Great thought! /proc ended up being double mounted:

#mount|grep -i proc
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

And looking into that a bit further, found that in my initramfs init script, I wasn't unmounting {proc,sys,dev} prior to switch_root ...

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So I recently decided to move my server onto a couple of larger drives (2x 500gb). Using software RAID1, opted for moving away from the 0.9x metadata to the v1.2, for which I opted to go for Grub2 and assemble the array in an initramfs.
Long story short, now that I have a bootable system, I can ...

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So I'm trying to figure out a way to make a gentoo boot disc that can restore split ntfsclone images (ie. ntfsclone -s /dev/hda1 -o - | gzip | split -b 650m - backup.hda1.gz) spanned over several (n < 20) discs (CDs or DVDs).

How can I restore the split image to a drive WITHOUT concatenating ...

So I am running hardened-sources-3.2.11 with the tuxonice patches for 3.2 series provided by http://crow202.org/tuxonice/
Unfortunately, when going through the guide here , opting for a dedicated file, I run into issues at the point of 'cat /sys/power/tuxonice/resume' where it is supposed to return ...

I too have been having this issue for some time- both kded4 and kinit4 running away with the processor. I just kill them off whenever I find them sitting there eating CPU cycles.
Any new insights into this issue?

Well, I'm approaching 2 years for a reply, but here it is!

So I had created a mini-root with busybox, mdadm and dm-crypt (of which I will not describe the details here), and a couple of scripts.

2 scripts that I use:
1) init
The init script that is run immediately after the kernel is loaded ...

I would rather not compress because these backups are for clients, and they have a hard enough time finding the files they need/want without having to deal with some archive format.

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I'm wondering if anyone knows of a backup utility, or any program/script that has the functionality of making uncompressed file backups maximizing the usage of arbitrary backup sizes (say, that of a DL DVD (8GB), CD(700MB), etc).
So for example:
I want to back up all of my documents, and there ...

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I have XP installed on the internal 40GB HDD, and it boots/functions just fine.
I have adopted a policy of backing up my windows boxes to my server, and currently do this by pulling the drive, and hooking it up to a PATA/SATA USB adapter to my gentoo box. Normally, with any other drive I've ever ...

I'm guessing I may have installed XP without ACPI enabled at all...
At least in virt-manager, the ACPI checkbox is unchecked, and it won't enable (same with APIC as well). Acronyms for the dyslexic anyone?

I'm just diving into VMs, and running qemu-kvm-0.13.0-r2 and libvirt-0.8.7. I have a Windows XP VM going with functioning network, etc. Now I want to hot add/remove disks.
virsh --connect qemu:///system attach-disk xp32sp3 /var/lib/libvirt/images/xp32sp3.img sdb
error: Failed to attach disk
error ...

I have used this script quite a few times to date, thanks Guenther!
However, I just noticed a bug:
When using color output (specifically when set globally in the make.conf: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=" --color y") the recompile-remaining-packages script that is generated includes the color codes around ...

So I have 2 soundcards in my box: one outputs spdif and the other plain analog. I have instances of mplayer streaming different music to each card, however now I want to implement stream channel changes every couple of hours, with some 'nice' crossfading between the stations.
By default, I have been ...

Ok, so I figured it out. It ended up not really being an alsamixer arrangement problem, rather I just needed to tell mplayer to output to the right card!
$ /usr/bin/mplayer `music stream` -ao alsa:device=hw=1
And the volumes that work:
$ amixer -c 1
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities ...

I'm having trouble getting the S/PDIF output working with this card:
01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)
I've tried mixing many different combinations of muting/unmuting channels and such, but nothing seems to work for it. Does anyone out there have it working? If ...

Ok, that's interesting.
I never explicitly defined those input devices anywhere (greped all of /etc). They are defined in the profile make.defaults file though (I don't think that I changed it, but I could be wrong).
On the flip side, though this box doesn't use X, systems that network boot off of ...

So I've noticed since updating my system yesterday that nano now generates the letters A, B, C, and D when the Up, Down, Right and Left (respectively) arrow keys are pressed. An '[ Unknown Command ]' notice is generated at the bottom menu line as well.

Also their output seems to be somewhat random ...

I was under the impression that grub HAD to have the (default) /boot/grub/ directory, where it has its' "stages" for higher level functionality.
At any rate, the hda/sda linux setup is a non-issue...I have my linux box setup with both the old (ATA) and new (SATA) drivers so I get both hda and sda ...

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I'm needing to install a bootloader (I believe LILO is my best bet--I need a bootloader that doesn't require a special partition to load it's other stages like GRUB) on a disk with a duplicated Windows 98 installation (vfat).
The disk involved is a PATA disk connected to my linux box via a USB ...

So that seems to work! Thank you much!

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I have a gentoo box connected to 3 networks - eth0 (192.168.0.30) -> internet; bond0 (192.168.1.1) -> private subnet; eth3 (192.168.2.1) -> wifi/public subnet.
I have iptables running, and block the traffic forwarding from each subnet to the others, ie. the machine @ 192.168.1.130 can't ping the ...

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I have a couple of identical external USB drives that I would like udev to create symlinks to upon connect. However, the only static hardware descriptor that seems to differentiate between the different drives is the 'iSerial' that is output from lsusb. None of the attributes output by 'udevadm info ...

Looking at the ebuild for gentoo-sources-2.6.31 (standard location: /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-2.6.31.ebuild) seems somewhat more cryptic than other 'regular' ebuilds in the fact that its SRC_URI contains variables.

But I do believe that the KERNEL_URI will be that of the ...

Sounds like a great idea to me.
I only wonder how easy it would be to maintain such ebuilds, as I would venture to guess that using the setups created by say the Ubutntu project, are downstream of the source project. Might cause some problems, but I don't really know.
Would it be enough to have a ...