On Tuesday 23 January 2007 03:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Installing gentoo for the first time, starting yesterday. I just got to > the point of choosing the system logger as described in section 9b of > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9 > and syslog-ng gives me a traceback. [snip...]
When I get problems like that I resync portage after a while and they usually go away - unless the whole /usr/portage partition fs has been corrupted. NB - I keep my portage on a separate partition to minimise fragmentation. If the fs has been corrupted and the fsck tools won't repair it then I wipe the partition clean, reformat it and download a fresh portage snapshot. > > Context: > > I'm installing this using a chroot from a Debian sarge system. > I've encountered a few anomalies along the way, but I suspect most of them > are cosmetic, and that some just need a documentation update. > I don't think they are related to the tracebacks, but I mention them below > just in case they are a clue to the deeper problem. > > (1) The portage file on the mirror was called > portage-latest.tar.bz2.tar > instead of > portage-latest.tar.bz2 Did you check on more than one mirrors - also the MD5 checksums? > (2) Of course, from sarge I couldn't run mirrorselect. So I picked a > mirror by hand, and it seemed to work. mirrorselect is the Gentoo equivalent of netselect for Debian. > (3) At section 7.d, where I was supposed to > zcat /proc/config.gz > there was no such file. But the file I was supposed to create, > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-26 > already existed, so I just used the one that was already there. > > This may have resulted from the fact that /proc was, of course, a window > into the Debian 2.6.8 kernel instead of the 2.6.17 installer kernel. That's right. You can find this file once you have booted the LiveCD. > (4) When doing > genkernel all > I got the message > mount: special device /dev/BOOT does not exist > * warning: failed to mount /boot Edit your /etc/fstab and change /dev/BOOT, /dev/ROOT, etc. with real names of your corresponding partitions (e.g. /dev/hda1). > There was still a directory /boot on the intended partition into which I > was installing gentoo, so I presumed it would use that one for /boot, as I > intended, and just let it go on. > > (5) I found the installation of locales and keymaps. None of the available > locales had "UTF-8" in their names, even though some of the suggested ones > did. Should I presume that the UTF-8 adaptation is created by the locale > generating software? What I want is a system that uses UTF-8 internally > and keyboards and consoles that accept input in several languages -- > English, French, math, Japanese, and mathematics. I guesses some entries > and went on -- confident that this can be fixed after installation. You need to edit /etc/locale.gen and add something like e.g. en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 (the file is well commented with instructions) and then run locale-gen or re-emerge glibc. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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