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On Saturday, August 08, 2015 2:57:29 AM Felix Miata wrote: |
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> I don't get why any distro leaves this out, why anyone wouldn't like to |
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> automatically notice while booting any announcement that something failed, |
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> especially someone who has just gotten a new installation up for the first |
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> times. Why isn't --noclear set by default? |
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Because it's your choice (and your job) to set it or not. Gentoo is not a |
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distro per se, it' more of a set of tools to help you build your own system. |
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In most cases it provides whatever upstream ships with only patches and fixes |
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as needed. There's also a logging setting on rc.conf that logs the boot |
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process. |
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The rest of your problems where due to failure to follow the handbook. |
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> Once I set this and rebooted I saw several things that needed fixing that I |
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> didn't have a clue about: |
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> 1-error loading /etc/.../hostname (I had copied it from openSUSE |
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installation |
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> instead of following installation instruction, and without reading or saving |
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> the existing one) |
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> 2-depending on hostname working, syslog-ng fails to start |
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> 3-missing mount points |
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> As a consequence of my ineptitude (and prior to reading |
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> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/FQDN) I did emerge -s hostname, found a package |
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> by that name, and chose to emerge it. 30 minutes later, it and 3 dep |
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packages |
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> were still compiling, lots lots longer than a kernel compile. :-( |
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Fernando Rodriguez |
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