Bug 142451 – graphical installer crash: CopyPackageToChrootError :FATAL: copy_pkg_to_chroot: Could not execute preinst for sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r2

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description C Morrison 2006-08-01 11:36:19 UTC]

I've had countless problems trying to install 2006.0 on my Presario 2199US.
Doing it from the command line (verbatim) randomly shuts off the machine when extracting portage, even with acpi OFF. So I decided to use the graphical installer (not really decided as much as I was forced to), and picked the most basic options, read EVERY help file for every page of the graphical install, walking on eggshells if you will, and installed from GRP/dynamic, w/ only GRP packages, just to play it safe. I just want to get it running, being as I've spent about 7 hours trying everything I can think of. (P.S. Tried CLI front-end, that crashed too but w/o "letting me know" the error).


Here's my emerge --info:

Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP2800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imlib ipv6 jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime readline samba sdl session simplexml slang soap sockets spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml xml2 xmms xsl xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 C Morrison 2006-08-01 11:37:13 UTC]

Created attachment 93215 [details]
Installer Fail logfile

[Comment 2 C Morrison 2006-08-01 11:37:54 UTC]

Created attachment 93216 [details]
XML Install Profile

[Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-08-01 11:40:38 UTC]

If you can't install "by hand", what makes you think the installer will work any better? It shoulds like you've got some hardware issues. Try running memtest86 from the LiveCD overnight. When you are absolutely positive that it's not hardware, feel free to reopen.

[Comment 4 Preston Cody (RETIRED) 2006-08-01 13:29:43 UTC]

I would also suggest a larger /boot partition.. perhaps you ran out of disk space on it?