Thanks guys, found it: it was compiled with chroot use flag. recompiling it without solved the problem.

Hi all,

I have a strange behaviour with tcpdump on a gentoo box.

tcpdump -i eth0 -s0 -w /TMP/mydump.pcap

gives me permission denied. When I run it with strace, I get at the end:


fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
recv(3, 0x3fa4806f, 1, MSG ...

Oh no, you're right. I thought I had set it to 12, but it was still at 8.

Thanks for the quick answer and sorry for the stupid question

Hi,
I'm installing gentoo on a server with two 6-core processors. So I should have 12 cores seen.
I have set x86_BIGSMP in my kernel but cat /proc/cpuinfo show only 8 proocessors.

What am I missing here ?

Thanks for your help

Well, it just won't boot even though pata is enabled (I've checked three times and reinstalled the VM two times in a row).
I give up, it's consuming too much time.

Thanks everybody for your help anyway. Always a great forum

ats2

Thanks for your answer.

Actually, no, the machine doesn't even start in ide mode. It boots from cdrom and that's all. What's weird is that ata_piix is loaded (compiled in the kernel) and it works with a debian virtual machine, for example, but not with gentoo...
I'll try the virtio driver with your ...

It didn't work. I've checked ata_piix is compiled in the kernel, and it is already. Actually, the only real difference I can see is that your machine is amd and mine intel, but I don't think it is relevant in that particular issue...
I have tried modifying the xml file, with no more success. Maybe ...

Wow, thanks a lot!
I'll try that tonight and post the results... You may be right about the missing module.
Well, more tomorrow. Thx again!

ats2

Well, could someone could post a link with a /usr/src./linux/.config from a KVM gentoo guest, so that I could compare with mine?

It would help me a lot!

Thanks in advance

ats2

Hi,
I'm trying to create a gentoo guest from an ubuntu machine (but I have experience with installing gentoo on physical servers at work).
Here's the problem : at first reboot, the vm hangs on "Starting from hard disk" and waits for ages.

I've tried various drivers in the kernel. lspci from a ...

thaks for your answers guys. Acyually, I had a problem with my http-replicator that wan't up to date.

gentoo-portage says it exists in ~x86 but adding it to my /etc/portage/package.keywords doesn't make it available. I only see 0.9.8k.
So is it in portage or not?
thanks

k.Thanks Veldrin

Can I recompile ssh with the latest openssl (stable) 0.9.8l (security issue)? I guess I have to tell ssh where to find the newly installed ssl library?

Thanks for any help or feedback about this you could have

I needed both actually: hal wasn't started (stupid of me) and the line in xorg.conf was necessary too.
Everything's okay now.
Thanks to you both

Hi,

As I said in the title, I can't get X working for my gentoo guest inside vmware. I have set the video driver to vmware, the mouse to vmmouse, my rc.conf points to gdm, /etc/conf.d/xdm too but when I issue a 'startx', All I get is a x terminal without mouse or keyboard (I have to log via ssh ...

Oops, sorry for the false alarm : actually, I get 40000 lines of the same firewall log rule in one day. I guess the problem isn't with the firewall, but with what's behind it.

Sorry again and thanks for the help.

ATS2

Hi,
I discovered this recently on a server (actually an iptables firewall). I didn't change the syslog-ng.conf and a few weeks ago, all was fine. Now, syslog-ng eats up to 100%, according to top. I've upgraded to the latest syslog-ng without any change.

No special problems with the fw, btw. I log ...

Same thing here. Better wait for a fix...

When you add a new user yourself, the uid's are assigned first come, first serverd, starting at 1001.

New users added by portage work excatly the same, only starting from 101 (albiet certain daemons are assigned specific UID's, such as sshd and mysql).

What you've encountered simply implies the ...

Hi,
I've met today something strange. I have a bunch of gentoo servers, and all of them have the same uid 's for basic accounts, like fcron et tcpdump, namely 101 and 102.
But I discovered that on two new servers, these uid's have been switched, which causes rather strange things when synching ...

yngwin wrote:Also have a look at http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/bet ... _all_users

I shall do it. If that can help, I'll be glad to do it.

yngwin> Yes, it is up to date. I've been checking several times during the last weeks. It's an hhtp-replicator box.
By the way, there have been some updates (com_err and others), but nothing during the last few weeks.
dmpogo> Thanks for the info.

Hi,
I've noticed that the number of portage updates has greatly decreased these last weeks (for the stable branch). For example, on a basic server (no X, no WM), that's two weeks there's no update at all.

I'm not complaining! That's better for me. However, I am wondering wether this means that ...

Bon faut partir de la base. Tu peux nous filer les infos qui vont sur ta carte avec un lspci par exemple, puis ta configuration du noyau en ce qui concerne ta carte et enfin les USE utilisées pour compiler audiacius et totem stp.
Est-ce que /etc/init.d/alsasound restart te dis quelques choses ...