Message while installing portage: >>> Install portage-2.1.2.9 into /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.9/image/ category sys-apps * * Portage does not have an arch-specific configuration for this arch. * Please notify the arch maintainer about this issue. Using generic. * >>> Completed installing portage-2.1.2.9 into /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.9/image/ My emerge --info: Portage 2.1.2.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-viper2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-viper2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:30:08 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.32 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17.50.0.16 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -frename-registers -fweb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funit-at-a-time -freorder-blocks -fno-ident -fmerge-all-constants -combine" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -frename-registers -fweb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funit-at-a-time -freorder-blocks -fno-ident -fmerge-all-constants -combine -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="en_US sv en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/conrad /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi addbookmarks alsa bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dga divx dri dts dvd dvdread encode exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomatic foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gmedia gmp gpm hal history iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 irc isdnlog java javascript jbig jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos latex lcms ldap libg++ lm_sensors mad matroska midi mikmod mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap musepack musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl pertty php png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real realmedia reflection scanner session snmp speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl statistics svg svga tcpd tetex texteffects theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vcd verbose vidix vorbis wavpack win32codecs winpopup wmf wmp x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xine xml xorg xpm xprint xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US sv en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Attach the output of `emerge --info -v` please.
Created attachment 120888 [details] My emerge --info -v
<snip> ARCH="pentium4" </snip> Who told you that you should override ARCH with nonsensical values?
INVALID.
Thanks for solving this issue for me. I got the idea from Conrads install method: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-549935-highlight-conrad.html I will point this out to him.
