Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Space

On Monday 07 December 2009 08:56:36 Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to understand about Disk Space issue on Linux Box. > whenever the disk usage is 100%. Still i am able to login to the host > using root user. How does it work. was curious to know. > > Thanks, > > Kaushal > You h

[gentoo-user] Disk Space

Hi, I was trying to understand about Disk Space issue on Linux Box. whenever the disk usage is 100%. Still i am able to login to the host using root user. How does it work. was curious to know. Thanks, Kaushal

Re: [gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

On Monday 07 December 2009 03:00:29 Xi Shen wrote: > yes, i installed busybox into the initramfs i created my self. because > i see the initramfs generated by genkernel uses it. > > i am using LVM, so i have to use a initramfs. are you suggesting that > i should install all the GNU utilities into

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater failure

Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Michael P. Soulier > wrote: > > So I ran a big emerge --update world and it picked up Python 2.6 from 2.5. > > It'd be nice if python-updater ran automatically when this happens but it > > doesn't, but gcompris failing to build was a nice r

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater failure

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So I ran a big emerge --update world and it picked up Python 2.6 from 2.5. > It'd be nice if python-updater ran automatically when this happens but it > doesn't, but gcompris failing to build was a nice reminder that it needed to > be do

[gentoo-user] python-updater failure

So I ran a big emerge --update world and it picked up Python 2.6 from 2.5. It'd be nice if python-updater ran automatically when this happens but it doesn't, but gcompris failing to build was a nice reminder that it needed to be done. So I ran it... msoul...@anton:~$ sudo python-updater Password:

Re: [gentoo-user] Using losetup & loopback devices / filesystems - changes aren't written to disk?!?!?

I tried repeating your experiment, sans NFS and NTFS, and while I did note that the modification timestamp on the file did not change, the contents of the file did (i.e. the filesystem changed). FWIW this is Debian bug #459703 (Google told me that). What I'm going to guess is happening in your i

Re: [gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

yes, i installed busybox into the initramfs i created my self. because i see the initramfs generated by genkernel uses it. i am using LVM, so i have to use a initramfs. are you suggesting that i should install all the GNU utilities into the initramfs? i think that would create a very large initram

[gentoo-user] Using losetup & loopback devices / filesystems - changes aren't written to disk?!?!?

Ok, I'm really new to loopback devices / filesystems, so please forgive me if I'm doing something stupid here. It wouldn't be the first time. :/ I've created this loopback filesystem, by using `dd if=/dev/zero of=individual.files.img` (so named because I'm hope to copy a bunch of "individ

Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo

Solved! wine-1.0 starts all the wanted games like magic :) 2009/12/4 Ates > Ki rill Lipatov wrote: > >> The disabling of the in-game chat unfortunately doesn't help my problem >> >> 2009/12/3 Arttu V. mailto:arttu...@gmail.com>> >> >> >>On 12/3/09, Kirill Lipatov >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

On Sunday 06 December 2009 20:23:39 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Mick, > > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:28:10PM +, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 06 December 2009 14:48:36 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Is there anything I can do to get sshd working from this kernel (and > > > if so, what?), or is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:48:36PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote > Hi, folks! > > I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my > laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop > system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff. > > The

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:48:36PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote >> Hi, folks! >> >> I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my >> laptop.  The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop >> system into th

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

Hi, Joshua, On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:56:06PM -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Florian Philipp > wrote: > > Alan Mackenzie schrieb: > >> I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my > >> laptop.  The reason is that I want to ssh from my

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

Hi, Mick, On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:28:10PM +, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 06 December 2009 14:48:36 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Is there anything I can do to get sshd working from this kernel (and > > if so, what?), or is there something fundamentally wrong with the > > kernel configuration? > N

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

Hi, Florian, On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 05:59:00PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Alan Mackenzie schrieb: > > I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on > > my laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy > > desktop system into this laptop to do the rest

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Alan Mackenzie schrieb: >> Hi, folks! >> >> I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my >> laptop.  The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop >> system into this laptop to do the rest of the in

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:48:36PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote > Hi, folks! > > I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my > laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop > system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff. > > T

[gentoo-user] XDM authorization key matches an existing client!

Hi, Recently I switched from Slim to XDM. Now I get this message (as in subject), whenever I try to start a particular SDL app. I tried playing with xauth but it doesn't help. Strange thing is I can start things like firefox and other apps, it's only xrick (classic game based on SDL) and some othe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

091206 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 05 December 2009 21:09:50 Philip Webb wrote: >> Please read what I said & hopefully think briefly before responding. >> If the pkg is already in 'world', it's 'emerge '; >> if not -- the more frequent case -- , it's 'emerge -1 '. >> That keeps everything in

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

Alan Mackenzie schrieb: > Hi, folks! > > I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my > laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop > system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff. > > The installation kernel with which I'm h

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

On Sunday 06 December 2009 14:48:36 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Is there anything I can do to get sshd working from this kernel (and if > so, what?), or is there something fundamentally wrong with the kernel > configuration? Not sure if this is a kernel problem. Have you tried to set up a user accou

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to multilib

On Sunday 06 December 2009, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Ok, so I have some apps that require 32 bit libraries, but I'm currently > using a no-multilib profile. Apologies, I sent an email meant for gentoo-amd64 to gentoo-user. Sorry for the trouble.

[gentoo-user] Going to multilib

Ok, so I have some apps that require 32 bit libraries, but I'm currently using a no-multilib profile. This page http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml says: "Warning: Currently you cannot switch from a no-multilib to a multilib-enabled profile, so think over your decision twice bef

[gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

Hi, folks! I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff. The installation kernel with which I'm having problems is: Linux livecd 2.6.30

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On 5/12/2009, "Philip Webb" wrote: > >Anyway, don't do testing on the machine you use for everyday computing. > >If you want to get into testing, use a dedicated machine for it. > > I've been using a separate partition on an existing machine to

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.3.4 crashing after login

Kenneth Prugh wrote: On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:26:32 +0100 Johannes Kimmel wrote: There's a discussion on the forum about this issue currently at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6085003 Reports that downgrading hal to 0.5.13-r2 fixes the issue (it did for me). Downgrading solved the p

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for x86 or AMD64 disassembler

On Sunday 06 December 2009, David Relson wrote: > > Indeed, hexdump mbr would show me the bytes but I want to see the code > as instructions. > > objdump works fine for ELF. Being greedy, the ideal tool would handle > all 3 formats. > > The immediate need is pure binary (like the MBR). A coupl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

On Saturday 05 December 2009 16:26:48 I wrote: > * The current test system had a series of KDE-4 problems, which I thought > must have been caused by the patch bug, but simply remerging everything > installed since then hadn't fixed them. Not only has it not fixed the earlier problems - now I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

Holger Hoffstaette schrieb: >> I read something of setting stripe-width=128 to fit the erase block size >> of 512 kB ... dunno if that makes sense. > > Is this for a RAID? I'll gladly admit to complete lack of practical > experience wrt. stripe sizes and such. :) I simply read stuff like http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

Drew writes: > Isn't the memory hole above 3GB present even in the 64bit systems? > Something about the MMIO reservations for the PCI bus taking up the > top gig of the first four Gigs? I do not know. What I do know is that the system I am using here at home has 6GB RAM, the one I use at work ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

daid kahl wrote: I could take a whole day typing in exactly what I do, but I assumed the otherwise intelligent subscribers to the list would realise that I add '-1' to those pkgs which are not in 'world'. My 'world' file contains 112 entries, incl 28 'sys' + 35 'kde'. Really, does somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.3.4 crashing after login

Am Sonntag 06 Dezember 2009 07:54:45 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > Am Sonntag 06 Dezember 2009 01:27:49 schrieb Kenneth Prugh: > > Reports that downgrading hal to 0.5.13-r2 fixes the issue (it did > > for me). > > Good to know. And indeed, I have a fully functional KDE again. Bye... Dirk