Gentoo-isms #4 – net-dns/bind named fails to start: OpenSSL pseudorandom number generator cannot be initialized

Upon updating a very long established net-dns/bind, a restart of named caused a very surprising gulp of nearly 8GBytes of virtual RAM! After a few bits of debug and puzzlement and suspicion that the new “pie” use flag might be at play, a ‘quick fix’ to try was to reinstall bind… Whereupon the following . . . → Read More: Gentoo-isms #4 – net-dns/bind named fails to start: OpenSSL pseudorandom number generator cannot be initialized

Gentoo-isms #3 – Updating Gentoo

If updating on the commandline, Gentoo uses the very powerful emerge command of (the python based) Portage, the Gentoo package manager. (See Wikipedia – Portage for a good brief summary.)

However, with that great power and with Gentoo comes lots of options… There are also additional utilities and steps needed to keep your Gentoo . . . → Read More: Gentoo-isms #3 – Updating Gentoo

OpenCL clinfo LLVM Errors Solution

Suffering the following sort of errors from clinfo or from other OpenCL or graphics applications?

Intrinsic has incorrect return type!LLVM ERROR: Broken function found, compilation aborted!

Then one possible cause is that there is a version mismatch between “libclc” and whichever dependent systems…

If so, the fix is to recompile (or install an updated . . . → Read More: OpenCL clinfo LLVM Errors Solution

Raspberry Pi 4 is Here, Now, Early!

24th Jun 2019 at 7:00 am: Eben Upton makes a surprise announcement for the Raspberry Pi 4!

This is indeed a “surprise”… The expected cadence of new versions of the Raspberry Pi suggested that the v4 would be appearing sometime mid 2020 or later… However, as noted in the announcement blog:

We budgeted time . . . → Read More: Raspberry Pi 4 is Here, Now, Early!

Raspberry Pi Gets Stamped!

The Raspberry Pi leaps onwards with the latest innovation of… Getting stamped!

We’re on a stamp!

The Royal Mail is issuing a series of six stamps celebrating 50 years of British Engineering this week (available from 2 May). We’re absolutely made up to be one of the engineering projects chosen: we’re in some exalted company…

. . . → Read More: Raspberry Pi Gets Stamped!