Ok! So in Gentoo you cant install sed without sed! Now I cant even remember how I unmerged sed in the first place, but don’t do it.

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Hey that’s great to hear and I’m glad you got it working!

I’m not certain about any of this, buuuut. What kind of partition table is on that sdcard? I’m feeling like if the kernel can see the block device and read it’s size then the problem must be up the stack from the options you’re looking at. If it’s MBR / MSDOS is CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION enabled? That could cause this.

I’m a pfBlockerNG guy myself. I believe it does just about the same thing where it prevents DNS lookups of blacklisted domains. It also does ip blocking of known bad ips, it can do this because it runs directly on my firewall. Although pfsense is freebsd and not linux.

This is the best rage quit I’ve seen yet!

:r! shutdown -p now always works in a pinch ;)

Yo dawg, we heard you like to install Linux so we installed the Linux installer over your Linux install so you can I don’t even know anymore

This meme would be far more accurate if Wayland was flickering constantly ;)

Windows 9x was really, really unstable. I couldn’t believe how much more stable and convenient (packages managers) this free OS created by volunteers was. And around 2000, once I started building machines with Linux support in mind it’s been all I run. I’d say I’m obsessed.

I had a SIS card back in the day as well. I never got it working with Xfree86 itself but I did find a proprietary xserver called Accelerated-X that supported it.

01:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200eW WPCM450 (rev 0a)

Oh no! My 10ish year old supermicro server has a Matrix MGA built in to the motherboard and integrated with the ipmi OOB management system. I’m sure I can add in a newer video card but I assume the impi won’t be able to redirect video from it. :'(

Edit: hang on… crisis averted I think, my system is using the mgag200 driver and it doesn’t look like that one is being removed.

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*laughs in i93900k. -j 32 goes brrr!

I kid, I kid. -j 32 actually goes kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 10665 (cc) score 666 or sacrifice child ;)

Have you checked the smart data for that drive? And dmesg for drive or bus resets? A failing drive can cause that freezing problem. If a drive can’t read a sector it will keep trying again and again (without TLER anyway. And how much it tries before giving up depends on the drive.) It’s been a while but I believe that will put a process in state D - uninterruptible sleep. Which can’t even be killed.

Sheldon Browns website is an encyclopedia of bicycle knowledge. Especially for older stuff. RIP. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

That’s fresh! It hasn’t landed in Gentoo stable yet.

I think that feature was added in systemd 254 and that was released in July so it might be a bit before you can try it.

I thought this was going to be about the fairly new feature systemd soft-reboot

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-soft-reboot.service.html

Not a specific distro per se but I’m shocked by how many minified docker images do not include which I’ve wasted so much time trying to figure out why a build failed with some tool missing after I explicitly installed that tool only to find deep down in a script somewhere a tool=$(which tool) >/dev/null in there failing and eating the error message! Remember folks always which which first to avoid such issues ;)