Re: [gentoo-installer] emerge gives traceback during gentoo installation

[Ladislav Laska]

Hello,

I think that this is an error in ebuild. Try to sync portage tree and
emerge it again - or use another ebuild. Try tu update portage (emerge
portage) too.

If it does not helps, contact user maillist.

On 1/22/07, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Installing gentoo for the first time, starting yesterday.  I just got to
> the point of choosing the system logger as described in section 9b of
>    http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9
> and syslog-ng gives me a traceback.
>
> (chroot) lovesong etc # emerge -vp syslog-ng
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3511, in ?
>     mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist())
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1699, in display
>     myfilesdict=portage.portdb.getfetchsizes(x[2], useflags=self.applied_useflags[x[2]], debug=edebug)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5222, in getfetchsizes
>     mf = Manifest(pkgdir, self.mysettings["DISTDIR"])
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 119, in __init__
>     self._read()
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 179, in _read
>     self._readDigests(myhashdict=self.fhashdict)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 148, in _readDigests
>     myhashdict=myhashdict)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 164, in _readManifest
>     self._parseDigests(fd, myhashdict=myhashdict, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 198, in _parseDigests
>     for myentry in self._parseManifestLines(mylines):
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 184, in _parseManifestLines
>     for myline in mylines:
> IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
> (chroot) lovesong etc #
>
>
> This is the second time I issued the command.  The first time I got about
> 487 lines of output, ending with:
>
>
> >>> /usr/lib/libol.so.0 -> libol.so.0.0.0
> >>> /usr/lib/libol.la
> >>> /usr/lib/libol.so -> libol.so.0.0.0
> >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
> >>> dev-libs/libol-0.3.18 merged.
>
> >>> No packages selected for removal by clean.
>
> >>> Emerging (2 of 2) app-admin/syslog-ng-1.6.9 to /
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3545, in ?
>     mydepgraph.merge(pkglist)
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2075, in merge
>     retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,tree="porttree")
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2948, in doebuild
>     if need_distfiles and not fetch(fetchme, mysettings, listonly=listonly, fetchonly=fetchonly):
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1954, in fetch
>     mydigests = Manifest(
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 119, in __init__
>     self._read()
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 179, in _read
>     self._readDigests(myhashdict=self.fhashdict)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 148, in _readDigests
>     myhashdict=myhashdict)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 164, in _readManifest
>     self._parseDigests(fd, myhashdict=myhashdict, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 198, in _parseDigests
>     for myentry in self._parseManifestLines(mylines):
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 184, in _parseManifestLines
>     for myline in mylines:
> IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
> (chroot) lovesong etc # df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/ROOT             12389324   4263576   7496404  37% /
> (chroot) lovesong etc # mount
> /dev/ROOT on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
> (chroot) lovesong etc # ls -l /dev/ROOT
> ls: /dev/ROOT: No such file or directory
> (chroot) lovesong etc #
>
>
> Further, I'm installing this using a chroot from a Debian sarge system.
> I've encountered a few anomalies along the way, but I suspect most of them
> are cosmetic, and that some just need a documentation update.
> I don't think they are related to the tracebacks, but I mention them below
> just in case they are a clue to the deeper problem. (I planned to mention
> them in a separate letter of advice on how to avoid confusing newbies.)
>
> (1) The portage file on the mirror was called
>   portage-latest.tar.bz2.tar
> instead of
>   portage-latest.tar.bx2
>
> (2) Of course, from sarge I couldn't run mirrorselect.  So I picked a
> mirror by hand, and is seemed to work.
>
> (3) At section 7.d, where I was supposed to
>   zcat /proc/config.gz
> there was no such file.  But the file I was supposed to create,
>   /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-26
> already existed, so I just used the one that was already there.
>
> This may have resulted from the fact that /proc was, of course, a window
> into the Debian 2.6.8 kernel instead of the 2.6.17 installer kernel.
>
> (4)  When doing
>   genkernel all
> I got the message
>   mount: special device /dev/BOOT does not exist
>   * warning: failed to mount /boot
>
> There was still a directory /boot on the intended partition into which I
> was installing gentoo, so I presumed it would use that one for /boot, as I
> intended, and just let it go on.
>
> (5) There was not sufficient information on locales and keymaps.  IN
> particular, none of the available locales had "UTF-8" in their names, even
> though some of the suggested ones did.  Should I presume that the UTF-8
> adaptation is created by the locale generating software?  What I want is
> a system that uses UTF-8 internally and keyboards and consoles that accept
> input in several languages -- English, French, math, Japanese, and
> mathematics.  I guesses some entries and went on -- confident that this
> can be fixed after installation.
>
> What further information should I dig out to help track down the
> problem?
>
> -- hendrik
>
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>
>


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