Stage 1 install of 2004.3 -- More Perl Dependency Issues

Bob P

Now that 2004.3 has been released, I've started a Stage 1/NPTL installation on another PC. I've run into problems.

With the 2004.2 Stage 1 tarball, I had run into problems during the bootstrap.sh script where some apps being emerged were dependent on an unmerged perl:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=248229

with the new 2004.3 Stage 1 tarball, the problems in the bootstrap script seem to have been addressed. :wink:

unfortunately, when it comes time to emerge system, i've run into a fatal error where additional programs are failing to emerge because of a dependency on unemerged perl.

i have to admit, i didn't write down the name of the program that resulted in the fatal error -- i just emerged libperl and re-executed the emerge system command.

has anyone else encountered similar problems in doing a Stage 1 install with the new 2004.3 Stage 1 tarball? It seems that Portage needs some tweaking...
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andreas2000 · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:16 am Post subject:

same Problem here..

Bob P · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:50 am Post subject:

i didn't write down the name of the offending program, but that rings a bell.

fwiw, i used the a similar technique to yours:

seank · l33t Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 686

I to have this problem. emerge sytem fails because of Locale-gettext. It tries to use perl and it isn't there.

Must be a dependancy problem? It did the same thing in 2004.2. So, this problem has been around for a while. Why isn't it fixed? :?:

Bob P · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:13 am Post subject:

i don't know why it isn't fixed, but it would be a pretty simple thing to fix -- just change the manual so that instead of saying "emerge system" it says "emerge system && emerge libperl && emerge system". :lol:

granted, it would be embarassing to put that in the documentation, but a notification like that would spare alot of people from wasting their time trying work through the bug on their own. :roll:

i don't know how far along you are in the install, but i've found that i made the critical error of installing the 2004.3 Stage 1 tarball from the 2004.2 minimal live CD. as a result, my system is totally borked (locks up at boot), and i have to start over. :oops:

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Bob P · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:44 pm Post subject:

edit: see next post
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Bob P · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject:

seank · l33t Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 686

I added a comment to your bug report. There is definitely something wrong here.

Bob P · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:50 pm Post subject:

thanks. it always helps to have two voices crying from the wilderness instead of only one... :lol:

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rjw8703 · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:59 am Post subject:

I am using 2004.3 stage1 and having problems w/bootstrap.sh the same place you are/were. It seems that they haven't fixed the problem yet.
Now if I can figure out how to resolve this. Does

rjw8703 · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:02 pm Post subject:

Please excuse my comments in the code section. I'm learning how to post msgs. thanks

hardlythere · n00b Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Augusta, GA

Myself as well, with "help2man". I emerged "perl" and then carried on. Seems to work OK now, I'm emerging KDE, so I'm applying for social security so the checks will start when KDE is finished.

hirnstrudel.de · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 40

i could not find any problem like this
i installed 2004.3 on x86 yesterday, and libperl and perl were installed correctly by emerge system.

Bob P · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:37 pm Post subject:

Bob P · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject:

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Bob P · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:44 pm Post subject:

didn't think so. afaik this issue only crops up for people using "~x86".
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rjw8703 · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject:

The problem occured during bootstrap.sh. I had the same output as you did. Also I'm using x86 not ~x86. Again this is using 2004.3 on a sager
8790 laptop intel p4m 3.4GHz. I was going to try to install ~x86 and nptl
after I did a more common (by the book) type of install.

f3lix85 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 78

When i came accross that same issue i tried to emerge perl first and it didnt work so what i did was i changed my USE flags to not compile the extra documentation and it worked.

rjw8703 · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject:

I don't have docs in my USE statement.

Bob P · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:19 pm Post subject:

i think that this post in the bug report says everything there is to say on the subject:

rjw8703 · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:45 pm Post subject:

I think they're folks out there who have gentoo running. What migt I be doing wrong that is keeping gentoo from running on my laptop?

Bob P · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:50 pm Post subject:

obsolete information removed.
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rjw8703 · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:48 am Post subject:

Yes, it occured during bootstrap.sh using 2004.3 minimum cd and stage1-x86-2004.3.tar.bz2. If I knew how capture what gets displayed on the screen I would post it. The porblem ,I think, has something to do with
gettext and perl.

rjw8703 · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:51 am Post subject:

Another question, why use emerge libperl twice in