Re: emerge gentoo-sources fails

assuming your doing the install in the chroot environment?

are you able to emerge any other sources?  e.g. vanilla-sources?

On 5/23/2013 12:12, Don Wilburn wrote:
> Dear Alpha list,
>
> My hard drive crashed, so I'm trying to reinstall from scratch.
> When I get to the emerge gentoo-sources step,  it seems to go all the
> way, then ends with a status 1 exit message.
>
> The log files do not indicate the reason for failure, just that it happens.
> During the installation, it throws up some errors about econfdir and
> /dev/fd/62 doesn't exist (I don't have it written down handy).  I'm
> thinking that happened before (when it worked) and didn't matter.
>
> I have tried several times.  I've wiped the drive between tries, changed
> my mirror list, changed profile...  no luck.
>
> I looked at the file date for the kernel source on a mirror.  It's
> pretty old, so it should be the same as what worked before.
> I'm wondering about the ebuild, but I don't how such things work.  It
> worked fine a couple weeks ago.
>
> Any suggestions about how to figure out the problem?
>
> I imagine that emerging gentoo-sources is best, but could I just
> download a 3.7.10 tgz file from www.kernel.org and make one that way?
>
> Adios,  DW
>