[gentoo-user] the user mode linux can't access network..

2006-08-20 Thread fei huang
I have my user mode kernel running on my gentoo box following the gentoo's guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/uml.xmlbut can not access the Internet,  pinging my host system appears to be no problem though.. my host system has a ADSL connection to the Internet, and "eth0" has been assigned with IP

Re: [gentoo-user] .keep

2006-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
060821 Shaochun Wang wrote: > Does anyone know the function of .keep file in a directory? It prevents the dir from being deleted by a script, eg esp during a package update. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EM

[gentoo-user] .keep

2006-08-20 Thread Shaochun Wang
Does anyone know the function of .keep file in a directory? -- Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Fingerprint: 70C2 6945 0E46 E08B 419A 007C AC5C F21F 358A 0833 You can get my publickey from the following url: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/~scwang/docs/scwangpublickey.gpg -- gentoo-user@gen

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: A netbios-ssn blocking rule?

2006-08-20 Thread James
> Daniel Iliev ilievnet.com> writes: My iptables based firewall seem to be working, However, I keep getting triplets of this activity: curious.ip www.me.com tcp 2286 > netbios-ssn Seq=0 Len=0 MSS=1460 www.me.com curious.ip tcp netbios-ssn > 2286 [RST, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=0 Len=0 sim

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual screen display, one is offset

2006-08-20 Thread Randy Barlow
Might sound kind of silly - but did you make sure that the left monitor's horizontal alignment is properly set? R Daniel D Jones wrote: I have two Dell LCD widescreen displays (one's a 2005WFP, the other is a newly purchased 2007WFP) that I've just configured for dual screen display. I'm run

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Need help removing NTLDR [SOLVED]

2006-08-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 01:22 +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > El Lunes, 21 de Agosto de 2006 00:30, Michael Sullivan escribió: > > Awhile back my wife asked me to add Windows 98 SE to the operating > > systems on her computer (Gentoo and WinXP) so that she could play old > > games that we couldn't get

[gentoo-user] initng or runit?

2006-08-20 Thread Jerry McBride
Would some kind soul save me a bit of research time? Which of the two alternative init schemes are faster, initng or runit? Thank you in advance , Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Need help removing NTLDR

2006-08-20 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Lunes, 21 de Agosto de 2006 00:30, Michael Sullivan escribió: > Awhile back my wife asked me to add Windows 98 SE to the operating > systems on her computer (Gentoo and WinXP) so that she could play old > games that we couldn't get to work in Linux with wine. She attempted to > boot into Window

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Need help removing NTLDR

2006-08-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Michael Sullivan wrote: Awhile back my wife asked me to add Windows 98 SE to the operating systems on her computer (Gentoo and WinXP) so that she could play old games that we couldn't get to work in Linux with wine. She attempted to boot into Windows XP today, but got an error message: NTLDR is

[gentoo-user] Very OT - Need help removing NTLDR

2006-08-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
Awhile back my wife asked me to add Windows 98 SE to the operating systems on her computer (Gentoo and WinXP) so that she could play old games that we couldn't get to work in Linux with wine. She attempted to boot into Windows XP today, but got an error message: NTLDR is missing Press any key to

[gentoo-user] Unable to start /usr/bin/nifd: No such file or directory

2006-08-20 Thread Goran Dubajic
Hi Guys, I emerged world yesterday and I got the following problem: * Starting nifd ... /sbin/start-stop-daemon: Unable to start /usr/bin/nifd: No such file or directory (No such file or directory) * Failed to start nifd

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/20/06, frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( Since the kernel is being found it is not a grub setup problem. Either: a. The filesystem drivers are not compiled into your kernel. You said you configured them...are they built in (=y) or as modules (=

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread frank
Well, I didn't see any reason to try this. The kernel should know where the root filesystem lives. I've tried it just now: The panic is the same. The only difference is that the unknown device is (hd3,3). I've even tried to set "root=(hd0,2)" (I know, this is NOT what ``info grub'' says) :o( Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread frank
Right, fstab still isn't relevant here. It is a grub/kernel problem. Regards Frank On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 13:58 +0200, Mirek Dvořák wrote: > what about fstab? > Mirek > > 2006/8/20, frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just a bit more info, I've rebooted into the new system. > Here's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many X modules pulled in

2006-08-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Fredrik Tolf wrote: > I'm not an expert with portage, but the fact that xorg-server is > indented one space from gtk+ means that gtk+ depends on it directly, > doesn't it? If so, whence does that dependency come from (it's obviously > not on the DEPEND or RDEPEND variables)? > > Please help me --

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with X apps from remote PC

2006-08-20 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, * Matthias Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19-08-06 01:33]: > I have here Xorg running. My system is a AMD64, software is > up-to-date. X is compiled with xinerama tag. > > Now if I start emacs or a xterm etc on my FreeBSD pc I can only see > the decoration of the window but nothing is displayed

[gentoo-user] Installation - about creating /etc/fstab

2006-08-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, About creating /etc/fstab HD partitions:- /dev/hda1 ext2/boot /dev/hda2 (swap) swap (ext) /dev/hda3 ext3/root /dev/hda4 LVM under Volume Group (vg) /home /usr /opt /var /tmp floppy cdrom cdwriter Whether following entries are correct ? /etc/fstab

[gentoo-user] Too many X modules pulled in

2006-08-20 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Dear List, I'm trying to install Gentoo on a headless machine. I want programs to use the X libraries, so that I can SSH in from another machine and use X over TCP, but I'm not too fond of installing the entire X package (especially the X server) on it, since it won't ever be used. However, I jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread iccc
Graham Murray wrote: > "Mirek Dvořák" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> what about fstab? >> Mirek > > Is fstab relevant at this point? As surely /etc/fstab cannot be read > until after the root ('/') filesystem is mounted, and this is what is > failing. > Did you try to boot without the "root="

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread Graham Murray
"Mirek Dvořák" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what about fstab? > Mirek Is fstab relevant at this point? As surely /etc/fstab cannot be read until after the root ('/') filesystem is mounted, and this is what is failing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread Mirek Dvořák
what about fstab?Mirek2006/8/20, frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Just a bit more info, I've rebooted into the new system. Here's thewhole message:...VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0)Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread frank
Just a bit more info, I've rebooted into the new system. Here's the whole message: ... VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread frank
Well, a little typo: extend / ... is ext3 Frank On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +, frank wrote: > Hi all, > > I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used ~x86 > before). > > To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and all > of /boot. > > Th installation (accor

[gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread frank
Hi all, I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used ~x86 before). To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and all of /boot. Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly. The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying that there is an in

[gentoo-user] Re: libquicktime woes : SOLVED

2006-08-20 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 20 August 2006 10:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I guess libvorbis should be considered as a libquicktime dependency It is. See the ebuild, it states that if "vorbis" flag is set, then libvorbis is a dependency: DEPEND=">=sys-apps/sed-4.0.5 media-libs/libdv gtk? ( =x11-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libquicktime woes : SOLVED

2006-08-20 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Selon Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Saturday 19 August 2006 21:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Trying to compile libquicktime on a amd 64. Here's what I get: > > > > > > ./configure: line 22102: syntax error near unexpected token > > > `have_vorbis=

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libquicktime woes

2006-08-20 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 19 August 2006 21:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Trying to compile libquicktime on a amd 64. Here's what I get: > > > > ./configure: line 22102: syntax error near unexpected token > > `have_vorbis=true' ./configure: line 22102: > > `XIP