Hi! If my memory doesn't fail me, there is a file /var/run/bootstrap-progress or somthing like this (I saw filename on syslog-ng console - Alt-F12). This is trouble maker. Delete it and run bootstrap again. It helped me to install my 2 Gentoo boxes. Best wishes!!!
>JHI just started setting up a new machine to replace an old PIII. >JH >JHI booted off the minimal LiveCD and started with a stage 1 tarball. >JHI checked the md5sum before untarring it so I am sure it's OK. >JH >JHI edited etc/make.conf to set CPUTYPE to have -march=pentium4 and >JH-pipe. >JH >JHI set USE to "dvd alsa cdr". I did the locale stuff in code >JHlisting 10 in section 6.a of the install guide. >JH >JHI did the optional "bootstrap.sh -f" in code listing 13 of 6.c. >JHWhen I then did just bootstrap.sh it said that that it had already >JHbeen done and did I want to do it again. When I confirmed it came >JHback with "nothing to do", taking no time, contrary to the manual >JHwhich suggests this should take some time. >JH >JHWhen I then ran "emerge system" it failed quite early on. These >JHwere the final few lines (copied by hand): >JH >JH>checking how to run the C++ preprocessor .. /lib/cpp >JH>configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check >JH>see config.log for more details >JH>configure: error: /bin/sh ./configure failed for autoconf-lib-link >JH> >JH>!!!ERROR sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1-r2 failed >JH >JHI couldn't find a config.log in any obvious place. >JH >JHWhat to do now? >JH >JHUnless anyone has any ideas I will repeat the install, leaving out the >JH"bootstrap.sh -f" stage, in case that had anything to do with it. >JH >JHA couple of other funnies: mirrorselect failed with (I think) a python >JHerror, dumping binary all over the screen. Also I had previously >JHfetched the stage tarball to another machine, intending to pull it >JHacross via ftp, but the livecd doesn't seem to have an ftp client. >JHlinks2 is nasty, it displays the contents of the tarball on screen >JH(even though it saves OK, it's ugly). >JH >JHjim >JH >JH-- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >JH >JH__________ >JHhttp://www.newhost.ru - ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃ ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃ! >JH >JH >JH -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
