In my continuing Gentoo Linux saga, I have discovered a few things to be mindful of when working with Gentoo.
Don't forget to start your syslog daemon at boot time. One isn't installed by default. Although they tell you how to install one in the Installation Guide, don't forget to add it to the default runlevel. I forgot to add it and later discovered /var/log/messages was missing.
Don't use grsecurity unless you really know what you are doing. I couldn't get XFree86 to run. It would show its normal startup messages and then just say "Killed". I was going crazy! I've never had this much trouble getting X to run. After I got my syslogger working, I saw that "grsecurity" was killing X. After recompiling my kernel without "grsecurity", X works fine!
Posted by enigma at March 5, 2004 11:10 AM