Stage1 installation of Gentoo fails during bootstrap.

[Da_MusH]

Hi everyone! I have tried a couple of times this night to install Gentoo on my computer but it doesn't seem to work.

This is what happends during bootstrap:

if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../lib -I../intl -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -march
=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -MT toc.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/toc.Tpo" \
-c -o toc.o `test -f 'toc.c' || echo './'`toc.c; \
then mv ".deps/toc.Tpo" ".deps/toc.Po"; \
else rm -f ".deps/toc.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../lib -I../intl -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -march
=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -MT xml.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/xml.Tpo" \
-c -o xml.o `test -f 'xml.c' || echo './'`xml.c; \
then mv ".deps/xml.Tpo" ".deps/xml.Po"; \
else rm -f ".deps/xml.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
gcc -march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -o makeinfo cmds.o defun.o files.o footnote
.o html.o index.o insertion.o lang.o macro.o makeinfo.o multi.o node.o sectioning.o toc.o xml.o ..
/lib/libtxi.a
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/../../../../i486-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /lib/libc.so.6: inv
alid string offset 67112794 >= 20972 for section `.dynstr'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Segmentation fault
/usr/lib/portage/bin/emake: line 14: 10128 Segmentation fault make ${MAKEOPTS} ${EXTRA_EMAKE}
"$@"

!!! ERROR: sys-apps/texinfo-4.5 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 47, Exitcode 139
!!! (no error message)


I have tried to use the lines from http://freehackers.org/gentoo/gccflags/flag_gcc3.html without success. I have a Pentium II system.

The only strange thing i can see is that this line:

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/../../../../i486-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /lib/libc.so.6: inv

is printed right before the error. But my CHOST is set to i686-pc-linux-gnu

The installation is being done from the live cd and the stage1 tarball is the same version as can be found on the ftp.

Please help me with this one. I have asked for help from several different people on the web but without success!

[Clete2]

Is your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS set to ~x86? If so, you will need to set that AFTER bootstrapping... The documentation warns about this...

[Da_MusH]

No, I saw that warning and left that line with the #

So the problem must be elsewhere.

[cyrillic]

Segmentation faults usually indicate a hardware problem such as bad RAM, or an overheating CPU.

[dickbn]

i also had problems with emerging texinfo because sse wasn't enabled by bios nor by the kernel on my athlon-xp-system. maybe also your problem is caused by something like this.

[Da_MusH]

After some sleep I decided to try a stage2 install and if it worked I would have retryed with the stage1 install later on.

After about 3 hours of successfull compiling I get a new error. This was when compiling package 25 of 77 and it gave this output:

gcc -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.2/gdbmmodule.o -L/usr/local/lib -lgdbm -o build/lib.linux-
i686-2.2/gdbm.so
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /lib/libc.so.6:
invalid string offset 67116837 >= 20972 for section `.dynstr'
building 'bsddb' extension
gcc -DNDEBUG -O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe -fPIC -DHAVE_DB_185_H=1 -I. -I/var/tmp/porta
ge/python-2.2.3-r5/work/Python-2.2.3/./Include -I/usr/local/include -I/var/tmp/portage/python-
2.2.3-r5/work/Python-2.2.3/Include -I/var/tmp/portage/python-2.2.3-r5/work/Python-2.2.3 -c /va
r/tmp/portage/python-2.2.3-r5/work/Python-2.2.3/Modules/bsddbmodule.c -o build/temp.linux-i686
-2.2/bsddbmodule.o -DNDEBUG -O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe
gcc -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.2/bsddbmodule.o -L/usr/local/lib -ldb-4.0 -o build/lib.lin
ux-i686-2.2/bsddb.so
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /lib/libc.so.6:
invalid string offset 67116837 >= 20972 for section `.dynstr'
make: *** [sharedmods] Error 139

!!! ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 99, Exitcode 2
!!! Parallel make failed


I have resetted all bios settings and it still won't work. I'm going nuts here .. please help !!