Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-15 Thread sean
On Mar 15, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Matthew Finkel wrote: > > > Is it possible you ran depclean prior to compiling the newest kernel that you > emerged? Do not think so. I keep things up to date and there were no warnings flags such as the nvidia-drivers that notified me of the missing .config in

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-15 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Matthew Finkel wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:46 AM, sean wrote: > >> On 03/12/2011 01:28 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: >> >> > >> > But if this was a pre-existing build, he should have had numerous >> > kernels configured, unless he removed/moved the config

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-15 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:46 AM, sean wrote: > On 03/12/2011 01:28 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: > > > > > But if this was a pre-existing build, he should have had numerous > > kernels configured, unless he removed/moved the config each time he > > upgraded. > > > > Sean, > > > > Two questions. I don

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-13 Thread sean
On 03/12/2011 01:28 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: > > But if this was a pre-existing build, he should have had numerous > kernels configured, unless he removed/moved the config each time he > upgraded. > > Sean, > > Two questions. I don't think you ever replied as to whether /usr/src is > a mounte

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 13 March 2011 09:34:31 Arttu V. wrote: > On 3/12/11, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > when I got an error saying that /boot was mounted read-only. On > > investigating, I found that everything I'd put on those two disks had > > disappeared, as though in a puff of smoke. All that was left was th

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-13 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/12/11, Peter Humphrey wrote: > when I got an error saying that /boot was mounted read-only. On > investigating, I found that everything I'd put on those two disks had > disappeared, as though in a puff of smoke. All that was left was the > underlying partition layout, but with no content. Van

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread Matthew Finkel
2011/3/12 Thanasis > on 03/12/2011 02:11 PM sean wrote the following: > > I su'd in the terminal, started the updates, and as mentioned > > eventually saw the nvidia-drivers complaining about not finding a > .config. > Not finding a .config is an indication that the kernel source may have > never

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread Thanasis
on 03/12/2011 02:11 PM sean wrote the following: > I su'd in the terminal, started the updates, and as mentioned > eventually saw the nvidia-drivers complaining about not finding a .config. Not finding a .config is an indication that the kernel source may have never been touched (configured) so all

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 23:29:56 sean wrote: > I just did an update of my system and now the linux directory under > /usr/src is not there. > In fact under /usr/src there is nothing. > > Something change or would anyone have any ideas of what might have > happened, and how to fix? I can't help

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/12/11, sean wrote: > If you have anything you wish me to check, I will. It's probably too late to think about this option, but just in case: you don't happen to have a copy of root's bash history from around the time you noticed the problem? -- Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread Gregory Fontenele
way out of this list? On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 09:11, sean wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > > > > > > Another random cause I can think of would be some of the cruft > > cleaning scripts that there are around and that are not part of > > Gentoo. > > > > On

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread sean
On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > > > Another random cause I can think of would be some of the cruft > cleaning scripts that there are around and that are not part of > Gentoo. > > On a more paranoid though, it could also be a rootkit, or maybe your > box was hacke

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread sean
On Mar 10, 2011, at 5:12 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 10 March 2011 03:31:55 Dale wrote: > >> Did you perhaps run --depclean and it removed it? That's the only way I >> can think of that emerge would remove it. > > Depclean might have removed the files from the source package, but i

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread sean
On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: > > > Did you reboot your system and then realize it was empty or did you notice it > was empty after merging the updates? As the updates were running, when it came time to update the nvidia-drivers, a message appeared that it could not find

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-11 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:29 PM, sean wrote: > I just did an update of my system and now the linux directory under > /usr/src is not there. > In fact under /usr/src there is nothing. > > Something change or would anyone have any ideas of what might have > happened, and how to fix? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-10 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
As someone said above, a possible cause is that /usr/src was a mount point, maybe with -obind, or even a symlink. Many people do this to handle kernels manually on their own $HOME directory (I do it this way myself). Another random cause I can think of would be some of the cruft cleaning scripts t

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 10 March 2011 03:31:55 Dale wrote: > Did you perhaps run --depclean and it removed it? That's the only way I > can think of that emerge would remove it. Depclean might have removed the files from the source package, but it wouldn't have removed .config or anything resulting from com

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-09 Thread Dale
sean wrote: On 03/09/2011 06:41 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: You rm'ed it while doing a fantastic imitation of a numbnut? Portage for sure did not do it, so that leaves you. I did not delete it. Did you perhaps run --depclean and it removed it? That's the only way I can think o

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/03/11 01:51, sean wrote: > On 03/09/2011 06:41 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> >> You rm'ed it while doing a fantastic imitation of a numbnut? >> Portage for sure did not do it, so that leaves you. > > I did not delete it. Well I don't know where your files went. But I described how to put

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-09 Thread sean
On 03/09/2011 06:41 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > You rm'ed it while doing a fantastic imitation of a numbnut? > Portage for sure did not do it, so that leaves you. I did not delete it.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/03/11 01:29, sean wrote: > I just did an update of my system and now the linux directory under > /usr/src is not there. > In fact under /usr/src there is nothing. > > Something change or would anyone have any ideas of what might have > happened, and how to fix? You rm'ed it while doing a fa