Hi jagdpanther,
Why does OpenRC send many identical signals to stop a process?
Actually it does not. It goes like this: OpenRC sends signal 15 - which is SIGTERM - to the process in order for the process to be able to gracefully exit. SIGTERM is the standard linux/unix signal which should be ...

I can't justify taking the services down to unmount that filesystem, is there a way to peek without unmounting?
1clue,
I have no access to a system currently, so can't test whether it actually works. Having said that, I assume the following should actually work:

# mkdir /mnt/datapeek
# mount ...

Further information relating to XEN which just came through by E-Mail:

Hi all, this is a repost of https://blog.xenproject.org/2018/01/04/xen-project-spectremeltdown-faq/ for xen-users/xen-devel. If you have questions, please reply to this thread and we will try and improve the FAQ based on ...

JuNix, I have some interesting results for my Gentoo Xen HVM

I updated my system to 4.14.11-gentoo-r2 and the PoC code produces this

[snip]

So, Xen hardware virtual machines need more than a local kernel fix, they need the actual Hypervisor code patched as well? Interesting...... I don't think ...

I have just received the following Xen Security Advisory by E-Mail. In a nutshell there are three types of vulnerabilities listed, two of which are relevant for both AMD and Intel.

The third vulnerability is an Intel only issue, but, under Xen, is only relevant for 64 bit PV guests. Xen PVH and HVM ...

NeddySeagoon,
first of all thanks for your quick reply.

I hope I have not manoeuvred the system into a deadlock situation with no escape.
If you can do that, I'll buy you a beer, several beers even :) There's no need to buy me a beer. With all the combined great knwoledge here, I was sure that ...

Hi Guys,
I am being faced with an issue during upgrading a system. Trying to do a world update I was given a warning about an issue with a multiple slot installation for zlib. I tried to rectify this with emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --newuse --backtrack=30 --oneshot --usepkg =sys-libs ...

/tmp and /var/tmp should not be partitions at all. They should be a tmpfs in ram.
I fully agree on /tmp, but disagree for /var/tmp. IMHO - and in line with the standard file system hierarchy - /var/tmp should reside on persistent storage as otherwise data which is temporarily stored there doesn't ...

I have to admit that I haven't read your complete post as well, but it occurs to me that you have an incorrect perception on what an "original" file is and what hard links are.

Simply put: A file consists of a number of blocks allocated to and controlled by one "management structure" called an i ...

Hi zino,
thanks for your reply. I was aware of the wiki and the statement that one needs a multilib system in order to be able to use the hvm USE flag. In my view that information, however, is outdated:

According to this resolved bug this should no longer be required. The only issue still ...

Thanks DONAHUE,
I tried that parameter, but unfortunately it didn't change anything. I'll wait and see if anybody else in the know chimes in as I consider this behaviour rather annoying and I am really out of ideas.

Thanks Atom2

Hi Jaglover,
Do you have same issue when booting from SystemRescueCD? It took a bit of time to create a bootable USB stick with the SystemRescueCD due to incorrect pathes in its grub configuration file (/isolinux instead of /syslinux) and thus the stick being unbootable at first ... but that's now ...

Hi DONAHUE,
thanks for your confirmation and your offer to help. Please do find the requested pieces of information below.

lspci -k: https://paste.pound-python.org/show/gsD0FypnA3dHn5E2pCNp/
kernel configuration: https://paste.pound-python.org/show/l9IPqcDrnd9gRpDMidLH/
grub.cfg: https://paste ...

After many attempts I have now finally succeeded in installing and booting gentoo via UEFI. The main issue I was faced with was an SAS adapter which I had crossflashed from its RAID firmware to a simple HBA firmware with adding only the BIOS rom firmware file, but missing out on the UEFI rom ...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Using_identical_guest_and_host_GPUs

You can pass a device through using bus address. Thanks for the pointer, it was an interesting read, albeit mainly limited to GPUs for the relevant question. If I have correctly understood this, it ...

I certainly don't think it has anything like that. The machine is a rather standard low to mid range laptop of 2012 vintage. AMT was pretty standard in corporate/business laptops and was definitely already available in 2012 (I seem to remember that it was included in IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads back as ...

Hi guys,
I am unable to emerge app-emulation/xen-tools on my system. The process fails with the full error message as follows: https://paste.pound-python.org/show/1XfLJytzrUPloth3q5lI/
The short story/summary is as follows: The build process appears not able to open an output file for no apparent ...

Any ideas what is keeping it alive? Does your system have a (shared) Intel AMT interface or another (shared) remote management LAN interface like IMM (IBM slang) or iLO (HP slang) - I am sure there are other names as well - getting its IP address from DHCP or being statically set to 192.168.0.1 ...

Hi guys,
Anybody knows how to restrict loading of a kernel device driver to only one of many (in my case two) identical pieces of PCIe cards installed in the system? To be more specific, I have two identical SAS controllers installed in my server. The first SAS controller is used to boot the system ...

Thanks John - will do so. I didn't think it was that easy.

Atom2

Hi guys,
I am currently in the process of setting up a new gentoo system and have recently installed grub2. The system boots fine, but there is an issue that I think is not quiet right and probably is due to an error on my part when emerging grub2.

At that time I seemed to remember that on my old ...

Thanks - I did not see it when I searched because I attributed it to perl-cleaner when the bug is actually linked with texinfo. I have made a new comment on bugs.gentoo.org.

Are there any issue other than that perl-cleaner complaining over and over again? In other words are you experiencing any ...

Hi Perfect Gentleman,
thanks for your quick reply. At first glance I couldn't find anything related to my issue on bugs.gentoo.org. Could you please point me to the related bug ID. Thanks Atom2

Hi guys,
I recently installed a new gentoo system and today did a world update which also brought in perl-5.24.1-r1. Contrary to a number of threads in here, I did not get any blockers during the world update - so fa so good.

After the world update I started perl-cleaner --all which decided to re ...

Before the pid of process was different then in pid file. Well that suggests, that the script itself forced the process into the background (by creating a new process and thus daemonizing the process). As a result of this the PID written into the PID file by start-stop-daemon was clearly different ...