Hi Daniel.

Yes, I had already chrooted at that point, but I guess "livecd" is the
default host name until it is changed.


Best regards,



-- 
"Let music echo the thoughts of your soul."

                --  Jason Castonguay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>




On Jun 30, 2005 22:01 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote:

> (this question may seem n00b)
> I noticed you have a /livecd shell string, so, did you chroot
> correctly? Because I guess when you change the root system this shell
> changes (but it was quite a long time since I installed my stage1, so,
> I may be wrong).
>
> On 6/30/05, Jason Castonguay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello list members.
> >
> > I just joined the list and am looking forward to participating and
> > learning.  I am in the process of installing Gentoo and have run into a
> > problem that will not go away.  I have researched it in the Gentoo forums,
> > but have not found a definite solution to the problem.  I hope that I am
> > not missing anything because I realize how frustrating it can be to deal
> > with recurring questions.
> >
> > I am running an AMD k6-2 500 MHZ processor on a FIC VA-503+ motherboard.
> > Initially, I had only 128MB of RAM and was installing the 2005.0 release
> > of Gentoo following instructions from the verbose handbook.  I opted to go
> > with a stage 1 tarball and was doing fine until the bootstrap process.  My
> > computer chugged away for quite some time and suddenly gave up.  Above the
> > four lines of `!!!' messages, I saw a message indicating that the error
> > was not software based and was most likely a hardware/OS problem.  I went
> > to the Gentoo forums and tried looking this up and found several different
> > posts.  Unfortunately, I didn't find the forum interface very easy to
> > navigate, but my search yielded an interesting document:
> >
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-319349.html
> >
> > Which gives instructions for performing a stage 1 install using a stage 3
> > tarball.  I thought, somehow, that since this came up as part of my search
> > results, I would try this.  Furthermore, the reasoning behind it made
> > sense to me and it sounded like a challenge (I can't resist a good
> > challenge).  However, I am still encountering an error at the point where
> > I am at section 7.1 Building the Toolkit: GCC 3.3.5 in the document I
> > referenced above.  I have determined that the error occurs quite a ways
> > into the glibc portion of the `emerge gcc-config glibc binutils gcc' by
> > running each command separately.
> >
> > I investigated further and saw messages from others having similar
> > problems.  Another possible reason for the error is that the system runs
> > out of memory.  However, I have upgraded to 512MB of memory and am still
> > experiencing the problem.  I do have swap space allocated and see it
> > available when I type `free' but it doesn't seem to be used.  I checked
> > regularly during the emerge process and it was either not used at all or
> > used very little.
> >
> > Here is the last screen at which the error occurs.  Unfortunately, I am
> > not able to scroll back any further due to the limitations of speakup (I
> > am a blind Linux user and use speakup to get text from the screen spoken).
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> >
> > e754 -I../sysdeps/generic/elf -I../sysdeps/generic -nostdinc -isystem
> > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/include -isystem /usr/include
> > -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include ../include/libc-symbols.h   -DNOT_IN_libc=1
> > -DIS_IN_librt=1    -DBROKEN_THREAD_SIGNALS -o
> > /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/aio_notify.og
> > -MD -MP -MF
> > /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/aio_notify.og.dt
> > -MT
> > /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/aio_notify.og
> > The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
> > make[2]: ***
> > [/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/lio_listio64.og]
> > Error 1
> > make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/glibc-2.3.4/rt'
> > make[1]: *** [rt/others] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/glibc-2.3.4'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
> > !!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1 failed.
> > !!! Function toolchain-glibc_src_compile, Line 237, Exitcode 2
> > !!! (no error message)
> > !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status
> > message.
> >
> > livecd / #
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> >
> > Again, this is generally the same error I got when bootstrapping.
> >
> > Here is a copy of my make.conf:
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> >
> > # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically 
> > built this stage
> > # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
> >
> > CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
> > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k6-2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
> > CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
> > #  "x86" refers to the stable  software branch
> > # "~x86" refers to the testing software branch
> > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
> > PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
> > PORTDIR=/usr/portage
> > DISTDIR=${PORTDIR}/distfiles
> > PKGDIR=${PORTDIR}/packages
> > PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
> > PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
> >
> > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://gentoo.risq.qc.ca/ 
> > http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ 
> > ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo";
> > SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> > RSYNC_RETRIES="3"
> > RSYNC_TIMEOUT="180"
> > MAKEOPTS="-j2"
> > PORTAGE_NICENESS="3"
> > AUTOCLEAN="yes"
> > FEATURES="ccache distlocks sandbox userpriv usersandbox"
> > CCACHE_SIZE="512M"
> > RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes
> > #USE="ithreads nptl accessibility aac aim icq msn yahoo audiofile \
> > #     bash-completion bzip2 cdparanoia curl curlwrappers doc emacs \
> > #     encode examples flac flash ftp imap java javascript mad mime \
> > #     ming mysql mysqli offensive ogg openal pdflib php sasl sox \
> > #     speex spl usb vorbis win32codecs xml \
> > #     -apm -emboss -fortran"
> > USE="nptl"
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> >
> > I know I am following the instructions to the letter, so I don't believe I
> > am doing anything wrong.  Btw, the commented USE section was something I
> > used and abandoned.  I thought that maybe the number of USE flag had
> > something to do with the error, but it doesn't appear to.  Ah yes, and if
> > this helps, here is what `uname -a' says:
> >
> > Linux livecd 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP Fri Mar 18 17:53:40 UTC 2005 i586
> > AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> >
> > I would appreciate any help that anyone has to offer.  If this has been
> > covered before, please forgive me and point me to the right resources.  I
> > am hoping that I can continue with this interesting installation process
> > of using a stage 3 tarball for a stage 1 install.  Although I barely know
> > anything about Gentoo, it sounds really awesome.
> >
> > I appreciate your time in reading this lengthy, rambly message.  :-)
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> >
> >  --
> > "Let music echo the thoughts of your soul."
> >
> >                 --  Jason Castonguay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
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