Hi all, I managed to drag several 3+ year old gentoo webserver installs to current. That was an interesting experience. I'd say it was difficult and time-consuming but not impossible. ;-) Believe me, they were kicking and screaming the whole way.
These are all virtualized under ESXi now so I did some reconfiguration and decided to add open-vm-tools for shutdown support through the host. All items for vmware are built into the kernel, and the VMs are working as they should. Well, except for starting vmware-tools: vmsvc[1297]: [ warning] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance vmsvc[1297]: [critical] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_emit_by_name: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed I've tried rebuilding glib but no luck. I haven't tried changing the USE flags on glib as of yet (just thought of that now, actually...) It doesn't seem to affect the host shutdown (which is what I initially wanted) but it probably shouldn't be crashing. I have a feeling it may have something to do with VMCI. I have 5 or 6 gentoo installs running under ESXi, some were new (started off a new stage3) and they all have this problem. It's not show-stopping by any means, but has anyone found a solution? Google has not been so helpful here as most reponses I've found affect Windows. Dan
