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
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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 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 For those of us running with Gentoo, there is far more history of this tenacious development than first meets the eye (or your nose): Poo sediments record Antarctic ‘penguin Pompeii’ The perilous history of a penguin colony on a small Antarctic island has been recorded in their excrement… There really is some good communal shit . . . → Read More: 6,700 years of Gentoo! A reminder from “eselect news read 11” for those that wish to optimize the compiled code for their Gentoo systems: 2015-01-28-cpu_flags_x86-introduction Title CPU_FLAGS_X86 introduction Author Michał Górny Posted 2015-01-28 Revision 2 The USE flags corresponding to the instruction sets and other features specific to the x86 (amd64) architecture are being moved into a separate USE . . . → Read More: Gentoo Portage CPU_FLAGS_X86 Introduction (2015-01-28) |
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