Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

2017-01-26 Thread Michael Morak
On 26 January 2017 at 18:03, Alan Grimes wrote: > I looked for more information on GRUB form upstream but, on first > impression, it's been an abandoned project since 2012... Apparently some > users have posted patches to things like the invalid sector size problem > but the project has been deaf

Re: [gentoo-user] ro /

2017-01-13 Thread Michael Morak
On 13 January 2017 at 23:04, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > process foobard requires a library foo.so. foobard was started when / > was ro. Then / is mounted rw and a new version of foo.so is installed. > Of course, foobard still uses foo.so (old). What prevents / to be > remounted ro? foo.so (new) is a

Re: [gentoo-user] ro /

2017-01-12 Thread Michael Morak
Hi, I have a similar setup. The problem is that some of your services may still have open handles on files that no longer exist after updating (i.e. the service, when originally started, opened an .so library file that it needs to run, but the file then gets deleted or replaced during the emerge -