[gentoo-user] Perl problem

2007-11-19 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Hi! It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules, but the perl-cleaner utility didn't catch that properly. Now all perl modules/utilities (like genlop) are broken for me. What is the easiest way out? Trying to find out which perl modules are

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem

2007-11-19 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Andreas Vinsander wrote: Hi! It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules, but the perl-cleaner utility didn't catch that properly. Now all perl modules/utilities (like genlop) are broken for me. What is the easiest way out? Trying to find

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem

2007-11-19 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (19/11/07 09:00) Andreas Vinsander wrote: Hi! It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules, but the perl-cleaner utility didn't catch that properly. Now all perl modules/utilities (like genlop) are broken for me. What is the easiest way

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem

2007-11-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 19. November 2007 schrieb ext Andreas Vinsander: It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules Hmm, I don't have this directory on my system with 5.8.8-r3 installed and I don't see any traces of it in perl -V output. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem

2007-11-19 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Monday 19 November 2007, Andreas Vinsander wrote: Hi! It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules, but the perl-cleaner utility didn't catch that properly. Now all perl modules/utilities (like genlop) are broken for me. What is the easiest

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem

2007-11-19 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Peter Alfredsen wrote: Please re-emerge perl. *Somebody* hrm played with a stable ebuild without committing a revision bump (which would have gone to unstable first). emerge --syncemerge -1 dev-lang/perl should fix this. See this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/199518 for more information.

Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Bryan Whitehead schrieb: Can you just run uname -a and cut/paste that to an email and send to us? I think you are still in 32bit land. # uname -a Linux hiro 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 17 02:42:03 CET 2007 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: Bryan Whitehead schrieb: Can you just run uname -a and cut/paste that to an email and send to us? I think you are still in 32bit land. # uname -a Linux hiro 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 17 02:42:03 CET 2007 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @

Re: [gentoo-user] Building all packages except gcc

2007-11-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:19:06 +0200, ~/Timur Aydin wrote: How would I go about rebuilding all installed packages, except gcc? I suppose I could do emerge --emptytree world, but that would also merge gcc, which I don't want, because I want to be sure that the whole system is rebuilt with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 7. Configuring the Kernel

2007-11-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:02:06 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: Booting 'gentoo Linux' root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /kernel-has-alsa root=/dev/hdb3 Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue... The significance, to my mind, is that in the line

[gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Dale
Hi, I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think. Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 Oct 21 22:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8

[gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:28:34 -0500 Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not. What is the procedure for doing this, and what exactly does it accomplish? Thanks # cp /wherever/old/.config /usr/src/linux/.config # cd /usr/src/linux # make oldconfig this prompts only for new or changed

Re: [gentoo-user] /bin/sh - dash?

2007-11-19 Thread Vaeth
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Sean wrote: I'd really like to replace the /bin/sh link to point to a smaller shell, such as ash or dash instead of the bash default, but that apparently makes functions.sh _very_ unhappy. Use baselayout-2. I use /bin/sh - dash with baselayout-2 and have no problems with

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think. Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 I had a harddrive on a server exhibit this behavior for about a year

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 19. November 2007, Dale wrote: AFAIK Pre-fail is not a problem. If the harddisk is close to failing you'll get something this in your logs: Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!_ Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Dale
Billy Holmes wrote: Quoting Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think. Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 I had a harddrive on a server exhibit this

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Montag, 19. November 2007, Dale wrote: AFAIK Pre-fail is not a problem. If the harddisk is close to failing you'll get something this in your logs: Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!_ Nov 19 15:25:05

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk blocking pygobject

2007-11-19 Thread Grant
app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2) gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.18.3-r1 (python? dev-python/pygtk) gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.3 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2.8) media-gfx/gimp-2.2.17 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2) x11-libs/vte-0.16.8 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2.4)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Well, the usual answers are: python.org

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk blocking pygobject

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
=dev-python/pygtk-2.9 in package.mask for some unknown reason. Sorry to bother everyone. Ahh, I've had that happen... though I usually insert a timestamp/reason comment so I know what I did it. -a -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 19 November 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:46:52 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking around on Newegg for a new hard drive. I found a 250GB that should work. You might consider getting a Seagate ES. Enterprise level seagate drives, although they cost maybe $30 USD more, are spec.'d to spin

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread ew
check out http://diveintopython.org/ you can read the book online and then think about buying it for having some paper in your hands :) Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for

Re: [gentoo-user] Building all packages except gcc

2007-11-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 19 November 2007 16:35:17 Dan Farrell wrote: How would I go about rebuilding all installed packages, except gcc? I suppose I could do emerge --emptytree world, but that would also merge gcc, which I don't want, because I want to be sure that the whole system is rebuilt with the

[gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, After looking at the /var/log/messages file, I saw an entry which seemed to indicate a memory address problem. I decided to run memtest86+. However it is taking too long. So far 17 hours and still going. The Pass field reads 25%; I hope this is an indication of how much of the total has

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread Mark Shields
On Nov 19, 2007 12:03 PM, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, After looking at the /var/log/messages file, I saw an entry which seemed to indicate a memory address problem. I decided to run memtest86+. However it is taking too long. So far 17 hours and still going. The

RE: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
From: Mark Shields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 19, 2007 12:03 PM, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this execution time expected? Thanks for any comments, -- Valmor de Almeida For 10

Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-19 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Looks fine. Looks like you see nearly all of the 4GB of ram (3982104). You probably have a lot of memory reserved in BIOS shadows or other hardware (like video card). This looks perfectly normal. If you have an onboard video card, a chunk of your memory is probably being used for that. In the

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread Bryan Whitehead
memtest86 will keep retesting your memory over and over. Look at the Pass and Errors column. If Errors is 0 and Pass is more than 1, your memory is fine. If Pass is 0 and Errors is 0, then it is still on the first run. It shouldn't take this long. In that case make sure you have the latest

RE: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan memtest86 will keep retesting your memory over and over. Look at the Pass and Errors column. If Errors is 0 and Pass is more than 1, your memory is fine. If Pass is 0 and Errors is 0, then it is

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Well, the usual

[gentoo-user] Failed to allocate mem

2007-11-19 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, This is showing up on my /var/log/messages file. I've done a memtest and the memory seems fine. I wonder what does this mean. Maybe it is not even related to the physical memory. PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for :01:00.0 The machine and OS seem fine but

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread Frank Gruellich
* de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19. Nov 07: From: Mark Shields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 19, 2007 12:03 PM, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this execution time expected? Yes, I can confirm that. In addition you should run it more than one

[gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Teng Wang
Hi there, Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what should I do to recover? Thank you all! --- Teng --

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 16:45 -0600, Teng Wang wrote: Hi there, Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what

[gentoo-user] The generated cache was invalid...

2007-11-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I've been seeing this error during every emerge for a while now, and I don't know where it comes from, or what it means: * Updating desktop mime database ... * Updating shared mime info database ... * Updating icons cache ... The generated cache was invalid.

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Teng Wang
No, I don't have a backup. And I still didn't turn off my laptop. The problem is how I can recover my system? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Packages not in portage

2007-11-19 Thread pepone.onrez
Hello all There are same interesting packages that i can't found in gentoo portage. If any body knows about a non oficial ebuild for any of then i interesting in it. AppWeb embeded web server http://www.appwebserver.org. Vmime c++ mail library http://www.vmime.org/index.shtml CTemplate is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:48:36 -0600, Dale wrote: I found a drive to replace this one. I'll get it installed in a month or so. I'll put useless stuff on this old one. Like Vista? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick I am Barry Norman of the Borg - you will be assimilated - and why not? signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 17:36 -0600, Teng Wang wrote: No, I don't have a backup. And I still didn't turn off my laptop. The problem is how I can recover my system? The first solution I was thinking of would be to back your system up before you reboot, and then re-create the filesystem and

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages not in portage

2007-11-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:41:14 +0100, pepone.onrez wrote: There are same interesting packages that i can't found in gentoo portage. If any body knows about a non oficial ebuild for any of then i interesting in it. Vmime c++ mail library http://www.vmime.org/index.shtml % eix vmime *

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Teng Wang
I still wonder that after mkswap the root partition, I even do swapon. But this time, it says it is invalid argument. So I think the data on that disk will not be lost, since it did not serve as the swap partition. So is it still screwed? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 19. November 2007, Teng Wang wrote: Hi there, Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what should

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Teng Wang
I think it is not hard to do a backup right now. But the problem is I use separate partition for /home /usr /usr/portage/distfiles /var /tmp. So, how can I exclude these directory when I use cp -av? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:25:47 -0600, Teng Wang wrote: So, how can I exclude these directory when I use cp -av? Add -x/--onefilesystem, it's all in TFM. -- Neil Bothwick Scrotum is a small planet near Uranus. True/False? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Teng Wang
Since I don't think there is anything important in the root partition, I still try to reboot my computer to see what will happen. Very Lucky, my computer reboot normally. Thank you for all your suggestion. But I still want to know what on earth mkswap does to the disk. IF it would rewrite the

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Teng Wang writes: Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what should I do to recover? With a litle luck,

Re: [gentoo-user] The generated cache was invalid...

2007-11-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 00:40:16 Iain Buchanan wrote: I've been seeing this error during every emerge for a while now, and I don't know where it comes from, or what it means: * Updating desktop mime database ... * Updating shared mime info database ... * Updating icons cache ... The

Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Monday 19 November 2007 12:35:14 am Billy Holmes wrote: Jeff Cranmer wrote: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown block (0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option. Here are the available partitions run make menuconfig in your new kernel dir. check to ensure ext3 is compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Monday 19 November 2007 11:46:39 pm Billy Holmes wrote: Jeff Cranmer wrote: The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB drive at sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel still panics (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive at

Re: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Billy Holmes
Jeff Cranmer wrote: The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB drive at sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel still panics (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive at sda, not sdb). that's very odd that there is a sda

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Billy Holmes
Jeff Cranmer wrote: When it fails after re-pointing the grub booter to /dev/sdb, it does at least fail so that I can get to a shell as root. dmesg doesn't work from the shell, however. I wonder if there is a command I can use to query the new sda and find out where it is getting it from?

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:48:36 -0600, Dale wrote: I found a drive to replace this one. I'll get it installed in a month or so. I'll put useless stuff on this old one. Like Vista? ;-) NO ! There is no windoze allowed in this house. I have never

[gentoo-user] [OT] Grab info off the net

2007-11-19 Thread reader
What are people using and can vouch for that can snag webpages or parts of web pages to store/save/organize/report on etc etc, as well as handling clipboard content or the like? Something to collect disparate pieces of information with that can organize and present it. I've used a windows

[gentoo-user] Re: 7. Configuring the Kernel

2007-11-19 Thread Thufir
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:18:23 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: If you get a file not found error, drop into the GRUB shell and run find /kernel-has-alsa. I did get to a point with GRUB where I edited the line which specifies the kernel and used tab-completion to select the kernel I wanted. (That