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bodhisattva at gt

May 23, 2013, 12:12 PM

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emerge gentoo-sources fails

Dear Alpha list,

My hard drive crashed, so I'm trying to reinstall from scratch.
When I get to the emerge gentoo-sources step, it seems to go all the
way, then ends with a status 1 exit message.

The log files do not indicate the reason for failure, just that it
happens.
During the installation, it throws up some errors about econfdir and
/dev/fd/62 doesn't exist (I don't have it written down handy). I'm
thinking that happened before (when it worked) and didn't matter.

I have tried several times. I've wiped the drive between tries, changed
my mirror list, changed profile... no luck.

I looked at the file date for the kernel source on a mirror. It's
pretty old, so it should be the same as what worked before.
I'm wondering about the ebuild, but I don't how such things work. It
worked fine a couple weeks ago.

Any suggestions about how to figure out the problem?

I imagine that emerging gentoo-sources is best, but could I just
download a 3.7.10 tgz file from www.kernel.org and make one that way?

Adios, DW

brianp at spamcop

May 23, 2013, 12:39 PM

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Re: emerge gentoo-sources fails [In reply to]

assuming your doing the install in the chroot environment?

are you able to emerge any other sources? e.g. vanilla-sources?

On 5/23/2013 12:12, Don Wilburn wrote:
> Dear Alpha list,
>
> My hard drive crashed, so I'm trying to reinstall from scratch.
> When I get to the emerge gentoo-sources step, it seems to go all the
> way, then ends with a status 1 exit message.
>
> The log files do not indicate the reason for failure, just that it happens.
> During the installation, it throws up some errors about econfdir and
> /dev/fd/62 doesn't exist (I don't have it written down handy). I'm
> thinking that happened before (when it worked) and didn't matter.
>
> I have tried several times. I've wiped the drive between tries, changed
> my mirror list, changed profile... no luck.
>
> I looked at the file date for the kernel source on a mirror. It's
> pretty old, so it should be the same as what worked before.
> I'm wondering about the ebuild, but I don't how such things work. It
> worked fine a couple weeks ago.
>
> Any suggestions about how to figure out the problem?
>
> I imagine that emerging gentoo-sources is best, but could I just
> download a 3.7.10 tgz file from www.kernel.org and make one that way?
>
> Adios, DW
>

bodhisattva at gt

May 23, 2013, 2:30 PM

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Re: emerge gentoo-sources fails [In reply to]

>assuming your doing the install in the chroot environment?
Yes. The clock is right too. (A flaky year seems to be a factory
defect, but I digress...)

>are you able to emerge any other sources? e.g. vanilla-sources?
No. I had tried gentoo-sources this morning from clean reinstall
attempt. That failed, so I emailed this list. After the response, I
tried emerge vanilla-sources. Same result. Then I tried emerge -tav
vanilla-sources.
This put a lot of messages in the log. It ended with:
--/usr/srce/linux-3.7.10/arch/m68k/kernel/
>>>Failed to install sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-3.7.10, ...
Same result.

I looked at the log and there were one or two arches above m68k, but
nothing after. There was no arch/alpha, or even x86. Looks suspicious.
Bad kernel source archive?

Adios, DW

brianp at spamcop

May 24, 2013, 11:59 AM

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Re: emerge gentoo-sources fails [In reply to]

I'm running an emerge --sync now.

We'll see if I can't emerge gentoo-sources (I'm currently running 3.7.9).

On 5/23/2013 14:30, Don Wilburn wrote:
> >assuming your doing the install in the chroot environment?
> Yes. The clock is right too. (A flaky year seems to be a factory
> defect, but I digress...)
>
> >are you able to emerge any other sources? e.g. vanilla-sources?
> No. I had tried gentoo-sources this morning from clean reinstall
> attempt. That failed, so I emailed this list. After the response, I
> tried emerge vanilla-sources. Same result. Then I tried emerge -tav
> vanilla-sources.
> This put a lot of messages in the log. It ended with:
> --/usr/srce/linux-3.7.10/arch/m68k/kernel/
> >>>Failed to install sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-3.7.10, ...
> Same result.
>
> I looked at the log and there were one or two arches above m68k, but
> nothing after. There was no arch/alpha, or even x86. Looks suspicious.
> Bad kernel source archive?
>
> Adios, DW
>
>

brianp at spamcop

May 24, 2013, 1:16 PM

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Re: emerge gentoo-sources fails [In reply to]

emerge gentoo-sources emerge'd 3.9.3 not 3.9.10

Doesn't appear that 3.9.10 is available yet.

alpha-omega linux # emerge --search gentoo-sources
Searching...
[ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
Latest version available: 3.9.3
Latest version installed: 3.9.3
Size of files: 70,535 kB
Homepage: http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches
Description: Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the
3.9 kernel tree
License: GPL-2 !deblob? ( freedist )

On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 11:59 -0700, Brian Parkhurst wrote:
> I'm running an emerge --sync now.
>
> We'll see if I can't emerge gentoo-sources (I'm currently running 3.7.9).
>
>
>
> On 5/23/2013 14:30, Don Wilburn wrote:
> > >assuming your doing the install in the chroot environment?
> > Yes. The clock is right too. (A flaky year seems to be a factory
> > defect, but I digress...)
> >
> > >are you able to emerge any other sources? e.g. vanilla-sources?
> > No. I had tried gentoo-sources this morning from clean reinstall
> > attempt. That failed, so I emailed this list. After the response, I
> > tried emerge vanilla-sources. Same result. Then I tried emerge -tav
> > vanilla-sources.
> > This put a lot of messages in the log. It ended with:
> > --/usr/srce/linux-3.7.10/arch/m68k/kernel/
> > >>>Failed to install sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-3.7.10, ...
> > Same result.
> >
> > I looked at the log and there were one or two arches above m68k, but
> > nothing after. There was no arch/alpha, or even x86. Looks suspicious.
> > Bad kernel source archive?
> >
> > Adios, DW
> >
> >
>

brianp at spamcop

May 24, 2013, 1:23 PM

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Re: emerge gentoo-sources fails [In reply to]

Not sure about 3.7.10,

http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources?arches=all&full_cat

shows the correct arch's

On 5/24/2013 13:16, Brian Parkhurst wrote:
> emerge gentoo-sources emerge'd 3.9.3 not 3.9.10
>
> Doesn't appear that 3.9.10 is available yet.
>
> alpha-omega linux # emerge --search gentoo-sources
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
> * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
> Latest version available: 3.9.3
> Latest version installed: 3.9.3
> Size of files: 70,535 kB
> Homepage: http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches
> Description: Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the
> 3.9 kernel tree
> License: GPL-2 !deblob? ( freedist )
>
> On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 11:59 -0700, Brian Parkhurst wrote:
>> I'm running an emerge --sync now.
>>
>> We'll see if I can't emerge gentoo-sources (I'm currently running 3.7.9).
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/23/2013 14:30, Don Wilburn wrote:
>>> >assuming your doing the install in the chroot environment?
>>> Yes. The clock is right too. (A flaky year seems to be a factory
>>> defect, but I digress...)
>>>
>>> >are you able to emerge any other sources? e.g. vanilla-sources?
>>> No. I had tried gentoo-sources this morning from clean reinstall
>>> attempt. That failed, so I emailed this list. After the response, I
>>> tried emerge vanilla-sources. Same result. Then I tried emerge -tav
>>> vanilla-sources.
>>> This put a lot of messages in the log. It ended with:
>>> --/usr/srce/linux-3.7.10/arch/m68k/kernel/
>>> >>>Failed to install sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-3.7.10, ...
>>> Same result.
>>>
>>> I looked at the log and there were one or two arches above m68k, but
>>> nothing after. There was no arch/alpha, or even x86. Looks suspicious.
>>> Bad kernel source archive?
>>>
>>> Adios, DW
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>

bodhisattva at gt

May 24, 2013, 1:46 PM

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Re: emerge gentoo-sources fails [In reply to]

I got 3.7.10 from www.kernel.org yesterday evening. I didn't really
want to do it a la carte, so to speak, but it looks like I kept getting
defective source from gentoo mirrors. I guess my mind was closed to
that possibility. It worked before, so why would it change?

It took a couple iterations to get the kernel config right, but my alpha
works once more.

>I'm running an emerge --sync now.
I'll be curious to see the gentoo-sources result.

Adios, DW

bodhisattva at gt

May 24, 2013, 1:56 PM

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Re: emerge gentoo-sources fails [In reply to]

On 5/24/2013 3:16 PM, Brian Parkhurst wrote:
> emerge gentoo-sources emerge'd 3.9.3 not 3.9.10

3.7.10 is the last one marked stable for alpha on the gentoo packages
site. Mine isn's set up to allow anything unstable.

Adios, DW

brianp at spamcop

May 24, 2013, 1:58 PM

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Re: emerge gentoo-sources fails [In reply to]

I'll attempt to download and install gentoo-source-3.7.10 here. I'm
current genkernel building 3.9.3 for kicks at the moment.

On 5/24/2013 13:56, Don Wilburn wrote:
> On 5/24/2013 3:16 PM, Brian Parkhurst wrote:
>> emerge gentoo-sources emerge'd 3.9.3 not 3.9.10
>
> 3.7.10 is the last one marked stable for alpha on the gentoo packages
> site. Mine isn's set up to allow anything unstable.
>
> Adios, DW
>
>

brianp at spamcop

May 24, 2013, 2:12 PM

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Re: emerge gentoo-sources fails [In reply to]

emerge of 3.7.10 succeeded, currently attempting a genkernel build.

On 5/24/2013 13:58, Brian Parkhurst wrote:
> I'll attempt to download and install gentoo-source-3.7.10 here. I'm
> current genkernel building 3.9.3 for kicks at the moment.
>
>
> On 5/24/2013 13:56, Don Wilburn wrote:
>> On 5/24/2013 3:16 PM, Brian Parkhurst wrote:
>>> emerge gentoo-sources emerge'd 3.9.3 not 3.9.10
>>
>> 3.7.10 is the last one marked stable for alpha on the gentoo packages
>> site. Mine isn's set up to allow anything unstable.
>>
>> Adios, DW
>>
>>
>

brianp at spamcop

May 24, 2013, 3:29 PM

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Re: emerge gentoo-sources fails [In reply to]

I've successfully built a kernel. I'll reboot the host later this
evening when I'm home and can kick it if the boot hangs.

On 5/24/2013 13:58, Brian Parkhurst wrote:
> I'll attempt to download and install gentoo-source-3.7.10 here. I'm
> current genkernel building 3.9.3 for kicks at the moment.
>
>
> On 5/24/2013 13:56, Don Wilburn wrote:
>> On 5/24/2013 3:16 PM, Brian Parkhurst wrote:
>>> emerge gentoo-sources emerge'd 3.9.3 not 3.9.10
>>
>> 3.7.10 is the last one marked stable for alpha on the gentoo packages
>> site. Mine isn's set up to allow anything unstable.
>>
>> Adios, DW
>>
>>
>

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