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…
Tag: linux
Kernel loads only single processor on multi-processor system – ACPI: x2apic entry ignored
There multiple reports on this issue with different processors kernel, which worked perfectly on multiple systems, loads on our new server and only one processor…
bind – dns server queries statistics with statistics-file
There is an option “statistics-file” in the BIND9 configuration for query statistics. It will give you statistics for Incoming Requests – total number of queries…
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…
Installing and running BOINC client (with SETI project) under CentOS 7
Here is how you can install a BOINC client and attach it to a project (SETI). We use only command line tools, not GUI involved…
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…
how to disable effectively the deleting (purging) files from nginx proxy_cache (nginx cache manager process)
In peaks deleting files could kill your server and easily the traffic could degraded multiple times than normal if the nginx cache manager start deleting…
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…
LSI MegaRAID 2108 freezes with abort command and all processes hang up in disk sleep
It happened to one of our old LSI MegaRAID 2108 controllers (AOC-USAS2LP-H8iR (smc2108) with 36 disk, 32x2T and 4x8T) to freeze and most of the…
How to compile xmr-stak (2.5) under CentOS 6 for CPU mining cryptocurrencies in November 2018
In continuing our crypto series with xmr-stak we update the old article How to compile xmr-stak (2.4.5) under CentOS 7 for CPU mining cryptocurrencies with…