[gentoo-user] EVMS (was: Resize /)

2006-11-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Dienstag, 21. November 2006 06:55 schrieb ext Dale: > >> > OK, here's my proposal: First, decide which volume management system to >> > use (LVM or EVMS). LVM is just one more volume management tool which >> > you would have to learn (beside fdisk, mkfs.*,

Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS

2006-11-23 Thread Dale
Alexander Skwar wrote: > < snip > > > Ah. So EVMS makes use of LVM and is just some sort of GUI? So I > need to know EVMS and at least the basics of LVM? > > Alexander Skwar > That's what I am noticing too. I hope I can get a grasp of all this soon. Maybe now that someone else is asking quest

[gentoo-user] Can / and LVM be on a logical partition?

2006-11-23 Thread Cooper Bug
And ( I have already had experience with LVM) what is the path for its .cache file. Last time during the installation on LVM, I had a trouble to install until I deleted its .cache file. Once again, what is the path for .cache file in lvm? Boris. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] portage KeyError

2006-11-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, running eix-sync (for the n+1st time) on an AMD64 machine I've got the following portage error. What does that mean and what can I do about it? Many thanks, Helmut. eix-sync * Running emerge --sync ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in emerge_m

[gentoo-user] Re: Can / and LVM be on a logical partition?

2006-11-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Cooper Bug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Once again, what is the path for .cache file in lvm? /etc/lvm. Regarding to the not repeated question from your subject (*BAD* style, BTW): Yes. Alexander Skwar -- Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In

Re: [gentoo-user] portage KeyError

2006-11-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 23 November 2006 10:50, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > running eix-sync (for the n+1st time) on an AMD64 machine > I've got the following portage error. > What does that mean and what can I do about it? [SNIP] You really need to provide the output of `emerge --info` with such errors

Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS (was: Resize /)

2006-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 23. November 2006 12:38 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: > With EVMS, can I make it so, that the "things" where I put filesystems > on (logical volumes in LVM, partitions in old style partitioning) are > NOT consecutive? Because that's the great feature of LVM. > > Example: > > - place1

[gentoo-user] Where is DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" now?

2006-11-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm doing a gcc-4 upgrade and is seems that the DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" statement has been moved from /etc/rc.conf to some other file. Where is the display manager properly set these days? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" now?

2006-11-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 23 November 2006 14:23, Mark Knecht wrote: >I'm doing a gcc-4 upgrade and is seems that the > DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" statement has been moved from /etc/rc.conf to > some other file. Where is the display manager properly set these days? /etc/conf.d/xdm -- Bo Andresen pgpLbHv1t3YTJ

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" now?

2006-11-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 05:23 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm doing a gcc-4 upgrade and is seems that the > DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" statement has been moved from /etc/rc.conf to > some other file. Where is the display manager properly set these days? > > Thanks, > Mark I typed it in to /etc/r

Re: [gentoo-user] Can / and LVM be on a logical partition?

2006-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:49:17 +0300, Cooper Bug wrote: Yes. I have no primary partitions on any of my x86(_64) machines. -- Neil Bothwick Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] SegFault while compiling gcc 4.1.1

2006-11-23 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi, I'm trying to compile GCC 4.1.1-r1 but I got the following error message: In file included from /var/tmp/portage/gcc-4.1.1-r1/work/gcc-4.1.1/gcc/gcc.c:134: ./configargs.h:2: warning: string length '801' is greater than the length '509' ISO C89 compilers are required to support /var/tmp/porta

Re: [gentoo-user] SegFault while compiling gcc 4.1.1

2006-11-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 23 November 2006 14:39, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to compile GCC 4.1.1-r1 but I got the following error > message: >[cut] > 'main': /var/tmp/portage/gcc-4.1.1-r1/work/gcc-4.1.1/gcc/gcc.c:8043: > internal compiler error: Segmentation fault > Please submit a full

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" now?

2006-11-23 Thread Norman Rieß
Michael Sullivan schrieb: On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 05:23 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm doing a gcc-4 upgrade and is seems that the DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" statement has been moved from /etc/rc.conf to some other file. Where is the display manager properly set these days? Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" now?

2006-11-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 November 2006 15:23, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm doing a gcc-4 upgrade and is seems that the > DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" statement has been moved from /etc/rc.conf to > some other file. Where is the display manager properly set these days? /etc/conf.d/xdm Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decl

Re: [gentoo-user] portage KeyError

2006-11-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 23 Nov, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 23 November 2006 10:50, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> running eix-sync (for the n+1st time) on an AMD64 machine >> I've got the following portage error. >> What does that mean and what can I do about it? > [SNIP] > > You really need to prov

Re: [gentoo-user] SegFault while compiling gcc 4.1.1

2006-11-23 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Thank you, I'll read it. []s Leandro 2006/11/23, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thursday 23 November 2006 14:39, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to compile GCC 4.1.1-r1 but I got the following error > message: >[cut] > 'main': /var/tmp/portage/gcc-4.1.1-r1/work/gcc-4.

[gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hello every one, it´s beeing a long time since my last post. I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB remaining ) the portage distfiles is located on other disk ( /home/portage ) and I do not know what

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" now?

2006-11-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks to all that answered. In my last gcc upgrade I also put it back into rc.conf and found it worked but wanted to do it the Gentoo way from this time forward. Cheers and Happy Turkey Day to those celebrating it. - Mark On 11/23/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:36, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hello every one, it´s beeing a long time since my last post. > > I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr > partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB > remaining ) the portage distf

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
thanks. On 11/23/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:36, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hello every one, it´s beeing a long time since my last post. > > I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr > partition of 3.0GB in a prod

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql-5.* unmasked

2006-11-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Grant wrote: > emerge world wants to update mysql from 4.1.21 to 5.0.26-r1 on my > server this morning. Has anyone made a similar upgrade? More importantly, I would like to know why MUST I update to MySQL 5? Im running 4.1 quite happily and have mysql-5 masked out in /etc/po

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql-5.* unmasked

2006-11-23 Thread Markus Schönhaber
A. Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Grant wrote: > > emerge world wants to update mysql from 4.1.21 to 5.0.26-r1 on my > > server this morning. Has anyone made a similar upgrade? > > More importantly, I would like to know why MUST I update to MySQL 5? Why do you think you "MUST"? I doubt that

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Bira
On 11/23/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: linux sources in /usr/src unneeded man pages and stuff with localpurge almost everything in /usr/share/doc You can also delete stuff in /usr/portage/distfiles - this directory is a cache of the source code portage downloads. If yo

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 23 November 2006 19:07, Bira wrote: > You can also delete stuff in /usr/portage/distfiles - this directory > is a cache of the source code portage downloads. If you don't mind > downloading some of them again the next time you update your system, > it's a nice way to clear some space.

Re: [OT] Progress bar for cp? (was:[gentoo-user] PATH error?)

2006-11-23 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-11-21 13:37]: > On 11/20/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Any other (simple) way of getting a progress bar for large files? > Use another program, like the filemanager in your desktop, or scp > (yes, scp works for local copying as well!). >

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Progress bar for cp?

2006-11-23 Thread Ryan Tandy
Daniel Vrcic wrote: * Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-11-21 13:37]: On 11/20/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Any other (simple) way of getting a progress bar for large files? Use another program, like the filemanager in your desktop, or scp (yes, scp works for local copyi

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql-5.* unmasked

2006-11-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Grant wrote: > > > emerge world wants to update mysql from 4.1.21 to 5.0.26-r1 on my > > > server this morning. Has anyone made a similar upgrade? > > > > More importantly, I would like to know why MUST I up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Progress bar for cp?

2006-11-23 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-11-23 19:46]: > Daniel Vrcic wrote: > > * Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-11-21 13:37]: > > > On 11/20/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > > Any other (simple) way of getting a progress bar for large files? > > > Use another program, l

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql-5.* unmasked

2006-11-23 Thread Markus Schönhaber
A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > > A. Khattri wrote: > > > More importantly, I would like to know why MUST I update to MySQL 5? > > > > Why do you think you "MUST"? I doubt that there exists a law that says > > that you have to upgrade or you will be sent to jail

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread James
Allan Spagnol Comar gmail.com> writes: > I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr > partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB > remaining ) the portage distfiles is located on other disk ( > /home/portage ) and I do not know what I can remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Progress bar for cp?

2006-11-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 23 November 2006 20:06, Daniel Vrcic wrote: > Yeah, I thought that too, but I don't get it, not even with -v. I've > tried to copy some really big files and directories recursively and > there's no progress bar showed. Quick look at a manpage mentions only > how to disable it (-q) but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Progress bar for cp?

2006-11-23 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-11-23 20:39]: > On Thursday 23 November 2006 20:06, Daniel Vrcic wrote: > > Yeah, I thought that too, but I don't get it, not even with -v. I've > > tried to copy some really big files and directories recursively and > > there's no progress bar showed. Quick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Thank you again. I tried the command for big files, but found none. the old file command return basically portage index files. I solved for now the problem cleaning and gziping my kernel source, moving doc folder to home and making sinlinks. Thank you all for the help. Allan On 11/23/06, James <

[gentoo-user] less and colourisation

2006-11-23 Thread W.Kenworthy
I recently had cause to use "less" from a real console, not an xterm and found that it really does colourise text. It has never done this in an xterm - how do I turn it on? "man" isnt being very helpful here :( BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread reader
"Allan Spagnol Comar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello every one, it´s beeing a long time since my last post. > > I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr > partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB > remaining ) the portage distfiles is loca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Progress bar for cp?

2006-11-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/23/06, Daniel Vrcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, meter is a better term, but I still don't get it. % du -h temp_dvds 1.9Gtemp_dvds 1.9Gtotal % scp -v -r temp_dvds temp_dvd_DUP Executing: cp -r temp_dvds temp_dvd_DUP Hmm, damn. I'd swear that used to work. Guess we will have

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql-5.* unmasked

2006-11-23 Thread Ryan Tandy
A. Khattri wrote: Calculating world dependencies | !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-db/mysql-5.0*" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-db/mysql-5.0.26-r1 (masked by: package.mask) You need to mask the virtual package tha

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 23. November 2006 16:36 schrieb ext Allan Spagnol Comar: > I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr > partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB > remaining ) the portage distfiles is located on other disk ( > /home/portage ) and I