Access Violation on "scripts/bootstrap.sh"

MartinB

I'm having some difficulty installing Gentoo on my laptop...
I've done the installation 5 times before without any problems, so I'm pretty familiar with it.

I'm using the Gentoo 1.4-rc2 LiveCD...

I'm going throught the installation starting at Stage 1, following the instructions in /usr/share/doc/install.txt, and when I reach the command "scripts/bootstrap.sh", It goes for a while, then an error occurs with something like this:

---------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ------------------
LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-portage-2.0.49-r20-16894.log"

chown: /var/cache/edb
chown: /var/cache/edb/dep
open_wr: /var/cache/edb/mtimedb
--------------------------------------------------------

Every time I try to run "scripts/bootstrap.sh" again, I get the same thing.

I thought I might have done something wrong earlier in the installation, so I tried starting again from scratch with a blank hard disk, but I'm still getting exactly the same problem.

Cheers,
Martin
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BradN · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 7:48 pm Post subject:

maybe you forgot the -p when extracting the base image? that would cause the permissions to be lost on everything, but I don't know if it causes that specific error or not.

MartinB · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 11:25 pm Post subject:

Nope.... just checked that. I used the p option to extract the tarballs... I'm really struggling here... I also checked the permissions, but I'm logged in as root anyway (as I should be for installation), so even if it was wrong, it should still be accessable shouldn't it?
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BradN · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 12:43 am Post subject:

yeah, it sounds like a very weird problem. You could try downloading an updated stage image and use that maybe? Also make sure you didn't forget to env-update and source /etc/profile.

MartinB · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:53 am Post subject:

Did the env-update and source /etc/profile...

I'll try downloading as you said instead of extracting the one on the CD...

UPDATE: I did an "export PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var" and now it seems to be working! I hope this won't damage anything.
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irf2003 · Veteran Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 1078

shouldn't

MartinB · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject:

Nope... never had to do that before, and I'm using the same LiveCD as I always have (1.4-rc2)
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