On Wed 14 Sep 2011 08:31:56 PM IST, Trifu Catalin Florin wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all > the steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm > stuck trying to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an > Athlon processor and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The > error can be seen bellow: > > Making all in emacs > make[3]: Entering directory > `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68/lib/emacs' > WARNING: Warnings can be ignored. :-) > touch: setting times of `elc-temp': No such file or directory > make[3]: *** [elc-stamp] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68/lib/emacs' > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68/lib' > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68' > make: *** [all] Error 2 > emake failed > * ERROR: sys-devel/autoconf-2.68 failed (compile phase): > * emake failed > * > * Call stack: > * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_compile > * environment, line 147: Called _eapi2_src_compile > * ebuild.sh, line 669: Called die > * The specific snippet of code: > * emake || die "emake failed" > * > * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info > =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68', > * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv > =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68'. > * The complete build log is located at > '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/build.log'. > * The ebuild environment file is located at > '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/environment'. > * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68' > > >>> Failed to emerge sys-devel/autoconf-2.68, Log file: > > >>> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/build.log' > > * Messages for package sys-devel/autoconf-2.68: > > * ERROR: sys-devel/autoconf-2.68 failed (compile phase): > * emake failed > * > * Call stack: > * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_compile > * environment, line 147: Called _eapi2_src_compile > * ebuild.sh, line 669: Called die > * The specific snippet of code: > * emake || die "emake failed" > * > * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info > =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68', > * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv > =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68'. > * The complete build log is located at > '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/build.log'. > * The ebuild environment file is located at > '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/environment'. > * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68' > > * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. > > * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. > * Use eselect news to read news items. > > > > The same error I get for vixie-cron. > > Some other things worth mentioning: > - portage didn't request for an update > - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of > mirrors or something similar. > > I will really appreciate your help as my "server" is down for two days > now. > > Thank you! > > Best regards!
It would be more helpful if you could post the details emerge asks you to, before terminating. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
