emerge system problem on clean install

Blademan · Developer Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 116

FYI, I ran into an issue with a new install at install doc code listing 18, emerge system.

Emerge bash had problems but stated no errors, and quit the emerge. I tracked down the directories (/usr/portage... and /var/temp....) and all seemed OK. The error in emerge (I didn't expect to solve my problem so I didn't think to pipe it to a file) was something along the lines of:
"unpacking blahbla.tgz
unpacking bash....tgz
unpacking xxxxxx
xxxxxx does not seem to be a valid ..."

emerge bash alone, gave the same error
emerge -u portage, seems to have sorted out the issue.
currently back to emerge system, running OK

Perhaps the docs should be modified to include an "emerge -u portage" before the "emerge system"?

Joe
Umax s900 200/604e oldworld, 256MB ram, gentoo 1.2r1 iso

Blademan · Developer Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 116

Browsing forums I came across this:

"!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully"
"!!! Funtion src_compile, Line 194, Exitcode 2"
"!!! (no error message"

This was at the bottom of my bash emerge fail screen

eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

Ok .. i have tried to bootstrap a few times .. and emerge a few times .. am trying to install 1.4

i get the exact error that you were getting ...

can you please explain what you did exactly when you got this error and what exactly you did to correct this error .. please step by step .. if its not to much to ask .. thanks...

rac · Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 11:28 pm Post subject:

It sounds like running "emerge -u portage" before "emerge system" solved the problem, as I read it.
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eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

well that maybe .. but i wanted to verify that with the man ..

eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

ok so i did 'emerge -u portage' before 'scripts/bootstrap.sh' and i still get the same 'src_compile error'

so i went to bootstrap .. and after thats done then i will try to 'emerge -u portage' again ..

any help is preciously appreciated.

rac · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 1:06 am Post subject:

The "src_compile error" is pretty generic - since Blademan007 looks like bash was involved, but you're talking about bootstrap, I think we have two separate issues here. Can you post the last 20 or so lines of your compilation output right before it failed?
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eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

ok .. will try ..

Blademan · Developer Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 116

Eltech,

You and rac were right. I ran into the problem did an 'emerge -u portage' after coming across that suggestion in another thread or some docs. Then retried 'emerge system' and the operation completed sucessfully.

rac,

Did you want me to post or eltech?

eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

thanks for the response ... see my emerge -u portage even failed ...

i still tried on to do emerge system .. if it fails this time, i wont be trying again to install gentoo and call it my short lived experience to gentoo..

thanks guys ..

Blademan · Developer Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 116

Not sure about 1.4 though. I installed 1.2 off the iso. I thought 1.4 is still technically a release candidate, so you may be paying to price for being on the cutting edge.

Gentoo isn't a calkwalk like other distros and I found Gentoo on PPC even more so, but hey, that's the fun

just don't let it get to you.

rac · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 6:41 am Post subject:

Gerk · Retired Dev Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 435

For people getting compile problems on new bootstrap setups, make sure you date and time are set correctly (may be the problem).

Also, the very FIRST thing bootstrap does it to update portage, so I'm not sure where/why updating protage solves an issue (unless you also rsynced a newer portage tree since your installation).

More details (i.e. more than jus the portage filaure code) would be very helpful.

Nunzion · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 2 Location: London Uk

the issue as far as i found is this.. the patch file is a bz2 file, and emerge trys to be untaring it.. i updated the ebuild file and this sorted the issue.
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