[gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Persson
My (parallel port laser) printer started spewing garbage (i.e. pcl data as text - a few characters per sheet) as a result, I think, of a loose cable. Trouble is I can't stop it. I cleared the print jobs. Even stopped cups. Tried to rmmod parport_pc and lp, but was refused. Tried pressing the

Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 09:56, Robert Persson wrote: My (parallel port laser) printer started spewing garbage (i.e. pcl data as text - a few characters per sheet) as a result, I think, of a loose cable. Trouble is I can't stop it. I cleared the print jobs. Even stopped cups. Tried to rmmod

Re: [gentoo-user] nagios cgi.cfg

2006-02-16 Thread Herman Grootaers
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 18:20, Arnau Bria Ramírez wrote: Hi, I've installed nagios on my gentoo box and after some time of configuration I pointed my web-browser to localhost/nagios and found Error: Could not open CGI config file '/etc/nagios/cgi.cfg' for reading! error message. So I

Re: [gentoo-user] nagios cgi.cfg

2006-02-16 Thread Arnau Bria Ramírez
El Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:03:12 +0100 Herman Grootaers dijo: You just tested the configuration of nagios. To start it run either the startscript in /etc/init.d, or if it does not exists with the same command replacing the -v with -d. That should start nagios, and start also the output on the

[gentoo-user] Centos guest on Gentoo Vserver

2006-02-16 Thread Avdija Ahmedhodzic
Hello, I'm trying to install Centos as guest on Gentoo Vserver. I'm folowing this Howto: http://linux-vserver.org/CentOS_HowTo ant this is result: vlan10-virtual / # vserver min-centos4 build -m yum --hostname domain.com --interface domain=eth0:192.168.0.136/24 --initstyle sysv --context 500

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X without console log window?

2006-02-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:49 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have currently syslog-ng running, but I think I remember that similar configuration was in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf (maybe commented out?) Yes, it was commented out as the default setting is to send

Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread William Kenworthy
At times you also have to go to the cups cache directory and delete the print job there as well, as on restart it stats the printjob from the beginning again. They really need to fix this ... BillK On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 01:00 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 00:18 Uwe

[gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Izar Ilun
I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space I should use for /. My machine is Pentium4, 1GB RAM, 200 GB HD ATA It's a desktop machine with Gentoo as the only and exclusive OS. Will run KDE. Amarok, OpenOffice, firefox Thanx!

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
40 GB is enough, these are my stats with / partition of 35GB / 200GB Filesystemblocchi di 1K Usati Disponib. Uso% Montato su * /dev/sdb1 34185192 18272204 15912988 54% /

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:19:21 +0100, Izar Ilun wrote: I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space I should use for /. That depends on what you are going to put on it. Will /usr or /var be on it? They use most of the space. 10GB will be plenty. I have / or a 300MB

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Izar Ilun
I say that, It'll be just: - /boot - swap - /home - / (all the rest)On 2/16/06, Ibai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It'll be just: - /boot - swap - /home - / (all the rest)On 2/16/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:19:21 +0100, Izar Ilun wrote: I'm installing Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Izar Ilun wrote: I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space I should use for /. 512 MB. The rest should go to filesystems for /var, /usr, /opt and /home. And maybe also additional filesystems for /usr/src and all that Gentoo stuff. Alexander Skwar -- BOFH Excuse

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Izar Ilun wrote: I say that, It'll be just: - /boot - swap - /home - / (all the rest) That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var and / (of course). This way you're more flexible and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: phpmyadmin

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Ernie Schroder wrote: I am just starting to play with php and mysql. I've got mysql working and can log into root accounts using a password. php scripts work on http://localhost. For example, http://localhost/php/index.php in a browser shows a whole lot of info re php, mysql and apache2.

Re: [gentoo-user] nagios cgi.cfg

2006-02-16 Thread Herman Grootaers
On Thursday 16 February 2006 12:26, Arnau Bria Ramírez wrote: El Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:03:12 +0100 Herman Grootaers dijo: You just tested the configuration of nagios. To start it run either the startscript in /etc/init.d, or if it does not exists with the same command replacing the -v with

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:06:12 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var and / (of course). This way you're more flexible and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of running out of space on /). But

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread apn
I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space I should use for /. 512 MB. The rest should go to filesystems for /var, /usr, /opt and /home. And maybe also additional filesystems fo This is (part) what i have mount i`ve instales stuff for workstation (no

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Module (3c59x) not recognized

2006-02-16 Thread Gilberto Martins
This problem was solved already, I really commited a huge compilatiom mistake. So, I decided using genkernl to help. But this is another thread ... 2006/2/15, Emmanuel Durin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The make module_install command installs the modules into /lib/modules/2.x.xx/. Search for your file

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-16 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 15 février 2006 à 04:42 -0800, Mark Knecht a écrit : OK, good info - but what can I remove? Or more important how can I find what's talking up too much space. I know you've already solved that problem, but I think the following might be interesting. I found xdiskusage to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: Izar Ilun wrote: I say that, It'll be just: - /boot - swap - /home - / (all the rest) That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var and / (of course). This way

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:19, Izar Ilun wrote: I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space I should use for /. My machine is Pentium4, 1GB RAM, 200 GB HD ATA It's a desktop machine with Gentoo as the only and exclusive OS. Will run KDE. Amarok,

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space I should use for /. 512 MB. The rest should go to filesystems for /var, /usr, /opt and /home. And maybe also additional filesystems fo This is (part) what i have mount i`ve instales

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread jarry
Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To put everything on its own partition was good, when harddisks were 2gb-10gb big. But today it is just a waste of space and time. IMHO there still might be advantages to using more partitions, for example security (you can mount /boot /tmp /home

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread jarry
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I say that, It'll be just: - /boot - swap - /home - / (all the rest) That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var and / (of course). Moreover I have created separate partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: Izar Ilun wrote: I say that, It'll be just: - /boot - swap - /home - / (all the rest) That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:06:12 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var and / (of course). This way you're more flexible and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of running

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
Alexander Skwar wrote: Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people still do the old style partitioning. For example, in your setup, how do you make /var larger, if need be? With LVM, it would just be a matter of lvresize -L+512m

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/16/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on their own partition. Additionally, the more partitions, the more useless head movement, the slower data transfer the earlier the harddisk dies. I disagree. Sensible partitioning can _reduce_ head movement and improve performance.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread jarry
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people still do the old style partitioning. Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do not have control over physical placement of your partitions.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread John Jolet
On 2/16/06 9:04 AM, Martin Eisenhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people still do the old style partitioning. For example, in your setup, how do you make /var larger, if

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 February 2006 10:02 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:25:52 +0100, Bo Andresen wrote: I always

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
On Thursday February 16 2006 16:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people still do the old style partitioning. Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people still do the old style partitioning. Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do not have control over physical

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: you'll never fill up root, so making a lot of partitions is just wasted space. No, it's not wasted space. Well, okay, not much wasted space. And yes, I once put all and everything on its own partition. I learnt the hard way, that this does not solve problems, it

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:14, Robert Crawford wrote: The main reason for putting /var, /tmp, and portage on their own partitions is to minimize fragmentation on /, especially with a source distro like Gentoo. And yes, Linux does fragment and does require attention, especially with

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: Izar Ilun wrote: I say that, It'll be just: - /boot - swap - /home - / (all the rest) That's not advisable. I'd strongly

Re: [gentoo-user] nagios cgi.cfg

2006-02-16 Thread Arnau Bria Ramírez
El Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:37:10 +0100 Herman Grootaers dijo: So Nagios is started correctly. Sure, and it send emails correctly. (it found my smtp server down during a reboot) Now another question: is apache running and if so is there an entry in the apache-configuration for the nagios

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/16/06, Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le mercredi 15 février 2006 à 04:42 -0800, Mark Knecht a écrit : OK, good info - but what can I remove? Or more important how can I find what's talking up too much space. I know you've already solved that problem, but I think the

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:02, Richard Fish wrote: Having / on its own partition can result in a similar improvement, because the drive doesn't have to seek over your files in /home or /opt to get to something in /lib. it still has to move at the beginning of the partition, look up, where

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do not have control over physical placement of your partitions. Right? While true in theory, in practice the first LV you create is created at the lowest numbered PV extents, which correspond to

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
On Thursday February 16 2006 16:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people still do the old style partitioning. Correct me if I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:19:36 -, Michael Kintzios wrote: make install does exactly the same, and sets up the vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old symlinks to point to your new and previous kernel respectively, so you don't need to edit grub.conf. Hmm, it doesn't on my two boxen. :-( I do not

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:39:02 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt while Not really. And even if so - who cares? Make the fs larger, and you're set. Also, if those fs run out of space, it's not a DoS. No, but it means you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:50:01 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I found xdiskusage to be a very practical tool to findout where space is wasted on a disk. It's basically a tool giving a graphical output to du, showing how the space is shared by directory and subdirectories (and files with the -a

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff
Moving my thread over to the proper list... first... Now then - thanks to everyone on the list for your help. I've had barely any sleep lately, so I must apologize first, for putting the original thread onto the security mailing list by mistake. For anyone who's wondering - I have an AMD64 box,

Re: [gentoo-user] Por qué eres tan maravilloso Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Great !! Thx, Rafael Fernández López. pgpCt7WgJJcoM.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Forgive me if this ends up being the stupid question of the day. But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. (Obviously I could download it from kernel.org and go that route, but I would like to keep as much as possible in

[gentoo-user] BIND 9.3.2 won't start

2006-02-16 Thread Chris Bare
I just upgraded to BIND 9.3.2 and now when I try: /etc/init.d/named start it says: * WARNING: named has already been started. I used to have this problem before, so I checked my notes and saw this is what I did to fix it: oberon log # mkdir /var/run/named oberon log # chmod 700

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Forgive me if this ends up being the stupid question of the day. But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. (Obviously I could download it from kernel.org and go that route, but I

[gentoo-user] Re: BIND 9.3.2 won't start

2006-02-16 Thread Remy Blank
Chris Bare wrote: I just upgraded to BIND 9.3.2 and now when I try: /etc/init.d/named start it says: * WARNING: named has already been started. Kill all named processes: killall named Tell the init script that you have done so: /etc/init.d/named zap Start named:

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Jarry
Martin Eisenhardt wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do not have control over physical placement of your partitions. Right? No, wrong, I am sorry :-D You might let LVM choose where to put the extends for a newly created logical volume, but you might also tell LVM where to

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:39:02 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt while Not really. And even if so - who cares? Make the fs larger, and you're set. Also, if those fs run out of space, it's not a DoS. No,

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread kashani
Alexander Skwar wrote: I can't. But that's just not needed. Make the filesystems as large as they *now* need to be. If more space is required, extending is a matter of a few seconds. I agree with that. 80GB drive, lvm up 50GB of it, and then you can grow whatever as needed. It's not like you

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry wrote: But even if it is so, if you resize partition by lvm, this advantage could be lost. And if it even is possible to keep some partition continuous, than resizing partition in lvm would be very long process: if I resize 1st partition (the fastest, on the most outer cylinders) and

Re: [gentoo-user] updating glibc-2.3.5-r2: segmentation fault... (part 2)

2006-02-16 Thread Jarry
Rumen Yotov wrote: Now run: gcc-config 5 and check again with gcc-config -l that vanilla is your default gcc profile. Next try re-emerging GCC-3.4.4. I tried. Changed to vanilla, verified, started re-emerging gcc, but it failed without saying anything (frozen, after 4 hours of nothing-doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Konqueror as an FTP Client

2006-02-16 Thread Ryan Holt
Thanks all for your help!Turns out that Kasablanca will work for me, gftp for some reason or another crashes, but Konqueror still can't work correctly; guess is it has something to do with that bug. On 2/16/06, Harm Geerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 02:05, Ryan Holt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors laptop issues

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:27, James wrote: It also looks like the power supply is not regulating very well? Can I believe these voltages? no but you can never believe the voltages. The absolut numbers are irrelevant. What is important: are there any fluctuations? Does the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 2/16/06, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive me if this ends up being the stupid question of the day. But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. (Obviously I could download it from kernel.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Jeff: See here: hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 3016 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1507.91 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads:4 MB in 3.68 seconds = 1.09 MB/sec Horribly slow! This machine should be blazing fast, with the 7200 rpm 200 GB hard drive, AMD64

Re: [gentoo-user] updating glibc-2.3.5-r2: segmentation fault... (part 2)

2006-02-16 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:25 +0100, Jarry wrote: Rumen Yotov wrote: Now run: gcc-config 5 and check again with gcc-config -l that vanilla is your default gcc profile. Next try re-emerging GCC-3.4.4. I tried. Changed to vanilla, verified, started re-emerging gcc, but it failed

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: Izar Ilun wrote: I say that, It'll be just:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:32, Jeff wrote: Moving my thread over to the proper list... first... Now then - thanks to everyone on the list for your help. I've had barely any sleep lately, so I must apologize first, for putting the original thread onto the security mailing list by mistake.

[gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Nick Smith
is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for instance i have a package that is blocking another package when i do an emerge, is there a way to tell if the package that is blocking the other is actually needed by any other package on the system before i unmerge it? thanks Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? I mean, u for update? emerge -uav gentoo-sources These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! Total size of downloads: 0 kB Nothing to

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Ghaith Hachem
usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need On 2/16/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for instance i have a package that is blocking another package when i do

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? I mean, u for update? emerge -uav gentoo-sources These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread james
gentuxx gentuxx at gmail.com writes: emerge -uav gentoo-sources These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! Total size of downloads: 0 kB Nothing to merge; do you want me to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] n when was the last time you

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
gentuxx schreef: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 2/16/06, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive me if this ends up being the stupid question of the day. But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. (Obviously I could download it from kernel.org and go that route, but

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Nick Smith
On 2/16/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need right, but i want to know that the package im going to remove because its blocking something else isnt needed by another package on

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/16/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:02, Richard Fish wrote: Having / on its own partition can result in a similar improvement, because the drive doesn't have to seek over your files in /home or /opt to get to something in /lib. it

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: Izar Ilun wrote:

[gentoo-user] Re: what does this mean?

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 16 14:03, Nick Smith (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: # /etc/init.d/spamd start * Starting spamd... [18773] error: persistent_udp: no such method at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 99 [ ok ] I

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/16/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need right, but i want to know that the package im going to remove because its

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: gentuxx schreef: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 2/16/06, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive me if this ends up being the stupid question of the day. But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. (Obviously I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 james wrote: gentuxx gentuxx at gmail.com writes: emerge -uav gentoo-sources These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! Total size of downloads: 0 kB Nothing to merge; do you want me to auto-clean

[gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-16 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i've followed this how http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash to have a framebuffer splash under gentoo. I've added splash to the boot runlevel; however the framebuffer images start only in the default runlevel. # rc-status boot .. .. splash .. .. This is the GRUB entries:

Re: [gentoo-user] updating glibc-2.3.5-r2: segmentation fault... (part 2)

2006-02-16 Thread Jarry
Rumen Yotov wrote: Have you compiled anything after compiling GCC with 'hardened'? (genlop) Negative, only gcc, then emerge failed trying to compile 2nd package - glibc-2.3.5-r2. I tried to go back (removed those hardened-flags), and could not compile gcc-3.4.4 Try with MAKEOPTS=-j1 in

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Andresen wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? I mean, u for update? emerge -uav gentoo-sources These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So I run an `emerge --sync`, and `emerge -av gentoo-sources`. And it wants to rebuild my 2.6.13-r3 Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:40:49 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: needed - What's needed, anyway? / and swap, nothing else :) -- Neil Bothwick Crayons can take you more places than starships. * Guinan signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Mick
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 2/16/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? I mean, u for update? emerge -uav gentoo-sources These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 21:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:57 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: If partition A runs out of space while partition B has plenty, Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. Of course, but if your needs change,

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So I run an `emerge --sync`, and `emerge -av gentoo-sources`. And it wants

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo make install does exactly the same, and sets up the vmlinuz and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread John Jolet
On 2/16/06 11:05 AM, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 2/16/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? I mean, u for update? emerge -uav gentoo-sources These are

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:21, Alexander Skwar wrote: You *can* tell LVM where to put LVs but you do not *have* to. But how do you actually do that? Or are you talking about the allocation policy? Like --contiguous y? Well, first of all, you can pass lvcreate a list of physical

Re: [gentoo-user] updating glibc-2.3.5-r2: segmentation fault... (part 2)

2006-02-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jarry wrote: So now (I hope!) my system is in consistent state, as it was before my little experiment Well, you have had a kernel oops, and it looks like you may have had another (the emerge of gcc that did nothing for 4 hours), so... something doesn't seem quite right. Keep watching your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Kintzios schreef: -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo make install does exactly the same, and sets up

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/16/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: / and swap, nothing else :) Well if we are going to be silly, you actually only need / -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:53:21 -0800, gentuxx wrote: eix -e gentoo-sources * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Available versions: 2.4.28-r9 ~2.4.31-r1 2.6.9-r9 2.6.12-r9 2.6.12-r10 ~2.6.13 ~2.6.13-r1 ~2.6.13-r2 2.6.13-r3 Installed: 2.6.11-r5 2.6.11-r6 2.6.11-r8 2.6.11-r9

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Frino Klauss
On 2/16/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My impression is that you haven't yet run make install.Can't youusegenkernelinstead ?

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting time in middle of session

2006-02-16 Thread James
Uwe Thiem uwix at iway.na writes: With a dial-up connection, you haven't much chance other than connecting to a time server when your connection is up. I do it automatically in /etc/ppp/ip-up. Hey, this is cool, do you have an example 'ip-up' config file? I have used ppp quite a lot to

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Mick
John Jolet wrote: On 2/16/06 11:05 AM, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Frino Klauss schreef: On 2/16/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My impression is that you haven't yet run make install. Can't you use genkernel instead ? I have no idea; I've never used genkernel, and am unlikely to ever do so. Since it is a mostly automated process (though you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:53, gentuxx wrote: Do you have eix installed? If not I suggest you install it. No, I just installed it. So this is the first time running these commands - if that makes any difference. Well, that's why you had to run update-eix. If you intend to use eix in the

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Mick
Holly Bostick wrote: My impression is that you haven't yet run make install. HTH, Holly Spot on! I'll try it out next time I compile a kernel Holly, thank you for clarifying matters. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, Frino Klauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/16/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My impression is that you haven't yet run make install. Can't you use genkernel instead ? Yes, if you want, if you use it with --install it will copy the latest kernel, map and initrd to

Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Persson
On Thursday 16 February 2006 04:06 William Kenworthy was like: At times you also have to go to the cups cache directory and delete the print job there as well, as on restart it stats the printjob from the beginning again.  They really need to fix this ... When I shut down cupsd the printer

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