If I'm interpreting the output from the live CD GUI install correctly, there's some sort of connection problem with nearly every attempt by the gui installer to download anything.
The entire log and output files are on my website, as: <http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/gentoo.log.txt> and <http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/gentoo.output.txt> some excerpted lines from the gentoo live-cd GUI installers output (the numbers are the line numbers from running cat -n on the output file): 137835 >>> /usr/include/pci/types.h 137836 >>> /usr/include/pci/header.h 137837 >>> sys-apps/pciutils-2.2.0-r1 merged. 137838 137839 >>> clean: No packages selected for removal. 137840 137841 >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... 137842 portage: COUNTER for sys-kernel/livecd-kernel-2006.0 was corrupted; resetting to value of 0 137843 137844 >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. 137845 137846 137847 * Regenerating GNU info directory index... 137848 * Processed 90 info files. 137849 137850 Calculating dependencies >>> Downloading http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137851 --02:18:41-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137852 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137853 Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.238.52, 216.165.129.135, ... 137854 Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|64.50.236.52|:80... connected. 137855 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 137856 02:18:42 ERROR 404: Not Found. 137857 137858 >>> Downloading http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137859 --02:18:42-- http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137860 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137861 Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... 152.2.210.109 137862 Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org|152.2.210.109|:80... connected. 137863 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 137864 02:18:43 ERROR 404: Not Found. 137865 137866 >>> Downloading ftp://ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr/pub/Linux/distrib/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137867 --02:18:43-- ftp://ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr/pub/Linux/distrib/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137868 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137869 Resolving ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr... 160.228.152.5 137870 Connecting to ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr|160.228.152.5|:21... failed: Connection timed out. 137871 Retrying. 137872 137873 --02:21:53-- ftp://ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr/pub/Linux/distrib/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137874 (try: 2) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137875 Connecting to ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr|160.228.152.5|:21... failed: Connection timed out. 137876 Retrying. 137877 137878 --02:25:04-- ftp://ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr/pub/Linux/distrib/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137879 (try: 3) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137880 Connecting to ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr|160.228.152.5|:21... failed: Connection timed out. 137881 Retrying. 137882 137883 --02:28:16-- ftp://ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr/pub/Linux/distrib/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137884 (try: 4) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137885 Connecting to ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr|160.228.152.5|:21... failed: Connection timed out. 137886 Retrying. 137887 137888 --02:31:29-- ftp://ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr/pub/Linux/distrib/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137889 (try: 5) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137890 Connecting to ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr|160.228.152.5|:21... failed: Connection timed out. 137891 Giving up. 137892 137893 >>> Downloading http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137894 --02:34:38-- http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137895 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137896 Resolving ftp.gentoo.or.kr... 218.36.126.80 137897 Connecting to ftp.gentoo.or.kr|218.36.126.80|:80... connected. 137898 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 137899 02:34:40 ERROR 404: Not Found. 137900 137901 >>> Downloading ftp://gentoo.mirrored.ca/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137902 --02:34:40-- ftp://gentoo.mirrored.ca/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137903 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137904 Resolving gentoo.mirrored.ca... 142.77.49.225 137905 Connecting to gentoo.mirrored.ca|142.77.49.225|:21... connected. 137906 Logging in as anonymous ... 137907 Login incorrect. 137908 >>> Downloading http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137909 --02:34:40-- http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137910 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137911 Resolving ftp.snt.utwente.nl... 130.89.175.1, 2001:610:1908:8000::175:1 137912 Connecting to ftp.snt.utwente.nl|130.89.175.1|:80... connected. 137913 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 137914 02:34:41 ERROR 404: Not Found. 137915 137916 >>> Downloading ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137917 --02:34:41-- ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137918 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137919 Resolving ftp.snt.utwente.nl... 130.89.175.1, 2001:610:1908:8000::175:1 137920 Connecting to ftp.snt.utwente.nl|130.89.175.1|:21... connected. 137921 Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! 137922 ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. 137923 ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles ... done. 137924 ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR usb.ids-20040902.gz ... 137925 No such file `usb.ids-20040902.gz'. 137926 137927 >>> Downloading ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/source/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137928 --02:34:43-- ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/source/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137929 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137930 Resolving lug.mtu.edu... 141.219.155.230 137931 Connecting to lug.mtu.edu|141.219.155.230|:21... connected. 137932 Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! 137933 ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. 137934 ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /gentoo/source/distfiles ... 137935 No such directory `gentoo/source/distfiles'. 137936 137937 >>> Downloading http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137938 --02:34:45-- http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137939 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137940 Resolving gentoo.oregonstate.edu... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52 137941 Connecting to gentoo.oregonstate.edu|64.50.238.52|:80... connected. 137942 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently 137943 Location: http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz [following] 137944 --02:34:45-- http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137945 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137946 Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52 137947 Reusing existing connection to gentoo.oregonstate.edu:80. 137948 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 137949 02:34:45 ERROR 404: Not Found. 137950 137951 >>> Downloading http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137952 --02:34:45-- http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137953 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137954 Resolving cudlug.cudenver.edu... 132.194.22.137 137955 Connecting to cudlug.cudenver.edu|132.194.22.137|:80... connected. 137956 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 137957 02:34:47 ERROR 404: Not Found. 137958 137959 >>> Downloading ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137960 --02:34:47-- ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137961 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137962 Resolving ftp.oregonstate.edu... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.238.52 137963 Connecting to ftp.oregonstate.edu|64.50.236.52|:21... connected. 137964 Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! 137965 ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. 137966 ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/gentoo/distfiles ... done. 137967 ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR usb.ids-20040902.gz ... 137968 No such file `usb.ids-20040902.gz'. 137969 137970 >>> Downloading http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137971 --02:34:49-- http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137972 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137973 Resolving mirrors.tds.net... 216.165.129.134 137974 Connecting to mirrors.tds.net|216.165.129.134|:80... connected. 137975 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 137976 02:34:49 ERROR 404: Not Found. 137977 137978 >>> Downloading ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137979 --02:34:49-- ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137980 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137981 Resolving cudlug.cudenver.edu... 132.194.22.137 137982 Connecting to cudlug.cudenver.edu|132.194.22.137|:21... connected. 137983 Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! 137984 ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. 137985 ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles ... done. 137986 ==> PASV ... couldn't connect to 132.194.22.137 port 9965: Connection timed out 137987 Retrying. 137988 137989 --02:38:00-- ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137990 (try: 2) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 137991 Connecting to cudlug.cudenver.edu|132.194.22.137|:21... connected. 137992 Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! 137993 ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. 137994 ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles ... done. 137995 ==> PASV ... couldn't connect to 132.194.22.137 port 29585: Connection timed out 137996 Retrying. 137997 137998 --02:41:12-- ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 137999 (try: 3) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138000 Connecting to cudlug.cudenver.edu|132.194.22.137|:21... connected. 138001 Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! 138002 ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. 138003 ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles ... done. 138004 ==> PASV ... couldn't connect to 132.194.22.137 port 17450: Connection timed out 138005 Retrying. 138006 138007 --02:44:27-- ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138008 (try: 4) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138009 Connecting to cudlug.cudenver.edu|132.194.22.137|:21... connected. 138010 Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! 138011 ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. 138012 ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles ... done. 138013 ==> PASV ... couldn't connect to 132.194.22.137 port 44657: Connection timed out 138014 Retrying. 138015 138016 --02:47:41-- ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138017 (try: 5) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138018 Connecting to cudlug.cudenver.edu|132.194.22.137|:21... connected. 138019 Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! 138020 ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. 138021 ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfiles ... done. 138022 ==> PASV ... couldn't connect to 132.194.22.137 port 53809: Connection timed out 138023 Giving up. 138024 138025 >>> Downloading ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138026 --02:50:51-- ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138027 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138028 Resolving ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu... 128.61.111.9, 128.61.111.11, 128.61.111.10 138029 Connecting to ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu|128.61.111.9|:21... connected. 138030 Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! 138031 ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. 138032 ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/gentoo/distfiles ... done. 138033 ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR usb.ids-20040902.gz ... 138034 No such file `usb.ids-20040902.gz'. 138035 138036 >>> Downloading http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138037 --02:50:53-- http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138038 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138039 Resolving open-systems.ufl.edu... 128.227.74.67 138040 Connecting to open-systems.ufl.edu|128.227.74.67|:80... connected. 138041 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 138042 02:50:53 ERROR 404: Not Found. 138043 138044 >>> Downloading http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138045 --02:50:53-- http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138046 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138047 Resolving gentoo.mirrored.ca... 142.77.49.225 138048 Connecting to gentoo.mirrored.ca|142.77.49.225|:80... connected. 138049 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers. 138050 Retrying. 138051 138052 --02:55:28-- http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138053 (try: 2) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138054 Connecting to gentoo.mirrored.ca|142.77.49.225|:80... connected. 138055 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers. 138056 Retrying. 138057 138058 --02:59:58-- http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138059 (try: 3) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138060 Connecting to gentoo.mirrored.ca|142.77.49.225|:80... connected. 138061 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers. 138062 Retrying. 138063 138064 --03:05:05-- http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138065 (try: 4) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138066 Connecting to gentoo.mirrored.ca|142.77.49.225|:80... connected. 138067 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers. 138068 Retrying. 138069 138070 --03:09:58-- http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138071 (try: 5) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138072 Connecting to gentoo.mirrored.ca|142.77.49.225|:80... connected. 138073 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers. 138074 Giving up. 138075 138076 >>> Downloading http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138077 --03:13:18-- http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138078 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138079 Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... 152.2.210.109 138080 Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org|152.2.210.109|:80... connected. 138081 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 138082 03:13:19 ERROR 404: Not Found. 138083 138084 >>> Downloading http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138085 --03:13:19-- http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138086 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138087 Resolving gentoo.mirrors.pair.com... 216.92.2.140 138088 Connecting to gentoo.mirrors.pair.com|216.92.2.140|:80... connected. 138089 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 138090 03:13:19 ERROR 404: Not Found. 138091 138092 >>> Downloading ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138093 --03:13:19-- ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz 138094 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/usb.ids-20040902.gz' 138095 Resolving ftp.tu-clausthal.de... 139.174.2.36 138096 Connecting to ftp.tu-clausthal.de|139.174.2.36|:21... connected. 138097 Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! 138098 ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. 138099 ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles ... done. 138100 ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR usb.ids-20040902.gz ... 138101 No such file `usb.ids-20040902.gz'. 138102 138103 !!! Couldn't download usb.ids-20040902.gz. Aborting. 138104 ...done! 138105 >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/usbutils-0.11-r5 to / 138106 Exception received: 138107 EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge: Could not emerge sys-apps/usbutils-0.11-r5! 138108 Please submit a bug report (after searching to make sure it's not a known issue and verifying you didn't do something stupid) with the contents of /var/log/install.log and /tmp/installprofile.xml and the version of the installer you used [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Desktop $ pwd /home/gentoo/Desktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Desktop $ whoami gentoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Desktop $ date Wed Aug 16 09:02:23 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Desktop $ I do notice that when I'm at the Stage Selection screen I can't get a stage tarball URI, although it worked last time I installed gentoo (on a diff hard drive). I'm going to try with some different options from the GUI installer, then switch to the CLI installer. I'm on the live CD right now, with a connection to the internet. thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
