I have dual booted different distros on a single box sharing boot and swap
done it worked fine. There was some lag in startup when changing systems.
My guess would be differences in swap.
Used different Kernel version, and everything.
Just be very careful, some install scripts use symlinks in
On 4/2/07, Rob Rutherford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have dual booted different distros on a single box sharing boot and swap
done it worked fine. There was some lag in startup when changing systems.
My guess would be differences in swap.
Used different Kernel version, and everything.
Just
Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can I install Ubuntu in yet another partition and have it share the /boot
and swap ones I already have, or do I need dedicated ones for that distro
too?
No, you don't NEED to have seperate /boot partitions. The problem
might be, that the default
On Monday 02 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can I install Ubuntu in yet another partition and have it share the
/boot and swap ones I already have, or do I need dedicated ones for
that distro too?
No, you don't NEED to have seperate /boot
-Original Message-
From: Hemmann, Volker Armin
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 30 March 2007 23:44
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai
one question makes s much of a difference. And instead of
two passwords,
one never
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 18:40:49 -0600, Adrian wrote:
Odd things with eix-0.7.9
0.8.8 is the latest stable eix and fixes this problem.
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I distinctly remember forgetting that.
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On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:41:18 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
No, you don't NEED to have seperate /boot partitions. The problem
might be, that the default filenames overlap in Gentoo and Ubuntu.
But if you make sure that this does not happen and if you setup
your bootloader (grub?) properly,
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 01:02:32 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
I don't mind the 30 or 40 megs for the source tarball+patches in my
distfiles directory. But the quarter gig for each minor r bump, most
of which I never build, is a bit much.
Why install it if you're not going to build it?
r bumps are
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 01:35:42 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
I got bitten in the latest stable kernel (2.6.19-r5). It moved SATA
support out of SCSI, and into a separate section altogether. I plowed
through make oldconfig, hitting N for every option. Because I have
a SATA drive, the result was
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:51:58 +0200, Wolfgang Liebich wrote:
I've rebooted today with kernel 2.6.19 (used 2.6.18 before). I have a
Intel 945G/GZ/P/PL motherboard and a Intel hda on board soundcard
[...]
Kernel version:
Linux atpcbygc 2.6.19-gentoo-r5
I don't know anything about the Gentoo
I've rebooted today with kernel 2.6.19 (used 2.6.18 before). I have a
Intel 945G/GZ/P/PL motherboard and a Intel hda on board soundcard
(Alsamixer says Card: HDA Intel and Chip: Realtek ALC260).
Look for the Bugs concerning the kernel and hda-intel drivers
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 14:29 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote:
Will consider memtest as an option, but again, the memory is reasonably
new - it was upgraded recently to have more memory on the laptop.
aha! that rings alarm bells... new memory? no possibility it's faulty?
or was fitted with a tiny
I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers
serving a given IP.
I don't remember if it was nslookup, host, dig or what but not finding
it in those various man pages.
I know there are online sites that will do it, but does anyone know a
command line tool that gives that
Hi,
I just want to tell everybody that spurious segment faults with
ooffice / xsane / xcdroast and probably many more packages
are caused by media-libs/fontconfig .
Once I upgraded from 2.3.2-r2 to 2.4.2
the problem was solved (it was just a bit hard to find out)
I guess that any of the
On Sunday 01 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] [OT
DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP':
I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers
serving a given IP.
I don't remember if it was nslookup, host, dig or what but not finding
it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers
serving a given IP.
dig -x 123.45.67.89
HTH.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers
serving a given IP.
What do you with that? There's no such thing - any nameserver _can_
return any IP.
I know there are online sites that will do it,
Like?
Alexander Skwar
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On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 04:03:48PM +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote:
Hi, guys
Recently I was looking through my logs when I got pissed off (again) by
the big number of lines showing something like 'sshd: auth. error:
unknown user XXX from some IP address'. I wrote a script which
automatically
On Monday 02 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know I've once known and used a command that listed the
nameservers serving a given IP.
What do you with that? There's no such thing - any nameserver _can_
return any IP.
He's actually after the
Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 14:29 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote:
Will consider memtest as an option, but again, the memory is reasonably
new - it was upgraded recently to have more memory on the laptop.
aha! that rings alarm bells... new memory? no possibility it's faulty?
Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za writes:
On Monday 02 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
reader at newsguy.com reader at newsguy.com wrote:
I know I've once known and used a command that listed the
nameservers serving a given IP.
What do you with that? There's no such
On 02 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers
serving a given IP.
What do you with that? There's no such thing - any nameserver _can_
return any IP.
Authoritative answers can only
I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers
serving a given IP.
I don't remember if it was nslookup, host, dig or what but not finding
it in those various man pages.
I have made a different assumtion about what your question means than
other posters - assuming you
Looks like fcron has changed its user group from cron to fcron. Once I
realised this I have been able to add users to fcron and it works - for
users.
However I have quite a number of system level root jobs that I cant list
or edit using crontab -e or -l on multiple systems
moriah ~ # crontab -e
Is there a command to provide me with the package name to which a given file
belongs ?
Man equery seems of little help
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
equery belongs /path/to/file
You must be root or member of the portage group.
Cheers!
On 02/04/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a command to provide me with the package name to which a given file
belongs ?
Man equery seems of little help
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org
In the future, please include also the output of emerge --info.
Best regards,
On 31/03/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 31 March 2007 16:38:02 Jesper Taxbøl wrote:
I have tried emerging gnome on my P4 box, to do some programming work
in Eclipse.
My box fails when
On Monday 02 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a command to provide me with the package name to which a
given file belongs ?
Man equery seems of little help
If you want to know which package installed an existing file, use:
equery belongs filename
If you know which file you want
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W.Kenworthy a écrit :
Looks like fcron has changed its user group from cron to fcron. Once I
realised this I have been able to add users to fcron and it works - for
users.
However I have quite a number of system level root jobs that I cant list
On Monday 02 April 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote:
Looks like fcron has changed its user group from cron to fcron. Once
I realised this I have been able to add users to fcron and it works -
for users.
However I have quite a number of system level root jobs that I cant
list or edit using crontab -e
2007/4/2, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Monday 02 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a command to provide me with the package name to which a
given file belongs ?
Man equery seems of little help
If you want to know which package installed an existing file, use:
equery
On Monday 2 April 2007 16:49, Alan McKinnon wrote:
moriah ~ # crontab -e
22:05:13 Could not chdir to /var/spool/cron/fcrontabs: Permission
denied moriah ~ #
BillK
You HAVE to do that as root
The # character in the prompt usually indicates a root shell...so I guess
the OP was already
gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: Bad passphrase
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On Monday 02 April 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Monday 2 April 2007 16:49, Alan McKinnon wrote:
moriah ~ # crontab -e
22:05:13 Could not chdir to /var/spool/cron/fcrontabs: Permission
denied moriah ~ #
BillK
You HAVE to do that as root
The # character in the prompt usually
On Monday 02 April 2007 17:47, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
For me alsa-driver (not kernel-alsa) did not work with kernel 2.6.19
too. I upgraded to kernel 2.6.20 and latest alsa-driver, and my
problem was solved.
HDA Intel has been nothing but a total disaster for me. I built a new
system a few
I currently have an HDTV hooked up to a desktop computer running
Gentoo and xfce4, all controlled by a wireless keyboard/mouse from the
couch. It's awesome. However, I think the next step is to control
everything from a laptop on the couch. There would be a normal xfce4
desktop on the laptop,
I have the font sizes cranked up in xfce4 on my HDTV because I view it
from across the room. I also NX in to it from my laptop though, and
then I have to deal with the huge fonts on my laptop. How would you
handle this situation? I could set up a different user, but I want to
be able to
-Original Message-
From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 April 2007 05:50
To: Gentoo mailing list
Subject: [gentoo-user] The next step in AV
I currently have an HDTV hooked up to a desktop computer running
Gentoo and xfce4, all controlled by a wireless keyboard/mouse from
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 13:49:46 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
Hello
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 06:31:34AM +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
Juho Rosqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now, the subject _should_ read:
Mutt and ÅåÄäÖö characters
[snip]
I'm really at a loss as to what
Hello,
I want to build all components as shared libraries. So I wanted to know, is
there any global USE Flag or any other global change I can make to the
portage environment to make all components build as shared libraries rather
than changing each component's ebuild file to make it build as a
On Montag, 2. April 2007, Manish Marathe wrote:
Hello,
I want to build all components as shared libraries. So I wanted to know, is
there any global USE Flag or any other global change I can make to the
portage environment to make all components build as shared libraries rather
than changing
I keep noticing this kind of thing.
locutus ~ # emerge -at bittorrent mplayerplug-in xine-ui
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5_pre20060716 [0.99.4-r5]
USE=-debug%
[ebuild U ]
Hello
I know that this problem is may be not in rapport with gentoo, but i try:
When I call dhcpcd on an interface, it don't create or replace the file
/etc/resolv.conf
Is there an option or anything to do in order to update this file?
Thanks
Sylvain Chouleur
Hello Daevid Vincent,
locutus ~ # emerge -at bittorrent mplayerplug-in xine-ui
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5_pre20060716 [0.99.4-r5]
USE=-debug%
[ebuild U ]
On Monday 02 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re:
Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?':
And what's about sharing /root ? is there any problem or not ? I never
did it but was wondering about.
No, different distros will require slightly
On Monday 02 April 2007, Sylvain Chouleur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about '[gentoo-user] dhcpcd don't create resolv.conf':
I know that this problem is may be not in rapport with gentoo, but i
try: When I call dhcpcd on an interface, it don't create or replace the
file /etc/resolv.conf
Is there
Hi Markus
Markus Schönhaber wrote on 02/04/07 02:27:
ATM we have the situation where the current stable version of OpenOffice
(2.1.0-r1) won't compile (at least on a lot of machines) unless an ~arch
version of STLport is installed:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172860
Looking at
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:10:58PM +0300, Juho Rosqvist wrote:
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 13:49:46 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
Hello
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 06:31:34AM +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
Juho Rosqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now, the subject _should_ read:
Hi Marcus
Markus Schönhaber wrote on 02/04/07 02:27:
ATM we have the situation where the current stable version of OpenOffice
(2.1.0-r1) won't compile (at least on a lot of machines) unless an ~arch
version of STLport is installed:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172860
Looking at
but I want that when I launch dhcpcd manually, the resolv.conf file be
created/updated
And I didn't see anything about that in the manpage
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd
-Original Message-
From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:45 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent
www-client/mozilla-firefox when I have www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin
Hello Daevid Vincent,
On 4/2/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 02 April 2007, Manish Marathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about '[gentoo-user] Building Shared Libraries':
I want to build all components as shared libraries.
Welcome to Gentoo. That's policy, unless there are significant
I tried to install and use lm_sensors but it don't detect any sensors.
Moreover, I think it's a problem of acpi or the kernel configuration because
on my debian, I don't use lm_sensors, just acpi.
May be detection is bad made or may be cpu id bad used, but top show me
that:
top - 23:01:52 up
I currently have an HDTV hooked up to a desktop computer running
Gentoo and xfce4, all controlled by a wireless keyboard/mouse from the
couch. It's awesome. However, I think the next step is to control
everything from a laptop on the couch. There would be a normal xfce4
desktop on the
Hello Daevid Vincent,
But I have the -bin version installed...
Some packages require the firefox or seamonkey source, to
build against.
I also have this in /etc/make.conf
The mplayer-plug-in ebuild contains
DEPEND=...
|| ( www-client/mozilla-firefox
Hello Daevid Vincent,
But I have the -bin version installed...
Some packages require the firefox or seamonkey source, to
build against.
I also have this in /etc/make.conf
The mplayer-plug-in ebuild contains
DEPEND=...
|| (
Dave Jones wrote:
Markus Schönhaber wrote on 02/04/07 02:27:
ATM we have the situation where the current stable version of OpenOffice
(2.1.0-r1) won't compile (at least on a lot of machines) unless an ~arch
version of STLport is installed:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172860
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 22:18:46 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:10:58PM +0300, Juho Rosqvist wrote:
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 13:49:46 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
I agree that my problem is probably input related. By your reply I
presume that mutt
Cant believe I am the only one who has this - 3 systems I have checked
so far are all the same - root cant access its crontab. Ive tried
rebuilding one without pam (fcron only), but no change.
bunyip ~ # esearch fcron
[ Results for search key : fcron ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
*
Hi Marcus
Markus Schönhaber wrote on 03/04/07 00:13:
ATM we have the situation where the current stable version of OpenOffice
(2.1.0-r1) won't compile (at least on a lot of machines) unless an ~arch
version of STLport is installed:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172860
What is there
OK, I solved the problem.
For the record: it's worth checking whether the problem persists with a
near-empty muttrc. It did not, so I went through the rc file with a fine
comb once again. The culprit turned out to be this line:
set meta_key = yes
Unsetting the variable removes the problem. In
Every time I execute programs such as xdvi xcalc, I get the following
message:
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
My locale is zh_CN.UTF-8, as following
LANG=
LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8
Ryan Curtin wrote:
Instead of using iptables, you may want to try DenyHosts
(app-admin/denyhosts). It's a simple Python script that parses through
/var/log/secure (or whatever your sshd logs to) and finds IPs who have
failed authentication a certain number of times, then adds those IPs to
Neil Bothwick wrote:
LVM stripes data
across the drives anyway, am I gaining anything from the RAID-0? Would I
be just as well off by adding the two partitions directly to the LVM
group?
Hi, Neil
I have to admit I've never made such tests and I'm guessing here but I
would say that you
I suddenly got this upon starting k3b, konqueror after an emerge -uDN world:
===
Processing '/home/nocti/.joerc'...Processing '/etc/joe/ftyperc'...done
IW /mnt/usb/k3b-error Row 1Col 1 11:46 Ctrl-K H for help
/usr/bin/iceauth: /tmp/dcopPfMg8b:1: bad add command
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