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Dominique Michel wrote: |
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> It seam at it is a big problem with the livecd. |
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>>From the forum: |
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> QUOTE: The problem is you can't use the GTK installer due to this problem. It |
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> crashes out and leaves you with no option but to wash, rinse, repeat, re-crash. |
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> By saying they won't fix the bug the developers have decided to make the |
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> graphical installer a waste of effort. In my case I went in and installed the |
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> old fashoned way (never HAVE gotten that graphical POS to work), but for anyone |
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> who is trying out Gentoo and hasn't done this a few hundred times before |
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> they're out of luck. |
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> Bad for them, bad for the community, bad for Gentoo, bad for Linux. |
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> Do these guys work in Redmond now? ENDQUOTE |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-477582-start-25.html |
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>>From bugzilla: |
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> QUOTE: And we still won't and can't fix it. All the livecd stuff is just a |
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> snapshot of portage tree in a given moment. There's been one use flag, changed |
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> meanwhile -> emerge --sync, re-emerge python and stop ranting here. ENDQUOTE |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147809 |
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> I have done a search on bugzilla, and it is other bug report where problems |
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> with the livecd have been fixed, so I just don't understand why this one want |
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> be fixed, and I am just too tired to argue on it. It say all time the same |
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> thing, do a sync and re emerge python. With the livecd?... |
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> So here is the problem: the livecd gtk installer is broken and it must be |
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> fixed. But no one seam to be willing to do so. So, when I read such comments on |
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> the forum, I think at it will be better to remove this livecd from the servers. |
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> It is better to have no publicity as a bad publicity. |
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The gtk installer is NOT broken. Have you tried to install without the |
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tk/tcl/tcltk use flag? Personally, I installed with the default flags |
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set, in fact, I told it networkless install and was up and running in |
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about 40 minutes (366MHz) - The installer works, but not every single |
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USE flag combination can be tested. You can *always* change a flag |
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after you have the system installed. |
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