When upgrading Perl under Gentoo it’s almost typical to have blocks of the kind: These blocks appeared when we tried updaring the Perl 5.26 to…
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emerge – ERROR: 17.1 migration has not been performed – upgrade from 13 to 17.1
When upgrading to 17.1 profile you need to perform additional steps to get to a healthy Gentoo portage system using profile 17.1. Here what we…
Failed to install sys-apps/portage – Called pkg_preinst – portage._compat_upgrade.default_locations
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…
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…
openntpd – immediately sync the clock on startup
Here is our simple tip for your healthy server’s date and time: Immediately synchronize the clock of your computer when using the openntpd (a lightweight…
Install OpenStack swift client only
To manage files in the OpenStack cloud you need the swift client. This is not so tiny python tool (a lot of dependencies), which offers…
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…
SSD cache device to a hard disk drive using LVM
This article is to show how simple is to use an SSD cache device to a hard disk drive. We also included statistics and graphs…