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kaidon
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 Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 6:30 pm Post subject: help - i fu**ed up my installation :( |
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hello gentoo world
first off all, i'm banging my head on the table while writing this. i forgot or lets say ignored the basic number one rule in dealing with computers.
NEVER touch a running system.
well i did (shame on me).
i installed gentoo from stage 1, "everything" worked perfectly. i really love the gentoo-way. after all these years using wintendo i'm back in control and i'm asking myself why i didn't switch to linux years ago. anyway, here's my problem:
after setting up the system i noticed (thought) that my CFLAGS where not really what i wanted them to be. i started of (copy-paste) from a turorial with following make.conf settings:
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CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe"
USE="x86 acpi alsa apache2 -apm avi bonobo cdr crypt cups dga directfb doc dvb dvd encode evo fbcon gif gnome gpm gtk gtkhtml java jpeg -kde ldap mad mmx motif mozilla mpeg nls pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl png pnp -qt readline samba sdl spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype trusted usb X -xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib"
ALSA_CARD="intel8x0"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
CCACHE_SIZE="1G"
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after thinking a while (maybe not long enough) and reading mans i decided to change my CFLAGS since i do not intend to use stuff compiled on this machine anywhere else. this is what i did:
| Code: | | CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" |
after that i did a
so far so good. but after emerging something like package 311/378 the whole thing stopped saying that openoffice needs blackdown-jdk and not the sun-jdk which i was using. ok, changed that, reemerged openoffice. but the bastard failed with some error message. then i got impatient and belive i made a big mistake. i rebooted the machine. and now it doesn't come up again ...
it hangs at: mounting proc on /proc (the first line with the neet green [ok], well it hangs before the [ok] comes).
thank good i still have my slackware installation arround. so i booted from that, and i'm able to enter and chroot to the gentoo partition.
now, before making any more stupid mistakes.
what is the best way to repair such a problem, preferebly without recompiling the whole thing?
my machine is a:
Dell Inspiron 8500 (BIOS A05)
CPU: Mobile Pentium 4 2.40GHz
RAM: 1024 MB @ 266MHz
Video: NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 64MB
Panel: 15.4" Wide UXGA
Audio: Sigmatel 9750 (AC'97)
Modem: PCTEL 2304WT
HD: 60GB
Modular Bay: CD-RW/DVD Combo | NEC USB Floppy
i intend to use it for:
java development (eclipse, xindice, sql)
office tasks (all i need to replace wintendo apps)
test-environment for building a home cinema/media server
everything i needed (except mrproject and tcpdump) was working. so it is quite frustrating to be at point 0 again. snief
anybody got an idea?
thanx for any help
sincerely
kaidon |
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guitou
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I believe you have to re-emerge 'system' before trying 'world'. |
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ed0n
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| guitou wrote: | | I believe you have to re-emerge 'system' before trying 'world'. |
I think it is the same thing |
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kaidon
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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@ed0n
you seem to be right
emerge -p system gives back
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These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating system dependencies ... done!
[ebuild UD] sys-apps/findutils-4.1.7-r5 [4.1.20]
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emerge -p world gives back
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These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating system dependencies ... done!
[ebuild U] net-www/apache-2.0.48-r1 [2.0.48]
[ebuild UD] sys-apps/findutils-4.1.7-r5 [4.1.20]
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so i assume "emerge world" includes resp. first does a "emerge system".
is that correct?
another thing i do not yet understand.
portage keeps giving me messages like:
[ebuild UD] some-group/some-package-1.1.1 [1.2.3]
[ebuild UD] some-group/another-package-0.1.2 [1.0.1]
etc.
if i read man emerge, it tells me that [ebuild UD] means that i have unstable/insecure packages installed which it wants to downgrade for me.
i am not aware of installing anything "unstable". how can this be? is it possible that a package "changes" from stable back to unstable? |
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Pete_Keller
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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kaidon,
When you look at the root partition, do you see the proc directory?
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kaidon
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 12:27 am Post subject: |
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hi Pete
this is what i tried before reading your post:
i followed the x86-install guide as i did the first time.
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slackware# mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
slackware# cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
slackware# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# env-update
Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
# source /etc/profile
# emerge sync
# emerge -v system
# emerge -v world
# etc-update
# exit
slackware# cd /
slackware# umount /mnt/gentoo/boot
slackware# umount /mnt/gentoo/proc
slackware# umount /mnt/gentoo
slackware# reboot
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after reboot i'm stuck where i started of:
* Mounting proc at /proc
if i do a ls -al /mnt/gentoo from slackware
there is a empty directory /mnt/gentoo/proc.
after chrooting to the gentoo installation as described above /proc is there and there seems to be everything ok.
i mean i can do something like cat /proc/cpuinfo and it gives me back the same as before a ruined my installation. well that probably doesn't mean anything cause as far as my understanding of this is it's the "slackware-proc" i see here.
it seems that as long as i'm in the chroot "everythings" ok. but when i leave it and try to boot gentoo i end up with the *Mountig proc at /proc.
slackware and gentoo are sharing the /boot and swap partition.
i didn't find anything which i could map to the problem in the log files.
just looks like the box thinks it's monday or something like that.
any ideas how to proceed? |
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Pete_Keller
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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kaidon,
Check and see if you accidentally deleted the /proc partition, reboot with the install cd, mount your root partition on /mnt/gentoo, and look and see if you have a /mnt/gentoo/proc partition listed.
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kaidon
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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hi Pete
thanks for responding again.
i did what you told me to.
there is a folder /mnt/gentoo/proc, but its empty.
i've installed gentoo on one single 10000MB partition. except for /boot and swap which are shared with slackware.
as you can see of my postings i don't really know what i'm dooing.
anyway - not ready to give up yet.
what do i do now?
should i just install from scratch again? i guess that would solve the problem. just would take a LONG time.
ps: just finished reading the "how to ask smart-questions" guide. sorry for the stupid subject and questions asked. i'll try to do better in the future. |
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Pete_Keller
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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kaidan,
the proc directory is supposed to be empty, your mount proc command will tell the kernel to mount virtual files there.
I am not sure what else to try, so a rebuild might be in order. Try a stage 3 rebuild, with that there is less time compiling stuff, then once you get everything correct, you can perform a emerge -e world and rebuild everything.
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kaidon
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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hi Pete
i'll do that and post again when done.
thanx again for helping me out.
best regards |
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