Bug 23972 – bootstrap.sh cannot find portage, as a result stage1 fails

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Mikhail 2003-07-05 12:40:33 UTC]

Hello, 
 
I have P4 here, on which I decided to put gentoo now.. I have gone through the  
installation manual once again, emerged sync, edited make.conf as usual but  
when I bootstrap, everything fails right at the start: 
 
cdimage portage # scripts/bootstrap.sh 
 
Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/ 
Copyright 2001-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL 
Starting Bootstrap of base system ... 
 
Using >=sys-apps/baselayout-1.7.9-r1 
Using >=sys-apps/portage-2.0.25 
Using >=sys-devel/binutils-2.13.90.0.4 
Using >=sys-devel/gcc-3.2 
Using 
Using >=sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5 
Using >=sys-apps/texinfo-4.2-r1 
Using sys-libs/zlib 
Using >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2.20020112a 
 
Configuring environment... 
Calculating dependencies 
 
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy  
">=sys-apps/portage-2.0.25". 
cdimage portage # 
 
 
Although, if search for portage, it finds that one: 
 
*  sys-apps/portage 
      Latest version available: 2.0.48-r1 
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] 
      Size of downloaded files: 191 kB 
      Homepage:    http://www.gentoo.org 
      Description: Portage ports system 
 
Which is not masked of course. 
 
Anyone had the same type of problem before? I have installed gentoo on 4  
others PCs in the LAN, and none of them failed. So perhaps that's the problem  
of portage? 
 
regards, 
Mikhail. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. check latest portage 
2. try bootstraping 
3. 
Actual Results:  
stage1,2,3 failed right at the start 

Expected Results:  
bootstrap system for stage1 

cdimage portage # emerge info 
portage: Update type "robbat2" not recognized. 
Portage 2.0.44 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-xfs_pre2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.50GHz 
USE="3dnow apm arts avi gpm imlib java jpeg kde gnome mikmod mmx motif mpeg 
opengl quicktime slang -alsa acl acpi berkdb crypt cups curl emacs gd gdbm gif imap 
innodb ipv6 jpegkerberos ldap libg++ libwww maildir mbox mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis 
oss pam esd pdflib perl png pnp postgres prebuilt python qt X gtk encode readline ruby 
samba sasl sdl snmp socks5 spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usb gtk2 xml xml2 xmms 
xv zlib x86" 
ARCH="x86" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
MAKEOPTS="-j1" 
JDK_HOME="" 
JAVA_HOME="" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://192.168.0.3/~miha http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo"

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-07-06 08:34:38 UTC]

try sync again

[Comment 2 Mikhail 2003-07-06 11:31:44 UTC]

hm. strange - I deleted /usr/portage/* and then synced again - and it worked.. 

[Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-07-10 00:25:59 UTC]

closing

[Comment 4 m@ 2004-02-29 23:44:26 UTC]

I'm getting the same on a stage 1 install.  tried deleting /usr/portage/* and resyncing, but still the same issue.

attempted an "emerge portage" but that crashed out with:
...
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether gcc accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for autoconf-lib-link

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 273, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed


that's using stage1-x86-1.4_rc4.tar.bz2
timestamped apr 11 2003, size 11,253,769 on the live cd.

downloading latest 1.4 rc4 stage1, and if that doesn't help, I'll try the 2004.0 stage 1 file.

ta
m@

[Comment 5 m@ 2004-03-01 05:56:10 UTC]

downloading the latest stage fixed this.  must be a problem with the older stage's portage being slightly incompatable with the current one.