Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Dale wrote: I'm going to create a runlevel myself and let it mirror the boot runlevel. Let's see what that does. I'll post results here shortly. Dale :-) :-) Same thing as nonetwork. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 20:48:54 Dale wrote: The emerge -e world finished. It still doesn't work like it did a few weeks ago. So, I tried the nonetwork option. That starts about every service except the GUI, my UPS thingy and a couple others. Get this, it even start

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Wednesday 18 May 2011 18:22:10 Thanasis wrote: > If it doesn't work, try it with www-client/chromium. I've already tried chomium, konqueror and opera. No improvement. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:10:02PM +0200, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:52:22 Indi wrote: > > > Actually the latest flash update appears to have restored functional > > fullscreen video on my old thinkpad T-42. Several versions ago there was > > an update that had made it unw

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Wednesday 18 May 2011 20:59:59 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2011 14:28:45 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Put rc_hotplug="!net.*" into /etc/rc.conf. > > > > The system is getting too clever by half; nowadays it starts whatever > > it can, and only then does it look to see what you've

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Wed, 18 May 2011 14:28:45 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Put rc_hotplug="!net.*" into /etc/rc.conf. > > The system is getting too clever by half; nowadays it starts whatever > it can, and only then does it look to see what you've set via rc-update. Openrc defaults to having hotplug disabled

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

on 05/18/2011 08:05 PM Peter Humphrey wrote the following: > On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:52:22 Indi wrote: > >> Actually the latest flash update appears to have restored functional >> fullscreen video on my old thinkpad T-42. Several versions ago there was >> an update that had made it unwatchable

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:52:22 Indi wrote: > Actually the latest flash update appears to have restored functional > fullscreen video on my old thinkpad T-42. Several versions ago there was > an update that had made it unwatchable in fullscreen. I've just installed version 10.2.159.1_p201011173

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 06:40:02PM +0200, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > > everything else just works (well, apart from Flash in web browsers, but that > > hardly counts). > > > > > > What about Flash in web browsers is not working for you since

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > everything else just works (well, apart from Flash in web browsers, but that > hardly counts). > > -- > Rgds > Peter > > What about Flash in web browsers is not working for you since updating to OpenRC? Granted, I run only Firefox-3.6.X bu

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Peter Humphrey wrote: My setup works just fine with run-levels that I set up years ago. I have one for no-x, which as well as not starting X also omits services that are only useful in X. I also use the nonetwork run-level for major emerges such as wholesale upgrades of KDE. The only thing I can

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Wednesday 18 May 2011 14:56:59 Dale wrote: > The Mississippi river is flooding on the other side of the state and I'm > dry here on this side. I actually live less than a mile from a different > river. Weather is so weird sometimes. I don't want to think about the > folks North and South of

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 May 2011 02:48:54 Dale wrote: The emerge -e world finished. It still doesn't work like it did a few weeks ago. So, I tried the nonetwork option. That starts about every service except the GUI, my UPS thingy and a couple others. Get this, it even sta

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Wednesday 18 May 2011 02:48:54 Dale wrote: > The emerge -e world finished. It still doesn't work like it did a few > weeks ago. So, I tried the nonetwork option. That starts about every > service except the GUI, my UPS thingy and a couple others. Get this, it > even starts the freaking netw

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 20:48:54 Dale wrote: > The emerge -e world finished. It still doesn't work like it did a few > weeks ago. So, I tried the nonetwork option. That starts about every > service except the GUI, my UPS thingy and a couple others. Get this, it > even starts the freaking network

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

William Hubbs wrote: Hi Dale, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:20:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: So do I need to create a runlevel called dalesboot and then just put the same stuff in it as is in the normal boot level? I have to say, that is weird. A runlevel should be used by both the system and av

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

William Hubbs wrote: Hi Dale, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:20:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: So do I need to create a runlevel called dalesboot and then just put the same stuff in it as is in the normal boot level? I have to say, that is weird. A runlevel should be used by both the system and av

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Hi Dale, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:20:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: > So do I need to create a runlevel called dalesboot and then just put the > same stuff in it as is in the normal boot level? I have to say, that is > weird. A runlevel should be used by both the system and available to > the us

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 06:58:20 +0100, Mick wrote: I'm beginning to think that openrc goes back to the "old" Linux way. In other words, it uses the init levels instead of softlevels. Yes, this seems to be the case, although not in a clear way (otherwise why is sof

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Tue, 17 May 2011 06:58:20 +0100, Mick wrote: > > I'm beginning to think that openrc goes back to the "old" Linux way. > > In other words, it uses the init levels instead of softlevels. > > Yes, this seems to be the case, although not in a clear way (otherwise > why is softlevel=nonetwork w

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Monday 16 May 2011 13:10:52 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Did you try creating a new runlevel (dale_special) and then booting into > > it by appending softlevel=dale_special ? > > > > That will prove if the Gentoo softlevel mechanism is no longer available. > > I tried some of the other runle

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Mick wrote: On Monday 16 May 2011 02:47:31 Dale wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:12, Dalemailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply append "single

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Monday 16 May 2011 02:47:31 Dale wrote: > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:12, Dale > > > > wrote: > > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= > > flag, I simply append "single"

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:12, Dale > wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in single user

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:12, Dale wrote: > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >> I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply >> append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in single user >> (root password or ctrl+d to continue). >> >> > I did get this to work:

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Daniel da Veiga wrote: I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in single user (root password or ctrl+d to continue). I did get this to work: title Gentoo single user kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Daniel da Veiga wrote: I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in single user (root password or ctrl+d to continue). May try that next. I don't need this right now but I do want to figure this out

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Sun, 15 May 2011 16:36:10 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single > >> user mode and rebuild my video drivers. > > > > Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient. > > I do not know about the particular video dr

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Apparently, though unproven, at 15:14 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Dale did opine thusly: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user > >> mode and rebuild my video drivers. > > > > Why not rebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in single user (root password or ctrl+d to continue). On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:34, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot t

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Sunday 15 May 2011 16:39:19 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 15 May 2011 11:34:07 Dale wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user > >> mode and rebuild my video drivers. Since I have this in my grub list, I > >> just select single use

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Mick wrote: On Sunday 15 May 2011 11:34:07 Dale wrote: Hi, I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user mode and rebuild my video drivers. Since I have this in my grub list, I just select single user and it boots to single user mode. Well, not any more. This is m

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user >> mode and rebuild my video drivers. > > Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient. I do not know about the particular video

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Sunday 15 May 2011 11:34:07 Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user > mode and rebuild my video drivers. Since I have this in my grub list, I > just select single user and it boots to single user mode. Well, not any > more. This is my curre

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote: I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user mode and rebuild my video drivers. Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient. But that doesn't fix the problem I pos

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user > mode and rebuild my video drivers. Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient. -- Neil Bothwick Where do you think you're going today? signature.a