The installation of gentoo is making me NUTS!, here i show..

[drspewfy]

Hello guys, is my second time that i install gentoo, but i dont know what im doing wrongg!! i followed the handbook of gentoo.org,
so i finished the instalation with alot of hard work,,
and i rebooted how was said,, i compiled the kernel 2.6.3 gentoo-dev-sources..,

i installed syslog-ng, vixie-cron ,and all the stuff that the instalation said..
so
i reboot i got this ERROS,

Failed are loaded from current direcotry or /usr/lib/bbd/*/

*failed to set user font

*loading key mapping
/sbin/rc: line 1: 45#: command not found

*starting syslog-ng
start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/syslog-ng: no such file or directory

/usr/sbin/rc: line 1: 45#: command not found

*bringing eth0 up
/usr/sbin/rc: line 1: 45#: command not found

ERROR: problem starting need services
"netmount" was not started
ERROR:problem starting need services
"vixie-cron" was not started

*starting local
/sbin/rc: line 1: 45#: command not found


ANDD when i try to log in, now, the first time I could log in..
but when i rebooted again i could login as a root and neither as a user.

this says..

when i try to log in..

- login(pam_unix)[3126]: authentication failure: logname: LOGIN
uid=0 euid=0 tty=/dev/tty1 ruser= user=root
- login[3126]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM /dev/tty1 FOR root, authentication failure..

Andd i added and user, i put a passwd in the instalatioin, i followed the handbook to add the net.eth0, i installed vixie-cron, syslog-ng ..
i dont know what to do!!...

i have been doing that like 5 days but i cant enter to gentoo.. cuz the passswd, should i re install gentoo ? or use the LIVE cd and do something...
maybe i could fix it up all thoses ERRORs..
.

THANKSS im really mad cuz i cant install gentoo!1

thanks in advance ..

[fennec]

There must be a step in the installation process that you have skipped for all those problems to happen.

[Lajasha]

Well my vote would be to reinstall as you have nothing to lose but some time and you get a lil more hands-on with your system.

What stage are you starting from? If you are trying a stage 1 you may want to try a stage 3 just to see if you can get it working and then later come back and try a stage 1.

[DarkStal]

Greetings drspewfy,

I apologize if I sound a bit dense on this but I need some information from you before I can get a solid idea of what is going on. First off could you specify what kind of computer you are trying to install linux on? Secondly, what steps in the manual did you take? Did you do a Stage 1, 2, or 3 tarball install... and depending on which one, what steps did you take to install? What results did you get? I know this is a lot to ask but it would really help.

Now to address the errors that you currently have. Now, right off the bat let me say I am just trying to help you. If I ask a question that seems like the answer is obvious or if it seems to insult you in any way please disregard it. If you could just answer the questions I ask I or someone else may be able to help you to finding the problem and trying to find the easiest path to a resolution. I am just trying to help. With that in mind let us continue.

From what I have seen the files that seem to have the most problem seem to all associate with the root commands, which can definately lead to a lot of frustration. Some key files that I have seen in your post are:

/usr/lib/bbd/*/ (not sure what this is)
/usr/sbin (or more specifically /usr/sbin/rc)
/sbin (/rc)
/dev (/tty1)

The most prominent directory that I see in your post would be the /usr/sbin. Now it is my understanding that the /sbin directories hold binary files for secure programs, or more specifically binary files used exclusively by root. Now when mounting a file system everything is entered in single user mode (where you are basically root). Only problem I am having is finding an article or even a man page regarding rc. From what I have found it is a processes associated with firewalls but most of them relate to the /sbin or /etc/rc.d directories.

With that in mind it could very well be that the particular file in question is corrupt or the CD Image may have been damaged for just that one part of the install. It may be beneficial to go back through the install one more time and document each step that you take to get Gentoo onto the computer as well as a collection of notes of any iregular behavior.

Again please keep in mind I have only been working with Linux for about a year now, Gentoo only for about a month or so... so if anything I hope I gave you some ideas as to how to aproach the problem.

Again I hope I was of some help.

Thank you for your time,
DarkStal
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[drspewfy]

thanksss!!

im starting from the stage 3, and i got that errors, by my first reboot,
i fixed up the syslog-ng and vixie-cron, re-emerging them..
but the other stuff still like that..

this is what i get in.. messages



Mar 17 14:09:42 linux Using r5 hash to sort names
Mar 17 14:09:42 linux VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Mar 17 14:09:42 linux Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed
Mar 17 14:09:42 linux Adding 465876k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1
Mar 17 14:09:42 linux dhcpcd[2969]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device
Mar 17 14:09:42 linux rc-scripts: Failed to bring eth0 up
Mar 17 14:09:42 linux rc-scripts: ERROR: Problem starting needed services.
Mar 17 14:09:42 linux rc-scripts: "netmount" was not started.
Mar 17 14:09:42 linux cron[3049]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Mar 17 14:10:01 linux login(pam_unix)[3081]: session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)
Mar 17 14:15:00 linux CRON[3301]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons )
Mar 17 14:16:16 linux login(pam_unix)[3082]: authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=/dev/tty2 ruser= rhost= user=protoloco
Mar 17 14:16:18 linux login[3082]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM /dev/tty2 FOR protoloco, Authentication failure
Mar 17 14:16:29 linux login[3082]: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM /dev/tty2 FOR protoloco, Authentication failure
Mar 17 14:16:35 linux login(pam_unix)[3082]: session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)
Mar 17 14:16:40 linux su(pam_unix)[10489]: session opened for user protoloco by root(uid=0)
Mar 17 14:16:52 linux passwd(pam_unix)[10492]: authentication failure; logname=root uid=1000 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=protoloco
Mar 17 14:17:04 linux passwd(pam_unix)[10493]: authentication failure; logname=root uid=1000 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=protoloco

any thoughts ?????


thankss

[DarkStal]

Greetings again drspewfy,

I think I can get a basic idea of what is going on now... lets take a look: