I'm really frustrated. I'm trying to follow the handbook as closely as possible but I can't get past emerge --emptytree system (and it takes several hours for each attempt, sigh...) during installation on a pentium4... emerge --emptytree system results in: !!! ERROR: media-libs/svgalib-1.9.19-r3 failed !!! Function kernel_mod_configuration_builtin, line 114, Exitcode 1 !!! kernel has not been configured yet !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message Sorry about posting the status message but there doesn't seem to be any build attempted so there is no "topmost build error" to report instead. Am I missing something stupid? If it matters, my CFLAGS are pretty tweaked but I think this appears to be a kernel dependency issue and not a CFLAGS thing... though it could be a USE item. FLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -fpic -O3 -pipe -s -falign-jumps=5 -falign-loops=5 -falign-functions=64 -mmmx -msse -msse2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="-j2" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.netnitco.net" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="-3dfx -3dnow X a52 aac acpi alsa -altivec apache2 -apm arts avi bash-completion -bluetooth bzlib cdparanoia cdr cups divx4linux doc dvd dvdr dvdread emacs encode ethereal exif ffmpeg flac gif glut -gnome -gtk -gtk2 ieee1394 imagemagick imap innodb java javascript jpeg kde mbox mime mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mule mysql mysqli nocd offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl -pcmcia perl php png posix qt quicktime samba spell sse sysvipc tetex threads tiff truetype usb v4l vcd vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib" I hope somebody knows how to fix this. I would also appreciate it if somebody could tell me how to re-emerge this stage without having to do everything up to svgalib all over again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do a stage 1 install with the 20050520 snapshot 2. (possibly use the make.conf file in problem description) 3. Actual Results: Crash as described. Can't continue install. Expected Results: expected to complete fine and move on to kernel configuration. Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 22 2005, 03:52:51)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -fpic -O3 -pipe -s -falign-jumps=5 -falign-loops=5 -falign-functions=64 -mmmx -msse -msse2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -fpic -O3 -pipe -s -falign-jumps=5 -falign-loops=5 -falign-functions=64 -mmmx -msse -msse2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.netnitco.net" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdparanoia cdr crypt cups divx4linux doc dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode ethereal exif ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gpm ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 java javascript jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod mime mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mule mysql mysqli ncurses nls nocd offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png posix python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse ssl svga sysvipc tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l vcd vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNUkernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
As the error message says, you need to configure kernel first to emerge svgalib. I
As the error message says, you need to configure kernel first to emerge svgalib. I´d suggest adding -svga to your USE flags and 'emerge --resume --emptytree system'. You can re-enable it after you have finished install and configured your kernel and run 'emerge --newuse -av world', which should emerge svgalib and recompiled all packages that use svgalib. @vapier: why is this USE flag on by default? It´s causing a lot of problems when installing Gentoo. :/
Thanks! I will add -svga to my flags and try again. I also tried to just continue by doing "emerge system" and it did continue without svgalib (maybe it thinks svgalib installed itself.) Anyhow, it crashed on samba this time due to no pam headers (I'm guessing that's another kernel issue.) May I make one suggestion: Why is all of this being installed at this early stage?? My guess is that I'm going to -svga -samba and try again and it will crash on yet something else that I don't need for booting. My suggestion: emerge system should install *only* the minimal stuff needed to support a kernel build and a reboot. Everything else that a user might want (svgalib, samba, X, etc.) Should be emerged in later by the user once the system is minimally up. (Basically: couldn't the flags for the system metapackage be the absolute minimum?)
like Jakub said, the error message is pretty self explanatory
Yes, I can, and do, read the error messages. My problem is that this is happening during an *install*. And as Jakub pointed out... svga is causing this problem a lot. Not just for me, but for lots of people. The kernel configuration is the *next* step in the install process. By telling me that the error is "self explanatory" you are ignoring the problem. Yes, the error described why svgalib failed. I read that as well and I also went through as many webpages and bug pages that I could find related to the issue before placing this bug. The problem is that no attempt should even have been made to emerge svgalib at that time because you *know* the kernel is configured yet. I'm not sure why this bug got marked INVALID. It certainly stopped me from installing and *I* had to make a repair to get past the problem. Several in fact because it happened again with samba as I pointed out. Again... Why in the world is an attempt being made to install samba during the initial install. It has taken me a very long time to get to a bootable system (three days in fact) because of only these install problems. So again... I would appreciate an answer as to why "emerge system" brings in extra-functionality packages that are not intrisically necessary to the installation and initial reboot process? I'll leave the bug resolved but I hope somebody can answer that question.
crud, bad typo... "because you know the kernel is [not] configured yet".
svga removed from default USE flags
*** Bug 102873 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
