Post install of 3.5 Package updates and tweaks/tuning.

[jiminez]

OK, I held out as long as I could before finally upgrading my 3.4 to 3.5 and now there are quite a few packages that need to be updated after the install. In addition there are several tweaks and additional things to do to tune out this install and make it personalized as was my 3.4 Install.

I decided to clean out the 3.4 install completely by selectin the install instead of upgrade after I burned the DVD. I figured I would run into less issues that way. I had partitioned my home directory seperate from the rest of my system just for such situations. That way I don't actually lose anything. I selected format for all my other partitions so I basically have a fresh install.

I am writing this from my second install like this now because the first one would no longer boot after trying the equo install && equo world. I didn't lose anything by trying it and I kind of thought I would have trouble since I was unfamiliar with equo/spritz although I did read the how-to for that section.

What I am hoping this post will result in is info on what to leave out of the list of packages to update and what order to update those that can be updated in addition to other information about what other people have done after the install to get their Sabayon installation to look cool or perform better etc. How to keep equo and portage both working together. Perhaps this will be a springboard for content that will eventually replace the how-to section of the sabayon wiki that is still geared toward the 3.4 installation.

Lets start it out with recommendations on the package updates, the order etc. Perhaps someone will simply tell me that equo update && equo world should have worked fine and I have another issue as far as that goes, but let's not stop there. We all installed the sabayon distor because we believed it was the best for us. Let's discuss what we did to it to make it better than it is right off the DVD.

[wolfden]

equo update && equo world

than

equo update && equo world

should be all ya need. Make sure you have the latest video card drivers before rebooting as you will have a newer kernel

that is all to recommend for an entropy update - there is no which package to install first or order.

It's recommend, as it always has been, to pick one package manager and stick with it.

[jiminez]

OK, I spent some time doing that a couple of times.....
Basically a fresh install of 3.5 on my amd64 system with Nvidia 6800 at 2.5GB Ram and Audigy audio.

I booted up and went to command line from the xdm (ctrl-alt-f1) logged in as root and did:
equo update && equo world.

It will then run for several hours until it gets to sys-libs:glibc-2.8_p20080602~0 where the following error occurs:

/bin/date: relocation error: /lib/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_tls_get_addr_soft, versi
on GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 with link time referen
ce
*
* ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called pkg_preinst
* environment, line 3259: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* "${D}"/$(get_libdir)/ld-*.so --library-path "${D}"/$(get_libdir) ${ x} > /dev/null || die "simple run test (${x}) failed";
* The die message:
* simple run test (/bin/date) failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if rele vant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/lib/entropy/logs/sys-libs:glibc-2.8_ p20080602:20081020-171617.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/entropy/packages/amd64/3. 5/sys-libs:glibc-2.8_p20080602~0.tbz2/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602/temp/ environment'.
* This ebuild is from an overlay: '/var/tmp/entropy/packages/amd64/3.5/sys-libs :glibc-2.8_p20080602~0.tbz2/'
*
>> ## Installing package: sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602
Bus error
sabayonx86-64 ~ #

I then continued the world update and all updates went in after that. a final check with equo update && equo world said nothing to do.....

Upon a reboot I got a kernel panic error while loading shared libs /lib/libc.so.6 file too short

I then booted from the DVD and created a chroot environment. I had to replace the /lib/libc-2.6.1.so to my chroot and the /lib/librt-2.6.1.so to my chroot env. That gave me enough to chroot into my environment and try again, but I get the same error.

disclaimer: It looks like the same error, but I copied that from the chroot install attempt there was no way to save the
error for you otherwise.

I originally got this same issue updating using the graphical tooll but I updated critical objects first and then tried to finish the update but it of course died in the middle and I blamed it on the graphical tool and decided to try the command line only method.