If all the source files you need for an emerge are in /usr/portage/distfiles/ then if you emerge whatever, portage will find them and do the emerge without downloading anything.

I've just had a look in my /usr/portage/distfiles and the version of zip I've got in there is zip232.tar.gz. Did you do ...

I'm glad it worked. I tried adding the kernel module for my ethernet card to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and that worked for me too. Must be a genkernel issue, because:

incidentally it was loading the e1000 module and still is I can't find any file that calls it - strange :roll:

happens ...

what do I need to do to make it stick after reboot?

I don't know why the appropriate module is not being loaded at boot. I've done several Gentoo installs over the last couple of years or so and I've never had this happen. However, except for the first time I've always compiled my own kernel, and ...

Have you tried the

modprobe e1000

that krinn suggested which will load the driver for your ethernet card? You're getting an error message after 'dhcpcd eth0' because there's no driver loaded - I presume. Edit /etc/conf.d/net as I suggested and then do the modprobe. If nothing happens try the ...

krinn wrote:2nd cup of tea coming....

That's very kind of you. Earl Grey with milk please. Oh, and a nice chocolate biscuit too.

Out of curiosity, I've made a fresh install with the live 2008 CD onto a spare partition and I've made some interesting discoveries.

There was no /usr/portage/distfiles directory - I had to make one - but neither was there a distfiles file - so I don't understand where yours came from. Predictably ...

in the folder /usr/portage thier is a file called distfiles and so I cannot create a directory with the same name. Should I just delete the file?

No, /usr/portage/distfiles is a directory. Don't delete it! :shock: It's fundamental to the way Gentoo works. It's where all the source files for the ...

If i put that on to a usb flash drive or usb hdd how do i mount it so I can transfer the file ?


I've got a horrible feeling that the default skeleton install might not detect plugged in usb drives. Plug in your drive and:

dmesg | tail

I did that and got:

sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 23 00 ...

lspci does not exist in the /usr/sbin dir

used find / -name lspci and nothing was found :(

lspci won't exist in /usr/sbin yet because it isn't included in a default install of Gentoo. Apologies for forgetting that. Apologies also for the su to root red-herring and for forgetting that without a ...

:cry: ok, I already logged in at the PC as root (didn't create any other accounts during install)

But did try su - and it came back with the prompt which had the # before and after I type the su - command :?

lspci still the same - command not found :cry:

Sorry! I think I need to be the one ...

tried lspci at command prompt and got command not found.

Su to root and try again.

Sucking eggs version: :wink: In a terminal, type 'su -' (no quotes) and press return. Type in the root password - it appears not to be going in. Don't worry, it is. Press return again and you get the # prompt ...

Why are we still using Grub legacy? What's wrong with the latest stable version of Grub?

The answer is in the link I posted. We are using the latest stable version of Grub. The trouble is that this is now unmaintained because the grub devs are concentrating on Grub 2, and Grub 2 is not ready for ...

idella4 , I can't quite make out from your post whether you formatted the partition years ago, or reformatted it recently with Suse. My question was ambiguous. I should have said format, not prepare.

One way round this is to have a separate /boot partition formatted ext2. If I'm understanding ...

anton123 wrote:when I boot, I get GRUB error #2.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is this little gotcha.

I hope this helps. If this turns out to be the problem, don't blame the Gentoo devs. Blame the e2fsprogs and/or the Grub devs. It's hitting other distros too.

Although you've found a workaround by chainloading round the houses, or rather partitions, the reason why you were having grub/booting problems may be due to this little gotcha .

Interesting, I've just posted the same link on another thread. I've been stung with this one myself with Fedora 9 and ...

idella4 wrote:'bad file or directory type'

Is that grub error 2 by any chance? Thought it was. Here's one explanation.

idella4 wrote:What has grub got against genny's brand new kernel???

Nothing, if that link is relevant. What did you use to prepare your partitions?

yes this is a known bug and has already been reported upstream.

Excellent news! :D

blueflame , you look more cheerful about this than I feel. This issue is being referred to as a 'bug', but that is not the word I would choose to describe it. Perhaps 'shambles' or 'cock-up' would be nearer the ...

vonr , no problems - no offence taken. I just wanted to distance myself from the silly bitching you refer to. :) I must admit though that I could have expressed myself better. The phrase "...until this gets sorted" is potentially ambiguous and is an example of what grammarians call the impersonal ...

mortagon , what an excellent thought about Nautilus being a fundamental dependency for the whole of Gnome - that never occurred to me. Thanks. I knew that gnome-base/gnome is a meta-package, but I didn't think it through, forgetting that all the many packages that make up Gnome are going to be in ...

Firstly, how "should Gentoo get this sorted"?

Did I say that? No, I didn't. When you use quotation marks you imply that you are quoting exactly what the first speaker said. Please do not misquote me or anyone else; it is bad netiquette. What I said was "..so I would rather avoid using Gnome 2.22 ...

Yes, you read that right. That's mask , not unmask, Gnome 2.22.

Explanation: while playing with the Gnome version of a couple of binary distros (Ubuntu and Mandriva) I discovered that if I copied files from a mounted fat32 usb drive, the file date/time stamps were not preserved, but updated to the ...

You can avoid libexpat issues totally (in my experience) by using the following upgrade path:
emerge --sync
emerge -1 expat
revdep-rebuild -X
emerge -uDNvat world

Thanks - that makes a lot of sense for a new install. I'll use that when I get round to building my new machine and doing a new ...

So what's the quick fix then?

A quick fix? In Gentoo? You, sir (or madam?), are an optimist, and I salute you for it. :)

If you're referring to expat, the clue is in the elogs. You do read the elogs, don't you? :wink: For expat-2.0.1:

WARN: postinst
Please note that the soname of the library ...

imanel wrote:

Naib wrote:...BUT the moment you do an emerge --sync && emerge system this new update to expat will be installed breaking alot of apps.

I was talking about that -

Dealing with upgrading to expat2 was - um - fun , but I didn't find it as catastrophic as Naib seems to be implying.

If I understand in this moment there's no way to do fresh install of Gentoo? Blah...

Then you seriously misunderstand. There's nothing stopping you (or me) from using the 2007.0 tarball, syncing the new install, doing a world update and dealing with the few hurdles (such as expat) that will occur ...