From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H9yRH-0000MU-5Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:50:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0P6mrXI012496; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:48:53 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0P6flFk002822 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:41:48 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so369771ugc for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:41:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=USsW7s/TbOimYtXfEizH/gTC5nL3D7wfZ4cnpgwaWuREv8hc3CGFax5rfNYzRfY4GdsxEb05xKykUUTyuY97K1SqP/fmVTZA+ybiioUBwqykE6CEhj06UH7/Iqr7CXpI+uob59yXRnCGgKKXYRry4OywmSNLnB06JnV/iI8kA4k= Received: by 10.78.201.15 with SMTP id y15mr1412106huf.1169707308194; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:41:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id c18sm1827154hub.2007.01.24.22.41.47; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:41:47 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gives backtrace during first-time install of gentoo in a Debian sarge chroot. Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:41:06 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1279291.8llKzQsJUU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200701250641.23188.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: cf30dc20-a355-453a-aa51-bea74deb87f7 X-Archives-Hash: 6cebdfd7d75e5ea2848a3d3123118c46 --nextPart1279291.8llKzQsJUU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 23 January 2007 03:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Installing gentoo for the first time, starting yesterday. I just got to > the point of choosing the system logger as described in section 9b of > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3D1&chap= =3D9 > and syslog-ng gives me a traceback. [snip...] When I get problems like that I resync portage after a while and they usual= ly=20 go away - unless the whole /usr/portage partition fs has been corrupted. NB= -=20 I keep my portage on a separate partition to minimise fragmentation. If th= e=20 fs has been corrupted and the fsck tools won't repair it then I wipe the=20 partition clean, reformat it and download a fresh portage snapshot. > > Context: > > I'm installing this using a chroot from a Debian sarge system. > I've encountered a few anomalies along the way, but I suspect most of them > are cosmetic, and that some just need a documentation update. > I don't think they are related to the tracebacks, but I mention them below > just in case they are a clue to the deeper problem. > > (1) The portage file on the mirror was called > portage-latest.tar.bz2.tar > instead of > portage-latest.tar.bz2 Did you check on more than one mirrors - also the MD5 checksums? > (2) Of course, from sarge I couldn't run mirrorselect. So I picked a > mirror by hand, and it seemed to work. mirrorselect is the Gentoo equivalent of netselect for Debian. > (3) At section 7.d, where I was supposed to > zcat /proc/config.gz > there was no such file. But the file I was supposed to create, > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-26 > already existed, so I just used the one that was already there. > > This may have resulted from the fact that /proc was, of course, a window > into the Debian 2.6.8 kernel instead of the 2.6.17 installer kernel. That's right. You can find this file once you have booted the LiveCD. > (4) When doing > genkernel all > I got the message > mount: special device /dev/BOOT does not exist > * warning: failed to mount /boot Edit your /etc/fstab and change /dev/BOOT, /dev/ROOT, etc. with real names = of=20 your corresponding partitions (e.g. /dev/hda1). > There was still a directory /boot on the intended partition into which I > was installing gentoo, so I presumed it would use that one for /boot, as I > intended, and just let it go on. > > (5) I found the installation of locales and keymaps. None of the availab= le > locales had "UTF-8" in their names, even though some of the suggested ones > did. Should I presume that the UTF-8 adaptation is created by the locale > generating software? What I want is a system that uses UTF-8 internally > and keyboards and consoles that accept input in several languages -- > English, French, math, Japanese, and mathematics. I guesses some entries > and went on -- confident that this can be fixed after installation. You need to edit /etc/locale.gen and add something like e.g. en_GB.UTF-8 UT= =46-8=20 (the file is well commented with instructions) and then run locale-gen or=20 re-emerge glibc. HTH. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1279291.8llKzQsJUU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFuFET5Fp0QerLYPcRAoWaAJ9PWux5M+52fFFrNO5+SowCmqx8GwCgp0AT I0jKka3S4UHVgU6+IOHX79c= =VNNo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1279291.8llKzQsJUU-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list