Bug 79810 – Bootstrap falure during stage 1 Install: multiple missing files

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description John (EBo) David 2005-01-28 00:10:22 UTC]

Bootstrap fails during install due to not being able to locate unzip550.tar.gz

Further examination reveiled that I could not locate/download any of the following files:

  unzip550.tar.gz
  j2sdk-1_4_2-doc.zip
  db-4.1.25.tar.gz
  db1.85.tar.gz
  fontconfig-2.2.3.tar.gz
  rsync-2.5.6-proxy-auth.patch
  shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2

Reproducable: 

always -- follow best understanding of install document to boostrap

Quick fix: 

search net for specifc files and download into /usr/portage/distfiles

Other details:

P-III/850MHz 256M-Ram with connection via DSL modem.  I am using another machine to report the bug and do not have ready access to the make.conf and other specific configuration information (such as mirror list).  Will post a followup with this information later if desired.



  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install on a clean machine using 2004.3-r1 minimal install
2. follow install directions to "bootstrap" section
3. use "emerge -f system" to find all the other files currently not located.

Actual Results:  

bootstrap dies while trying to build unzip550

Expected Results:  

bootstrap to suceed

[Comment 1 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2005-01-28 02:34:12 UTC]

Well, we provide the installation media, but we can't do anything about broken ebuilds or missing files on the mirrors - reassigning to bug-wranglers.

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-01-28 05:32:29 UTC]

Did you try to "emerge sync" again?

[Comment 3 John (EBo) David 2005-01-28 06:32:33 UTC]

re: missing files...  

Understand.  I only reported to the install because it happend during the install, thanks for your patience.

re: sync...

The instructions read to do a "emerge --sync", but I did not try it a senond time after doing it the first.  It appears that I have found all the files (thank you Google), so there is no need at this point.  If it breaks again I will re- sync the system and try again.

More on the files and their sizes:

Another issue is that the j2sdk-1_4_2-doc.zip file actually has at least two incarnations.  The first time I hand downloaded a version it was about 2MB to large.  I am currently downloading one that should be the correct one.  While running around on Google, I found that there are appearently a 1.4.2_01 and 1.4.2_02 version floating around.  Appearently they both were saved to 1_4_2-doc.zip

[Comment 4 John (EBo) David 2005-01-29 05:26:32 UTC]

While the machine in queestion is still bootstraping, etc. I thoutgt I would post quick a followup.

After playing with the problem a little I discovered that the missing file issue was caused by the settings of GENTOO_MIRRORS (appended to /etc/make.conf as per installation instructions).  As soon as I commented out that variable boostraping and emerging the system is working as expected.  It appears that distfiles.gentoo.org is called used as a fallback measure.  In addition I have some information on circular dependencies and other build weirdnesses that I have so far worked around.

As soon as the machine is up enough to copy/paste the emerge info results I will post more details and write new bug reports for the portage/mirrors group.

[Comment 5 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2005-01-29 16:01:13 UTC]

Please put any mirror bugs in their own bug.

Circular dependencies are normally a problem for one ebuild so please don't assign to the portage group.

Please put comment 3, the info about j2sdk, in its own bug report.

Seems as though your GENTOO_MIRRORS setting was invalid.

[Comment 6 John (EBo) David 2005-01-29 19:39:20 UTC]

agreed that the problem is a GENTOO_MIRRORS problem.

Will post minor bugs in separate reports as well as reporting j2dsk file size problem.  Will also ignore circular dependencies.

When I originally reported I though these issues were related to some problem with the portage tree or USE flags.