Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread Cliff Wells
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 23:11 -0800, Cliff Wells wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 22:43 -0500, Shawn Singh wrote: Hello all, Over the course of the past 2 weeks I've come home to a zombie machine two times. Here are the symptoms: It does sound like hardware. I'd check three things

RE: [gentoo-user] Out of portage

2005-11-09 Thread Eray Aslan
Renat Golubchyk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can copy the ebuild to your overlay and patch postfix from there. If you don't have to do anything else before compiling it then it's as trivial as epatch /path/to/postfix.patch somewhere in src_unpack(). Doing it this way has the benefit of

Re: [gentoo-user] Out of portage

2005-11-09 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:23:31 +0200 Eray Aslan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Renat Golubchyk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'll just have to keep an eye for upgrades, because they will probably come without this patch. If you want this patch to be included in postfix create a bug in bugzilla

Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL

2005-11-09 Thread Stoian Ivanov
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 05:21, Michael Shaw wrote: gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Shaw wrote: What editor do people use for PHP and Perl development. I'm looking for something with syntax highlighting and such, so that rules ut vi or gedit.

Re: [gentoo-user] About sed

2005-11-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:37:52 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: That is not what sed is designed to do. sed is Streaming EDitor. You specify an input file, and the changed file goes to STDOUT. If you want to change the original file, you need to use ed. Or use sed's -i or --in-place argument. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Out of portage

2005-11-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:23:31 +0200, Eray Aslan wrote: You'll just have to keep an eye for upgrades, because they will probably come without this patch. If you want this patch to be included in postfix create a bug in bugzilla with the request. I don't think it is a good idea. I would not

[gentoo-user] How to make a portage mirror

2005-11-09 Thread Karol Lipnicki
Hello I working In idg.pl and i want to make a portage mirror, but i don't know how to do it ? Can you tell me, how can I do it on gentoo linux ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
Peter Ruskin wrote: ebegin Checking that /usr/src/linux is linked to booted kernel... if [ /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r) != $(ls -l /usr/src/linux|cut -f2 -d\|cut -f2,3,4 -d' ') ] This looks more complicated than it really should be. Just run ln on reboot (stolen from your post): rm -f

[gentoo-user] Only seem to be able to get on digest verison of this list

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Edwards
I have now tried sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] twice and all I seem to be able to subscribe to is the digest version. Could someone please email be off list to tell me how to get on the normal version. This is really odd because getting on gentoo-media was easy. Regards, Ben -- Ben

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kino problem

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:34:59 +1000 Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. In other words, please post the 10-20 lines *above* the lines you posted (which were the status report); the actual

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Norberto Bensa schreef: Peter Ruskin wrote: ebegin Checking that /usr/src/linux is linked to booted kernel... if [ /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r) != $(ls -l /usr/src/linux|cut -f2 -d\|cut -f2,3,4 -d' ') ] This looks more complicated than it really should be. Just run ln on reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Crute
On 11/8/05, Michael Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What editor do people use for PHP and Perl development.I'm looking forsomething with syntax highlighting and such, so that rules ut vi or gedit.Thanks,Mike-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listEclipse is the ultimate IDE from my perspective. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Philip Webb
051109 Holly Bostick wrote: Can someone tell me on what basis this *needs* to be done as a standard operation? Not getting it at all. How many kernels does one keep in a bootable state, anyway -- and use commonly, without needed external modules, no less -- that this would be necessary?

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread Peper
My Box sometime locks ups during high load, but it's really strange. For example emerging ~30 ebuilds in xfce Terminal: after 2h of emerging PC locked up during kcontrol. After rebooting and again trying to build kcontrol it locked up 4 times in a row, but compiling it from shell(without running

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:28:04AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: 051109 Holly Bostick wrote: Can someone tell me on what basis this *needs* to be done as a standard operation? Not getting it at all. How many kernels does one keep in a bootable state, anyway -- and use commonly, without

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:54, Holly Bostick wrote: Secondly, you're *using* 2.6.14, and you're keeping 2.6.12 around as a fallback. It's very unlikely you're going to actually boot into 2.6.9, and while you may boot into 2.6.12, you are not in fact doing so (because 2.6.14 is working OK). So

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:35:42PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Norberto Bensa schreef: Peter Ruskin wrote: ebegin Checking that /usr/src/linux is linked to booted kernel... if [ /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r) != $(ls -l /usr/src/linux|cut -f2 -d\|cut -f2,3,4 -d' ') ] This looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-09 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: I posted a thread on the folding forums. If no one replies before to long, I'm going to delete and start over with a fresh install. Maybe I got a bug or something. Knowing me, I just screwed up something. LOL It happens, especially with me. :( The best thing that has happened

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread Dale
Peper wrote: My Box sometime locks ups during high load, but it's really strange. For example emerging ~30 ebuilds in xfce Terminal: after 2h of emerging PC locked up during kcontrol. After rebooting and again trying to build kcontrol it locked up 4 times in a row, but compiling it from

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread brullo nulla
Last time I had these locks up it was a dying power suppy fault. Dying RAM or mobos are another common cause. Check your memory with memtest86 overnight, as already suggested. If memtest86 gives no errors, it's probably the power supply. If it's the mobo or the RAM, memtest should detect it. m.

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Well, had some lockups here too, most caused by: 1) Heat, that's a known problem. 2) Memory, guessing what stick is dying makes me ill. 3) MoBo, that Soyo mobo and its inflating capacitors. I came to the conclusion that a PC must have special treatment in order to keep up night and day (wich is

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 11/9/05, Peper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Box sometime locks ups during high load, but it's really strange. For example emerging ~30 ebuilds in xfce Terminal: after 2h of emerging PC locked up during kcontrol. After rebooting and again trying to build kcontrol it locked up 4 times in a

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Chris Fairles
Rumen Yotov wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 17:18 +, Digby Tarvin wrote: Something which I havn't found any explicit elaboration of in the documentation... The convention in the Linux/gentoo filesystem seems to be to have a unique directory for each installed kernel in /usr/src, with a

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:34:03 +, Digby Tarvin wrote: Norbertos suggestion and Peters refinement were useful to me as examples of one plausible interpretation of what /usr/src/linux symlink should be - a shorthand way of finding the source for the running kernel. But it is not. As soon as

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Digby Tarvin schreef: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:35:42PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: -- If you have some external module that compiles against the kernel source, you most likely need it against *all* kernel sources, not just the running one (so redirecting the link is only of limited

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Robert Crawford
- Original Message - From: Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink 051109 Holly Bostick wrote: Can someone tell me on what basis this *needs* to be done as a

[gentoo-user] Boot Problems: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Shaw
Hi all, I just tried to install Gentoo 2005.1 on a computer with one 9GB SCSI. When booting, I get the following error: ~ Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device The root block device is unspecified or not detected ~ I tried other block

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:59:43AM -0500, Chris Fairles wrote: Changed my symlink to point to 2.6.12-gentoo-r10, compiling ndiswrapper 1.5 is using running kernel 2.6.13 .. make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-gentoo-r3' Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST Oops - seems like

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread Peper
Forgot to mention that I had the same problem as Peter with X terminals, from that day on compiles and high demand shell stuff only with tty console. My pc locked up several times when compiling in tty, but with running xorg(xfce). Really strange for me, maybe it is the power supply but i

[gentoo-user] Beautified kernel config

2005-11-09 Thread ellotheth rimmwen
G'afternoon, list, silly question for you. Often here or in the forums, a user will post a snippet of his kernel configuration, a la snip Bus options PCCARD * PCCard (PCMCIA/CardBus) [ ] Enable PCCARD debugging * 16-bit PCMCIA support * 32-bit PCMCIA support /snip and so forth.

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread Peper
hdparm -Tt /dev/hda hdparm -Tt /dev/hda hdparm -Tt /dev/hda hdparm -Tt /dev/hda hdparm -Tt /dev/hda Works fine on my pc. -- Best Regards, Peper -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/9/05, Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use to not worry about making the linux symlink in /usr/src point to my currently running kernel every time, but lately I've taken to redoing it each time I compile a new kernel, as I've found more and more that emerging programs look for

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautified kernel config

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/9/05, ellotheth rimmwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'afternoon, list, silly question for you. Often here or in the forums, a user will post a snippet of his kernel configuration, a la snip Bus options PCCARD * PCCard (PCMCIA/CardBus) [ ] Enable PCCARD debugging * 16-bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Problems: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device

2005-11-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:00:49 -0800, Michael Shaw wrote: I just tried to install Gentoo 2005.1 on a computer with one 9GB SCSI. When booting, I get the following error: ~ Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device The root block device is unspecified or not

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Problems: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/9/05, Michael Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just tried to install Gentoo 2005.1 on a computer with one 9GB SCSI. When booting, I get the following error: ~ Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device The root block device is unspecified or not

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautified kernel config

2005-11-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/9/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/9/05, ellotheth rimmwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'afternoon, list, silly question for you. Often here or in the forums, a user will post a snippet of his kernel configuration, a la snip Bus options PCCARD * PCCard

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Problems: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Shaw
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:00:49 -0800, Michael Shaw wrote: I just tried to install Gentoo 2005.1 on a computer with one 9GB SCSI. When booting, I get the following error: ~ Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device The root block device is

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Philip Webb
051109 Holly Bostick wrote: Philip Webb schreef: I have 2.6.14 working ok (still ~x86), but am keeping 2.6.12 2.6.9 around in case something unexpected happens with 2.6.14 . However, if I want to use 2.6.12 , I will have to recompile Nvidia. Why? Yes (pink face): as I now realise after

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautified kernel config

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: On 11/9/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/9/05, ellotheth rimmwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'afternoon, list, silly question for you. Often here or in the forums, a user will post a snippet of his kernel configuration, a la snip Bus options PCCARD *

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautified kernel config

2005-11-09 Thread ellotheth rimmwen
On 11/9/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/9/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Copy-n-paste from 'make menuconfig' helps some, but mostly, I type them by hand. Cut-n-paste and then a bit of hand editing for me. Interesting, thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Problems: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Shaw
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/9/05, Michael Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just tried to install Gentoo 2005.1 on a computer with one 9GB SCSI. When booting, I get the following error: ~ Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device The root block device is

[gentoo-user] vlc dies on GL

2005-11-09 Thread James
Hello, upon emerging several different video based applications: vlc, mythtv etc, I run into a common problem now: for vlc heres the error message that is essentially identical to other packages that are complaining: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:40:59 +0200 Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, There seems to exist at least two current kernels - one is the kernel to which /usr/src/linux points, this one is used by most (all ?) kernel-module programs (i have 3 of them: nvidia, arpstar, loop-aes; had also alsa-driver). When

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc dies on GL

2005-11-09 Thread abhay
On Thursday 10 Nov 2005 1:22 am, James wrote: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ ld: cannot find -lGL I know 'GL' is not a use flag, but I cannot seem to find what i need to install to fix this problem. Or the package that contains GL. I run KDE 3.4.

[gentoo-user] DVD:rip problem

2005-11-09 Thread Thierry de Coulon
Hello, I'm using DVD:rip on a Mepis/Debian installation with no problem. I don't remeber exactly the versions of DVD:rip and transcode, but it just plain works. On my new Gentoo install DVD:rip starts OK, but then all goes wrong: ripping fails with message could not read this frame, then

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Peper wrote: (never had a lock up without running xorg, but i rarely don't have running xorg) Sounds like a problem with the video driver then -- painting a graphical screen takes quite some resources and DMA access, which can lockup the bus... So switch back to a kernel of several weeks

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-09 Thread James
abhay abhay.ilugd at gmail.com writes: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ ld: cannot find -lGL I know 'GL' is not a use flag, but I cannot seem to find what i need to install to fix this problem. Or the package that contains GL. I run KDE 3.4.

Re: [gentoo-user] mainactor - which build is likely to work best?

2005-11-09 Thread Robert Persson
On November 6, 2005 10:07 pm Nick Rout was like: The suse build works fine here. Thanks Nick. SuSE was the one I decided to try out first and it has been running without any problem for me too. I'm still looking for something that will do quite a bit more than this, so I'm trying out various

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD:rip problem

2005-11-09 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 22:04, Thierry de Coulon wrote: On my new Gentoo install DVD:rip starts OK, but then all goes wrong: ripping fails with message could not read this frame, then transcode simply won't work with any codec (but this may just mean it can't handle what's been ripped).

Re: [gentoo-user] mainactor - which build is likely to work best?

2005-11-09 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:43:35 -0800 Robert Persson wrote: On November 6, 2005 10:07 pm Nick Rout was like: The suse build works fine here. Thanks Nick. SuSE was the one I decided to try out first and it has been running without any problem for me too. I'm still looking for something

[gentoo-user] emerge avifile -0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - can anyone tell from the attached why media-video/avifile-0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed? I'm a bit stuck at the moment. I'm trying to emerge kino and this is one of the required packages. I'm not good enough to diagnose the problem so any help would be great. -- Thanks, Richard I.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge avifile -0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed

2005-11-09 Thread Nick Rout
I am not sure what the problem is, but you are probably better off without avifile. It is about to be removed from portage: see: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-devm=112940871726601w=2 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111336 I am guessing (based on your email about kino yesterday)

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread Peper
New debug info: when locked up my pc responses to ping and ssh connection(I get only login respone, i cannot actually log in). Moreover ssh logs sshd: fatal: Timeout before authentication for IP. I am not sure what to think about it... -- Best Regards, Peper -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread Shawn Haggett
Peper wrote: New debug info: when locked up my pc responses to ping and ssh connection(I get only login respone, i cannot actually log in). Moreover ssh logs sshd: fatal: Timeout before authentication for IP. I am not sure what to think about it... I had a similar thing happen with

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge avifile -0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/9/05, Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - can anyone tell from the attached why media-video/avifile-0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed? I'm a bit stuck at the moment. I'm trying to emerge kino and this is one of the required packages. I'm not good enough to diagnose the problem so any

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-09 Thread James
abhay abhay.ilugd at gmail.com writes: On Thursday 10 Nov 2005 1:22 am, James wrote: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../ ../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ ld: cannot find -lGL You are having problems with OpenGL. Did you compile xorg with opengl support? What is the output of

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD:rip problem

2005-11-09 Thread b.n.
Mike Williams wrote: On Wednesday 09 November 2005 22:04, Thierry de Coulon wrote: On my new Gentoo install DVD:rip starts OK, but then all goes wrong: ripping fails with message could not read this frame, then transcode simply won't work with any codec (but this may just mean it can't handle

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge avifile -0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/9/05, Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You didn't post the output of emerge --info, but it looks like you may have -mmx, -msse2, and -mfpmath in your CFLAGS. If so, take them out, and it should compile just fine. -Richard Hi Richard, thanks very much for your reply. Yes I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge avifile -0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Watson
--newuse doesn't take CFLAGS into account. If you really want to rebuild your whole system, the standard way is: emerge -e world But I don't think it is really necessary. These flags can cause build failures, but not really any runtime problems, AFAIK. -Richard Thank you very much

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:37, Robert Crawford wrote: I guess it depends on how much updating and compiling you do as too how aggrevating this would become, but since it's no big deal to change it, I'd recommend doing it as a matter of course, so you don't have to stop and do it during an emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge avifile -0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed

2005-11-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Richard Watson schrieb: Hi - can anyone tell from the attached why media-video/avifile-0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed? It fails, because nobody cares anymore about avifile and nobody cares to fix the problem. Thus, it'll be removed from portage pretty soon. But it fails, because it doesn't compile

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge avifile -0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed

2005-11-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 05:47:58PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote On 11/9/05, Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - can anyone tell from the attached why media-video/avifile-0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed? I'm a bit stuck at the moment. I'm trying to emerge kino and this is one of the required

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-09 Thread abhay
On Thursday 10 Nov 2005 2:38 am, James wrote: I tried to install mythtv and it failed because of -lGL. I then tried to update vlc, and it failed with the error message above. When you compiled ati drivers did you enable opengl use flag? you can check by passing this command. emerge -pv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-09 Thread abhay
On Thursday 10 Nov 2005 7:31 am, James wrote: I'm not so sure. I have a second system with the same (USE) flags set, and mythtv installs but vlc fails without the GL error: make[2]: Entering directory`/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.1-r1/work/vlc-0.8.1/mozilla' usr/bin/xpidl