Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-15 Thread João Matos
Great discussion. I'm in a similar situation. I'm using a core2duo for about 5 years, and I think it is time to upgrade it. But, after reading this, there are still to doubts: 1) r the amd processors really fully supported? When I compile my kernel (amd64), for instance, while looking for

[gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, Help! :( I have a serious problem with our production DB machine hosted on linode, and I hope someone can help me. They recently updated their hardware, but taking advantage of it required 'migrating' our machines... I migrated our dev server first, and it failed to boot after

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/15/2013 11:37 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Help! :( [snip] I've tried recompiling both (both compile/install ok), but when I try to start SSHD I get: # /etc/init.d/sshd start /etc/init.d/sshd: line 18: 2079 Illegal instruction ${SSHD_BINARY} -t ${SSHD_OPTS} * ERROR: sshd

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-15 11:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/15/2013 11:37 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Help! :( [snip] I've tried recompiling both (both compile/install ok), but when I try to start SSHD I get: # /etc/init.d/sshd start /etc/init.d/sshd: line 18: 2079 Illegal

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-15 11:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: ^^ That screams 'CFLAGS' issue. Verify that the CFLAGS for your prod server are the same (or close enough) to that of your dev server. Hmmm, they are different... Dev (working) server has: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe Prod server

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-15 11:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Guessing the new host has different CPU capabilities exposed to the guest, either because of a differing hypervisor configuraiton, or because of the different underlying hardware. Hmmm again... CHOST is the same on both:

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-15 11:51 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I'm confused about how this works in a hosted virtual environment. My Dev server failed to come up after the migration, until their tech support suggested switching to the 64bit kernel... did that and it is fine now (or appears

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Peter Wilmott
On 15/04/13 16:53, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-15 11:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Guessing the new host has different CPU capabilities exposed to the guest, either because of a differing hypervisor configuraiton, or because of the different underlying hardware. Hmmm again...

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/15/2013 11:53 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-15 11:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Guessing the new host has different CPU capabilities exposed to the guest, either because of a differing hypervisor configuraiton, or because of the different underlying hardware. Hmmm

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/15/2013 12:07 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-15 11:51 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I'm confused about how this works in a hosted virtual environment. My Dev server failed to come up after the migration, until their tech support suggested switching to the 64bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread covici
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/15/2013 12:07 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-15 11:51 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I'm confused about how this works in a hosted virtual environment. My Dev server failed to come up after the migration, until their tech

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-15 12:51 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/15/2013 12:07 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Can you run a 64bit kernel on a system that was originally running/compiled with 32bit? I don't see why not. The 64-bit kernel provides

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/15/2013 12:51 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/15/2013 12:07 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-15 11:51 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I'm confused about how this works in a hosted virtual environment. My Dev server failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-15 11:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/15/2013 11:37 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Help! :( [snip] I've tried recompiling both (both compile/install ok), but when I try to start SSHD I get: # /etc/init.d/sshd start /etc/init.d/sshd: line 18: 2079 Illegal

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/15/2013 01:46 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-15 11:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/15/2013 11:37 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Help! :( [snip] I've tried recompiling both (both compile/install ok), but when I try to start SSHD I get: # /etc/init.d/sshd

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-15 1:46 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-04-15 11:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/15/2013 11:37 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Help! :( [snip] I've tried recompiling both (both compile/install ok), but when I try to start SSHD I get:

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-15 2:03 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Ok, I think all I need to get our db back up is to remerge php, but it is failing. The last error appears to be the zlib check. I did already try emerge -1 sys-libs/zlib and retrying to emerge php, but got the same error:

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread covici
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/15/2013 12:51 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/15/2013 12:07 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-15 11:51 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I'm confused about how this works in a hosted

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/15/2013 02:08 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-15 2:03 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Ok, I think all I need to get our db back up is to remerge php, but it is failing. The last error appears to be the zlib check. I did already try emerge -1 sys-libs/zlib and

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-15 2:08 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-04-15 2:03 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Ok, I think all I need to get our db back up is to remerge php, but it is failing. The last error appears to be the zlib check. I did already try emerge -1

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-15 2:02 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Were this one of my systems (none of which is in a prod scenario, so take it with a grain of salt), I'd emerge -e --keep-going @system, and then emerge --resume a few times. You're stuck in something not unlike a bootstrap scenario.

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/15/2013 02:54 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-15 2:02 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Were this one of my systems (none of which is in a prod scenario, so take it with a grain of salt), I'd emerge -e --keep-going @system, and then emerge --resume a few times. You're stuck in

PostgreSQL guy in the house? - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-15 3:11 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: If this were me, I would set up a clean install from scratch. No, I wouldn't use a x86 userspace with a x64 kernel, but that's because of the benefits I see with the 64-bit arch, not with any issues I'd be aware of from using an x64

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.7.2-r1 build failing with bus error

2013-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, For some weird reason, I'm unable to build gcc 4.7.2-r1. This is the error - /bin/sh: line 1: 3871 Bus error build/genautomata

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-15 12:10 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Argh. Reply to your own posts if you need to append content. Otherwise, I can't easily address everything at once. Sorry, I usually do, but I'm kind of flustered right now... Anyway, you can (I believe) run a 64-bit kernel with a

Re: PostgreSQL guy in the house? - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-04-15 3:11 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: If this were me, I would set up a clean install from scratch. No, I wouldn't use a x86 userspace with a x64 kernel, but that's because of the benefits I see with the 64-bit arch, not with any

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.7.2-r1 build failing with bus error

2013-04-15 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tuesday 16 April 2013 02:47:54 AM IST, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, For some weird reason, I'm unable to build gcc 4.7.2-r1. This is the error - /bin/sh: line 1: 3871 Bus error build/genautomata