[gentoo-user] What kind of talks would you like to see at Fosdem 2011?
http://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2010-November/001052.html There's currently multiple of free slots available in the distribution miniconference so if it's quite possible to have multiple Gentoo related talks there. For this reason I am asking for ideas on what kinds of talks our users would like to see. Feel free to submit any non Gentoo related ideas too but it can be harder to find someone willing/able to talk about such topics. Hope to see you at Fosdem, Petteri Räty -- Gentoo Council Member Gentoo Devrel Lead signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.15 gentoo-sources emerge
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I noticed this line as I was emerging gentoo-sources this morning. (Yuk...4:30AM this morning...) Is it a problem? * Applying 4905_alpha-sysctl-uac.patch (-p0+) ... [ ok ] awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `/home/portage_temp/portage/gentoo-sources-2.6.15/work/linux-2.6.15-gentoo/include/linux/version.h' for reading (No such file or directory) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113261 Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Wednesday 04 January 2006 16:02, Neil Bothwick wrote: I've just tried it on another box, and I do get that error when opening a second file, but checking kate shows that it does have both files loaded. Ah...you are right. The files did get opened but that error pop (and that too twice) is quite annoying. I even tried to rename kate to kate.bin and created a script with name kate which calls kate.bin with --use option but that also gives the same error. I don't quite understand what made KDE developers withdraw such an excellent feature. God knows what goes in developers mind *sigh* Regards, Abhay You can always file a bug in bugs.kde.org to request this to be configurable. As usual first check that the bug does not already exist. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Troubles with xml-commons-1.0_beta2.ebuild
Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, I have a gentoo system with many parallel JDKs installed. java-config -L says [ibm-jdk-1.3.1] IBM JDK 1.3.1 (/etc/env.d/java/20ibm-jdk-1.3.1) [sun-jdk-1.5.0.06] Sun JDK 1.5.0.06 (/etc/env.d/java/20sun-jdk-1.5.0.06) [ibm-jdk-1.4.1] IBM JDK 1.4.1 (/etc/env.d/java/20ibm-jdk-1.4.1) [sun-jdk-1.3.1.16] Sun JDK 1.3.1.16 (/etc/env.d/java/20sun-jdk-1.3.1.16) * [sun-jdk-1.4.2.09] Sun JDK 1.4.2.09 (/etc/env.d/java/20sun-jdk-1.4.2.09) [blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02] Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.02 (/etc/env.d/java/20blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02) This is mainly b/c I want to use this box for Java compatibility evaluation. My main (default) JDK for now is sun-jdk-1.3.1.16. BUT when I try to update dev-java/xml-commons, the JDK 1.5 patch is applied ALWAYS - it ignores the system JDK to be used. SO it seems that in order to update this package I have to switch to a 1.5 JDK - is this right? It doesn't seem so to me... Puzzled, Wolfgang It is, check the /usr/portage/dev-java/xml-commons/files/1.0_beta2-jdk15.patch and you will see that it just changes the source and target attributes in the build.xml file. The patch is not dependent on the system jdk used. In general we try to prefer noncondional patches because it makes debugging problems easier. Please also note that there is a gentoo-java mailing lists where java related questions are likely to get better answers than on gentoo-users. You should also note that most ebuilds depend on =virtual/jre-1.4 so having 1.3 as the system jdk to emerge stuff might not work. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r9 - Hard Maskd: Why?
Alexander Skwar wrote: Rumen Yotov schrieb: Hi, Run: nano /var/portage/profiles/package.mask - search for suspend; ... # Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (31 Dec 2005) # Compilation broken without CONFIG_X86_MCE =sys-kernel/suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r9 ... HTH.Rumen Ah, yes, right, forgot about this. Why is something like this not listed in the changelog on CVS? ChangeLog only lists changes done in the package folder. package.masking needs changes only to the package.mask file. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r9 - Hard Maskd: Why?
Alexander Skwar wrote: Petteri Räty schrieb: Alexander Skwar wrote: Rumen Yotov schrieb: Run: nano /var/portage/profiles/package.mask - search for suspend; Ah, yes, right, forgot about this. Why is something like this not listed in the changelog on CVS? ChangeLog only lists changes done in the package folder. package.masking needs changes only to the package.mask file. Okay. But it is change to the package, isn't it? I mean, it now behaves differently than it did before. True. I don't think it is against the policy to add package.masking information to ChangeLogs but devs just don't do it at the moment. This is maybe something you could bring up in the gentoo-dev mailing list. I guess, I don't agree with this decision - but I further guess, that I'll have to live with it, don't I? Well emerge -1 =pkg-masked version should give you easy access to the package.mask reason to help you in the meanwhile. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What wants to pull in busybox?
Michael Kjorling wrote: Now. For some reason, even after updating everything else, emerge -auDv world still wants to pull in sys-apps/busybox-1.00-r4. I have had sys-apps/busybox in my package.mask file ever since it getting pulled in as a dependency to something severely crippled my system, and I do not want to have to go through that again. $ grep busybox /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/packages *sys-apps/busybox Busybox is used in system rescue by default on Gentoo and as such included in the system. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge audacity
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm trying to emerge audacity (I think rosegarden needs it), but I keep getting this error: camille ~ # emerge audacity Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) media-sound/audacity-1.2.1 to / md5 files ;-) audacity-1.2.1.ebuild md5 files ;-) audacity-1.2.2.ebuild md5 files ;-) audacity-1.2.3.ebuild md5 files ;-) audacity-1.2.3-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-) files/digest-audacity-1.2.1 md5 files ;-) files/audacity.desktop md5 files ;-) files/digest-audacity-1.2.2 md5 files ;-) files/digest-audacity-1.2.3 md5 files ;-) files/digest-audacity-1.2.3-r1 md5 files ;-) files/audacity-1.2.3-x86.patch md5 src_uri ;-) audacity-src-1.2.1.tar.bz2 * Audacity will not build if wxGTK was compiled * with unicode support. If you are using a version of * wxGTK = 2.4.2, you must set USE=-gtk2. In newer versions, * you must set USE=-unicode. !!! ERROR: media-sound/audacity-1.2.1 failed. !!! Function pkg_setup, Line 42, Exitcode 0 !!! wxGTK must be re-emerged without unicode suport !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. wxGTK IS emerged with -unicode. I don't know why it's giving this error... wxGTK--. This is most likely a bug. Search bugs.gentoo.org and report this if there isn't already a report about this. Search for the bugs assigned to [EMAIL PROTECTED] at least. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Portage 2.0.53 now stable on x86
I just marked 2.0.53 stable on x86. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108082 for details. You can check the various dependencies of this bug for the bug fixes that went into this release. This release includes at least one new program. pena jamvm # emaint --help usage: emaint [options] all | world Currently emaint can only check and fix problems with one's world file. Future versions will integrate other portage check-and-fix tools and provide a single interface to system health checks. options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -c, --check check for problems -f, --fixattempt to fix problems Regards, Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I install sun-jdk through emerge?
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: I've done this, but i still ger the same message mustang felipe # emerge sun-jdk Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy sun-jdk have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.06 (masked by: package.mask) # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Lotsa things in the tree don't compile with 1.5 yet # 1.5 defaults too -target 1.5 making downgrading to a 1.4(/1.3) # impossible, see bug #69970 and bug 65937 for more information/discussion # http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Java_FAQ - dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.05 (masked by: package.mask) - dev-java/sun-jdk-1.3.1.16 (masked by: -* keyword) - dev-java/sun-jdk-1.2.2.017 (masked by: -* keyword) - dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.09 (masked by: -* keyword) - dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 (masked by: -* keyword) From the looks of it, you are on amd64. You can use blackdown-jdk out of the box with emerge virtual/jdk. =sun-jdk-1.5* is the only version that works on amd64 but it is still package.masked. You should not be unmasking packages if you don't know what you are doing. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I install sun-jdk through emerge?
Antoine wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: I've done this, but i still ger the same message # echo dev-java/sun-jdk /etc/portage/package.unmask cheers Antoine Please don't advice people to just put stuff to package.unmask without providing some additional information. Packages are in package.mask for a reason after all. Just unmasking packages can break your system in so many ways and you have to be prepared to fix it when it happens. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question
Mark Knecht wrote: I don't get it. java-config -L said the sun-jre-bin VM was the one being used but having the jdk installed created problems. Your problems probably have to do with the fact that emerge virtual/jre or emerge virtual/jdk sets the jdk|jre you just emerged as the system vm. Yes, this behaviour is in some regards problematic and we should improve the logic. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml You will probably find this useful. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Is a Java JDK a necessity? I currently have none of the Blackdown stuff installed and am using sun-jre-bin as it solves a problem with some drop down menus. However, when I emerge sun-jre-bin I get a set of messages that aren't comforting: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115345 Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5
Holly Bostick wrote: It's not like the world is going to end if you don't have KDE 3.5 /today/ as opposed to two weeks from today (probably sooner, since KDE is a high-demand package, and people will start to b**ch if it's not stable some specified time after the well-known upstream release date). The minimum time in ~arch is a month (special circumstances like security bugs excluded). With bigger things like KDE it is usually more than a a month because there is so much to test. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kde compile ends in unusal error - fs problem?
Harry Putnam wrote: What should permissions on /tmp look like in a normal system? I see tmp is chmod 755 but shouldn't it be something like 1777? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=4#doc_chap5 Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?
Grant wrote: hotplug, afaik, refers to not only the practice of swapping SCSI drives on the fly in busy servers but as well as anything USB related, mounting of drives, and the like. Assuming you won't need to plug in a USB drive all of the sudden and you keep a spotless fstab and have a sole eth connection, hotplug might in fact be somewhat useless to you. I switched to udev ages ago however; find out if it's really ncessary. In the end of the day however, it's not like it's a very heavy process for your machine. Ok, does anyone run a udev system without hotplug and coldplug? - Grant udev will bring anything it needs as dependencies (sys-apps/hotplug-base). No need to emerge hotplug or coldplug unless you want to. I don't even use coldplug on my desktop system because I know what hardware I have and coldplug is only useful at boot time. Other software handles runtime. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?
Grant wrote: I'm a bit confused. udev does emerge hotplug-base as a dependency. But as far as hotplug itself, this document: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml says: You do not need to install hotplug unless you want your modules automatically loaded when you plug devices in. hotplug also handles the automated bringup of network devices and firmware downloading. Yes, this is the purpose of hotplug. I use it on my laptop to automatically load my wlan driver when I turn on my usb wireless chip and then automatically start net.wlan0. and about coldplug: If you want modules loaded for devices that have been plugged in before you boot, use the coldplug package. Don't forget to add coldplug to the boot runlevel. coldplug is one useful if you have tons of modules installed and don't know what you need. Otherwise you can just use /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 I'm just trying to figure out what I need for my laptop and for my server. I'd rather not have useless stuff on my systems, but I don't want anything to break either. Also, should hotplug be added to the default runlevel? The doc doesn't mention it although it does say to add coldplug to the boot runlevel. hotplug is not a service that you can start and coldplug is up to you. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 'sudo java -version' is wrong
Stefan Krüger wrote: (/etc/env.d/java/20blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02) So far so good, but sudo-ing as user gets me the wrong (Blackdown) JRE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo java -version java version 1.4.2-02 Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build Blackdown-1.4.2-02) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build Blackdown-1.4.2-02, mixed mode) Any ideas? Using sudo you will not change the environment and our vm switching is currently done via environment variables like PATH and JAVA_HOME which means that sudo will give you the same vm as you have as a user. java-config-2.0 does works differently and does not rely on environment variables any more. In the future you might be better server by the gentoo-java mailing list when you have java specific questions. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...
Pongracz Istvan wrote: Hi, As I can remember, the livecd has a binary. You can copy that library to your /usr/lib and use it to fix your problem. Or: You can make a symlink to the newer libstdc++, maybe can work. I have successfully used a symlink in the past but your mileage may vary. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] completely removing a program
Nick Smith wrote: sorry for the simple question. how can i completely remove a program and have it get rid of the conf files and any other temp files it leaves around? i want to start from scratch with some programs and dont want to have to manually search and remove those files. TIA Nick CONFIG_PROTECT=-* emerge -C pkg Just don't come complaining about deleted files. That would still leave generated files around. You can use something like http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Clean_Up_Cruft to clean out tmp files. Nothing Gentoo supported exists for the task you want I think. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] best filesystem for Gentoo
Robert Crawford wrote: For a server, I'd stay away from reiserfs, as it does appear to have serious fragmentation over time- this is becoming more and more apparent. Check this thread out on Gentoo forums- I posted links to a lot of good info. If you serve only static content, you can put your document root to a separate partition and as such avoid fragmentation because there aren't any writes happening. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kde version
Thiago Lüttig wrote: Hi folks ! I upgrade my gentoo every day, and when I try to upgrade the kde, the portage always display the last version of kde as 3.4.1. But newer versions of kde has been launched (3.4.3). What´s the reason of this late version still remains in the portage list ?? 3.4.1 is the latest version marked as stable. See portage documentation about using ~arch marked packages. 3.4.3 will be marked stable soon. Watch http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112842 for progress. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-lib fails to compile
Jorge Almeida wrote: I reinstalled gentoo and I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. alsa-lib fails with the message: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112412 So just emerge sync again and it should work. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab
Mark wrote: I made a mistake while creating my fstab on a new install, and I can't boot. If I use my Universal CD to boot up, what command(s) will I have to run to get access to the fstab to fix it? (I'm assuming I have to re-mount chroot but I don't know specifically what to do). Thanks! You only need to mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo and then execute nano /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab -w. You can change nano to another editor if you like. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 Nvidia
Philip Webb wrote: Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ? I had it working with 2.6.12 , but got an error with 2.6.14 : can't initialise Nvidia module, no qualified screen available (or words to that effect). I have recompiled Nvidia etc. No problems here with the latest ~x86 stuff. I have a Geforce 4 Ti-4600. Regards, Petteri Räty signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] java_config
Luis Ortiz wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 17:10 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm trying to emerge dev-php/php on my wife's computer (catherine) and it gives me this error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/java-config, line 14, in ? from java_config import jc_options ImportError: No module named java_config * You need to use java-config to set your JVM to a JDK! catherine ~ # java-config Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/java-config, line 14, in ? from java_config import jc_options ImportError: No module named java_config I emerged dev-php/php just fine on my PC (camille). What is causing this error and is there a way to fix it? Try running 'python-updater' and re-emerging 'java-config'. The function of python-updater is to re-emerge java-config (and other python stuff installed under the old location). Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What happened with KDE?
Radu Filip wrote: One of the reasons for which I switched to Gentoo two years ago was the fact from all the distributions out there, Gentoo was one of the fastest to provide a KDE build for the stable version, as soon as KDE team did a new new release. I am emerge sync-ing almost daily and still there is no KDE 3.4.2 or KDE 3.4.3 available: [ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-3.4.1 Am I missing something? I know I can use the testing version (~x86) but is there a serious reason for why there has been no new release of KDE for the stable Gentoo in the last months? I've read the Changelogs of kdebase and kdelibs from Gentoo Online Package Database and I found no clue. As an ultimate solution, how stable is the testing build of KFDE 3.4.3-r1? I use kde-3.5_betas and they are very good so I guess that 3.4.3-r1 should work very well too but your mileage may wary. I have been trying to ask for getting a later KDE to stable lately but no progress has been made. Hopefully soon. Regards, Petteri Räty signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading ebuilds
Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, I've created an ebuild for tkgate (http://www.tkgate.org). It is very frustrating because I cannot see how to upload it or whatever. I'm not a developer user in CVS so I cannot upload. If I fill in a bug for uploading ebuilds (is the right way) I've created a patch file, so what I've to do !!! THE EBUILD IS DONE !!! WHY CANNOT GENTOO USERS BENEFIT FROM IT ?? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml Regards, Petteri Räty signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] module-rebuild script
John Green wrote: Hi, The Gentoo newsletter mentioned the new module-rebuild script, so I emerged it and ran it with the following results. # module-rebuild list ** Packages which I will emerge are: =media-libs/svgalib-1..21-r1 =net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2 =net-wireless/ipw2100-1.1.2-r3 So I ran # module-rebuild rebuild and it seemed to rebuild the three packages in question. As a check, I then ran module-rebuild list again, and it listed the same three modules as before. This is the way it is supposed to work at the moment. module-rebuild list is meant to give you a list of modules that module-rebuild rebuild will rebuild. It does not check if the modules are already built for the kernel. Of course checking for this would be a great new feature for which you can submit a request to bugs.gentoo.org Am I missing something obvious? Fortunately, everything is still working. Hopefully this clarified things. Regards, Petteri Räty signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...
Eric Waguespack wrote: say for example I installed Gentoo with some USE flags, but then I changed my mind and wanted to add (for example) the offensive USE flag to my make.conf (I have no idea what offensive does, but with a name like that, it must be good http://gentoo-portage.com/USE ). what would I do (short of a reinstallation) to recompile everything with these new USE flags? emerge -uDNpv world for a dry run. emerge -uDN world to actually recompile See man emerge for more information. Regards, Petteri Räty signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages
Robert Persson wrote: I emerged kde 3.4 using the metapackages (kdebase-meta, kdeaddons-meta etc.). However I now find that emerge -u world fails to update any of the component packages to their latest versions, which should all be 3.4.1(-r2/r3/etc). I end up emerging newer versions individually (e.g. emerge kopete) when I think I have a bug problem, which is obviously a clumsy way to do things. I know I can emerge kdebase-meta kdeaddons-meta kdeblahblahblah to get things up to date, but is there a way to get portage to actually deal with kde nicely like it used to? Many thanks Robert Use the --deep option. emerge -uD world. see man emerge for more information. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] PANIC !!!!
Keats wrote: On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:11:06 -0300 Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My hole linux box has crashed I made a system update yesterday with emerge -Du world it update my apache, mantis, nagios, bind, mysql. today my hole system is against me I think in reinstall the full system has any one got a better idea, my backups are unavailable now are u sure that you have enough disk space ? an update of the system may download a lot of files... it happens when i have no space left, nothing work the gentoo is not able to boot. i have to boot on rescue disk and make space... For this reason I put every directory that can grow during normal operations outside to root partition so that I can boot although some partition gets full. Regards, Petteri Räty signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: too many kernel problems!
James wrote: Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: So if you are interested in a systematic approach, let's agree on a common set of USE flags. Here are mine from make.conf: CFLAGS=-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -g CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu Let me just point out that your CFLAGS are kind of stupid. You have -g for producing debugging information but then you have fomit-frame-pointer, which makes debugging impossible on some machines. See http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/onlinedocs/ for more information. Regards, Petteri Räty signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] java issues
Covington, Chris wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions? Check the bugzilla if there is already something there. It is a bit strange that I haven't seen these problems as I have done a couple of Tomcat installs from stratch lately. Regards, Petteri Räty signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get LVM2 off a drive?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: I did an experiment with LVM2 to see how it worked, but I put it inside of partition 3. I then wanted to remove it and put it in partition 4 instead. (More like Neil's setup.) However, the system keeps finding the old vg1 volume group. I went so far as to remove all partitions, put on a new partition, make a new file system, then remove that filesystem and do my final ones with LVM2 in partition 4 but the system still finds the old vg1 volume group and complains that sda3 is too small. The easiest thing to move lvm partitions from one physical partition to another is as follows: 1. pvcreate new (create lvm2 data on the partition) 2. vgextend vg new (adds the new partition to the volume group) 3. pvmove old (moves the extends to the new partitions) 4. vgreduce old (removes the old partition from the volume group) 5. pvremove old (wipes the lvm2 markings from the partition) I guess this is in the partition table? If so how do I completely remove the LVM2 data and set the table back to default? Hopefully this was what you were looking to do. Thanks in advance, Mark Regards, Petteri Räty -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDFX1/cxLzpIGCsLQRAqu2AJwNL5i9UJDejNPpC3eJiSwHsXNgEwCfbj58 8VKgQzOye3TLiAX2+Noex+8= =7T7+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: Any specfic controller cards recommendations for SATA(2) are of interest too. I would check the list of supported hardware from make menuconfig. TIA, James Regards, Petteri Räty -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC6U+qcxLzpIGCsLQRApPAAJ0RPxqy4179WwnYA133fXGILCW8BgCgjzQf rs+aUvQ7Zy6ytr6uFDl8WdQ= =n0TE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Hmmm - that all sounds sane, but what is this default period of time? What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked? At least a month and there can't be any major bugs reported to bugs.gentoo.org. About specifics on Subversion you need to ask its maintainer. It will stay masked as long as needed for the maintainer to become sure that the package really is stable. Ideally I'd like to follow the natural upgrade cycle in future. Wouldn't putting those lines in my package.keywords file prevent me getting, say, version 1.3 automatically when I do an emerge -uD world in another few months? No it would not. You are just changing the accepted the keywords for Subversion. Portage always chooses the latest version with accepted keywords. If just add dev-util/subversion you say that you will accept every version marked as ~x86 or you can use =dev-util/subversion-1.2.1 to only mark one version. If you don't use version numbers, you will always update to the latest version. If you lock down the version number, the next time you will update if after there is a version greater then 1.2.1, which is marked stable (x86). I'm only impatient in so far as I'd prefer to use my gentoo server rather than some other platform. I'm already using Subversion 1.2 on other platforms and I've found no problems for my configuration so (other than possible gentoo specific issues) I'm happy to run the latest Subversion. [Disclaimer - please don't blame me if your requirements are more demanding than mine!. :-) ] Gentoo is all about choice. Thanks for the reply - it at least convinces me that it is possible to get Subersion-1.2 installed... However, your solution raises more questions from me about Gentoo. I'm now unsure if I want to wait-out the default unstable time for packages (to minimise risk and to simplify systems management) - or if there is a more subtle way to declare that I'd like version 1.2.1 now and to have that upgraded when a future version newer than that which becomes unmasked. Am I missing some other obvious things? I found the Gentoo handbook a little opaque on the topic of masked packages... lots of info - just not the answers to the questions I was thinking. Hopefully I answered this. Regards, Petteri Räty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC1rBTcxLzpIGCsLQRAnfOAKCSwFJDenGWoGRiZWmvS/K67WGP9wCfZrjz tTtBWzlJKXu5kwfNJUfgwQo= =cdsY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Digby Tarvin wrote: Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing to shutdown..?? Yes, with 2.6.12 gentoo-sources and inotify. The system freezes if you try to umount a ntfs partition after using it. My system, running on a Tyan motherboard with twin PIII processors and GeForce4 Ti 4200 display, seems to be unstoppable... I suspect it is the X server which is refusing to stop, but I am not sure what is getting it in such a state. Please, be more specific about the place where this happens. Do you click shutdown from Gnome or KDE? Do you run shutdown -h now from from console and so on. Any ideas? Is there anything I can do other than a hard reset in this condition? Usually, when my desktop freezes, I try to ssh in with my laptop and see what happens. If I can ssh in, I know the problem is with X. Regards, DigbyT Regards, Petteri Räty -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCyB4IcxLzpIGCsLQRAuTxAJ9VhNU05jjS4J0VrsleD4UfgHmzmQCePFRL lmuILXJMJB2ekNPPqkTpZ/0= =Bsg2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
