Matt Schmandt

When upgrading Gnome on Gentoo, if you get errors like The panel encountered a problem while loading “OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet”.? Make sure you do a “revdep-rebuild” to resolve the issue.

A friend accidentally removed Portage with an emerge -C portage. After not finding any info on this issue for a while, I went to the IRC channel. Gentoo’s IRC channel is on Freenode and the channel name is #gentoo. Shortly after posting a question about how to resolve this issue, Nailbags pointed out a guide on Portage Rescue. The document Nailbags refered to is manually fixing Portage.

The guide is very good except it is missing one thing that was hanging my friend up. After manually putting Portage back, it failed to tell the user to put /usr/lib/portage/bin in the PATH variable. Without this step the user thinks, he can type “emerge portage” but has to type out “/usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge portage”. Once the Portage is successfully emerged it updates the PATH.

I have contacted the author of the guide about this issue. Hopefully it will get fixed soon.

I successfully upgraded my Gentoo MythTV box from .18 to .19. The upgrade was very smooth. In the past, it was very difficult to build a myth box on Gentoo because of odd bugs with combinations of the nvidia driver, lirc, ivtv and the kernel. I really like that it records mpgs instead of nuvs. It no longer requires any extra scripts to convert them for playback on my computer. They moved around some of the menu items to more logial places and also did many nice upgrades to MythWeb. The dual tuner support got improved but I don’t care about that much yet since I only have 1 tuner.

Hopefully sometime in the next with in a month or 2, I will finally mod my Xbox to be a 2nd frontend. I think I have decided on doing a hardware mod so I can still play all my old games. I still have a lot of research to do on deciding on a chip but I has seen some nice guides out there. If anyone can recommend one please post info about it in the comments.