Recently there was a problem with one compute node servers, which Gentoo (in fact, the chroot environment had not been updated for 3 years) could…
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Fix your broken or old portage in Gentoo, fix the emerge command
Using Gentoo for servers and chroots it might happen to deal with old and not regularly updated Gentoo environment, which in some cases is completely…
genkernel – ERROR: Unable to generate splash, ‘splash_geninitramfs’ was not found!
If you tried recently to build your kernel with genkernel (4.0.0_beta17, but you will have the same problem with 3.x) you may end up with…
emerge – cannot sync with gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error because of wrong date
Trying to sync one of our virtual servers we got a sync error not able to refresh the OpenPGP keys. The virtual server was just…
using portage eix for the first time – cannot open database file
Installing “app-portage/eix” in Gentoo to manage your portage updates you might encounter this error, when trying to use “eix” for the first time: The chances…
Gentoo kde-frameworks/kdewebkit failed compilation with Qt5WebKit could not be found because dependency is required
Updating the KDE Plasma Desktop in our Gentoo workstations this time failed with It was strange because the previous emerge included the QT upgrade from…
Gentoo init – boot from linux software raid with superblock (metadata) version 1.2 and no autodetect
If you want to use software raid device in your Gentoo Linux system (init boot, not systemd) with boot partition resided in the raid for…
Gentoo building qtgui error – g++-v8/cstdlib:75:15: fatal error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
Most cases this error happens after you updated the GNU GCC (this update triggers the error, but it might be not the problem)! This was…
portage is blocked by “the current version of portage supports EAPI ‘6’. You must upgrade”
We’ve synced the portage tree before upgrading our old portage package (big mistake! always upgrade the portage package before sync) and then do the sync….
Access Violation error when compiling packages in Gentoo – symlink
Here is another example of an Access violation error when building packages in Gentoo. This time the build process could not make a symbolic link…