[gentoo-ppc-user] Problems booting...still
OK, I didn't have the devfs loaded into the kernel, so the new version boots past that point. However, the boot stops when it tries to load the root filesystem. warning, no fsck.ext3 found. Error: mounting an ext2 partition failed on /dev/hda7 (a little different wording), Bad superblock, etc type cntrl-D to cancel, or enter root passwd to fix: and it is frozen (no keyboard recognised) There is a copy of fsck.ext3 on /sbin/, so I think that it is not in the initrd. Any ideas on how to fix this? nick -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Problems booting...still
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I didn't have the devfs loaded into the kernel, so the new version boots past that point. However, the boot stops when it tries to load the root filesystem. You shouldn't use devfs. It's obsolete. Which liveCD / stage are you installing from? Which profile are you using? warning, no fsck.ext3 found. Error: mounting an ext2 partition failed on /dev/hda7 (a little different wording), Bad superblock, etc type cntrl-D to cancel, or enter root passwd to fix: and it is frozen (no keyboard recognised) There is a copy of fsck.ext3 on /sbin/, so I think that it is not in the initrd. Any ideas on how to fix this? Is /dev/hda7 an ext2 partition? Are you sure you have your partition numbering right and that your fstab reflects your partition layout? -Joe -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems
Hi Wes What do you make of this? Do I need to run fsck? I don't know whats wrong with your portage-tree, but you can try to get a new one. Just move the olde tree away and sync: # mv /usr/portage /usr/portage.old # mkdir /usr/portage # emerge sync Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from single-disk to RAID-1 configuration
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:01, Francesco Talamona wrote: DEVICE partitions ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=8ef83d67:79b230ba:6cc967c3:208b9224 AFAIK fd partition type is mandatory. Anyway is good to know that I can avoid explicit node names in config files. I'm not sure it's mandatory, but there really is no reason not to do so. I have a SATA card that doesn't have in kernel drivers, so I have to load a module, which naturally means the kernel can't autostart all my arrays, but mdadm can without me having to tell it any device nodes. How can you prevent it to start in degraded mode? I don't have the raid drivers compiled into the kernel :) I have 3 arrays, 2 of which have more devices on the SATA card than the array can loose. mdadm would warn me by email if it detected any array in degraded mode anyway. I'm not sure what problem you had that meant you could only create a degraded array. But if you boot from a gentoo livecd you can create a mirror from an existing disk *without* losing any data, or needing to backup. If you specify the disk/partition with the data on it you want to keep *first* to mdadm, that data will get replicated to the others. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?
Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:10:56 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if font embedding is possible in a .ps document. Of course it is. I think people using laser printers would have complained a lot otherwise... -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message
Whenever I boot up my machine, I get a message to the effect The Gentoo system initialization scripts have detected that your system does not support DEVFS or UDEV... I have included all of the appropriate kernel options and emerged UDEV, hotplug, etc. per the Handbook. Anyone have some hints as to why I might be getting this? TIA, -Tracy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet
i am install qemu and active kqemu using ./configure --enable-kqemu to configure and make make install than i use a win98.img to start qemu(using NAT ) qemu -hda win98. img -m 256 -localtime -enable-audio -user -net but in win98 can;t connect internet did i qemu need some driver to support this function did i need to recompile my kernel and add some new modules to support this function thx
[gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories
I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I wish to play and experiment. Users, mainly just me, and perhaps a family member or three. Here is what I quickly setup. $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 471M 271M 176M 61% / udev 1004M 208K 1004M 1% /dev /dev/hda1 38M 2.6M 34M 8% /boot /dev/hda5 4.6G 185M 4.2G 5% /var /dev/hda6 31G 2.3G 27G 8% /usr shm 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm What caught me off guard was that fact that /home is located under / and that is where my user profiles are being set, instead of /usr/home like it is on my freebsd system. When I copied over my personal files, it quickly filled up the / partition, which I have since deleted. Now I noticed that there is a /usr/home, what exactly is that used for, since users are not there by default? I would figure /boot does not really change much in size, leave as is, maybe shrink a few mb. /var, up and down, perhaps bring it down a gig, gig and a half. /usr, would grow depending on software installs, much as possible. I have not installed much currently. If /home was on its own, I am guessing that the current / allocation would be fine? Anyone confirm? Now I just have to figure what I want /home to be, or perhaps could the default setup for users be located in /usr/home? Would this cause problems? Is it non standard? Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:31:50PM +0800, wrote: i am install qemu and active kqemu using ./configure --enable-kqemu to configure and make make install than i use a win98.img to start qemu(using NAT ) qemu -hda win98.img -m 256 -localtime -enable-audio -user-net but in win98 can;t connect internet did i qemu need some driver to support this function did i need to recompile my kernel and add some new modules to support this function thx If you are running on gentoo, why not just set the kqemu USE flag and emerge qemu? I have successively ran WinXP under qemu with the kernel accelerator that way. You WON'T need drivers or kernel modules. User-Net means exactly that: the network is in user mode. Qemu connects to the network like any other userland program on your host computer, and AFAIK qemu emulates a fairly basic ethernet card, so Win98 should have built-in support for it. Now: What do you mean by win98 cannot connect to the internet? Is your host computer on a network? Did you set the Win98 system to use DHCP? Does the Windows system running under the VM detect the (virtual) Network Card? W -- Nothing is fool-proof to sufficiently talented fools. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 3 days, 5:55 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 04:44, sean wrote: I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I wish to play and experiment. If you think you might do re-installs, put /home on a seperate partition, otherwise I normally just have /boot and /. Users, mainly just me, and perhaps a family member or three. Here is what I quickly setup. $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 471M 271M 176M 61% / udev 1004M 208K 1004M 1% /dev /dev/hda1 38M 2.6M 34M 8% /boot /dev/hda5 4.6G 185M 4.2G 5% /var /dev/hda6 31G 2.3G 27G 8% /usr shm 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm What caught me off guard was that fact that /home is located under / and that is where my user profiles are being set, instead of /usr/home like it is on my freebsd system. When I copied over my personal files, it quickly filled up the / partition, which I have since deleted. Now I noticed that there is a /usr/home, what exactly is that used for, since users are not there by default? I would figure /boot does not really change much in size, leave as is, maybe shrink a few mb. /var, up and down, perhaps bring it down a gig, gig and a half. /usr, would grow depending on software installs, much as possible. I have not installed much currently. If /home was on its own, I am guessing that the current / allocation would be fine? Anyone confirm? Now I just have to figure what I want /home to be, or perhaps could the default setup for users be located in /usr/home? Would this cause problems? Is it non standard? Thanks Sean -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories
I would strongly recomend putting the home directory on its own partition. It then doesn't matter too much where you decide to mount it, although some broken applications may assume the Linux convention of using /home, so it is probably safest to preserve this and use a sym link if you want to be able to use the /usr/home you are familiar with. Always keep the root partition small and relatively stable, since it is minimal platform from which the rest of the system can be recovered. I keep mine to about 20M, so I don't need to keep a separate /boot partition. /tmp is a sym link to /var/tmp, so that in secure mode /var and /home are the only two filesystems that should need to be mounted read/write. The former is writeable space for the system, and the latter for users. Other filesystem should only need to be made writeable when modifying the sytstem if everything is configured right. In practice there are still some annoying exceptions (like /etc/passwd and /etc/mtab) which mean you have to do a bit more work to get the root filesystem able to be mounted readonly, but if it is small it doesn't take so long to back it up and fsck it after a crash, so it is probably only worth worrying about it for a secure system. Regards, DigbyT On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:44:23AM +, sean wrote: I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I wish to play and experiment. Users, mainly just me, and perhaps a family member or three. Here is what I quickly setup. $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 471M 271M 176M 61% / udev 1004M 208K 1004M 1% /dev /dev/hda1 38M 2.6M 34M 8% /boot /dev/hda5 4.6G 185M 4.2G 5% /var /dev/hda6 31G 2.3G 27G 8% /usr shm 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm What caught me off guard was that fact that /home is located under / and that is where my user profiles are being set, instead of /usr/home like it is on my freebsd system. When I copied over my personal files, it quickly filled up the / partition, which I have since deleted. Now I noticed that there is a /usr/home, what exactly is that used for, since users are not there by default? I would figure /boot does not really change much in size, leave as is, maybe shrink a few mb. /var, up and down, perhaps bring it down a gig, gig and a half. /usr, would grow depending on software installs, much as possible. I have not installed much currently. If /home was on its own, I am guessing that the current / allocation would be fine? Anyone confirm? Now I just have to figure what I want /home to be, or perhaps could the default setup for users be located in /usr/home? Would this cause problems? Is it non standard? Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 386 (24478-24527)
On 10/22/05, karlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I have posted this a few days ago and I know its quite newbie, but I would like to use XChat and emerge .. :) One of the symptoms is that I can't ping the gentoo servers ( heanet.ie for example) or connect to XChat servers. I have tried to put in differnent nameserver settings into /etc/resolv.conf (IPs that friends can use) and various different setting on the router (DLink 504T), like Port Forwarding and sobut with no success. What could the problem be, if the Router and possibliy my machine are set up correctly? Any Help is VERY much appreciated! Thanks, KarstenI guess you are writing here from another machine? No, the connection to the internet is fine I think, at least for browsing and such. By 'Gentoo servers' do you mean the entries in make.conf? Can you pinganything? Or is it just the servers you cannot get to? I can NOT ping the gentoo servers at all, no xchat servers etc. When I try to emerge, the address show in the terminal is always 1.0.0.0. Same with Xchat servers. It also shows IPs of 1.0.0.0 which is why I am so confused with it. If it's jsut the servers then here's the ones I'm using. They wouldnot be good long term solutions, but at least they work: GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://www.zentek-international.com/mirrors/gentoo/ Karsten,Diagnosing network issues without details is a little difficult, but here's a list to start with:1. Your dlink router is god, as far as your box is concerned. It should bethe only entry listed in /etc/resolv.conf as it is caching/forwarding dns onbehalf of your network. What exactly do you mean by that? Do I have to put its IP in /etc/resolv.conf? 2. Verify that you have your ip address set to be a child of the router. It will either be set up with a 10.x.x.x or a 192.168.x.x addressing range. Ifyou're using dhcp, then your dhcp client should be pointed to the router toget it's ip address. I am not 100% sure if my settings are correct, but I am connected, both to the router and the internet and can ping certain IPs, so I think this should be ok. What could the problem be, that these programs spit out these weird non-sense IPs? KArsen
[gentoo-user] Re:
Karsten Gebbert wrote: the connection to the internet is fine I think, at least for browsing and such. [...] I can NOT ping the gentoo servers at all, no xchat servers etc. When I try to emerge, the address show in the terminal is always 1.0.0.0http://1.0.0.0. Same with Xchat servers. It also shows IPs of 1.0.0.0 http://1.0.0.0 Post your /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/make.conf, and /etc/hosts. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Mobile phone
Hi, not shure but maybe you can use the OBEX-Push Service of the Bluez Bluetooth Package... if your phone can handle BT. Cheerz NIC -Original Message- From: Keats [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:39 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Mobile phone hi, i wonder how to get the pictures from my phone ? i have it to work with irda via gammu/wammu but this software seems to be able only to get numbers phone and sms from the phone... anyone have done this ? thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:24:13 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: emerge --newuse world -p will catch all of it. Check the Gentoo docs. No it won't. You need to add --deep and --update to catch everything: emerge --deep --update --newuse --verbose --ask world -- Neil Bothwick My Go this amn keyboar oesn't have any 's. pgpE9t87QSaFt.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] udev does not create /dev/hdb
hi; I upgraded to udev-070 recently (and now to udev-070-rc1). Since then, I can't mount /mnt/cdrom properly. Before, my /dev directory had a /dev/hdb, as well as /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2 . Now, it only has /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2, but /dev/hdb is no longer there. I still don't understand how udev works; I read the guide on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml but it didn't help. I've read also a guide at http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html and I craeted the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules, which reads as --- /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules - BUS=ide, KERNEL=hdb, NAME=%k, SYMLINK=cdrom cdroms/cdrom%n -- But it doesn't help. What I find rather strange is that if I do # mount /mnt/cdrom (my /etc/fstab points /mnt/cdrom to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, which is a symlink to /dev/hdb) I get device does not exist. But if I try to mount it on hdb1, it seems to create the file /dev/hdb, and now I can mount it: rojo ~ # mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom/ mount: special device /dev/hdb does not exist rojo ~ # mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/cdrom/ mount: /dev/hdb1 is not a valid block device rojo ~ # mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom/ mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mounting read-only Any help as how to have the node /dev/hdb created at boot in a somewhat clean way is appreciated. Please notice also that at /etc/conf.d/rc I have the line RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes which is also not helping here. Thanks, Matias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mobile phone
Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:38:34 +0200 Keats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i wonder how to get the pictures from my phone ? i have it to work with irda via gammu/wammu but this software seems to be able only to get numbers phone and sms from the phone... What phone brand? Most phones support OBEX transfers via IrDA. You need a running OBEX server on your PC to receive them. I think obexftp or openobex-apps should do. Note that there are also phone dependent utilities that may let you do more/other things. OBEX will only allow you to send those pictures via IrDA like your phone would do for transferring them to another mobile (for the case you already happened to do so). -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports
Im trying to use mii-tool to configure the NIC speed and duplex on a Dell 2850 server (currently auto negotiates and has negotiated 100/half). The switch port is configured for 100/full. The Dell 2850 server uses the Broadcom chipset for the NIC and is a 10/100/1000 port. Every time I try to force the port using mii-tool, the server port stops responding and I have to reboot the box. Someone mentioned that mii-tool may not be the correct tool and to try ethtool. My question is will mii-tool work with a 10/100/1000 port? Should I be using ethtool under Gentoo and if so where do I get it/install it? Thanks, Frank -- This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary , confidential and exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and erase this e-mail message immediately. -- Le present message electronique (y compris les pieces qui y sont annexees, le cas echeant) s'adresse au destinataire indique et peut contenir des renseignements de caractere prive ou confidentiel. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire de ce document, nous vous signalons qu'il est strictement interdit de le diffuser, de le distribuer ou de le reproduire. Si ce message vous a ete transmis par erreur, veuillez en informer l'expediteur et le supprimer immediatement. --
Re: [gentoo-user] apache log analyzer
On 10/24/05, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I'm pretty new to log analyzers. Besides webalizer which got alittle bit old (still usefull nonetheless) i have no other experience.I've googled and found awstats and analog.If you would care to comment on this issue I would be grateful for any hints.Thanks.Catalin-- I'm using awstats along with logrotate to do stats for 10 websites hosted on one server. Every night, logrotate runs (by cron), runs awstats on the access_log file for each site, gzips the log and moves it to another directory for backup. I like awstats because it allows you to have a custom log format and it understands virtual hosts. This is nice because I can have one log file for all my sites, in which I just append a VLOG name to a normal combined log format. I have an awstats config file for each site which all read the same file, but only look for their own domain name. I used webalizer for a while, but often had problems that if I processed a log that was in the middle of a day or month, it would not continue properly when it parsed the next log. With awstats, it runs every night and works great with a nice output. I would highly recommed it. Look here: http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_faq.html#ROTATE for info on using awstats with logrotate and look here: http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_compare.html for a comparison between awstats, analog, webalizer, and hitbox. (It is created by awstats though, so it might be a little biased). HTH, Preston
[gentoo-user] Xorg font sizes and resolution
Hello, I'm trying and googling and manpaging since weeks without success. I'm having trouble with a custom application that requests the font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-128-100-100-p-*-io8859-1. 128 is not present in /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/fonts.dir. By tweaking the DisplaySize parameter in xorg.conf, I can adjust the requested value of 128 to something like 120 that is present, and then it works - but then my resolution is not correctly set. I didn't have these problems with SuSE 9.0 and XFree86. I suppose there must be something where I can configure X to map odd size numbers to those that are really present, but I could not find out where to make this happen. The application mkfontscale is hard masked in gentoo. I hope here's someone with some expertise on this stuff? Thanks for any help you can offer. Regards -- Maik Musall [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key 0x856861EB (keyserver: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories
sean wrote: I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I wish to play and experiment. Users, mainly just me, and perhaps a family member or three. Here is what I quickly setup. $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 471M 271M 176M 61% / udev 1004M 208K 1004M 1% /dev /dev/hda1 38M 2.6M 34M 8% /boot /dev/hda5 4.6G 185M 4.2G 5% /var /dev/hda6 31G 2.3G 27G 8% /usr shm 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm Here is my filesystem setup, that has been working pretty well (the device names are because I use LVM): carcharias rjf # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/sys-root 4.9G 2.3G 2.4G 50% / /dev/hda1 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot /dev/mapper/sys-tmp 2.0G 67M 1.8G 4% /tmp /dev/mapper/sys-var 4.9G 576M 4.1G 13% /var /dev/mapper/sys-home 59G 34G 22G 61% /home /dev/mapper/sys-opt 2.0G 380M 1.5G 21% /opt /dev/mapper/sys-local 992M 166M 776M 18% /usr/local /dev/mapper/sys-portage 992M 563M 379M 60% /usr/portage /dev/mapper/sys-distfiles 3.9G 2.4G 1.4G 64% /usr/portage/distfiles /dev/mapper/sys-packages 4.0G 129M 3.6G 4% /usr/portage/packages /dev/mapper/sys-share 3.9G 1.4G 2.4G 37% /usr/share /dev/mapper/sys-src 2.0G 823M 1.1G 44% /usr/src What caught me off guard was that fact that /home is located under / and that is where my user profiles are being set, instead of /usr/home like it is on my freebsd system. When I copied over my personal files, it quickly filled up the / partition, which I have since deleted. Now I noticed that there is a /usr/home, what exactly is that used for, since users are not there by default? No /usr/home on my system. My guess is that it is an artifact from your FreeBSD system. I would figure /boot does not really change much in size, leave as is, maybe shrink a few mb. /var, up and down, perhaps bring it down a gig, gig and a half. PORTAGE_TMPDIR defaults to /var/tmp, which means any builds will occur in /var. Beware that some builds require a large amount of disk space to complete. For example, building OpenOffice 2.0 on my system consumed something like 3G of tmp space. So if you shrink it, you should consider changing PORTAGE_TMPDIR in /etc/make.conf, or there may be times where you have to run PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/path/to/more/space emerge big package Now I just have to figure what I want /home to be, or perhaps could the default setup for users be located in /usr/home? Would this cause problems? Is it non standard? Yes, it is non-standard, but still possible. You just have to specify the home directory to adduser with the -b option. In any case, I highly recommend checking out LVM, and leave some space available on your disk(s), as it will allow you to easily grow things later if you run out of space somewhere. Cheers, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message
Budd, Tracy wrote: Whenever I boot up my machine, I get a message to the effect The Gentoo system initialization scripts have detected that your system does not support DEVFS or UDEV... I have included all of the appropriate kernel options and emerged UDEV, hotplug, etc. per the Handbook. Anyone have some hints as to why I might be getting this? TIA, -Tracy http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/142671/match=new+kernel+udev #5 was my problem... Have fun, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from single-disk to RAID-1 configuration
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 12.27, Mike Williams wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:01, Francesco Talamona wrote: DEVICE partitions ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=8ef83d67:79b230ba:6cc967c3:208b9224 AFAIK fd partition type is mandatory. Anyway is good to know that I can avoid explicit node names in config files. I'm not sure it's mandatory, but there really is no reason not to do so. I have a SATA card that doesn't have in kernel drivers, so I have to load a module, which naturally means the kernel can't autostart all my arrays, but mdadm can without me having to tell it any device nodes. How can you prevent it to start in degraded mode? I don't have the raid drivers compiled into the kernel :) I have 3 arrays, 2 of which have more devices on the SATA card than the array can loose. mdadm would warn me by email if it detected any array in degraded mode anyway. I'm not sure what problem you had that meant you could only create a degraded array. But if you boot from a gentoo livecd you can create a mirror from an existing disk *without* losing any data, or needing to backup. If you specify the disk/partition with the data on it you want to keep *first* to mdadm, that data will get replicated to the others. Thanks for your input. Just one Question about setting the partition type to 'FD' - should I do this for all Partitions or ? Today I have the following Partitions defined Partition TypeFS /dev/hde1 83 /boot /dev/hde2 82 (SWAP) /dev/hde3 83 / /dev/hde4 8E (LVM) Regards, -- Dan Johansson, http://www.dmj.nu *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *** pgpKwRCgJe9UP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I’m trying to use “mii-tool” to configure the NIC speed and duplex on a Dell 2850 server (currently auto negotiates and has negotiated 100/half). The switch port is configured for 100/full. The Dell 2850 server uses the Broadcom chipset for the NIC and is a 10/100/1000 port. Every time I try to force the port using mii-tool, the server port stops responding and I have to reboot the box. Someone mentioned that mii-tool may not be the correct tool and to try ethtool. My question is will mii-tool work with a 10/100/1000 port? Should I be using ethtool under Gentoo and if so where do I get it/install it? I've found that ethtool support more cards than mii-tool. In order to install it I'd do the following echo sys-apps/ethtool ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge ethtool Using the unstable version will install ethtool3 rather than 2. 3 is a year or two newer than 2. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions
Hello, I'm upgrading my server from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 by following the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml I noticed this piece of instruction: emerge --config =mysql-4.1.micro_version What does that do? From what I remember, I need to password the grant table and create a new table for my data with the proper name, username, and password. Does that sounds right? Does the emerge --config command take you through any of that or do I need to figure out (remember) how to do it manually? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from single-disk to RAID-1 configuration
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 18:02, Dan Johansson wrote: Thanks for your input. Just one Question about setting the partition type to 'FD' - should I do this for all Partitions or ? Which ever partitions you are going to create raid arrays from, but I don't imagine it would do any real harm to those that aren't going to be part of an array. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown, restart problem
when xserver closes there is mess on screen and i loose any control over - just power button. Any ideas where to look? I dont keep track but possibly this is after baselayout and udev upgrade. Hmm. It seems X f***s up your video memory, or something of this kind. What video card and corresponding Xorg driver are you using? m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions
Hello, I'm upgrading my server from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 by following the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml I noticed this piece of instruction: emerge --config =mysql-4.1.micro_version What does that do? From what I remember, I need to password the grant table and create a new table for my data with the proper name, username, and password. Does that sounds right? Does the emerge --config command take you through any of that or do I need to figure out (remember) how to do it manually? - Grant Nevermind, that was ridiculously easy. All I had to do was run emerge --config and I'm back in business. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:10:40PM +0800, wrote: now,i use qemu to emulate arch linux,and set arch to use dhcp but always can;t connect to internet my host system was on net,can connect to internet,thx did qemu have some configure argument to enable or disable net? thx Shouldn't be. According to Fabrice Bellard, if you are compiling by hand, ./configure should suffice. But since it doesn't work for you, maybe you need to look into the makeFile to see? W -- Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd be sitting around in darkened rooms munching pills and listening to repetitive music. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 3 days, 10:49 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions
Alle 19:39, martedì 25 ottobre 2005, Grant ha scritto: Hello, I'm upgrading my server from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 by following the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml I noticed this piece of instruction: emerge --config =mysql-4.1.micro_version What does that do? From what I remember, I need to password the grant table and create a new table for my data with the proper name, username, and password. Does that sounds right? Does the emerge --config command take you through any of that or do I need to figure out (remember) how to do it manually? In it's older (and deprecated) form was ebuild path/name.ebuild config . Basically it run the pkg_config() function inside the ebuild itself. Specifically MySQL pkg_config() actions are the following: - check that no mysql server are running on the box or die - check that datadir (/var/lib/mysql) is empty or die - ask for a password - install the databases (mysql test) - fill the help tables for command line client - fill the timezone tables - set the _mysql_ root password -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message
Roy, Thank you for your quick response. I am sure that #5 applies (as I have seen another message to that effect). I am not sitting at the machine now, but I will give this a try tonight. I love this forum! Thanks again. -Tracy -Original Message- From: Roy Wright Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:52 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message Budd, Tracy wrote: Whenever I boot up my machine, I get a message to the effect The Gentoo system initialization scripts have detected that your system does not support DEVFS or UDEV... I have included all of the appropriate kernel options and emerged UDEV, hotplug, etc. per the Handbook. Anyone have some hints as to why I might be getting this? TIA, -Tracy http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/142671/match=new+kernel +udev #5 was my problem... Have fun, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...
I was going to pipe in about that Neil, but ya beat me to it. I like to shorten it and just type emerge -DNavu world , though.On 10/25/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:24:13 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: emerge --newuse world -p will catch all of it.Check the Gentoo docs. No it won't. You need to add --deep and --update to catch everything:emerge --deep --update --newuse --verbose --ask world--Neil BothwickMy Go thisamn keyboaroesn't have any's. -- - Mark Shields
[gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size
Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. Thanks, Allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
