Mike wrote: "I fear you have just only gotten through the easy part!!" Mike's words rang true this morning. While doing "tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr" the machine stopped dead. This has happened twice. I fear that I do not have enough hard disk space, but I would hope for a gentler error message. Here is Gentoo Install's last gasp while extracting the Portage snap shot. I was connected to the Gentoo box via ssh. ------------snip from tar output--------- portage/eclass/tla.eclass portage/eclass/perl-app.eclass portage/eclass/gtk-engines.eclass portage/eclass/perl-post.eclass portage/eclass/rpm.eclass portage/eclass/rox.eclass portage/eclass/xfree.eclass Read from remote host 192.168.1.110: No route to host Connection to 192.168.1.110 closed. [1]+ Done emacs /root/.ssh/known_hosts [root@kjones-fedora .ssh]# --------end snip---------- At this point all terminals on the machine do not respond. Is there a way that I can get back to this stage? If I power cycle I get back to the livecd prompt and all my INSTALL work is lost - I think. If [stop a] works I still must boot cdrom to get started again. Any ideas? Here is the hard disk/partition setup. They are not very big :'( -----------snip from fdisk results---------- livecd gentoo # fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 135 sectors, 3880 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2160 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0 463 500040 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 u 463 694 249480 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 0 3880 4190400 5 Whole disk /dev/sda4 694 3880 3440880 83 Linux native Command (m for help): q livecd gentoo # fdisk /dev/sdb Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 19 heads, 80 sectors, 2733 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1520 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 0 658 500080 83 Linux native /dev/sdb2 u 658 2733 1577000 83 Linux native /dev/sdb3 0 2733 2077080 5 Whole disk Ken Jones
On Tuesday 10 April 2007, ken jones wrote:
While doing "tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr" the machine stopped dead. This has happened twice. I fear that I do not have enough hard disk space, but I would hope for a gentler error message.
i doubt disk space has anything to do with it ... if the machine bit it like this, it's because the kernel barfed either due to bad driver or bad hardware i'd try a few diff livecds and if those dont help, drop into the #gentoo-sparc channel on irc.freenode.net where all of the sparc guys can give you real inside pointers -mike
Mike> On Tuesday 10 April 2007, ken jones wrote:
While doing "tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr" the machine stopped dead. This has happened twice. I fear that I do not have enough hard disk space, but I would hope for a gentler error message.
Mike> i doubt disk space has anything to do with it ... if the machine Mike> bit it like this, it's because the kernel barfed either due to Mike> bad driver or bad hardware It smells like bad hardware to me... what you can do is drop down to the openprom prompt (ok) and do the following: ok setenv diag-switch? true ok setenv diag-level max ok setenv auto-boot? false ok reset And watch what happens on bootup. This will test the machine a bit more and let you know what's happening. Also, the Ultra 1s had a bad problem with the CPU fans, I ended up replacing dozens of them at a past job. Open the case and make sure the CPU fan is running. While oyu're in there, blow out any dust you can with some compressed air, just to make sure. If the CPU fan isn't spinning, then you know where there problem is. Also, if I could, I'd just give you some old Sparc 60s we're scapping here at work... :] John john@stoffel.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Why not also try an emerge sync as opposed to exploding the latest portage tarball. More to what others are saying, my laptop that overheats has a similar problem where it will tank under an enourmous load (the temp gets to 84C). I never had a problem with the fan on the sparc so I never replaced it. Eric John Stoffel wrote:
Mike> On Tuesday 10 April 2007, ken jones wrote:
While doing "tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr" the machine stopped dead. This has happened twice. I fear that I do not have enough hard disk space, but I would hope for a gentler error message.
Mike> i doubt disk space has anything to do with it ... if the machine Mike> bit it like this, it's because the kernel barfed either due to Mike> bad driver or bad hardware
It smells like bad hardware to me... what you can do is drop down to the openprom prompt (ok) and do the following:
ok setenv diag-switch? true ok setenv diag-level max ok setenv auto-boot? false ok reset
And watch what happens on bootup. This will test the machine a bit more and let you know what's happening.
Also, the Ultra 1s had a bad problem with the CPU fans, I ended up replacing dozens of them at a past job. Open the case and make sure the CPU fan is running. While oyu're in there, blow out any dust you can with some compressed air, just to make sure.
If the CPU fan isn't spinning, then you know where there problem is.
Also, if I could, I'd just give you some old Sparc 60s we're scapping here at work... :]
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