RE: [gentoo-user] user limits, pam.d

2003-09-15 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
Mikhail P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So once user user logins via ssh, he supposed to have these limits (viewble via ulimit -a). However, it does not work - user still has 1024 in FD limit. Now if I su user from root, and type ulimit -a, I see that FD is 4048! Any suggestions where

[gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
My first question is: 1 Does someone have a standard operating proceedure for on how to troubleshoot package compilation errors to get the most info possible to pass along to the list and/or Gentoo Forums? 2Is there a log that is kept somewhere in Gentoo when a package fails with errors? If

[gentoo-user] File is corrupt or incomplete.

2003-09-15 Thread Chris
I have dl twice and the same thing happened both times. md5 src_uri ;-) X430src-1.tgz md5 src_uri ;-) X430src-2.tgz md5 src_uri ;-) X430src-3.tgz !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match) our recorded digest: 567903747018f2534965ab6cb3976b38 your file's digest:

Re: [gentoo-user] clearing out distfiles?

2003-09-15 Thread Davide Brini
On 05:20, lunedì 15 settembre 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there anything in emerge/portage to remove files from /usr/portage/distfiles that have been superceded. It seems to me that directory is just acting like a sort of portage cache in case you have to re-emerge some package,

[gentoo-user] advice regarding LVM needed

2003-09-15 Thread Gour
Hi! Recently I bought Gentoo 1.4 and installed it on my 2nd HD's free space (WD - 80G) wanting to have a slow transition from SuSE to Gentoo (to keep old mail, news ..). I emerged binary packages of X KDE and then started to slowly emerge other components. However, three days ago, my old HD

Re: [gentoo-user] clearing out distfiles?

2003-09-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:10:16 +0200 Davide Brini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I was also going to ask this...can everything in | /usr/portage/distfiles be safely removed (assuming I can re-download a | package in case of need)? Yes. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at firedrop.org.uk Web:

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 September 2003 15:43, Joshua Banks wrote: 1 Does someone have a standard operating proceedure for on how to troubleshoot package compilation errors to get the most info possible to pass along to the list and/or Gentoo Forums? There's not really a standard operating procedure, but

[gentoo-user] Gnome 2.4

2003-09-15 Thread Terry Churchill
Hi, I emerged gnome 2.4 overnight with: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge gnome I had to manually unmerge a few packages that were blocking, but it seemed to go OK I'm running it now. How to I fix this? atuin root # emerge -UpD world --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks Jason. JBanks --- Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 15 September 2003 15:43, Joshua Banks wrote: 1 Does someone have a standard operating proceedure for on how to troubleshoot package compilation errors to get the most info possible to pass along to the list and/or

Re: [gentoo-user] advice regarding LVM needed

2003-09-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 15. September 2003 08:57 schrieb Gour: Today I'm going to trash my old IBM HD (together with SuSE :-) and install a new one, so I'm thinking about LVM install. Do you recommend it for two HDs (120G 80G) install on home machine? Yes, why not? I'd use EVMS, though. In Gentoo's LVM

[gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread bob bob
Last night I did an emerge sync last night followed by a emerge -uD world when it had finished i had 24 ._cfg_. type files that needed changing.. This was a VERY laborious task to complete.. and made even more annoying by the fact that some of the cfg file it wanted me to change were no

[gentoo-user] Mail-header

2003-09-15 Thread Lutz Feldgen
Hi there, would it be a big problem for you or the list-manager to change the sender-address to the mailing-list-address? It is really uncomfortable to have half of the mails to this list filtered out by gmx-anti-spam...there is no way to tell the filter to select by recipient-address. regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread Terry Churchill
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 08:23, bob bob wrote: Surely there is a better way to update shit.. possibly some sort of script that compares the two files and only shows what is different between the two.. that way we can make faster easier changes/decisions.. That's exactly what etc-update does. I

Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread Lloyd D Budd
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 03:23, bob bob wrote: Last night I did an emerge sync last night followed by a emerge -uD world when it had finished i had 24 ._cfg_. type files that needed changing.. This was a VERY laborious task to complete.. and made even more annoying by the fact that some of

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail-header

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 September 2003 16:28, Lutz Feldgen wrote: It is really uncomfortable to have half of the mails to this list filtered out by gmx-anti-spam...there is no way to tell the filter to select by recipient-address. The following headers are in each message: Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
When I, bash-2.05b# emerge libungif Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/libungif-4.1.0.1b to / It unpacks source and does its thing and then says this at the end * You had the gif USE flag set, so it is assumed that you want * the binary from giflib instead.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.4

2003-09-15 Thread Lloyd D Budd
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 03:10, Terry Churchill wrote: Hi, I emerged gnome 2.4 overnight with: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge gnome I had to manually unmerge a few packages that were blocking, but it seemed to go OK I'm running it now. How to I fix this? atuin root # emerge -UpD world

Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Hey Terry, Which option do you usually choose? -1 -3 -5 ?? JBanks --- Terry Churchill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 08:23, bob bob wrote: Surely there is a better way to update shit.. possibly some sort of script that compares the two files and only shows what is

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 September 2003 16:58, Joshua Banks wrote: bash-2.05b# emerge libungif Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/libungif-4.1.0.1b to / snip * You had the gif USE flag set, so it is assumed that you want * the binary from giflib instead. Please make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Lloyd D Budd
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 03:58, Joshua Banks wrote: When I, bash-2.05b# emerge libungif Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/libungif-4.1.0.1b to / It unpacks source and does its thing and then says this at the end * You had the gif USE flag set, so it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.4

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 September 2003 16:10, Terry Churchill wrote: (B Hi, (B (B I emerged gnome 2.4 overnight with: (B (B ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge gnome (B (B I had to manually unmerge a few packages that were blocking, but it (B seemed to go OK I'm running it now. (B (B How to I fix this?

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Chris
i emerged liobungif and decided to emerge kdegraphics to see what would happen and it seems to be doing fine. On Monday 15 September 2003 08:16 am, Lloyd D Budd wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 03:58, Joshua Banks wrote: When I, bash-2.05b# emerge libungif Calculating dependencies ...done!

Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread Terry Churchill
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:03, Joshua Banks wrote: Hey Terry, Which option do you usually choose? -1 -3 -5 I think it was -1, whichever one overwrites the current one with the new one. I scan the list first to make sure there's none that I do want to keep first though. HTH -- .~.

Re: [gentoo-user] File is corrupt or incomplete.

2003-09-15 Thread MAL
Chris wrote: I have dl twice and the same thing happened both times. md5 src_uri ;-) X430src-1.tgz md5 src_uri ;-) X430src-2.tgz md5 src_uri ;-) X430src-3.tgz !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match) our recorded digest: 567903747018f2534965ab6cb3976b38 your file's digest:

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 September 2003 17:16, Lloyd D Budd wrote: (B On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 03:58, Joshua Banks wrote: (B When I, (B bash-2.05b# emerge libungif (B Calculating dependencies ...done! (B (B emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/libungif-4.1.0.1b to / (B (B It unpacks source and does its

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks again Jason for getting me straightened out. I'll go for the emerge again of KDEgraphic's and if I get the same error I will file a bug. Thanks again..very much appreciated.. Joshua Banks --- Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 15 September 2003 17:16, Lloyd D Budd wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.4

2003-09-15 Thread Terry Churchill
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:22, Jason Stubbs wrote: I would suggest not using -U at all - use -u instead. If your running ~x86 then things rarely get downgraded. If your not, it's better to copy the ~x86 packages you want to your overlay directory and change the ~x86 to x86 there. Thanks, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.4

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 September 2003 17:47, Terry Churchill wrote: (B On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:22, Jason Stubbs wrote: (B I would suggest not using -U at all - use -u instead. If your running (B ~x86 then things rarely get downgraded. If your not, it's better to copy (B the ~x86 packages you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Chris
kdegraphics just finished installing with no errors if anyone wants to know On Monday 15 September 2003 08:38 am, Joshua Banks wrote: Thanks again Jason for getting me straightened out. I'll go for the emerge again of KDEgraphic's and if I get the same error I will file a bug. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Hey Chris, Is this after you emerged media-libs/libungif-4.1.0.1b Thanks, Joshua Banks --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kdegraphics just finished installing with no errors if anyone wants to know On Monday 15 September 2003 08:38 am, Joshua Banks wrote: Thanks again Jason for getting

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Chris
yes (emerge libungif) and it fixed the prob for me On Monday 15 September 2003 09:19 am, Joshua Banks wrote: Hey Chris, Is this after you emerged media-libs/libungif-4.1.0.1b Thanks, Joshua Banks --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kdegraphics just finished installing with no errors

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Chris
its compiling kdeadmin now On Monday 15 September 2003 04:25 am, Chris wrote: yes (emerge libungif) and it fixed the prob for me On Monday 15 September 2003 09:19 am, Joshua Banks wrote: Hey Chris, Is this after you emerged media-libs/libungif-4.1.0.1b Thanks, Joshua Banks

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Hey Jason, What does -* do in the USE section of make.conf? Isn't that like saying don't use any variables.?? Joshua Banks --- Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 15 September 2003 17:16, Lloyd D Budd wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 03:58, Joshua Banks wrote: When I,

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks for the confirmation Chris. Joshua Banks --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes (emerge libungif) and it fixed the prob for me On Monday 15 September 2003 09:19 am, Joshua Banks wrote: Hey Chris, Is this after you emerged media-libs/libungif-4.1.0.1b Thanks, Joshua Banks

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its compiling kdeadmin now Great!!! Let me know how it goes. It's still compiling kdegraphics on my end.. chug-a-lug-a-choo-choo...slow train... Joshua Banks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Chris
no prob sorry about the gaps in info i am fighting a cold and cold med while doing this On Monday 15 September 2003 09:39 am, Joshua Banks wrote: Thanks for the confirmation Chris. Joshua Banks --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes (emerge libungif) and it fixed the prob for me On

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 September 2003 18:37, Joshua Banks wrote: Hey Jason, What does -* do in the USE section of make.conf? Isn't that like saying don't use any variables.?? The USE declaration is parsed one word at a time. The first word (meaning string of chars separated by whitespace) is -*. When

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Chris
I guess everything is going to be alright it just moved on to kdeutils On Monday 15 September 2003 09:43 am, Joshua Banks wrote: --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its compiling kdeadmin now Great!!! Let me know how it goes. It's still compiling kdegraphics on my end..

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Awesome.. Man, I gotta upgrade my hardware or something. My stuff is slower than you know what... JBanks --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess everything is going to be alright it just moved on to kdeutils On Monday 15 September 2003 09:43 am, Joshua Banks wrote: --- Chris [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Chris
this is just a 1ghz p3 w/256 mg ram On Monday 15 September 2003 10:03 am, Joshua Banks wrote: Awesome.. Man, I gotta upgrade my hardware or something. My stuff is slower than you know what... JBanks --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess everything is going to be alright it just

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Ya,,,mines a PIII 667eb coppermine with only 128M's of PC133 ram. --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is just a 1ghz p3 w/256 mg ram On Monday 15 September 2003 10:03 am, Joshua Banks wrote: Awesome.. Man, I gotta upgrade my hardware or something. My stuff is slower than you

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to trouble shoot emerge/ebuild error messages...

2003-09-15 Thread Chris
boost your ram and you'll be on top On Monday 15 September 2003 10:15 am, Joshua Banks wrote: Ya,,,mines a PIII 667eb coppermine with only 128M's of PC133 ram. --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is just a 1ghz p3 w/256 mg ram On Monday 15 September 2003 10:03 am, Joshua Banks

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail-header

2003-09-15 Thread Alexander Futasz
On 15 Sep 2003 09:28:23 +0200, Lutz Feldgen wrote: would it be a big problem for you or the list-manager to change the sender-address to the mailing-list-address? It is really uncomfortable to have half of the mails to this list filtered out by gmx-anti-spam...there is no way to tell the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #7 results.

2003-09-15 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:52:25 -0700, Fred Van Andel wrote: These are the results for the seventh gentoo poll. This whole poll should be taken off of the list and added to the newsletter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail-header

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 September 2003 20:04, Alexander Futasz wrote: On 15 Sep 2003 09:28:23 +0200, Lutz Feldgen wrote: would it be a big problem for you or the list-manager to change the sender-address to the mailing-list-address? It is really uncomfortable to have half of the mails to this list

Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread SavageMindz
Surely there is a better way to update shit.. possibly some sort of script that compares the two files and only shows what is different between the two.. that way we can make faster easier changes/decisions.. Thats how it works currently. the etc-update script just diffs the two files and

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail-header

2003-09-15 Thread Spider
begin quote On 15 Sep 2003 09:28:23 +0200 Lutz Feldgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, would it be a big problem for you or the list-manager to change the sender-address to the mailing-list-address? It is really uncomfortable to have half of the mails to this list filtered out by

[gentoo-user] How to not respond WAS Re: [gentoo-user] re: SCO gets personal!

2003-09-15 Thread Sigurd Stordal
On Saturday 13 September 2003 05:26, Stephen Turner wrote: no no no dont send them there! its too friendly! send them to osama bin laden so he can rape them and use them as human bombs :D This is an example on how you should not respond. I know many are really angry at SCO, and with good

Re: [gentoo-user] advice regarding LVM needed

2003-09-15 Thread Stephen Boulet
I've been very happy with LVM. I have /root on reiserfs and /boot on ext2, but all my other partitions are on LVM and are reiserfs: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 2.9G 243M 2.6G 9% / /dev/vg/usr10G 6.5G 3.6G 65% /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] advice regarding LVM needed

2003-09-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 15. September 2003 15:04 schrieb Collins Richey: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the 2.6 kernel dropped support for LVM, and thus EVMS is now the only way to fly? Both LVM2 and EVMS2 use Sistina's Device Mapper which has been integrated into 2.6 in favor of LVM1. HTH...

Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread bob bob
Thanks for the replys guys.. clearly I need to track down and read the doco.. I wasn't aware of this feature :-P RTFM time for me :-) Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.   -

[gentoo-user] Re: horribly slow portage updates (fixpackages)

2003-09-15 Thread sf
Marius Mauch wrote: ... Now the fact that fixpackages is so slow is because to update this information the .tbz2 needs to be uncompressed, then the information can be updated and then it needs to be recompressed. This takes some time for 1 or 2 GB of data. I'm currently trying to optimize the code

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem couldn't be fixed?

2003-09-15 Thread Terje Kvernes
Spider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] Thats strange, 40Mb for root? Unless you partitioned /usr off I'm really quite curious about how you managed to do that. giving /usr a partition of its own isn't that odd, is it? :-) then again, my home server currently has around 20

[gentoo-user] [Q] ping

2003-09-15 Thread YOON. Joo-Yung
After I re-installed gentoo with the latest one (1.4_rc4), ping has not been going out any more. And today there was an evidence what ping does. When I trace-route a domain at one pc, its ip address is first shown, and then it shows my server address, that is default gateway address in my small

RE: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: vanilla-sources (2.4.22) No Athlon XPchoice?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Have a look at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml, the very useful kernel guide. BillK Bill, This was a great link. Thanks! Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Q] ping

2003-09-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Keep in mind ... the local universities here have been blocking pings at the borders because of a windoze worm/virus flooding the networks. Caught me out when my favourite off-site ping responders disappeared in the middle of tracing a network fault ... BillK On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 22:09, YOON.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to not respond WAS Re: [gentoo-user] re: SCO gets personal!

2003-09-15 Thread Norberto Bensa
Sigurd Stordal wrote: On Saturday 13 September 2003 05:26, Stephen Turner wrote: no no no dont send them there! its too friendly! send them to osama bin laden so he can rape them and use them as human bombs :D This is an example on how you should not respond So, I hope we will not see

Re: [gentoo-user] How to not respond WAS Re: [gentoo-user] re: SCO gets personal!

2003-09-15 Thread Sigurd Stordal
On Monday 15 September 2003 14:41, Norberto Bensa wrote: Sigurd Stordal wrote: On Saturday 13 September 2003 05:26, Stephen Turner wrote: no no no dont send them there! its too friendly! send them to osama bin laden so he can rape them and use them as human bombs :D This is an example

[gentoo-user] Lost lm-sensors modules on gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6 to -r7 upgrad e...

2003-09-15 Thread Budd, Tracy
I just built a new kernel from gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 according to the installation instruction on gentoo.org (i.e. make dep make clean bzImage modules modules_install). I then reemerged nvidia-kernel and lm-sensors. For some reason lm-sensors installed its modules under

RE: [gentoo-user] Lost lm-sensors modules on gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6 to -r7 upgrade...

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
I just built a new kernel from gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 according to the installation instruction on gentoo.org (i.e. make dep make clean bzImage modules modules_install). I then reemerged nvidia-kernel and lm-sensors. For some reason lm-sensors installed its modules under

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Networking (Linux iPaq to Gentoo)

2003-09-15 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:37, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Brian Doob wrote: I want to set up USB networking between my Linux-iPaq (an ARM based handheld with 2.4.19 Linux) What linux do you have on your iPaq, and is that with or without extra ram / microdrive? It would be Familiar Linux, it is

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Poll #8

2003-09-15 Thread Fred Van Andel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is the eighth gentoo poll. The question is: Where did you first hear about gentoo? If you can then please be specific. Please respond by emailing your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Please do NOT reply within the mailing list, any replies to the

RE: [gentoo-user] Lost lm-sensors modules on gentoo-sources-2.4.2 0-r6 to -r7 upgrade...

2003-09-15 Thread Budd, Tracy
Yes, I was planning on moving them by hand, but I was wondering if I had done something wrong. Thanks, -Tracy -Original Message- From: Mark Knecht Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Lost lm-sensors modules on

Re: [gentoo-user] advice regarding LVM needed

2003-09-15 Thread Gour
Dirk Heinrichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Both LVM2 and EVMS2 use Sistina's Device Mapper which has been integrated into 2.6 in favor of LVM1. What do you recommend: LVM2 or EVMS2 since both use the same Device Mapper? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #278493

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Networking (Linux iPaq to Gentoo)

2003-09-15 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 15:13, Brian Doob wrote: I want to set up USB networking between my Linux-iPaq (an ARM based handheld with 2.4.19 Linux) and my Gentoo desktop box. The gentoo box is connected to a broadband router with an active DHCP server. I want the iPaq to get an address from

Re: [gentoo-user] currupt icons in nautilus from gnome 2.4 ~x86

2003-09-15 Thread Alan
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 04:39:44PM +0930, Chris van der Pennen wrote: I had something similar to that in the latest Evolution. Fix was to turn off RenderAccel in the nvidia drivers. Worked perfectly, thanks! -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #7 results.

2003-09-15 Thread Fred Van Andel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On September 15, 2003 04:10 am, Alexander Futasz wrote: This whole poll should be taken off of the list and added to the newsletter. I have some misgivings about that. I like to ask open ended questions because then I make sure that I can see

[gentoo-user] 2.6 issues.

2003-09-15 Thread Josh Helmer
Hi folks... I have been playing with 2.6 for a while now (mm-sources-2.6.0-test5). For the most part I am happy with it. The only real issue that I have had is logging in. When I boot into 2.4, I can login to my system without any problems. When I boot into 2.6 and try to login as a

[gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've never received an answer for these question in the Redhat reflectors, and never asked here. Please excuse my ignorance on this subject. I just did a kernel build of gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 by hand (make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install then copy bzImage to /boot by hand)

[gentoo-user] a7n8x freezes with serial ata.

2003-09-15 Thread Arlo
I have an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with built in Sil3112a serial ata controller and a Seagate Barracuda serial ata harddisk. I'm getting random, or semi-random system lockups. The lockups happen more when the system is under load. This is documented well on sites like http://www.nforcershq.com I

Re: [gentoo-user] IP address of a DNS

2003-09-15 Thread Core
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 09:46, Chris I wrote: FWIW, nslookup is deprecated. It's better to use 'host', which is in net-misc/host. The replacement for nslookup is dig, is it not? No, it is indeed host since bind 9 IIRC. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: horribly slow portage updates (fixpackages)

2003-09-15 Thread Marius Mauch
On 09/15/03 sf wrote: I would have thought only the uncompressed tbz2-specific tail has to changed, not the tbz part. Do I miss anything here? Yes, after I took some closer looks at the code I think you're right. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the

Re: [gentoo-user] a7n8x freezes with serial ata.

2003-09-15 Thread Alan
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:40:29PM -0400, Arlo wrote: I have an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with built in Sil3112a serial ata controller and a Seagate Barracuda serial ata harddisk. I'm getting random, or semi-random system lockups. The lockups happen more when the system is under load. This is

[gentoo-user] gnucash crashes

2003-09-15 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
Hi, just emerged GnuCash 1.8.6 on a fresh Gentoo installation. Whether I load my old gnucash file or try to generate a new account tree, whenever I open an account, gnucash crashes with this message: Application '/usr/bin/guile (process 9224) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Segmentation

[gentoo-user] UML problems

2003-09-15 Thread Mike Bellemare
I followed the instruction of the doc-uml but resulted with the system booting but failing after entering: level3 Starting locale [ok] here's the error messages when i boot it: Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/ Copyright 2001-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL *

[gentoo-user] Promise hw RAID and Gentoo 1.4 livecd

2003-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I'm building a system with an ASUS P4C800 Delux mb which has an onboard Promise PDC20378 controller chipset. I've read the discussions on this list from last spring about Gentoo and Promise raid, but am still having trouble, and everything I can find on google indicates that a lot of people are

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem couldn't be fixed?

2003-09-15 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
On Monday 15 September 2003 05:09, Spider wrote: Thats strange, 40Mb for root? Unless you partitioned /usr off I'm really quite curious about how you managed to do that. :). :s/Mb/Gb/g. Yes, that's curious :-). Nowadays I noticed that I often replace Gb with Mb in my mind :). Sorry. That's

[gentoo-user] Hyper-threading, SMB and Gentoo

2003-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I'm building a system with an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe mb. I'm using the smp kernel on the Gentoo livecd, v1.4-20030911. The BIOS settings tell me that hyperthreading is enabled, and the flags line in /proc/cpuinfo lists the ht flag, but only one CPU is listed in /proc/cpuinfo and only one shows up in

Re: [gentoo-user] a7n8x freezes with serial ata.

2003-09-15 Thread Alan
Just copy your .config file from your old kernel directory into the ac-sources dir, and type make oldconfig at the prompt. This will only prompt you for new options. It's probably still advisable to go through the new kernel config anyway and make sure there's nothing out of order there. The

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 issues.

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:50:06 -0700 Josh Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks... I have been playing with 2.6 for a while now (mm-sources-2.6.0-test5). For the most part I am happy with it. The only real issue that I have had is logging in. When I boot into 2.4, I can login to

Re: [gentoo-user] a7n8x freezes with serial ata.

2003-09-15 Thread Arlo
thanks for the help. I will give the ac-sources a try tonight. is there anyway I can reuse my .config file, or how can I print my kernel config. I made alot of changes and I know I will miss some if i re-enter them. -arlo- On Monday 15 September 2003 14:59, Alan wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #7 results.

2003-09-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, I think, gentoo-user is a good place for your poll: it is user related, gentoo-user has many subscriptors, and the traffic is so high, that an additional e-mail does not hurt anybody. 27149 emails since the middle of april and 7 of it are the polls. Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:57:12 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've never received an answer for these question in the Redhat reflectors, and never asked here. Please excuse my ignorance on this subject. I just did a kernel build of gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 by hand (make

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Mark, I'm, not an expert with this, but I'll try... Am Montag, 15. September 2003 18:57 schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, I've never received an answer for these question in the Redhat reflectors, and never asked here. Please excuse my ignorance on this subject. I just did a kernel build of

Re: [gentoo-user] a7n8x freezes with serial ata.

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:47:37 -0700 Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just copy your .config file from your old kernel directory into the ac-sources dir, and type make oldconfig at the prompt. This will only prompt you for new options. It's probably still advisable to go through the new kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Hyper-threading, SMB and Gentoo

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Niethen
[Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:44:10 -0500] Lindsay Haisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- : I'm building a system with an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe mb. I'm using the smp kernel on the Gentoo livecd, v1.4-20030911. The BIOS settings tell me that hyperthreading is enabled, and the flags line in /proc/cpuinfo lists the ht

[gentoo-user] Re: post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread Heribert Slama
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:20:15 +0500, in gmane.linux.gentoo.user, bob bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the replys guys.. clearly I need to track down and read the doco.. I wasn't aware of this feature :-P etc-update isn't a feature, it's a _nuisance_ :- But I'm sure Easy-as-a-pie Superman

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
They are created during a kernel build (make dep make ). vmlinuz is a linux kernel. Some distros use this while others use bzImage. Wen I move bzImage to /boot I usually rename the Gentoo bzImage to vmlinuz-x.y.z where x.y.z is a version such as 2.4.20. I'm just used to seeing vmlinuz

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 issues.

2003-09-15 Thread Josh Helmer
On Monday 15 September 2003 02:06 pm, Collins Richey wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:50:06 -0700 Josh Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks... I have been playing with 2.6 for a while now (mm-sources-2.6.0-test5). For the most part I am happy with it. The only real issue that I

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread David Friggens
I'm not too knowledgable in this area but I'm pretty sure the other two answers you've got so far are (in part) wrong. I did my first x86 install and kernel build the other day and found this info myself after trying to figure out why the x86 and ppc kernel procedures were different. (So I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is sendmail: Cannot open mail:25 popping up

2003-09-15 Thread Sean Higgins
Chris, The base version of Gentoo installs net-mail/ssmtp which links ssmtp to sendmail. This program is only run when you try to send mail from your system. The error message that you are getting: sendmail: Cannot open mail:25 Means, ssmtp could not open a mail connection to the host

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake David Friggens on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:57:22PM CDT * Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-15 09:57]: I just did a kernel build of gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 by hand (make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install then copy bzImage to /boot by hand) and I do not get the

[gentoo-user] CLOOP gotcha...

2003-09-15 Thread Jerry McBride
I just had a devil of a time setting up a kernel for cloop support... Before you can emerge cloop, you have to have a kernel with zlib compression support compiled INTO the kernel... not modules. What I had a hard time figuring out was... you can't have zlib compiled in the kernel and have

Re: [gentoo-user] Hyper-threading, SMB and Gentoo

2003-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Bingo! Two penguins! Thanks. Thus spake Michael Niethen on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:40:06PM CDT [Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:44:10 -0500] Lindsay Haisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- : I'm building a system with an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe mb. I'm using the smp kernel on the Gentoo livecd, v1.4-20030911. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Poll #8

2003-09-15 Thread Sean Johnson
The question is: Where did you first hear about gentoo?. I'm pretty sure it was slashdot ... Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Poll #8

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Tedesco
This guy was telling me to check it out on IRC. Ausnet server #melb-wireless Ciao for now. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread David Friggens
* Lindsay Haisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-15 17:40]: Thus spake David Friggens on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:57:22PM CDT * Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-15 09:57]: OK, I've got my wires crossed a bit. Mark - you can pretty much ignore what I said. :-) I started to do a bit more

[gentoo-user] Cups Quandry

2003-09-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
I have re-emerged cups, ghostscript, hpijs and gimp-print but still cannot get my printer working again. I believe that the problem started at the last cups update. (somewhere around 8/4/03) It is a USB HP deskjet 932 and worked fine until then. After re-emerging the above apps, I attempted to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread blade-
its all ok for me [EMAIL PROTECTED] blade- # emerge -u system Calculating system dependencies ...done! Auto-cleaning packages ... No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. [EMAIL PROTECTED] blade- # Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: Has anyone else

Re: [gentoo-user] advice regarding LVM needed

2003-09-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Sep 2003, at 2:05 pm, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 15. September 2003 15:04 schrieb Collins Richey: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the 2.6 kernel dropped support for LVM, and thus EVMS is now the only way to fly? Both LVM2 and EVMS2 use Sistina's Device Mapper which has been

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