I was unaware that you could bootstrap gentoo long after an install, but low and behold it looks like you can. I actually upgraded one of my remote boxes (was Mandrake 7.0) to Gentoo 100% from remote and booted into gentoo, scary 2 1/3 minutes waiting for the server to come back up. :)
Thanks for (inadvertently) bringing this to my attention. Steven On Monday 24 February 2003 09:51 am, Gregory M. Turner wrote: > On Monday 24 February 2003 03:24 am, Michael Stefaniuc wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:44:27AM -0600, Gregory M. Turner wrote: > > > from that or not? Is there a test that is known to reliably break > > > against the new threading model (or perhaps I can presume I "got it" if > > > i can't run notepad?1) > > > > If you can run notepad you aren't affected by the bug because the bug is > > merciless: the wineserver wont even start because it fails to create the > > needed socket in /tmp/.wine-$user/server-XXXXXX/ (this stuff gets > > deleted on wine shutdown). If by any chance the socket is still present, > > wine will still crash pretty fast. > > 10-4. > > because my ac kernel is crashing, i was gonna try redhat 2.4.20-2.48 (which > is what gentoo gives me for "redhat-kernel"). but while i'm at it, i'll > try bootstrap gentoo (which recompiles a bunch of core stuff, some of it > twice, incl. glibc & gcc), compile wine, and see what happens. guess i > have to get the new kernel running first though. maybe, this is too early > a redhat kernel to trigger it... ?