Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Andrea Conti
> Are you sure ext[234] is compiled statically into the kernel in this > .config? > Also the drivers for the EIDE / SATA controller. Missing FS and/or controller drivers will result in a regular kernel boot with a panic at the end, when it's time to mount root and load init. In this case grubs se

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 7 May 2010 07:28:00 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > It drops you to the grub command line, it's documented on the GRUB > > > menu screen itself, just after it tells you about e. > > > > Oh OK. I didn't reboot and read that part. lol I learned something > > today. Just hope I will remember

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 06 May 2010 12:52:55 Mick wrote: > When I get problems like this I usually run grub in a terminal and > then use autocompletion to find out what grub sees: > > root (hd <--tab > > it will list all partitions and hopefully help you find your boot > partition. > > Then search for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.05.2010 20:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > The main question is still unanswered: Why does pam_mount not work > anymore with the given device/key ? additional digging: I found http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528366 where the poster tries the underlying mount.crypt cal

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Andrea, Andrea Conti writes: > I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be > P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer > drivers and using a plain VGA console. > > Leave all advanced settings in your bios to their defaults. > > And no, EM

Re: [gentoo-user] arping network profile issue

2010-05-07 Thread Adam
On 05/06/10 03:35, Zhou Rui wrote: > Hi folks, > I setup a network interface to switch in two different network with > different gateways using config_eth0=( "arping" ), and I can get gateway mac > when use arping2 command directly. > But the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start always fails, can you help me

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 7 May, Roger Mason wrote: > Hello Andrea, > > Andrea Conti writes: > >> I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be >> P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer >> drivers and using a plain VGA console. >> >> Leave all advanced settings in

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Roger Mason
Helmut Jarausch writes: > One more hint (that I've got earlier on this list) > Boot from a rescue CD (preferably > http://www.sysresccd.org/ > ) > > then execute > lspci -k > it shows you all drivers that have been selected during boot. Many thanks fir the information. Cheers, Roger

[gentoo-user] Re: Loosing key presses since upgrade to xorg-server-1.7.6

2010-05-07 Thread Remy Blank
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > evdev? Right, I was trying to avoid that. But you were probably right. I have upgraded to xorg-server-1.8 and switched to evdev for the keyboard and mouse, with udev autodetection. This seems to have solved the issue. Of course, now we'll never know if switching to evde

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.05.2010 10:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I think I am gonna file a bug for this now. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318865

[gentoo-user] KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend

2010-05-07 Thread Roman Naumann
Hi, when I suspend my computer, KDE locks the session. This usually happens, when I close my laptop lid. When I open it again, it takes 1 to 20 seconds (seamingly random) untill the login screen appears. During this time, I just see a black screen and a mouse pointer (somewhere), but I cannot

snackup (was: Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive)

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Iain Buchanan writes: > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > using this script, adapted to their needs, I started to rewrite it in > > a way that it reads a config file, and no modification of the script > > itself is necessary. If anyone is interested, send me an email. >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend

2010-05-07 Thread András Csányi
On 7 May 2010 19:33, Roman Naumann wrote: > Hi, > > when I suspend my computer, KDE locks the session. This usually happens, when > I close my laptop lid. > > When I open it again, it takes 1 to 20 seconds (seamingly random) untill the > login screen appears. During this time, I just see a black s

Re: snackup (was: Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive)

2010-05-07 Thread covici
Alex Schuster wrote: > Iain Buchanan writes: > > > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > using this script, adapted to their needs, I started to rewrite it in > > > a way that it reads a config file, and no modification of the script > > > itself is necessary. If anyon

[gentoo-user] Re: snackup

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > I have a question -- where would lvm put a snapshot and how could I > pass some list of excludes to rdiff-backup. I have an lvm which is > taking all the PEs and a snapshot would take up lots of disk space -- > or would it. Would I need some free pes to put the sn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: snackup

2010-05-07 Thread covici
Alex Schuster wrote: > cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > > > I have a question -- where would lvm put a snapshot and how could I > > pass some list of excludes to rdiff-backup. I have an lvm which is > > taking all the PEs and a snapshot would take up lots of disk space -- > > or would it. Would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.05.2010 16:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 07.05.2010 10:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> I think I am gonna file a bug for this now. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318865 Aside from the potential bug: As I store the "verysekrit.key" on the same hdd as the encrypt

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend

2010-05-07 Thread Mick
On Friday 07 May 2010 19:26:46 András Csányi wrote: > On 7 May 2010 19:33, Roman Naumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when I suspend my computer, KDE locks the session. This usually happens, > > when I close my laptop lid. > > > > When I open it again, it takes 1 to 20 seconds (seamingly random) untill

[gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

2010-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an emerge update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails. I now have just the following ebuilds that cannot finish because of qt-webkit: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 [4.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

2010-05-07 Thread William Kenworthy
FEATURES='-distcc -ccache' MAKEOPTS='-j1' emerge ... Worked for me on multiple systems BillK - Original message - > For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an emerge > update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails.  I now have just > the following eb

Re: [gentoo-user] arping network profile issue

2010-05-07 Thread Zhou Rui
What I want is finding a gateway out with ARP, and then assign the correct gateway/route table, stuff in the configuration can be found in /etc/conf.d/net.example. BTW, what's "IP level stuff" meaning? thanks. 2010/5/7 Adam > On 05/06/10 03:35, Zhou Rui wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I setup a network

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

2010-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
On Friday 07 May 2010 17:04:22 William Kenworthy wrote: > > > For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an > > emerge update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails. I now > > have just the following ebuilds that cannot finish because of qt-webkit: > > [...] >