How do I fix?

[odd nest]

What command did you run when that happened?

[zealous mural]

emerge-webrsync

[odd nest]

guessing the (ch) is your chroot ps1?

[zealous mural]

yeah

first time installing

so

I had some errors but fixed em

expect this one

it's taking forever lol

it took 1 hour to troubleshoot last error

[odd nest]

Hmm I've not seen that error before

Does emerge --sync throw the same? As I understand it, webrsync is just an alternate version of that command

[zealous mural]

lemme try that

[odd nest]

nice for half-set up networks or if you're low on bandwidth

[zealous mural]

same error I think text color just white

[odd nest]

Oh right

cat /etc/portage/make.conf ?

[zealous mural]

run that command?

[odd nest]

This is why we ask for the whole error, as text. The important part is at the top in this instance

[zealous mural]

ok

[odd nest]

yeah, cat will just show you what's in the file

It says that you have a syntax error

line 18

[zealous mural]

shows what I did earlier

[odd nest]

no quote

[zealous mural]

oh do I edit again

ok

[odd nest]

Certainly

[zealous mural]

what's the command again

I'm so tired so I can't remember it

I use vi

[odd nest]

Then use vi

whatever you want

[zealous mural]

no

Ike how to edit it

[odd nest]

I don't understand the question. You edit it how you would edit any other file. nano, vi, vim, ed, pipe it to sed,

[zealous mural]

to edit to have the quote I forgot the command my dumbahh

to edit the use

and makeopts

not the use

[odd nest]

With the greatest of respect, gentoo requires quite a lot of editing of text files. You should have that worked out

vi /etc/portage/make.conf make your edits and save 🤷

[zealous mural]

not found

command not found

why can't I edit

[odd nest]

use nano

[zealous mural]

ok

makeopts="-j4"

is it what it supposed to look like

[odd nest]

Yes, the options must be strings, so inside quotes

Just how you would set any variable in a shell script

[zealous mural]

ok

I will save and exit

[odd nest]

make.conf is the mother file to your entire gentoo install

if it is not correct then expect nothing to work at all

[zealous mural]

is it working

I did emerge --sync

[odd nest]

If it's not throwing errors then it's working

[zealous mural]

oh it is working

I keep this forum up a case I get another error

[odd nest]

No more syntax errors in make.conf at least!

[zealous mural]

what profile should I use

like

desktop or systemd

[odd nest]

Are you feeling systemd'y or openrc'y today?

[zealous mural]

is project good

openrx

openrc

google says it's lightweight

so I will use that

is desktop openrc

I'll stay with systemd

[zealous mural]

bro

@odd nest

[odd nest]

huh?

I can't decide for you

You've probs used systemd before so if you're unsure pick that. If you want to explore something new, choose openrc 🤷

[zealous mural]

it taking so long

I keep failing

but I'll never give up

[zealous mural]

@odd nest

I can't start my system?

I'm using startx command

[fallen compass]

post the output of it, and upload /var/log/Xorg.0.log with wgetpaste

[zealous mural]

already got bricked

Gentoo bricked

[fallen compass]

Is that all?

Because nobody can help you without more info

[odd nest]

yup without logs to go on we can only imagine

In my imagination it works perfectly, with butterflies and sparkly rainbows