[gentoo-user] Xen Kernel Reboots DomU Fails xseries 346

2017-08-29 Thread symack
Hello Everyone, Just installed new version of xen on latest gentoo on an IBM xseries 346 (older machine), and it keeps rebooting when trying to load the xen kernel. I really don't know how to debug this and would really appreciate your help. Kind Regards, Mike.

Re: [gentoo-user] mount: Permission Denied in CHROOT

2017-08-22 Thread symack
Hello Everyone, I did try that as well however when I do a grub install I am getting: grub-install /dev/sda Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: warning: disk does not exist, so falling back to partition device /dev/sda2. grub-install: warning: disk does not exist, so falling back to

[gentoo-user] mount: Permission Denied in CHROOT

2017-08-14 Thread symack
Hello Everyone, New installation on an older x346 system that has a HW raid serveraid7k. I have the appropriate kernel driver compiled `aic79xx`. lscpi: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7520 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) 00:00.1 Unassigned class [ff00]: Intel Corporation E7525/E7520

Re: [gentoo-user] Illegal State in Chroot Environment

2017-08-07 Thread symack
On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 11:58 PM, P Levine <plevine...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 9:17 PM, symack <sym...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Installing (4 of 199) app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6-r8::gentoo >> bash: line 1: 26183 Illeg

[gentoo-user] Illegal State in Chroot Environment

2017-08-06 Thread symack
Hello Everyone, I was able to get as far as installing grub however through the installation I would find some strange behaviour such as not being able to mount /dev/sda2 to the boot directory. I would do it on the livecd (ie, mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/gentoo/boot). When it came to installing `grub

[gentoo-user] Re: Updating an old version of Gentoo

2017-07-27 Thread symack
There must be an easy way to do this. Something like download the latest portage and source package. Untar on live system and rebuild! That would be so amazing if possible.​

[gentoo-user] Re: Updating an old version of Gentoo

2017-07-27 Thread symack
When I try to emerge portage I get: All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=app-portage/elt-patches-20170317" have been masked. emerge --info !!! SYNC setting found in make.conf. This setting is Deprecated and no longer used. Please ensure your 'sync-type' and 'sync-uri' are set correctly in

[gentoo-user] Updating an old version of Gentoo

2017-07-27 Thread symack
Hello Everyone, I usually dive right into these things however I do not have a lot of experience with Gentoo and currently facing this task. Is there a safe and conservative way to upgrade this live system minimizing downtime as much as possible. Your help is greatly appreciated. Kind Regards,

[gentoo-user] idmapd nfs4 and ldap pleasantries :)

2015-10-08 Thread symack
Hello Everybody! So decided to adopt nfs4 + rpc + ldap since most of the posts regarding bugs I have seen range between 2012-2015, so silly me, safe to come out right? wrong. Cient ldap user: # id user1 uid=1004(user1) gid=1005(user1) groups=27(sudo),1005(user1) Server ldap user: # id

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-29 Thread symack
Yes please! grub2 cfg. Nick. ​

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-28 Thread symack
Hello Joost, We are running Grub2. Bellow is my grub.cfg for Xen menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Xen hypervisor' --class gentoo --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --class xen $menuentry_id_option 'xen-gnulinux-simple-43fa46d6-a602-4281-9493-66faec5c096f' { insmod part_msdos

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-16 Thread symack
Hello Everyone, Sorry for the delayed response. Flased the bios to the latest version 1.1.7 dated 2007. Bellow is xen kernel built features: CONFIG_XEN=y CONFIG_XEN_DOM0=y CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=500 CONFIG_XEN_SAVE_RESTORE=y # CONFIG_XEN_DEBUG_FS is not set #

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-01 Thread symack
Hello Hydra, I'm totally new to Xen and was following this tutorial very compressed tutorial https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xen I purchased the machine as the test machine to see how stable/secure I can get Xen doms to run on it. Should I change the profile and reinstall xen/xen-tools N ​

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-01 Thread symack
Hello Hydra, Thank you so much. I was literally about to use the default profile and reinstall the same versions. If I need to go back in time, which version is considered Stable and not too old for xen and xen-tools. Finally, as I am new to gentoo, can you please tell me how to emerge an older

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-03-31 Thread symack
Hello Hydra, Thank you for your response: The commands are bellow. Also, the Bios is almost 10 years old on the machine. Not sure if that info helps for the ACPI related messages. USE=app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r1 api hvm qenu screen -custom-cflags -debug -doc -flask -xend

[gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-03-30 Thread symack
Hello Everyone, New install, on a old server with raid 10 scsi... The normal installation works fine, the only thing is when we try to boot with xen, it gets to the prompt and then reboots by itself. The following message is what differs between normal gentoo and xen kernel Mar 31 06:32:18 test

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating Gentoo

2015-01-31 Thread symack
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-01-30, Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote: DON'T unmerge python, remember emerge runs on python, you will likely be unable to use the package manager if you do that. Been there, done that. :/

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Computer does not boot

2015-01-31 Thread symack
It sounded like a grub - grub2 issue. After running grub-install you probably fixed a broken fs referece ie / /boot etc... Fresh gentoo installs with manual kernel builds always feel like a warm sweater that just came out of the drier. Ah so clean :) N. ​

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghost cyber threat

2015-01-30 Thread symack
Hello Andrew, Thank you for your response. For example, Exim implements reverse lookup. How is malicious activity used against it? Do they need telnet or ssh access, or buy some freak of nature can exploit the vulnerability in other ways? N ​

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo

2015-01-30 Thread symack
Neil Thank you! Actually I have an issue where trying to emerge world. This is the following message: (dev-lang/python-exec-2.0.1:2/2::gentoo, installed) pulled in by

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghost cyber threat

2015-01-30 Thread symack
Just got the email in my box.​ Updating now

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo

2015-01-30 Thread symack
DON'T unmerge python, remember emerge runs on python, you will likely be unable to use the package manager if you do that I did this mistake a long long time ago...​ Been there dones that Good news: emerge -C dev-python/python-exec emerge dev-python/python-exec (fixed the issue) glibc

[gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo

2015-01-30 Thread symack
Hello Everyone, Last time I did this we experience 3 hour downtime, and it was not fun. I was blue in the face: [1] N 2010-08-01 (2010-08-01-as-needed-default - removed?) [2] N 2012-03-16 (2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking - removed?) [3] N 2012-05-21 Portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo

2015-01-30 Thread symack
This worked for me: emerge -C dev-python/python-exec emerge dev-python/python-exec ​

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo

2015-01-30 Thread symack
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:49 PM, symack sym...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, Last time I did this we experience 3 hour downtime, and it was not fun. I was blue in the face: Grub2: Will this bring us down

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo

2015-01-30 Thread symack
I have updated the systems since then. Up to early last year. Is it safe to update glibc? ​

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo

2015-01-30 Thread symack
Please excuse me, as I am new to gentoo: %) PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 python3_3* (-pypy) -python3_4 (-pypy1_9%) (-pypy2_0%) (-python2_6%) (-python3_1%) (-python3_2%*) 876 kB [blocks B ] dev-python/python-exec-1 (dev-python/python-exec-1 is blocking dev-lang/python-exec-2.0.1-r1) I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghost cyber threat

2015-01-30 Thread symack
Hello, From my understanding this is only an issue if a person is able to telnet or ssh to an effected system? Please confirm. N. ​