Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread Andrea Conti
> 1. boot up knoppix > 2. create a partition: mkdir /work > 3. mount /work to the root partition: mount /dev/sdc /work > 4. cd /work/usr/bin > 5. run dcfldd: ./dcfldd This is fine, provided that 1- if the root partition is [part of] what you're copying, you *must* mount it read-only (mount -o ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Fatal problem: Pyton-updater "kills" PC

2010-06-06 Thread Manuel Klemenz
does this happen in combination with the python-updater? if not, following lines could indicate the prob: > * Building of dev-python/setuptools-0.6.10 with CPython 3.1... > python3.1 setup.py build -b build-3.1 did you already switch to 3.1 python slot as your "main" python version? # eselect pyt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A very strange problem with rc-update

2010-06-06 Thread Chen Huan
It's baselayout-2.0.1 And I remerged openrc and baselayout-2, the problem solved but I still want to know the reason why the problem happen 2010/6/6 walt > On 06/04/2010 10:11 AM, Chen Huan wrote: > >> Hi,everybody, I got a very very strange problems. >> >> I have install gnome, and when I try

[gentoo-user] Gentoo initrd docs?

2010-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Does there happen to be a Gentoo doc anywhere that goes through creating an initrd from scratch? If not Gentoo, then any good web site would be a big help. I'm interested in booting from RAID - or at least investigating it - so I need to learn about this. Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo initrd docs?

2010-06-06 Thread Manuel Klemenz
have a look at the gentoo wiki http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs though no officially supported by gentoo, it's imho a pretty good site to find tutorials and howto's -- Cheers, Manuel Klemenz On Sunday 06 June 2010 17:25:43 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Does there happen to be a Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 June 2010 11:19:57 Andrea Conti wrote: > > 1. boot up knoppix > > 2. create a partition: mkdir /work > > 3. mount /work to the root partition: mount /dev/sdc /work > > 4. cd /work/usr/bin > > 5. run dcfldd: ./dcfldd > > This is fine, provided that > > 1- if the root partition is [par

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo initrd docs?

2010-06-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 June 2010 16:25:43 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Does there happen to be a Gentoo doc anywhere that goes through > creating an initrd from scratch? > >If not Gentoo, then any good web site would be a big help. I'm > interested in booting from RAID - or at least investigating it -

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo initrd docs?

2010-06-06 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >   Does there happen to be a Gentoo doc anywhere that goes through > creating an initrd from scratch? > >   If not Gentoo, then any good web site would be a big help. I'm > interested in booting from RAID - or at least investigating it - s

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo initrd docs?

2010-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Manuel Klemenz wrote: > have a look at the gentoo wiki > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs > > though no officially supported by gentoo, it's imho a pretty good site to find > tutorials and howto's > > -- > Cheers, > Manuel Klemenz > Thank you Manuel. That l

[gentoo-user] how did xine-lib get broken?

2010-06-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I'm confused. I was upgrading my box piecemeal, as it's been a while. I ran revdep-rebuild and it turned up xine-lib as broken, so it rebuilt it, but the rebuild failed. libtool: compile: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../include -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../src

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 06/06/10 06:19, Andrea Conti wrote: >> 1. boot up knoppix 2. create a partition: mkdir /work 3. mount >> /work to the root partition: mount /dev/sdc /work 4. cd >> /work/usr/bin 5. run dcfldd: ./dcfldd > > This is fine, provided that > > 1- if the root partition is [part of] what you're copying,

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 06/05/10 16:11, Manuel Klemenz wrote: I'm calculating checksums over partitions just by calling # md5sum /dev/sda1 or for the complete disk (incl. partition table + all partitions) # md5sum /dev/sda that's it :) - works with any distro/liveDVD Yep.. don't have to fool with an oddball p

[gentoo-user] Re: A very strange problem with rc-update

2010-06-06 Thread walt
On 06/06/2010 05:40 AM, Chen Huan wrote: It's baselayout-2.0.1 And I remerged openrc and baselayout-2, the problem solved but I still want to know the reason why the problem happen I don't know, but I suspect one of those two packages had a bug when you installed them last time, and the bug h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/05/10 16:11, Manuel Klemenz wrote: > > I'm calculating checksums over partitions just by calling # md5sum > > /dev/sda1 or for the complete disk (incl. partition table + all > > partitions) # md5sum /dev/sda > > > > that's it :) - works with any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 June 2010 19:55:57 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > Based on this thread, I'll be running my backups from a > statically-linked copy of dcfldd on a "jumpdisk" (backup copy on the > boot sector). > > - Any advice on the dd "blocksize" parameter? Only to say that 4096 gets things done sooo much

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT sphinx] Any users of sphinx here

2010-06-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Brandon Vargo writes: > As an example of how it works, suppose I am making a news website and > have a bunch of news posts, each of which has an author, category, and Thank you brandon for such a nice through answer... Yeah, looks like I'm barking up the wrong tree. I know about htdig.. Not muc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread Andrea Conti
>> 1- if the root partition is [part of] what you're copying, you >> *must* mount it read-only (mount -o ro /dev/sdc /work) > > Not from my experience; I simply mount, exec, and go - Works fine Let's say you are 50% done copying a partition, when something writes to it. If the write only affects

[gentoo-user] Re: Pasting jacked up for mnths now... like a bugger

2010-06-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Lie Ryan writes: > On 06/06/10 07:56, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Does anyone else notice a serious mess when copy/pasting to firefox. >> Some other places too. > > I don't. But, I guess you need to clarify, when you're saying you > "copy/paste", is it Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V type of copy/pasting or > Middle-cl

[gentoo-user] emerge media-gfx/eog-2.30.1 fails with configure: error: conditional "HAVE_LIBJPEG_80" was never defined.

2010-06-06 Thread Nikolay Hodyunya
Hello, I'm trying to emerge gnome on my gentoo box, but It fails. Here is log. * CPV: media-gfx/eog-2.30.1 * REPO: gnome * USE: amd64 dbus elibc_glibc jpeg kernel_linux multilib python userland_GNU >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking eog-2.30.1.tar.bz2 t

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 06/06/10 15:47, Joerg Schilling wrote: > 7v5w7go9ub0o<7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 06/05/10 16:11, Manuel Klemenz wrote: >>> I'm calculating checksums over partitions just by calling # >>> md5sum /dev/sda1 or for the complete disk (incl. partition table >>> + all partitions) # md5sum

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:02:10 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > Yep.. don't have to fool with an oddball program (dcfldd). So if > you're dd'ing a disk, you need to: > > 1. dd the source to the destination. > 2. md5sum the source > 3. md5sum the destination. > > (3 passes on a big disk(s) takes a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge media-gfx/eog-2.30.1 fails with configure: error: conditional "HAVE_LIBJPEG_80" was never defined.

2010-06-06 Thread Manuel Klemenz
looks like an unresolved dependency... is "media-libs/jpeg" among your installed packages? just a guess, but try to install this one before -- Cheers, Manuel Klemenz On Sunday 06 June 2010 23:44:19 Nikolay Hodyunya wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to emerge gnome on my gentoo box, but It fails. > Her

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 06/06/10 16:45, Andrea Conti wrote: >>> 1- if the root partition is [part of] what you're copying, you >>> *must* mount it read-only (mount -o ro /dev/sdc /work) >> >> Not from my experience; I simply mount, exec, and go - Works fine > > Let's say you are 50% done copying a partition, when somet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: > > sdd if=/dev/something bs=1m -md5 -onull > > err.. what is sdd? sdd is e.g. in ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/ sdd is the oldest free "dd" reimplementation and it introduced intermediate statistics with signals from TTY in 1984 already (this i

[gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730

2010-06-06 Thread James
Hello, I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable ati-driver + xorg-server combination that will compile. Any recommendations as to open source drivers or getting ati-drivers happy with 9.x or 10.x is most welcome. I read a lot of bugs but not much clear on how to proceed Ja

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 06/06/10 18:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: [] > > You can use tee to send the dd output to both the destination and md5sum. Dang! I'd forgotten about tee; a core utility! Yep... using tee as you described would be the classic way to md5sum the source; use ubiquitous dd and md5sum to quickly h

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge media-gfx/eog-2.30.1 fails with configure: error: conditional "HAVE_LIBJPEG_80" was never defined.

2010-06-06 Thread Jake Moe
On 07/06/10 07:44, Nikolay Hodyunya wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to emerge gnome on my gentoo box, but It fails. > Here is log. > > * CPV: media-gfx/eog-2.30.1 > * REPO: gnome > * USE: amd64 dbus elibc_glibc jpeg kernel_linux multilib python > userland_GNU >

[gentoo-user] caps lock osd

2010-06-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, is there a way to get the num lock, caps lock and scroll lock state displayed in an OSD? I'm not looking for a panel applet, but something that throws the state onto the screen for a second or so. I thought lineakd and xosd might do it, but I can't figure out how to get it to respond to caps

Re: [gentoo-user] caps lock osd

2010-06-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 12:11 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to get the num lock, caps lock and scroll lock state > displayed in an OSD? Still looking for a good solution, but the best I've come up with so far is this: 1. add to .xbindkeysrc: "/home/iain/.bin/capstog" m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A very strange problem with rc-update

2010-06-06 Thread Chen Huan
thanks 2010/6/7 walt > On 06/06/2010 05:40 AM, Chen Huan wrote: > >> It's baselayout-2.0.1 >> >> And I remerged openrc and baselayout-2, the problem solved >> >> but I still want to know the reason why the problem happen >> > > I don't know, but I suspect one of those two packages had a bug > wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pasting jacked up for mnths now... like a bugger

2010-06-06 Thread pk
On 2010-06-06 22:13, Harry Putnam wrote: > I disagree that we all are accustomed to Cntl-v etc. That is more a > windows phenomena... long time linux (X) users are more accustomed to > left mouse highlight... middle mouse paste, I think, at lest I am. I'm not alone then... :-D About your proble