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

[Michael Schreckenbauer]

On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 09:48:33 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
> Hi Michael
>
> I have 1.9GB left and it works to create a new file.

Ah, got it.
Your kernel is too old. You need a kernel > 2.6.22 to make this work.

If you cannot upgrade your kernel right now, you can disable the sandbox
FEATURES="-sandbox" in /etc/make.conf
(I do not recommend this)

Or you can replace touch with busybox's implementation (if bb is installed)

mv /bin/touch /root (to save it for later restauration)
ln -s /bin/bb /bin/touch

> BTW: What means don't top-post if possible?

-> http://idallen.com/topposting.html

Best,
Michael


> ________________________________
> From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to
> install syslog-ng
> On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 09:00:02 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > the version of portage:
> >
> > Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5,
>
> 2.1.10.11 is the latest. So no error here
>
> > glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686)
> >
> > USE="-emacs" emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf - ir doesn't work; same
> > error
>
> Is there space left on the device?
> If so, does something like
> touch /var/tmp/portage/foo.stamp
> (as root) work?
>
> > Nilesh, can you please be more explicite?
> >
> > Thank you!
>
> Best,
> Michael
>
> BTW: please don't top-post if possible.
>
> > ________________________________
> > From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:27 PM
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to
> > install syslog-ng
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 08:01:56 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:
> > > <snip>
> > > The same error I get for vixie-cron.
> >
> > this is sys-devel/autoconf failing, building some emacs related things.
> > Try
> > USE="-emacs" emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf
> >
> > If that works, add
> > "sys-devel/autoconf -emacs"
> > to /etc/portage/package.use
> >
> > > Some other things worth mentioning:
> > > - portage didn't request for an update
> >
> > What version is installed?
> >
> > > - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of
> > > mirrors or something similar.
> >
> > No idea.
> >
> > > I will really appreciate your help as my "server" is down for two
> > > days
> > > now. Thank you!
> > > Best regards!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Michael