Dale wrote: > Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: >> On a side note: >> >> You can also boot into a chroot, move your /etc and /var directories >> elsewhere >> (e.g. etc_old and var_old) (do the same for other directories where you >> yourself made changes), extract a stage 3 tarball on top of your normal >> / directory (overwriting potentially broken stuff), move etc_old and var_old >> back to their old locations/names, chroot into it (like during install) and >> emerge @system @world -evDNa (to rebuild everything from the known-good start >> that the stage3 provides). > It's getting close to nap time here. Also, more stormy stuff could pop > up at any time. I shut the old rig back down again. It doesn't have a > UPS or anything on it. Anyway, I suspect strongly that the error is on > the stage3 tarball. I got it installed but I have not been able to get > a clean emerge -e system as of yet. I generally unpack, get things to > where I can emerge and then do a emerge -e system as soon as I can. > That way anything else I build is built on top of updated packages. I > have installed Gentoo so many times it is pitiful. > > What I may do, unpack the stage3 somewhere, recompile glibc to create a > binary and then install that package. I'm not going to be to shocked if > it fails to build straight out of the stage3 tarball tho. > > I'm going to work on this some more when I get both eyes open. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
I tried this. I unpacked the stage3 tarball just like I would for a new install, in /mnt/gentoo of course. I set it up just enough to where I could try and emerge glibc and just see if it would complete or if it would fail. It failed. It seems to me that while it may be complaining about the kernel version, something else is really the issue. I'm using the latest kernel so it can't be that. I also installed linux-headers and tried again, still failed. I also checked on the locale,gen file. It is the wrong file type within the tarball. It shows up as GENESIS rom there as well instead of a plain text file. It seems to me that the stage3 tarball is broke. I'm not sure what else to try at this point. When the source is broke, it's sort of hard to fix the rest. Where to go from here? Dale :-) :-)
