Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/9/10 Jake Moe : >  Hello all, > > I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue > purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could).  I've mostly followed the > Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB partition for the whole system, and no > swap).  I've used genkern

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread Jake Moe
On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/9/10 Jake Moe: Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly followed the Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB partition for the whole syst

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: > On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: > > 2010/9/10 Jake Moe: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and > >> rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly >

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread Al
> > If I give the root password, I can find no /dev/sda1.  However, mount shows > /dev/sda1 on /, and there *is* a /sys/block/sda folders, with a sda1 folder > in that as well.  It's almost like it had /dev/sda1, but then lost it > somehow. > > Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?  Any h

Re: [gentoo-user] strange network problem

2010-09-10 Thread
At 2010-09-10,"Walter Dnes" wrote: >On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:51:48PM +0800, ?? wrote > >> Thinks everyone: >> DNS woks well for me. i can ping www.google.com. Just can't access >> it in web-browsers without rebooting system.Sometimes I thought mybe >> it's the problem of Power.But now i

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] strange network problem

2010-09-10 Thread
At 2010-09-10,"路" wrote: At 2010-09-10,"Walter Dnes" wrote: >On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:51:48PM +0800, ?? wrote > >> Thinks everyone: >> DNS woks well for me. i can ping www.google.com. Just can't access >> it in web-browsers without rebooting system.Sometimes I thought mybe >> it's t

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:05:12 +0200 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: > > On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: > > > 2010/9/10 Jake Moe: > > >> Hello all, > > >> > > >> I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install > > >> and re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-10 Thread Al
>> What is your strategia to build up a community? > > Actually, I don't really have any. All I can do is offering it > as OSS and do a little bit advocacy here and there - I don't > have the resources to build up real community structures all > alone. Of course, anybody's welcomed to join in. > T

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] strange network problem

2010-09-10 Thread Thomas Yao
2010/9/10 路 : > > > At 2010-09-10,"路" wrote: > > > > At 2010-09-10,"Walter Dnes" wrote: > >>On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:51:48PM +0800, ?? wrote >> >>> Thinks everyone: >>> DNS woks well for me. i can ping www.google.com. Just can't access >>> it in web-browsers without rebooting system.Sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] undetected DVD r/w device

2010-09-10 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon alain.didierj...@free.fr: > Selon Stroller : > > > > > On 6 Sep 2010, at 09:55, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > > > > > > > > For some unknown reason, my DVD r/w device is not detected as such > > > by udev: > > > I can mount /dev/hda and read a data CD, ... > > > > Current kernels usually

[gentoo-user] Properly handling missing files when downloading files from ftp:// via ISA proxy (emerge/wget)

2010-09-10 Thread Maciej Grela
Hi, Is there any way to make emerge (wget) correctly behave when it tries to download a non-existing file from FTP in a network using ISA as ftp_proxy ? I have one of these at work and it's really annoying because of situations like below: pazuzu ~ # LC_ALL=C wget -T 30 -t 1 --continue -O /var/ca

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Gentoo deal with GCC's header fixes?

2010-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > When building GCC, it will scan all headers in /usr/include and apply fixes > to them, and then copy them and use the modified versions.  Now a binary > distro (AFAIK) will ship the GCC modified headers, so there's no problem. > > Gentoo o

Re: [gentoo-user] Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-10 Thread Matt Neimeyer
Thanks all for your help! I knew it was something simple I "should" have known. Matt On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Daniel Troeder wrote: > On 09/09/2010 07:24 PM, Matt Neimeyer wrote: >> My generic question is: When I'm using a pipe line series of commands >> do I use up more/less space than d

Re: [gentoo-user] Properly handling missing files when downloading files from ftp:// via ISA proxy (emerge/wget)

2010-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Maciej Grela wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to make emerge (wget) correctly behave when it tries > to download a non-existing file from FTP > in a network using ISA as ftp_proxy ? I have one of these at work and > it's really annoying because of situations If y

Re: [gentoo-user] Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Troeder wrote: > On 09/09/2010 07:24 PM, Matt Neimeyer wrote: >> My generic question is: When I'm using a pipe line series of commands >> do I use up more/less space than doing things in sequence? >> >> For example, I have a development Gentoo VM that has a h

Re: [gentoo-user] Properly handling missing files when downloading files from ftp:// via ISA proxy (emerge/wget)

2010-09-10 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/9/10 Paul Hartman : > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Maciej Grela wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any way to make emerge (wget) correctly behave when it tries >> to download a non-existing file from FTP >> in a network using ISA as ftp_proxy ? I have one of these at work and >> it's really ann

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 09.09.2010 22:28, schrieb Grant Edwards: > On 2010-09-09, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> When you look closer at `sort`, it is actually a quite impressive >> tool. It sorts in-memory for small amounts of data and switches to >> temporary files for larger. It can even compress those files to save

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.09.2010 01:49, schrieb Enrico Weigelt: > * Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> But I'd really like to know what produces the performance hits >>> on Posfix @ Linux. >> >> It comes down to the IO scheduler. Linux is designed to be general purpose. >> FreeBSD is designed to be much more specific. >

[gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Hi all, This morning I got centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild UD] kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 [4.5.1-r1] USE="semantic-desktop (-aqua) -debug -doc -examples (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix)" 0 kB [1=>0]

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 10 September 2010 18:53:52 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Hi all, > > This morning I got > > centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > [ebuild UD] kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 [4.5.1-r1] USE="semantic-de

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Dale
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, This morning I got centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild UD] kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 [4.5.1-r1] USE="semantic-desktop (-aqua) -debug -doc -examples (-kdeenablefinal) (-k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:43 on Friday 10 September 2010, Florian Philipp did opine thusly: > Am 10.09.2010 01:49, schrieb Enrico Weigelt: > > * Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> But I'd really like to know what produces the performance hits > >>> on Posfix @ Linux. > >> > >> It comes down to

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 10 September 2010 10:25, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Strange, I don't have pykde4-4.5.1-r1 at all. > > What does "eix pykde4" say on your system? > On mine it says: > *** > $ eix pykde4 > [I] kde-base/pykde4 >     Available versions: >        (4.4)   ~4.4.1[3] 4.4.5 **4.4.!m!t[1] **4.4.!m!t[2

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 10 September 2010 10:25, Dale wrote: > Do you have the package listed in the unmask or keyword file?  If so, it > ignores the mask file.  Actually, I think it reads mask first then the > others. Ah! Yes, I do. That explains why package.mask is being ignored, I guess, but I can't think of a wa

[gentoo-user] Re: Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-09-10, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 09.09.2010 22:28, schrieb Grant Edwards: >>> Throw `cut`, `paste`, `join` and `grep` into the mix and you can >>> build your own relational database system based on shell scripts ;) >> >> Sort of linke /rdb: http://www.rdb.com/ > > Interesting. I've j

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > So I'm confused. Why is package.mask not having any (apparent) effect > for pykde4? How do I prevent the downgrade? It's probably unmasked as well. I think unmask overrides mask. As an alternative, you can try to eliminate pykde4 entirely

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:53 on Friday 10 September 2010, Hilco Wijbenga did opine thusly: > Hi all, > > This morning I got > > centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > [ebuild UD] kde-ba

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: > Strange, I don't have pykde4-4.5.1-r1 at all. I do. > What does "eix pykde4" say on your system? > On mine it says: > *** > $ eix pykde4 > [I] kde-base/pykde4 > Available versions: > (4.4) ~4.4.1[3] 4.4.5 **4.4.!m!t[1] **4.4.!m!t[2] > (4.5)

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Dale
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On 10 September 2010 10:25, Dale wrote: Do you have the package listed in the unmask or keyword file? If so, it ignores the mask file. Actually, I think it reads mask first then the others. Ah! Yes, I do. That explains why package.mask is being ignored, I gue

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread John Campbell
On 09/10/2010 09:53 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Hi all, > > So I'm confused. Why is package.mask not having any (apparent) effect > for pykde4? How do I prevent the downgrade? pykde4-4.5.1-r1 was removed from the repository, not masked. In order to keep 4.5.1-r1 you need to obtain a copy of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:53:52 -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > I decided that I did not want to go back to 4.5.1 so I added > > =kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 > > to /etc/portage/package.mask. > > To my utmost surprise, I got the exact same result as before when > running the above emerge command again. I

[gentoo-user] What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines, others dont work at all. The worst case is one where Ive upgraded udev to the latest which only w

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 10 September 2010 11:40, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Hilco Wijbenga > wrote: >> So I'm confused. Why is package.mask not having any (apparent) effect >> for pykde4? How do I prevent the downgrade? > > It's probably unmasked as well. I think unmask overrides mask. >

[gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-10 Thread walt
On 09/10/2010 09:43 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: ..why hasn't FreeBSD's scheduler been ported to Linux? Or is the whole software stack (block devices etc.) so completely different that it wouldn't work? Well, I can't answer your question, but you just reminded me that Linus himself once declared

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/11/2010 01:18 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. If you updated from 2.6.34 or even 33, then there shouldn't be a problem; "make oldconfig" should have worked OK and presented new/chan

[gentoo-user] Re: undetected DVD r/w device

2010-09-10 Thread walt
On 09/10/2010 07:25 AM, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Selon alain.didierj...@free.fr: Selon Stroller: On 6 Sep 2010, at 09:55, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: For some unknown reason, my DVD r/w device is not detected as such by udev: I can mount /dev/hda and read a data CD, ... symb

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread walt
On 09/10/2010 03:18 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines... What kernel config items did you change to fix thos

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, walt wrote: On 09/10/2010 03:18 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines... What kernel conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/11/2010 01:18 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. If you updated from 2.6.34 or even 33, then there shouldn't be a problem; "make oldconfi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Ajai Khattri wrote: Under the old scheme I specified /dev/md1 as my root in grub.conf but since this doesn't exist the boot fails. In trying to fix this I see that the LiveCD uses the following device files for the RAID partitions: /dev/md123 /dev/md124 /dev/md125 /dev/md1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread John Campbell
On 09/10/2010 05:30 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, walt wrote: > The two main ones seemed to be disabling the deprecated ATA drivers and > another one was disabling some sysfs options. But these changes didn't > help in this case. At this point, I think Im better off sticking to th

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/11/2010 03:31 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/11/2010 01:18 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. If you updated from 2.6.34 or even 33, then

[gentoo-user] How to correctly read CPU temperature ?

2010-09-10 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, with the command "sensors" (lm_sensor) I can read out the temperatures/voltages of my mobo/cpu: atk0110-acpi-0 Adapter: ACPI interface Vcore Voltage: +1.35 V (min = +0.80 V, max = +1.60 V) CPU/NB Voltage:+1.16 V (min = +0.80 V, max = +1.60 V) CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Graham Murray
Ajai Khattri writes: > I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just > hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to > fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines, others dont > work at all. > > The worst case is one where Ive upgraded ude

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: undetected DVD r/w device

2010-09-10 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon walt : > On 09/10/2010 07:25 AM, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > > Selon alain.didierj...@free.fr: > > > >> Selon Stroller: > >> > >>> > >>> On 6 Sep 2010, at 09:55, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > >>> > > For some unknown reason, my DVD r/w device is not detected as such > >>>

[gentoo-user] IOAPIC kernel error and oops!

2010-09-10 Thread Mick
I just compiled and installed gentoo 2.6.35-r4 on an x86 machine and it failed miserably on boot up. As this kernel configuration of mine is not materially different to the 2.6.34 version, I am wondering if it is suffering from some congenital defect. Anyone else having such problems? -- Rega