many failed emerges [solved by sync]

microtechno · Last edited by microtechno on Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:49 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi
I am setting up a server with gnome-light and other bits and pieces. But i am getting quite a few failing packages. The main annoyance is apache, but there are more.
here is a list so far..

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

please tell us about (or better post) the error message of at least of the failing packages.
the situation is very unclear.
and... something is strange with your post, it is VERY wide, about 5 times as wide as my 1600x1200 monitor, how did you do that?

cyrillic · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject:

schachti · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:15 am Post subject: Re: many failed emerges

microtechno · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:13 am Post subject:

i havent changed the CHOST flag.. that is what the install set
i shall change the CFLAG.. i got that from cat /proc/cpuinfo
let u know what happens.

Edit: that didnt do anything for it.. I am putting the logs up to www.adam.com.au/wilson8/gentoo
i have added the build logs (named file) and the enviroment logs *.env hope that they help. I didnt post them here because it would have been to big
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schachti · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:42 am Post subject:

So what kind of processor do you have? What is the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo? Please use it to set your CFLAGS properly - your emerge --info says you have an Athlon processor, but you have set -march to athlon-xp (which might already have borked your system). So look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#Athlon_.28AMD.29 and use the CFLAGS for your actual CPU. If you already emerged a lot of stuff with the wrong (incompatible) -march setting, you probably have to reinstall your system.

Another point: You have a strange CHOST setting - have a look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#Athlon_.28AMD.29 to find out the right one for your CPU. If it is different from your current setting, you might have used the wrong stage 3 (according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5#doc_chap4).
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microtechno · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:10 am Post subject:

hi
i used the wiki for the flags, just that the model, family and model name are not all the same for the models. So i chose the most like it.. Which matches for the name and model just not on the same output. Hope that makes sence.
also i have worked out what u mean. i was using the st3_x86 i should be using the st3_i686 shouldn't I

schachti · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:21 am Post subject:

microtechno · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:26 am Post subject:

i updated the post.. it should have all the output.
I made the post then the server had booted. so i edited it. u must have gotten the old one.
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schachti · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:43 am Post subject:

microtechno · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:02 am Post subject:

i had a look in wiki that is rather bizzare, i changed the flag it hasnt done anything.. is it the i686 that i should of chosen.. because x86 is for Intel isnt it..?

Edit: This is the MB http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/products_content.php?ps=75 says that it is compatible with AMD Athlon(TM) from 600mhz - 1.4Ghz Socket A.
from what it appears.. would i be better of starting from scratch and using the i686 st3 install..?
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schachti · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:02 am Post subject:

microtechno · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:41 am Post subject:

Hi
i have done a bit of digging and found that it is an AMD Athlon 'Palomino'
it looks just like this (the cpu that is) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Athlon_XP_1600_Palomino_Front.jpg
none of the pins/holes/jumpers have been played with so it is genuine. I got given this computer 3 weeks ago from a mate, it was taking up to much space.. now it is doing the same here.
Going on these clock rates it is either an A4 or an MP. but i dont imagine that it is an MP as that is the mobile chipset i believe.
* A4: 850-1400 MHz
* XP: 1333-1733 MHz (1500+ to 2100+)
* MP: 1000 - 1733 MHz
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alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

the athlon mp is a multiprocessor cpu, just like the intel xeon.
the cpu frequency looks indeed strange.
have you checked the frequency multiplier and the front side bus frequency in your bios?

microtechno · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:29 pm Post subject:

yeh i did
they are 100 and auto from memory.

Edit: just made the cpu clock 130mhz now this is what is coming up

Genone · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:45 pm Post subject:

Going by the error messages there is something fundamentally wrong on your system beyond CFLAGS, possibly data corruption and/or broken system packages. I'd perform some stress tests to check if the hardware is ok first, including harddisks, memory and cpu.

microtechno · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:23 am Post subject:

in one of the logs i noticed the -j1 emake failed.
so i did a memtest with the ram that i was using and it was ok. I thought that there might have been bad portions of the ram and so memory leeks. but memtest didn't give me any errors. But i am redoing that now.
as for cpu and other load tests what do I use?

Edit: going to use ubcd and test it all out. also i have done revdep-rebuild when ever i updated the system. so there shouldn't be any broken packages.
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machspeed2200 · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:02 am Post subject:

All the packages that have been listed can fail if the wrong CFLAGS are used. It may be due to the -fomit-frame-pointer flag.
The gentoo-wiki page that you got the flags from is a guide. And I've found it inaccurate in a few circumstances.

Based on your /proc/cpuinfo I'd recommend

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -msse -mmmx -m3dnow"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"

since your cpu has mmx and 3dnow you may as well make use of them. If your doing a desktop system I'd recommend -Os rather than -O2.

See how you go with that.

EDIT: You may also want to consider upgrading to a 686 system. Don't quote me on this, but I'm sure GCC 4.1.0 and up requires a minimum of a 586 system.

schachti · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:50 am Post subject:

machspeed2200 · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:03 am Post subject:

microtechno · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:03 am Post subject:

i am following
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml see if that helps which i am hoping that it does a lot
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schachti · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:07 am Post subject:

microtechno · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:47 am Post subject:

i have followed the site as per my last post, atm i am at the emerge -e world
it is taking a while, but it has been stoped at the gstreamer and ncurses so far.
so it would appear that even going to i686 hasnt made any difference.

note: i did have some error with emerge -e world.. a file in the samba package (/usr/portage/..) was the wrong size but emerge --sync fixed that
once i have finished recompiling things i shall put up some new logs if need be.

ps: would this be a bug from something..?

Edit: Is there anything that anyone can think of, becuase it is rather annoying i am inable to get gnome-light to run. If nothing happens soon i shall start again and see how that goes. if i put up the new logs will somone be able to look at them. I shall do it this afternoon www.adam.com.au/wilson8/gentoo
thanks
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microtechno · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject:

Hi all
thanks for the help so far. not sure what has happened but i did a sync today and it is all fine.
I noticed that the sync cleared out the old portage and updated it all. Did the same on all my gentoo boxes.. must be a big update or something
thanks anyway for all the help. It would have been nice to get this working some weeks ago. oh well.

(5/4/08)Edit: I managed to get apache to install. After upgrading my chost flag to i686 from i486 there was still an error with apache that wasnt fixed by the big snyc. This was fixed by re-emerging apr
before the re-emerge this is what apr said