Bug 138796 – Crashes on Stage 3 emerge with extra pkgs

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Michael R. Lawrence 2006-07-01 19:23:42 UTC]

even if url fetch for portage and stages it crashes    

  also much to my annoyance 2005.--->Nuked do to
unlike redhat or like no Upgrade options or emerge gentoo-2006 to quickly a. set profile and Force ye-olde-stale-pkgs to upgrade 

Fortunaly it works nicely to use chroot /tty download stages and portage and manuly setup 
edit configs use webbrowser to update make.conf or package.use and if you set portage niceness it can let you browse etc while compiles are going 

  emerge <---anoyance no --forceupgr option < X11 etc 6.x blocks xorg.newer version --prue --depclean --clean --unmerge is all worthless 

otherthings would have been nice to get HW-info and --> modules (redhat kudzu)
 so onload etc or a modutils utill to select n set modules and opt modules >>/<chroot>//etc/modules.x (etc)

[Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-07-01 21:40:53 UTC]

I'm going to attempt to reply to this, even though I don't really understand half of what you said. Next time you file a bug, please use something a bit closer to proper English. Also, I assume that this is about the installer.

> even if url fetch for portage and stages it crashes    

No clue what you're talking about here.

>   also much to my annoyance 2005.--->Nuked do to
> unlike redhat or like no Upgrade options or emerge gentoo-2006 to quickly a.
> set profile and Force ye-olde-stale-pkgs to upgrade 

That's not the purpose of the installer. Use 'emerge -uDN world' to upgrade your system like everyone else.

> Fortunaly it works nicely to use chroot /tty download stages and portage and
> manuly setup 
> edit configs use webbrowser to update make.conf or package.use and if you set
> portage niceness it can let you browse etc while compiles are going 

Uhh, using a web browser to edit make.conf? What?

>   emerge <---anoyance no --forceupgr option < X11 etc 6.x blocks xorg.newer
> version --prue --depclean --clean --unmerge is all worthless 

There's a reason the blocks are there. Perhaps you should learn how to use portage properly.

> otherthings would have been nice to get HW-info and --> modules (redhat kudzu)
>  so onload etc or a modutils utill to select n set modules and opt modules
> >>/<chroot>//etc/modules.x (etc)

Gentoo doesn't hold your hand. If you use livecd-kernel (or really any of the kernel options), it will give you a kernel with an initramfs that tries to load a bunch of modules for you. It will also add coldplug to the default runlevel to load any additional modules that you might need. If this isn't good enough for you, build your own kernel after reboot.

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-07-02 06:47:16 UTC]

If this isn't an installer thing, feel free to bounce it back, but I can't really tell, either.

[Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-08-03 18:56:17 UTC]

Feel free to reopen when you can put together a coherent sentence.