more info if anyone is interested..

uname -a
Linux xblankx 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 14 02:16:06 PDT 2007 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux


cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.19-r5
root ...

Yeah, here.

Disk /dev/sda: 74.3 GB, 74355769344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9039 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 8777 70501221 42 SFS
/dev/sda2 8778 9039 2104515 42 SFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 74.3 GB, 74355769344 ...

Setup is..

Windows XP-64 NTFS on /dev/sda (sda1 = ntfs, sda2 = ntfs)
Gentoo amd64 on /dev/sdb (sdb1 = /boot, sdb2 = /, sdb3 = /home, sdb4 = swap, all are ext3)
Grub is installed into /dev/sda MBR.
Kernel is 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 (from install livecd)

Grub installed by installer, config is the default ...

I have a dual boot XP-64 Gentoo system using SATA drives (VIA Chipset)

Every time I re-boot into windows it somehow destroys the MBR and causes grub to crash and reboot, sending the system into a loop. There is no error message, it goes to boot the drive then the 3 keyboard lights flash and it ...

Wait, I got it.

emerge =ibm-jdk-1.4.?.?
GENTOO_VM=ibm-jdk-bin-1.4 emerge db

What else does it affect? Also.. portage does not use the system JDK right? so.. how do I get portage to use JDK-1.4?

I seem to have a java problem on rebuilding db

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./java/src/com/sleepycat/util/IOExceptionWrapper.java ../dist/../java/src/com/sleepycat/util/RuntimeExceptionWrapper.java ../dist/../java/src/com/sleepycat/util/UtfOps.java
Unhandled exception
Type=Segmentation error vmState=0x0005ff07 ...

ok fixed it.

Disabled Device Drivers > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support > "Use old disk-only driver on primary interface"

Some sort of evil switch in 2.6.17

Start pulling hardware out of it, drives, ram, even eventually the video to see if you can get a beep.. then try to determine whats causing the problem.

If that doesn't work, inspect the board closely, look for burn marks.. check the pins in the memory very closely, its hard to notice a black one.

got it, partly..

ls /dev/hda
ls: /dev/hda: No such file or directory

So.. where did my hard disk go? Bios sees it.. 2.6.15 sees it.. hmmm..

I may have a problem here my RAID array is very old. (3+ ? years)

I use /dev/md0 (raid0) as a root device, On upgrading from 2.6.15 to 2.6.17 my system will no longer boot. I recently installed mdadm and it says I have no identity information.

# mdadm -D /dev/md0
mdadm: bad uuid: UUID=e68852fa ...

GTA: Vice City - hands down.

check it out yourself.
http://www.vicecityradio.com

Stuff like "Out Of Touch - Hall & Oates" (That was recently remixed by Dave Armstrong) is great for gunning down unsuspecting motorists with your Ak'

Wine 0.9.10 fixed this issue, strange.. I honestly think it was an issue with my ATI card.. hmm..

all of wine is that way, its winecfg. I don't think I installed any "weird" font.

I can't figure out what is wrong with my wine install? My fonts are unreadable and messed up. I have deleted my ~/.wine folder and this still happens however.. it does NOT look this way when I run wine as root. Help me please. :(

See the problem here.

opengl-update ati fixed it for me.

Then I remember what I did.. I changed my card from an nvidia to an ati card. but left the nvidia packages installed last month.. well I just pulled them out without noticing they broke OpenGL.

Thats right. I have 84 packages unmasked to ~amd64 right now. I have run ~ppc for almost 4 years solid.. sure I've had hair pulling moments but nothing that was a show stopper.

Alright sanity rules the day.. I'll say at so called "stable"

Looking at the size of my package.keywords file.. I'm wondering if I should just move the entire system over to unstable. Last year when I originally installed gentoo on my AMD64, I created a base install image and tested unstable with a backup copy and it wouldn't compile the system.. that made me ...

I got POL to run...

Details here.

I would like to send system mail to a vpopmail account is this possable?

right now messages to root are sent to the local account sysadmin account however the user sysadmin never gets the mail. I get a double bounce saying

Sorry, I couldn't find any host named localhost.mydomain.com

mail ...

I actualy went ahead with it and it is quite abit better than it was. Im really worried about stability issues.. but so far so good.. Ive seen process (like openmosixview) die off but none of the major ones have yet. (like apache)

I moved most of the ram to the main node and that seams to work ...

I have the same problem.. looks like it cant phrase the logfile..

Its a non-critical buisnes deployment. Trust me, I would love more hardware but I have zero budget.

I have 8 Pentium2 systems (3 450's and 5 350's) with 94megs of ram each. I would like to cluster them together for use as a general Linux server. (Apache, DNS, DHCP, MySQL, Postfix etc) as I dont have a budget for a more powerfull system. Each system has limited hardrive space (1.2g or more) except ...

sad to say audio latency is purty extreme even with the Low Latency and Preemption patches. its anoying but barable (sometimes) you defenataly want to use the gentoo-sources for this one.

or you can patch the vanilla yourself with a lock breaking patch, thre is some info about there here. http ...