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Bug 219027

Summary: 2008.0 beta1 LiveDVD - installation is failed after patitioning (could not execute pkg_setup ... )
Product: Gentoo Release Media Reporter: Boko85 <boko85vn>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Gentoo Linux Installer <gli-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Description Boko85 2008-04-23 13:45:53 UTC
I used VMWare Server when I was trying to install Gentoo 2008.0 (using LiveDVD). 
After the partitioning, an error was occurred.
The details is showed below...


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Partition
2. Setup mount points
3.

Actual Results:  
# cat /var/log/install.log.failed 
GLI: April 23 2008 20:19:13 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.6.3
GLI: April 23 2008 20:19:14 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.6.3
GLI: April 23 2008 20:19:41 - Mounted mountpoint: /
GLI: April 23 2008 20:19:41 - Created mountpoint /boot
GLI: April 23 2008 20:19:41 - Mounted mountpoint: /boot
GLI: April 23 2008 20:20:22 - Exception received during 'Unpack stage tarball': CopyPackageToChrootError :FATAL: copy_pkg_to_chroot: Could not execute pkg_setup for sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4
GLI: April 23 2008 20:20:22 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: April 23 2008 20:20:22 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 122, in run
    func()
GLI: April 23 2008 20:20:22 - File "/opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 414, in unpack_stage_tarball
    self._portage.copy_pkg_to_chroot(pkg, True, ignore_missing=True)
GLI: April 23 2008 20:20:22 - File "/opt/installer/GLIPortage.py", line 222,
Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-23 13:48:01 UTC
Please attach /tmp/compile_output.log
Comment 2 Boko85 2008-04-24 01:53:06 UTC
I fixed it.

Using Virtual CD/DVD Drive is better than using ISO Mounter of VM Ware.