Gentoo Problem...


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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? :(

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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.

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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 maybe they have been replaced by the default ones while u where doing etc-update.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

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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 maybe they have been replaced by the default ones while u where doing etc-update.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

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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

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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?

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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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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

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