2005.1 amd64 Package corrupted?

brweber2 · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 3

I downloaded the universal installer for amd64. I verified the download with an md5 tool. I burned the iso to a cd. I was able to boot off the cd. I was following the install instructions and everything was going smoothly until.... I tried to untar the stage 3 package. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

nixnut · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:59 pm Post subject:

Where did you untar the tarball? Don't forget to change dirs to /mnt/gentoo or you will unpack it to ram and run out of space.
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Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 1:26 pm Post subject:

Also, please provide us with the fault and error messages you get.

brweber2 · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 3

I definitely was in /mnt/gentoo. Any other suggestions? What type of error message would I see if it in fact did run out of memory?

brweber2 · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 3

Ok, I tried again from scratch and same thing... Again the error is while untarring the stage 3 tarball for amd64. I am in the /mnt/gentoo directory. The exact error message is:

$prompt>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Yup, that's it for the error message. Most of the tarball is unpacked so maybe it is running out of memory? Is there a way to verify that?

Thanks!

Maedhros · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:28 am Post subject:

I'm sure the handbook used to say you could ignore those errors. It's probably caused by the tarball attempting to unpack things to /mnt/gentoo/proc, which if you've already mounted it isn't going to work. If that's the only error message you get then you can almost certainly just carry on.

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stefan-tiger · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 58

I have the same problem: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2652596.htm

But I ignored this one time, continued, an then got trouble with gcc while bootstrapping.

Do you think these things have nothing to do with each other?

sreekar · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Michigan

I burned two different 2005.1 amd64 CDs (on two different machines) and I got the same error on both tries on my notebook. I was doing a stage3 install.

Also, I noticed that the second terminal (i.e. hitting Alt-F2) had the gentoo splash screen frozen in it, again in both cases (third and fourth terminals ok, however).

I was following the handbook precisely and didn't mess up there. This is probably irrelevant, but I was booting with

boot: gentoo no_timer_check

since o/w my clock runs double speed.

chicona · n00b Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 2

I was experiencing the same and found no solution.
tar bailedout at "./sbin/rmmod.static" and all it said was

revealz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 75

/mnt/gentoo/proc was not mounted

tar -zxvjpf stage3-x86-2005.1-r1.tar.bz2

tar: ./boot/.keep: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: ./boot/boot: Cannont create symlink to `.': No such file or directory

My mounts are as follows

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

revealz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 75

I also downloaded the tarballs from two different sites to be sure

chicona · n00b Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 2

Maedhros · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject:

thardy01 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Aug 2002 Posts: 77

Has anybody found a solution for this yet? I ask because im haveing the exact same problem trying to install portage..........

centryfox · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 27

I tried to work around my old install for a while - but since the install was in the 2004 series, I just backed up what I needed from my old install and then wiped the partition clean.

Seems to have worked - but there could be a more elegant approach.

meph84 · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:41 am Post subject:

Had the same problem... md5sum will tell you whether it is okay or not. But the strangest thing... Did md5 check, it failed, so I went away angry from computer and turned it off. Some time later I tried it again with the same file (I have not downloaded it again) and it passed...

Don't ask me what it is caused by...
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