I have been following the excellent install guide as carefully as I could. I am doing a stage3 install on this hardware: XP2000+ 512mb ram 2 x 80gb disks on a Promise 20276 ATA133 RAID in 2+0 stripe mode Motherboard is an Asus A7V333 I am aiming for a dual-boot config with w2k. Everything was as expected until I did emerge -u world The XFree build spams error messages like this: The message I get from XFree is: ACCESS DENIED chown /var/cache/edb ACCESS DENIED chown /var/cache/edb/dep ACCESS DENIED chown /var/cache/edb/dep/mtimedb and it seems to be comming from the line 20 in atexit.py If I let the build run to the end I get about four pages of the above message, a red line and three beeps. I'll see if I can find a way of attaching the emerge info output from the lynx browser, so I wont have to handcopy everything into this window.
Damn lynx - file upload is not implemented :( System uname: 2.4.20-xfs_pre2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2000+ USE="arts crypt bups libwww mikmod oggvorbis pdflib zlib gdbm berkdb tcpd pam - 3dfx 3dnow acpi alsa apache2 apm avi cdr dga encode -esd fbcon gif -gb gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imap ncurses nls odbc -opengl oss -pcmcia -pda -perl png - pnp postgres python -qt -qtmt quicktime readline rybe samba sdl slang spell - sse ssl svga tcltk -tetex truetype -trusted -voodoo3 -wavelan wmf X xml2 xml xmms xv zeo x86 -ppc -sparc -sparc64 -alpha" ARCH="x86" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS=Stolen from http://www.freehackers.org/gentoo/gccflags/flag_gcc3opt.html last box of the page. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/cpntrol /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi g /usr/kde/3/share/config"CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" MAKEOPTS="-j2" JDK_HOME="" JAVA_HOME="" AUTOCLEAN="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" GENTOO_MIRRORS="gentoo.linux.no" Basically I want a system without KDE, enlightenment, PCMCIA and other hardware i dont own. I want stuff like Gnome, X and Java enabled. After a search on the forum the only thing I found was a hint that turning off opengl might help. No difference.
Ok, I think I might have figured out what was wrong. I failed to unpack the stages correctly from the CD. Following the instructions to: Code listing 9.1: Unpacking the Stages # cd /mnt/gentoo # tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/stage?-*.tbz2 # mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc # cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf Doesn't work. I get errors from tar saying that the files does not exist in the archive -- even though they do exists Trying: # tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/stage?-*.tbz2 . didn't make it any better I then copied the stage3 to /mnt/gentoo and untared it there and moved on. That was my mistake. I should have copied all three stage files to /mnt/gentoo and run: # tar -xvjpf on each of them. I think you should update the install guide to be more detailed on this point and what to do if it fails. A saw another guy run into it at IRC yesterday - so I am not the only one. I am still just about to configure the kernel, so I don't know yet if all is good, but the emerge sync, emerge -up world, emerge -u world went smooth. You should still update the docs before closing this bug though.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13013 ***
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.
