerge at first seemed to hang, then I got the
> message: eth0: Too much work (or something to that effect). After a

This sounds like a kernel error, which means that the kernel NIC driver is
having problems.  Post what specific kind of NIC you have, and maybe someone
can help.  Maybe the epic100 module in 2.4.4-ac9 is broken or needs a patch
for your particular NIC.

> Could anyone give me a clue to what I'm doing wrong? To my knowledge I
> have followed the exact installation instructions, and there shouldn't be
> any problems with my hardware setup since it works fine with Slackware and
> kernel 2.4.2. The ethernet card uses the epic100 module. 

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] Install problems

[Wesley Moxam - CSCI/P2000]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Daniel Robbins wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:17:32PM -0400, Wesley Moxam - CSCI/P2000 wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that emerge at first seemed to hang, then I got the
> > message: eth0: Too much work (or something to that effect). After a
> 
> This sounds like a kernel error, which means that the kernel NIC driver is
> having problems.  Post what specific kind of NIC you have, and maybe someone
> can help.  Maybe the epic100 module in 2.4.4-ac9 is broken or needs a patch
> for your particular NIC.
> 

I fixed the problem that I had with my /etc/hosts and re-ran
emerge. It connected with the server, but cointinued to have problems with
my network card.  It's listed as an SMSC EPIC/100 83c170 when I boot up my
current disto ( kernel 2.4.5 ).

The message I get is this:

eth0: Too much work at interupt, IntrStatus = 0x00250004          (only
printed once)

eth0: Too much work at interupt, IntrStatus = 0x00050004          (printed
many times)

I've got a Digital card that uses the 'tulip' driver that is laying around
here so I'll try it out and see how it goes.

-- Wes

Re: [gentoo-dev] install problems

[Fred Van Andel]

"David G. Heath" <dave227@cox.net> wrote:
(09/25/2002 00:23)

>I performed a stage 3 install, and everything went well during the install, but when I rebooted my kernel hangs on this messege:
>
>'gresc: signal 7 sent to (init:1) UID(0) EUID(0), parent (swapper:0) UID(0) EUID(0)'
>
>how can I fix this?
>
>TIA,
>
>Dave
 
Signal 7 is actually undefined in linux.  It is viewed by some as an 
indicator of a hardware problem.

Since the signal was generated by grsecurity (??), have you tried 
recompiling the kernel without grsecurity included?

Fred Van Andel

Re: [gentoo-dev] install problems

[Fred Van Andel]

Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com> wrote:
(10/01/2002 00:21)

>On Monday 30 Sep 2002 11:19 pm, Fred Van Andel wrote:
>
>> Since the signal was generated by grsecurity (??), have you tried
>> recompiling the kernel without grsecurity included?
>
>Not generated by grsecurity.. It was generated elsewhere and logged by 
>grsecurity.


Grsecurity does not always play nice with the rest of the system. I 
still suggest that you recompile the kernel without it.  If the 
problem goes away then you should try the grsecurity options as given 
in http://gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-security.html and experement from 
there.

Fred Van Andel