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On Tuesday 23 January 2007 03:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: |
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> Installing gentoo for the first time, starting yesterday. I just got to |
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> the point of choosing the system logger as described in section 9b of |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9 |
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> and syslog-ng gives me a traceback. |
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[snip...] |
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When I get problems like that I resync portage after a while and they usually |
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go away - unless the whole /usr/portage partition fs has been corrupted. NB - |
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I keep my portage on a separate partition to minimise fragmentation. If the |
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fs has been corrupted and the fsck tools won't repair it then I wipe the |
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partition clean, reformat it and download a fresh portage snapshot. |
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> |
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> Context: |
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> I'm installing this using a chroot from a Debian sarge system. |
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> I've encountered a few anomalies along the way, but I suspect most of them |
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> are cosmetic, and that some just need a documentation update. |
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> I don't think they are related to the tracebacks, but I mention them below |
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> just in case they are a clue to the deeper problem. |
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> (1) The portage file on the mirror was called |
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> portage-latest.tar.bz2.tar |
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> instead of |
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> portage-latest.tar.bz2 |
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Did you check on more than one mirrors - also the MD5 checksums? |
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> (2) Of course, from sarge I couldn't run mirrorselect. So I picked a |
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> mirror by hand, and it seemed to work. |
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mirrorselect is the Gentoo equivalent of netselect for Debian. |
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> (3) At section 7.d, where I was supposed to |
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> zcat /proc/config.gz |
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> there was no such file. But the file I was supposed to create, |
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> /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-26 |
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> already existed, so I just used the one that was already there. |
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> This may have resulted from the fact that /proc was, of course, a window |
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> into the Debian 2.6.8 kernel instead of the 2.6.17 installer kernel. |
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That's right. You can find this file once you have booted the LiveCD. |
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> (4) When doing |
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> genkernel all |
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> I got the message |
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> mount: special device /dev/BOOT does not exist |
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> * warning: failed to mount /boot |
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Edit your /etc/fstab and change /dev/BOOT, /dev/ROOT, etc. with real names of |
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your corresponding partitions (e.g. /dev/hda1). |
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> There was still a directory /boot on the intended partition into which I |
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> was installing gentoo, so I presumed it would use that one for /boot, as I |
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> intended, and just let it go on. |
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> (5) I found the installation of locales and keymaps. None of the available |
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> locales had "UTF-8" in their names, even though some of the suggested ones |
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> did. Should I presume that the UTF-8 adaptation is created by the locale |
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> generating software? What I want is a system that uses UTF-8 internally |
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> and keyboards and consoles that accept input in several languages -- |
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> English, French, math, Japanese, and mathematics. I guesses some entries |
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> and went on -- confident that this can be fixed after installation. |
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You need to edit /etc/locale.gen and add something like e.g. en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 |
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(the file is well commented with instructions) and then run locale-gen or |
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re-emerge glibc. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |