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wmyers
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 Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: Unbound Local Error on Stage 3 Install on AMD X86-64 |
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[*]Everything progressed with this, 1st ever, Gentoo install until this appeared on my monitor(last 2 lines)
GLI: November 16 2006 10:44:23 - File"/opt/installer/GLIUtility.py", line 571, in fetch_and_unpack_tarball tar_options+=format_option
GLI: November 16 2006 10:44:23 - Unbound Local Error: local variable 'format_option' referenced before assignment
Install failed
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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Try installing using the command-line.
Just use the old trusted handbook. |
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wmyers
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| slycordinator wrote: | Try installing using the command-line.
Just use the old trusted handbook. |
I should have said that I'm a sort of a NEWBIE and not yet comfortable with "command line".
Thanks, though, for your input. |
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| AFAIK, the graphical installer simply isn't ready for prime time. |
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genterminl
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| But I just got this same error from the command line installer! Looking at other posts that mention the same error, I wonder if it has trouble figuring out how to deal with the tarball file. Background: I've now had a bunch of failed attempts to install, and I got tired of waiting to download the stage 3 tarball every time, so I tried using the local file:/// URI. The first time I just pointed to where the previous install left it (root directory of the new root drive, mounted as /mnt/gentoo) but it complained that its filename was the same as itself. I then tried renaming it, but got the same complaint. This time I tried moving it to a different directory, but I shortened the name to "savestage" with no extension. Could it be confused and not recognize it as a xxx.tar.bz2? |
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yngwin
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| wmyers wrote: | | slycordinator wrote: | Try installing using the command-line.
Just use the old trusted handbook. |
I should have said that I'm a sort of a NEWBIE and not yet comfortable with "command line". |
We were all newbies once. But Gentoo is a hands-on distro. The manual commandline install is still the recommended way. So either decide you want to get intimate with the commandline and learn (and you'll find a lot of help with that here and on gentoo's irc channels), or decide to move on to some other distro...
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nixnut
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| wmyers wrote: | | slycordinator wrote: | Try installing using the command-line.
Just use the old trusted handbook. |
I should have said that I'm a sort of a NEWBIE and not yet comfortable with "command line". |
Consider this a wonderful opportunity to rectify that situation then 
Seriously, gentoo is definitely not point-n-click. If you are not interested in learning something new, then gentoo won't work for you.
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