touch Error: Function not implemented

Ravilj

I recently (yesterday) completed an emerge sync and then emerge world. I rebooted my PC today and my system failed to come up. It moaned about udev or such...

After some inspection, it seems I have an error with touch. I cant emerge anything, it does not get past unpacking the source. The following error is the same for all packages:

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:31 am Post subject:

Hi.

Given the following

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

This error is not always caused by a corrupted coreutils in my experience, but sometimes by an improper mount of sequence for proc and dev. I wonder if your baselayout or udev is broken. (Dev needs to be mounted, then proc)

Boot to a livecd, mount all partitions except for proc and dev, then do:

Ravilj · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject:

Thanks I will try that, I dont see how I could of broken my coreutils though. Perculiar...

rojanu · Guru Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 361 Location: London

Thanks nesl247 that did worked for me
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tekknokrat · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:22 pm Post subject:

I'd also got that error because I missed to mount the proc device to my chrooted environment.
After mount proc everything worked.

oclock · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject:

At least once I must state it like many others: almost each time I run into a gentoo-specific problem, all I have to do is search the forums. And -surprise-

there is the answer.

Thanks to you all! (and in this case to nesl247)

Bye, Christoph

PS. I just upgraded to gcc-4.1.1 and thought it might be a good idea to do an emerge --depclean before rebuiling my system with --emptytree. And while doing the later my #'/(%$@ ISP stopped my dsl-connection as they do after 24h of running, and ppp got lost during depclean (yes, i know, i should have studied the output with more patience). After rebooting with my livecd the problem that lead me here occured.

TengriLethos · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 2

Same here. I started emerge -e system on a Stage 1 Install when I went to bet last night. This morning I had this ugly error message about touch. And indeed - I forgot to mount proc and dev. Gentoo can be difficult sometimes, but I has a great community.

-Craig- · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 333

Full ACK!
I also had the same error...thanks for the post guys!