This worked for me:

Change src_prepare in emerald-0.8.2.ebuild to look like this:
And then run this: It's a hack, but at least it got me 0.8.2

I'm trying to configure a LAN with ipsec, using racoon and preshared keys.

Once the ipsec comes up, everything works fine for a while, then DNS stops working. If I try and resolve a host, I get this error:


nslookup - 192.168.XXX.XXX
> www.bbc.co.uk
;; reply from unexpected source: 192.168.XXX ...

Hmm. Sounds like probably the same one I got - although mine was amd64.

Yeah, I use the system rescue CD too, at work. It's good, because it's based on gentoo so things like lvm2 work.

I dunno which kernel is on the boot CD for gentoo; I recently had to configure an Asus box, and the first kernel I tried on it (compiled on a different machine) didn't detect the SATA controller - the new gentoo boot CD did. However, when I built a xen kernel, that failed again, so the patch has ...

I'd run revdep-rebuild to make sure nothing else is dependent on the old library? I know I have problems with wmbiff in particular when gnutls updates.

Have you tried using revdep-rebuild?

sounds like you disc may be broken...

try a rescue cd

If you can't get at the partition table with fdisk, you'll have a problem reading any other data.

Is the data valuable?

If you're using xscreensaver, check the manual for xscreensaver-command, it allows control from the command line. You could probably wrap emerge in a function / script to automatically do this.

I'd go with windows first.

It won't overwrite gentoo - but it would overwrite the bootloader - although you can always boot from cd to fix that.

Yep. Designed by eggheads - have you seen the RFC?

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/rfc/rfc1305/

I didn't even try to understand it

The docs are much better now than they were, thank goodness.

No worries.

You may find that if you set up both machines to have pool entries as servers, then set each other as a peer, that your setup will be more resilient. If the net connectivity goes down for some reason, they'll use each other's clocks.

Well I guess then it doesn't trust the clock on your server.

Try adding some more hosts to ntp.conf & your ntpdate command line - three hosts are good as it gives the ntp algorithms more to work with. Something like this?


server 0.pool.ntp.org
server 1.pool.ntp.org
server 2.pool.ntp.org

fudge ...

I'm guessing; but ntp doesn't sync the time if it doesn't think it's already close enough. Try stopping ntpd, running ntpdate to get an initial time, and then restarting ntpd:


/etc/init.d/ntpd stop
ntpdate -b your.server.address
/etc/init.d/ntpd start


You can automate this using /etc/init.d ...

IIRC there's an apxs2, is that what you want?

There's a "maximise over slit option" in the fluxbox menu -> configure -> slit -> maximise over.

I'm not sure about your first question, though.

Well you can certainly trim the amount of memory that mysql uses; plus tweak some performance-related stuff:

http://mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/option-files-preconfigured.html

I guess this would be a good place to start. You may also want to play with different table types to see what works best ...

Have you considered using a different setup?

Maybe using a file-based wiki rather than a mysql one, and a lighter weight webserver?

There are several alternatives to apache under gentoo:

http://www.gentoo-portage.com/www-servers?view=list (maybe lighttpd?)

And several alternative wikis, too ...

I'm pretty sure that you shouldn't be able to generate an "internal compiler error" no matter what you're trying to compile, it's a problem with the compiler.

Although having done a quick google for this I can't find a definitive statement. Anyone else know?

Hmm:

drivers/net/forcedeth.c:1141: internal compiler error: Lagersegmentfejl

This looks like a compiler bug?

Do you use the forcedeth driver? If not, try disabling it (try make menuconfig, then the genkernel again with the --oldconfig). If so, I guess you could try emerging a different version ...

UncleOwen:

AFAIK emerge -f does exactly the same thing as normal emerge to fetch a file.

Is this true? I've seen emerge -f fail with a checksum error, then it seems to try again - maybe several mirrors IIRC?

Whereas normal emerge just seems to try once & give up?

Or did I imagine this?

If you've done the first bit about cd'ing into your new kernel directory, it should be fine.

You should still have a .config for both source trees, and could try diffing them.

I sometimes use something like this to make sure my config is more-or-less the same:


cd /usr/src/linux.new.version
make clean; make mrproper
cp /usr/src/linux.old.version/.config .
make oldconfig
genkernel ...

firefox has a "feature" where it never frees memory from pages you visit, it keeps them so you can go forward / backward in your history quickly (at least I think that's why it does it). There's plenty of discussion on the web about it, try googling.

As far as mysql is concerned, the memory usage ...

I've had this problem many times with netgear cards, and it's a real pain.

It seems like some of the revisions of the cards we work with work best with the tulip driver, some with the dmfe.

If anyone's got a definitive answer, I'd like to hear it.