More Install problems

Verted · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject: More Install problems

I have been experiencing more problems when installing. I am up to the part where you configure your kernel. When asked to choose a kernel, I chose to use gentoo-sources, however when I tried to do '#emerge gentoo-sources' I got the following errors:
!!!ERROR: sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.0-r2 failed
!!!Function econf, line 365, Exitcode77
!!!econf failed

This didnt worry me too much. I just figured it was another one of those things. I did '#emerge vanilla-sources' which worked fine.

I then tried to configure my kernel using genkernel(because I am not really advanced enough to do it myself). '#emerge genkernel' also gave me errors:
!!!ERROR: media-libs/freetype-2.1.5-rt failed
!!!Function src_compile, line 32, Exitcode 2
!!!(no error message)

Now I cant do '#genkernel all' or anything like that and am stuck. What should I do?
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-Verted

phate · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject:

Verted,

Why don't you use 2.6 Kernel sources?

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

those errors are not of much help. as you cant see why its causing it to fail.
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djm · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 9:53 pm Post subject:

@phate - that won't help, since 2.6 kernels depend on module-init-tools (instead of modutils), which he can't emerge. That being said, you should be able to emerge the kernels without it (emerge --resume --skipfirst after it fails, or you could do emerge --nodeps), but that's hardly ideal

1) as stated the actual error is above this
2) emerge --info would be helpful too
3) search on the gentoo bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) before asking for help (I'm not complaining that you didn't do it, but you're more likely to find your answers there than here)
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