Howdy, I got down to the time zone part. When I try to run emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data I get this output.
(chroot) livecd / # emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data Configuring pkg... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.12/emerge", line 57, in main retval = emerge_main() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/_emerge/main.py", line 1308, in emerge_main return run_action(emerge_config) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 3876, in run_action return action_config( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 758, in action_config retval = portage.doebuild( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line 1218, in doebuild rval = _prepare_env_file(mysettings) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line 1686, in _prepare_env_file env_extractor.start() File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 34, in start self._start() File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/_emerge/BinpkgEnvExtractor.py", line 43, in _start env=self.settings.environ(), ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py", line 3378, in environ raise AssertionError( AssertionError: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8 for posixish locale. It seems that split_LC_ALL was not called for phase config? (chroot) livecd / # The next section is locale so I skipped ahead to set the locale settings but nothing I do gets me past this error. Did I miss a step somewhere? I'm currently booted from the Gentoo LiveGUI USB Image and am in the chroot. I been following the handbook with the parts that apply to me but maybe I missed something??? This is the current setting. (chroot) livecd / # eselect locale list Available targets for the LANG variable: [1] C [2] C.utf8 [3] en_US [4] en_US.iso88591 [5] en_US.utf8 [6] POSIX [7] en_US.UTF8 * [ ] (free form) (chroot) livecd / # I also tried setting it to #5. Same error but works on current rig. Anyone know what I missed? I even tried copying settings from my current rig but same error. I've also ran the following after each setting I tried. env-update && source /etc/profile && export PS1="(chroot) ${PS1}" Any thoughts? Dale :-) :-)