Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:53:31 +0100, Mick wrote: carcharias rjf # emerge --info | grep CONFIG_PROTECT CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
A note for everybody who uses gensplash and splashutils. After i deleted the device files and rebooted the silent mode refused to work. So i decided to reemerge splashutils. But this is not necessary. After installing, the ebuild checks for missing devices, which was in my case /dev/tty1. Here

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:55:31 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: But what? Is it possible that /dev/tty1 is not in place at these early moments of booting when it is needed by splashutils? Yes, because the splash stuff runs before udevstart, so you need a static device node for anything required

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:55:31 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: But what? Is it possible that /dev/tty1 is not in place at these early moments of booting when it is needed by splashutils? Yes, because the splash stuff runs before udevstart, so you need a static device

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread sdoma
Hi again, As the handbook mentioned udev is default for Gentoo now. I have 1479 devices and directories in /dev after startup Hmmm, wasn't udev (and formerly devfs) meant to have only the devices needed? Is hotplug still an issue or is it started by bootmisc? If i plug in my USB stick (yes, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 11:04 schrieb ext sdoma: As the handbook mentioned udev is default for Gentoo now. I have 1479 devices and directories in /dev after startup Hmmm, wasn't udev (and formerly devfs) meant to have only the devices needed? Did you set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to no in

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/25/06, sdoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is hotplug still an issue or is it started by bootmisc? If i plug in my USB stick (yes, I do have USB UHCI, EHCI, OHCI mass storage compiled into the kernel) I can't mount it. The hotplug init script doesn't do anything anymore, it's functions have

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread sdoma
Yes, now I remember. I had this tarball issue with 2005.0 already, thanks. Regarding to the issue with sd* ... call me a numb ;o) ... i forgot to build SCSI disk support into the kernel 8-| No up to the main part of my holiday plans ... reinstall my (LFS based) WiFi AP to be Gentoo too. ;)))

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Mick
On Friday 25 August 2006 10:50, Richard Fish wrote: I remember some discussion about hotplug/coldplug and if coldplug makes sense at all. Coldplug is dead and gone, usurped by udev. I know what you're saying, but I seem to still have coldplug in my boot runlevel and of course it kicks in

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I have mine set to no and it is full of stuff. According to Konqueror it has 654 files and 13 folders. Is that right? That is a lot of stuff. I think it is. After setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to no and removing everything except /dev/console and /dev/null by using the gentoo live-cd, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Mick
On Friday 25 August 2006 22:06, Richard Fish wrote: Yeah, udev = 089 blocks coldplug, so the init script should have been removed, assuming you have upgraded to udev = 089. OK, I'm still on stable: sys-fs/udev-087-r1 carcharias rjf # emerge --info | grep CONFIG_PROTECT CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I have mine set to no and it is full of stuff. According to Konqueror it has 654 files and 13 folders. Is that right? That is a lot of stuff. I think it is. After setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to no and removing everything except /dev/console and /dev/null by using

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/25/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I have mine set to no and it is full of stuff. According to Konqueror it has 654 files and 13 folders. Is that right? That is a lot of stuff. I think it is. After setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to no and removing everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-25 Thread Dale
Richard Fish wrote: You apparently missed the part of Daniel's email where he said you have a normal number.Several hundred device nodes is normal (850 for Daniel, 932 here). The vast majority of which (577) are tty or pty devices that will be on all systems. So yeah, you should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 DVD hangs !

2006-04-30 Thread Rohit Sharma
Rohit and Bhavana wrote: Hi there, I downloaded the ISO image and as I didn't have a blank CD handy, I burned it onto a single layer DVD [after all it was an ISO image, right?] and hoped for the best. Totally my fault. Should have verified the md5sun before messing two perfectly good media.

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 DVD hangs !

2006-04-28 Thread Rohit and Bhavana
Hi there, I downloaded the ISO image and as I didn't have a blank CD handy, I burned it onto a single layer DVD [after all it was an ISO image, right?] and hoped for the best. My PC now boots off it, shows lovely startup splash etc till it tries to start GDM. At that point - the mouse pointer

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 on HP DL580

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Madden
Has anyone gotten Gentoo 2006.0 installed using the x86 livecd installer on a HP DL580? On my DL580, it loads the cciss driver and the partitions show up in /proc/partitions. However both the console and gui installation don't find a hard drive to partition. The console installer crashes while

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0

2006-02-09 Thread Sascha Lucas
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Jorge Martín wrote: Is Gentoo 2006.0 going to be released anytime soon? I want to install Gentoo on my home computer but I'm too lazy to insall 2005.1.r1 and upgrade all packages so I'm waiting for 2006.0. The answer to your question can be found here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0

2006-02-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/8/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Martín wrote: Exactly, what I don't want is to Install 2005.1-r1 stage3 and then have to update the stage3 it takes too much time to compile the updated version of glib and gcc. I also like to have GRP packages for Gnome and so, my Home

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0

2006-02-09 Thread Jorge Martín
Thx Sasha, I was looking for that Release Schedule all over gentoo site but couldn't find it.About the updates, it's easy,, I left my computer all night downloading and installing updates,, ;-) when I have one or two, not when I have to update the whole distribution, that's why I want to start as

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0

2006-02-08 Thread Jorge Martín
Is Gentoo 2006.0 going to be released anytime soon? I want to install Gentoo on my home computer but I'm too lazy to insall 2005.1.r1 and upgrade all packages so I'm waiting for 2006.0.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0

2006-02-08 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 15:19, a tiny voice compelled Jorge Martín to write: Is Gentoo 2006.0 going to be released anytime soon? I want to install Gentoo on my home computer but I'm too lazy to insall 2005.1.r1 and upgrade all packages so I'm waiting for 2006.0. Gentoo version numbers

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0

2006-02-08 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:01:24 -0500 Ernie Schroder wrote: On Wednesday 08 February 2006 15:19, a tiny voice compelled Jorge Martín to write: Is Gentoo 2006.0 going to be released anytime soon? I want to install Gentoo on my home computer but I'm too lazy to insall 2005.1.r1 and upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0

2006-02-08 Thread Jorge Martín
Exactly, what I don't want is to Install 2005.1-r1 stage3 and then have to update the stage3 it takes too much time to compile the updated version of glib and gcc.I also like to have GRP packages for Gnome and so, my Home Internet conection is not too fast so I prefer to update the less packages I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0

2006-02-08 Thread b.n.
Jorge Martín wrote: Exactly, what I don't want is to Install 2005.1-r1 stage3 and then have to update the stage3 it takes too much time to compile the updated version of glib and gcc. I also like to have GRP packages for Gnome and so, my Home Internet conection is not too fast so I prefer to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0

2006-02-08 Thread Jorge Martín
That I just love it, I use have it on my work laptop and servers, I try Ubuntu at home since is faster to download and Install binary packages but the whole ubuntu/debian concept freaks me out at the exact second I try to compile a program and have to apt-get every single dependecy, I tired of