On Thursday, 15. September 2011 11:25:56 Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 01:58:59 AM Trifu Catalin Florin wrote: > > On Thursday, 15. September 2011 01:16:12 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote: > <snipped undecypherable part> > > > ---- > > Dear Michael > > > > Thank you for your help! > > > > I didn't reboot my machine as the installation is not complete yet. How > > can I reboot when the installation isn't finish, if things that should > > work don't work in the first place? > > I could not find the currently running kernel you are using in this thread.
It's 2.6.19-something. He hit's a problem with new coreutils running on kernels older than 2.6.22 Something related to futimesat, that was introduced with this kernel. > Possibly, you are hitting an issue caused by a feature lacking in that > kernel. What did you boot your machine with prior to starting the > installation? Please also include the version and URL where you downloaded > this from. > > I didn't try your advices as I don't now how to try them. How do I > > deactivate sandbox? > > Michael "grimlog" Schreckenbauer actually already told you how to do this: > ** > If you cannot upgrade your kernel right now, you can disable the sandbox > FEATURES="-sandbox" in /etc/make.conf > (I do not recommend this) > ** > > The "sandbox" is a security feature. If you disable it to get the install > working and a newer kernel-version. Please undo this change after the first > boot into the new kernel. Ack. > > > I tried to search for > > > > "touch: setting times of" gentoo > > but I don't understand how this is related to my problem. > > > > Yahoo reply broken? I don't know what to say about that... gmail works > > in > > the same way, outlook in the same way, thunderbird in the same way. > > In other words, they're all broken. > A good Email client will allow you to send non-HTML email. Puts "quote" > marks in front of the lines and add a "bladibla wrote this" or similar > line. It should also allow you to easily put your reply at the bottom of > the email. > > GMail has been mentioned a few times as doing things wrongly. I won't even > mention the many ways in which MS Outlook does things badly and Thunderbird > wants to be a copy of MS Outlook. Afaict, there are quite a few people here using thunderbird. Most replies are wellformed. Outlook, well... it's not a mail-client after all. Best, Michael