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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 6:51 pm    Post subject: unscriptable object error. Reply with quote

hey,
ive been tryin for a while to find a distro that i liked, and gentoo 1.4r seems kickin. but, um. i can't get it to install. i've followed the install page intensely, but i've gotten the same unscriptable object error with both stage 2 and stage 3 tarballs. when i attempt to emerge system i get it with stage2, and with stage3 when i attempt to merge ebuilds. could it have anythign to do with the layout of my partitions?
im trying to run win2k along w/ gentoo as follows:
hda1: NTFS 18 gigs
hda2: gentoo boot 100megs
hda5: gentoo swap 520megs
hda6: gentoo root 10 gigs

im not very knowledgeable concerning booting partitions either, so i was wondering if the boot partition is going to work at all?
all help is appreciated :>
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your partition setup looks OK (and isn't the problem).

What does emerge -V ouput?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Portage 1.9.10
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check out the instructions in /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE and see if that gets you moving again.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

okay. i followed the directions in that file and then tried:
emerge protage

which gave me:
TypeError: unsubscriptable object

when i:
emerge sys-kernel/usermode-sources
i still get:
TypeError: unscriptable object

sniff
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm
emerge -V still gives me 1.9.10

that should've been updated, shouldn't it have been?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What file did you untar?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i untarred portage-rescue-2.0.44-x86.tbz2
as was instructed by the README.RESCUE file.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Make sure when you do that that either (a) you are currently in the / directory, or (b) you specify -C / at the end of the tar command line.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

okayyy i figured out the update...
the README.RESCUE file gives instructions to:

Code:
cd /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage


when infact one should simply untar the portage-rescue file from /

i haven't gotten far past it [its downloading sources], but i didn't get the unscriptable object error when emerging.
:D
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

heh :> you posted while i was writing that
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