Problem when trying to emerge system

rorschach75 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Broomfield, CO

I am trying to install from a Stage3 tarball for AthlonXP. I am doing so via a Knoppix bootable CD, and downloading the tarball.

I am at the point of emerge system, however, when I do this, I get the following error:
!!!No Profile Directory; System Mode Unavailable

This has me stumped. I have been following the instructions closely (or at least I thought I was).

I have entered the gentoo environment as instructed, and I am logged in as root, but, it doesn't seem to want to run emerge system.

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

WadeBoggs · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:30 pm Post subject: gentoo sync server down

I'm not sure if this is relevant but on the www.gentoo.org frontpage there is a notice about the rsync server being down. You may just have to wait until that is cleared up (keep checking the page for updates).
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rorschach75 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Broomfield, CO

I noticed that, but... would it affect 'emerge system'?
If that was the issue, I was expecting a problem that would be more like the rsync error, not a problem with the profile.

But...I am a nOOb...

swgeckoman · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:11 pm Post subject:

Obligitory:

Did you env-update
Did you source /etc/profile

swgeckoman · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:18 pm Post subject:

whoa whoa whoa...

Stage 3 doesnt require an emerge system, does it???

From what I'm seeing, you should go straight from chrooting to kernel compilation.

rorschach75 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Broomfield, CO

yes I did env-update and I did source /etc/profile
I did the three commands as listed in the handbook

chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile

It took me to a prompt that started out: Knoppix /root>
whoami tells me that I am root

I then did emerge sync
That of course did not work because of the problem posted on Gentoo's front page.
So, following that, I (as I was suggested to do by emerge) ran emerge-webrsync
then I tried emerge system
and got the error I listed above

I then thought that I didn't need emerge system (as swgeckoman mentioned), and tried emerge --usepkg gentoo-sources
that gave the same error, so I tried emerge --usepkg vanilla-sources
same error again.

I hope that helps with any suggestions you may have.

Domingus · n00b Joined: 01 Jan 2004 Posts: 4

I just got the same error here.
As of now the sync error seems to be gone.
I did an emerge sync, and afterwards did the emerge -p system.
Then everything ran fine...

I have had this problem before at other installations, and the emerge sync has always helped me out.

Hope it works your way to.

swgeckoman · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject:

rorschach75,

Let us know if you get the error after after a fresh emerge sync

dleifelohcs · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 160 Location: UNH

rorschach75 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Broomfield, CO

after a fresh emerge sync everything works fine... oddly enough

swgeckoman · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 6:38 pm Post subject:

I can live with odd.

Grats.