Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>]

On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:

> Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> writes:
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> >
> > Yeah, sorry if I didn't mention before.  In the interest of size, I
> > remove the portage tree (and also kernel sources) before creating the
> > image.  So in order to do portage-related stuff one must first:
> >
> > # emerge --sync
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Should still be usable.
> 
> You may have seen my last post by now, where I retracted some of my
> earlier post.
> 
> I'm still seeing something that probably needs fixing.
> 
> In the shell where the initial login came up I keep seeing this every
> 5 minutes:
> 
>   INIT: ld "so" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> 
You probably saw "s0".  That's the inittab for getty running on a serial
console.. should be disabled for non-headless.  I'll need to fix that.

> OH, and what does the `FEATURES=' entry in /etc/make.conf do? 

You've never heard of FEATURES (or --jobs)?  May want to peruse the man
pages a bit.  FEATURES is a very fundamental part of portage (man
make.conf).

Will post when the inittab is fixed.