Can you help? I don't want to give up...

[Capt.Obvious]

I've tried this install 7 times now. I've gotten a plethora ... a cornucopia if you will, of errors each time... this time it's this -BTW I'm using the GTK installer since I can't find any detailed documentation on the straight-CLI install...:

GLI: October 26 2006 13:32:09 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.4.1
GLI: October 26 2006 13:32:09 - Setting root password.
GLI: October 26 2006 13:32:09 - Portmap started.
GLI: October 26 2006 13:32:09 - Completed pre_install steps
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - partition(): Processing /dev/sda...
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - _partition_delete_step(): Deleting partitions that aren't being resized
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - No match in new layout for old minor 3...deleting
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - No match in new layout for old minor 2...deleting
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - No match in new layout for old minor 1...deleting
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - _partition_resize_step(): Resizing partitions
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - _partition_recreate_step(): Recreating partitions
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - Drive has 35843670 sectors
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - Partition 1 has 100MB
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - Start sector calculated to be 0
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - End sector calculated to be 204800
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - Adding primary partition 1 from 0 to 204800
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - Partition 2 has 2022MB
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - Start sector calculated to be 204801
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - End sector calculated to be 4345857
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:09 - Adding primary partition 2 from 204801 to 4345857
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:10 - Partition 3 has 15379MB
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:10 - Start sector calculated to be 4345858
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:10 - End sector calculated to be 35842050
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:10 - Adding primary partition 3 from 4345858 to 35842050
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:10 - _partition_format_step(): Formatting new partitions
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:11 - Formatting partition 1 as ext2 with: mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:12 - Formatting partition 2 as linux-swap with: mkswap /dev/sda2
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:13 - Formatting partition 3 as ext3 with: mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda3
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:24 - Mounted mountpoint: /
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:24 - Created mountpoint /boot
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:24 - Mounted mountpoint: /boot
GLI: October 26 2006 13:33:26 - Fetching and unpacking tarball: http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/current/stages/stage2-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:45 - http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/current/stages/stage2-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2 was fetched and unpacked.
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - fstab configured.
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/rc.conf
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/clock
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - Config files updated using etc-update. make.conf/fstab/rc.conf restored.
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:47 - Make.conf configured
GLI: October 26 2006 13:36:48 - Chroot environment ready.
GLI: October 26 2006 13:43:46 - Portage tree sync'd using webrsync
GLI: October 26 2006 13:43:47 - -- MARK --
GLI: October 26 2006 13:43:47 - Starting emerge system.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:03:40 - Emerge system complete.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:03:41 - Root Password set on the new system.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:03:42 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/clock
GLI: October 26 2006 17:03:42 - Timezone set.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:03:42 - Starting emerge_kernel
GLI: October 26 2006 17:04:54 - Kernel sources:gentoo-sources emerged and /usr/src/linux symlinked.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:04:54 - -- MARK --
GLI: October 26 2006 17:04:54 - Starting build_kernel
GLI: October 26 2006 17:05:23 - Genkernel emerged. Beginning kernel compile.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:22:38 - Coldplug emerged. Now they should be added to the default runlevel.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:22:38 - Added coldplug to runlevel boot
GLI: October 26 2006 17:22:38 - Bootsplash enabled...emerging necessary packages
GLI: October 26 2006 17:28:06 - Genkernel complete.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:28:42 - distcc emerged.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:29:44 - Added syslog-ng to runlevel default
GLI: October 26 2006 17:29:44 - Logging daemon installed: syslog-ng
GLI: October 26 2006 17:30:16 - Added vixie-cron to runlevel default
GLI: October 26 2006 17:30:16 - Cron daemon installed and configured: vixie-cron
GLI: October 26 2006 17:30:18 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/hostname
GLI: October 26 2006 17:30:18 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/domainname
GLI: October 26 2006 17:30:18 - ERROR! Failure adding domainname to runlevel default because it was not found!
GLI: October 26 2006 17:30:18 - ERROR! Could not add domainname to runlevel default. returned a bad status code.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:30:18 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/hosts
GLI: October 26 2006 17:30:18 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/net
GLI: October 26 2006 17:30:18 - Added net.eth0 to runlevel default
GLI: October 26 2006 17:30:18 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/net
GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:14 - Emerged the selected bootloader.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:14 - Found a mbr device: /dev/sda
GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:17 - Output of Kernel Names:
/mnt/gentoo/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.17-gentoo-r8

GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:17 - Output of Initrd Names:
/mnt/gentoo/boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.17-gentoo-r8

GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:17 - Bootloader: the three information gathering commands have been run
GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:17 - Grub installed and configured. Contents of grub.conf:
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3 doscsi
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.17-gentoo-r8

GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:17 - Grub has not yet been run. If a normal install, it will now be run.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:18 - Found a mbr device: /dev/sda
GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:18 - Bootloader: grub has been installed!
GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:20 - fstab configured.
GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:20 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/rc.conf
GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:20 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/clock
GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:20 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: October 26 2006 17:31:20 - Config files updated using etc-update. make.conf/fstab/rc.conf restored.
GLI: October 26 2006 20:46:07 - Exception received during 'Installing additional packages.': EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge: Could not emerge app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r4!
GLI: October 26 2006 20:46:07 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: October 26 2006 20:46:07 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 197, in run
self._install_steps[self._install_step]['function']()
GLI: October 26 2006 20:46:07 - File "/opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 357, in install_packages
self._portage.emerge(installpackages)
GLI: October 26 2006 20:46:07 - File "/opt/installer/GLIPortage.py", line 265, in emerge
raise GLIException("EmergePackageError", "fatal", "emerge", "Could not emerge " + pkg + "!")
GLI: October 26 2006 20:46:07 - GLIException: EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge: Could not emerge app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r4!

[batistuta]

[nixnut]

The handbook for cli installations is here
Since a lot of the install is already done, you can skip a few steps. Boot the cd and open a xterm (or boot with the nox option to get a console). Mount the partitions, check the networking and chroot. Then you can try emerge --resume. If that fails on app-text/sgml-common again, you will at least have some more info on the error that causes it.
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[Capt.Obvious]

OK - so I tried this:

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile

... and got the following result

[Capt.Obvious]

livecd / # emerge -puvDN --resume

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

[ebuild N ] app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r4 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
livecd / # emerge -uvDN --resume
*** Resuming merge...

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r4 to /
* sgml-common-0.6.3.tgz MD5 ... [ ok ]
* sgml-common-0.6.3.tgz RMD160 ... [ ok ]
* sgml-common-0.6.3.tgz SHA1 ... [ ok ]
* sgml-common-0.6.3.tgz SHA256 ... [ ok ]
* sgml-common-0.6.3.tgz size ... [ ok ]
* checking ebuild checksums ... [ ok ]
* checking auxfile checksums ... [ ok ]
* checking miscfile checksums ... [ ok ]
* checking sgml-common-0.6.3.tgz ... [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking sgml-common-0.6.3.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/sgml-common-0.6.3-r4/wor k
am-wrapper: /usr/bin/automake-1.4 is missing or not executable.
Please try emerging the correct version of automake.
touch: setting times of `/var/tmp/portage/sgml-common-0.6.3-r4/.unpacked': Funct ion not implemented

!!! ERROR: app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r4 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_unpack
ebuild.sh, line 709: Called die

!!! IO Failure -- Failed 'touch .unpacked' in /var/tmp/portage/sgml-common-0.6.3 -r4
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if rel evant.

livecd / # ls /usr/bin/automake*
/usr/bin/automake /usr/bin/automake-1.6 /usr/bin/automake-1.7 /usr/bin/automake-1.9
livecd / #

[nixnut]

[Capt.Obvious]

I don't have that in my make.conf file??

livecd etc # cat make.conf
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example

CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j6"
USE="X apm bzip2 crypt dri gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal jpeg libg++ ncurses nls nptl opengl pam pcre pdf perl php png python qt3 qt4 readline session spell spl ssl tcpd threads truetype unicode verbose xml zlib bitmap-fonts bootsplash cairo cli dlloader firefox nosound truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev xorg xscreensaver xsettings"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=""

[Capt.Obvious]

*sigh* I gave up and am re-installing again...[/b]

[Capt.Obvious]

OK - on re-install... same problem. WTF? Why does this fail? Is no one else having this same problem!?

GLI: October 26 2006 20:46:07 - Exception received during 'Installing additional packages.': EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge: Could not emerge app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r4!
GLI: October 26 2006 20:46:07 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: October 26 2006 20:46:07 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 197, in run
self._install_steps[self._install_step]['function']()
GLI: October 26 2006 20:46:07 - File "/opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 357, in install_packages
self._portage.emerge(installpackages)
GLI: October 26 2006 20:46:07 - File "/opt/installer/GLIPortage.py", line 265, in emerge
raise GLIException("EmergePackageError", "fatal", "emerge", "Could not emerge " + pkg + "!")
GLI: October 26 2006 20:46:07 - GLIException: EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge: Could not emerge app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r4!

[Capt.Obvious]

OK, so I mounted the new "failed" installed root, and chroot'ed into it, and tried to run an

[thorpe]

Boot the cd and pass the nox option to the kernel then follow the handbook. A manual install is the prefered method.
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Research before taking any advice from me. I'm still coming to grips with this myself.

[Capt.Obvious]

I'm going to keep documenting this.. in case someone else wants a solution to this in the future... and hopefully I can get there?

I followed the bug (bugs.gentoo.org) ID #148273 and ran

[Section_8]

here is a thread on that touch error:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-507224-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html

When you chrooted, did you mount /proc first?