Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't fetch distfiles in chroot

[Peter Humphrey]

On Sunday, 22 April 2018 10:21:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 09:39:23 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Sunday, 22 April 2018 07:20:28 BST Jonathan Callen wrote:
> > > Generally, this would indicate a problem resolving DNS.  This is
> > > normally caused by not having a correct /etc/resolv.conf inside the
> > > chroot (it generally will need to be the same as the file outside the
> > > chroot).
> >
> > Yes, I'd already thought of that and found it to be right; it's why I
> > tried
> > www-client/links inside the chroot, which works just fine.
>
> I forgot to add a couple of things:
>
> 1.	The chroot host (this box) is a multilib system, but the chroot client
> (the celeron box) is no-multilib. Could that make a difference?

That's wrong. They're both on the plain desktop profile. What I should have 
said is that the kernel config has modules disabled - on both client and host.

> 2.	While the fetching is hung, /bin/ps shows two emerge processes: one with
> status S and the other with D. Am I right in thinking that portage spawns
> another process to do the fetching, and waits for it to finish? I hope it's
> so anyway.
>
> That first thought was prompted by the instruction to "mount -o bind /lib/
> modules /foo/lib/modules" in this page:
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:X86/Chroot_Guide

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Regards,
Peter.