My Gentoo Install Problems

[Slougi]

Are you sure it says "segmentation failed", not "segmentation fault"?

 

[mesman00]

yah it is segmentation fault, but still, ayntthing i can do?

 

[Slougi]

segmentation fault == crash

Propably the compiler crashed? You could try again. If it crashes at some other point, it is propably your system. If it crashes at the same point something else is wrong. As an interim solution, you could emerge fluxbox, so you get a nice light weight desktop, and then try kde again.

http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ here is a nice site that explains segmentation faults in great detail It is a little old, so the hardware discussed is not all that knew, but the idea is still the same.

 

[mesman00]

it keeps crashing at the same point, everytime i try it, i downloaded the newest version of qt and burned it on a cd, so how do i install that now from the bash promt?

 

[Malcolm]

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*Note* Gentoo 1.4_rc3 released.
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[mesman00]

slougi, i went to the link you suggested, ran the

dd if=/dev/HARD_DISK of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=MEGS

test, and the result it gave me was:

512+0 in
512+0 out

what does this mean? also, this error keeps occuring at the exact same point. could it be something with the program itself. also, how do i download the new version of qt from the bash prompt and install it. is there a way?

Originally posted by Malcom
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*Note* Gentoo 1.4_rc3 released.
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is there a way to just update my files? like an update tool or something

 

[Slougi]

slougi, i went to the link you suggested, ran the

dd if=/dev/HARD_DISK of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=MEGS

test, and the result it gave me was:

512+0 in
512+0 out

what does this mean? also, this error keeps occuring at the exact same point. could it be something with the program itself. also, how do i download the new version of qt from the bash prompt and install it. is there a way?

The dd results seem ok. It was meant more as an informative site anyway
Well, it might be that the temp files do not get cleaned out properly. Delete everything in /var/tmp/portage:

cd /var/tmp
rm -rfv portage/

After that get the latest portage tree:

emerge sync

Then try it one more time (emerge kde I mean), just to see if this fixes it. If it does not, it might be a good idea to file a bug report. I am not quite sure about binary packages, I'll look into it.

is there a way to just update my files? like an update tool or something

Sure

emerge sync
emerge -u world

This will update your system The version numbers in gentoo are pretty meaningless, they refer to the install cd's mainly.

 

[mesman00]

nice, ill try these things, but prolly not till the weekend, thanks.