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

[Trifu Catalin Florin]

________________________________
From: Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Trifu Catalin Florin
<sviatovigt@×××××.com> wrote:
>
 Hi Michael
> I have 1.9GB left and it works to create a new file.
> BTW: What means don't top-post if possible?
> ________________________________
> 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
>
>
>
>

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Joshua M. Murphy


This can't be true. My kernel version is 2.6.39-gentoo-r3.


I have restarted the installation. If I try to select the mirrors by issuing:

mirrorselect -i -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf 

I receive the error: ERROR: Could not get mirror list. Check your internet connection.

For the sync mirrors by issuing the command:

mirrorselect -i -r -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf 

it works fine.