[gentoo-user] broken install from LiveCD-2006.0

[gentoo-user] broken install from LiveCD-2006.0

[David Relson]

G'day,

Using the graphical installer on the LiveCD, I've encountered several
problems - 2 minor and 1 major.

Minor problem: after being prompted for ethernet configuration (static
in my case) and modifying the DNS address (from 127.0.0.1
192.168.0.1 ... to 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.2), /etc/resolv.conf is not
updated, i.e. it doesn't have an entry for my name server.

This is easily fixed, but I'm reporting it for completeness.

Minor problem: the LiveCD allows emacs to be run from its menus.
However it's not usable since characters aren't displayed in a readable
manner.  I'm guessing that fonts aren't configured.

Major problem:

GLI: ... - Fetching and unpacking tarball: 
GLI: ...  - Exception received during 'Unpack stage tarball':
          GLIUtilityError :FATAL: get_uri: File does not exist or URI
          is invalid!
GLI: ... - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: ... - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 165, 
    in run
     self._install_steps[self._install_step]['function']()
GLI: ... - File "/opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 306,
    in unpack_stage_tarball
    GLIUtility.fetch_and_unpack_tarball(self._install_profile.get_stage_tarball_uri(),
    self._chroot_dir, temp_directory=self._chroot_dir,
    keep_permissions=True, cc=self._cc)
GLI: ... - File "/opt/installer/GLIUtility.py", line 557, 
    in fetch_and_unpack_tarball 
    if not get_uri(tarball_uri, temp_directory + "/" +
    tarball_filename, cc):
GLI: ... - File "/opt/installer/GLIUtility.py", line 478, 
    in get_uri
    raise GLIException("GLIUtilityError", 'fatal', 'get_uri', 
    "File does not exist or URI is invalid!")
GLI: ... - GLIException: GLIUtilityError :FATAL: get_uri: 
    File does not exist or URI is invalid!

As can be seen, the installer is failing to find the tarball it wants.
FWIW, installprofile.xml contains:

installprofile.xml

<gli-profile>
...
  <portage-snapshot>
    file:///mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20060123.tar.bz2
  </portage-snapshot>


and the tarball _does_ exist.

Any tips on how to get the install going?

Thanks.

David

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Re: [gentoo-user] broken install from LiveCD-2006.0

[Jeremy Olexa]

David Relson wrote:

>   <portage-snapshot>
>     file:///mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20060123.tar.bz2
>   </portage-snapshot>
> 
> 
> and the tarball _does_ exist.
> 
> Any tips on how to get the install going?


I guess I would try to emerge --sync and get the latest version from the 
internet. With that being said, I still haven't used the GUI installer 
and probably never will so my guess may be rubbish. Perhaps you could 
try reading the docs and installing Gentoo via cmd line? It isn't that 
hard trust me... ;)

-Jeremy

(PS. I assume the GUI installer still has _quite_ a few bugs associated 
with it because they have recently made a NEW category for it in bugzilla)
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