Re: [gentoo-user] numerous fstat calls

2008-06-01 Thread Justin Findlay
Sorry about forgetting to add a subject. Justin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

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2008-06-01 Thread Justin Findlay
I'm using net-misc/kiax-0.8.51 and for the past few months it has started taking nearly a minute to startup. It's not an app that I use very often, but still I'd like to find out why. I ran an strace on it today and it's running thousands and thousands of this call: fstat(6,{st_dev=makedev(254,

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 2007.1

2008-06-01 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
2008/6/1 Norman Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Actually i'm a newbie to Linux world but my final year project requires me > to use Gentoo Linux as my platform. So can u assist me the easiest way to > install Gentoo Linux 2007.1 and how to install stage3 as currently my pc is > running windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring network bandwidth utilization

2008-06-01 Thread Andrey Falko
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Not too long ago, I set up a router powered by Gentoo Linux and old > computer hardware. So far, it has worked like a charm and I am quite > pleased with my accomplishment. > > I am quite active in various BitTorrent

[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 2007.1

2008-06-01 Thread Norman Hakim
Hi, Actually i'm a newbie to Linux world but my final year project requires me to use Gentoo Linux as my platform. So can u assist me the easiest way to install Gentoo Linux 2007.1 and how to install stage3 as currently my pc is running windows xp and i would like to overwrite my windows with G

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale (SOLVED)

2008-06-01 Thread b.n.
Kevin O'Gorman ha scritto: TOP POSTED SUMMARY: operator error. An incorrect setting of LANG and LC_ALL were in /etc/profile. They had been suggested by the guide, but were incorrectly done and override the results of all the 02locale and locale.gen things. Now one X restart later, k3b and per

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale (SOLVED)

2008-06-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
TOP POSTED SUMMARY: operator error. An incorrect setting of LANG and LC_ALL were in /etc/profile. They had been suggested by the guide, but were incorrectly done and override the results of all the 02locale and locale.gen things. Now one X restart later, k3b and perl and I are all happy. Thanks

[gentoo-user] recent updates (stunnel, vidalia, nmap, filezilla, rkhunter, ckrootkit)

2008-06-01 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
I'm maintaining these directly from the authors' sites. This is an FYI for others who are doing the same. stunnel: 4.24 Vidalia: 0.1.3 nmap: 4.6.5 filezilla: 3.0.10 rkhunter: 1.3.2 chkrootkit: 0.48 HTH -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale

2008-06-01 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = "en_EN", LANG = "en_EN" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale

2008-06-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Daniel Pielmeier < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 31 May 2008 07:05:14 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> >>> Just to be sure, I re-ran locale-gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups 1.3.7 retards

2008-06-01 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2008, 16:03:44 +0200 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: > since an upgrade to CUPS 1.3.7, on a large amount of > print jobs, the printer pauses after every three pages. > > I detected that the backend for each job gets started > every 5 seconds: [...] Seems to be a kind of a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub?

2008-06-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2008 schrieb Ian Hilt: > If you're upgrading grub through the emerge process, then /boot > will be mounted for you, IIRC. Which should not happen at all. NOTHING should EVER mount or unmount something on a users system w/o being explicitely allowed to do so. People unmount (o

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2, openrc and env-update

2008-06-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:11:04 +0200, Marc Blumentritt wrote: > [ Searching for file(s) env-update in *... ] > sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 (/usr/sbin/env-update -> > ../lib/portage/bin/env-update) > sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 (/usr/lib/portage/bin/env-update) > > > portage provides env-update and env-

[gentoo-user] Re: udev problem with USB disk

2008-06-01 Thread »Q«
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having trouble with my external USB disk. > I have the following entry in fstab: > /dev/usbhd1 /mnt/b ext3 defaults 0 0 > I have written /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules > DRIVERS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}==

Re: [gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk

2008-06-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 01 June 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > As a work-around I added mount -a to local.start. > I am a beginner with udev, but it looks like usbfs > is being mounted too late. On the contrary, I'd say you are trying to create a device far too early. The normal storage nodes are only created i

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot problem

2008-06-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:51:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > * Is there a way to find out what USE flags a package has been compiled > with when it's not the current system but a rescue system mounted > temporarily in it? Anyone? Look in var/db/pkg/cate-gory/pkgname-version/USE -- Neil Bothwick

[gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk

2008-06-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am having trouble with my external USB disk. I have the following entry in fstab: /dev/usbhd1 /mnt/b ext3 defaults 0 0 I have written /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules DRIVERS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="335144304641374D", ATTRS{product}=="ST94811U2-RK", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Se

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot problem

2008-06-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 31 May 2008 21:09:52 Alexander Meinke wrote: > However, I think this problem is [neither] mount nor bash related. Try > > # mount -tproc proc /mnt/rescue/proc > # mount -obind /dev /mnt/rescue/dev > # chroot /mnt/rescue /bin/bash That's almost exactly what I did. To be certain, I trie

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Java Runtime is "best"?

2008-06-01 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:24:57 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't seen an interesting site using Java for a long while. I > recently stumbled across http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/ and > decided it would be nice to actually view it. I haven't had Java on > my machi

[gentoo-user] Monitoring network bandwidth utilization

2008-06-01 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hi, Not too long ago, I set up a router powered by Gentoo Linux and old computer hardware. So far, it has worked like a charm and I am quite pleased with my accomplishment. I am quite active in various BitTorrent communities, however my ISP doesn't take kindly to me eating all their precious ban

[gentoo-user] Which Java Runtime is "best"?

2008-06-01 Thread Walter Dnes
I haven't seen an interesting site using Java for a long while. I recently stumbled across http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/ and decided it would be nice to actually view it. I haven't had Java on my machines for a long while. There are a few Java implementations available (Sun/Blackdown

Re: [gentoo-user] Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub?

2008-06-01 Thread Grant
>> Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub? > > If /boot is not mounted by default, then "yes". The "menu.lst" > and "grub.conf" files live in /boot/grub and these are updated > when grub is upgraded, although menu.lst is usually a symlink > to grub.conf. > > If you're upgrading grub through the

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot problem

2008-06-01 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/5/29 Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have no problem chrooting into a system on the hard disk if I've booted > from an installation CD, but every time I try it after booting from another > HD partition I get e.g. this: > > # chroot /mnt/rescue /bin/bash > chroot: cannot run command `/b

Re: [gentoo-user] Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub?

2008-06-01 Thread Ian Hilt
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 at 4:10am -0700, Grant wrote: > Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub? If /boot is not mounted by default, then "yes". The "menu.lst" and "grub.conf" files live in /boot/grub and these are updated when grub is upgraded, although menu.lst is usually a symlink to grub.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub?

2008-06-01 Thread Alexander Meinke
Grant wrote: Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub? Hi Grant, if you upgrade grub via emerge, /boot should be mounted. As stage1, stage2 etc. will be upgraded in /boot/grub and also in /lib/grub/i386-pc. You should also check if /etc/mtab is available, because grub-install require this fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub?

2008-06-01 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Grant schrieb: Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub? - Grant /boot is auto mounted by the grub ebuild using mount-boot.eclass. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub?

2008-06-01 Thread Grant
Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with modifying PATH with a file in env.d

2008-06-01 Thread Miika Linnapuomi
Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:58:07 +0200 Marc Blumentritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just stumbled about something new: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/sbin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2: > /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: Problem with modifying PATH with a file in env.d

2008-06-01 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Marc Blumentritt schrieb: I just stumbled about something new: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2: /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/javaws: /usr/kde/3.

[gentoo-user] Possible bug in eselect-opengl

2008-06-01 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Hi, I'm installing packages in my test environment using ROOT=/mediamachine/devroot. After installing xorg-server I get these results for opengl configuration: (build) hive devroot # ls -l usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 67 2008-06-01 09:25 usr/lib/xorg/modul

[gentoo-user] baselayout-2, openrc and env-update

2008-06-01 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Hi, I'm experimenting with baselayout-2 and openrc. I stumbled over something. In my stable system I get this output: hive ~ # equery belongs env-update.sh [ Searching for file(s) env-update.sh in *... ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 (/usr/lib/portage/bin/env-update.sh) sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.11.