Recompiling everything again after changing my use tags in Gentoo. I’ve decided to go with a GUI on this system, even though it’s a server. I figure being able to VNC into it might be useful, and I eventually want to play with MythTV on it. I’ve also installed Avahi, which is a zeroconf mDNS app. Works great with my Mac for things like ssh on my local network at home. Most of the other apps I need have been installed but not configured yet. Verlihub is the main program, and I’ve imported the MySQL database from the old server and it looks like everything moved OK. Samba and Apache will come tonight.

The one thing that worries me about this system is that it doesn’t boot consistently. Actually, it is consistent, but only in its lack of booting. If it is on and running for longer than a few minutes and I reboot it won’t come back up. It goes through the Grub selection screen, then after a kernel is selected I get a screen with information on my CPU then it reboots. I can’t find that it’s logging anything at this point, so I’m not sure exactly what’s going on. I suspect it’s heat-related. I’m able to get it to boot if I let it sit powered off for a few minutes then power it back on. I’ve been hoping it was something I’ve done, but it does the same thing with the stock 2.6.19 kernel the Gentoo install put on the system as it does with the 2.6.22 one I’m using. Calling Dell about a computer that uses Linux scares the crap out of me.

Tags: dell, gentoo, home server