Bug 30496 – When I try emerge -p system, i get various corrupt ebuilds(varries which one), emerge system never finishes

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description jayson 2003-10-06 11:01:25 UTC]

everything goes fine on the install until i have to do emerge -p system and 
emerge system(stage 2), i tried stage 3 but the kernel would never compile so 
i thought i'd try stage 2. emerge system will never finish, doesnt get past 
the first 5 or so ebuilds.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -p system
2.emerge system
3.

Actual Results:  
emerge system runs for a while, then it will either just hang, exit to # or 
tell me there is an error(and to report it), also error with eth0, cannot 
write to BAP(does that while downloading ebuilds).it'll be downloading and 
that error message will scroll about 5 times then it will resume(wireless was 
fine with windows)

Expected Results:  
finished emerging ebuilds.

i dont want to go back to windoze :( i just want gentoo to install

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-10-06 11:29:11 UTC]

what if you `emerge sync` and try again

[Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-10-07 03:18:49 UTC]

do you have enough free diskspace and ram ?
do you have activated swap ?

[Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-10-12 16:08:36 UTC]

did you try memtest, cpuburn ?
seems to be a hardware issue

[Comment 4 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-12-24 12:13:15 UTC]

Needed info, too old now.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2004-02-25 22:48:59 UTC]

ended up being a hardware failure (motherboard short)