Hi list, I've been away from Gentoo for quite a while but recently a friend asked me to help update an aged linode vps running on Xen.
All has gone well except the new version of net-snmp (5.7.2_rc1) refuses to start as Xen doesn't provide access to PCI info: * Starting snmpd ... pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci pcilib: Cannot find any working access method. * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/snmpd' * Failed to start I know next to nothing about Xen and little more about snmp. We contacted linode to see if they had dealt with this before (the system is running the standard gentoo image, although updated). Unfortunately they stated that they are an unmanaged service and wouldn't provide any further help. I've looked around for several days but have found very little info on this and nothing that helpful. Short of compiling a custom version of net-snmp and hacking out the PCI stuff (which may solve the problem or may just mean snmp doesn't return the needed info) I have run out of ideas. Any help on this would be appreciated Many thanks
