I installed from a stage 1 and after the install was over net-tools was not installed. I had to re-emerge it. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -e system 2.finish the install 3.try to run ifconfig Actual Results: ifconfig could not be found and thus dhcpcd wouldn't work. Expected Results: It should have installed (I am not sure if it did at all) on the emerge -e system step. This is just a basicly emerge problem, the fix is easy but I figured I would let you all know. This happend to someone else on the boards so it's not just me.
no real info here (like `emerge info`) net-tools is part of the 'system' target /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages:*sys-apps/net-tool
I didn't think emerge --info was needed here since the problem happed well before it would have made any sence to do that. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13.4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13.4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4m -O3 -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4m -O3 -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dts eds emboss encode fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmap mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell sse sse2 ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis wifi xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS Durring the install net-tools did not emerge, neither did hotplug or coldplug. I know coldplug I do myself but hotplug? I alas don't know what else I am missing but I am guessing that it will be discovered as time progresses, hopefully not too much more.
Well, hotplug is not a part of system. At any rate, you didn't say which media you used. I'm not exactly sure why this was pushed off onto the release team, as you didn't have a problem with the media itself, your problem was post-bootstrap.
By media... I did a stage 1 install. The bootstrapping went though fine. The problem came with the emerge -e system in which net-tools did not install, or did not install properly. I am posting this as a bug becasue someone else on the boards had the same problem and they did exactly the same thing I did and we both re-emerged net-tools and it worked. So... the problem occured sometime durring the system install where a package did not install itself. I discovered this imeaditly after my system install when I could not access the internet and dhcpcd did not work. Right after my system was up I tried to find ifconfig and the rest of the software inside of net-tools and I could not, thus net-tools did not install durring the system install like it should.
2005.0? 2005.1? hardened? Exactly *which* stage1 tarball did you use?
(In reply to comment #5) > 2005.0? 2005.1? hardened? Exactly *which* stage1 tarball did you use? I have to say that I had the same problem ben was describing last night, when I tried to install Gentoo. 2005.1 and stage2. This is the third computer I install in the past couple of weeks, so I knew what was supposed to happen. The problem is that /sbin/ifconfig is not there. Not installed at all, although an emerge --search net-tools (which is the package where ifconfig is supposed to be in) was installed. That is the weird part. So in my opinion, it definitely is a release problem. Or net-tools, one of the two. I hope this helps resolve some of the confusion and contributes to finding the bug as soon as possible. Regards, Pedro
I also ran into the problem. I bet the problem is caused by setting too much USE flags before reaching stage3. Last night I installed 2005.1 stage1, and when reached 6.a in the handbook, I set a lot of USE flags. For example I set afs. It pulled openafs package during bootstrap! Actually openafs failed to compile before configuring the kernel, so I had to rebootstrap with a configured kernel. This shows that it is not indifferent to the success of install, what USE flags are set before reaching stage3. The net-tools package was not pulled, so I had to emerge it manually after a failed net.eth0 startup in the rebooted system. I could make emerge info only after all of these: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.nyx.hu/gentoo http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inf.elte.hu/ ftp://gentoo.inf.elte.hu/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 a52 aac acl afs apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 calendar canna caps cdb cdr cjk clamav cpdflib crypt eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
OK. Allow me to explain this. If it is not a problem with the tarballs themselves, for example, if the stage3 tarball was missing ifconfig, then it isn't a release problem. I'm willing to bet that you've done *something* to cause it. At any rate, try from a stage3 tarball instead. We know that they work, and you can always customize your USE and CFLAGS after you have a bootable system and use "emerge -e world" to recompile your packages. All in all, you end up with the same compiled binaries on your system, and spend the same amount of time compiling (less than if you started from stage1), but you have the added benefit of knowing that a complete base system exists. I'm not sure exactly what the issue is with your installation, but it isn't the media causing it.
what he said
Okay... but instead of having to use a stage 3 tarball... you can literally just re-emerge net-tools... that gives you everything that you are missing.
This has come up a few times in #gentoo. Every time it was clear by looking at /var/log/emerge.log that emerge -e system had failed and the user just went on as if it were successful. If you run into this and emerge -p net-tools shows it is installed but ifconfig is missing please provide the output of: emerge -p net-tools, emerge info and attach /var/log/emerge.log along with what stage you used. Roger
