progress checking

jbwillia · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 9:20 am Post subject: progress checking

I am still working my way through the installation, so I don't know if it will always be this way or not. I am curious if there's any way to monitor the progress of packages that are being merged. Right now I've had my system going for about 8 hours merging 67 packages. If I want to know what package number it's on then I have to watch until it's effectlively between two packages to say to myself, "ahh, it's on package 60 of 67." That takes about 5 to 10 minutes of annoyingly staring at compiling code. Is there no easier way of checking this?

jbwillia · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 9:22 am Post subject: possibility

one possibility that would be really nice would to be able to check said status in another virtual console. :?:

Stu_28 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 129

I was under the impression that the newer livecds ran more than one console. If that is the case, then all you need to do is Ctrl+Alt+F2 and 'tail -f /mnt/gentoo/var/log/emerge.log' (to get back to the other console Ctrl+Alt+F1).

jbwillia · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 11:59 am Post subject: duhh

thank you ... it never occurred to me to just monitor the log file :oops:

... I guess I've gone a little too long without sleep. Just so long as I think a little better for my exam here in an hour :wink:

tomk · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 12:12 pm Post subject:

Try here:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=42346
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