Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

On Friday 08 June 2007 19:29, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, »Q« wrote: > > In , > > > > "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > > b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Real

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

On 6/9/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, but you see, in half the cases there is not a /complete/ > incompatibility. PHP4<->5 migration is not an entirely big switch, > the biggest problem IIRC in the 4->5 change is the way it handles

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating ati-drivers

James wrote: > > I have ati-drivers installed. It's time to upgrade. There > are a series of steps (commands) you have to issue > which are unique to ati-drivers, once you update the ati-drivers. > > It's been a while since I did this so I have forgotten the exact > sequence of steps as to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating ati-drivers

On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 02:09 +, James wrote: > I have ati-drivers installed. It's time to upgrade. There > are a series of steps (commands) you have to issue > which are unique to ati-drivers, once you update the ati-drivers. ummm, don't know about the series of commands, but all I do is kill

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Ubuntu isn't the devil

On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, b.n. wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > > I have several boot cds. And none of them booted as slow as kubuntu 7.04. > > The boot cd is slow as a molasses hell, but the installed system boots > quite fast -slower than my Gentoo, but not significantly. > > > nope,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Ubuntu isn't the devil

Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > I have several boot cds. And none of them booted as slow as kubuntu 7.04. The boot cd is slow as a molasses hell, but the installed system boots quite fast -slower than my Gentoo, but not significantly. > nope, what made them the 'most popular distribution' w

[gentoo-user] Re: updating ati-drivers

Colleen Beamer gmail.com> writes: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml > http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html No, I have ati-drivers installed. It's time to upgrade. There are a series of steps (commands) you have to issue which are unique to ati-drivers, once you upd

Re: [gentoo-user] updating ati-drivers

James wrote: > Hello, > > It's been a long time since I update ati-drivers. > I forgot all of the steps you have to manually perform > after updating ati-drivers. I cannot seem to locate > the wiki I followed last time. Since I only admin > one system with ati-drivers, could somebody point me > to

Re: [gentoo-user] Message at bootup about superblock last write time

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:24:40PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote > At Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:25:57 -0400 Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Checking root filesystem ... > > /dev/hda1: Superblock last write time is in the future. FIXED. > > /dev/hda1: clean, 6975/160960 files, 32843/307235

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

On Fri Jun 8 18:25 , Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Fri Jun 8 16:38 , Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > >> >> Yeah, that's me, I do exactly the same until you issue the cp command where >> I do: >> $>cd /mnt/oldstuff &&

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri Jun 8 16:38 , Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > > Yeah, that's me, I do exactly the same until you issue the cp command where I > do: > $>cd /mnt/oldstuff && tar cvjpf /pathtosomewhere/mystuff.tbz ./ > and then extract to the n

[gentoo-user] updating ati-drivers

Hello, It's been a long time since I update ati-drivers. I forgot all of the steps you have to manually perform after updating ati-drivers. I cannot seem to locate the wiki I followed last time. Since I only admin one system with ati-drivers, could somebody point me to current docs (wiki) or list

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

On Fri Jun 8 12:09 , Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >The -p option only does something when extracting an archive, so >that first -p is pointless. Cool. I thought you were mistaken however, upon consulting the man page, you are absolutely correct. Thanks for that. --James -- [E

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

On Fri Jun 8 16:38 , Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >This is something I have done several times. This is how I do it. >Boot the Gentoo CD or some other live CD, Knoppix should work. After >you get booted up, mount the partitions, old and new, then use this >command: cp -av /path/to/old /path

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, »Q« wrote: > In , > > "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Really. If you think there's a problem, explain it. You get > > > > attacked?

Re: [OT] Ubuntu isn't the devil (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid)

On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] > > The slowest boot of all > > times? > > My Gentoo boots more slowly, but that's probably related to the large delay > mounting a 3TiB re

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Is it safe to move my linux system by using: >>> #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part >>> and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on n

[OT] Ubuntu isn't the devil (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid)

On Friday 08 June 2007, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid': > On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, b.n. wrote: > > Kent Fredric ha scritto: > > > On 6/8/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ( probably releated to it being

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

Enrico Weigelt ha scritto: > I understand that often there's more information need. But isn't > this exactly what the NEEDINFO status is for ? You don't understand that perhaps the wrangler does not understand that needs more info! If he has a partial/distorted view of the bug, you can't expect

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, b.n. wrote: > Kent Fredric ha scritto: > > On 6/8/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ( probably releated to it being a > > generally harder distro to use that *cough* ewwbuntu *cough* > > unlinspired *cough* or *cough* deadrat *cough* ) > > OT: Ubuntu distros (Kubunt

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

Kent Fredric ha scritto: > On 6/8/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ( probably releated to it being a > generally harder distro to use that *cough* ewwbuntu *cough* > unlinspired *cough* or *cough* deadrat *cough* ) OT: Ubuntu distros (Kubuntu, expecially) are really, really shiny and slick p

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

Enrico Weigelt ha scritto: > I'd prefer telling people what I (personally) believe it's good/right > and give them the chance to either take or leave it. Both decisions > will have their consequences, but nobody can tell which one is > objectively better - evryhing's subjective. [...] > I don't f

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

Hi, On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:43:23 +1000 Tim Allingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment > > dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/ "Remote Environment" probably means a) read-only mounted root FS or b) a boot into another instance, e.g. a live-CD, right?

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

* Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, but you see, in half the cases there is not a /complete/ > incompatibility. PHP4<->5 migration is not an entirely big switch, > the biggest problem IIRC in the 4->5 change is the way it handles > classes, and a lot of code 'simply works' on both. I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Firefox's "Connecting"

Grant wrote: > Can anyone tell me what Firefox is doing when it says it is > "Connecting" to a particular website? My site is periodically hanging > at that point, and I'd like to track down the problem. Is it just > waiting for apache2's first response to the HTTP request? No, Firefox is propab

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

Mauro Faccenda wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007 12:54, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: > > > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part > > > > 'cp -a' (or better rsync -a) is probably better than 'cp

[gentoo-user] Re: xen-sources compilation error: net/ipv4/netfilter

Solution here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177142 Sorry. Gal' 2007/6/8, Galevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all, I recently emerged xen-sources and launched a dom0 kernel compilation. Compil' gave up on : net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c: In function 'send_reset': net/ipv4/netfilte

[gentoo-user] {OT} Firefox's "Connecting"

Can anyone tell me what Firefox is doing when it says it is "Connecting" to a particular website? My site is periodically hanging at that point, and I'd like to track down the problem. Is it just waiting for apache2's first response to the HTTP request? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plextor SATA DVD RW not working

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:39:05PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: > > > The source can't be read. > > > Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain > > > data > > > (e.g: no disc in drive). (/dev/dvd) > > > what does 'ls -l /dev/dvd' show? > > ls: cannot access /

Re: [gentoo-user] Touch screen

Stéphane ANCELOT wrote this: > Hi, > > Have you got calibration software running under X or is it working only > in console mode ? > > Best Regards > steph > With the newer driver the calibration software works under X perfectly. Under console i can't see the targets. The program asks me to

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: > > > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part > > > and approriat

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving linux system to another partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ? I have used "rsync -avH" in the past (-H preserves hardlinks), and with

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

On Friday 08 June 2007 18:59, Albert Hopkins wrote: > You could also pass, '-x' to cp and rsync or '--one-file-system' to tar. Thanks. I found good howto [1], chapter #7 describes this problem [1] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/ -- best regards, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy -- [EMAIL PR

RE: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

> -Original Message- > From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:48 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition > > > On Friday 08 June 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Freit

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

On Friday 08 June 2007 12:54, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: > > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part > > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ? > > 'cp

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > What the OP *will* have a problem with a copying /proc, /dev, /sys > and > other virtual filesystems. When I do this trick, I usually dd or tar > or > cp -a entire filesystems and then copy / with this trick: > > mount -o bind / /some/tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

On Friday 08 June 2007 12:39, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > > When I moved around on harddisks some years ago, I followed some > > instructions found on the suse-hp. And they used tar. > > Any helpful suggestions(links?) ? if you are doing it between different filesystems, keep in mind that some do

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ? 'cp -a' (or better rsync -a) is probably better than 'cp -rp' for that

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

On Friday 08 June 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: > > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part > > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ? > > nope. > > cp

RE: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

> -Original Message- > From: Hemmann, Volker Armin > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:19 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition > > > On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ? nope. cp -a if you really want to use copy. But doesn't kill that the ctime/mti

[gentoo-user] Re: Plextor SATA DVD RW not working

Willie Wong Princeton.EDU> writes: > > The source can't be read. > > Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data > > (e.g: no disc in drive). (/dev/dvd) Hello Willie, Sorry for the delay, working for a living often gets in the way managing my gentoo systems.

[gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

Hi all, Is it safe to move my linux system by using: #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ? -- best regards, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

On 6/9/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/9/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the case of autoconf, im personally glad it all hides under one > non-linear space-time-continumum on my harddrive ;) . The thought of > them all being in seperate ebuild names would drive

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

On 6/9/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/9/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >What flexibility do I take away exactly ? > >And what exactly gets harder ? > > > > Automated building of dependant packages More precisely

Re: [gentoo-user] Touch screen

Hi, Have you got calibration software running under X or is it working only in console mode ? Best Regards steph Rodrigo Forlin a écrit : > Timo Boettcher wrote this: >> * Rodrigo Forlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Can someone point me a touch screen monitor that works under console? >> I bou

[gentoo-user] xen-sources compilation error: net/ipv4/netfilter

Hi all, I recently emerged xen-sources and launched a dom0 kernel compilation. Compil' gave up on : net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c: In function 'send_reset': net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c:162: error: 'struct skb_shared_info' has no member named 'tso_size' net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c:163:

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

* Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/9/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >What flexibility do I take away exactly ? > >And what exactly gets harder ? > > > > Automated building of dependant packages More precisely ? AFAICS it would be much easier w/o slots. I alrea

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

* b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > > No, I'm not the one who teaches anyody. I go my way, if you > > like it, feel free to follow me, if you don't like it, > > go you own but leave me alone. > > So don't expect anyone to like you, if you don't teach anyone what do > you think and...--> h

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

* Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > Imo, provide as much information as possible, describe all > paths of logic, dont assume bugwranglers are psychic. Verbosity > can be your friend. I understand that often there's more information need. But isn't this exactly what the NEEDINFO st

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: custom-kernels overlay vanished?

Am Freitag 08 Juni 2007 12:30 schrieb Stefan Schweizer: > Here you can see that it is still in layman-global: > > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/overlays/lay >man-global.txt?rev=1.138&view=log > > I suggest you to contact the overlays maintainer: > > contact = "rmh30

Re: [gentoo-user] Touch screen

Timo Boettcher wrote this: > * Rodrigo Forlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can someone point me a touch screen monitor that works under console? > I bought a Touchscreen from some car-tuning guy on ebay. The touchscreen > is detected as an eGalax compatible unit and works using the > usbtouchscree

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

On 6/9/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What flexibility do I take away exactly ? And what exactly gets harder ? Automated building of dependant packages Gentoo has a collection of magic script that do make this nice for us. ie ( last I looked anyway ) java-config and autoconf

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

* Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > > These are packages totally incompatible and so different > > packages under the same name. They're sometimes necessary, > > since certain projects still require very old version, > > even if upgrade wouldn't be such a problem and has already

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Really. If you think there's a problem, explain it. You get attacked? > > Insist. Prove them they are wrong. > > Just curious: Did you ever try this with Jakub? > I did. And after some arguments a different dev

Re: [gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

...and revdep-rebuild, although if libs were broken you should get some errors in your logs. HTH. -- Regards, Mick -- Regards, Mick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: custom-kernels overlay vanished?

Here you can see that it is still in layman-global: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt?rev=1.138&view=log I suggest you to contact the overlays maintainer: contact = "rmh3093 -et- gmail.com" He should be able to tell you why the svn is d

Re: [gentoo-user] xsane and sane compile error

On Thursday 07 June 2007, Dale wrote: > OK, update.  I did a emerge sane-backends and then it has some config > files that needed updating and I did that.  After that, the updates > ran fine.   Maybe it just had to much to drink and got confused for a > bit. > > I did check the version above before

[gentoo-user] cvs server config error

Hi, I'm trying to configure a cvs server following: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_CVS_Server All config when fine but now, with teh server up and running, I get this error when I do login: lx-arnau lib # CVSROOT=:pserver:user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/myrepos; export CVSROOT lx-arnau lib # cvs login Lo

[gentoo-user] custom-kernels overlay vanished?

Hi! Since some weeks I'm an enthusiastic user of viper-sources. Pulling them in via the custom-kernels was a very convenient way of getting them. But since two or three days I cannot sync it anymore and as I see now it has completly from laymans overlay list. :( I searched in the forums (and v

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

On 6/8/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I tell you a secret: even with all its quirks and defects, Gentoo has one of the more friendly and helpful communities in the OSS world. Try have a look at the Debian, OpenBSD or Slackware forums/ml/IRC channels, and you'll understand. I concur,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

Alexander Skwar ha scritto: > b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Really. If you think there's a problem, explain it. You get attacked? >> Insist. Prove them they are wrong. > > Just curious: Did you ever try this with Jakub? Don't think so. I understand from this thread he's a tough guy, but i

[gentoo-user] USB serial adapter not working

Hello, i own a USB docking station which also contains a serial connector. The host will do USB 2.0 (kernel module ehci-hcd) and detects the PL2303 serial port properly. It loads the appropiate kernel module, but at the end it fails somehow with the following message: cut -

[gentoo-user] Re: Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really. If you think there's a problem, explain it. You get attacked? > Insist. Prove them they are wrong. Just curious: Did you ever try this with Jakub? Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list