Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting - SOLVED !

2005-07-13 Thread Jarry
Richard Fish wrote: > Glad you got it working. If the kernel config is truly the same, > then I suspect you got an updated version of baselayout or udev > that fixed it. Yes, you are right. Baselayout which is on 2005.0 install-cd must have some bug, which I eliminated during network-install by

Re: [gentoo-user] strange /init kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 boot problems

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
Iain Buchanan wrote: >-install: applet not found >/init: 41: In: not found >/init: 45: cat: not found >/init: 150: sed: not found > > Apparently it is a problem with busybox configuration: >From another thread on this list less than 12 hours old: Zac Medico wrote: >It's not as bad as it look

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
aabb wrote: >Thanks for all replies so far. > > > >>What's the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda"? >> >> >> >> >Output from "fdisk -l /dev/hda": > >Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > De

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
Zac Medico wrote: >That sounds nice. Do you use busybox for the root-on-loop-AES setup? What is >better about initramfs? Do you have to compile the cpio archive into the >kernel or is it just as good when you load it like an initrd? I'm looking >forward to the howto ;-). > > > Well, I do

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:03 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > >happens only when I switch to 2.6.12, weird... anybody seen symptoms > >like that? First time since I've switched to 2.6.x kernels I've got > >so many issues with simple kernel upgrade, is there something going

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition

2005-07-13 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-07-13 23:29:56 + (Wed, Jul), aabb wrote: > I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type > "c" (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries > in /etc/fstab are almost identical: > > /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatumask=0,noexec

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: >finally I've got to optimum (in my opinion) combination: > >title Gentoo linux (update) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 real_root=/dev/hda11 >video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose > > > You should also change "real_root=" to jus

[gentoo-user] Re: GPRS - Anyone aware of any packages which do this?

2005-07-13 Thread James
Michael Haan gmail.com> writes: > I guess what I'm trying to figure out is what exists either in > gentoo-space specifically, or linux-space generally (in that order) > for working with GPRS. GSM-GPRS is virtually a TCP/IP highway. All you need is ppp or TCP/IP on top of it. If you get service

[gentoo-user] multiband audio equalizer ?

2005-07-13 Thread James
Hello, I have basic audio working via alsa on several systems. What do folks use as graphical band equlizer to increase of decrease the frequency output to the speakers? I found lots of apps using hte work mixer, but nothing seems like what I want. Something graphical that is an 11 band or more

[gentoo-user] strange /init kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 boot problems

2005-07-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
I just compiled kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 almost exactly the same way I've compiled every other kernel, but this one won't boot! I used genkernel as so: sudo genkernel --no-menuconfig --save-config --no-bootsplash --gensplash --gensplash=emergence --install --kernel-config=/home/iain/configs/2.6.12-

Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking recommdations for multi-card reader.

2005-07-13 Thread Colin
John J. Foster wrote: Good evening all. My San Disk ImageMate dual reader said goodbye to our family today. She should have left a few months ago. So, what I'm searching for is a replacement reader. I saw some good reviews for ImageMate® 8-in-1 Reader/Writer. I don't really need all eight, but

[gentoo-user] Seeking recommdations for multi-card reader.

2005-07-13 Thread John J. Foster
Good evening all. My San Disk ImageMate dual reader said goodbye to our family today. She should have left a few months ago. So, what I'm searching for is a replacement reader. I saw some good reviews for ImageMate® 8-in-1 Reader/Writer. I don't really need all eight, but so what. What I'd really

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash

2005-07-13 Thread Zac Medico
Richard Fish wrote: > > Hi Zac, > > I know this is a couple of weeks old, but I just wanted to thank you for > trying it. The problem turned out to be a kernel bug. In case you are > curious: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857 > > Yes, that's interesting. Thanks > >>I su

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Zac Medico
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > On July 13, 2005 03:11 pm, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > >>On July 13, 2005 02:47 pm, Richard Fish wrote: >> >>>Not quite, its an initramfs. Slightly different rules apply for >>>initramfs vs initrd, so you also have to remove the "initrd" line >>>from grub if you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My laptop is freaking me out.

2005-07-13 Thread Ian K
Richard Fish wrote: >Ian K wrote: > > > >>Heres the bad news.. I turned my laptop on today, and the fans didn't >>come on like >>they did before, and within five minutes and 1 compile, the laptop was off. >> >> >> >> >> > >Ok, so you defintely have some kind of problem with your fans. Did

[gentoo-user] perl 5.8.6 install/update - @INC not working, solved?

2005-07-13 Thread michael higgins
Hello list. I just decided to rebuild perl as I recently noticed that perl wasn't working for me anymore. When I just happened to need to use it, of course. As an aside, if perhaps relevant, I had a couple of problems with failed compiles. As is usually is the fix for this machine, I opened the

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 13, 2005 03:11 pm, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > On July 13, 2005 02:47 pm, Richard Fish wrote: > > Not quite, its an initramfs. Slightly different rules apply for > > initramfs vs initrd, so you also have to remove the "initrd" line > > from grub if you want to eliminate it. > > So if I unde

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition

2005-07-13 Thread aabb
Thanks for all replies so far. >What's the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda"? > > Output from "fdisk -l /dev/hda": Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Bl

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login using KDM

2005-07-13 Thread Sean Higgins
Did you recently update your kernel? There is a problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4. There is a bug in iptables that causes problems with KDE logins. If you stop iptables, your login will work. If you upgrade to gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r5, the problem will be solved.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition

2005-07-13 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:39:38 -0400 Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > aabb wrote: > >Here's a strange one... > > > >I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as > >type "c" (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The > >entries in /etc/fstab are almost identica

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition

2005-07-13 Thread Wade Brown
That doesn't seem to address the issue as mounting by hand still spits out errors relative to partition problems. What's the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda"? On 7/13/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > aabb wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Here's a strange one... > > > >I use 2 partitions for Windows 98,

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue

2005-07-13 Thread Petr Kocmid
On Wednesday 13 of July 2005 18:07, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: > iface_eth1="192.168.0.254 netmask 255.255.0.0" Your modem/router which is 192.168.1.254 on eth0 fits the netmask of the eth1 network. -- Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition

2005-07-13 Thread Colin
aabb wrote: Hi, Here's a strange one... I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type "c" (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries in /etc/fstab are almost identical: /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 /dev/hda5/

[gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition

2005-07-13 Thread aabb
Hi, Here's a strange one... I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type "c" (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries in /etc/fstab are almost identical: /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 /dev/hda5/mnt/win_dvf

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash

2005-07-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:44:52PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > I need to write up some howto's in the next week or so, because using an > initramfs works much better than an initrd for encrypted root. > Please, please do! -- The revolution will not be televised. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 13, 2005 02:47 pm, Richard Fish wrote: > Not quite, its an initramfs. Slightly different rules apply for > initramfs vs initrd, so you also have to remove the "initrd" line > from grub if you want to eliminate it. So if I understand correctly something like: title Gentoo linux (update)

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOfficeWriter: wee small fonts

2005-07-13 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi Dave, > Sorry I don't remember the details but I do remember that > was the basic gist of the issue. thanks for the hint, will try it out on weekend (reemerging OOo will take a while, I guess ;-). Thanks & best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
Zac Medico wrote: >A. Khattri wrote: > > >>On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>Nope... might try it as well but my understanding that all genkernel >>>does is automates compilation/installation and makes sure options for >>>devfs or udev are on (depending on --[no]ud

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
Zac Medico wrote: >Richard Fish wrote: > > >>Greetings list, >> >>I have spent most of my weekend trying to get fbsplash running on my >>laptop. I've managed to resolve most of the issues (getting the >>initramfs to be recognized, starting up RAID, LVM, and encryption from >>the initramfs, etc)

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread James
A. Khattri bway.net> writes: > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, James wrote: > > > Ahhh that's it: > > # cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp > > Tue Jul 12 13:06:52 UTC 2005 > > # date > > Wed Jul 13 12:05:26 UTC 2005 > > On my machines, the master rsync server does a sync at 3am. > The rest of the mac

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Zac Medico
A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > >>Nope... might try it as well but my understanding that all genkernel >>does is automates compilation/installation and makes sure options for >>devfs or udev are on (depending on --[no]udev --[no]devfs flags). > > > True, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > Nope... might try it as well but my understanding that all genkernel > does is automates compilation/installation and makes sure options for > devfs or udev are on (depending on --[no]udev --[no]devfs flags). True, but a lot of people have had probl

RE: [gentoo-user] OpenOfficeWriter: wee small fonts

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
Missed the original post but it sounds similar to what I had run into awhile back. Sorry I don't remember what I did exactly but the problem was basically with the fonts, not OO in particular. Now I don't remember exactly but re-emerging the font packages (freetype specifically and possibly fontc

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Zac Medico
Richard Fish wrote: > >>Here's what I get booting (I'm writing it from memory mostly so don't >>think it's exact output): >> >>-install: applet not found >>/init: 41: ln: not found >>/init: 45: cat: not found >> >> > > > It looks to me like your /initramfs is completely screwed. Whatever > cr

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOfficeWriter: wee small fonts

2005-07-13 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi Ian, > Maybe the update changed some things in X.org's > configuration file? the file is exact the same as before, I copied it manually. But anyway, thanks a lot for the idea! Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Rumen Yotov
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: >On July 13, 2005 11:43 am, A. Khattri wrote: > > >>On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: >> >> >>>I recently updated portage tree & kernel and using usual >>> >>>genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all >>> >>> >>Have you tried building a kernel manual

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: >I recently updated portage tree & kernel and using usual > >genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all > >produced unbootable system :( >Symptoms point most probably to udev being used by default etc. Here's >what I have in grub.conf: > >title Gentoo linux (updated) > roo

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 13, 2005 11:43 am, A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > I recently updated portage tree & kernel and using usual > > > > genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all > > Have you tried building a kernel manually (i.e. without using > genkernel)? Nope... might t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My laptop is freaking me out.

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
Ian K wrote: >Heres the bad news.. I turned my laptop on today, and the fans didn't >come on like >they did before, and within five minutes and 1 compile, the laptop was off. > > > Ok, so you defintely have some kind of problem with your fans. Did you follow the cleaning instructions that othe

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting - SOLVED !

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
And this will teach me to scan all messages in a thread before I start replying!!! Glad you got it working. If the kernel config is truly the same, then I suspect you got an updated version of baselayout or udev that fixed it. -Richard Jarry wrote: > >> In the meantime I'm trying to update my

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
Jarry wrote: >> In the maintenance mode, does /sys/block/md0/* exist? What does "cat >> /proc/mdstat" report? > > Actually, if the kernel autodetection runs at boot time, /proc/mdstat should show the devices regardless of whether the device nodes exist or notso something is a bit strange wit

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
Mike Williams wrote: >On Wednesday 13 July 2005 15:09, Jarry wrote: > > >>It seems (or at least it is discussed there) that this (udev does not >>create /dev/md* at startup) is some kernel-bug! If some of our kernel >>developers is watching this list, could he confirm or refuse it? >>Can I someh

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Zac Medico
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > I recently updated portage tree & kernel and using usual > > genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all > > produced unbootable system :( > Symptoms point most probably to udev being used by default etc. Here's > what I have in grub.conf: > > title Gentoo linux (update

Re: [gentoo-user] ogle and mplayer

2005-07-13 Thread Canek Peláez
On 7/13/05, luis jure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > el Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:19:06 -0500 > Canek Peláez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > Anyway, I'm pretty sure ogle is unsupported. > > is it? i emerged it normally, it wasn't masked or anything. it also used to > work on my previous linux install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, James wrote: > Ahhh that's it: > # cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp > Tue Jul 12 13:06:52 UTC 2005 > # date > Wed Jul 13 12:05:26 UTC 2005 On my machines, the master rsync server does a sync at 3am. The rest of the machines sync with the master server at 4am. This way th

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > I recently updated portage tree & kernel and using usual > > genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all Have you tried building a kernel manually (i.e. without using genkernel)? -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
I recently updated portage tree & kernel and using usual genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all produced unbootable system :( Symptoms point most probably to udev being used by default etc. Here's what I have in grub.conf: title Gentoo linux (updated) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash

2005-07-13 Thread Canek Peláez
Did you created /dev/tty1? From the ebuild: * It appears that the /dev/tty1 character device doesn't exist on * the root filesystem. This will prevent the silent mode from working * properly. You can fix the problem by doing: * mount --bind / /lib/splash/tmp * mknod /lib/splash/tmp/dev/tt

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo web development tool

2005-07-13 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, simply change wrote: > what is the gentoo official web site WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOL? (like screem, nvu > or what?) I dont know if there is an "official" tool - speaking from experience many designers use whatever they feel comfortable with. There is a new design for the site cu

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat

2005-07-13 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 19:50, Tom Wesley wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:26:14 +0200 > > I haven't seen anyone post this script as yet. It's by ciaranm and is > very useful when people ask on irc why a certain package version can't > be installed on their arch. > > Sample output: > [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > What about routing? As root run: > > $ route > # route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 00 > eth1 > loopback* 255.0.0.0 U

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread James
Dave Nebinger joat.com> writes: > > > I recently set up an internal server for rsync and distfile distribution. > > How do I check to ensure that this internal server actually was successful > > at downloading the rsync files and the appropriate distfiles for the other > > sytems? > > /usr/port

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting - SOLVED !

2005-07-13 Thread Jarry
In the meantime I'm trying to update my system to 2.6.12-r4 (up to now I used 2.6.11-r3 from 2005.0 universal installation cd)... Actually, I did not updated the system, but installed once more. This time as a "network installation", with latest portage and stage1 downloaded from some mirror-s

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue

2005-07-13 Thread José Pedro Saraiva
> your localhost eth0 -> shorewall -> Inet > your localhost eth1 -> shorewall -> your other machines correct :) but shorewall is not responsible for the problem, since I ran all the tests with shorewall stopped and all other network services stopped as well. > What address ranges do you use? /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...

2005-07-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:41, Vincent A. Primavera wrote: backing up sys? that is like backing up /proc... there is nopthing interessting, nothing that will or should survive a reboot, so why do you want to make a backup? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread James
Dave Nebinger joat.com> writes: > Yes but we get back to the point that I had been trying to make - the > embedded devices (even nanobots) would not need to build from source. I > know if I had embedded nanobots I would want them focusing on the job they > were embedded for, not recompiling so

RE: [gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
/sys is a completely virtual filesystem. Why would you bother to back it up? You can't restore it so the backup does you no good at all. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] heavy packet loss problem (ifconfig?)

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
My immediate guess would be a routing issue. What's the routing definition for when eth1 is up vs down? Issue the 'route' command as root and send us the details. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...

2005-07-13 Thread Vincent A. Primavera
Hello, Is it possible to copy/backup the /sys directory while the system is "live" with all filesystems mounted? I have tried a few methods ie: cp, cpio, and rsync, all as root. I am getting various "Permission denied" and "Invalid argument" errors. Does anybody have any clear answers ju

[gentoo-user] Re: Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Remy Blank
David Morgan wrote: > emerge wtf > wtf sol Thanks for the tip! Typically *nix: small program, does only one thing but does it well. I like the man page. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue

2005-07-13 Thread Robert Svoboda
* José Pedro Saraiva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-12 23:30]: > Hello, Hi, > I connect to the net through eth0 and have a masquerading > through eth1 to my other computers, using shorewall. Uh, I'm not sure i understand you. your localhost eth0 -> shorewall -> Inet your localhost eth1 -> shore

[gentoo-user] heavy packet loss problem (ifconfig?)

2005-07-13 Thread José Pedro Saraiva
Hello, I'm quite desperate and have tried just about anything. I'll try to explain it... I connect to the net through eth0 and have a masquerading through eth1 to my other computers, using shorewall. My server never had any problems of this kind and all was fine until a couple of days ago. I'm exp

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I recently set up an internal server for rsync and distfile distribution. > How do I check to ensure that this internal server actually was successful > at downloading the rsync files and the appropriate distfiles for the other > sytems? /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp contains the timestamp for

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Methinks your indescretions and prejudices against micros, is insensitive > to the future, sensate possibilitys of micros and the things they inhabit. > micros are entering the human body at an alarming rate. Don't you thing > we need mechanisms to keep their interal code robust and current? > Na

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread James
Dave Nebinger joat.com> writes: > > Thanks for the scripts and help! > That's what we're here for BACKGROUND: I did not use your scripts yet...today I'll implement them. I recently set up an internal server for rsync and distfile distribution. How do I check to ensure that this internal serve

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread James
Dave Nebinger joat.com> writes: > > > Thanks for the scripts and help! > > That's what we're here for > > > When I roll out a new TCP/IP based data-logger > > (hopefully this fall) it'll take sensor inputs and control a few outputs. > > No humans will use the devices for anything other than i

RE: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> What is SOL? Someone care to tell me? (I'm the OP) Excrement out of luck, but use the standard slang curse word instead of excrement. ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread David Morgan
On 22:21 Wed 13 Jul , Ow Mun Heng wrote: > What is SOL? Someone care to tell me? (I'm the OP) Sh*t out of luck emerge wtf wtf sol :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:13 +0100, David Morgan wrote: > On 14:49 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > > But the use.mask-- even the correct one-- still does not lead to an > > explanation or documentation of what the mask of a USE flag actually > > means or what it means in this particular case

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting

2005-07-13 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 15:09, Jarry wrote: > It seems (or at least it is discussed there) that this (udev does not > create /dev/md* at startup) is some kernel-bug! If some of our kernel > developers is watching this list, could he confirm or refuse it? > Can I somehow get rid of udev, when it i

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting

2005-07-13 Thread Jarry
Richard Fish wrote: In short, if you don't really know what initramfs is, you are probably not using it! So I am not sure why you are having this problem. Neither am I. I already installed a couple of servers with full raid1 using various distros (RedHat, Caldera, Debian), now I'm trying Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the version of gcc are you using?

2005-07-13 Thread q-parser
Yuan MEI wrote: Hello, I installed my gentoo system one year ago, and emerge sync about once a week to keep up to date. And I am using gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1. Do I have to upgrade and emerge -e ? Which version of gcc are you using? Thanks I'm using exactly the same gcc version an

Re: [gentoo-user] New MySQL doc (update 3)

2005-07-13 Thread kashani
Chris White wrote: Added a bazillion spell fixes, also a list of places to find GUI frontends for MySQL: Thanks goes to my mom, my dad, my family for all their support I'd also like to thank the academy for their hard effort Philip Webb for tolerating my odd grammar/spelling/logic Bruce Wolk fo

[gentoo-user] What's the version of gcc are you using?

2005-07-13 Thread Yuan MEI
Hello, I installed my gentoo system one year ago, and emerge sync about once a week to keep up to date. And I am using gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1. Do I have to upgrade and emerge -e ? Which version of gcc are you using? Thanks -- Yuan MEI -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread David Morgan
On 14:49 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > But the use.mask-- even the correct one-- still does not lead to an > explanation or documentation of what the mask of a USE flag actually > means or what it means in this particular case (why this specific USE > flag is masked under this specific pr

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB....etc

2005-07-13 Thread louis brazeau
On 7/13/05, Jim Hatfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone remind me what it means when you just > get millions of GRUBs scrolling up the screen. > > Came back from a few days away and my box was locked up. > Rebooting gets me the GRUB menu but which ever kernel > I selected started to boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: > (top posting because I can't be bothered to sort all the irrelevant > stuff you posted) > > The person in question is using /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86 > > If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/parent you'll see that > t's parent profile is /usr/portage/pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread David Morgan
(top posting because I can't be bothered to sort all the irrelevant stuff you posted) The person in question is using /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86 If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/parent you'll see that t's parent profile is /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/. If you look in /usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: > On 12:39 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: >>Obviously -- or at least it seems obvious to me, but that doesn't say >>much-- that if the package is hard-masked, the USE flag that is >>associated with it will be disabled (because the package the USE flag >>would call is un

Re: [gentoo-user] ogle and mplayer

2005-07-13 Thread luis jure
el Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:19:06 -0500 Canek Peláez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Anyway, I'm pretty sure ogle is unsupported. is it? i emerged it normally, it wasn't masked or anything. it also used to work on my previous linux installation. anyway, i'm using xine now, it's the only dvd player i

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread David Morgan
On 12:39 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > > What does which profile it is have to do with the mask? > /etc/portage/package.unmask unmasks hard-masked applications on the > profile you are using-- the profile supercedes all later adjustment > files, insofar as all later adjustment files (/et

[gentoo-user] Finally got mplayer updated

2005-07-13 Thread Jim Hatfield
I posted ages ago about failing to update mplayer due to compile errors which seemed to be caused by it using header files under /usr/src/linux. So after a while of headscratching I did the obvious: renamed /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux.NIU and re-emerged. No problem. Still don't know why mpla

[gentoo-user] GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB....etc

2005-07-13 Thread Jim Hatfield
Can someone remind me what it means when you just get millions of GRUBs scrolling up the screen. Came back from a few days away and my box was locked up. Rebooting gets me the GRUB menu but which ever kernel I selected started to boot then scrolled up reams of very nasty looking messages. Sounded

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: > On 12:06 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Which is why the proper way to unmask a hard-masked package is to enter >>it into /etc/portage/package.unmask (and often thereafter also into >>/etc/portage/package.keywords, as many hard-masked packages are also >>keyword-

[gentoo-user] gentoo web development tool

2005-07-13 Thread simply change
AybOwan! dear friends, what is the gentoo official web site WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOL? (like screem, nvu or what?)-- ..."The future lies ahead." ___< Have you mooed today? > --- \^__^ \   (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\ 

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread David Morgan
On 12:06 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > Which is why the proper way to unmask a hard-masked package is to enter > it into /etc/portage/package.unmask (and often thereafter also into > /etc/portage/package.keywords, as many hard-masked packages are also > keyword-masked). > Great, but wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: > You could remove win32codecs from base/use.mask, try and use it and see > if it works since it shouldn't break anything. But each time you did > emerge sync it'd get written over. Which is why the proper way to unmask a hard-masked package is to enter it into /etc/portage/

Re: [gentoo-user] ogle and mplayer

2005-07-13 Thread David Morgan
On 22:19 Tue 12 Jul , Canek Pel??ez wrote: > Isn't ogle unsupported? I suppose it has to do with Xv, but I don't know > really. > > Anyway, I'm pretty sure ogle is unsupported. > What makes you say that? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread David Morgan
On 10:50 Wed 13 Jul , Ow Mun Heng wrote: > uclibc profile > /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/ > That's probably the problem then > How can I check? Profiles have use.mask files. uclibc/x86 doesn't have one, but it's parent is uclibc whose parent is base, and win32codecs is in /usr/portage/