Posts Tagged Gentoo

Clearing cached DNS entries

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Difficulty: Expert
Time: ~1 Minute
Last Updated: 1st November 2009
Applies to: Windows, OS X, and Linux

Sometimes, when messing around with domain names (the DNS system), you’ll mis-type an address, and be unable to access your site for a significant length of time. Assuming that the incorrect entry has not been cached on another DNS server somewhere between you and your host, you can clear the list of cached addresses on your own machine to resolve the problem.

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Recovering from ‘ImportError: No module named pysqlite2′ after upgrading python on a Gentoo Linux system

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Difficulty: Moderate
Time: ~30 Minutes, depending on CPU speed/internet connection
Last Updated: 4th October 2009
Applies to: Gentoo Linux

Symptoms:

When running emerge after a major upgrade of pythons core files (dev-lang/python), you get an error similar to (other information may be included in the error message):

ImportError: No module named pysqlite2

emerge will fail to work as a result of this. Additionally, if you run /usr/sbin/python-updater, that will fail too, with a similar error.

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