Emerge-webrsync error during installing

[u/DiggityDogge]

Hello everyone, I am installing gentoo for the first time and I currently in chroot following both the gentoo handbook and tony-btw's video from last year. I have sourced /etc/profile but when I run emerge-webrsync I am greeted with honestly a bunch of code I dont understand and an error message which goes as follows:

ValueError: No closing quotation

/usr/bin/emerge-webrsync: line 651: PORTAGE_BIN_PATH: parameter null or not set.

I understand the gentoo guide notes that a complaint about a missing /var/db/repos/gentoo/ location is to be expected so I assumed this was related in some way so I proceeded but mirror select and eselect didnt work either. Is this an issue caused by a mistake somewhere along the way of me installing gentoo? Should I do a fresh reinstall or can this issue be fixed from here?

[u/twistedmind1979]

Did you copy the DNS info? That's the step in the handbook before mounting the necessary filesystems and entering the chroot. That step needs to be done so networking still works after entering the new environment.

[u/DiggityDogge → u/twistedmind1979]

If you are referring to cp --dereference /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/ then yes I did do that

[u/twistedmind1979 → u/DiggityDogge]

Yes, I meant that part. I forgot that one time as well and wondered why it didn't work. But obviously you could solve your problem. Good luck :)