emerge system failing at bzip2 (SOLVED)

woZa · Last edited by woZa on Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:55 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi all

Am doing a stage 1 install (1.4) (following instructions to the letter!)

Bootstrap goes fine so onto emerge system

This starts up fine - finds about 80 dependancies and starts downloading and compiling fine.

It always fails at bzip2 though. Searches through all the mirrors I have selected then aborts saying can't download bzip2 after only a second.

I have tried to emerge bzip2 individually but again, same error - and with anything else that I try to emerge after this point.

I have an Athlon XP with flags:

-march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer

Any ideas?

Pete_Keller · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:31 pm Post subject:

woZa,

What version of bzip2 is failing (post the full error message)

Pete
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woZa · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 9:34 pm Post subject:

Problem solved. Saw on another post someone had similar problem.

Solution: Delete mirrors from /etc/make.conf then emerge --fetchonly system

Then emerge system.

woZa · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 11:18 am Post subject:

OK... This only delays the problem. After doing this I then try to emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources and it searches through a list of mirrors (I deleted the ones in /etc/make.conf so it shouldn't know about mirrors) and gives the error

!!! unable to download (any file I try to emerge). Aborting....

This happens with anything I try to emerge so it looks like emerge system breaks something...

This is really annoying... stage3 install works fine but I would prefer to have everything optimised (one of the main benefits of gentoo).

Any ideas???

Thanks

cyrillic · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:33 pm Post subject:

If you want to prefetch stuff before your system breaks, you can do this before bootstrap.sh

adibbins · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 1

I've tried all the suggestions, still fails to find the sources. Any thoughts anybody?

Andy

cyrillic · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 3:34 am Post subject:

You should have a GENTOO_MIRRORS= line in your /etc/make.conf