Bug 40625 – Critical error generated when un-taring stage3 image - "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Don Meyett 2004-02-06 11:05:25 UTC]

I got to phase 5 when I received this error message. I successfully mounted the directories and began to untar the stage3 image when it stopped at this error message. It finished processing the ./root/, ./root/.keep, ./root/.ccache/ and then it puked.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Followed all of the instructions up to stage 5 for x86 LiveCD install.
2.
3.



Expected Results:  
Continued to untar the stage3 image.

[Comment 1 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-02-06 11:27:06 UTC]

What version of the stage did you choose - was it a stable 1.4 stage or an experimental stage? If it was an experimental stage, what's the datestamp of it ?

[Comment 2 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-02-06 11:28:21 UTC]

Have you tried to continue the install?

[Comment 3 Don Meyett 2004-02-06 11:53:34 UTC]

The next command I ran was "df" to see if the error may have been generated due to the HD being full. The install froze at that point and I had to reboot. At this time, I started over with the same result. I did not attempt to continue the install.

This is where I downloaded the images: http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd/x86/
The image files that I have are the exact same that are still posted on the site above.

[Comment 4 Don Meyett 2004-02-06 13:23:56 UTC]

I may have found my problem in this bug posting:
Bugzilla Bug 10295

I'll try to wipe the disk and repartition with FDISK again and let you know what happens.

[Comment 5 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 23:01:05 UTC]

those 1.4 stages are deprecated, please use the 2004.0 stages.

[Comment 6 Jean-François Gagnon Laporte 2004-05-05 09:40:43 UTC]

I have the same problem but with stage 2004.0 and 2004.1. They were stage3 tarballs for Athlon XP.

It happens when i untar it and my partitions are not in a big block. Here is the log :

tar: ./usr/share/terminfo/v/vt100-am: Cannot hard link to `./etc/terminfo/v/vt100': No such file or directory
tar: ./usr/share/terminfo/v/vt200: Cannot hard link to `./etc/terminfo/v/vt220': No such file or directory
tar: ./usr/share/terminfo/s/sun1: Cannot hard link to `./etc/terminfo/s/sun': No such file or directory
tar: ./usr/share/terminfo/s/sun2: Cannot hard link to `./etc/terminfo/s/sun': No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

here is the layout of my disks :
/boot /dev/hda1
swap  /dev/hda2
/     /dev/hda4
/usr  /dev/lvm/usr
/var  /dev/lvm/var
/home ...
/opt  ...
/tmp  ...

I use lvm2 by the way. Could you reopen the bug please ?

[Comment 7 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-05-05 10:45:20 UTC]

reopened

[Comment 8 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-05-05 10:45:35 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41886 ***

[Comment 9 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:24:55 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.