Hello list members. I just joined the list and am looking forward to participating and learning. I am in the process of installing Gentoo and have run into a problem that will not go away. I have researched it in the Gentoo forums, but have not found a definite solution to the problem. I hope that I am not missing anything because I realize how frustrating it can be to deal with recurring questions.
I am running an AMD k6-2 500 MHZ processor on a FIC VA-503+ motherboard. Initially, I had only 128MB of RAM and was installing the 2005.0 release of Gentoo following instructions from the verbose handbook. I opted to go with a stage 1 tarball and was doing fine until the bootstrap process. My computer chugged away for quite some time and suddenly gave up. Above the four lines of `!!!' messages, I saw a message indicating that the error was not software based and was most likely a hardware/OS problem. I went to the Gentoo forums and tried looking this up and found several different posts. Unfortunately, I didn't find the forum interface very easy to navigate, but my search yielded an interesting document: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-319349.html Which gives instructions for performing a stage 1 install using a stage 3 tarball. I thought, somehow, that since this came up as part of my search results, I would try this. Furthermore, the reasoning behind it made sense to me and it sounded like a challenge (I can't resist a good challenge). However, I am still encountering an error at the point where I am at section 7.1 Building the Toolkit: GCC 3.3.5 in the document I referenced above. I have determined that the error occurs quite a ways into the glibc portion of the `emerge gcc-config glibc binutils gcc' by running each command separately. I investigated further and saw messages from others having similar problems. Another possible reason for the error is that the system runs out of memory. However, I have upgraded to 512MB of memory and am still experiencing the problem. I do have swap space allocated and see it available when I type `free' but it doesn't seem to be used. I checked regularly during the emerge process and it was either not used at all or used very little. Here is the last screen at which the error occurs. Unfortunately, I am not able to scroll back any further due to the limitations of speakup (I am a blind Linux user and use speakup to get text from the screen spoken). _________________________________________________________________ e754 -I../sysdeps/generic/elf -I../sysdeps/generic -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/include -isystem /usr/include -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include ../include/libc-symbols.h -DNOT_IN_libc=1 -DIS_IN_librt=1 -DBROKEN_THREAD_SIGNALS -o /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/aio_notify.og -MD -MP -MF /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/aio_notify.og.dt -MT /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/aio_notify.og The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem. make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/lio_listio64.og] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/glibc-2.3.4/rt' make[1]: *** [rt/others] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/glibc-2.3.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1 failed. !!! Function toolchain-glibc_src_compile, Line 237, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. livecd / # _________________________________________________________________ Again, this is generally the same error I got when bootstrapping. Here is a copy of my make.conf: _________________________________________________________________ # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k6-2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} # "x86" refers to the stable software branch # "~x86" refers to the testing software branch ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage DISTDIR=${PORTDIR}/distfiles PKGDIR=${PORTDIR}/packages PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://gentoo.risq.qc.ca/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo"; SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" RSYNC_RETRIES="3" RSYNC_TIMEOUT="180" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PORTAGE_NICENESS="3" AUTOCLEAN="yes" FEATURES="ccache distlocks sandbox userpriv usersandbox" CCACHE_SIZE="512M" RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes #USE="ithreads nptl accessibility aac aim icq msn yahoo audiofile \ # bash-completion bzip2 cdparanoia curl curlwrappers doc emacs \ # encode examples flac flash ftp imap java javascript mad mime \ # ming mysql mysqli offensive ogg openal pdflib php sasl sox \ # speex spl usb vorbis win32codecs xml \ # -apm -emboss -fortran" USE="nptl" _________________________________________________________________ I know I am following the instructions to the letter, so I don't believe I am doing anything wrong. Btw, the commented USE section was something I used and abandoned. I thought that maybe the number of USE flag had something to do with the error, but it doesn't appear to. Ah yes, and if this helps, here is what `uname -a' says: Linux livecd 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP Fri Mar 18 17:53:40 UTC 2005 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux I would appreciate any help that anyone has to offer. If this has been covered before, please forgive me and point me to the right resources. I am hoping that I can continue with this interesting installation process of using a stage 3 tarball for a stage 1 install. Although I barely know anything about Gentoo, it sounds really awesome. I appreciate your time in reading this lengthy, rambly message. :-) Best regards, -- "Let music echo the thoughts of your soul." -- Jason Castonguay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
