Hello, I have P4 here, on which I decided to put gentoo now.. I have gone through the installation manual once again, emerged sync, edited make.conf as usual but when I bootstrap, everything fails right at the start: cdimage portage # scripts/bootstrap.sh Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/ Copyright 2001-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL Starting Bootstrap of base system ... Using >=sys-apps/baselayout-1.7.9-r1 Using >=sys-apps/portage-2.0.25 Using >=sys-devel/binutils-2.13.90.0.4 Using >=sys-devel/gcc-3.2 Using Using >=sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5 Using >=sys-apps/texinfo-4.2-r1 Using sys-libs/zlib Using >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2.20020112a Configuring environment... Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy ">=sys-apps/portage-2.0.25". cdimage portage # Although, if search for portage, it finds that one: * sys-apps/portage Latest version available: 2.0.48-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 191 kB Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org Description: Portage ports system Which is not masked of course. Anyone had the same type of problem before? I have installed gentoo on 4 others PCs in the LAN, and none of them failed. So perhaps that's the problem of portage? regards, Mikhail. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. check latest portage 2. try bootstraping 3. Actual Results: stage1,2,3 failed right at the start Expected Results: bootstrap system for stage1 cdimage portage # emerge info portage: Update type "robbat2" not recognized. Portage 2.0.44 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-xfs_pre2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.50GHz USE="3dnow apm arts avi gpm imlib java jpeg kde gnome mikmod mmx motif mpeg opengl quicktime slang -alsa acl acpi berkdb crypt cups curl emacs gd gdbm gif imap innodb ipv6 jpegkerberos ldap libg++ libwww maildir mbox mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis oss pam esd pdflib perl png pnp postgres prebuilt python qt X gtk encode readline ruby samba sasl sdl snmp socks5 spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usb gtk2 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib x86" ARCH="x86" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" MAKEOPTS="-j1" JDK_HOME="" JAVA_HOME="" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://192.168.0.3/~miha http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo"
try sync again
hm. strange - I deleted /usr/portage/* and then synced again - and it worked..
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I'm getting the same on a stage 1 install. tried deleting /usr/portage/* and resyncing, but still the same issue. attempted an "emerge portage" but that crashed out with: ... checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++... gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no checking whether gcc accepts -g... no checking dependency style of gcc... none checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See `config.log' for more details. configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for autoconf-lib-link !!! ERROR: sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 273, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed that's using stage1-x86-1.4_rc4.tar.bz2 timestamped apr 11 2003, size 11,253,769 on the live cd. downloading latest 1.4 rc4 stage1, and if that doesn't help, I'll try the 2004.0 stage 1 file. ta m@
downloading the latest stage fixed this. must be a problem with the older stage's portage being slightly incompatable with the current one.
