Server Maintenance/hstn-asv-01

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Contents 1 Update September 2009 1.1 Known Issues 1.2 Kernel Modules 1.3 Broken Deps

Update September 2009

Known Issues

• Enable RC_LOGGING in /etc/conf.d/rc (emerge showconsole).
• Enable logrotate (emerge logrotate).
• After running "emerge --sync && emerge --regen", you need to create a new symlink for make.profile:

root@localhost:~# cd /etc && rm make.profile && ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0 make.profile

• After re-creating make.profile symlink, update portage before anything else:

root@localhost:~# emerge portage

• You should now be ready to do the world update:

root@localhost:~# emerge --update --deep --ask world

• You'll be prompted to run etc-update, do that now:

root@localhost:~# etc-update

• As long as that all ran OK, you should be able to reboot:

root@localhost:~# reboot

• After the reboot, reinstall open-vm-tools, and update modules:

root@localhost:~# emerge --oneshot open-vm-tools && update-modules force

• Run python-updater:

root@localhost:~# python-updater

• You can now re-run through the world update, and it should get any last remaining packages that need upgrading:

root@localhost:~# emerge --update --deep --ask world

• Re-run etc-update again, since /etc may have additional merges that need to be taken care of:

root@localhost:~# etc-update

• Reboot one last time, make sure everything is OK:

root@localhost:~# reboot

Kernel Modules

• After the world is done updating, copy the most recent kernel config file from a recent successful kernel build (in my case kernel-config-x86-2.6.28-gentoo-r5) to the new kernel version appropriate to whatever emerge installed (in my case, eselect kernel list lists a version linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5. So, I knew I had to copy my old file /etc/kernels/kernel-config-x86-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 to /etc/kernels/kernel-config-x86-2.6.30-gentoo-r5. Don't forget to set linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5 as your default kernel via eselect!

root@localhost:~# eselect kernel list

Available kernel symlink targets:
  [1]   linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r8
  [2]   linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r9 *
  [3]   linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5

root@localhost:~# eselect kernel set 3

root@localhost:~# cd /etc/kernels && cp kernel-config-x86-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 kernel-config-x86-2.6.30-gentoo-r5

• You should now be able to run genkernel all and update LILO smoothly.

root@localhost:~# genkernel all

root@localhost:~# vi /etc/lilo.conf

Broken Deps

• N/A