When trying to emerge ut2004, I first stumbled when asked to accept the license agreement: as soon as I quit the "less" viewer, emerge told me that I had declined it and therefore the installation will be quit. I commented the appropriate line out of the ebuild file in order to continue the installation. Yet the problems lasted: the "insert next CD" prompt did not wait for a key to be pressed, but just printed out the "Insert next CD" message in an endless loop therefore filling up the whole screen. Yet installing worked somewhat as it recognized when the CD-Rom drive was mounted. The last error was partly due to a mistake of mine: instead of inserting the 5th CD, as the installer demanded I put in the 6th CD. It did not show any warning and started copying files. When finished, it asked me for the 6th CD. Now it _really_ wanted the 6th CD, trying to fool emerge with inserting the 5th CD failed. So I inserted the 6th CD (again), and it copied files. However, the game was unplayable (immediately crashed when started up), for which I blame the missing files from CD5. Therefore I had to unmerge and re-emerge, which lasted one whole hour: I was really pretty pissed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See above Actual Results: Game crash. Expected Results: Game works. Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/mirrors/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Are you sure you don't have a key stuck on your keyboard? I'm serious. Nobody else has experienced any problems with the prompting, so I'm just at a loss. After all, unless you typed a WHOLE BUNCH of stuff to quit less, the ebuild should wait for a read at each prompt for the CD and also to accept the license. When you remerged the ebuild, did it do the same thing? What kind of keyboard do you have? I'm going to guess German. Would there be anything in your keymap that could be causing a problem?
Hi, first: thanks for the quick reply. About the keyboard thing: yes, I'm using a German keyboard, yet I do not have stuck keys (I pressed every single one about 3 or 4 times to verify they're not stuck, the installation routine behaved the same way, I just checked it again). Also, other read routines do just fine ('read -n 1 key' or something works perfectly, so does the bash input or gnome-terminal). And, yes, when I reinstalled the game, it also behaved the same way: -- Start of endless output * Please insert cd #2 for ut2004 now ! * Press return to scan for the cd again * or hit CTRL+C to abort the emerge. --- End of endless output Yet I do think it might have to do something with my (I'm serious) wireless LAN driver. As I have a Centrino processor I'm using the ipw2100 (ipw2100.sourceforge.net) to get the Intel Pro Wireless WiFi Card to work. There has been a report that strange things happen to the keyboard --- Quote Crazy Keyboard when switching to Monitor mode [...] Users have reported that failure do to so frequently does strange things with the keyboard. --- Quote However, I'm _not_ using the monitor mode of the wireless LAN card. In order to get wireless networking working on this Acer Laptop, I also need to use the acerhk driver which also is in a very experimental stage. Therefore, if no other users report any similar errors, I suspect the problem being somewhere in there. Removing all modules did not change anything, yet I might need to shut down the system and ensure none of the drivers get loaded at all (there might be some code still left after removing the modules). I'll investigate in that direction and post here again after I know more. Greetings, Joe
what if you run `read` at a prompt ? does it return immediatly ? sounds like the `read` in each case isnt pausing
Did you ever try booting the machine without the Centrino driver? What were the results?
REOPEN if you have more information, otherwise there's little I can do.
Hi, sorry I didn't reply for such a long time, I rarely check the mail address I use on this bugzilla. However, I do not have any more information to contribute... 1. read works fine from command line 2. The emerge did the same even without the Centrino driver 3. I used the binary install from the CDs Guess its just something about my computer, don't know... Thanks for your help! Greetings, Joe
Hrrmn... I guess I'll have to keep looking into it. Thanks for replying back.
maybe portage / terminal reading / etc... combo is throwing this out of whack what if we just switch the read to a 'sleep 10' and call it a day ?
What I don't understand is how it works for most people, including myself. What could possibly be causing it to not work when being called from portage?
Have you tried any of the newer versions of the ebuild? We're on 3339 now.
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No reply. Closing.
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