[gentoo-user] Gentoo install script

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Mol
Very rough, and very much a works-for-me thing, but I thought I'd share. https://github.com/mikemol/gentoo-install I wrote it to ease the pain of the "install-configure-build" cycle I was going through to figure out what was breaking glibc. -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:06:49 -0400, Frank Peters wrote: > I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the available > Gentoo Live DVD iso. Can this be done by simply copying the iso file > to the USB drive with a utility like dd? The latest Gentoo ISOs are hybrid files, able to boot f

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Frank Peters wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:15:56 -0700 > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml >> >> Don't know if it works but like all things Gentoo I suspect it does... >> > > That's the first thing that I tried, but it does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread David Abbott
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Frank Peters wrote: > Hello, > > This question more than likely has been posted before, either to > this or some other list.  If so, then please let me know and I'll > start searching. > > I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the available > Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Frank Peters
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:15:56 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml > > Don't know if it works but like all things Gentoo I suspect it does... > That's the first thing that I tried, but it does not seem to involve the Gentoo Live DVD. For example, after followi

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Frank Peters wrote: > Hello, > > This question more than likely has been posted before, either to > this or some other list.  If so, then please let me know and I'll > start searching. > > I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the available > Gentoo

[gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Frank Peters
Hello, This question more than likely has been posted before, either to this or some other list. If so, then please let me know and I'll start searching. I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the available Gentoo Live DVD iso. Can this be done by simply copying the iso file to t

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,   One of my machines is giving an undesired response in es

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> Hi, >>>   One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: >>> >>> c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list >>> !!! Erro

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate and missing drives have reappeared - Gentoo-user is also missing!!!!

2012-06-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 June 2012, at 16:36, Andrew Lowe wrote: > ... archives.gentoo.org, and to my surprise the gentoo-user list in not there > in the master list. Looking at the format of the url I guessed the url to be > > archive.gentoo.org/gentoo-user > > I entered this and the list came up, but it's last

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:45:13 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > >> Also, even if the ebuild issued a warning, there's no guarantee the >> warning would ever be made visible; the system is well and truly hosed >> before the 'postinst' stage of the in

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:45:13 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > Also, even if the ebuild issued a warning, there's no guarantee the > warning would ever be made visible; the system is well and truly hosed > before the 'postinst' stage of the install, so who knows whether or > not the cache-and-show-later

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:58:57 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > >> If you build glibc with CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -g3", your glibc will be >> very, very broken. Apparently, it's old, known and has been a problem >> for about five years.[1] > > Thisd sou

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423149 > > As it turned out, it was my CFLAGS. Not the ones anyone usually cares > about, either. > > If you build glibc with CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -g3"

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="jpeg" not part of hardened/linux/x86 profile

2012-06-27 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
El 27/06/12 04:38, Alecks Gates escribió: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera > (klondike) wrote: >> Hello, >> >> First sorry for taking this long to answer this, somehow this mail >> slipped through my radar and couldn't find it when somebody moved it to >> the gento

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:58:57 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > If you build glibc with CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -g3", your glibc will be > very, very broken. Apparently, it's old, known and has been a problem > for about five years.[1] Thisd sounds worthy of a bug report, an ebuild allowing you to break somet

[gentoo-user] Hibernate and missing drives have reappeared - Gentoo-user is also missing!!!!

2012-06-27 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I posted a message a few days ago regarding mapped drives not showing up in Dolphin and the Hibernate button disappearing. I hadn't got around to replying to peoples suggestions, don't you just hate work interfering with your enjoyment of life, and was feeling bad about it so decided t

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27.06.2012 15:58, Michael Mol wrote: > > The other big thing I kept hearing about was "try changing > {this|that|other thing}; it might be affecting glibc, because glibc > is a whiny b*tch". Are there alternatives to glibc? > Alternatives? Har

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>   One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: >> >> c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list >> !!! Error: Pattern  does not match any installed version of binutils! >

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423149 As it turned out, it was my CFLAGS. Not the ones anyone usually cares about, either. If you build glibc with CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -g3", your glibc will be very, very broken. Apparently, it's old, kn

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount

2012-06-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: > On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 > > from this disk: [...] > > which results in a hanging mount process, which cannot be killed. > > > > I was urged to use the sysreq-key

[gentoo-user] VMware Perl SDK

2012-06-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Anyone managed to install the VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK on gentoo? In my case: VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.0.0-422456.x86_64.tar.gz I'd need it to monitor VMware ESX servers via Nagios/Icinga (some special perl check script). The tarball-installer looks for stuff like rpm etc ... more ubuntu-cent

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount

2012-06-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 from this disk: Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 by