problem loading KDE after updating portage

[Malcolm]

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap11

 

[mesman00]

after bootstrapping an emerging system, am i gonna have to re-setup my kernel, or will that all be saved?

 

[Malcolm]

you're going to have to recompile your kernel but your .conf file _shouldn't_ be overridden; I'd make a back-up anyways.

 

[Slougi]

Umm, no, you don't need to recompile the kernel. Also alternatively to bootstrapping you could just get a stage 3 tarball and extract that.

 

[mesman00]

still having some problems. let me try to explain it as best as possible: this is exactly what i'm doing

first, set up network:

modprobe 3189too (my ethernet drivers)
net-setup eth0
ifconfig (test to make sure it works)

next, mount drives:

mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/gentoo (root)
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/gentoo/boot (boot)

setting up from stage 3 (as slougi suggested for ease, atleast for right now):

cd /mnt/gentoo
tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/stage3-*.tbz2
mount -o /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile

ok, now i do emerge baselayout to downgrade:

emerge baselayout

at the end of the merge i get the following error:

error scanning /etc
error scanning /etc/kde3.1/... (not sure the rest of the path)

if i try to go to /etc by doing cd /etc i get the error:

the specified path does not exist

if i try to boot up gentoo, i still get the same kernel error:

kernel panic: no kernel init

what do you guys got for me?

 

[Slougi]

Erm, check that you *have* an /etc directory at all, because it seems that you for whatever reason do not. Maybe you need to run fsck on the partition? Remember to do that only if it is mounted read only (boot from livecd -> mount -o ro -t [type of partition] /dev/hdx[1-9] /mnt/whatever

 

[mesman00]

what exactly does running fsck do? is that the same as efsck?

 

[Slougi]

Fsck is the *nix equivalent of scandisk, afaik it stands for file system check.

 

[mesman00]

ok, i ran e2fsck i the drive and repaired it. then i did unpacked stage 3 tarbell, re-emerge baselayout. but, i still get the error scanning /etc and error scaning /usr/kde/.... (not sure the entire path). i can acess the etc directory, and i can get into /usr. However, in /usr there is no kde directory.

*edit* so i tried recompiling my kernel, but to no avail. i get the same error. is there anything i can do after recompiling the kernel, or before. obviously i am not doing something right.

 

[Slougi]

In that case I really do not know. The last thing I can think of is a permission problem, but that is a very very long shot.

 

[mesman00]

eeek, the last thing i want to do is scratch the whole root and start over.

 

[Slougi]

Can you still access /etc and so on if you just change to that dir in a terminal?

 

[mesman00]

i can acess /etc fine, but it doesn't seem like the /usr/kde directory exists