On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:14:14 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
#ls -ld /var/amavis/
drwxr-x--- 7 amavis amavis 4096 Sep 26 15:05 /var/amavis
The problem is here. root cannot access that directory.
right. Which was what I found out by answering question #2.
root should be able to access
Hello!
Since years I use the init scripy rp-pppoe to bring my adsl connection
up. For months (years?) it worked perfectly. But since a month or two I
get this strange message at boot time:
* Starting adsl ...
.. Connected!
adsl-stop: No ADSL connection appears to be running [!!]
and I must
Hello all,
I am very new to gentoo (used to use Red Hat earlier)
I have installed gentoo using the networkless install with the 2005.1 universal CD.
I have got the system booting perfectly and detecting all the hardware as well.
I got the network connection working and now I am running
#emerge
Am Montag, 26. September 2005 06:46 schrieb Arkady Grudzinsky:
Never mind. Right after sending out the email I found mod_ssl.so in
extramodules/ and everything started to work after I uncommented
IfDefine SSL in conf/modules.d/40_mod_ssl.conf.
Just add -D SSL to APACHE2_OPTS in
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On 2005-09-28 14:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is X already installed? (the system boots to a text login)
Most likely. I did a stage 3 installation of 2005.1 a few days ago and
ended up getting both X and a whole bunch of other stuff installed.
Hi,
I have been using wireless on my Dell laptop successfully under kernel
2.6.12
and earlier, but I can't get it to build under kernel 2.6.13. Specifically,
the ipw2100 package fails to compile against kernel 2.6.13.{,1,2}. I
have looked in
bugzilla, but couldn't see anything relevant.
Mal Herring wrote, On 09/19/2005 09:10 AM:
Can the eth ports when using the bonding driver get plugged into
different switches ?
Yes.
from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt:
12.2 High Availability in a Multiple Switch Topology
I'm getting ready to dive into the apache2 install on my server.
In preparation for this I needed things I wasn't using before like
IMAP (see thread on web mail systems), MySQL, and ldap.
Being the good little gentoo boy I updated my USE flags to include
these and other settings that
Hello,
I want to know for what reason there is sth like updating portage cache
after rsync in emerge sync.
It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I some
way turn off this cache?
Greets
Paweł
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This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to update,install
or remove from your box; if you turn off this cache you would need to
do the same action to every emerge option; I believe that is better to
let it do just when updating portage tree :)
Holpe it helps, Allan
On 9/28/05,
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to update,install
or remove from your box; if you turn off this cache you would need to
do the same action to every emerge option; I believe that is better to
let it do just when updating portage tree :)
Holpe
Paweł Madej wrote:
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to update,install
or remove from your box; if you turn off this cache you would need to
do the same action to every emerge option; I believe that is better to
let it do just when updating
On Sep 28, 2005, at 5:11 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote:
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On 2005-09-28 14:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is X already installed? (the system boots to a text login)
Most likely. I did a stage 3 installation of 2005.1 a few days ago and
ended
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To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to
Nick Rout wrote:
portage knows where to download the files from, and you have told it
where the best mirrors are for you, why second guess it!
What I've made is download _only_ needed files. For this to work, I've had to
remove path names (i.e.
Thanks for the response..I will chek it out as soon as the emerge --update finishes
it is taking forever to compile on my T20 (P-III 750)
Regards,
Vikram
Most likely. I did a stage 3 installation of
2005.1 a few days ago and ended up getting both X and a whole bunch of other stuff installed.
Dunc wrote:
For something you should only do once a day, 10 minutes isn't that bad
though.
I sync not day by day but 2-3 times a week but when I sync I want to run
just after it emerge of updates (I follow new ebuilds on [1] site and
run emerge if sth interesting for me appears there).
My
I forgot link [1] is
http://packages.gentoo.org/archs/x86/testing/gentoo_simple.rss
Greets
Paweł
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I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in
size. Is this about normal?
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On 2005-09-28 07:30 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in
size. Is this about normal?
Don't forget that portage keeps all downloaded source code in
/usr/portage/distfiles. The actual
If you do a:
du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles
and a
du -hs /usr/portage
You will see that the majority of the space is taken up by the
distfiles. This is where emerge stores all the packages that it
downloads when installing them on your system. To decrease the size of
the directory you can go
Rajat Gujral schreef:
Sorry forgot to attach the log :((
Hi holly, uwe Thanx for ur replies ... I was actually trying to
install my sound driver when emerge automatically downloaded the
newer version of kernel i.e 2.6.12-r10 telling me it has a better
support for sound cards.. After
And my /usr/portage/distfiles = 15Gb :)
I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in
size. Is this about normal?
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Paweł Madej schreef:
My other question is if there is some script which could follow rrs
from [1] and run emerge sync and emerge -uND world after there is for
example 10 ebuild updated comparing to my system, or other way that
it will email me that there is 10 ebuilds new and i should run
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 21:49, Michael Kjorling wrote:
Don't forget that portage keeps all downloaded source code in
/usr/portage/distfiles. The actual portage tree totals something like
100 MB plus losses due to inode/block size.
A couple of years ago it not much more than 100MB, but
And my /usr/portage/distfiles = 15Gb :)
I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in
size. Is this about normal?
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Ryan Viljoen wrote:
If you do a:
du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles
and a
du -hs /usr/portage
You will see that the majority of the space is taken up by the
distfiles. This is where emerge stores all the packages that it
downloads when installing them on your system. To decrease the size of
the
some time ago i had issue like yours that was caused by broken fonts
configuration
try this:
boot without X
launch top
see anything taking resources
launch X
see anything taking resources
look in logs
m
At 05:41 2005.09.27., you wrote:
I just compiled 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 with mostly the
On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suppose if you really felt that you wanted to have an emerge of thenew packages done automatically, you could always create a script to run
esync and mail you the output, then run emerge -uD world after esynccompleted successfully (doesn't seem
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 07:04, Michael Kjorling wrote:
On 2005-09-28 06:52 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A stage 3 will not install X, unless you do emerge something after
install that requires Xlike when I did an emerge kde-meta...that got
X installed, then kde and xdm, etc.
It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I some
way turn off this cache?
I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's mentioned in
the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs are impacted but
regular portage stuff seems faster.
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Harry Putnam wrote:
I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in
size. Is this about normal?
Just add a crontab entry to delete files older then, say, 30 days in
/usr/portage/distfiles. I've noticed on ~x86 that there is often a
number of portage changes on the
On 9/28/05, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in
size. Is this about normal?
glumtail [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/
Those files can be downloaded again when emerge.
Yup, that turned out
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:04:43 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
Well, esync might be what you want-- it's part of gentoolkit,
esync is part or esearch. If you prefer eix, it has an equivalent now,
diff-eix.
This is the script I run from cron.daily
emerge world --update --deep --newuse --pretend
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 14:43, glumtail wrote:
You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/
Those files can be downloaded again when emerge.
Also, the block size of the file system in which /usr/portage lives can
make a big difference.
Try a clean /usr/portage on an ext2/3 filesystem vs.
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:03:18AM +, John Green wrote:
In detail, when
/usr/src/linux = /usr/src/linux-2.6.12.6
everything works OK.
But when
/usr/src/linux = /usr/src/linux-2.6.13.2
there are errors beginning like this.
-
Source unpacked.
* You
Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 14:43, glumtail wrote:
You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/
Those files can be downloaded again when emerge.
Also, the block size of the file system in which /usr/portage lives can
make a big difference.
Try a
Dave Nebinger wrote:
I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's mentioned in
the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs are impacted but
regular portage stuff seems faster.
That's what I was looking for ... great speedup.
Thx Dave
Greets
Paweł
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Hi,
Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ?
TIA
Patrick
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Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ?
The easiest way is not to bother. Use a local dns server to provide host
lookups.
I believe on the gentoo wiki you'll find a setup for a caching dns proxy
where the most lookups will be forwarded to a regular dns but you can still
Dave Nebinger schreef:
It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I
some way turn off this cache?
I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's
mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs
are impacted but regular portage stuff
Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
Hi,
Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ?
TIA
Patrick
This may be a little over kill but, I've found this project
(www.cfengine.com) to be very cool. Cfengine has tons of functionality
and managing config files across multiple systems
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 15:55, Harry Putnam wrote:
Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 14:43, glumtail wrote:
You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/
Those files can be downloaded again when emerge.
Also, the block size of the file system in
Dave Nebinger schreef:
It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I
some way turn off this cache?
I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's
mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs
are impacted but regular portage
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 16:10, Holly Bostick wrote:
Dave Nebinger schreef:
It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I
some way turn off this cache?
I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's
mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't
Tony Davison schreef:
Its under tips and tricks portage. Just found it myself. HTH
I was looking under How-Tos (and searching in the wiki/google for cdb
patch). Weird that the wiki search engine didn't find it, though. Maybe
I just didn't go through enough of the hits.
PS Hows the cold?
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:33:54 +0200 (CEST), Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ?
The best way is usually to use only one hosts file. Providing your
computers are networked, and one on them is on 24/7, install dnsmasq on
this box and tell the
Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
Hi,
Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ?
TIA
Patrick
I got that problem few days ago and tried to install MyDNS [1] little
dns server great for home network. It also has easy admin script written
in PHP but it is not installed during
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:21, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small files
(like portage tree) than ext2/3.
Any numbers you can post ?
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Hi,
This is udev stuff isn't it? The problem appeared after an emerge world
- did I fail to edit a conf i needed to?
I have had to change my fstab back to the old style...
Cheers
Antoine
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Rumen Yotov wrote:
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:29:17 -0300
Jos__ Pablo Ezequiel Fern__ndez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:21, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small
files (like portage tree) than ext2/3.
Any
Phill MV wrote:
Well, *something* is trying to access a function that doesnt exist in
NDB; whether we know what it does or why, I'm guessing it's a
behaviour that shouldn't happen :P.
I suppose whatever tries to access NDB has a bug in it... but what
would that be?
Do you have lvm
Harry Putnam wrote:
I am using reiserfs but only on trial basis. I've noticed what
appears to be quite a large increase in time needed for fs intensive
things like du or rm -rf as compared to ext3 but I've done no real
comparison testing.
Have you noticed that too?
This is normal, and
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Rumen Yotov wrote:
Note: my portage directory is in /var not /usr
Why?
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HI,
I started a thread on this yesterday. It is apparently a planned
change. The devs have apparently moved to a different naming structure
now.
- Mark
On 9/28/05, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
This is udev stuff isn't it? The problem appeared after an emerge world
- did I fail to
I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor.
I've been fighting with FVWM off and on for a while, and before I tried
to go toe-to-toe with the giant, I had installed FVWM-Crystal (I'm a
chicken). Which I thought was very pretty, but there was no config I
could find to edit and no help (in English),
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Fernando Meira wrote:
Hi,
I been using ccache for sometime since its mail goal is to speedup common
compiling sets.
This is great when updating several packages.
However, every time that a package is to be emerge/updated my system waits
for ccache some long minutes.
My ISP's news server (news.cableone.net) does not allow posting. I
wanted to set up my own news server so that I could both get nntp/news
data and post to newsgroups. I found a howto at www.tldp.org and have
been following it. The howto said to open leafnode/config (I copied
mine frim
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 20:33, Holly Bostick wrote:
I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor.
much snippage
This is a gigantic leap from the previous versions I've used, and I
think I've just switched WMs. Obviously there's been a huge shakeup
somewhere, but the site doesn't say
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:58:52 -0300
Norberto Bensa wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
portage knows where to download the files from, and you have told it
where the best mirrors are for you, why second guess it!
What I've made is download _only_ needed files. For this to work, I've had to
remove
Willie Wong wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:03:18AM +, John Green wrote:
In detail, when
/usr/src/linux = /usr/src/linux-2.6.12.6
everything works OK.
But when
/usr/src/linux = /usr/src/linux-2.6.13.2
there are errors beginning like this.
-
Source
John Green wrote:
the problem might be with ieee80211. A detailed look at my log file for
rebuilding ieee80211
under 2.6.13.2 showed that the ebuild tried to delete kernel file
include/net/ieee80211.h,
but failed with insufficient privilege, even though emerge was running
as root. I deleted
the
no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small files
(like portage tree) than ext2/3.
The only problem with this solution is you are then stuck using
reiserfs...
/fsflamewar :D
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Guntard wrote:
I've installed KDE 3.4.1 which works perfectly except for this :
in the configuration center, in the peripherical section I don't
have the keyboard option although I have other options such as
mouse option, or printer option. I think that I forgot to install
a package, but I
Mark Knecht schreef:
Hi Holly, I thought that if you liked it that much I thought I might
as well take a look. I've emerged it. It's running. Nice.
It seems to start esd by default. I'd need to turn that off.
More embedded below and at the end.
- Mark
On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick
Tony Davison schreef:
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 20:33, Holly Bostick wrote:
I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor.
much snippage
This is a gigantic leap from the previous versions I've used, and I
think I've just switched WMs. Obviously there's been a huge shakeup
somewhere, but
On Thursday 29 September 2005 00:32, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small files
(like portage tree) than ext2/3.
The only problem with this solution is you are then stuck using
reiserfs...
/fsflamewar :D
better than stuck with ext3 ;)
On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht schreef:
Hi Holly, I thought that if you liked it that much I thought I might
as well take a look. I've emerged it. It's running. Nice.
It seems to start esd by default. I'd need to turn that off.
More embedded below and
.
.
All prepared. Starting rebuild...
emerge --oneshot --nodeps =app-arch/rpm-4.2 =app-pda/pilot-link-0.11.8 =app-te
xt/openjade-1.3.2-r1 =app-text/uudeview-0.5.20 =dev-lang/lua-5.0.2 =dev-lang/py
thon-2.2.3-r5 =dev-libs/libcdio-0.73 =dev-python/gnome-python-1.99.16 =gnome-ba
Mark Knecht schreef:
On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht schreef:
I changed my layout to dock (which looks a lot like XFCE, but
all transparent)
I don't quite see this part. Maybe I haven't found them yet. It's
only been runnign 10 minutes or so.
Use the
I've lost 5 filesystems on reiser... So I won't touch it anymore. :P :(
I'm all XFS and so far have not many problems (with over 100 machines in
production). My favorite part about XFS is snapshotting and a working dump
command for mounted filesystems...
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Hemmann, Volker
On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht schreef:
On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht schreef:
I changed my layout to dock (which looks a lot like XFCE, but
all transparent)
I don't quite see this part. Maybe I haven't found them yet.
Nick Rout wrote:
OTOH your approach has problems in that not all files reside on gentoo
mirrors, some reside on sourceforge or other more obscure places.
Yup. I know.
I did it that way because I used to have dialup (I'm on cablemodem now) and
the only places I knew with broadband were using
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:55:47PM -0700, Wes Gray wrote:
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5.
.
.
Why is it trying to access an old version of python? I removed the
/root/.revdep-rebuild*.?_* files, so that's not it.
Not an old version, but the
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 16:16 +0300, Martins wrote:
some time ago i had issue like yours that was caused by broken fonts
configuration
try this:
boot without X
launch top
see anything taking resources
launch X
see anything taking resources
thanks for the suggestion, but it definitely
I notice my /var/log/apache2 dir has some very large files, hence I don't
think they are being rotated. I looked at /etc/metalog/metalog.conf and
don't see anything related to apache in there -- should there be? Or am I
supposed to install app-admin/logrotate to handle this?
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Here's another way I started using (~1 month) and it seems both simple
and problem free. Run http-replicator on the machine with good net
access, then point the rest at it. Its a distfile caching proxy and
best of all, its in potage and there is a gentoo wiki doc on how to set
it up. Nice!
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:57:57 +0800
W.Kenworthy wrote:
Here's another way I started using (~1 month) and it seems both simple
and problem free. Run http-replicator on the machine with good net
access, then point the rest at it. Its a distfile caching proxy and
best of all, its in potage and
Hi all
I am having trouble with one isa pnp modem; I installed isapnp, the
tcpdump program has generated the isapnp.conf, I remove the comment
mark from the lines that are related with the modem, when I run isapnp
isapnp.conf It loads and enable the modem at address 0x110 and IRQ 7,
then I
Not a lot: I came in late on the thread.
One thing to investigate is if his ISP keeps a local cache of gentoo as
many of the ones in Oz do - they usually dont charge for local (to the
ISP) traffic. Then unless its openoffice which is a bit big, a
pre-fetch from the ISP at night is a good
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:25:44PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:55:47PM -0700, Wes Gray wrote:
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5.
.
.
Why is it trying to access an old version of python? I removed the
Am Mittwoch, den 28.09.2005, 14:46 +0530 schrieb vikram ranade:
Hello all,
hi!
I am very new to gentoo (used to use Red Hat earlier)
I have installed gentoo using the networkless install with the 2005.1
universal CD.
I have got the system booting perfectly and detecting all the hardware
as
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 08:13:58PM -0700, Wes Gray wrote:
I have a newer version of python already. The one revdep-rebuild is
trying to access doesn't even exist in portage. For example, I tried
your suggestion:
# emerge --oneshot --update python
Calculating dependencies ...done!
Hi again. I installed slmodem but it's looking for /dev/ttySL0. Presumably I
need to create this manually. Can anyone tell me what command I should use
to create this. Thanks, Richard
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:12, Paweł Madej wrote:
Dunc wrote:
For something you should only do once a day, 10 minutes isn't that bad
though.
I sync not day by day but 2-3 times a week but when I sync I want to run
just after it emerge of updates (I follow new ebuilds on [1] site and
run
Howdy,
With Holly's praise of fvwm-crystal I thought I'd give it a try.
But then I hit bug 89594 with aumix. The sound team provided
a patch, aumix-2.8-autoconf.patch, which will create the two
missing config files (they didn't fix the ebuild because it works
on their systems). Now I'm trying
In addition to what everyone else has mentioned. External modems work
on /dev/ttyS0../dev/ttyS3 (DOS COM1:..COM4:). Internal PCI modems work
on /dev/ttyS4 or higher. Some kernels default to only supporting the 4
external ports, and internal PCI modems won't run. To support internal
PCI
Roy Wright schreef:
Howdy,
With Holly's praise of fvwm-crystal I thought I'd give it a try. But
then I hit bug 89594 with aumix. The sound team provided a patch,
aumix-2.8-autoconf.patch, which will create the two missing config
files (they didn't fix the ebuild because it works on their
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