Bug 33173 – bootstrapping fails: "emerge: please tell me what to do."

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Timo Boettcher 2003-11-10 14:31:35 UTC]

bootstrapping fails with emerge not knowing what to do

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
wget ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/releases/x86/1.
4/stages/x86/stage1-x86-20030910.tar.bz2
wget ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/releases/x86/1.
4/stages/x86/stage1-x86-20030910.tar.bz2
tar xjpf stage1-x86-20030910.tar.bz2
cp /etc/resolv.conf etc/
mount -o bind /proc proc/
chroot .
emerge sync
...
...
...
...
server / # env-update
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
server / # source /etc/profile
server / # cd /usr/portage/
server portage # scripts/bootstrap.sh

Actual Results:  


Bootstrap fails

server 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 ...

cat: /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages: No such file or directory
cat: /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages: No such file or directory
cat: /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages: No such file or directory
cat: /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages: No such file or directory
cat: /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages: No such file or directory
cat: /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages: No such file or directory
cat: /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages: No such file or directory
cat: /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages: No such file or directory
cat: /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages: No such file or directory
Using
Using
Using
Using
Using sys-devel/gettext
Using
Using
Using
Using

Configuring environment...
emerge: please tell me what to do.


Usage:
   emerge [ options ] [ action ] [ ebuildfile | tbz2file | dependency ] [ ... ]
   emerge [ options ] [ action ] < system | world >
   emerge < sync | info >
   emerge --resume [--pretend | --skipfirst]
   emerge help [ system | config | sync ]
Options: -[bcCdDefhikKlnoOpPsSuUvV] [--oneshot] [--noconfmem]
                                     [--columns] [--nospinner]
Actions: [ clean | depclean | inject | prune | regen | search | unmerge ]
 
 
server test # 

Expected Results:  
bootstrap

server / # emerge info
!!! No gcc found. You probably need to 'source /etc/profile' to update
!!! the environment of this terminal and possibly other terminals also.

Portage 2.0.49-r4 (default-x86-1.4, [unavailable], glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config 
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.
utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/gentoo "
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.example.com/gentoo-portage"
USE="nls"

server / #

rsync.example.com is my mirror of rsync.de.gentoo.org

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-11-10 14:38:27 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33172 ***