[SOLVED] Just emerged gentoo-sources, now system can't find

cdavidson · Last edited by cdavidson on Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:43 pm; edited 1 time in total

I am doing an install on my machine at home via an SSH connection from my office. Everything has been going fine. I was in chapter 7 of the Gentoo Handbook and I came to step 7b. I issued the command "emerge gentoo-sources", emerge started doing its thing, and I left for lunch. When I got back, the emerge had finished, but my SSH connection had timed out, so I reconnected (I connect to SSH via a non-privileged account and then su - to do installation tasks). Once I reconnected, I checked to make sure that the symlink was there in /usr/src/linux as it should be (step 7b), but it wasn't. After some head-scratching, I decided to re-emerge gentoo sources, but when I try I get:

PsychoticRetina · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject:

did you chroot after sshing back in?

EDIT: if you didnt, it could explain the missing symlink in /usr/src as well.
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cdavidson · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject:

I'm (obviously) a n00b, but I didn't know that I had to chroot each time I reconnected with SSH. Should the following from the handbook do the trick?

PsychoticRetina · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject:

i believe so. just check with mount before chrooting to make sure all is in place. if its not for some peculiar reason, just mount all your partitions and chroot.
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cdavidson · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject:

That did the trick! Thanks for the help.