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On my Linode running Gentoo Linux, I converted to ext4 some time ago and didn’t have any issues until now for some reason, mostly because I don’t reboot that often to notice. The symptoms are : Every reboot, you will see: EXT4-fs error (device xvda): ext4_journal_start_sb:296: Detected aborted journal<br /> EXT4-fs (xvda): Remounting filesystem read-only<br /> and a subsequent reboot fixes this by a forced run of fsck. Now that is an annoying one, every other reboot results in a crippled system and otherwise a fsck “fixes” it and you have no issues.

Gentoo Prefix is still alive and going strong. In my opinion, Gentoo Prefix remains a strong point of Gentoo Linux and really establishes that Gentoo Linux is a metadistribution. In this post I want to focus on the numbers. The number of packages in the Gentoo Prefix tree, specifically. But first, a history lesson. It wasn’t until EAPI3 in Gentoo that “allowed” Gentoo Prefix variables into the main Gentoo Linux tree.

Well… I finally figured out that the ucb package isn’t installed on Solaris 11 by default (resource). Unfortunately, the Oracle docs are confusing to follow. Here is a cheatsheet for installing the ucb package on your shiny Solaris 11 install. Figure out the IPS installer, read man pages, get frustrated at lack of detail, run to Google. Find the package you want on http://pkg.oracle.com/, in this case compatibility/ucb Add the publisher link to your config, by the way, this link is not documented that I can find so I had to guess and check.

(I realize that I go on 7-8 skydiving “trips” per year and I often don’t write about them. It may be fun to read about the special events later, so I’m going to try my best to publicly write about my adventures. For an aggregation of random skydiving blogs, check out planetskydive.net) A few weeks ago, I returned from a 12 day skydiving trip to Skydive Arizona. The highlights of this trip were 2011 Holiday Boogie, freefly load organizers, an hour of tunnel time, getting food poisoning, and a CRW Bigway camp.