Si Veteran Posted April 16, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 16, 2004 I believe I have borked my Gentoo install :( I did an emerge -u world yesterday, and did the whole yes yes yes yes thing to etc-update (bad move I am thinking). My startx command now takes me into CDE :x, and I get a filesystem error everytime I boot up, something about a bad superblock. If I ignore it, everything is fine (weird). I can get into KDE via kdm, but GNOME is borked as it doesn't get past the 'Desktop settings' part of the spash screen. Do I have to rebuild? :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noir Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 What filesystem do you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 16, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 16, 2004 ext3 for /boot, reiser for /root, as it suggests in the install guide (I think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 man I did the same thing a while back. What happens is that -u might mess up. I believe that -U should keep that from happening. As I said I did the same thing a while ago and finally decided to wipe the whole hard drive clean and just install xp and slackware. Right now I am in the process of changing the slackware install to gentoo again, but as I think back on it I bet if I just went and did an emerge -Uvh world it would work so try that: emerge -Uvh world or to complete update to the latest cutting edge ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -Uvh world if your system isn't x86 you will have to change that accordingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gr_Terror Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 check ur fstab and rc.conf in /etc! maybe they have been replaced by the default ones while u where doing etc-update. as for this: My startx command now takes me into CDE check the last line in rc.conf mine is XSESSION="gnome" change according to whats in ur /etc/X11/Sessions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 16, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 16, 2004 check ur fstab and rc.conf in /etc! maybe they have been replaced by the default ones while u where doing etc-update.as for this: check the last line in rc.conf mine is XSESSION="gnome" change according to whats in ur /etc/X11/Sessions I think you are right :D The XSESSION= was commented out(!) But Gnome still stops on the 'desktop settings' part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 what applications and configs did you update? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 I believe what happens for gnome is that parts of gnome don't match or are missing. With emerge -u world, parts of the system can be downgraded or deleted. I think that one of those two happened. Another option besides emerge -Uvh world is to emerge a new version of gnome. I suggest gnome 2.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 16, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 16, 2004 what applications and configs did you update? lol I have no idea I just pressed y, enter, y, enter, y, enter.... :rofl: I will pay more attention next time! Kongit, is 2.6 in portage yet? It shows 2.4 for me even after a emerge sync? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 what does ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv gnome show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 lol I have no idea I just pressed y, enter, y, enter, y, enter.... :rofl:I will pay more attention next time! Kongit, is 2.6 in portage yet? It shows 2.4 for me even after a emerge sync? I am emerging gnome 2.6 as I type. You have to use the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS as kemical wrote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[idkfa] Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 when using etc-update, never ever just overwrite your old configs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 when using etc-update, never ever just overwrite your old configs! I just overwrite them and I have never had a problem (I consider saving the old ones in the same directory as the news rather messy). I do take caution and after I emerge something very large which would require me to update my configs I make a backup tar of my /etc directory excluding /etc/X11 befure usint etc-update. However it is easier, and maybe better to save the old ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 when i run etc-update it makes backups of the configs ti writes over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 16, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 16, 2004 emerging Gnome 2.6 now, I did ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -ku gnome is that right? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 emerging Gnome 2.6 now, I did ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -ku gnome is that right? :D what type of processor do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 oh and -k will install a binary (I didn't know there was one for gnome 2.6), I think that compiling gnome yourself might give it a little extra performace, however it takes forever to compile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 16, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 16, 2004 what type of processor do you have? Its a P4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Its a P4 execellent :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 19, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 19, 2004 Another problem :D, I tried to build Gentoo on my own machine yesterday (the above is one at work) and everything went well until I hit this message after the first reboot: 'attempt to access beyond end of device 01:00: rw=0, want=4179, limit=4096' Is this a problem with my /etc/fstab file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 post your fstab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 19, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 19, 2004 Wheee it's working! :D I started from the beginnning again, I am using the gentoo-dev-sources (2.6.5) and everything is going great, I am emerging xfree right now :D It was my fstab file I think, I made a typo in the nano -w /etc/fstab command I think, as it was blank when I did it yesterday and today I got an example file :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 :D yay. typos are a bitch ain't they. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 19, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 19, 2004 meh.... kde takes so long to compile... zzzzz :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 meh.... kde takes so long to compile... zzzzz :( emerge fluxbox or some other lightweight wm, then you can use that while kde is compiling :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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