In the instructions here, I've set up a revised dev-manager ebuild in
an overlay. I've requested the changes to be incorporated into the
official ebuild and it appears to have been accepted. See...
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395319
It should be rolled out eventually, and the
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:04, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
In the instructions here, I've set up a revised dev-manager ebuild in
an overlay. I've requested the changes to be incorporated into the
official ebuild and it appears to have been accepted. See...
emerge smartmontools
then when that is done, do this:
smartctl -t long /dev/sddrive letter here
When you do that, it should print a message that tells when the test will
complete. It is usually a 24 hour format thing too. This can run while the
drive is in use too. Sometime after that
Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 11:26:54 schrieb Lorenzo Bandieri:
emerge smartmontools
then when that is done, do this:
smartctl -t long /dev/sddrive letter here
When you do that, it should print a message that tells when the test will
complete. It is usually a 24 hour format
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:00:12 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
It is reasonable to assume that the answer to that question is yes.
Any other answer raises the question why did Zac spend so much effort
recoding portage just to piss off the odd user?.
Hah! Many people here are probably
On 2012-01-02 3:48 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:29:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
That works for the case where the software is managed by portage,
which is likely 99.% of what's on Gentoo systems worldwide. It
doesn't work however for the odd case where
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:49:45 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
Neil, is the use of sets fully documented somewhere? I don't recall
reading about them in the Handbook, but its been a while since I read
it (and don't remember if I ever did cover to cover)...
I can't recall where I found the
The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote:
(Come to think of it, has *any* distro ever attempted this...
'unconventional of going udev-free?)
mdev is not an udev replacement. It's a very minimalist udev designed
for embedded systems and initramfs. These days, a full-featured system
require a dynamic
On Jan 3, 2012 7:35 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote:
The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote:
(Come to think of it, has *any* distro ever attempted this...
'unconventional of going udev-free?)
mdev is not an udev replacement. It's a very minimalist udev designed
for embedded
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 02:00:48 Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 01/02/2012 07:22 PM, Dale wrote:
I always knew I was odd. Looks like I have some company tho. Welcome
to the odd user group Michael.
It ain't us =)
Nope. It ain't just you. It's me too. ;-)
I'd rather the old default
The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote:
But I can see a use case for mdev completely replacing udev: servers and
virtual machines.
Servers, especially production ones, have a hardware change only once in
every two blue moons. They don't need all the bells and whistles of udev.
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:32:09 +0100
Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote:
The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote:
(Come to think of it, has *any* distro ever attempted this...
'unconventional of going udev-free?)
mdev is not an udev replacement. It's a very minimalist udev designed
for
The 03/01/12, Alan McKinnon wrote:
If you go back through the list archives you will find the enormous
thread that caused Walter to start down this road in the first place.
His efforts are an attempt to deal with the gigantic bloat-fest that
the udev devs seem to revel in.
If you go back
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 20:13, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote:
The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote:
But I can see a use case for mdev completely replacing udev: servers and
virtual machines.
Servers, especially production ones, have a hardware change only once in
every
Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 14:36:08 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht:
The 03/01/12, Alan McKinnon wrote:
If you go back through the list archives you will find the enormous
thread that caused Walter to start down this road in the first place.
His efforts are an attempt to deal with the gigantic
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
The 03/01/12, Alan McKinnon wrote:
If you go back through the list archives you will find the enormous
thread that caused Walter to start down this road in the first place.
His efforts are an attempt to deal with the gigantic bloat-fest that
the udev devs seem to revel
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On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote:
Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable
through the @world hierarchy needs the package. No need to
uninstall anything to do that level of
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 01:13:17 Gregory Shearman wrote:
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 20:58:18 -0200
Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not currently at my Gentoo box, sorry for this, but if I don't
post this now I'll probably forget to
The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 20:13, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote:
But servers have enough ressources to run udev and any required
initramfs to mount /usr.
No, no, no, you got it the wrong way around.
It's not udev *per se* that I -- as a server
The 03/01/12, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 14:36:08 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht:
It's free software so everybody can feel free to support him, of course.
I think it's time consummed in the wrong road. I'm a bit curious how
long this alternative can survive. :-)
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100
Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote:
Then again, using initramfs is yet-another-component waiting to
break.
Knowing Murphy's Law, it will one day fuck up everything.
And the mdev alternative won't follow this law?
It's not immune to it, just
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:05:56 +0100
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote:
Really, the proposal to 'fix --update' doesn't address really
knowing what your system is running and why. Get to the root of
that and the --update thing becomes the non-issue that many of us
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On 03.01.2012 15:47, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:05:56 +0100 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote:
Really, the proposal to 'fix --update' doesn't address
really knowing what your system is running and why. Get
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote:
Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable
through the @world hierarchy needs the package. No need to
uninstall anything to do that level of investigation.
Michael Mol wrote:
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote:
Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable
through the @world hierarchy needs the package. No need to
uninstall anything to do that level
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100
Nicolas Sebrechtnsebre...@piing.fr wrote:
Then again, using initramfs is yet-another-component waiting to
break.
Knowing Murphy's Law, it will one day fuck up everything.
And the mdev alternative won't follow this law?
It's not immune
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:22:09PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
(Come to think of it, has *any* distro ever attempted this...
'unconventional of going udev-free?)
Alpine linux has done it http://alpinelinux.org/ Unfortunately,
they're so minimalistic and server-oriented that they use uclibc
The 03/01/12, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:22:09PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
(Come to think of it, has *any* distro ever attempted this...
'unconventional of going udev-free?)
Alpine linux has done it http://alpinelinux.org/ Unfortunately,
they're so minimalistic and
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 14:55:38 Michael Mol wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote:
Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable
through the @world hierarchy needs the
Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 14:55:38 Michael Mol wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote:
Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable
through the @world hierarchy
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 15:22:29 Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:22:09PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
(Come to think of it, has *any* distro ever attempted this...
'unconventional of going udev-free?)
Alpine linux has done it http://alpinelinux.org/ Unfortunately,
they're
Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 14:55:38 Michael Mol wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote:
Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable
through the @world hierarchy
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 16:18:20 Michael Mol wrote:
Mick, yours gives me the same error:
gpg command line and output:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe
gpg: Signature made 01/03/12 11:01:03 using DSA key ID 792968B6
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
Though trying
Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 16:18:20 Michael Mol wrote:
Mick, yours gives me the same error:
gpg command line and output:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe
gpg: Signature made 01/03/12 11:01:03 using DSA key ID 792968B6
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
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On 03.01.2012 18:39, Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 16:18:20 Michael Mol wrote:
Mick, yours gives me the same error:
gpg command line and output: C:\Program Files
(x86)\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe gpg: Signature made 01/03/12 11:01:03
using DSA key
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 17:52:19 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
On 03.01.2012 18:39, Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 16:18:20 Michael Mol wrote:
Mick, yours gives me the same error:
gpg command line and output: C:\Program Files
(x86)\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe gpg: Signature made 01/03/12
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Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 17:52:19 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
On 03.01.2012 18:39, Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 16:18:20 Michael Mol wrote:
Mick, yours gives me the same error:
gpg command line and output: C:\Program Files
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 20:16, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote:
Well, I have no experience with their service (although I always planned
to use them), but maybe you can try these guys [1]. They don't have file
size limits and support everything working over ssh (including sshfs) as
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:46:42AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
So your actual problem is that you relied on an arbitrary behaviour of
portage from the days when the standard was whatever portage does
today and you are unhappy because for you that is now broken.
But no-one ever promised you
Hi,
My gentoo box runs with linux kernel 3.1.6 (vanilla).
The hardware consists of an Asus Crosshair Formula IV
motherboard, a AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor and
two nviida cards:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX
560 Ti] (rev a1)
09:00.0 VGA
xpdf it complains about missing fonts
xpdf hl5370d_ukeng_usr.pdf
Error: No display font for 'Courier'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-Bold'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-BoldOblique'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-Oblique'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica'
Error: No display
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
I know. It's the I want to get the rid of initramfs thing that looks
crazy to me.
No one is saying they want to get rid of the initramfs, because they are
not using one. What people object to is being forced to start using one.
--
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
I know. It's the I want to get the rid of initramfs thing that looks
crazy to me.
No one is saying they want to get rid of the initramfs, because they are
not using one. What people object to is being forced to
On 01/02/12 22:19, Dale wrote:
Colleen Beamer wrote:
On 01/02/12 14:42, Michael Mol wrote:
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Colleen
Beamercolleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote:
On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Beamer wrote:
On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote:
Am 03.01.2012 23:15, schrieb Joseph:
xpdf it complains about missing fonts
xpdf hl5370d_ukeng_usr.pdf Error: No display font for 'Courier'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-Bold'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-BoldOblique'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-Oblique'
Error: No display
On 01/04/12 00:20, Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 03.01.2012 23:15, schrieb Joseph:
xpdf it complains about missing fonts
xpdf hl5370d_ukeng_usr.pdf Error: No display font for 'Courier'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-Bold'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-BoldOblique'
Error: No display font
On 3 January 2012 21:10, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
My gentoo box runs with linux kernel 3.1.6 (vanilla).
The hardware consists of an Asus Crosshair Formula IV
motherboard, a AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor and
two nviida cards:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure if this is related, but here it goes:
Unllike you, I'm running a (single) ATI card in a laptop and have just
compiled and installed the 3.1.6-gentoo kernel.
Like you, when I tried to hibernate the screen but
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [12-01-04 02:29]:
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure if this is related, but here it goes:
Unllike you, I'm running a (single) ATI card in a laptop and have just
compiled and installed the
Just for completeness sake, try downgrading the kernel to 3.1.5 or lower.
Hi all,
I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX
motherboard. The board has a raid controller on which I'm running a
120GB solid state drive for the OS (Raid 0) and a set of three 1.5TB
drives which were previously running as a RAID5 array.
I can see the sda
I am trying to run a custom kernel with gentoo on linode64, but there's
strange problem I'm facing.
The root always gets mounted read-only, I don't know why. I have this
line in menu.lst:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.6-gentoo root=/dev/xvda rw
Also, the /etc/fstab line says:
/dev/xvda /
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:03:49AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote
...I tried linux kernel 3.1.7 and it does not fix the problem.
The situation remains the samesigh
What can I addtionaly check ?
An excerpt from the hibernate.conf man page...
On Wed 04 Jan 2012 08:35:19 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
I am trying to run a custom kernel with gentoo on linode64, but there's
strange problem I'm facing.
The root always gets mounted read-only, I don't know why. I have this
line in menu.lst:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.6-gentoo
Ok, I know what to do. I played a little with ffmpeg and avconv
(ffmpeg's fork, libav, conversion utility) converting 3D YouTube
videos to play at the Nintendo 3DS.
Anyways, I'll pretend you're using ffmpeg, I prefer libav but ffmpeg
is much more common (both are made available by portage, there
On 01/03/2012 08:57 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
device-mapper: table: 253:0: raid45: unknown target type
Maybe a dumb question, but is the raid45 module enabled in your kernel
config?
Hey list,
A little while after I compiled Gnome and got things running, I lost the
ability to add scripts to the default runlevel. I can run rc-update add
xdm default, for example, and the xdm symlink will appear in
/etc/runlevels/default, and that symlink will indeed point to
/etc/init.d/xdm,
On Wed 04 Jan 2012 08:42:48 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
On Wed 04 Jan 2012 08:35:19 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
I am trying to run a custom kernel with gentoo on linode64, but there's
strange problem I'm facing.
The root always gets mounted read-only, I don't know why. I have
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org [12-01-04 06:25]:
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:03:49AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote
...I tried linux kernel 3.1.7 and it does not fix the problem.
The situation remains the samesigh
What can I addtionaly check ?
An excerpt from the
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