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Hi all, |
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I managed to drag several 3+ year old gentoo webserver installs to |
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current. That was an interesting experience. I'd say it was difficult |
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and time-consuming but not impossible. ;-) Believe me, they were kicking |
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and screaming the whole way. |
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These are all virtualized under ESXi now so I did some reconfiguration |
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and decided to add open-vm-tools for shutdown support through the host. |
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All items for vmware are built into the kernel, and the VMs are working |
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as they should. |
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Well, except for starting vmware-tools: |
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vmsvc[1297]: [ warning] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance |
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vmsvc[1297]: [critical] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_emit_by_name: assertion |
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`G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed |
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I've tried rebuilding glib but no luck. I haven't tried changing the USE |
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flags on glib as of yet (just thought of that now, actually...) It |
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doesn't seem to affect the host shutdown (which is what I initially |
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wanted) but it probably shouldn't be crashing. I have a feeling it may |
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have something to do with VMCI. |
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I have 5 or 6 gentoo installs running under ESXi, some were new (started |
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off a new stage3) and they all have this problem. It's not show-stopping |
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by any means, but has anyone found a solution? Google has not been so |
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helpful here as most reponses I've found affect Windows. |
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Dan |