Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On Wed 14 Sep 2011 08:31:56 PM IST, Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all
> the steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm
> stuck trying to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an
> Athlon processor and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The
> error can be seen bellow:
>
> Making all in emacs
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68/lib/emacs'
> WARNING: Warnings can be ignored. :-)
> touch: setting times of `elc-temp': No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [elc-stamp] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68/lib/emacs'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68/lib'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> emake failed
>  * ERROR: sys-devel/autoconf-2.68 failed (compile phase):
>  *   emake failed
>  *
>  * Call stack:
>  *     ebuild.sh, line  56:  Called src_compile
>  *   environment, line 147:  Called _eapi2_src_compile
>  *     ebuild.sh, line 669:  Called die
>  * The specific snippet of code:
>  *              emake || die "emake failed"
>  *
>  * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info
> =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68',
>  * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv
> =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68'.
>  * The complete build log is located at
> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/build.log'.
>  * The ebuild environment file is located at
> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/environment'.
>  * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68'
>
> >>> Failed to emerge sys-devel/autoconf-2.68, Log file:
>
> >>>  '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/build.log'
>
>  * Messages for package sys-devel/autoconf-2.68:
>
>  * ERROR: sys-devel/autoconf-2.68 failed (compile phase):
>  *   emake failed
>  *
>  * Call stack:
>  *     ebuild.sh, line  56:  Called src_compile
>  *   environment, line 147:  Called _eapi2_src_compile
>  *     ebuild.sh, line 669:  Called die
>  * The specific snippet of code:
>  *              emake || die "emake failed"
>  *
>  * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info
> =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68',
>  * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv
> =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68'.
>  * The complete build log is located at
> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/build.log'.
>  * The ebuild environment file is located at
> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/environment'.
>  * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68'
>
>  * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
>
>  * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
>  * Use eselect news to read news items.
>
>
>
> The same error I get for vixie-cron.
>
> Some other things worth mentioning:
> - portage didn't request for an update
> - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of
> mirrors or something similar.
>
> I will really appreciate your help as my "server" is down for two days
> now.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Best regards!

It would be more helpful if you could post the details emerge asks you 
to, before terminating.
 
-- 
Nilesh Govindarajan
http://nileshgr.com