Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome overriding screen resolution

2007-10-21 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
do you have the same problem with other wm/desktop environments(kde,fluxbox. etc.) or just with gnome?... O/H Richard Marzan έγραψε: > Hello, > > > Gnome is giving me some issues with respect to screen resolution. > It doesn't want to display my preferred resolution nor does it have it > as

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

2007-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 19:35 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: > Thanks, that was it. I relied on the usual etc-update to do such > things. I mean, if I install a font, I sure want it in the xconfig? That's not what etc-update does. etc-update is just a tool that helps you manage files that a package in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-21 Thread Don Jerman
On 10/20/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Don Jerman, > > > So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the > > minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root, > > When did 10GB become small for a root partition? I have a 400MB root > partition, 35% full, no /boo

[gentoo-user] Huge problem

2007-10-21 Thread econti
Hi all, after upgrading xorg, yesterday I started to upgrade gcc (from 3.x to 4.x) following the Gentoo GCC Upgrade Guide. All went well up to "emerge -eav system". The command seemed work fine but, for some reason, it was not able to emerge "man-pages". The process aborted. I added other gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Huge problem

2007-10-21 Thread Alex Schuster
econti writes: > Here is the message: > > /sbin/rc: line 400: start: command not found > Failed to start /etc/init.d/checkroot > One or more critical startup scripts failed to start! > Please correct this, and reboot ... > > Any suggestion? Should I reinstall everything? I don't know what's wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Huge problem

2007-10-21 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:15:34 +0200 econti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > after upgrading xorg, yesterday I started to upgrade gcc (from 3.x to > 4.x) following the Gentoo GCC Upgrade Guide. All went well up to > "emerge -eav system". > The command seemed work fine but, for some reason, it

[gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, following http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID and some other docs, I moved my system to RAID 1. Using gentoo LiveCD, all my config worked fine: I was able to mount md0 and md1 (at this point my only raid devices) and see data. So after ensuring my raid was sync, I dec

Re: [gentoo-user] Huge problem

2007-10-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 21 October 2007 18:23:16 Kenneth Prugh wrote: > > At the end running etc-update I found 26 config files to upgrade . > > Surely I did something wrong (to upgrade "udev" I had to unmerge > > "coldplug") and the result has been a failure in booting gentoo. > > Here is the message: > > > > /

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 21 October 2007 19:08:21 Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi, > > following http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID > and some other docs, I moved my system to RAID 1. > Using gentoo LiveCD, all my config worked fine: I was able to mount md0 > and md1 (at this point my only raid d

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Arnau Bria
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:34:51 +0100 Mike Williams wrote: > On Sunday 21 October 2007 19:08:21 Arnau Bria wrote: [...] > > The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 104420 blocks > > The physical size of the device is 104320 blocks > > Either the superblock or the partition table is likel

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 21 October 2007 20:29:47 Arnau Bria wrote: > > with /dev/md0 unmounted: > > > > resize2fs -f /dev/md0 > > If same thing happens with md1, I suppose I must boot with livecd and > do the same with md1, am I right? Yeah, you can't reduce the filesystem online. The RAIDing shrinks the space

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Arnau Bria
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:42:57 +0100 Mike Williams wrote: > On Sunday 21 October 2007 20:29:47 Arnau Bria wrote: [...] > Yeah, you can't reduce the filesystem online. The RAIDing shrinks the > space available for the filesystem slightly. I don't know why, but > I've had the same problem before. than

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:29:35 -0400, Don Jerman wrote: > Since my smallest hard disk is a quarter terabyte :) 8G to 10G is > plenty to keep portage and compile openoffice You have PORTAGE_TMPDIR in your root filesystem? You are braver than me, I point to to a filesystem where it won't cause proble

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Arnau Bria
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:30:51 +0200 Arnau Bria wrote: [...] > Let me ask you one more thing. I have this device: > > md3 : active raid1 hdh6[1] > 98727360 blocks [2/1] [_U] > > And I'd like to add hdf6, and then sync but against it (I mean, make > hdf6 "primary" and copy its data to hdh6).

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-21 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Philip Webb wrote: > Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? > I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. > That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, > which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems more professional > & allows

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 21 October 2007 22:03:23 Arnau Bria wrote: > > Let me ask you one more thing. I have this device: > > > > md3 : active raid1 hdh6[1] > >       98727360 blocks [2/1] [_U] > > > > And I'd like to add hdf6, and then sync but against it (I mean, make > > hdf6 "primary" and copy its data to hd

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Mike Williams, > Yeah, you can't reduce the filesystem online. The RAIDing shrinks the > space available for the filesystem slightly. I don't know why, but I've > had the same problem before. The RAID superblock is stored at the end of the partition. -- Neil Bothwick Puritanism: The hau

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-21 Thread Thufir
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:11:55 -0400, Don Jerman wrote: > So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the minimum > size for /boot and around 10G for root, and LVM manages anything that > gets dynamically large or uncertain like /home/, /opt/, and application > directories like /var/

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP: Slapd fails asking itself while startup

2007-10-21 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Freitag, 19. Okt 2007, 21:09:59 +0200 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: > I just set up LDAP authentication and it works fine. > However, when running the init script there comes up an > error that clutters up my syslog with a lot of useless error > messages. > > @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.3.38 (Oct