Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems with emerge

[Edward Muller]

I would check your hardware/configuration. I've successfully merged X11
several times over the last few weeks on different machines without a
hitch and I'm new to Gentoo as well.

On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 12:34, Ruud Huijssoon wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> After I installed LFS awhile back, I wanted to try out gentoo, and so I did
>
> The basic install worked great!
>
> After that, I tried emerge x11-wm/WindowMaker because I wanted Xwindows and
> WindoMaker and then it started
>
> Lockups while d/l X420src-1.tgz. I wasn't able to login through another
> console nor ^C the operation so I had to do a cold reboot
>
> Tried again, part -2 and -3 d/l oke but now de install failed the checksum
> of the -1 file. So I removed it and did emerge x11-wm/WindowMaker again.
> Lockup while d/l. Now I was getting annoyed so I did ftp ftp.xfree86.org and d/l
> the source myself and put it in /usr/src/port*/dist*/
>
> Again I did emerge x11-wm/WindowMaker and now it passed the checksums. i was
> happy until...
>
> Again that -1 file! Now it lockup my system while it was u npacking the
> file!
>
> So I have 2 questions for you: 1) how do I succesfully install X11 and
> WindMaker on my gentoo system and 2) can you program emerge in such a way that it
> doens't lock up the entire system when there is a problem during the install?
> I'm having M$ flashbacks here!
>
> Anyway, this email isn't meant as a flame, the Gentoo project looks great
> but at the moment I have just these two annoying problems :)
>
> I hope you can help me out here
>
> Sincerely,
> Ruud
>
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