Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get spellchecking to work on evolution
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 19:56 +, C. Beamer wrote: Hi, Alex Bennee wrote: Although its enabled evolution never picks up any mis-spelled words. I suspect its something to do with the fact no dictionaries are selectable in the preferences dialog. I have aspell-en installed but that doesn't seem to be enough. Any ideas? I don't know if this will help, but make sure that you've emerged ispell and/or aspell. I had aspell installed, but couldn't spell check in another application because I needed ispell installed. I had both emerged. However it looks like gnome-spell only needs aspell to work: [ebuild N] app-text/gnome-spell-1.0.5-r2 -debug 211 kB [ebuild N] app-text/enchant-1.1.6 -debug 431 kB [ebuild N] app-dicts/aspell-en-0.51.1 168 kB [ebuild N]app-text/aspell-0.50.5-r4 +gpm 992 kB Still no dice though :-( HTH. Colleen -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Don't drink when you drive -- you might hit a bump and spill it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default stage3
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:28:26 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: As I understand it, the first time you recompile new toolchain with your old toolchain, and then the 2nd time you're recompiling the toolchain with the new toolchain, with the idea that the new toolchain will compile/assemble/link/etc everything in a different way than the old toolchain. Please correct if I'm wrong. I would suggest 'emerge -uD gcc emerge -e world'; This should recompile the new toolchain with the new toolchain and be considerably faster. The first command won't do anything, -D doesn't take account of of USE or CFLAG changes. emerge -e system emerge -e world might be better, but there are scripts on the forums that recompile just what you need, in the best order, such as; http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-282474.html -- Neil Bothwick I came, I saw, I had no idea what was going on, I left. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:33:25 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Hogwash. What's so hard about it, as opposed to any other Linux distro, once you get past the install issue? Try plugging in a wireless NIC. It's not hard to set on up manually when you know what you are doing, but other distros will take care of this automatically. Gentoo has to be harder to use than other distros, you can't have full control over the system and still have it do things automatically for you. -- Neil Bothwick We secretly replaced the dilithium with Folgers Crystals signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature
Alexander Skwar schreef: Holly Bostick schrieb: However, other than pointing this out by the simple expedient of confusing everyone further, Alexander's reply was less than helpful, since it neither pointed out why the answer given was presumably not correct, Uhm. Yes, I did not point that out. Why and how should I? OP asked, how a signature can be created. That's a clear question. I don't know how to explain, why --gen-key is the wrong answer. It's just so plain totally wrong, that I just don't know how to explain it. Well, if someone asks how to create a signature, and someone else answers how to provide a key pair, clearly someone is confused as to the fact that a signature is not a key pair. Saying so explicitly (i.e., this will generate a key pair, not a signature, and they are not the same thing), seems to be to be a simple way of saying why the answer is wrong. But that's just me and my conviction that people can't learn what you don't tell 'em (with the corollary assumption that people ask questions because they want to learn/know/understand something). or provided a correct answer if the answer given was in fact not correct. Oh, I did not? What about the -s? How's that not the sign command? Sorry, Alexander-- I missed the *second* mail in which you did this. In the mail quoted by Jason (the first mail), you were distinctly obscure :-) , and that's the one I was referring to. My mistake. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
Gentoo has to be harder to use than other distros, you can't have full control over the system and still have it do things automatically for you. I could not of said it any better. And of the distros I have used Gentoo is the best, although not my first. And I would not recommend it to novice unless they had/want a lot of time learning My 2 cents ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: bash decimal/exponential numbers math...
Hi, I wrote a short script for simple text file processing in bash (using for input redirection and read). I know, there are probably better tools to do it, but the only thing I can rely on being installed on target comp is really bash and nothing more (no bc, sed, awk, etc.) so I must use only its built-in functions. Everything would be OK, if there were only positive integer numbers in that input file. Unfortunatelly, there are also decimal and exponential numbers (like 123.456 or 1.23456e+02) which my script must process. Now I'm pretty deadlocked because too late I realised that very basic math functions of bash can not handle such numbers. Now what to do? Are there some functions, which would implement basic math with real numbers in bash (add, substract, multiply, divide and round would be enough)? The idea of writing them myself really scares me... Jarry -- 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:40:02 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Myself, I don't consider that either a stage 1 or stage 3 leaves me with more than a minimally functional system after the initial install, but a stage 3 leaves me with a *higher functioning* minimal install than a stage 1 does. A stage 3 install doesn't give you any more than a stage 1. all it means is you skip some laborious and time-consuming steps in the handbook, you end up in the same place. But at least after a stage 3, I don't have to be *uncomfortable* while I'm waiting to get my system up to my personal spec-- I can still *use* Mozilla, even if it's compiled with Mail, and Composer, and IRC, while I wait for it to recompile with the -moz*** USE flags. You can't, stage 3 doesn't even include X. However, you can use the GRP packages with a stage 3 installation, because the flags are all at default, so you can merge your preferred DE, mail and browser as binary packages in a few minutes. If you like ~arch, you don't even need an emerge --emptytree after the system is running, as emerge -uDN world after changing KEYWORDS and USE will update just about everything anyway. -- Neil Bothwick Any program which runs right is obsolete. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kde version
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:35:54 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: In other words after kde.org (or any other software writer) releases a new version, it takes some time for the gentoo devs to make sure it is working ok before they release it on the masses of gentoo users who rely on the devs to keep their systems stable. And a bloody good thing too! Especially with something like KDE where there are hundreds of inter-related ebuilds. If you don't want to wait for ebuilds to be tested fully, run ~arch and help with the testing yourself. -- Neil Bothwick Keep your words soft and sweet in case you have to eat them. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Problem merging kde
Hi, i have some computers when I try to emerge the kde, or any package of it, i receice this message: Calculating dependencies \emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r3. I just can´t find thi damn lib. how to fix this ??-- __Atenciosamente,Thiago Lüttig__
Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin
On Tuesday 22 Nov 2005 4:23 am, Holly Bostick wrote: Just because you have a lot of packages installed that have the pam USE flag doesn't mean that much-- is the flag actually enabled for those packages? If so, and your system is not having any issues, I wouldn't necessarily become hysterical just yet. I did a emerge -pv for all those packages and looks like all of them are actually using PAM. What I am thinking now is to mask any accidental update of PAM in package.mask and hope that it doesn't get messed up just_like_that. Thanks for the help. Abhay pgp5aLM3bYUFH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: Well, if someone asks how to create a signature, and someone else answers how to provide a key pair, clearly someone is confused as to the fact that a signature is not a key pair. No, actually I'm not confused as to the difference between a key pair and a signature (been using pgp/gnupg for years), but to get one you need the other, and users who have no idea where to begin with signing most likely don't have a key pair to start with. It all depends on how you interpret the question. @ Alexander As for out-of-order posting: when there is a short answer to a short question, I *really* don't see the point, or the point of making it a point considering it's a 4-line answer of a 3-line question. For long detailed answers to a long question, yes, I agree 100% (top-posting), but in this situation it was not the case. Greetings Ralph -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDgxiJCt0ZF9kLPvYRAmslAKCZ7RmD9ONl7x/gtbV96WKy2LlwDACdF+Zg SAworHyIhI/rIy0dRQHo5T8= =WWNq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: changing CHOST in stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] default stage3)
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:08:40 -0500 Matthew Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 11/21/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You can change | everything after a stage 3 install, although you have to be careful | when changing CHOST. | | I've just completed a stage3 install, and I'd like to change the CHOST | from i386-pc-linux-gnu to i586-pc-linux-gnu. I planned to do | something like this: snip | Are there any additional precautions/steps that I should take? The only way you can safely change CHOST is by making new stages through catalyst. There're various scripts which *sometimes* fix your system after a CHOST change, but they're not reliable... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.14.2 and problem with ACPI (lost interrupt)
On Monday 21 Nov 2005 2:17 pm, pat wrote: Well, the ACPI works, and it looks like everything works. I'm googling why this happen (an explanation), but without success :-\ I'm just curious, that's all. This is what I could find It implies the BIOS handover failed and then we get an IRQ mess. http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/6/75 Could you check in your BIOS and see how many devices are sharing IRQ or how is your BIOS handling IRQs? May be a BIOS update is needed? Abhay pgpYQiCMQg7NI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
On 11/22/05, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentoo has to be harder to use than other distros, you can't have full control over the system and still have it do things automatically for you. Exactly, the computer can do amazing things, but in order to keep it clean, specific and optmized, human intervention is crucial, its the reason I have a job :) you just can't have a stable, reliable and highly optmized system without messing with config files by hand. What you can do is leave the work for the computer and it will give you a general good option. General is not good enough for me, that's the main reason I use Gentoo. I could not of said it any better. And of the distros I have used Gentoo is the best, although not my first. And I would not recommend it to novice unless they had/want a lot of time learning My 2 cents ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] complaints about world file and ooodi
Hi folks, portage says something is wrong with my world file. emaint --check world produces this output: 'app-office/ooodi' has no ebuilds available What am I to do? Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] complaints about world file and ooodi
On Tuesday 22 November 200 portage says something is wrong with my world file. emaint --check world produces this output: 'app-office/ooodi' has no ebuilds available What am I to do? My first reaction would be to go to the /usr/portage/app-office en to remove or rename the ooodi dir. If it's needed it will be back after the next sync.. GH -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] complaints about world file and ooodi
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:20:07 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, portage says something is wrong with my world file. emaint --check world produces this output: 'app-office/ooodi' has no ebuilds available I means pretty much what it says. you have a package installed for which there is no ebuild. $ grep ooodi /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask -B 2 # Andreas Proschofsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] (27 Oct 2005) # Broken, not maintained, up for removal app-office/ooodi You have a number of choices: 1) echo app-office/ooodi /etc/portage/package.unmask This will work until ooodi is removed from portage. 2) Do the above and copy the app-office/ooodi directory to your overlay. Then it will still work after it is removed from portage. 3) emerge -C app-office/ooodi This may be the best course if the program is broken as suggested. -- Neil Bothwick X-Modem- A device on the losing end of an encounter with lightning. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default stage3
On 11/22/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first command won't do anything, -D doesn't take account of of USE or CFLAG changes. It will update gcc or any dependancies of gcc to the current version. Unless one of those things have been updated, there is no need to build anything more than once, because the code produced by gcc doesn't change based on the CFLAGS/CHOST/USE settings that _gcc_ was compiled with. emerge -uD system emerge -e world is sufficient. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] complaints about world file and ooodi
On 22 November 2005 17:37, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: On Tuesday 22 November 200 portage says something is wrong with my world file. emaint --check world produces this output: 'app-office/ooodi' has no ebuilds available What am I to do? My first reaction would be to go to the /usr/portage/app-office en to remove or rename the ooodi dir. If it's needed it will be back after the next sync.. Strange enough, there are two ebuilds in that directory, for 0.55 and 0.68. Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
Neil Bothwick wrote: Try plugging in a wireless NIC. It's not hard to set on up manually when you know what you are doing, but other distros will take care of this automatically. Perhaps if you're using WEP it's easier on a binary distro, but if you're using WPA-PSK it's a lot easier on Gentoo. Just edit wpa_supplicant.conf to enter your pre-shared key, and add modules=(wpa_supplicant) wlan0=(dhcp) in /etc/conf.d/net The other distros I tried all had long HOWTOs (complete with editing system scripts as opposed to just editing configuration files) on how to make sure wpa_supplicant would start before the interface came up. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default stage3
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:17 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:28:26 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: As I understand it, the first time you recompile new toolchain with your old toolchain, and then the 2nd time you're recompiling the toolchain with the new toolchain, with the idea that the new toolchain will compile/assemble/link/etc everything in a different way than the old toolchain. Please correct if I'm wrong. I would suggest 'emerge -uD gcc emerge -e world'; This should recompile the new toolchain with the new toolchain and be considerably faster. The first command won't do anything, -D doesn't take account of of USE or CFLAG changes. Well, you are right, in theory; In practice, where the toolchain on the live-cd is not up to date, it will get completley recompiled by emerge -uD gcc (after syncing) - at least I think so ... However, thanks for pointing that out ... emerge -e system emerge -e world might be better, but there are scripts on the forums that recompile just what you need, in the best order, such as; http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-282474.html Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 build fails
OK I haven't updated this box in 10 months and finally decided to spend some time on maintainance. I successfully ran emerge -u system last night and have updated my profile and gotten Xorg running. Now it's time to move on to world and kdelibs-3.4.2-r1 fails like so. I'm way rusty at this and hoped I could get some tips here. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 08:12:25 up 14:03, 3 users, load average: 0.32, 0.18, 0.66 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ kspell_aspellclient.lo kspell_aspelldict.lo ../../ui/libkspell2.la -laspell grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: Nosuch file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[4]: *** [kspell_aspell.la] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.4.1-r1/work/kdelibs-3.4.1/kspell2/plugins/aspell' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.4.1-r1/work/kdelibs-3.4.1/kspell2/plugins' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.4.1-r1/work/kdelibs-3.4.1/kspell2' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.4.1-r1/work/kdelibs-3.4.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 173, Exitcode 2 !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
The last top posting/html thread was 3 weeks ago... so yes it's time for another Keep Gentoo leet thread. Gentoo isn't about pain, it's about getting work done. Anything, and I mean *anything*, that allows me to spend less time working and more time having a life is a good thing. Therefore we can deduce that anyone who wants a harder install is a hobbyist, dilettante, and a dabbler. no, I want an installation, that filters out everybody too dumb to read the fucking manual. Because this people are also too dumb to read: the nvidia/ati instructions and spam the mailing lists and forums with their non-problems, causing time and bandwith wasted. the alsa-guide. Again, their dumbness causes pain for others the gcc manpages. Instead, they will use some stupid, braindead useflags they found in the forums (like ffast-math or -funroll-all-loops) because some other idiot told them, that this are 'cool' 'fast' flags. In short: stupid non-readers are causing pain. Making the world and everything easier for them, is more pain for the people clever enough to READ and FOLLOW the guides and instructions. Idiots should use distris for idiots. There are enough out there. Why turn gentoo in one too? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 build fails
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 14:18, Ernie Schroder wrote: OK I haven't updated this box in 10 months and finally decided to spend some time on maintainance. I successfully ran emerge -u system last night and have updated my profile and gotten Xorg running. Now it's time to move on to world and kdelibs-3.4.2-r1 fails like so. I'm way rusty at this and hoped I could get some tips here. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 08:12:25 up 14:03, 3 users, load average: 0.32, 0.18, 0.66 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ kspell_aspellclient.lo kspell_aspelldict.lo ../../ui/libkspell2.la -laspell grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: Nosuch file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la' is not a valid libtool archive Do you have sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 installed? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, Compiled #2 Wed Aug 24 18:43:16 CEST 2005 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4308.99 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Therefore we can deduce that anyone who wants a harder install is a hobbyist, dilettante, and a dabbler. no, I want an installation, that filters out everybody too dumb to read the fucking manual. Or the FAQ? Where it's described how to do a stage1/2 equivalent install from a stage3. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Problem merging kde
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 13:21, Thiago Lüttig wrote: Hi, i have some computers when I try to emerge the kde, or any package of it, i receice this message: Calculating dependencies \ emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r3. I just can´t find thi damn lib. how to fix this ?? AFAIK it is no more in portage tree, if you issued an emerge sync recently, you can try to just emerge -p qt to see if it is going to be upgraded. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, Compiled #2 Wed Aug 24 18:43:16 CEST 2005 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4308.99 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Which are the modularised xorg ebuilds
eix xorg-x11 tells me that the following are available: * x11-base/xorg-x11 Available versions: 6.8.2-r4 ~6.8.2-r6 [M]6.8.99.15-r4 [M] 7.0.0_rc1 Which of these are the new modularised ones? does it start with 6.8.99 or with the 7.0.x series? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which are the modularised xorg ebuilds
Nick Rout wrote: Which of these are the new modularised ones? does it start with 6.8.99 or with the 7.0.x series? Looking at the ebuild I'd say 7.0.0_rc1. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 build fails
Ernie Schroder wrote: OK I haven't updated this box in 10 months and finally decided to spend some time on maintainance. I successfully ran emerge -u system last night and have updated my profile and gotten Xorg running. Now it's time to move on to world and kdelibs-3.4.2-r1 fails like so. I'm way rusty at this and hoped I could get some tips here. [SNIP] libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la' is not a valid libtool archive I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that you upgraded from gcc 3.3.4 to gcc 3.4.4 since the last time you upgraded KDE. Try running /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/files/fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 to fix up the .la files to reflect the new compiler. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: no, I want an installation, that filters out everybody too dumb to read the fucking manual. I understand where you are coming from, however, without people willing to push the envelope and try new things, nothing will innovated will happen. While being an expert on such matters definitely helps, by no means does that mean that accidents don't innovate. Look at penicillin, and various other inventions. Stub your toe on an install a few times, and you'll learn a LOT. Granted, if you keep stubbing your toe then expect to get kill filed. What is the saying? Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, while always expecting a different outcome. yeah.. something like that. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 build fails
On 11/22/05, Manuel McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/files/fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 Just a note...that path should be /sbin/fix_libtool_files.sh. It may well exist in the portage tree, but there is no guarantee that it will be executable. For on my system, that file does not have the executable bit set, but the one in /sbin does. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Which are the modularised xorg ebuilds
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Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
On 11/22/05, Nagatoro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Therefore we can deduce that anyone who wants a harder install is a hobbyist, dilettante, and a dabbler. no, I want an installation, that filters out everybody too dumb to read the fucking manual. Or the FAQ? Where it's described how to do a stage1/2 equivalent install from a stage3. Gentoo is widely documented, and if you can read, most answers are already at the wikis, howtos, gentoo docs and mailing lists, add to this the foruns and user groups. Gentoo has a knowledge base that can make you solve most problems, of course, if its one of those HARD issues, you can always ask, but then again, those are 10% (if all of that) from our traffic. So, yes, the install was a how to read and follow the manual teaching, and stage3 is easier and taught less than stage1, but hey, its faster and have less side effects, and besides, if you can get a stage1 from a stage3, who cares?! But again, we'll have lots of RTFM and STFW in our foruns and mailing lists... If you can find the manual page, don't give them the solutions, give the link instead, teaching someone how to fish feeds for a lifetime, giving someone the fish itself only feed once. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 build fails
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/22/05, Manuel McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/files/fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 Just a note...that path should be /sbin/fix_libtool_files.sh. It may well exist in the portage tree, but there is no guarantee that it will be executable. For on my system, that file does not have the executable bit set, but the one in /sbin does. Right you are. For some reason I thought this was one of those executables that is only in a /usr/portage/*/*/files directory because it's only used when installing/upgrading a specific package. I stand corrected :) -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 80211/IPW2200 vs. Kernel 2.6.14
On 11/19/05, Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21:42 Fri 18 Nov , Matthias Bethke wrote: I just noticed the new Gentoo kernel 2.6.14-r2 includes support for both the generic 802.11 stack and the Intel IPW2200 driver. I've been using the separate ebuilds for these two so far, now I was wondering if there's still any advantage to that. Any opinions? I tried the 2.6.14 kernel with the ipw2200 driver, and it didn't work. Maybe it was fixed in release 2. Bill Roberts Can anyone tell me if the in-kernel driver supports turning your card on in promiscuous mode? -- - Derek Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: no, I want an installation, that filters out everybody too dumb to read the fucking manual. Where do you draw the line? Someday we're going to have real reverse dependecy checking, fixing, etc. So any idiot can blindly update x package and not have to realize that it was a major upgrade and manually check all his packages that depend on it and upgrade/rebuild those packages and restart the services. Is that too idiot proof? You say coddling idiots, I say fixing broken or overly complicated processes. On a mailing list you're going to get questions stupid and otherwise. If you're not prepared to deal with this, unsubscribe or figure out how to use the delete button. I don't use Linux as a desktop so I generally delete 60-70% of the traffic in gentoo-user. You don't have to read the entire list. Let's take yet another of my real world examples that I like to use in place of random foaming at the mouth, The Gentoo Virtual Mail How-to. It's a decent How-to if you follow it exactly. By answering a hundred or so questions related to it in the forums I've been able to fix my installation faster when it broke, upgrade without problems, know exactly what errors are caused what symptoms, and ultimately change the original flawed design to work better and safer. You say taking up space and bandwidth, I say QA testers though admittedly poorly trained. As for Gentoo being for idiots, I have a calendar at work. Every so often I mark a day a Super Genius when I think of something especially brillant. And every so often I mark a day as Befuddled by the Obvious for those days when I'm surprised that anyone actually lets me admin their network. Over the course of the year they generally total about the same. I suspect most of us are in the same boat. As long as Gentoo facilitates the Genius moments as well as keeping me a bit safer during the Befuddled moments it's striking the right balance. You say we'll let in idiots, I say we have met the enemy and it is us. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 80211/IPW2200 vs. Kernel 2.6.14
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 01:02 pm, Derek Tracy wrote: On 11/19/05, Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21:42 Fri 18 Nov , Matthias Bethke wrote: I just noticed the new Gentoo kernel 2.6.14-r2 includes support for both the generic 802.11 stack and the Intel IPW2200 driver. I've been using the separate ebuilds for these two so far, now I was wondering if there's still any advantage to that. Any opinions? I tried the 2.6.14 kernel with the ipw2200 driver, and it didn't work. Maybe it was fixed in release 2. Bill Roberts Can anyone tell me if the in-kernel driver supports turning your card on in promiscuous mode? Device Drivers Network device support Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) Wireless Extensions Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection Enable promiscuous mode My guess is Yes. ;-) -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 80211/IPW2200 vs. Kernel 2.6.14
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 01:55 pm, Eric Bliss wrote: I tried the 2.6.14 kernel with the ipw2200 driver, and it didn't work. Maybe it was fixed in release 2. Can anyone tell me if the in-kernel driver supports turning your card on in promiscuous mode? Device Drivers Network device support Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) Wireless Extensions Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection Enable promiscuous mode My guess is Yes. ;-) Oops, sorry... That's the 2100, not the 2200. The 2200 module only seems to support extra debugging output. My mistake. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 build fails
fix_libtool_files.sh is in the root path so it ran by doing: # fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 I have resumed the build and only time will tell. I should know in about a half hour. On a wierd note, I am set up to receive list posts to a folder in Kmail. Since posting my original question, I have gotten several posts on different matters, but have not received any replys to my question. I went to the gmane archives and read your replies there. Thanks all for helping. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 13:01:38 up 18:53, 3 users, load average: 2.58, 2.31, 1.39 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller
Hi there, Has anyone had any joy getting one of these to work under Gentoo, please? I bought it on the recommendations of users on uk.comp.os.linux, as I was looking for a Linux-compatible card available in the UK, but apparently no-one on that group is using the card under Gentoo. Highpoint provide drivers as source; unpacking these running make unfortunately fails on my system, with the following output: $ make make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r2' CC [M] /home/stroller/hpt302/hpt.o In file included from /home/stroller/hpt302/hpt.c:48: drivers/scsi/hosts.h:1:2: warning: #warning This file is obsolete, please use scsi/scsi_host.h instead In file included from /home/stroller/hpt302/global.h:16, from /home/stroller/hpt302/entry.c:5, from /home/stroller/hpt302/hpt.c:54: /home/stroller/hpt302/osheader.h:96:5: warning: DBG is not defined In file included from /home/stroller/hpt302/hpt.c:54: /home/stroller/hpt302/entry.c:8:5: warning: DBG is not defined In file included from /home/stroller/hpt302/hpt.c:54: /home/stroller/hpt302/entry.c: In function `hpt3xx_Abort': /home/stroller/hpt302/entry.c:500: error: structure has no member named `abort_reason' /home/stroller/hpt302/entry.c: In function `fOsBuildSgl': /home/stroller/hpt302/entry.c:681: warning: implicit declaration of function `scsi_to_pci_dma_dir' /home/stroller/hpt302/entry.c: At top level: /home/stroller/hpt302/entry.c:828: error: unknown field `abort' specified in initializer /home/stroller/hpt302/entry.c:828: error: unknown field `reset' specified in initializer make[2]: *** [/home/stroller/hpt302/hpt.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/home/stroller/hpt302] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r2' make: *** [default] Error 2 $ Setting the KERNELDIR variable to /lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r2/build/ doesn't make any difference, not does editing the makefile so that drivers/scsi/host.h is included instead of hosts.h A poster on the Gentoo forums indicated that he'd managed to get this card working using one of the other Highpoint drivers already in the Linux kernel, but that doesn't seem to work for me, as I have enabled these and the drive connected to the controller is still not shown. (Is there any other way to test whether the controller is working or not?) $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i hpt # CONFIG_HIGHPTE is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X=y # CONFIG_HPT34X_AUTODMA is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=y The device is shown on the PCI bus thusly: # :00:02.0 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT302 (rev 02) Subsystem: Triones Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0001 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64 I/O ports at 1400 [size=8] I/O ports at 1410 [size=4] I/O ports at 1408 [size=8] I/O ports at 1414 [size=4] I/O ports at 1000 [size=256] Expansion ROM at 5000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Many thanks in advance for any help or advices. I'm not averse to replacing the card if someone can recommend one available in the UK with drivers already in the kernel. It doesn't need to do RAID, only act as a 133 EIDE controller for the new hard-drive I put in this Pentium II server recently. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: changing CHOST in stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] default stage3)
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 17:11 -0500, Matthew Cline wrote: On 11/22/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? What do you expect to gain? The computer I am installing this on is an old Compaq laptop with a Cyrix MediaGX processor. Everything I have read suggests that this is equivalent to an i586. Am I wrong in thinking that the CHOST variable should reflect the kind of processor in the machine? Wouldn't leaving the CHOST at i386-pc-linux-gnu build unoptimized binaries? Matt I'm not an expert, but this is just copied and pasted from the gentoo handbook: The CHOST variable declares the target build host for your system. This variable should already be set to the correct value. Do not edit it as that might break your system. If the CHOST variable does not look correct to you, you might be using the wrong stage3 tarball. Cheers, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
Actually, as someone who uses wireless across a number of nets, wireless on gentoo sucks hugely. Was at a presentation the other day and saw an Ubutu user just walk in, a couple of quick commands and he had connected - after much work I still cant do that to a particular no-encryption net. I am hoping the last wpa_supplicant version I have installed will make the difference - manual iwconfig does work by the way, just not via the gentoo files! A mess of config files (/etc/conf.d/wireless, /etc/conf.d/net, /etc/wpa_supplicant, ...), different versions of software work in only some combinations - only 0.4.5 (~x86) will work with 2.6.14, some other versions will do WPA_PSK, but not no encryption.- - I suspect the gentoo config design is the main stumbling block. I realise wireless is complicated (read the above files for instance, but gentoo has complicated things further (try and work out which of the above files a particular variable will work ... note that for wpa_supplicant, not all permutations are listed in the otherwise comprehensive instructions) BillK On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:24 -0800, Manuel McLure wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: Try plugging in a wireless NIC. It's not hard to set on up manually when you know what you are doing, but other distros will take care of this automatically. Perhaps if you're using WEP it's easier on a binary distro, but if you're using WPA-PSK it's a lot easier on Gentoo. Just edit wpa_supplicant.conf to enter your pre-shared key, and add modules=(wpa_supplicant) wlan0=(dhcp) in /etc/conf.d/net The other distros I tried all had long HOWTOs (complete with editing system scripts as opposed to just editing configuration files) on how to make sure wpa_supplicant would start before the interface came up. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:24:49 -0800, Manuel McLure wrote: Try plugging in a wireless NIC. It's not hard to set on up manually when you know what you are doing, but other distros will take care of this automatically. Perhaps if you're using WEP it's easier on a binary distro, but if you're using WPA-PSK it's a lot easier on Gentoo. Just edit wpa_supplicant.conf to enter your pre-shared key Don't forget recompiling your kernel to include the necessary support, Googling to find out which drivers to use and emerging them, etc. -- Neil Bothwick She's always late. Her ancestors arrived on the June flower. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
William Kenworthy wrote: Actually, as someone who uses wireless across a number of nets, wireless on gentoo sucks hugely. Was at a presentation the other day and saw an Ubutu user just walk in, a couple of quick commands and he had connected - after much work I still cant do that to a particular no-encryption net. I am hoping the last wpa_supplicant version I have installed will make the difference - manual iwconfig does work by the way, just not via the gentoo files! A mess of config files (/etc/conf.d/wireless, /etc/conf.d/net, /etc/wpa_supplicant, ...), different versions of software work in only some combinations - only 0.4.5 (~x86) will work with 2.6.14, some other versions will do WPA_PSK, but not no encryption.- - I suspect the gentoo config design is the main stumbling block. I realise wireless is complicated (read the above files for instance, but gentoo has complicated things further (try and work out which of the above files a particular variable will work ... note that for wpa_supplicant, not all permutations are listed in the otherwise comprehensive instructions) Interesting, as the distro I was specifically comparing to was Kubuntu - getting it to connect to my WPA-PSK network at home was a PITA, while Gentoo worked beautifully - emerge ndiswrapper, run ndiswrapper -i to install the driver, emerge wpa_supplicant, modify a stanza in the wpa_supplicant.conf file to reflect my SSID and PSK, and ifup wlan0. Kubuntu had no options for entering a WPA-PSK key other than manually editing the files, and you had to trick it to make sure that it ran the supplicant before trying to bring the interface up. By the way, wpa_supplicant should handle non-encrypted and WEP networks very nicely - if you use it you don't need to play around with /etc/conf.d/wireless. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 build fails
Thanks guys! it worked -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 14:24:38 up 20:16, 3 users, load average: 1.77, 2.35, 2.56 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: changing CHOST in stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] default stage3)
On 11/22/05, Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 17:11 -0500, Matthew Cline wrote: On 11/22/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? What do you expect to gain? The computer I am installing this on is an old Compaq laptop with a Cyrix MediaGX processor. Everything I have read suggests that this is equivalent to an i586. Am I wrong in thinking that the CHOST variable should reflect the kind of processor in the machine? Wouldn't leaving the CHOST at i386-pc-linux-gnu build unoptimized binaries? Matt I'm not an expert, but this is just copied and pasted from the gentoo handbook: The CHOST variable declares the target build host for your system. This variable should already be set to the correct value. Do not edit it as that might break your system. If the CHOST variable does not look correct to you, you might be using the wrong stage3 tarball. Cheers, Matthias AFAICT, CHOST is (mostly) used by portage for the --host argument to the autoconf scripts, which in turn uses it to determine the path for the tool chain. So having CHOST=i386-blah-blah means you are using the tool chain /usr/bin/i386-blah-blah-*. This is also the _default_ host that gcc will build code for. So without any -march/-mcpu/-mtune settings in CFLAGS, you will get i386 code. However, you can override that in CFLAGS, so that gcc produces i586 code by default (if that is what you want). AFAIK, there should be no difference in code produced by i586-pc-linux-gnu-gcc and i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=i586. If there is, then things like distcc should be horribly broken. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] unknown network activity as shown by xosview
Hi, Does anyone know what network activity is being shown by xosview? Is it activity before iptables filtering, or after? I wonder as I am getting a constant flow varying between 100-1000 as read on xosview. I get this with no internet related running processes. I have a default block on my firewall. My god, is there that much virus and/or scanning activity around? or is xosview not reliable? Maybe it is DHCP activity. I don't know as I have iptables set up not to log that kind of stuff. Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Be careful with MySQL-5.0.16 (cahnges ebuild and rc-script)
From Bugzilla Bug 113241 mysql-5.0.16 is out Thanks for the fast report, here it is : -ChangeLog Version bump for the 5.0 series. The ebuild has been rewritten, it's the first step to slot the mysql database server. (diff 5.0.16 and 5.0.16-r30 if you don't belive at it) Also the rc scripts are changed, hopefully bug #109380 is gone (Thanks to Rodrigo Severo for shaping it). It's possible from now start more than one server tweaking the /etc/conf.d/mysql . The future of slotted MySQL is still uncertain but the rc script will be kept. More than uncertain is the slotting of MySQL-4.0 too. reassuming, be careful playing with these ebuilds, never ever ~ARCH keywords has been so unstable. -/ChangeLog--- Again _be_ careful, this stuff has been nigtly tested, the build system is'nt changed very much so if it start it should behave good, anything related to the script (also the MySQL provided see patch 080...) may be not functioning Additionally, the syntax of the /etc/conf.d/mysql script may still change. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller
Stroller wrote: Hi there, Has anyone had any joy getting one of these to work under Gentoo, please? I bought it on the recommendations of users on uk.comp.os.linux, as I was looking for a Linux-compatible card available in the UK, but apparently no-one on that group is using the card under Gentoo. Key things to look for in menuconfig for Rocket133 might be: (D)evice drivers -- ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support -- -- SCSI emulation support -- -- generic/default IDE chipset support -- -- PCI IDE chipset support -- -- Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support Probably the only one that matters is (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=y): -- -- HPT36X/37X chipset support (turn this ON as BUILT-IN) Yes, the Rocket 133SB (Rocket133SB) HPT302 chip is apparently supported by the HPT366.c file. You can find this by grepping the kernel sources: # cd /usr/src/linux # find . -print | xargs grep -i 'hpt302' # grep -i 'hpt366' .config (snipped from my Nov2005 blog) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] what is the best strategy for using sysklogd with iptables?
Hi, I am using sysklogd with iptables. I am wondering what the best strategy is for sending iptables log output to a single file, rather than having logged packets show up all over in /var/log/? I haven't been able yet to figure this out by myself. I must be missing some doc info somewhere. Thank you. Rob. - Here is what I have now for syslog.conf: # /etc/syslog.conf Configuration file for syslogd. # # For more information see syslog.conf(5) # manpage. # This is from Debian, we are using it for now # Daniel Robbins, 5/15/99 # # First some standard logfiles. Log by facility. # auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog #cron.* /var/log/cron.log daemon.*-/var/log/daemon.log kern.* -/var/log/kern.log lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log mail.* /var/log/mail.log user.* -/var/log/user.log uucp.* -/var/log/uucp.log *.debug /var/log/firewall.log # # Logging for the mail system. Split it up so that # it is easy to write scripts to parse these files. # #mail.info -/var/log/mail.info #mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn #mail.err/var/log/mail.err # Logging for INN news system # #news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit #news.err/var/log/news/news.err #news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice # # Some `catch-all' logfiles. # *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\ mail,news.none -/var/log/messages # # Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in. # *.emerg * # # I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual # console I usually leave idle. # #daemon,mail.*;\ # news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\ # *.=debug;*.=info;\ # *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8 # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it, # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option: # #$ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] # # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably # busy site.. # #daemon.*,mail.*;\ # news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ # *.=debug;*.=info;\ # *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole #local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what is the best strategy for using sysklogd with iptables?
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 18:32 -0800, Rob wrote: Hi, I am using sysklogd with iptables. I am wondering what the best strategy is for sending iptables log output to a single file, rather than having logged packets show up all over in /var/log/? I haven't been able yet to figure this out by myself. I must be missing some doc info somewhere. How about going to the source of the logging? You can change log files and output with iptables + ulog. ulog is quite nice. -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?
On 11/22/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ fdisk -l /dev/plextor_memstick Disk /dev/plextor_memstick: 1050 MB, 1050934784 bytes 129 heads, 19 sectors/track, 837 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2451 * 512 = 1254912 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/plextor_memstick1 * 1 838 1026294e W95 FAT16 (LBA) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(842, 128, 19) logical=(837, 58, 18) So, there is really a partition. This is the original partitioning. I didn't change it because I want to keep it vfat, in case I need to use it on a Mac (or even on a Windows PC, who knows?). Ok, do dmesg and /proc/partitions agree that there is a partition there? If not, then the problem is that the kernel is not recognizing your partition table. I would suggest: insert the key dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 remove then re-insert the key fdisk /dev/sdb create single partition, type 'b' mkfs.vfat -n MYKEY -F 32 /dev/sda1 FAIR WARNING: the above _will_ destroy all data on the key!! After this, I things should work normally...I hope. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: changing CHOST in stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] default stage3)
On 11/22/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, there should be no difference in code produced by i586-pc-linux-gnu-gcc and i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=i586. If there is, then things like distcc should be horribly broken. Well, I've been following a related thread on gentoo-dev, and it seems I am wrong with regards to building glibc. CHOST is much more important for glibc, leading to the support (or lack thereof) of things like nptl. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106556 So for getting a completely compatible i586 install, you may have to risk changing CHOST, since there is no i586 tarball available. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: changing CHOST in stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] default stage3)
Matthew Cline schrieb: Am I wrong in thinking that the CHOST variable should reflect the kind of processor in the machine? Yes. Wouldn't leaving the CHOST at i386-pc-linux-gnu build unoptimized binaries? No. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
