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Evidently your not all that good a sysadmin as you claim to be and you surely can't admin a Gentoo box. The solution is easy, you are making it hard. Wipe your drive and install ubuntu.
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com>
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:08:37
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To: <gentoo-desktop@l.g.o>
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Reply-to: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] System problems
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On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 09:50 +0100, Roman Zilka wrote:
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> By the way, why not gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r5? I hope you have a good |
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> reason to run a system as ancient as that. Your system is swarming with |
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> widely known security holes. |
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Yes, I have a good reason for this, and I'll be responsible for security
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on the box, which I'm well able to do. Security, and the relative
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antiquity of the portage tree are not issues for which I'm seeking
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advice, so your observations are totally beside the point, and not
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particularly welcome. I'm well aware of both issues.
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The challenge here is to get the system to boot with the newer kernel
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and version of udev which I cited in my previous post.
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/etc/fstab has been edited several times, as I noted in my post. The
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kernel, udev and /etc/fstab have been now been reverted, as I also noted, so
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I could get the desktop working. Considering that, posting any of the
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information you've asked for would probably be useless.
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Roman, if you don't have any useful insights based on the information I
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already posted, then please don't post on thread and leave it to others
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who may.
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Having said this, I'll ask you one question:
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> Also, by upgrading to a little less ancient versions than 2.6.29 |
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> you won't have the same situation like now boomerang back at you in the |
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> near future. |
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Can you cite a source or sources for this assertion? Is there a known
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problem with kernel 2.6.29, or the portage tree which spec'd that
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kernel? Is there any discussion, bug report, or anything that you can
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cite noting that this was a known problem at one point and addressed at
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a later date?
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In almost every case, I've found that people who lecture me online about
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my system admin practices don't really have a handle on the issue about
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which I'm writing. Please prove me wrong :-)
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--
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Lindsay Haisley |"What if the Hokey Pokey really IS all it
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FMP Computer Services | really is about?"
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http://www.fmp.com | -- Jimmy Buffett
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Lindsay Haisley |"Windows .....
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FMP Computer Services | life's too short!"
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