LiveCD 2006.1 failed with "EmergePackageError" environment: graphical installer separate partitions for boot, root, and home static ip address create 1 user Will add files 'installprofile.xml' and 'installer.log.failed' shortly.
Created attachment 99663 [details] install profile
Created attachment 99664 [details] installer log
What is the filename and MD5sum of the CD you are using? This doesn't look like an official release. There is nothing in the official code that generates the error "Could not emerge 'unknown': I need something more specific.". Are you using lxnay's RR4 LiveCD?
Lines 265 and 270 of /opt/installer/GLIPortage.py are: raise GLIException("EmergePackageError", "fatal", "emerge", "Could not emerge " + pkg + "!") When pkg has value 'unknown', this would generate the message I reported, would it not? Using links from the gentoo.org site I downloaded the 2006.1 livecd .iso and .DIGESTS files. Here are their sizes/timestamps: bash-3.00# ls -l ... 715732992 Sep 24 08:53 livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso ... 165 Sep 24 12:52 livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso.DIGESTS ### here's the DIGESTS file ### bash-3.00# cat livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso.DIGESTS # MD5 HASH f46c9bcadea4944396f6ecdd7dbf283c livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso # SHA1 HASH 18cb21944055c6e52e1e7fbe6e8ebe6226396dc9 livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso ### here're the md5sum and sha1sum verifications ### bash-3.00# md5sum -c livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso.DIGESTS livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso: OK bash-3.00# sha1sum -c livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso.DIGESTS livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso: OK
(In reply to comment #4) > Lines 265 and 270 of /opt/installer/GLIPortage.py are: > raise GLIException("EmergePackageError", "fatal", "emerge", "Could not > emerge " + pkg + "!") > > When pkg has value 'unknown', this would generate the message I reported, would > it not? If 'pkg' had the value "'unknown': I need something more specific.", then it would generate the message you got. There is nothing in the code that would pass that value for pkg. Nor is that value in your installprofile.xml. The value also is not coming from the portage output. If you're not using RR4 and you can figure out where that value is coming from, then I can do something.
Since the message is produced as the installer throws an exception and dies, it's a challenge to get further info. Given a copy of the installer modified to start pydb when its ready to throw the exception, it'd be possible to learn more. Is there a HOWTO on installing the livecd to a hard drive, and running from there?
No info indicating cause of bug, and doesn't seem like it's the installer's fault.
