configuring portage

dejavou42 · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 35

I'm having a problem configuring the portage. I have tried to run the (emerge--sync) command a few times and each time I recieved an out of memory error message.
Afterwards I ran the
(emerge-webrsync)command and eventually got the same error message, it just took a REALLY long time to get there. Suggestions?

srkitch · Apprentice Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 183

how much space is on the drive for gentoo?

dejavou42 · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 35

I set it up just the way that the guide recommends besides it's talking about virtual memory, not hard drive space....

dejavou42 · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 35

I guess what I need to ask is if there is a way to refresh the memory without restarting the comp, and if not, I won't have to start over again will I? Right now I have completed everything up to the portage configuration.... So am I good if I restart?

loki99 · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:47 am Post subject:

Could you plz post the exact error message or all we can do here is guess. Also post the output of ...

dejavou42 · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 35

The exact error message is extremely long basically it's a bunch of lines about lowmem_reserve and the final line is "Out of Memory: Killed process 9982 (rsync). I am currently on chapter 6.b. and the output for df -h is: tmpfs = 16% used avail 20M; /dev/hdc 100% used 49 M avail.; /dev/loop/0 100% used 43M avail.; udev 1% used 24M avail.; cachedir 100% used 43M avail.; tmpfs 18% used 24M avail.; tmpfs 0% used 24M avail.; /dev/hda3 34% used 3.7G avail; /dev/hda1 1% used 36M avail.; /dev 1% used 24M avail.

dejavou42 · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 35

Oh and B.T.W, I am using the x-86 handbook if that matters...

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:17 am Post subject:

Hi.

Please post the output of free as well.
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dejavou42 · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 35

output of free: Mem: total 47836 used 44256 free 3580 buffers 14776 cached 17252
buffers/cache: used 12228 free 35608
swap: total 0 used 0 free 0

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:27 am Post subject:

If you only have 48MB of RAM, you might have a lot of problems to install.
What do you want to run on this system? Do you want to run X, any WM or DE? Or do you plan to use as a server?
The least you should do, is to create a SWAP partition. I would advice you to use at least a 256MB SWAP partiiton.
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dejavou42 · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 35

I did create a swap partition. if I run fdisk -l i get an output /dev/hda2 is a swap partition that says "linux swap/solaris" I've never used linux before, so all I did was take an old windows 98 system and try to install gentoo on it. I just want to familiarize myself with the linux system first. I'm planning on updating after I get familiar with it.

dejavou42 · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 35

So, what do I need to do to finish configuring the portage? And if I restart the computer now that I'm on this step, will everything thus far be saved?

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:39 am Post subject:

If you did create a SWAP partition at /dev/hda2, to use it you need to do:

dejavou42 · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 35

Ok, the virtual memory wasn't really my problem after all. So, My main problem is that when I try to run "emerge --sync" I keep getting send/recieve timeouts. I have no firewall on this computer and no external firewall. All I have is a DSL modem and a router. I have had the router cause firewall type problems before... Any suggestions on what I need to do in this case?

dejavou42 · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 35

Ok, the virtual memory wasn't really my problem after all. So, My main problem is that when I try to run "emerge --sync" I keep getting send/recieve timeouts. I have no firewall on this computer and no external firewall. All I have is a DSL modem and a router. I have had the router cause firewall type problems before... Any suggestions on what I need to do in this case?

Mousee · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:18 am Post subject: Re: Configuring Portage

dejavou42 · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 35

Sorry, I didn't think to mention it, but I'm actually using this forum via links....So that that rules out problems with the network card. Also, I have manually downloaded files from the mirrors via links... So I know that I can use them... Just for some reason, the emerge --sync command will not communicate with them.

padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

try an emerge --metadata before emerge --sync
if u get same error u can try extracting the portage...tar.bz2 once again.
usually it configures itself. and u need atleast >1.5 gb space in hdd.
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loki99 · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:29 am Post subject: Re: configuring portage