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

6,700 years of Gentoo!

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!

Gentoo Portage CPU_FLAGS_X86 Introduction (2015-01-28)

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)