[gentoo-dev] just a little feedback...

[Tibor Rudas]

Hi

Here is the feedback I  promised:

 - thanks for the help with yp/nis but alas it didn't work. the +:::... 
entries did not help but switching from pam_pwdb.so to pam_unix...
did... I guess I'll have to have a closer look at the pam & nis docs...;)

 - lately I am experiencing great difficulties in doing an install from the
1.0_rc5-r4 build iso image...
It worked perfectly well on July 27th where I did the emerge rsync
and the bootstrap. The emerge system followed on July 30th and the
machine is up and running...
During the last week however I tried to install an identical machine
and failed multiple times (and I don't have super bombad racing!).
At first even the new August-based bootsrap file failed because
gettext-0.10.39 was required but it was not (yet) on ibiblio (this seems
fixed today however...). I then bootstrapped from the last July-based
file which worked but emerge system stopped with some error message
(can't quite remember what it was right now something with shutils I think).
Having done this two times I tried to Install from 'portage-20010730.tar.bz2'
which I had lying around from some earlier experiments. This compiled to the
end but left me in a system missing vital components like grub, 
start-stop-demon etc.... The emerge on grub worked but it kept searching
for /boot/grub/stage1 and returned a "file not found" even after I put the 
file there.(?) But after the reboot I only ended up in a maintenance console
due to the lacking sysVinit tools...
Today I again tried the classical approach which found an abrupt halt again
in the bootstrapping process. gettex was found OK this time but ./configure
complained about an unknown machine type "i685-pc-linux-gnu" ->
there is a typo in the new make.conf in the PIII/Athlon section...
but emerge system then stops complaining about missing makeinfo
somewhere along the way...
Am I doing something completely wrong or is portage in a state which does
not allow a complete build-install right now.
Could my USE flags be the culprit (I remove everything sound-related (no 
card), gnome pcmcia-cs and only include perl, python, tcltk svga and tex
from the stable USE flags. And I use the PIII flags for CHOST/CFLAGS...

 - autofs:   in the startup script in the generation of the pidfile-name
the sed-command 's/\//./' should be changed to 's/\//./g' otherwise 
mountpoints like /something/with/more/than/one/slash is causing problems
since just autofs.something.pid is created but the script then looks for
autofs.sometihng/with/more.... and fails to start.

 - xinetd: in the standard configuration xinetd just puts three lines to the 
syslog complaining about unknown "time-stream" and "time-dgram" and
no more services - exiting, just to be restarted by supervise and the cycle
starts again. Maybe xinetd shouldn't be started automatically since this 
currently just fills the syslog.

 - mozilla: the ebuild builds fine and I can start mozilla from a Konsole in 
KDE and get some mozilla-messages (no direct error message) but then
... nothing. I can just stop the process with ctrl-c and switch to 
konqueror/operea/netscape...

That were the most important things I noticed in these past 10 days.
I am sorry if this is the wrong place to put this and if I'm rather vague
on some of the details but I am currently at home and don't have all
the details handy.

Personally I won't be around for the next 20 days and won't get any answers
until then.
But then I'm sure to try again since I think gentoo is quite promising!

regards

Tibor Rudas