Two different installs are broken [Both solved]

olmiller · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 9

I have been using Gentoo since 1.4 but have encountered problems I have never seen before. On a Dell Latitude D800 I was in the middle of an 'emerge -e system' and after several hours it stops with failing to resolve ftp.cpan.org. It obviously can see the various mirrors (with name resolution), so where do I start from here?

On a whitebox desktop I have tried to boot both the 2005.0 and 2005.1 LiveCD. I have tried the gentoo-nofb with and without the noapic option. Once it loads the kernel and decompresses the initrd, it propmts 'Ready.' and stops. Any thoughts?

Tamsco · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 313 Location: dmse.mit.edu

Wierd..... first thing I'd do is ensure that it is software by booting up Knoppix on both (note I suggest you Alt-Ctl-F2 when KDE starts to load as knoppix's console has always been more stable than its X server).

For the laptop if you think it is a problem with one specific server (namely you can ping google) you can set the mirror with the GENTOO_MIRRORS variable in make.conf.
For the desktop, Knoppix install http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml
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olmiller · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 9

The desktop was solved by powering off and then on. I accidently hit the power button instead of the reset button. Once on again booted with frame buffer just fine.

As for the desktop, while waiting for a reply, I tried an 'emerge perl' and all worked. Then I started 'emerge -e system' and it is still running.