[gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper
Hi, Gentoo! After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part: [ebuild N] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1 [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2] USE=introspection* [blocks b ] x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 (x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 is blocking x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1) . Am I right in thinking that the block means your vte version is too old for gnome-pty-helper? It seems that emerge is using the old vte version rather than the one it's about to install. In this case, can I just emerge vte by hand first? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper
Am 01.07.2011 12:39, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Gentoo! After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part: [ebuild N] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1 [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2] USE=introspection* [blocks b ] x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 (x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 is blocking x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1) . Am I right in thinking that the block means your vte version is too old for gnome-pty-helper? It seems that emerge is using the old vte version rather than the one it's about to install. In this case, can I just emerge vte by hand first? Does portage solve that blocking or not? What says emerge -auND ? Can you go on with emerge or not? Normaly portage solves that by uninstalling the old version before installing the new one. Greetings Sebastian Beßler signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper
Sebastian Beßler writes: Am 01.07.2011 12:39, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Gentoo! After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part: [ebuild N] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1 [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2] USE=introspection* [blocks b ] x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 (x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 is blocking x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1) . Am I right in thinking that the block means your vte version is too old for gnome-pty-helper? It seems that emerge is using the old vte version rather than the one it's about to install. In this case, can I just emerge vte by hand first? I think so. Does portage solve that blocking or not? What says emerge -auND ? Can you go on with emerge or not? Normaly portage solves that by uninstalling the old version before installing the new one. Isn't that a thing that only the masked portage 2.2 does? I guess Alan stll runs stable portage. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper
On Friday 01 July 2011 10:39:18 Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo! After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part: [ebuild N] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1 [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2] USE=introspection* [blocks b ] x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 (x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 is blocking x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1) . Am I right in thinking that the block means your vte version is too old for gnome-pty-helper? Yes. It seems that emerge is using the old vte version rather than the one it's about to install. In this case, can I just emerge vte by hand first? unmerge vte and re-run the original emerge, prevents accidental clutter of world and saves time or better: unmask portage and install 2.2_some_huge_number_alpha, ignore what your instincts tell you about rc and alpha - a project that hit 100 -rc versions and is now on 41 alphas is probably abusing the terms :-) Recent portage just knows how to deal with these blockers and just does what it needs to do to make it work. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper
Am 01.07.2011 13:54, schrieb Alex Schuster: Isn't that a thing that only the masked portage 2.2 does? I guess Alan stll runs stable portage. That may be possible, I run unstable portage 2.2 without any problem (a few surprises from time to time, but no problems) for so long that I have totaly lost the knowlege what from 2.2 is backported now and what not. But then, emerge -C vte emerge -1 vte should do the trick. Greetings Sebastian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:39:18 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part: [ebuild N] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1 [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2] USE=introspection* [blocks b ] x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 (x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 is blocking x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1) . Am I right in thinking that the block means your vte version is too old for gnome-pty-helper? Yes, but the lower case b means that portage will resolve the block for you. The only reason it has stopped after reporting the block is that you used -p. Only blocks marked with a B require manual intervention. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said: Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it shortly. Done, uploaded to the same place: http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist.vmdk.bz2 I also made the image bigger (10GB). Oddly enough, it compresses smaller than the other by a couple of megs. In case you are interested, I had problems with that appliance. [I'm running virutal box] I followed James W's walk thru of how to use it with Virtual box. There is apparently no `portage' installed which meant that emerge would fail since /etc/make.profile is a dangling link. Once that was resolved I kept getting really strange output from emerge. It appeared to be the output of something like vmstat or maybe the upper portion of `top'. Stuff about user loads and such... right after the first few lines of emerge output, and nothing was getting emerged. Very possible it is pilot error; here is what the output of emerging gpm looks like: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] sys-libs/gpm-1.20.6 USE=(-selinux) 1,251 kB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 1,251 kB Verifying ebuild manifests Emerging (1 of 1) sys-libs/gpm-1.20.6 Jobs: 0 of 1 complete, 1 runningLoad avg: 1.75, 1.16, 0.95 And there it stays... so emerge does not work. So it appears, so far, the appliance is not usable on Vbox. Oh, I'm referring to the 4GB version. The 10GB version demands a password so couldn't even start on it.
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: resolved I kept getting really strange output from emerge. It appeared to be the output of something like vmstat or maybe the upper portion of `top'. Stuff about user loads and such... right after the first few lines of emerge output, and nothing was getting emerged. I have to take that back... when I looked after writing that message, the emerge had finished...It happens on everything I emerge, so I guess that is some kind of new output I've never seen from emerge before.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Friday, July 1 at 10:36 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said: Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it shortly. Done, uploaded to the same place: http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist.vmdk.bz2 I also made the image bigger (10GB). Oddly enough, it compresses smaller than the other by a couple of megs. In case you are interested, I had problems with that appliance. [I'm running virutal box] I followed James W's walk thru of how to use it with Virtual box. There is apparently no `portage' installed which meant that emerge would fail since /etc/make.profile is a dangling link. Yeah, sorry if I didn't mention before. In the interest of size, I remove the portage tree (and also kernel sources) before creating the image. So in order to do portage-related stuff one must first: # emerge --sync Once that was resolved I kept getting really strange output from emerge. It appeared to be the output of something like vmstat or maybe the upper portion of `top'. Stuff about user loads and such... right after the first few lines of emerge output, and nothing was getting emerged. Very possible it is pilot error; here is what the output of emerging gpm looks like: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] sys-libs/gpm-1.20.6 USE=(-selinux) 1,251 kB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 1,251 kB Verifying ebuild manifests Emerging (1 of 1) sys-libs/gpm-1.20.6 Jobs: 0 of 1 complete, 1 runningLoad avg: 1.75, 1.16, 0.95 And there it stays... so emerge does not work. This appears normal to me... Oh perhaps because I have --jobs=2 in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in /etc/make.conf. That's what the output normally looks like if you use --jobs... Nevertheless the output definately looks normal (to me). You can change make.conf to suit your tastes. So it appears, so far, the appliance is not usable on Vbox. Should still be usable. Oh, I'm referring to the 4GB version. The 10GB version demands a password so couldn't even start on it. That should not be the case with it requiring a password, or else I uploaded the wrong image. Nevertheless, I'll upload another one shortly. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Friday, July 1 at 11:55 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said: Oh, I'm referring to the 4GB version. The 10GB version demands a password so couldn't even start on it. That should not be the case with it requiring a password, or else I uploaded the wrong image. Nevertheless, I'll upload another one shortly. Now uploaded.
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: [...] Yeah, sorry if I didn't mention before. In the interest of size, I remove the portage tree (and also kernel sources) before creating the image. So in order to do portage-related stuff one must first: # emerge --sync [...] Should still be usable. You may have seen my last post by now, where I retracted some of my earlier post. I'm still seeing something that probably needs fixing. In the shell where the initial login came up I keep seeing this every 5 minutes: INIT: ld so respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes OH, and what does the `FEATURES=' entry in /etc/make.conf do?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: [...] Yeah, sorry if I didn't mention before. In the interest of size, I remove the portage tree (and also kernel sources) before creating the image. So in order to do portage-related stuff one must first: # emerge --sync [...] Should still be usable. You may have seen my last post by now, where I retracted some of my earlier post. I'm still seeing something that probably needs fixing. In the shell where the initial login came up I keep seeing this every 5 minutes: INIT: ld so respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes You probably saw s0. That's the inittab for getty running on a serial console.. should be disabled for non-headless. I'll need to fix that. OH, and what does the `FEATURES=' entry in /etc/make.conf do? You've never heard of FEATURES (or --jobs)? May want to peruse the man pages a bit. FEATURES is a very fundamental part of portage (man make.conf). Will post when the inittab is fixed.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: In the shell where the initial login came up I keep seeing this every 5 minutes: INIT: ld so respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Oh, you can also do this manually by commenting out the s0 entry in /etc/inittab. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/R installation : a hard nut
On 2011-06-30 11:31, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Many thanks for your suggestions. Bitte schön! :-) Finally it turned that some old files (lzma) in /usr/local/include were in the way and caused those problem. It's always the little things... :-/ MfG / Best regards Peter K
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: [...] You've never heard of FEATURES (or --jobs)? May want to peruse the man pages a bit. FEATURES is a very fundamental part of portage (man make.conf). Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for several yrs with no problems... so didn't really think to look there. That's why I asked... didn't know where to look... dumb perhaps but just didn't cross my mind. I've found my systems to do pretty well without those FEATURES or --jobs entries.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
Harry Putnam writes: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: You've never heard of FEATURES (or --jobs)? May want to peruse the man pages a bit. FEATURES is a very fundamental part of portage (man make.conf). Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for several yrs with no problems... so didn't really think to look there. Have a look at /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example and compare, you might be surprised. I've found my systems to do pretty well without those FEATURES or --jobs entries. Oh, --jobs is really really cool. Apart from the small speedup I like it because of the nicer, cleaner progress output you get from your emerges. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Friday, July 1 at 14:10 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for several yrs with no problems... so didn't really think to look there. That's why I asked... didn't know where to look... dumb perhaps but just didn't cross my mind. I've found my systems to do pretty well without those FEATURES or --jobs entries. Sure. I did not mean to imply one *must* know about FEATURES in order to maintain a Gentoo system, only that it is a fundamental part of Gentoo that may be of interest to you (it's even mentioned in the Handbook). The --jobs parameter is not so important and, while it's been been a feature of portage for a while, it hasn't nearly been around as long as FEATURES (which has been part of Gentoo for as long as I can remember). Well, thanks for pointing out the error in my appliance creation script that mistakenly sets up the serial console on non-headless VMs. I've fixed the bug and created and uploaded a new image. -a
[gentoo-user] LVM filter question
Hi there! I am using LVM heavily, but I decided to not use it for some additional, smaller hard drives I use for backups and that I do not want to spin up every time I do LVM stuff, like pvscan, lvscan, vgchange. As all devices are scanned in this case, I edited the filter in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf: filter = [ r|/dev/nbd.*|, r|/dev/sdd|, a/.*/ ] This should reject /dev/sdd from scanning. But it doesn't, pvscan spins it up. Any idea why it is not being ignored? Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM filter question
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:05:12 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about [gentoo-user] LVM filter question: [snip] filter = [ r|/dev/nbd.*|, r|/dev/sdd|, a/.*/ ] This should reject /dev/sdd from scanning. But it doesn't, pvscan spins it up. Any idea why it is not being ignored? The regular expression that precedes the one involving /dev/sdd provides a clue: it would appear that LVM wraps the r.e. with ^ and $ so that it completes a string. So, your r.e. should read: r|/dev/sdd.*| which decodes to reject ^/dev/sdd.*$ . This suppresses the scans of /dev/sdd1, /dev/sdd2, etc. Now, you might not have any partitions on /dev/sdd, but LVM cannot readily know that without reading the partition table, which spins up the drive. I guess LVM doesn't trust or, at least, depend upon udev to supply the partition details. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
Thanks for the appliance image. it has come in handy for trying out multiple ideas and setups at once on my machine. Keep up the great work Albert! :) -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Friday, July 1 at 17:44 (-0500), James Wall said: Thanks for the appliance image. it has come in handy for trying out multiple ideas and setups at once on my machine. Keep up the great work Albert! :) You're welcome. I do have other appliances other than the base appliance. For example: * gnome: this a headless (or at least Xserver-less) GNOME appliance. It can serve a GNOME desktop via XDMCP or ssh. * hemp-node: This is almost like base, but applicable to my hemp project ( https://bitbucket.org/marduk/hemp ) . Hemp is kind of like a cloud in a box. It's good for developing deployments via fabric * kde: This is just like the gnome appliance, except it serves KDE * lodgeit: This is a lodgeit ( http://www.pocoo.org/projects/lodgeit/ ) pastbin virtual appliance. We use this at my job. * teamplayer: this is another one of my projects. You can't really build it because it hasn't been released yet. But basically it's a Democratic Internet radio station. We also use this at my job. * x: This is an old-school X appliance, like GNOME/KDE, except it serves TWM, xclock, xload, xterm, xeyes, etc. for a totally early 90's looking X desktop. * xfce: a headless XFCE desktop appliance. I'm actually looking for ideas for other Gentoo appliances. So if anyone has an idea for one, let me know. Also, if you happen to download and use the virtual appliance script (Makefile), there are many more options to build images including: * headless appliances (serial console) * virtio (for kvm-based VMs) * external kernel image (for kvm (and possibly others)) * Use dash instead of bash for the default shell * remove build (gentoo-critical) packages (e.g. gcc, portage, etc.). This will make it so you can't ever use portage on the appliance, but it reduces the size of the appliance greatly. * Use a static /dev instead of udev * Build and use binary packages so you don't have to re-compile everything every time you build a new image. * Build/use/distribute stage4 tarballs of the appliance. This really speeds up the creation of images too (e.g. I can build a base virtual appliance image on my laptop in less than 3 minutes. * Use a different kernel and/or different kernel config. * Creates raw images, compressed QCOW, VMDK, and XVA. I'd also welcome any other ideas for image-building features. -a
[gentoo-user] How do I turn off glibc's runtime error checks?
This is driving me nuts. Since a few days ago, glibc will abort programs with a: *** glibc detected *** program: free(): invalid pointer: ... *** or similar error message. I have no idea which package was updated that triggered this. I did *not* emerge glibc (qlop confirms that I emerged glibc 3 months ago.) The crashing programs *are* buggy. The problem is that I can't shut up glibc and prevent it from interfering. It's extremely annoying and I feel the urge to kill baby bunnies. Please help!
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: Well, thanks for pointing out the error in my appliance creation script that mistakenly sets up the serial console on non-headless VMs. I've fixed the bug and created and uploaded a new image. My tiny input isn't much... the big thanks goes to you and to James for the walkthru to use Vbox on your appliances. At the risk of exposing further ignorance on my part, I'm curious what it means in fstab where you have: /.swap none swap sw0 0 At the swap line. That's another thing I haven't seen before.I mean the /DOTswap `/.swap', does it just mean there is no swap? Its hard to google because google doesn't recognize the . (dot), so a search with terms like: site:gentoo.org fstab /.swap still finds /swap (with no dot) google throws out the dot. I've noticed similar behavior on google if you try something like --color=auto as a search term.. google appears to throw out the `--' (dashdash) and the `=' equal sign.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Friday, July 1 at 19:22 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: [...] At the risk of exposing further ignorance on my part, I'm curious what it means in fstab where you have: /.swap none swap sw0 0 At the swap line. That's another thing I haven't seen before.I mean the /DOTswap `/.swap', does it just mean there is no swap? For the virtual appliances, I use a swap file instead of a swap partition, partially because I'm lazy and partially because it's easier to resize later on than a partition. The . just means it's a standard hidden file per Unix convention[1] (i.e. you won't normally see if if you do ls but will if you do ls -a. Its hard to google because google doesn't recognize the . (dot), so a search with terms like: site:gentoo.org fstab /.swap still finds /swap (with no dot) google throws out the dot. I've noticed similar behavior on google if you try something like --color=auto as a search term.. google appears to throw out the `--' (dashdash) and the `=' equal sign. You'd probably not find anything useful via Google anyway. It's just a standard swap file, but the name starts with a .. You can rename it to whatever you want. -a [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_file_and_hidden_directory#Unix_and_Unix-like_environments
[gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn off glibc's runtime error checks?
On 07/02/2011 03:05 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: This is driving me nuts. Since a few days ago, glibc will abort programs with a: *** glibc detected *** program: free(): invalid pointer: ... *** or similar error message. I have no idea which package was updated that triggered this. I did *not* emerge glibc (qlop confirms that I emerged glibc 3 months ago.) The crashing programs *are* buggy. The problem is that I can't shut up glibc and prevent it from interfering. It's extremely annoying and I feel the urge to kill baby bunnies. Please help! Argh, I found the problem in an unlikely place. It's KDE 4.7 RC1 (!). It seems there's an environment variable called MALLOC_CHECK_ that instructs glibc to perform runtime checks on every program that runs. kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.6.90 installs a /usr/bin/startkde that sets MALLOC_CHECK_=3. This results in every program that runs after starting KDM to be runtime checked. It also makes the system slower (Kwin here felt very sluggish and I also got a hefty performance loss when running another OS in a virtual machine.) Note to others running 4.7 RC1: setting MALLOC_CHECK_=0 does not solve the performance problem; glibc still checks, but just doesn't abort or print errors. To get rid of this, you need to edit /usr/bin/startkde and remove the 'if' section that sets MALLOC_CHECK_.
[gentoo-user] RE: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
-original message- Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance From: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com Date: 2011-07-02 07:22 Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: Well, thanks for pointing out the error in my appliance creation script that mistakenly sets up the serial console on non-headless VMs. I've fixed the bug and created and uploaded a new image. My tiny input isn't much... the big thanks goes to you and to James for the walkthru to use Vbox on your appliances. At the risk of exposing further ignorance on my part, I'm curious what it means in fstab where you have: /.swap none swap sw0 0 At the swap line. That means the system is using a swapfile -- whose name is '.swap' and located in the root directory '/' -- rather than a swap partition. That's another thing I haven't seen before.I mean the /DOTswap `/.swap', does it just mean there is no swap? Nope. You can call the file 'my_awesome_file_for_swapping' and put it in /var/cache, resulting in '/var/cache/my_awesome_file_for_swapping' instead of '/.swap'. The dot, as usual, is to un-clutter the output of 'ls /' (unless you use the -a switch, of course) Note: If you want to use your own file, don't forget to 'mkswap /path/to/file' *before* replacing the entry in fstab I've noticed similar behavior on google if you try something like --color=auto as a search term.. google appears to throw out the `--' (dashdash) and the `=' equal sign. Somewhere in the jungle of documents in Google's help system, Google explained that they index *only* based on letters, and strip out symbols. Except for symbols that became part of a trademark, e.g., 'C#'. Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Sent from Nokia E72-1
[gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?
Hi, is there a software, a tool, a something which with it is possible to print the frame numbers of those frames in a video file, which are at positions, where the aspect-ratio changes? Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] Feeding /etc/cron.dail and such into ?
Hi, what mechanism is responsible for feeding the contents of /etc/cron.* into the fcron which is installed on this system instead of cron? Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] md device hda - sda
I havent touched the md setup on this box since it was built ~6years ago, but for the latest kernel/udev i've finally disabled the old IDE stuff, so the disks will now appear as sda/sdc instead of hda/hdc at next boot. Will the change be autodetected, or will I need to update a configuration file? There's no references to the hd devices in /etc... The system was updated to openrc a while back, and has been restarted a number of times since then.
Re: [gentoo-user] md device hda - sda
On 07/01/2011 08:49 PM, Adam Carter wrote: I havent touched the md setup on this box since it was built ~6years ago, but for the latest kernel/udev i've finally disabled the old IDE stuff, so the disks will now appear as sda/sdc instead of hda/hdc at next boot. Will the change be autodetected, or will I need to update a configuration file? There's no references to the hd devices in /etc... The system was updated to openrc a while back, and has been restarted a number of times since then. What about your grub.conf (or /boot/grub/menu.lst) ? For example do you have boot=/dev/sda or boot=/dev/hda Only places that grub uses the hd reference are in lines like: splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz root (hd0,1) and rootnoverify (hd1,0) I am not sure if grub version 2 does away with references to hd.
Re: [gentoo-user] md device hda - sda
What about your grub.conf (or /boot/grub/menu.lst) ? Its still running lilo, which references the meta devices; and the raid-extra-boot is just a fallback if the metadevice is down IIRC (its a mirror obviously) boot = /dev/md0 raid-extra-boot=/dev/hda,/dev/hdc image = /boot/kernel-2.6.38-r6ata label = 2.6.38-r6ata root = /dev/md2 read-only
