Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-22 Thread frank
No, I never use genkernel and I use modules only for things I need once a year (loop, ramdisk, ... ) or things which can't be built into the kernel. Just now I tried the vanilla kernel. Let's see what the reboot brings up. Regards Frank On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 10:16 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-22 Thread frank
Hi, I solved the problem using the vanilla kernel. May be some devel reads this list. Here Is my (relevant configuration) CPU: Celeron M 00:00.0 Host bridge: SIS [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11) 00:02.1 SMBus: SIS [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller 00:02.5 IDE interface: SIS [SiS] 5513 [IDE]

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/conf.d/net

2006-08-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 10:13 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't feel bad Alan - for me, also this is very unclear. I upgraded baselayout then got the message my conf.d/net was using deprecated syntax so I went to net.example, copied it to net which is symlinked to net.eth0 (after backing

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Richard Fish schrieb: On 8/21/06, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish schrieb: or emerge -e world to complete. I would be tempted to just change the flags and hold off on recompiling everything until the next version of gcc comes out. ( ... next version in terms

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Richard Fish schrieb: On 8/21/06, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Acer TM 634 P4-M 1.8GHz (cpu family : 15, model : 2) 512 MB RAM 30 GB 5200 rpm HDD It's all relative. I have a 2.1Ghz Core Duo with 2G of RAM and a 160Gb HD, so *I* would consider your laptop, um,

[gentoo-user] Re: Practical log reviewing

2006-08-22 Thread Stefan Wimmer
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-08-22 04:57] : You say it is easy to install and so it is, But once installed it isn't at all clear what this thing does. I'm guessing somewhere in all the hoopla it presents you with some analysis of logs. Its not one bit clear from there

[gentoo-user] installation problem of finding cdrom on a i965 board

2006-08-22 Thread wu yuntao
As Intel pulled Ultra ATA out of the i965, they've got the JMircon controller handling the Ultra ATA instead of requirement a SATA optical drive. Here's the problem. It seems that Gentoo can't find the Ultra ATA CD-ROM handled by the JMicron controller during the installation, doesn't it? And how

Re: [gentoo-user] odd emerge problem

2006-08-22 Thread Alan Mckinnon
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:55 -0700, Adrian wrote: Greetings all; Emerge is doing some odd things. Most of the time it works, but when I try to run emerge -pv world I get: - Mon Aug 21 19:47:13 /usr/portage/distfiles/portage-snapshots root $

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Alan Mckinnon
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 22:51 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I *don't* want to start some flamewar her, I am a newbie in this group, and I just would like some info on how to do it right, as my extensive rtfm'ing/googling/etc. has still not given me a satisfying answer. I started my

Re: [gentoo-user] installation problem of finding cdrom on a i965 board

2006-08-22 Thread jarry
As Intel pulled Ultra ATA out of the i965, really bloddy idea, imho, to abandon p-ata so early... It seems that Gentoo can't find the Ultra ATA CD-ROM handled by the JMicron controller during the installation, doesn't it? And how should i deal with it? If I were you, I'd go and buy some

[gentoo-user] NIS configuration

2006-08-22 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi! I configured my gentoo server box to authenticate users through LDAP (nsswicth+pam_ldap). Everything are working fine and now I want to run a ypserv and as a result I want the nis clients authenticating against my server. I following the instructions in

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 05:18, Richard Fish wrote: I see the point in this. (AFAIK there is no way to break up emerge -e xy into smaller pieces, something to do in several separated steps. Actually there is.  You can find all packages not compiled with -Os and rebuild them with something

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical log reviewing

2006-08-22 Thread Grant
Does anyone know of a practical way to review all the various logs on the system each day? Does it just come down to a brisk scroll through the previous day's rotated logs? Isn't that why logwatch was created? I emerged logwatch, but even though the man pages reference the command

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Dale
Alan Mckinnon wrote: Now the question: Do I have to do emerge -e --newuse world on my system or what else would be needed? modify CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf emerge -e system emerge -s world Why is he searching for a package with world in it? I think you meant to put emerge -e

[gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-08-22 Thread John J. Foster
Anybody know whatever happened to Holly? She hasn't been around for about a year and a half, and I miss her rambling dissertations. festus -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons? Mickeyz

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-08-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 August 2006 17:46, John J. Foster wrote: Anybody know whatever happened to Holly? She hasn't been around for about a year and a half, and I miss her rambling dissertations. That is not right. Her last posting on my harddrive is dated 29th of March this year. Still, I was wondering as

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-08-22 Thread Dale
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 22 August 2006 17:46, John J. Foster wrote: Anybody know whatever happened to Holly? She hasn't been around for about a year and a half, and I miss her rambling dissertations. That is not right. Her last posting on my harddrive is dated 29th of March this year.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-08-22 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:29:27PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: That is not right. Her last posting on my harddrive is dated 29th of March this year. You're right, my eyes are obviously deceiving me! -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the need to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/22/06, Alan Mckinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your current compiler was built with -O3, and you want to rebuild the system using a compiler compiled as -O2, hence the 2 step process. *Sigh*. I am so tired of this completely wrong information showing up here. 1. It does not matter what

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-08-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 August 2006 19:29, John J. Foster wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:29:27PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: That is not right. Her last posting on my harddrive is dated 29th of March this year. You're right, my eyes are obviously deceiving me! Hehehe. ... and I always felt tempted to call

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Dale
Adrian Frith wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 16:12 +0200, Alan Mckinnon wrote: modify CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf emerge -e system emerge -s world This will rebuild your toolchain (gcc, glibc and friends) to use -O2 then rebuild the entire system, including the toolchain again, with -O2.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 22 August 2006 05:18, Richard Fish wrote: I see the point in this. (AFAIK there is no way to break up emerge -e xy into smaller pieces, something to do in several separated steps. Actually there is. You can find all packages not compiled with -Os and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 21:30, Richard Fish wrote: revdep-rebuild --library=libstdc++.so.6 emerge --prune gcc emerge -e world Am I correct that the revdep-rebuild step is redundant if you don't need any C++ apps for the next 48 hours (assuming the emerge -e world completes successfully)?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/22/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/22/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I correct that the revdep-rebuild step is redundant if you don't need any C++ apps for the next 48 hours (assuming the emerge -e world completes successfully)? Yep. Oh, except that

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 23:04, Richard Fish wrote: On 8/22/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/22/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I correct that the revdep-rebuild step is redundant if you don't need any C++ apps for the next 48 hours (assuming the emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Richard Fish wrote: On 8/22/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/22/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I correct that the revdep-rebuild step is redundant if you don't need any C++ apps for the next 48 hours (assuming the emerge -e world completes successfully)?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/22/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I'm confused.. ;) Would pruning the old gcc before running emerge -e world break anything that's isn't a C++ app? Well, technically, no. But considering that some python modules are implemented in C++ and link against libstdc++

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 23:50, Richard Fish wrote: Now I'm confused.. ;) Would pruning the old gcc before running emerge -e world break anything that's isn't a C++ app? Well, technically, no.  But considering that some python modules are implemented in C++ and link against libstdc++

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to start /usr/bin/nifd: No such file or directory

2006-08-22 Thread Goran Dubajic
Thanks a lot Richard!!! I could not find in which package is nifd and net-misc/howl is the rith answer! Goran. On 21/08/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/06, Goran Dubajic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /sbin/start-stop-daemon: Unable to start /usr/bin/nifd: No such file or

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Setup

2006-08-22 Thread sean
sean wrote: I am trying to get my locally attached printer to work, first time setup. Followed the instructions and so far nothing. I am using the default cups.conf setup, and have enabled the kernel support Device Drivers -- * Parallel port support * PC-style hardware Device Drivers --

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Setup

2006-08-22 Thread sean
sean wrote: sean wrote: I am trying to get my locally attached printer to work, first time setup. Followed the instructions and so far nothing. I am using the default cups.conf setup, and have enabled the kernel support Device Drivers -- * Parallel port support * PC-style hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Setup

2006-08-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/22/06, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing an lpq gives the following lpq: error - no default destination available. tardis sean # Did you configure a printer in (I assume) cups? If so, what does lpq -P printer_name report? If you still need to setup a printer in cups, you should be

Re: [gentoo-user] initng or runit?

2006-08-22 Thread Thomas Kear
I've never tried runit, but being an initng dev, I'm expected to be somewhat biased. Having just had a quick look at runit, it appears we have the larger collection of init scripts, however being simple bash scripts it could be expected that runit's are slightly easier to make. The real

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical log reviewing

2006-08-22 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
Logwatch is really designed to be run as a cronjob which sends you an email after it has parsed through your logs. The configuration for logwatch is located in the /etc/log.d/ directory. In that directory you will find many scripts and configuration options for a wide range of different log

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical log reviewing

2006-08-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 21:04 -0500, Troy Curtis Jr wrote: Logwatch is really designed to be run as a cronjob which sends you an email after it has parsed through your logs. The configuration for logwatch is located in the /etc/log.d/ directory. In that directory you will find many scripts and

Re: [gentoo-user] initng or runit?

2006-08-22 Thread Dale
Thomas Kear wrote: I've never tried RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP, haven't used sysvinit at all in 9 months. I recently started using this feature. It works OK. Nothing fails to start. It does try to start my networks too early but it seems to just wait until it is ready then starts them up just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2006.0 install

2006-08-22 Thread Martin S
2006/8/21, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Martin S shieldfire at gmail.com writes: I am having problems installing Gentoo 2006.0. The computer has partitions anddata I want to save. Whenever I try to install (using the LiveCD) I get as far as entering the root password but when the actual installation

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-08-22 Thread Nick Rout
I have taken the liberty of emailing Holly directly to ask where she has got to, cos the guys are missing her. I'll let you know if she replies... On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:49:20 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 22 August 2006 19:29, John J. Foster wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:29:27PM +0100, Uwe