Installing gentoo for the first time, starting yesterday. I just got to the point of choosing the system logger as described in section 9b of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9 and syslog-ng gives me a traceback.
| (chroot) lovesong etc # emerge -vp syslog-ng | | These are the packages that would be merged, in order: | | Calculating dependencies... done! | Traceback (most recent call last): | File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3511, in ? | mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) | File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1699, in display | myfilesdict=portage.portdb.getfetchsizes(x[2], useflags=self.applied_useflags[x[2]], debug=edebug) | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5222, in getfetchsizes | mf = Manifest(pkgdir, self.mysettings["DISTDIR"]) | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 119, in __init__ | self._read() | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 179, in _read | self._readDigests(myhashdict=self.fhashdict) | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 148, in _readDigests | myhashdict=myhashdict) | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 164, in _readManifest | self._parseDigests(fd, myhashdict=myhashdict, **kwargs) | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 198, in _parseDigests | for myentry in self._parseManifestLines(mylines): | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 184, in _parseManifestLines | for myline in mylines: | IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error | (chroot) lovesong etc # That was from the second time I issued the command. The first time I got about 487 lines of output, ending with: ... | >>> /usr/lib/libol.so.0 -> libol.so.0.0.0 | >>> /usr/lib/libol.la | >>> /usr/lib/libol.so -> libol.so.0.0.0 | >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... | >>> dev-libs/libol-0.3.18 merged. | | >>> No packages selected for removal by clean. | | >>> Emerging (2 of 2) app-admin/syslog-ng-1.6.9 to / | Traceback (most recent call last): | File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3545, in ? | mydepgraph.merge(pkglist) | File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2075, in merge | retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,tree="porttree") | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2948, in doebuild | if need_distfiles and not fetch(fetchme, mysettings, listonly=listonly, fetchonly=fetchonly): | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1954, in fetch | mydigests = Manifest( | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 119, in __init__ | self._read() | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 179, in _read | self._readDigests(myhashdict=self.fhashdict) | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 148, in _readDigests | myhashdict=myhashdict) | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 164, in _readManifest | self._parseDigests(fd, myhashdict=myhashdict, **kwargs) | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 198, in _parseDigests | for myentry in self._parseManifestLines(mylines): | File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 184, in _parseManifestLines | for myline in mylines: | IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error | (chroot) lovesong etc # df | Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on | /dev/ROOT 12389324 4263576 7496404 37% / | (chroot) lovesong etc # mount | /dev/ROOT on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) | (chroot) lovesong etc # ls -l /dev/ROOT | ls: /dev/ROOT: No such file or directory | (chroot) lovesong etc # Context: I'm installing this using a chroot from a Debian sarge system. I've encountered a few anomalies along the way, but I suspect most of them are cosmetic, and that some just need a documentation update. I don't think they are related to the tracebacks, but I mention them below just in case they are a clue to the deeper problem. (1) The portage file on the mirror was called portage-latest.tar.bz2.tar instead of portage-latest.tar.bz2 (2) Of course, from sarge I couldn't run mirrorselect. So I picked a mirror by hand, and it seemed to work. (3) At section 7.d, where I was supposed to zcat /proc/config.gz there was no such file. But the file I was supposed to create, /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-26 already existed, so I just used the one that was already there. This may have resulted from the fact that /proc was, of course, a window into the Debian 2.6.8 kernel instead of the 2.6.17 installer kernel. (4) When doing genkernel all I got the message mount: special device /dev/BOOT does not exist * warning: failed to mount /boot There was still a directory /boot on the intended partition into which I was installing gentoo, so I presumed it would use that one for /boot, as I intended, and just let it go on. (5) I found the installation of locales and keymaps. None of the available locales had "UTF-8" in their names, even though some of the suggested ones did. Should I presume that the UTF-8 adaptation is created by the locale generating software? What I want is a system that uses UTF-8 internally and keyboards and consoles that accept input in several languages -- English, French, math, Japanese, and mathematics. I guesses some entries and went on -- confident that this can be fixed after installation. What further information should I dig out to help track down the problem? -- hendrik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
