Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

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Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 28/12/2011 10:49 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> On Dec 28, 2011 9:40 AM, "Nilesh Govindarajan" > > wrote: >>  > >>  > >>  > On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, "Andrew Lowe" > > wrote: >>  > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

On 28/12/2011 1:30 PM, W.Kenworthy wrote: If its only one app, why not use a small vm (qemu, vbox etc.)? - best of both worlds. Basically because I've done nothing with these thingies and have no experience with them and therefore didn't think of them.. Might be worth looking into - got a

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

If its only one app, why not use a small vm (qemu, vbox etc.)? - best of both worlds. Also, why only on Suse? - you can often work around differences with ld-preload and other tricks. BillK -Original Message- From: Andrew Lowe Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@li

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

On 28/12/2011 10:49 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Dec 28, 2011 9:40 AM, "Nilesh Govindarajan" mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com>> wrote: > > > On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, "Andrew Lowe" mailto:a...@wht.com.au>> wrote: > > [snip] ... ... ... [snip] True. My suggestion would be to not share your ~ dire

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

On Dec 28, 2011 9:40 AM, "Nilesh Govindarajan" wrote: > > > On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, "Andrew Lowe" wrote: > > > > Hi all, > >I usually use Gentoo as my "normal" Linux but a third party app I'm about to start using only runs on SUSE. To this end, I'm about to set aside a smaller partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

On Wednesday 28 December 2011 02:21:25 Andrew Lowe wrote: > Is there anything in my current Gentoo /home and swap that "locks" them to > the Gentoo install or can I share them between the two installs? Beware! Whichever your preferred desktop (kde, gnome, whatever), having your whole home direct

[gentoo-user] Re: Sharing /home and swap

On 12/28/2011 04:21 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I usually use Gentoo as my "normal" Linux but a third party app I'm about to start using only runs on SUSE. To this end, I'm about to set aside a smaller partition and install the minimal amnount of SUSE I need to run the app. My question is rega

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, "Andrew Lowe" wrote: > > Hi all, >I usually use Gentoo as my "normal" Linux but a third party app I'm about to start using only runs on SUSE. To this end, I'm about to set aside a smaller partition and install the minimal amnount of SUSE I need to run the app. My q

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

On 28/12/2011 10:28 AM, Adam Carter wrote: . Is there anything in my current Gentoo /home and swap that "locks" them to the Gentoo install or can I share them between the two installs? No. As long as SUSE supports the file system on /home you're using in Gentoo it will work fine, and that's ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

>. Is there anything in my > current Gentoo /home and swap that "locks" them to the Gentoo install or can > I share them between the two installs? No. As long as SUSE supports the file system on /home you're using in Gentoo it will work fine, and that's very likely. When you're booted into SUSE, r

[gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

Hi all, I usually use Gentoo as my "normal" Linux but a third party app I'm about to start using only runs on SUSE. To this end, I'm about to set aside a smaller partition and install the minimal amnount of SUSE I need to run the app. My question is regarding /home and swap. Is there anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio Problem

Am Dienstag, den 27.12.2011, 23:37 +0100 schrieb Stéphane Guedon: > On Tuesday 27 December 2011 20:41:12 Vishnupradeep wrote: > > I have M2A-MX motherboard with AMD Phenom II X4 prcessor. Installed gentoo > > 11.2 with kde and now the audio is not working. Installed pulseaudio and > > ALSA. i am li

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio Problem

On Tuesday 27 December 2011 20:41:12 Vishnupradeep wrote: > I have M2A-MX motherboard with AMD Phenom II X4 prcessor. Installed gentoo > 11.2 with kde and now the audio is not working. Installed pulseaudio and > ALSA. i am little confused, fo audio to work both ALSA and pulseaudio > needed ? I woul

Re: [gentoo-user] Env-update missing

On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:57:18 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > Here's how I understand it: > > 1) env-update rebuilds /etc/environment from /etc/env.d/. > 2) /etc/environment is sourced from /etc/profile, so > 3) you get the updated /etc/environment when you source /etc/profile. Almost, but it's /etc/

[gentoo-user] Audio Problem

I have M2A-MX motherboard with AMD Phenom II X4 prcessor. Installed gentoo 11.2 with kde and now the audio is not working. Installed pulseaudio and ALSA. i am little confused, fo audio to work both ALSA and pulseaudio needed ? I would like to play some music. How to correct the audio. Linux B

Re: [gentoo-user] Env-update missing

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: >> I thought the incantation is: >> >>   env-update && source /etc/profile >> >> has this changed? > > No it hasn't, just looked in the gentoo handbook. > I never can remember what command to run first, so I execute both of > them two times

Re: [gentoo-user] Env-update missing

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: >> I thought the incantation is: >> >>   env-update && source /etc/profile >> >> has this changed? > > No it hasn't, just looked in the gentoo handbook. > I never can remember what command to run first, so I execute both of > them two times

Re: [gentoo-user] Env-update missing

> I thought the incantation is: > > env-update && source /etc/profile > > has this changed? No it hasn't, just looked in the gentoo handbook. I never can remember what command to run first, so I execute both of them two times :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

Michael Mol wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 07:23:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote I notice that you have 'MAKEOPTS="-j4"'. You wouldn't believe how many problems you can solve by changing to 'MAKEOPTS="-j1"'. Yes, the build process may take a bit longer, but the final exec

[solved] Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

I wrote: > The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments "/usr/bin > /usr/sbin /bin /sbin" are given along the libraries and library paths. I > have no idea why this happens, and how to solve this. Something must be > wrong on my system. But what? For libggi, emerging with USE=-aa

[gentoo-user] [OT] sendmail relay to gmail smtp server

NOTE: Sorry if I've gone sort of hog wild posting this question various places but it is a perplexing problem and I suspect there may be help available here. Not to mention that many groups are slow due to Christmas holidays. ---- ---=--- -

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > Quick update...I now have two of these things set up in a distcc cluster > with my Phenom 9650. ~530 packages in 228m 34s. There's an even larger > initial explosion of parallel emerge jobs, but it spreads out very > nicely...I may have to incr

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 07:23:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote I notice that you have 'MAKEOPTS="-j4"'. You wouldn't believe how many problems you can solve by changing to 'MAKEOPTS="-j1"'. Yes, the build process may take a bit longer, but the final executable runs just as

[gentoo-user] Re: Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

Alex Schuster wonkology.org> writes: > > as fast. Change to 'MAKEOPTS="-j1"' and see what happens. +1 > I still get the same error. And the emerge -e also did not clean things up. Yep. Sometimes on setting up a new system, I lower the bar on what I install, resync the system and a day or 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Env-update missing

Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 27 Dec 2011 08:42:29 Michael Hampicke wrote: I just tried to reinstall Gentoo on my laptop(x86) and after chrooting into my new install I tried to run env-update but got a command not found. I looked in sbin and the com

Re: [gentoo-user] Env-update missing

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 27 Dec 2011 08:42:29 Michael Hampicke wrote: >> > I just tried to reinstall Gentoo on my laptop(x86) and after chrooting >> > into my new install I tried to run env-update but got a command not >> > found. I looked in sbin and the command i

Re: [gentoo-user] Env-update missing

On Tuesday 27 Dec 2011 08:42:29 Michael Hampicke wrote: > > I just tried to reinstall Gentoo on my laptop(x86) and after chrooting > > into my new install I tried to run env-update but got a command not > > found. I looked in sbin and the command isn't there. I downloaded again > > the stage 3 tarb

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

Walter Dnes writes: > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 07:23:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote >> The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments "/usr/bin >> /usr/sbin /bin /sbin" are given along the libraries and library paths. I >> have no idea why this happens, and how to solve this. Some

Re: [gentoo-user] Env-update missing

> I just tried to reinstall Gentoo on my laptop(x86) and after chrooting > into my new install I tried to run env-update but got a command not found. > I looked in sbin and the command isn't there. I downloaded again the stage > 3 tarball i686 20111213 from another mirror and I'm still not finding

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 07:23:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote > Hi there! > > I'm currently upgrading my little sister's PC from an x86 Sempron to an > x86_64 AMDS A6 processor. So Gentoo is being installed from scratch. > > But some packages fail to build. I filed a bug [1] for > media-libs/libg