During boot, for the first time after installation of Gentoo Linux 2005-1, the following applications reported errors: - urandom - vixie-cron No log files were generated in the var-directory, so it was not easy to trace back what happened. I also noted that slocate could not build a database. The remedy was to create the following subdirectorys into the /var-directory. (they were not present after the installation): /var/run /var/spool /var/log /var/lib/slocate After this, the programs and logging, seem to work perfectly alright. This is the very first time I try Gentoo, so it is possible that I could have made a misstake during the installation. During the installation I followed the instructions given on the installation CD in Documentation/txt/Installation.txt. I can't see any section where the user is instructed to create the directories above. Shouldn't the creation be a part of "emerge"? Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
I'm pretty sure the stages include these directories (except for /var/lib/slocate, but that's up to slocate ebuild to create that one).
