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Bug 15445 - emerge of mirrorselect fails during stage 1 bootstrap
Summary: emerge of mirrorselect fails during stage 1 bootstrap
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Gentoo Linux x86 Installation Guide (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED)
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: 15453 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2003-02-10 12:59 UTC by Rick Jenkins
Modified: 2003-10-14 13:59 UTC (History)
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Description Rick Jenkins 2003-02-10 12:59:44 UTC 
In the install direction we see:

 Code listing 11.2: Emerging mirrorselect

# emerge mirrorselect
// Simply run mirrorselect after emerging it, as it uses a nice GUI interface
# mirrorselect


So I did all that and failed with:

  !!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1 failed.
  !!! Function econf, Line 11, Exit code 1
  !!! econf failed


Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow the install script on a virgin system.
2. Unpack the stage 1 tarball from the livecd
3. Emerge sync to obtain portage-2.0.46-r12
4. follow instructions in Code Listing 11.2 of the web installation instructions.

Actual Results:  
See details above. It would be wonderful if a screen log was maintained
throughout the install process (perhaps with tee), so much useful stuff scrolls
off the screen.
Comment 1 Rick Jenkins 2003-02-10 15:08:14 UTC 
After completion of stage 1 it is possible to emerge and run mirrorselect. It leaves GENTOO_MIRRORS completely unreadable, but apparently functional. Is this its usual behaviour?
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-02-10 15:11:03 UTC 
your error with ncurses cannot be helped unless you post the actual error that the 
configure displayed
Comment 3 Rick Jenkins 2003-02-10 15:17:06 UTC 
Unfortunately, there was nothing left on the screen except the three !!! lines I typed. We really need a screen log. I'm way past that stage now, having completed stage 1 and into stage 2, so I can't reproduce the error. I'll try again on my next stage 1 install.
Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-02-10 15:38:53 UTC 
ok, well if you can provide more info we'll be glad to help :) 
 
till then, we shall nuke this bug
Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-02-10 15:41:09 UTC 
actually, this is an issue with documentation ... 
at stage1, you cannot emerge anything ... you have to bootstrap first ...
Comment 6 Rick Jenkins 2003-02-10 15:47:28 UTC 
So perhaps we need mirrorselect on the stage 1 CD ready for use.

By the way, I had to remove the unreadable multiline text which mirrorselect put in my make.conf and revert to my hand-written mirror selection list before stage 2 would run very far.
Comment 7 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-02-11 10:03:29 UTC 
Yeah, mirrorselect should be included on the livecd. As for the documentation, it is in the wrong place, and I will move it to after the stage installs. But, for this to work correctly, it should be on the livecd.
Comment 8 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-02-14 02:52:30 UTC 
I will fix this.
Comment 9 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-02-15 16:24:25 UTC 
well, due to problems with mirrorselect, it has been removed from the install guide, so this bug is no longer valid.
Comment 10 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-14 13:59:46 UTC 
db issue
Comment 11 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-14 13:59:53 UTC 
*** Bug 15453 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***