On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 09:00:02 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote: > Hi > > the version of portage: > > Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5,
2.1.10.11 is the latest. So no error here > glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686) > > USE="-emacs" emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf - ir doesn't work; same error Is there space left on the device? If so, does something like touch /var/tmp/portage/foo.stamp (as root) work? > Nilesh, can you please be more explicite? > > Thank you! Best, Michael BTW: please don't top-post if possible. > ________________________________ > From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grim...@gmx.de> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:27 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to > install syslog-ng > > Hi, > > On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 08:01:56 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > > > I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all the > > steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm stuck > > trying to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an Athlon > > processor and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The error > > can be seen bellow: > > <snip> > > The same error I get for vixie-cron. > > this is sys-devel/autoconf failing, building some emacs related things. > Try > USE="-emacs" emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf > > If that works, add > "sys-devel/autoconf -emacs" > to /etc/portage/package.use > > > Some other things worth mentioning: > > - portage didn't request for an update > > What version is installed? > > > - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of mirrors > > or something similar. > > No idea. > > > I will really appreciate your help as my "server" is down for two days > > now. Thank you! > > Best regards! > > Regards, > Michael
