Hi, I'm almost at the end of installing GNOME on Gentoo and everything has gone fine up until now. However when I try to do:

It comes up with an error saying:

Which is not very helpful. Does anyone know what the problem is?

Thanks.

First, that output doesn't seem to match with the command you've posted above. I am not a master at sed but I guess you are running this from a script? In such case, make sure your editor is saving plain text because it seems like there's something in there that you can't see.

If this happens directly from command line I have no idea what the problem is.

In any case, this has nothing specific about Gentoo on it, so I am requesting this to be moved you you can get more audience in a more general forum.

Moved: This thread is more suitable in Linux-General and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

I'm following the directions from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml - Code Listing 2.8. This is why I'm confused; surely if I follow what it says in the official guide it'll work?

It should work, in fact there's nothing in that command line that would make it fail. Are you sure you wrote that exact command line *verbatim* at your shell without typos or something strange?

Also, out of curiosity, what kind of livedvd or media are you using for the installation (if it's not the Gentoo one)?

I'm using the System Rescue CD but that's unmounted now that Gentoo is installed.

Are you using bash or any other alternative shell with different quoting rules? If you truly didn't commit any mistake when writing the command line that's the only thing I can think of.

By the way, you still didn't say *how* you are running that command. Are you writing it yourself? Are you pasting from the web? Are you running it inside a shell script?

For the look of it, and as I said it above, it looks completely like there's some non-printable character somewhere that's messing up the command, and that could happen easily when you copy/paste from the web.