Having a multitude of problems, is there one fix?

[AbsoluteZ3r0]

Hello everyone,

I have posted here on the gentoo forums a couple of times in the past month with various installation problems I had while installing gentoo, most noob mistakes on my part but a learning experience none-the-less.
I also posted a while ago on the network forums here because I am attending a college who uses 'Apogee' for their internet and I had to emerge packages.

Getting to the problem I am having now, I am not sure what to do. I have searched and searched the past 4-5 days and keep trying to understand what the issue is that I have, but to no avail. My frustration was not that at Gentoo, but what I think is rather 'Apogee'.
I'm not sure how to even relate my problems to the forums (because as I followed guides and other threads I found I lacked more and more things that I think I did something majorly wrong in the installation/compiling of the tarball.) Or this could be something that may take one command and its the one left I have not yet tried. But I am going to list off the issues I have been having, in no particular order. If anyone can help with just one I would be thankful.

Problems:
1.) The internet I am on is called Apogee, as I have above mentioned. I can not emerge anything. Everything I try to emerge I get different errors that I have googled and gone all across the web looking into. I have looked into: -my python version, -my /etc/resolv.conf file, (and a bunch more I can't even remember.) When I go into my /etc/resolv.conf it shows me as searching Apogeenet.net and it gives me two nameservers. When I erase all of these lines and put in 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' for google, I can emerge somethings but not other things (like xorg-server, I cannot emerge it and I receive a 'wget' error, which in turn I researched python versions, etc.) But then in about a 5min time span my /etc/resolv.conf gets reset to the same thing it had priorly in it with all of the apogee stuff in it.
2.) Man pages- I cannot open them....at all.

Obviously I know you guys and gals can only do so much with the information I posted above but I am posting this before one of my longer classes (I will be out in a couple of hours) in the hopes that I can get some people who are interested in helping so that I can come back after my class and post the needed information.

I apologize if I come off a bit frazzled. I have really been wanting to mess with Gentoo for a few months now and now that I can I am unable to.

Any help anyone can provide would be much appreciated. I know this is a learning process and I am enjoying that part as I would like to get to a level of understanding to give back to the community in the future

[bigbangnet]

If you can't emerge anything, you might want to post the output of your error here. You might has well do with with emerge -info too. Post your make.conf just in case. Lets start with that please.
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[AbsoluteZ3r0]

How should I mnt the flash drive?
I was looking around the web and found a tutorial that said to type 'fdisk -l' where I did find my flash drive as /dev/sdb1
From there it told me to make a directory like this 'mkdir /gentoo/mnt/flash'
This came and gave me an error that said this:
'Mkdir: cannot create directory '/gentoo/mnt/flash': No such file or directory

[NeddySeagoon]

AbsoluteZ3r0,

Your problem with /etc/resolv.conf being reset is due to your dhcp lease being renewed.
Lease times can be anything your ISP likes. If connection times are expected to be short,a low lease validity is set, if they are long, its normally made higher but need not be.

dhcp will ask to extend the lease before it expires.

Provided your static resolv.conf works, you can tell dhcp not to rewrite it. Look at /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.8.3-r1/net.example.bz2 to find out how. Put your version in place of 0.8.3-r1

Hint: nodns

This will allow wget to work, so you can download the sources you need for emerge to work.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[AbsoluteZ3r0]

Ok, I was following the file path to net.example.bz2 and opened it to find a maybe currupted file?
It has random letters and white squares on the text lines with various keyboard characters like @ and #.
Is there a website you would suggest that would give me the output of that file?

Thank you both for your help so far

[NeddySeagoon]

AbsoluteZ3r0,

The file is bzip2 compressed but less should be able to read it correctly as is.

[cwr]

[AbsoluteZ3r0]

Thank you all for the replies and help thus far!

NeddySeagoon, thank you for giving me the output of net.example.bz2. I tried using 'less' to open it and it wouldn't work for some reason. I am not sure if 'less' and 'more' are any bit related to each other in forms of where they are located and how they are installed for use, but I can use more just fine.

I am away from my desktop (that's where I have Gentoo) right now. So I am unable to play around with it but I am going to read through net.example.bz2 so when I get back I can see if I can get it up and going.

I will report back later to let you all know what I have accomplished.

Thank you all again for all of your help!

[AbsoluteZ3r0]

Ok, I got in and set it to extend the lease. But I found that I am still having issues with emerge. I really can't emerge anything. I tried 'man emerge' and I get: sh: /usr/bin/less: No such file or directory
-Is there anyway to fix this?

[nrezinorn]

The paths you are stating seem to indicate you are still in an install enviroment: ie, /gentoo/mnt/
Your problems with less, etc almost seems to me like you did an install, but missed some things somewhere along the lines.
What environment is the system currently in? Did you complete the install and reboot?

edit:
Also is apogeenet dialup? DSL? Cable?

[AbsoluteZ3r0]

I don't think I am in the install environment.
Ya I already rebooted.
I made a usr acc and a password and I su- to root.

Agogeenet is DSL.

I thought it was weird too, because as I looked around the web for answers to my questions it seemed that no one had the exact problem I had. Which I found weird, because I troubleshoot all the time on different things and and can usually find what I am looking for easily.

[cwr]

There's a problem with the current Stage3 files and /usr/bin/less - it was removed,
and packages depending on it weren't adjusted accordingly. The easiest approach
for the new user is to just "emerge less" as the first step after unpacking the Stage 3.

Will

[AbsoluteZ3r0]

Alright,
I ended up doing
dhcp_eth0="nodns", but I was still having a problem (Not totally sure if its them or not but,) with Apogeenet. After not being able to emerge less I went into my nameserver list and erased all of the apogeenet stuff. I then changed it to 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' and I tried emerging less again and it was a SUCCESS!!!!

Any advice on what I should emerge next? I tried xorg-server but had an issue again :/

[Hu]

Please describe in detail your issue installing x11-base/xorg-server.

[cwr]

[AbsoluteZ3r0]

Ok, I followed all that you suggested, cwr.

Everything worked great until I rebooted, where I still had an issue emerging xorg-x11.

I was trying to mnt my flashdrive so I could copy the build log and all of the other error stuff so I followed what you had posted earlier:

[NeddySeagoon]

AbsoluteZ3r0,

If your internet works by far the easiest way to post files and command output is with wgetpaste.
You emerge it in the normal way the use it as
<command> | wgetpaste
or
wgetpaste /path/to/file

It gives you the URL where you post can be found - share the URL with us.

If /mnt/gentoo does not exist, you need to make it using the mkdir command.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[AbsoluteZ3r0]

Thank you NeddySeagoon, I will remember that!

Here is the output I got with the error:

http://paste.pocoo.org/show/553577/

[NeddySeagoon]

AbsoluteZ3r0,

Please poust the output of the

[AbsoluteZ3r0]

Ok here is the result from emerge --info:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/553606/

[NeddySeagoon]

AbsoluteZ3r0,

[AbsoluteZ3r0]

*just had a light bulb moment*
Ahhhhh ok. This is all coming together for me now!

Ok I understand it much more now. I will be messing with it more today and into this week.

I will definitely report back and tell you guys when I have it done!


Thank you NeddySeagoon and everyone else for your helpful contributions to my problem!!!

[cwr]

[AbsoluteZ3r0]

Thank you all for your help!
This has been a huge learning experience!
Everything works now!
Thank you all again!m