Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting time in middle of session

2006-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 23:20, James wrote: > Uwe Thiem iway.na> writes: > > With a dial-up connection, you haven't much chance other than connecting > > to a time server when your connection is up. I do it automatically > > in /etc/ppp/ip-up. > > Hey, this is cool, do you have an example 'ip-up' conf

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 21:50, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, > i've followed this how http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash to have > a framebuffer splash under gentoo. I've added "splash" to the boot > runlevel; however the framebuffer images start only in the default > runlevel. > > # rc-status

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 22:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:40:49 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > "needed" - What's "needed", anyway? > > / and swap, nothing else :) Actually, not even swap. ;-) Amazing how passionate people turn over how to partition the system. Uwe -- Why do

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> >> >> He

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:40:49 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> "needed" - What's "needed", anyway? > > / and swap, nothing else :) Nah. / - that's it. swap *can* be a file :) Alexander Skwar -- "Here comes Mr. Bill's dog." -- Narrator, Saturday Night Live -- gentoo-us

[gentoo-user] Rafael Barreto wants to talk to you using Google Talk

2006-02-16 Thread Rafael Barreto
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[gentoo-user] Rafael Barreto wants to talk to you using Google Talk

2006-02-16 Thread Rafael Barreto
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[gentoo-user] Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Grant
I've been struggling to get my wireless card to connect to the WEP Airport router at my housing complex. It turns out it connects just fine using a Knoppix disc and manual ifconfig/iwconfig commands, but the same commands don't work in Gentoo. My Gentoo packages are totally up to date. I'm using

RE: [gentoo-user] still can't print

2006-02-16 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: maxim wexler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 February 2006 23:47 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] still can't print > > > [snip...] > Wed Feb 15 11:50:46 MST 2006 > ijs/DESKJET_610 300x300 medium full > Time for ghostscri

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
I had the same issue, same MOBO and same system (almost the same, instead of the sempron I had an athlon xp), the heatsink was working fine, it kept locking for a while, then one day as you described it refused to boot, as I forced it, it became unstable, finally not booting anymore. I took it to

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-16 Thread Joseph
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:28 -0600, Roy Wright wrote: > Joseph wrote: > > >I just noticed that the PHP5 has been marked stable. > >Are the any instruction on how to upgrade from PHP4 to PHP5 > > > > > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml Thank you, indeed it was a smooth up

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:23, a tiny voice compelled Nick Rout to write: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:26:19 -0800 > > gentuxx wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > >> I was poki

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Zac Slade
On Thursday 16 February 2006 07:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:06:12 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create > > filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var > > and / (of course). This way you're more flexible > > and also a

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
sounds like weak/dying PSU. Get a new one. Enermax builds good ones. Don't buy coba, fortron/sourge. Be carefull with antec (have 12V problems). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: phpmyadmin

2006-02-16 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 16 February 2006 08:11, a tiny voice compelled Thomas T. Veldhouse to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >I am just starting to play with php and mysql. I've got mysql working and > > can log into root accounts using a password. php scripts work on > >http://localhost. For example, http:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: phpmyadmin

2006-02-16 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 23:53, a tiny voice compelled Joseph to write: > This tutorial will help you, GUARANTEED 100% (and it is worth a > bookmark). > http://arcticalliance.se/pma.php Fantastic!!! Thanks a lot Joseph. I've got it working. Now to figure out why LOL. > > -- > #Joseph > > On

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread michael
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Hi, I've been having issues with the computer shutting down automatically. Makes me wonder if it's an over heating problem. The system (AMD Sempron 2500+, MSI K8M800 mobo, two Seagate HDDs, an LG DVD Burner and a GB of RAM) h

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread brettholcomb
It could be a power supply problem, too. I seen it when one of the power rails gets flakey the computer will do funny things. If you have another power supply connect it - you don't have to install it but just put it beside the box and then hook it up. If it works you have found the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Hi, > > I've been having issues with the computer shutting down automatically. Makes > me wonder if it's an over heating problem. The system (AMD Sempron 2500+, MSI > K8M800 mobo, two Seagate HDDs, an LG DVD Burner and a GB of RAM) has > developed a habit of shutting dow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:33:15 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > This functionality is not in any way a hack: > > equery belongs /sbin/installkernel > [ Searching for file(s) /sbin/installkernel in *... ] > sys-apps/debianutils-2.15 (/sbin/installkernel) > > Programs That Depend On debianutils > app-a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:24:01 +, Mick wrote: > > Looks like this was it. I had it in the /etc/portage/rsync_excludes > > file. Not really sure why. Guess I'll find out when something breaks > > after I boot to the new kernel. ;-) > > I know why: to stop using loads of bandwidth and disk s

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:24:57 -0800, gentuxx wrote: > I do need to prune some of the older kernels out of there. But I > don't want to get rid of all of them but the most recent. Is there a > way that I can "protect" or "omit" 2.6.13-r3 from the emerge --prune > process and remove the rest? cd /

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:07:37 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > / and swap, nothing else :) > > Well if we are going to be silly, you actually only need / Which shows that I wasn't being silly ;-) -- Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh, as Smurfette got dressed. signature.asc Description: PGP s

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-16 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just noticed that the PHP5 has been marked stable. > Are the any instruction on how to upgrade from PHP4 > to PHP5 Yes there are: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-16 Thread Roy Wright
Joseph wrote: I just noticed that the PHP5 has been marked stable. Are the any instruction on how to upgrade from PHP4 to PHP5 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread John Jolet
> > I am confused: how many 'make install's are there? Don't they 'all' do the > same? Are we talking about a customised (hacked) make install here? Install is a target to make. Install_modules is a target to make. What's confusing? Make is a command. Install or install_modules, or install_

[gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-16 Thread Joseph
I just noticed that the PHP5 has been marked stable. Are the any instruction on how to upgrade from PHP4 to PHP5 Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5) I would like

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread michael
A long shot, but I had this happen once due to bad power supply. Is there a chance the power supply is failing? If you have an alternate supply, you may want to swap it out. Are you pushing it near its limits, perhaps with many disk drives? Can you remove some drives as a test? On Fri, 17 Feb 2

[gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hi, I've been having issues with the computer shutting down automatically. Makes me wonder if it's an over heating problem. The system (AMD Sempron 2500+, MSI K8M800 mobo, two Seagate HDDs, an LG DVD Burner and a GB of RAM) has developed a habit of shutting down or restarting randomly, no matte

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Mick
Holly Bostick wrote: > But any utility ported from Debian certainly can't be considered a hack > by any stretch of the imagination > > Holly It seems that my previous message crossed in the post with this one and the one from Neil. I didn't know of the make install command, but thanks to your p

[gentoo-user] Re: package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Catalin Trifu
equery depends {blocking_package} This will give you a list of all the packages that require the blocker. equery is in app-portage/gentoolkit Catalin Nick Smith wrote: > is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for > instance i have a package that is blocking

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Mick
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:05:24 -, Michael Kintzios wrote: > >> Yep, /boot is always mounted (just to be sure I won't forget it, I >> always mount it before I even cd into /usr/src/linux). Running make && >> make modules_install does *not* create any links in my /boot dir

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Mick schreef: > John Jolet wrote: >> >> On 2/16/06 11:05 AM, "Michael Kintzios" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> make install does exactly the same, and sets up the vmlinuz >> and vmlinuz.old symlinks to point to your new and pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Andresen wrote: >On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:53, gentuxx wrote: > >>>Do you have eix installed? If not I suggest you install it. >> >>No, I just installed it. So this is the first time running these >>commands - if that makes any difference. >

[gentoo-user] Re: package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Mick
Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 2/16/06, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2/16/06, Ghaith Hachem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what >> > anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need >> > >> right, but i want to know that the pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:05:24 -, Michael Kintzios wrote: > Yep, /boot is always mounted (just to be sure I won't forget it, I > always mount it before I even cd into /usr/src/linux). Running make && > make modules_install does *not* create any links in my /boot directory, > ever. Could it be

Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Persson
On Thursday 16 February 2006 04:06 William Kenworthy was like: > At times you also have to go to the cups cache directory and delete the > print job there as well, as on restart it stats the printjob from the > beginning again.  They really need to fix this ... When I shut down cupsd the printer c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, Frino Klauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/16/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My impression is that you haven't yet run make install. > > > Can't you use genkernel instead ? > Yes, if you want, if you use it with --install it will copy the latest kernel, map and

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Mick
Holly Bostick wrote: > > My impression is that you haven't yet run make install. > > HTH, > Holly Spot on! I'll try it out next time I compile a kernel Holly, thank you for clarifying matters. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:53, gentuxx wrote: > >Do you have eix installed? If not I suggest you install it. > > No, I just installed it. So this is the first time running these > commands - if that makes any difference. Well, that's why you had to run update-eix. If you intend to use eix in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Frino Klauss schreef: > On 2/16/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My impression is that you haven't yet run make install. >> > Can't you use genkernel instead ? > I have no idea; I've never used genkernel, and am unlikely to ever do so. Since it is a mostly automated process (though

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Mick
John Jolet wrote: > > > > On 2/16/06 11:05 AM, "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 >>> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:26:19 -0800 gentuxx wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > > >> I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed > >> > >>>that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Mick
gentuxx wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mick wrote: > >> >>I'm no portage guru, but this is what I would do on my system: >> >>1. Check what you have in your RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM and package.keywords. > > Looks like this was it. I had it in the /etc/portage/rsync_excl

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting time in middle of session

2006-02-16 Thread James
Uwe Thiem iway.na> writes: > With a dial-up connection, you haven't much chance other than connecting to a > time server when your connection is up. I do it automatically > in /etc/ppp/ip-up. Hey, this is cool, do you have an example 'ip-up' config file? I have used ppp quite a lot to talk t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Frino Klauss
On 2/16/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My impression is that you haven't yet run make install.Can't you use genkernel instead ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:53:21 -0800, gentuxx wrote: > eix -e gentoo-sources > * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources > Available versions: 2.4.28-r9 ~2.4.31-r1 2.6.9-r9 2.6.12-r9 > 2.6.12-r10 ~2.6.13 ~2.6.13-r1 ~2.6.13-r2 2.6.13-r3 > Installed: 2.6.11-r5 2.6.11-r6 2.6.11-r8 2.6.11-r9 > 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/16/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > / and swap, nothing else :) Well if we are going to be silly, you actually only need / -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Kintzios schreef: > >> -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 To: >> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: >> Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo >> make install does exactly the same

Re: [gentoo-user] updating glibc-2.3.5-r2: segmentation fault... (part 2)

2006-02-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jarry wrote: > So now (I hope!) my system is in consistent state, as it was > before my little "experiment" Well, you have had a kernel oops, and it looks like you may have had another (the emerge of gcc that did nothing for 4 hours), so... something doesn't seem quite right. Keep watching you

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:21, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > You *can* tell LVM where to put LVs but you do not *have* to. > > But how do you actually do that? Or are you talking about > the "allocation policy"? Like "--contiguous y"? > Well, first of all, you can pass lvcreate a list of physi

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > > >> I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed > >> > >>>that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: >Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >>On 2/16/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: >>> >>Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? >>I mean, "u" for "update"? e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread John Jolet
On 2/16/06 11:05 AM, "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the >> installation

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the > installation of Gentoo > > > > make install does exactly the same, and sets up the vmlinuz

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >> I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed >> >>>that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So I run an `emerge --sync`, and >>>`emerge -av gentoo-sources`. An

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 21:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:57 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > If partition A > > > runs out of space while partition B has plenty, > > > > Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. > > Of course, but if your need

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Mick
Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 2/16/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: >> > > >Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? >> > > >I mean, "u" for "update"? >> > >> > emerge -uav gentoo-sources >> > >> > These are the packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:40:49 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > "needed" - What's "needed", anyway? / and swap, nothing else :) -- Neil Bothwick Crayons can take you more places than starships. * Guinan signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:57 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > If partition A > > runs out of space while partition B has plenty, > > Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. Of course, but if your needs change, that's the situation you find yourself in, as I did recen

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed > > that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So I run an `emerge --sync`, and > > `emerge -av gentoo-sources`. And it wants to rebuild my 2.6.13-r3 > > Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Andresen wrote: >On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: > Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? I mean, "u" for "update"? >> >>emerge -uav gentoo-sources >> >>These are the packages that I would merge, in order: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] updating glibc-2.3.5-r2: segmentation fault... (part 2)

2006-02-16 Thread Jarry
Rumen Yotov wrote: > Have you compiled anything after compiling GCC with 'hardened'? (genlop) Negative, only gcc, then emerge failed trying to compile 2nd package - glibc-2.3.5-r2. I tried to go back (removed those hardened-flags), and could not compile gcc-3.4.4 > Try with MAKEOPTS="-j1" in /et

[gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-16 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i've followed this how http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash to have a framebuffer splash under gentoo. I've added "splash" to the boot runlevel; however the framebuffer images start only in the default runlevel. # rc-status boot .. .. splash .. .. This is the GRUB entries: title=Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 james wrote: >gentuxx gmail.com> writes: > >>emerge -uav gentoo-sources >> >>These are the packages that I would merge, in order: >> >>Calculating dependencies ...done! >> >>Total size of downloads: 0 kB >> >>Nothing to merge; do you want me to auto-

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: >gentuxx schreef: > >>Daniel da Veiga wrote: >> On 2/16/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forgive me if this ends up being the "stupid question of the day". But, I haven't been able to upgrade my ker

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/16/06, Ghaith Hachem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what > > anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need > > > right, but i want to know that the package im going to remove becaus

[gentoo-user] Re: what does this mean?

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 16 14:03, Nick Smith (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > # /etc/init.d/spamd start > * Starting spamd... > [18773] error: persistent_udp: no such method at > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line > 99 [ ok ] I h

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> >> >> Iz

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/16/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:02, Richard Fish wrote: > > > Having / on its own partition can result in a similar improvement, > > because the drive doesn't have to seek over your files in /home or > > /opt to get to something in /lib

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Nick Smith
On 2/16/06, Ghaith Hachem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what > anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need > right, but i want to know that the package im going to remove because its blocking something else isnt needed by another package

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
gentuxx schreef: > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >>> On 2/16/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > >>> Forgive me if this ends up being the "stupid question of the >>> day". >>> >>> But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. >>> (Obviously I could download it from kernel.

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread james
gentuxx gmail.com> writes: > > emerge -uav gentoo-sources > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB > > Nothing to merge; do you want me to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] n when was the last time you enter

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Smith wrote: >is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for >instance i have a package that is blocking another package when i do >an emerge, is there a way to tell if the package that is blocking the >other is actually needed by

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: > > > >Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? > > > >I mean, "u" for "update"? > > > > emerge -uav gentoo-sources > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Ghaith Hachem
usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need On 2/16/06, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for > instance i have a package that is blocking another package when i do

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: > > >Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? > > >I mean, "u" for "update"? > > emerge -uav gentoo-sources > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB >

[gentoo-user] what does this mean?

2006-02-16 Thread Nick Smith
is this bad or is it ok to ignore? when ever i start spamd it gives me this error, but it does say OK and starts the process anyway, is there something wrong with perl? or should i just ignore this if it works (which is to be determined, im still installing/setting it up) # /etc/init.d/spamd start

[gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Nick Smith
is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for instance i have a package that is blocking another package when i do an emerge, is there a way to tell if the package that is blocking the other is actually needed by any other package on the system before i unmerge it? thanks Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:32, Jeff wrote: > Moving my thread over to the proper list... first... > > Now then - thanks to everyone on the list for your help. I've had barely > any sleep lately, so I must apologize first, for putting the original > thread onto the security mailing list by mist

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> >> Izar Ilun wrote: > >> >> > I say that,

Re: [gentoo-user] updating glibc-2.3.5-r2: segmentation fault... (part 2)

2006-02-16 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:25 +0100, Jarry wrote: > Rumen Yotov wrote: > > > Now run: "gcc-config 5" and check again with gcc-config -l that vanilla > > is your default gcc profile. > > > > Next try re-emerging GCC-3.4.4. > > I tried. Changed to vanilla, verified, started re-emerging gcc, but it >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Jeff: > > See here: > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 3016 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1507.91 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads:4 MB in 3.68 seconds = 1.09 MB/sec > > Horribly slow! This machine should be blazing fast, with the 7200 rpm > 200 GB hard dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel da Veiga wrote: >On 2/16/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Forgive me if this ends up being the "stupid question of the day". > > But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. > (Obviously I could download it from ker

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors laptop issues

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:27, James wrote: > > > It also looks like the power supply is not regulating very well? > > > Can I believe these voltages? > > > > no > > but you can never believe the voltages. > > The absolut numbers are irrelevant. > > What is important: are there any fluctuation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Konqueror as an FTP Client

2006-02-16 Thread Ryan Holt
Thanks all for your help!Turns out that Kasablanca will work for me, gftp for some reason or another crashes, but Konqueror still can't work correctly; guess is it has something to do with that bug. On 2/16/06, Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 02:05, Ryan Holt wro

Re: [gentoo-user] updating glibc-2.3.5-r2: segmentation fault... (part 2)

2006-02-16 Thread Jarry
Rumen Yotov wrote: > Now run: "gcc-config 5" and check again with gcc-config -l that vanilla > is your default gcc profile. > > Next try re-emerging GCC-3.4.4. I tried. Changed to vanilla, verified, started re-emerging gcc, but it failed without saying anything (frozen, after 4 hours of nothing-

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry wrote: > But even if it is so, if you resize partition by lvm, this advantage > could be lost. And if it even is possible to keep some partition > continuous, than resizing partition in lvm would be very long process: > if I resize 1st partition (the fastest, on the most outer cylinders) > a

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread kashani
Alexander Skwar wrote: I can't. But that's just not needed. Make the filesystems as large as they *now* need to be. If more space is required, extending is a matter of a few seconds. I agree with that. 80GB drive, lvm up 50GB of it, and then you can grow whatever as needed. It's not like you

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:39:02 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> > But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt >> > while >> >> Not really. And even if so - who cares? Make the >> fs larger, and you're set. Also, if those fs >> run out of space, it's no

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Jarry
Martin Eisenhardt wrote: >>Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do not have >>control over physical placement of your partitions. Right? > > No, wrong, I am sorry :-D > > You might let LVM choose where to put the extends for a newly created logical > volume, but you might also tell LVM wh

[gentoo-user] Re: BIND 9.3.2 won't start

2006-02-16 Thread Remy Blank
Chris Bare wrote: > I just upgraded to BIND 9.3.2 and now when I try: > > /etc/init.d/named start > > it says: > > * WARNING: "named" has already been started. Kill all named processes: killall named Tell the init script that you have done so: /etc/init.d/named zap Start named: /et

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Forgive me if this ends up being the "stupid question of the day". > > But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. > (Obviously I could download it from kernel.org and go that rou

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness... [SOLVED]

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff
Ok, so with some quick tips from the nice peoples here in the list, I was almost instantly able to track down the culprit to my hard draive whackiness. It's my ATI IDE controller: 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI In the kernel, I found: Dev

[gentoo-user] BIND 9.3.2 won't start

2006-02-16 Thread Chris Bare
I just upgraded to BIND 9.3.2 and now when I try: /etc/init.d/named start it says: * WARNING: "named" has already been started. I used to have this problem before, so I checked my notes and saw this is what I did to fix it: oberon log # mkdir /var/run/named oberon log # chmod 700 /var/run/nam

[gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Forgive me if this ends up being the "stupid question of the day". But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. (Obviously I could download it from kernel.org and go that route, but I would like to keep as much as possible in portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Por qué eres tan maravilloso Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Rafael Fernández López
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[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff
Moving my thread over to the proper list... first... Now then - thanks to everyone on the list for your help. I've had barely any sleep lately, so I must apologize first, for putting the original thread onto the security mailing list by mistake. For anyone who's wondering - I have an AMD64 box, w

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:50:01 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I found xdiskusage to be a very practical tool to findout where space > > is wasted on a disk. It's basically a tool giving a graphical output > > to du, showing how the space is shared by directory and > > subdirectories (and files with t

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