Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning and LVM problem (partially solved)

2006-08-30 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Richard, On 8/29/06, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/hda4: No label detected Did you do pvcreate /dev/hda4? At that time, NO. Later I did, having completed vgcreate, lvcreated, mkdir, mounting, etc. All went through w/o problem. Problem came after chroot. I'll post

[gentoo-user] problem re ebuilds

2006-08-30 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Installing Gentoo amd64 Guide:- Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml On running; # emerge --sync --quiet following warning popup: * An update to portage is available. It is highly recommended * that your update portage now, before any

Re: [gentoo-user] problem re ebuilds

2006-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:36:09 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote: # emerge update portage Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satify update * end * That should be emerge --update portage I left it aside and continued to; Code Listing 22: installing a kernel source #

Re: [gentoo-user] problem re ebuilds

2006-08-30 Thread Daniel Huckstep
It's 'gentoo-sources', with a trailing 's' And to update, you just emerge foo, not emerge update foo Read the manpage for emerge to find out more options, or check the Gentoo handbook Daniel Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Installing Gentoo amd64 Guide:- Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] problem re ebuilds

2006-08-30 Thread malary
Hali! Try --update instead of update # emerge --update portage And the kernel source build name is gentoo-sources # emerge gentoo-sources malary http://malary.hu - Original Message - From: Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Wednesday, August

Re: [gentoo-user] problem re ebuilds

2006-08-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 August 2006 08:36, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Installing Gentoo amd64 Guide:- Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml On running; # emerge --sync --quiet following warning popup: * An update to portage is available. It is highly

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
nobarrier went into 2.6.17 I believe (kernel related change) and was discussed on the XFS mailing list. On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 30 August 2006 02:35, Richard Fish wrote: On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ mount | grep xfs /dev/hda6 on /home type xfs

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/30/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 30 August 2006 02:35, Richard Fish wrote: On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ mount | grep xfs /dev/hda6 on /home type xfs (rw) Hmm, I missed this before. nobarrier should be showing up here. Try: mount /home -o

Re: [gentoo-user] openLDAP clients

2006-08-30 Thread Marc Blumentritt
bijayant kumar schrieb: Hi, I have installed openLDAP server and configure the clients on the same system. Now, i have to install the server on one machine and clients on the other system. I want to ask that what to do for this. On the client machine, which files i have to

Re: [gentoo-user] openLDAP clients

2006-08-30 Thread bijayant kumar
Marc, Hi Once again you have solved my problem. Thank you very very much.Marc Blumentritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bijayant kumar schrieb: Hi, I have installed openLDAP server and configure the clients on the same system. Now, i have to install the server on one machine and clients

Re: [gentoo-user] openLDAP clients

2006-08-30 Thread Jeff Grant
Don't forget -- http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml :-) -Jeff bijayant kumar wrote: Marc, Hi Once again you have solved my problem. Thank you very very much. Marc Blumentritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bijayant kumar schrieb: Hi, I have installed

[gentoo-user] OT - WiFi cards for laptop

2006-08-30 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am about to splash out on a WiFi card for my laptop and I have foudn the whole choice experience daunting. I would ideally like to be able to also use this card on the laptop as a wireless access point when I am at home. Would something like the belkin device below do the trick:

[gentoo-user] MySQL clustering.

2006-08-30 Thread Pupeno
Hello, I've been searching for a while and reading some code and it seems that the mysql ebuild doesn't have support for clustering aside that building the binaries (that is, no config and init files to start the management and backends and so on). Am I right or am I missing something ? Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes - GNOME/nautilus Issue?

2006-08-30 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 18:35 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ mount | grep xfs /dev/hda6 on /home type xfs (rw) Hmm, I missed this before. nobarrier should be showing up here. Try: mount

[gentoo-user] mysql dump bad encoding

2006-08-30 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I've done a dump from a mysql db from my old not utf8 Debian (I don't really know what it was... and now is crashed). I've installed a fresh utf-8 gentoo and wanted to restore the db. Now I see lots of strange characters in my new db, mainly cause old one was using latin1. So, following

[gentoo-user] Re: Gmail + Email Client = No way

2006-08-30 Thread Thufir
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Lord Sauron wrote: [...] Otherwise, it only grabs about a hundred or so emails at a time, and will never get the latest emails. Which is an issue with Gmail, I think. On a weekend I set up KMail with my GMail account. About 6,000 threads. What I did was set up the

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL clustering.

2006-08-30 Thread kashani
Pupeno wrote: Hello, I've been searching for a while and reading some code and it seems that the mysql ebuild doesn't have support for clustering aside that building the binaries (that is, no config and init files to start the management and backends and so on). Am I right or am I missing

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail + Email Client = No way

2006-08-30 Thread b.n.
I am currently using this mailing list on a Gmail account with Thunderbird on Gentoo, never had problems. I can grab hundreds of mails at a time etc.etc. - it just works, it seems. It's more than a year that I use it this way. Have you checked all your settings are in line with that advised

[gentoo-user] HELP! Network status changes randomly, how to diagnose?

2006-08-30 Thread Erik
I am trying to connect my Gentoo computer to my D-Link DVG-1120 (VoIP Gateway with NAT) again after 3 months. It used to work great, but now the network status is changing randomly. Sometimes I can load a webpage, but then when I click on a link I get an error message. Then it may suddenly work

[gentoo-user] Emerge firefox error

2006-08-30 Thread Oliver Klein
Hi I want to re-emerge firefox but it ends with this error message checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for gtk+-2.0 = 1.3.7... Package atk was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `atk.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail + Email Client = No way

2006-08-30 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 8/26/06, Samuel Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, the only time I have had any success with this was with the Windows port of Thunderbird. Otherwise, it only grabs about a hundred or so emails at a time, and will never get the latest emails. As well, the time (...) Samuel,

[gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions

2006-08-30 Thread James
Hello, I have successfully upgraded several gentoo systems, (workstations and laptops) to xorg-x11 7.0, without incident. On a clevo portable, I did the same thing, following: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml During the install, it hung upon xkb so it told me to

[gentoo-user] Re: boot slave drive

2006-08-30 Thread Thufir
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Thufir wrote: From: Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: boot slave drive Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user fedora (FC5) is on hda (master), hdb (slave) has windows 2000 and gentoo. I'm only unable to boot gentoo. When booting gentoo here's the error message: [...]

[gentoo-user] gcc 4.1 with gentoo 2006.1

2006-08-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I just was doing heavy updates here to use up my monthly download-volume when I got in via eix-sync that there was a stable gcc-4.1.1. Browsed the web a bit and saw that Gentoo 2006.1 was released. Hooray ! ;-) I just *ask* Is it recommended/worth it/useful to recompile my stuff now?

[gentoo-user] HELP! Network status changes randomly, how to diagnose?

2006-08-30 Thread Erik
I am trying to connect my Gentoo computer to my D-Link DVG-1120 (VoIP Gateway with NAT) again after 3 months. It used to work great, but now the network status is changing randomly. Sometimes I can load a webpage, but then when I click on a link I get an error message. Then it may suddenly work

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! Network status changes randomly, how to diagnose?

2006-08-30 Thread Frank Jahn
Erik schrieb: I am trying to connect my Gentoo computer to my D-Link DVG-1120 (VoIP Gateway with NAT) again after 3 months. It used to work great, but now the network status is changing randomly. Sometimes I can load a webpage, but then when I click on a link I get an error message. Then it may

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.1 with gentoo 2006.1

2006-08-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I just was doing heavy updates here to use up my monthly download-volume when I got in via eix-sync that there was a stable gcc-4.1.1. Browsed the web a bit and saw that Gentoo 2006.1 was released. Hooray ! ;-) I just *ask* Is it recommended/worth

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail + Email Client = No way

2006-08-30 Thread Lord Sauron
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 12:09, Bruno Lustosa wrote: Of course, I had Gmail set to delete mail already received via POP, I haven't tried without this set. I have. Same behavior. -- http://lordsauronthegreat.googlepages.com/ pgp6NbxZxlpl3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: I've already updated it to the latest based on the suspend2 version. $uname -r 2.6.17-suspend2-r4 $eix xfsprogs Available versions: 2.7.3 2.7.11 2.8.10 Installed: 2.8.10 If not

Re: [gentoo-user] Freezing on Mounting Local Filesystems

2006-08-30 Thread Jason Weisberger
Martins,The problem just seemed to disappear I did a few kernel upgrades since this thread, and it never seemed to kick in again. I've also switched to reiser 4, but that was recently, so I guess I'm not really sure where the problem was. I'm still using ck sources without problems now. Jason

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! Network status changes randomly, how to diagnose?

2006-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
Posting the same question three times in one day is likely to increase the number of responses you get, but only from people complaining about your repeated posting. -- Neil Bothwick NOTE: The most fundamental particles in your computer are held together by a glueing force about which little

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions

2006-08-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/30/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'failed to load module kbd (modules does not exist, 0)' and 'Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or dir' Do you have ModulePath settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf? If so delete them or make sure they point to directories under

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot slave drive

2006-08-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/30/06, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking root filesystem fsc ext3: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hda4 Fix /etc/fstab. Replace all /dev/hda with /dev/hdb. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions

2006-08-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
James wrote: Still in /etc/X11/xkb the symbolic link flashes red indicated that /usr/lib/X11/xkb does not exit. I've never heard of /etc/X11/xkb, and I don't have it on my systems. Get rid of it. KDM will not fire up automactically. So I log in and run 'startx' and here are the errors I

[gentoo-user] Wireless Card On Laptop - Help Setting Up

2006-08-30 Thread Lord Sauron
My laptop has a wireless card. Wow. Don't die of the shock. I never use it. No, really, I don't. I'm never in a location with wireless access, so I just content myself with a good old fashioned Cat5e cable and call it a day. Now my life has changed. There is a wireless access point in my

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions

2006-08-30 Thread Jeff Grant
For my K/V/M (keyboard, video, mouse) to all work snappy with the new Xorg, I made sure to include these items in my /etc/make.conf: INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse joystick VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia v4l vesa My Logitech mouse was acting crappy until I added those lines. As always, YMMV. -Jeff Donnie

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg 7.0 upgrade questions

2006-08-30 Thread James
Donnie Berkholz dberkholz at gentoo.org writes: I've never heard of /etc/X11/xkb, and I don't have it on my systems. Get rid of it. done portage-utils and run `qq` -- x11-drivers/synaptics x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Card On Laptop - Help Setting Up

2006-08-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/30/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The card is: Intel PRO/Wireless (the kind they put in the IBM X40 type 2386-1CU - I don't know anything other than that part of the card's name - I'm sorry.) Intel cards are well supported. The 3945 requires out-of-tree drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes - GNOME/nautilus Issue? (SOLVED w/ ReFORMAT)

2006-08-30 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:38 -0700, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just re-formatted my partitions and moved things around. Things are looking up. Meaning, I am able to achieve good write/read speeds which is where i was previously. 15-20MB/s on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot slave drive

2006-08-30 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 8/31/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/06, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking root filesystem fsc ext3: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hda4 Fix /etc/fstab. Replace all /dev/hda with /dev/hdb. -Richard [...] Excellent! thanks :) -Thufir --