2004.0 1st Live-CD -- Testers needed

Chaosite · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject:

Okay, I used the stage 1 2004.0 tarball, worked great, didn't notice any hitches.

(Besides needing to get new ACX100 drivers for some reason).

I put '-march=pentium4' in my CFLAGS, as well, and I don't seem to notice any trouble... What version of gcc has that bug?

Anyway, the stage seems to work great.

taskara · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject:

mikeraach · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 168

I just did an install stage2. Everything without a hitch except this problem: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=780407

Abit NF7-S, xp 2500,
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"

mikeraach · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 168

Just did a stage1 compile, and after stage 2 (which only took 2 1/2 hours) I get these messages:

mukwuknuk · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject:

Koutsos · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 19 Location: Athens

I did a stage 1 2004.0 tarball install yesterday ... no problems getting system to compile.

gerard27 · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 6:47 pm Post subject:

re: my post of wednesday 14
I did a reinstall of everything and copied make.conf.example to make.conf. at the appropiate point.
It went all ok until I started genkernel.It not only refused to start "genkernel --config" but even when I just entered "genkernel" it came with a list of commandline options and quit.
3 weeks ago I installed gentoo on another partition and had no problem using genkernel --config.
When I emerge something I get a message:"invalid binary package zlib-1.1.4-r2.tbz2"
Please help me along.
Gerard

Chaosite · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:41 am Post subject:

Note:

I am getting the invalid db entry for devfsd, but consider it as a minor nuisance as it is working fine.

Also, sometimes after compiles finish, it saya `Cannot find match for: foobar`, but is seems to work anyway.

Chaosite · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:42 am Post subject:

mukwuknuk · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject:

stefanwa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 140

Hi!

Tested Reiser4 as root(!) partition today! Great performance and so far no problems. So I'm asking, will future 2004 livecd's and stages include Reiser4 support so we can use it right from the start?

Greetings
Steve

beejay · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject:

Hello dear testers,

I just put another bunch of x86-test-stages onto the mirrors. The datestamp is 20040117. When testing, respect the same rules as you always should do: test as if you were a first-time Gentooist (i.e. follow the Installation manual, don't use ~x86 when bootstrapping and so on) - Happy testing

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Koutsos · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 19 Location: Athens

Just finished compiling system using the 20040117 stage 1 tarball, while following the official install guide ... no problems other than having to use my own make.conf and the "it is starting to annoy me" message I get at the end of some ebuilds - !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd ... but that one comes up also with the 1.4 stage 1 tarball. I'd better start looking for a way to fix this

ledskof · Apprentice Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 209

So far it's running great. No weird instances for me.
My workstation at work is running stable software, no special kernel patches outside of portage or anything, reiserfs, ext3, gnome and kde (can never make up my mind for long), mplayer, xine, alsa, dvds, xmms, gimp, mozilla-firebird, mozilla-thunderbird, rdesktop, etc. That's most of the stuff I have running I guess.

I liked it so much I started an experimental system at home. Latest love kernel, (2.6.1-love5, and I'm using reiser4 on everything except boot.
Working incredible so far but It's only been up for about 24 hours. I'm not using ~x86 though because I've just had it with everything falling apart all the time. I only use ~x86 software where necessary.

alan.hughes · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Posts: 40

Tried to do an install with the stage1 tarball, but it failed doing the emerge system. The problem was that the autoconf package had a dependancy on perl, but perl had a reverse dependancy on autoconf (indirectly through one or more intermediate packages). Showstopper problem that I could not work out how to get around.

mukwuknuk · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:04 pm Post subject:

So what do should we do if the software works OK but we think the documented instructions have a flaw?
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Sequentious · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:30 am Post subject:

h.u.n.t.e.r · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Belgium

beejay · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 7:02 am Post subject:

stefanwa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 140

beejay · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 3:52 pm Post subject:

I just pushed the first live-cd into our mirror-hub. It will be available soon.

Features:
xfs-sources-2.4.24 as default-kernel ("gentoo" at bootprompt)
gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1 as additional kernel ("experimental" at bootprompt)

The stages on this CD were build yesterday. Some things don't work at the moment; this includes most of the autodetection stuff and helper-applications.

Happy Testing
:wink:

beejay
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amphibious · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:53 pm Post subject:

When is the non-test release of 2004 expected? I was told on IRC a couple weeks ago that it was scheduled for January 22nd.

Thanks!
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petrjanda · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:55 am Post subject:

mooerito · xfs-sources-2.4.24

deadMofo · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 11

Hello, first post, so please excuse me if this is off-topic, wrong forum, etc...

LiveCD: gentoo-2004.0-x86-20040121.iso
stage: stage1-x86-20040117.tar.bz2
cflags: -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer

Ok, so I'm religiously following the Installation Handbook...
I've manually compiled the kernel, and I just did a:
VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" emerge xfree-drm
and I get:
!!! ERROR: x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 30, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

I have not emerged X yet, and I'm still in the chroot from the LiveCD... I suppose I can get DRM working later, but I'm just trying to follow the directions as a "normal user" would (since after all, I am a "normal user").

Thanks!

-- UPDATE --

No luck on the DRM, but when I tried to boot into my new kernel (2.6.1) I got a panic: "could not mount hde7, append a valid root=" or something to that effect. I recompiled the kernel with genkernel and got the same thing. BTW, my root partition is actually hde7... hde1 is WinXP (NTFS), hde5 is /boot (ext2), hde6 is swap, and hde7 is my ReiserFS root partition. And yes, I made sure to compile ReiserFS support into the kernel (the first time at least, I can't speak for genkernel). I'm using GRUB for the first time (always used LILO in the past), but I don't think that's the issue, as my grub.conf is pretty much verbatim from the Installation Handbook.

I suppose it's possible/likely that it's just a kernel problem, as I've never had any luck with the 2.6 series. I would try a 2.4 series kernel, but I'm just too tired and lazy to be bothered with it right now. Anyway, who wants to settle for old technology? :wink:

Oh, and if anyone has had any experience with Brooktree-based tv tuner cards, feel free to impart me with your knowledge. It worked out of the box when I was using Mandrake 9.1, but I haven't had any luck with it using Gentoo. Regardless, I'm never going back!!