On Thursday 17 July 2014 10:20:59 I wrote: > On Thursday 17 July 2014 04:03:34 Dale wrote: > > --->8 > > > Sounds good. I'm downloading that one and will try to install it next. > > Let's hope it was a one time event. > > > > Thanks for testing it. > > I've just started installing a 64-bit chroot to do the emerge work for my > laptop and I fell into the same error as you, Dale. Well, I haven't checked > all the details but it seems similar. > > The odd thing is that I used a not-very-recent stage-3 that I'd already used > to install from - without problems that time. So I emerged glib and glibc > in the new, raw system and ran 'emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data' > again with no problem. I had copied in a /etc/locale.gen and /etc/timezone > from another system first.
Some other things were going wrong with the new installation, so I downloaded the latest amd64 stage-3, installed afresh using that and all is going swimmingly. Emerge -e world is in progress now. HTH. HaND. -- Regards Peter
