[Hudlug] Gentoo problems!!

[Chris Lindley]

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 13:13, scotgateorg.chris.lindley@ukservers.net
wrote:
Hi,

this was also due to the SCSI bus problems!!

> Hi,
> 
> well as I mentioned on the list a few days ago I decided to give Gentoo a 
> go!!
> 
> Well here I am four days later with a barely working system:-(
> 
> I finally managed to get 1.2 installed.  The problem here I think was that 
> the cdrom drive was slightly dodgy (I couldn't boot the install cd from my 
> scsi drives, so had to temporarily add an ide one).  replacing it enabled me 
> to install 1.2.  I went to stage 3 though as I really wanted my system up 
> and running!
> 
> So far after this, I've recompiled the kernel, got samba up and running 
> (this machine serves files to my wife's machine), and assrtd apps like VI, 
> Lynx and slrn.
> 
> However for the life of me this dammed machine will not compile X.
> 
> I've done a emerge --update gcc and emerge --update system. But X 4.2.1 will 
> not compile!
> 
> It barfs with a parse error, and Function Src_install, line 210, ext code 2.
> 
> Now I am NOT an expert on compiling, so am really struggling now!
> 
> My machine was overclocked, but underclocking and having conservative 
> settings for memory does not help in the slightest!
> 
> ...and to cap it all everytime I try to recompile, emerge tells me that the 
> source files are corrupt, and I need to delete them and redownload!!
> 
> Obviously it is likely that these two problems are related.  But I'm using 
> the default gentoo download sources.
> 
> All I can think is that somehow my drives are being corrupted and this is 
> the problem!
> 
> Any help/advice please, please mail me!!
> 
> BTW this is a thread on gentoo forums:-
> 
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=22734
> 
> Cheers
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
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