Eric,
I wanted to do a deep world update (-Dvu) and there were a couple of
blocking packages. After unmerging them, I started the big emerge
(about 60 packages) just before leaving town for a couple of days. When
I got back the system had crashed while compiling Open Office due to
running out of disk space.
I fixed the disk problem and moved some directories to prevent the
problem from occurring again. I think that some version of xorg was
blocking some updates at this time and I couldn't get rid of the block.
(After unmerging the package, emerge still thought that it was blocking
some packages. I emerged and unmerged the package but the problem
persisted.) X window wasn't working and there didn't seem to be any way
to get it going again without taking a day or two.
I've been generally happy with gentoo, but like with all strongly
packaged systems, I felt that I was tied, to a degree, with what
packages were available. I did install a few programs from tarballs,
but for the most part stayed with the official gentoo ebuilds.
One thing that I never did get resolved in gentoo was sound at the
ltsp client computers. I think it was due to using an older version of
ltsp from the official gentoo ebuild. I've now got sound at both
workstations with my slackware install.
Steve
Eric Thibodeau wrote:
This might be off topic but, what kind of instability are-you talking about. I
have two LTSP environments running off Gentoo, a small one and one to be put
into production this next semester. I would really like to know what bad
experience you went through.
Thanks!
Le 30 Décembre 2005 16:39, Steve Limkemann a écrit :
I've been using ltsp for about a year and a half with a Gentoo server
and a couple of HP Compaq t5500's. The last Gentoo update attempt went
very wrong and made the system unusable. I've installed Slackware 10.2
on the server and am trying to get ltsp 4.1 running.
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