[gentoo-user] Compiling qemu breaks

2012-08-05 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, trying to compile qemu breaks for me with: >>> Source configured. >>> Compiling source in >>> /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/qemu-0.11.1/work/qemu-0.11.1 ... make -j 1 CCqemu-nbd.o CCqemu-tool.o CCtool-osdep.o CCcutils.o CCcache-utils.o CCqemu-malloc.o C

[gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-05 Thread Dale
Howdy, I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that large. Anyway, I want to test this thing real good to really make sure it is up to t

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Kindle so hard to answer in depth. What about smartctl??? Let the drive test itself.

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I > have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of > it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that large. > Anyway, I want to test this thing real good to really make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling qemu breaks

2012-08-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/05/2012 06:02 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > trying to compile qemu breaks for me with: Downgrading texi2html should work around it until the bug gets fixed: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416037

[gentoo-user] Problems with help2man and Perl

2012-08-05 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've having a bit of a problem with doing an update world. When I do an "emerge -NuD world" things chug along a bit then the build for help2man fails, having a problem with "Locale::gettext". A Google search mentions using perl-cleaner. I run perl-cleaner and it results in a whole lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-05 Thread victor romanchuk
hi Dale wrote, at 08/05/2012 04:45 PM: > Howdy, > > > I have heard of bonnie and friends. I also think dd could do some > testing too. Is there any other way to give this a good work and see if > it holds up? Oh, helpful hints with Bonnie would be great too. I have > never used it before. May

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems with help2man and Perl

2012-08-05 Thread walt
On 08/05/2012 11:07 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > I then run the emerge again and for some reason it wants to rebuild > perl again, a different version to what perl-cleaner rebuilt. That sounds very strange. Why should two versions of perl be fighting for top dog on your machine? The only reason I c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with help2man and Perl

2012-08-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 13:13:35 -0700 walt wrote: > On 08/05/2012 11:07 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > > I then run the emerge again and for some reason it wants to rebuild > > perl again, a different version to what perl-cleaner rebuilt. > > That sounds very strange. Why should two versions of perl

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Beaglebone

2012-08-05 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/beaglebone/install.xml I found a description how to setup a Gentoo for a Beaglebone, an Cortex A8 Linux platform. When I did: crossdev -S armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabi I got this message: /root>crossdev -S armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabi ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Beaglebone

2012-08-05 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On August 6, 2012 06:51:41 AM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > What is meant with "please convert /etc/portage/package.keywords to a > directory" What will happen to the contents of that file? What is the name > of the directory to create? How can I fix that? > > Thank you very much in advance for