[gentoo-dev] problems with new install

[Ben Lutgens <blutgens@sistina.com>]

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Hi all, I just installed a small system from a running system using
sys-i686-20010406.tgz

I made a fs, mounted it under /mnt and untared that bad-boy from my currently
running system, did all the steps in the install doc, did an init 1, then
chroot to the new system. I exited chrooted env, unmounted then booted cleanly
to gentoo. 

This is when the fun began ( I love this stuff )

The first and formost thing I noticed was that syslog spitting out errors
everytime the logger tries to make an entry (it can't access
/var/log/syslog.d/ dir) so I change the perms, now it says it can't lock the
dir. So my syslog is still broken. 

Next I try to add a user using adduser and that application won't even run, I
get "PAM authentication failed" I did however change roots password and am
still able to login. 

I'd really like to get this running at _least_ to a point where I can start to
tinker with ports. I don't mind some hacking but I'd think at least the
authentication should work on initial install.

Other than these things everything seems to work fine, but I can't seem to add
a user and don't think I'd like to run as root all the time.

TIA
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Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream

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