To whom it may concern: I am having difficulties installing Gentoo on a Sony Vaio PIII 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM machine. Every time it gets to emerging x11-base the installation fails. Here is my installer.log.failed file from /var/log: GLI: March 10 2006 06:19:00 - Setting root password. GLI: March 10 2006 06:19:01 - Livecd root password set. GLI: March 10 2006 06:19:02 - Portmap started. GLI: March 10 2006 06:19:02 - Completed pre_install steps GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:07 - partitioning: Processing /dev/hda... GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:08 - Partitioning: Second pass... GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:08 - Partitioning: Third pass....creating partitions GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:08 - Drive has 78140160 sectors GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:08 - Partition 1 has 100MB GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:08 - Start sector calculated to be 0 GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:08 - End sector calculated to be 204800 GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:08 - Adding primary partition 1 from 0 to 204800 GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:09 - Formatting partition 1 as ext2 with: mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1 GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:09 - Partition 2 has 15000MB GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:09 - Start sector calculated to be 204801 GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:09 - End sector calculated to be 30924801 GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:09 - Adding primary partition 2 from 204801 to 30924801 GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:10 - Formatting partition 2 as ext3 with: mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda2 GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:32 - Partition 3 has 22534MB GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:32 - Start sector calculated to be 30924802 GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:32 - End sector calculated to be 77074434 GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:32 - Adding primary partition 3 from 30924802 to 77074434 GLI: March 10 2006 06:24:34 - Formatting partition 3 as ext3 with: mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda3 GLI: March 10 2006 06:25:11 - Partition 4 has 520MB GLI: March 10 2006 06:25:11 - Start sector calculated to be 77074435 GLI: March 10 2006 06:25:11 - End sector calculated to be 78139395 GLI: March 10 2006 06:25:11 - Adding primary partition 4 from 77074435 to 78139395 GLI: March 10 2006 06:25:12 - Formatting partition 4 as linux-swap with: mkswap /dev/hda4 GLI: March 10 2006 06:25:17 - Mounted mountpoint: / GLI: March 10 2006 06:25:18 - Created mountpoint /boot GLI: March 10 2006 06:25:18 - Mounted mountpoint: /boot GLI: March 10 2006 06:25:18 - Created mountpoint /home GLI: March 10 2006 06:25:18 - Mounted mountpoint: /home GLI: March 10 2006 06:25:19 - Fetching and unpacking tarball: http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/2006.0/stages/stage3-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2 GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:43 - http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/2006.0/stages/stage3-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2 was fetched and unpacked. GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:52 - fstab configured. GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:53 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/rc.conf GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:53 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/clock GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:53 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/keymaps GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:53 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:53 - Config files updated using etc-update. make.conf/fstab/rc.conf restored. GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:53 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:53 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:53 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:53 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:53 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:53 - Make.conf configured GLI: March 10 2006 06:33:55 - Chroot environment ready. GLI: March 10 2006 06:58:33 - Portage tree sync'd GLI: March 10 2006 06:58:36 - Root Password set on the new system. GLI: March 10 2006 06:58:37 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/clock GLI: March 10 2006 06:58:37 - Timezone set. GLI: March 10 2006 06:58:37 - Starting emerge_kernel GLI: March 10 2006 08:50:50 - Exception received during 'Emerge kernel sources': EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge: Could not emerge x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6! GLI: March 10 2006 08:50:50 - Traceback (most recent call last): GLI: March 10 2006 08:50:50 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 165, in run self._install_steps[self._install_step]['function']() GLI: March 10 2006 08:50:50 - File "/opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 662, in emerge_kernel_sources exitstatus = self._portage.emerge(kernel_pkg) GLI: March 10 2006 08:50:50 - File "/opt/installer/GLIPortage.py", line 222, in emerge raise GLIException("EmergePackageError", "fatal", "emerge", "Could not emerge " + pkg + "!") GLI: March 10 2006 08:50:50 - GLIException: EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge: Could not emerge x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6! ----------------------------------------- Also here is my installprofile.xml file: <?xml version="1.0" ?> <gli-profile> <kernel-build-method> genkernel </kernel-build-method> <cron-daemon> vixie-cron </cron-daemon> <domainname> localdomain </domainname> <portage-snapshot> file:///mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20060123.tar.bz2 </portage-snapshot> <kernel-source> gentoo-sources </kernel-source> <install-pcmcia-cs> False </install-pcmcia-cs> <time-zone> America/New_York </time-zone> <install-distcc> False </install-distcc> <boot-device> /dev/hda </boot-device> <dynamic-stage3> False </dynamic-stage3> <kernel-bootsplash> False </kernel-bootsplash> <bootloader-mbr> True </bootloader-mbr> <hostname> fox </hostname> <bootloader-kernel-args/> <post-install-script-uri/> <nisdomainname/> <install-stage> 3 </install-stage> <ftp-proxy/> <rsync-proxy/> <stage-tarball> http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/2006.0/stages/stage3-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2 </stage-tarball> <bootloader> grub </bootloader> <root-pass-hash> $1$2YKkHMmt$IBnlK7NPReidyHhIHi5LC/ </root-pass-hash> <http-proxy/> <mta/> <grp-install> False </grp-install> <logging-daemon> syslog-ng </logging-daemon> <kernel-config/> <portage-tree-sync> sync </portage-tree-sync> <kernel-initrd> True </kernel-initrd> <install-rp-pppoe> False </install-rp-pppoe> <install-packages> kde xorg-x11 xpdf netcat samba cups ethereal ntp mozilla-firefox xmms bittorrent xine-ui realplayer openoffice gftp evolution mplayer gaim mozilla-thunderbird vlc gimp inkscape </install-packages> <network-interfaces> <device ip="dhcp" options=""> eth0 </device> </network-interfaces> <network-mounts/> <partitions> <device devnode="/dev/hda" disklabel="msdos"> <partition format="True" mb="100" minor="1" mkfsopts="" mountopts="defaults" mountpoint="/boot" origminor="0" resized="False" type="ext2"/> <partition format="True" mb="15000" minor="2" mkfsopts="" mountopts="defaults" mountpoint="/" origminor="0" resized="False" type="ext3"/> <partition format="True" mb="22534" minor="3" mkfsopts="" mountopts="defaults" mountpoint="/home" origminor="0" resized="False" type="ext3"/> <partition format="True" mb="520" minor="4" mkfsopts="" mountopts="" mountpoint="" origminor="0" resized="False" type="linux-swap"/> </device> </partitions> <services> alsasound,xdm,hdparm </services> <users> <user comment="" groups="audio,cdrom,floppy,games,usb,plugdev,video,wheel" hash="$1$11aEjiOK$yCRvlz8ZRa9pAdo/j79PV/" homedir="/home/case" shell="/bin/bash"> case </user> </users> <etc-files> <file name="rc.conf"> <entry name="DISPLAYMANAGER"> kdm </entry> <entry name="EDITOR"> /bin/nano </entry> </file> <file name="conf.d/keymaps"> <entry name="SET_WINDOWSKEYS"> Yes </entry> </file> <file name="make.conf"> <entry name="MAKEOPTS"/> <entry name="USE"> 16bit 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac acpi aim alsa amd amrr amuled aotuv apache2 apm applet aqua aqua_theme arts -artswrappersuid artworkextra asf asm async atlas -audacious audiofile automount avi bash-completion -bashlogger berkdb bigpatch bitmap-fonts bittorrent bl blender-game bmp bmpx bzip2 c++ c3p0 calendar carbone_theme cardbus ccache cdda cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi chroot clamd cli corba -coreaudio -cpudetection crypt css ctype cups dba dbus -dbx -dedicated devfs26 dga doc -double-precision dpms dvd dvdread edl eds elibc_glibc emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode esd ethereal evolution exif expat fam -fastbuild fat fax -ffcall ffmpeg firefox font-server fontconfig foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran -fping ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glut gmail gmailtimestamps gmp gnome gnome-print gnustep gpm gsm gstreamer gtalk gtk gtk2 gtkhtml gtkspell guile gzip hal html http -ibam icc id3 idn ieee1394 imlib ipv6 ipv6arpa j2ee jabber java -java-internal javacomm javascript jboss jce jcs -jfs jikes john joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k jumpplay kde kernel_linux kqemu lame lcd lcms lesstif libclamav libg++ libwww mad madwifi math memlimit mikmod mime mixer mjpeg mmx -mmxext mng mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mythtv nautilus ncurses nls nptl ntfs ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pda pdf pdflib -pdo perl php player png pnp posix python qemu-fast qt quicktime rar -rcu readline real rplay samba sametime -sblive scanner sdl session sftp simplexml slang soap sockets spell spl sse sse-filters -sse2 ssl subtitles sysfs tcltk tcpd thumbnail tiff tokenizer tomsfastmath transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU -v4l vcd vcdimager vfat vorbis wifi win32codecs winbind wma wma123 wmf wv x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xsl xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib </entry> <entry name="FEATURES"> ccache </entry> <entry name="ACCEPT_KEYWORDS"> x86 </entry> <entry name="CHOST"> i686-pc-linux-gnu </entry> <entry name="CFLAGS"> -march=pentium3 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer </entry> </file> <file name="conf.d/clock"> <entry name="CLOCK"> local </entry> </file> </etc-files> </gli-profile> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I do hope that I supplied enough information to be of help. Also if this is a known bug, then please accept my apology for resubmitting it. I did do a search for this type of bug, but I could not find it. Thank You Kevin Cox
We need actual build errors (see output tab and /tmp/compile_output.log
