Emerge Freeze @ "Calculating dependencies"

Clue-less · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 87

This is very strange. I'm installing Gentoo (I broke the previous install) and am now at installing the system logger.

I'm using the minimum install CD and started with stage1-x86-2004.2.tar.bz2. It's been doing fine up until now.

As the title suggests, the emerge freezes after I emerge syslog-ng:

Clue-less · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 87

I guess I have to start over again. I've been having nothing but trouble with 2004.2 -- this is the fourth attempt to install this version on this computer

It's always something: gdbm breaking "emerge system", 2.6.8.1 kernel does not play nice with Xorg and nvidia-glx, now this.
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hielvc · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:40 am Post subject:

Its happened to lots of us :cry:

. But each time I learned something. If you gone through this 4 times then you might find x86 Quick Installation Reference easier to follow.
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