Cannot emerge gentoo-sources (solved)

hafark · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Posts: 20 Location: Rochester, MN

Trying to return to Gentoo after some time with Ubunu. Using minimal CD on an AMD 64. Following the handbook, all is well until kernel:

Error: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r8 failed.

Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1641: Called die
The Speciic snippet of code:
Preprocess_ebuild_env || \
die "error processing environment"

What now?

potatoface · Guru Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 542 Location: ::7F00:1

post a little more of the error message, otherwise its very hard to help you with your problem

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hafark · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Posts: 20 Location: Rochester, MN

I'd be happy to, but that was the whole error message. The build log file it refers me to has exactly the same text, no more no less.

potatoface · Guru Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 542 Location: ::7F00:1

you should try another kernel. maybe vanilla-sources...

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AllenJB · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject:

Can you post the output of "emerge --info" please (from inside the chroot).
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hafark · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Posts: 20 Location: Rochester, MN

Different kernel would not actually have helped, as I could not emerge anything. ending up rebooting, remounting the partitions, re-entering chroot and now kernel-sources worked. Obviously, I musta have missed a step the first time around....

All is well (for now), thanks for the suggestions.