[gentoo-dev] Help!

[gentoo-dev] Help!

[John P. Davis]

Hi all -
All that I can say is *arg*.
I was working on my machine last night, and it hard crashed. Upon restart,
it seems that /var/state/init.d/* is invalid (shows processess that are
started (but not really), etc) and therefore I cannot boot and my rootfs
stays ro (annoying). I can get into my system via single user, but that is
worthless thanks to my ro root fs. I tried copying /var/state/init.d from
the livecd into my own /var/state/init.d, but no joy there. Any ideas?

Cheers,
//zhen
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Bugzilla Administrator
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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help!

[Brandon Low]

My guess: this is probably caused by an upgrade then downgrade of baselayout from 1.5.x to 1.6.x and back.  If you get into the system in single user and make sure that your /etc/is all on 1 version or the other of baselayout (prferably 1.5.x) you should be OK.

That is JUST A GUESS, good luck!

--B

On Mon, 02/10/03 at 09:07:49 -0500, John P. Davis wrote:
> Hi all -
> All that I can say is *arg*.
> I was working on my machine last night, and it hard crashed. Upon restart,
> it seems that /var/state/init.d/* is invalid (shows processess that are
> started (but not really), etc) and therefore I cannot boot and my rootfs
> stays ro (annoying). I can get into my system via single user, but that is
> worthless thanks to my ro root fs. I tried copying /var/state/init.d from
> the livecd into my own /var/state/init.d, but no joy there. Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers,
> //zhen
> -- 
> John P. Davis
> Gentoo Linux, Inc.
> Documentation Coordinator
> Bugzilla Administrator
> http://www.gentoo.org
> zhen@gentoo.org
> 
> 
> 
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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help!

[John P. Davis]

> My guess: this is probably caused by an upgrade then downgrade of
> baselayout from 1.5.x to 1.6.x and back.  If you get into the system in
> single user and make sure that your /etc/is all on 1 version or the
> other of baselayout (prferably 1.5.x) you should be OK.
>
> That is JUST A GUESS, good luck!
>
> --B
>
> On Mon, 02/10/03 at 09:07:49 -0500, John P. Davis wrote:
>> Hi all -
>> All that I can say is *arg*.
>> I was working on my machine last night, and it hard crashed. Upon
>> restart, it seems that /var/state/init.d/* is invalid (shows
>> processess that are started (but not really), etc) and therefore I
>> cannot boot and my rootfs stays ro (annoying). I can get into my
>> system via single user, but that is worthless thanks to my ro root fs.
>> I tried copying /var/state/init.d from the livecd into my own
>> /var/state/init.d, but no joy there. Any ideas?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> //zhen
>> --
>> John P. Davis
>> Gentoo Linux, Inc.
>> Documentation Coordinator
>> Bugzilla Administrator
>> http://www.gentoo.org
>> zhen@gentoo.org
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> gentoo-core@gentoo.org mailing list

That shouldn't be too much of a problem, but what do I do if I see
different versions of baselayout? Since my root fs is ro, how could I fix
that? Chroot from a livecd?

Cheers,
//zhen
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Gentoo Linux, Inc.
Documentation Coordinator
Bugzilla Administrator
http://www.gentoo.org
zhen@gentoo.org



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help!

[Brandon Low]

mount -o remount,rw /dev/rootfs

On Mon, 02/10/03 at 09:32:31 -0500, John P. Davis wrote:
> 
> > My guess: this is probably caused by an upgrade then downgrade of
> > baselayout from 1.5.x to 1.6.x and back.  If you get into the system in
> > single user and make sure that your /etc/is all on 1 version or the
> > other of baselayout (prferably 1.5.x) you should be OK.
> >
> > That is JUST A GUESS, good luck!
> >
> > --B
> >
> > On Mon, 02/10/03 at 09:07:49 -0500, John P. Davis wrote:
> >> Hi all -
> >> All that I can say is *arg*.
> >> I was working on my machine last night, and it hard crashed. Upon
> >> restart, it seems that /var/state/init.d/* is invalid (shows
> >> processess that are started (but not really), etc) and therefore I
> >> cannot boot and my rootfs stays ro (annoying). I can get into my
> >> system via single user, but that is worthless thanks to my ro root fs.
> >> I tried copying /var/state/init.d from the livecd into my own
> >> /var/state/init.d, but no joy there. Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> //zhen
> >> --
> >> John P. Davis
> >> Gentoo Linux, Inc.
> >> Documentation Coordinator
> >> Bugzilla Administrator
> >> http://www.gentoo.org
> >> zhen@gentoo.org
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> gentoo-core@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
> That shouldn't be too much of a problem, but what do I do if I see
> different versions of baselayout? Since my root fs is ro, how could I fix
> that? Chroot from a livecd?
> 
> Cheers,
> //zhen
> -- 
> John P. Davis
> Gentoo Linux, Inc.
> Documentation Coordinator
> Bugzilla Administrator
> http://www.gentoo.org
> zhen@gentoo.org
> 
> 
> 
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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help!

[Colin Morey]

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:34, Brandon Low wrote:
> mount -o remount,rw /dev/rootfs
> 
> On Mon, 02/10/03 at 09:32:31 -0500, John P. Davis wrote:
<BIG SNIP>
come on people, was it really important to quote the whole of the
previous messages? :)

there are still people who pay for their bandwidth, (even worse there
are some people who are on dial-ups).
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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Help!

[John P. Davis]

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Heh, reemerging baselayout fixed it ;-)
No hard feelings seth!

Cheers,
//zhen
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Re: [gentoo-dev] help!

[George Shapovalov]

Hi

On Monday 29 April 2002 00:16, naren wrote:
> First of all I should tell you that the distribution is great.
Thanks!

> But i wanted to ask if there is a installable CD(iso image) from which
> i can install Gentoo without being connected to the Internet.
Does anybody read FAQ nowadays?!?

You can:
a) download stage3 CD, that will have some "full" set of packages compiled.
or
b) download any install CD (basic 16MB one is recommended)
and then, download all the sources you want to install
burn that on a CD (or put on any other media)
when time comes (after unpacking stage1 or stage2/3 (whichever is used)), just 
put these sources under /usr/portage/distfiles.
In order to get portage tree itself download daily portage archive (please see 
FAQ or even install instructions for locations. And all of these vital 
documents are referenced on the main site http://www.gentoo.org).

George

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help!

[Jared H. Hudson]

Can you send us your make.conf? (any changes you made that is.

And/Or CTRL-C the bootstrap and send us the first error you see?

Hope I can help,
Jared H.

[gentoo-dev] Help!

[GMX]

Hello gentoo-dev,

  I`m writing this via my wifes machine as I`m stuck with a load of
  errors on my gentoo build (fresh).

  I`ve followed the install.txt to the letter, but, when issuing
  cd /usr/portage then scripts/bootstrap.sh I`m met with a load of
  errors, simply put, it doesnt build anything and aborts.

  Because its on another machine I cannot send you the output, but
  most errors appear to be python related "maintainer" pops up a lot
  too (this is with and without "maintainer="yes" in /etc/make.conf.

  I am a Slackware user by defualt so building packages is nothing new
  to me but this has me stumped.

  Please help, as i`m keen to try gentoo! Abd once I have a working
  system you can be sure I`ll donate :-D

  Thank you.

  Oh one last thing, please reply to Jeepster@gmx.co.uk NOT the reply
  address in this email.
  
  

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