Problems running Sabayon [Solved]

[chad1]

Hi there

First off, I am new to Gentoo/Sabayon and am really impressed so far!

I just installed Sabayon 4r1 x86_64

Everything was fine on first boot, now I'm running into problems.

I did the whole update thing and got kernel 2.6.28

Now when I boot into 2.6.28, it says can't find /root. so i put in /dev/sda3 and it boots. but now I can't get into gnome. it just flashes then takes me back to the login.

So I'm using KDE right now, but a bunch of programs don't open.

Even using kernel 2.6.27 won't open any programs.

Can someone please help me figure this out? I really like Sabayon and would love to use it.

Thank you

[micia]

You are in the Italian section of the forums, you could receive limited help in your language
[Edit] - micia: moved to correct section of the forums.

Maybe we could help you better if you post some informations on what you updated, or if you are able to post
some log file, see this topic to find out an easy way to do it:
http://forum.sabayonlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=15530

Probably the root of your problems is KNetworkManager or NetworkManager;
If you can't login just start a failsafe session and login as root.
Try to disable NetworkManager from the default services typing in a console as root:

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rc-update del NetworkManager default boot


reboot and see if now it works, however you could be unable to connect to internet,
to put NetworkManager back to the default services type:

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rc-update add NetworkManager default


see this topic, if this is the problem:
http://forum.sabayonlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=16007&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=20
You could try to use Wicd, I explain how to do that in the fifth page of that forum if I remember correctly

[chad1]

Oh haha! Thanks for letting me know. I will check out those links you gave me and if I need some more help i'll post in the english section =)

[chad1]

here's a quick question, whats the code to unmask?

[micia]

What do you mean for unmask?

[chad1]

well, i read in that link that the problem is in networkmanager 0.7 and people recommend to "downgrade" to 0.6

when i go to emerge net-misc/networkmanager-0.6.6-r1 it says that the package is masked.

so i want to unmask it, install, and then mask 0.7

i'm doing this all from terminal because spritz won't load

[micia]

I recommend you to verify that actually NetworkManager is the problem, trying to disable it;
however Spritz and emerge are not the same thing, they are different package managers,
when you will know something more go to the Wiki http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=Entropy
Emerge is the Gentoo way of handling things (directly from source compiling),
and is compatible with Sabayon (for which using Spritz or Equo is recommended).

Be sure, before using portage, to execute this command:

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emerge --sync && layman -S


after this, try again with:

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emerge =net-misc/networkmanager-0.6.6-r1


If it still says that it is masked then...
you could simply emerge the 0.6.6 version with:

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emerge =net-misc/networkmanager-0.6.6


or...
If you have portato installed (a GUI for the emerge command) try to start it, it will make emerging another version
of NetworkManager much simpler, if it does not, you should see the man pages of portage with the console
command:

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man portage


search for the package.mask and package.unmask paragraphs.
You could also consult the Gentoo Wiki http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=3&chap=3

[chad1]

Micia, you have been really helpful, thank you.

I think I really screwed up my system. I ran revdep-rebuild and got a whole bunch of errors haha

So I just decided to re-install Sabayon. On first boot, everything works fine. So before I update anything, I was wondering if you have any suggestions as to what I should do to get things running smoothly.

Is it possible to stay away from emerge and just use equo?

I want to learn this right lol!

[micia]

Well, if you had to reinstall everything probably I wasn't so helpful after all

First of all I learnt to hate NetworkManager, so my advise is to use Wicd; however don't update NetworkManager
or KNetworkManager, because the latest versions may cause some problems, wait for it to become stable.
There is, currently, also an issue with the synaptics touchpad, they are actually working for fixing it, so consider not
updating it too (the package is xf86-input-synaptics)...
If it becomes a problem, the solution is to bring back to the xorg.conf the touchpad configurations.

Equo and Spritz were meant for having an alternative to portage (Gentoo package manager), so you may very well stay away from it
the main difference from portage is that Equo and Spritz give you precompiled software, while emerge builds them just for your machine
from sources (this is why you have to be wise, expert and revdep-rebuild).
Using Entropy will save you from having to run any revdep-rebuild, modify any make.conf file, and so on...
But you will have, more likely, a less optimized and compact system.
As I told you before, see the Sabayon Wiki: http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=Entropy
(obviously from Sabayon 3.5 you don't need to install Entropy from Portage anymore)

Also, when an update for entropy, equo or spritz is available, be sure to update them first, using:

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equo install entropy equo spritz


If you have any question, doubt, anything regarding Sabayon, this forum is meant to be helpful for anyone,
come here and we will try to help.

[chad1]

Thanks =)

So i did

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equo install entropy equo spritz

and now I did

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equo install --ask wicd

now this is what I am told to do

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* Byte compiling python modules for python-2.5 .. ...                    [ ok ]
 * You may need to restart the dbus service after upgrading wicd.

 * To start wicd at boot, add /etc/init.d/wicd to a runlevel and:
 * - Remove all net.* initscripts (except for net.lo) from all runlevels
 * - Add these scripts to the RC_PLUG_SERVICES line in /etc/conf.d/rc
 * (For example, RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.eth0 !net.wlan0")


so now should i equo remove networkmanager?