I know there is no Gentoo sub-forum, but...

...I thought I would post this anyway. Hoepfully someone can help me out.

I've just managed to get Gentoo up and running. After the installation I first ran

# emerge --sync

Then I ran

# emerge -uavDN world

According to the line in the title bar of the terminal window, the command was set to update 295 packages. On the 167th package I got the following error:

* Found kernel source directory: * /usr/src/linux * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory. * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux sources. * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so that * it points to the necessary object directory so that it might find .config. !!! ERROR: sys-fs/cryptsetup-luks-1.0.4-r3 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1637: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 704: Called qa_call 'pkg_setup' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called pkg_setup cryptsetup-luks-1.0.4-r3.ebuild, line 47: Called linux-info_pkg_setup linux-info.eclass, line 554: Called die !!! Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/cryptsetup-luks-1.0.4-r3/temp/build.log'.

Earlier, after running syncing with emerge I saw a message asking me to merge or update two config files in /etc. I tried to find information with Google on how to do that, but nothing came up. So I thought I would go ahead and run "emerge -uavDN world."

I wonder if the problem is being caused by the fact that I have not merged the config files in /etc. If so, can someone please tell me how I can find and merge those files?

Thanks in advance for your help.

* Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory.
* Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux sources.

You may not have the kernel sources installed (or installed correctly). Have you checked this?

ls -l /usr/src/linux

Hi,

as Simon says, you should check that the linux kernel sources that you are using right now; to change this easily, use eselect kernel (then you get the instructions on how to use it).

can someone please tell me how I can find and merge those files?

Simply run etc-update

Serafean