Re: [gentoo-user] Grub error 15: file not found

2009-07-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 02:16:49 Brenton wrote: > Hi, > > When I try to edit the /dev/sda to /dev/hda I'm not sure how to save my > change when I edit in grub. I make a change then go back to check and it > never saves. > > I'm only trying to follow the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook. > > Thanks, > > B

[gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: [...] >> Logging my user out and back in I see the gid 15 now is wheel so the >> same as solaris. > > When you do this, you only change the username attached to the gid. Remember > that the filesystem does not know or care what username you use, it only > knows > about g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:46:55PM -0700, walt wrote > > 3.0.12 is also marked unstable, so I assumed that Walter (the other > one) is running an unstable gentoo. Because these rapid updates > to firefox are all security patches it would be nice to get the > latest one... Contrary to what some

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub error 15: file not found

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Brenton wrote: > Hi, > > When I try to edit the /dev/sda to /dev/hda I'm not sure how to save my > change when I edit in grub.  I make a change then go back to check and it > never saves. > > I'm only trying to follow the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook. > > Thanks, > > B

[gentoo-user] Grub error 15: file not found

2009-07-27 Thread Brenton
Hi, When I try to edit the /dev/sda to /dev/hda I'm not sure how to save my change when I edit in grub. I make a change then go back to check and it never saves. I'm only trying to follow the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook. Thanks, Brenton. -- This electronic communication (including any attached

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:46 PM, walt wrote: > On 07/27/2009 02:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 AM, walt  wrote: >>> >>> On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:   I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch version of Firefox 3.0

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-27 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:39:27 -0400, ABCD wrote: > >> > It should, unless you are woefully out of date. > >> Not true: the versions of portage that support sets (including @world) >> are all hardmasked currently. > > Still? I

[gentoo-user] Re: 5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet

2009-07-27 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Xavier Parizet wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:49:58 +1000, Brenton > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Having a go at installing Gentoo don't really know what I'm doing. Seems >> to >> be an error with the file I've downloaded. Should I try download again? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:39:27 -0400, ABCD wrote: > > It should, unless you are woefully out of date. > Not true: the versions of portage that support sets (including @world) > are all hardmasked currently. Still? I unmasked them ages ago, but though that had all been sorted out by now. But yes, s

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-27 Thread walt
On 07/27/2009 02:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 AM, walt wrote: On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch version of Firefox 3.0. I keep getting the same error message after 3 days of re-syncing an

[gentoo-user] Re: cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-27 Thread ABCD
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:33:37 +0100, Nevynxxx wrote: > >> > emerge -uavDN @world xfce4 > >> Only if your portage supports @world, not sure if mine does yet :) > > It should, unless you are woefully out of date. > > Not true: the versions of portage that support sets (in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 AM, walt wrote: > On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> >>   I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch >> version of Firefox 3.0.  I keep getting the same error message after >> 3 days of re-syncing and retrying.  The build dies early on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 July 2009 16:40:43 Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > There is nothing much you can do about this except: > > > > Renumber your gid's locally to match the nfs server, > > or renumber the nfs share gids to match your local machine > > Looking into that I noticed, as you th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 July 2009 16:47:30 Harry Putnam wrote: > Stroller writes: > > Further to A McK's reply, suggest use of `ls -ln`. > > > > Assuming the -n is supported on Slowaris all will become clear. > > But after the changes mentioned in a reply to Alan M. it now shows > the same on both the sourc

[gentoo-user] Re: Not getting cron emais that should go to root user

2009-07-27 Thread walt
On 07/27/2009 10:58 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: For a long time I haven't gotten cron reports from one particular box on my network. I've been seeing these lines in my /var/log/cron.log file: 27-Jul-09 12:00 unable to exec /usr/lib/sendmail -t, user -oem, output to sink null27-Jul-09 12:09 fa

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-27 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Florian Philipp < li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: > Grant schrieb: > > >> You don't need to buy SSD "drives" - instead you could use CF cards and > a > >> cheap adaptor. These are commensurate in capacity & cost with USB flash > >> drives (4gig, maybe 16g

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: > > Where I work, we have a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) NAS. Albeit being the > second most powerful machine we have in our server room (quad core CPU, > lots of RAM, three redundant power supplies and a good dozen HDDs), the > OSS itself resides on a removable card not bigger

[gentoo-user] Not getting cron emais that should go to root user

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Sullivan
For a long time I haven't gotten cron reports from one particular box on my network. I've been seeing these lines in my /var/log/cron.log file: 27-Jul-09 12:00 unable to exec /usr/lib/sendmail -t, user -oem, output to sink null27-Jul-09 12:09 failed user root parsing pr 2002; Thilo Bangert I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: >>> ... What if I bought a low-price/low-capacity SSD drive for each >>> of these systems, installed the system essentials on them, and used my >>> existing high-capacity HD drives for data storage? Would each system >>> keep running if the HDs died? If so, I think that would offer

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: WebCam? Second Edition

2009-07-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:35 PM, wrote: > WebCam: Logitech Quickcam Pro for Notebooks, 2009er model > which is not affected by the firmware bug of previous versions > of the same cam. First, check the info and forums at http://www.quickcamteam.net/ if you have not already. Lots of good info and

[gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > Further to A McK's reply, suggest use of `ls -ln`. > > Assuming the -n is supported on Slowaris all will become clear. > But after the changes mentioned in a reply to Alan M. it now shows the same on both the source /projects (on solaris) and the mounted nfs /projects on gent

[gentoo-user] Re: [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > There is nothing much you can do about this except: > > Renumber your gid's locally to match the nfs server, > or renumber the nfs share gids to match your local machine Looking into that I noticed, as you thought the gid of the share on solaris is alphabetic wheel but nu

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kdirstat fails

2009-07-27 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/27/09, Arttu V. wrote: > On 7/27/09, Nicolai Beuermann wrote: >> Hello, >> emerging kde-misc/kdirstat-2.5.3-r1 doesn't compile due to this error: > > This bug has someone fighting with this package with moderate success > (uninstalling : > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248883 Gru

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kdirstat fails

2009-07-27 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/27/09, Nicolai Beuermann wrote: > Hello, > emerging kde-misc/kdirstat-2.5.3-r1 doesn't compile due to this error: This bug has someone fighting with this package with moderate success (uninstalling : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248883 -- Arttu V.

[gentoo-user] emerge kdirstat fails

2009-07-27 Thread Nicolai Beuermann
Hello, emerging kde-misc/kdirstat-2.5.3-r1 doesn't compile due to this error: $emerge -pv kde-misc/kdirstat [ebuild N] kde-misc/kdirstat-2.5.3-r1 USE="-debug -xinerama" kcleanup.moc.o: In function `KDirStat::KCleanup::~KCleanup()':

Re: [gentoo-user] 5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet

2009-07-27 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:49:58 +1000, Brenton wrote: > Hi, > > Having a go at installing Gentoo don't really know what I'm doing. Seems > to > be an error with the file I've downloaded. Should I try download again? You just have to download stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS, which is at the sam

Re: [gentoo-user] 5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet

2009-07-27 Thread Justin
Brenton schrieb: > Hi, > > Having a go at installing Gentoo don't really know what I'm doing. > Seems to be an error with the file I've downloaded. Should I try > download again? > > livecd gentoo # md5sum -c stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.DIGESTS > ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2: OK > md5sum: ./stage3

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-27 Thread walt
On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch version of Firefox 3.0. I keep getting the same error message after 3 days of re-syncing and retrying. The build dies early on in the patch-appliaction stage, so log.txt is small. T

[gentoo-user] 5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet

2009-07-27 Thread Brenton
Hi, Having a go at installing Gentoo don't really know what I'm doing. Seems to be an error with the file I've downloaded. Should I try download again? livecd gentoo # md5sum -c stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.DIGESTS ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2: OK md5sum: ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS: No su

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-27 Thread Grant
>> ... What if I bought a low-price/low-capacity SSD drive for each >> of these systems, installed the system essentials on them, and used my >> existing high-capacity HD drives for data storage?  Would each system >> keep running if the HDs died?  If so, I think that would offer as good >> or bett

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD installation not recognizing megaraid RAID set

2009-07-27 Thread Stroller
It took Carlos' reply for me to reread & make sense of the original post. On 27 Jul 2009, at 11:46, Carlos wrote: Ho-Ki Au a écrit : ... In the BIOS settings, all three disks were added to the controller for a RAID5 set up. ... Under /dev, I only saw sda, but there was no sdb, sdc. S

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD installation not recognizing megaraid RAID set

2009-07-27 Thread Carlos
Ho-Ki Au a écrit : I was trying to put gentoo on a dell poweredge 1950 quadcore xeon machine with three disks connected to a lsi PERC 5/i raid controller. In the BIOS settings, all three disks were added to the controller for a RAID5 set up. When I boot from LiveCD (2008 version with 2.6.24-r5

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD installation not recognizing megaraid RAID set

2009-07-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:45:28 +0800, Ho-Ki Au wrote: > I was trying to put gentoo on a dell poweredge 1950 quadcore xeon > machine with three disks connected to a lsi PERC 5/i raid controller. > In the BIOS settings, all three disks were added to the controller for > a RAID5 set up. When I boot fro

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:33:37 +0100, Nevynxxx wrote: > > emerge -uavDN @world xfce4 > Only if your portage supports @world, not sure if mine does yet :) It should, unless you are woefully out of date. -- Neil Bothwick Mr. bullfrog says: "time's fun when you're having flies." signature.asc D

[gentoo-user] LiveCD installation not recognizing megaraid RAID set

2009-07-27 Thread Ho-Ki Au
I was trying to put gentoo on a dell poweredge 1950 quadcore xeon machine with three disks connected to a lsi PERC 5/i raid controller. In the BIOS settings, all three disks were added to the controller for a RAID5 set up. When I boot from LiveCD (2008 version with 2.6.24-r5 kernel) with dmraid='

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-27 Thread Nevynxxx
Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > That's still two commands :) You can do it in one with > > emerge -uavDN @world xfce4 > > > Only if your portage supports @world, not sure if mine does yet :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 27 Juli 2009 03:18:34 schrieb Harry Putnam: > I'm not that familiar with nfs usage ... only used lightly a few > times. > > I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. > > The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). > > Also has the set-gid bit set.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 Jul 2009, at 11:46, Grant wrote: ... What if I bought a low-price/low-capacity SSD drive for each of these systems, installed the system essentials on them, and used my existing high-capacity HD drives for data storage? Would each system keep running if the HDs died? If so, I think that

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: WebCam? Second Edition

2009-07-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 Jul 2009, at 10:12, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... What's about the pictire quality of the Playstation "Eye" Cam, Scroller? Ok? Good? Better? Best??? ;))) Well, I haven't tried it under Linux, and I'm afraid I can't easily do so either. I'll also disclaim myself as not an expert by a

Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Jul 2009, at 02:18, Harry Putnam wrote: ... I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). ... ls -ld /projects drwxr-sr-x 2 reader wheel 48 Jun 24 07:08 /projects ... When its mounted the permissions change

Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 July 2009 03:18:34 Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm not that familiar with nfs usage ... only used lightly a few > times. > > I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. > > The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). > > Also has the set-gid bit set. >