On Thursday 17 December 2009 09:47:14 Xi Shen wrote:
hi,
i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb,
ata drivers into the kernel. but when boot, the system still cannot
find my usb hd, but it did find my hd on my laptop. what i missed?
You missed the filesystem
On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:37:54 Robert Bridge wrote:
dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the
disk.
And the resulting effect from doing that once is:
Trivially easy to recover the data that was there just before you did the dd
Why? Data on-disk is not
On Thursday 17 December 2009 00:25:43 Dale wrote:
Hearing they use old code is not to surprising actually. Look at air
traffic control. Every time they try to upgrade, it crashes. I guess
the cheapest bidder is not always the best. o_O
Every such crash after an upgrade I
dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the
disk.
And the resulting effect from doing that once is:
Trivially easy to recover the data that was there just before you did the dd
Why? Data on-disk is not a binary cell like ram. It is a magnetic pattern and
sorry, could you be more specific? i cannot follow you ;)
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 09:47:14 Xi Shen wrote:
hi,
i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb,
ata drivers into the
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 23:24:51 Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 12/16/2009 2:24 PM, Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote:
I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana cristiandei...@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
I run glsa-check -f affected to update a Gentoo system, but there's one
specific package I can't update, because it's a C library someone is using
and the 'secure' version is causing segmentation fault on her program, so I
added
On Thursday 17 December 2009 05:13:32 Joshua Murphy wrote:
chicane ~ # shred test/
shred: test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory
chicane ~ # shred -v -n 25 -z -u ~/test/
shred: /root/test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory
shred ... shreds files. Therefore you may need
it didn't work :( although I didn't know about the existence of that file!
:)
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana cristiandei...@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
I run glsa-check -f affected to update a Gentoo system, but there's one
Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which
used to contain this file no longer does -- any ideas on how to proceed?
Thanks.
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 11:42 +, Mick wrote:
shred ... shreds files. Therefore you may need to point it to the
files in
question for it to work. I suspect that if you point it to a device
alone it
just shreds the file representing the device on the Linux fs in
question.
No. This is
On 12/17/2009 6:42 AM, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 05:13:32 Joshua Murphy wrote:
chicane ~ # shred test/
shred: test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory
chicane ~ # shred -v -n 25 -z -u ~/test/
shred: /root/test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory
On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana cristiandei...@gmail.com wrote:
it didn't work :( although I didn't know about the existence of that file!
:)
Ouch, too bad. I realized the same as I was reading portage man page
about that file. It requires explicit versions for the provided
packages, and that makes
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:47:14PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked:
i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb,
ata drivers into the kernel. but when boot, the system still cannot
find my usb hd, but it did find my hd on my laptop. what i missed?
I don't
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:40:40 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
That would be a bit inconvenient...I still vote for dd, overwriting the
thing 26 times sounds like WAY overkill for a hdd...
Doesn't that depend on the contents of the disk? I don't see what's wrong
with booting a DBAN disk and letting
Xi Shen schrieb:
sorry, could you be more specific? i cannot follow you ;)
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 09:47:14 Xi Shen wrote:
hi,
i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb,
ata
I've found the slim login manager will hang the computer if I enter exit
or console in the panel,
blank screen and no response at all, had to push the reset button to
recover.
I did not test it under the previous xorg-server installation, anybody has
got the same issue?
I've tried to recompile
Hi, Neil,
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:05:40PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:44:29 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting
for VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf. Does emerge have a facility to
rebuild only those
On 12/16/2009 07:51 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
At Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:36:45 -0500 Albert Hopkinsmar...@letterboxes.org
wrote:
FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down,
presses down, and clicks left and right. All seem to work fine, except
I don't use the latter as
Alan McKinnon writes:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:37:54 Robert Bridge wrote:
dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on
the disk.
And the resulting effect from doing that once is:
Trivially easy to recover the data that was there just before you did
the
What file system did you use on the USB drive? Did you compile support
for that file system in the kernel? It can't be a module, it has to be
compiled into the kernel itself.
Dale
P. S. Top posted because he did. Please don't shoot the messenger.
Xi Shen wrote:
sorry, could you be
On 17/12/09 15:12, Alex Schuster wrote:
Well, OK, not quite: a single bit whose
precise location is known can in fact be correctly reconstructed with
56 per cent probability (in one of the quoted examples)
So a thing with a 50:50 change of being in a given state, can be
identified, a
Am Donnerstag, 17. Dezember 2009 16:07:46 schrieb walt:
That's why I was wondering if just a simple front-or-back turn of the
wheel also produces two different button events for each notch -- you
should see only button-4 events for forward and only button-5 events for
backward. (I actually
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:37:54 Robert Bridge wrote:
dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the
disk.
And the resulting effect from doing that once is:
Trivially easy to
On 12/16/2009 11:47 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Attached is the emerge log. I'm running 32 bit on an Intel Core Duo
(Dell D530) USE=-X -debug -gpm -svga. The last step of the gcc
upgrade is emerge -eav world. dosemu 1.4.0 built under gcc 4.1.2 but
not under 4.3.4. I've added my report to
Joshua Murphy writes:
A) To fill the drive with zeros:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drive
Should be enough for practical purposes.
B) And, to make it at least questionable whether you wiped it or
merely had it encrypted:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/drive
Similar method, but faster:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I doing
wrong?
Marcus
I'm trying to get KDE 4 where I can use it so I used the layman to get
the latest. Anyway, I seem to have ran into a Block, may not be related
to KDE4 tho, that I just can't make sense of. This is the error I get:
[blocks b ] kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kdeprefix]
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the /dev/fd0
device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block device
corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I doing wrong?
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:14:48 +, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
Hi, Neil,
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:05:40PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:44:29 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting
for VIDEO_CARDS in
On 12/16/2009 08:47 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Attached is the emerge log. I'm running 32 bit on an Intel Core Duo
(Dell D530) USE=-X -debug -gpm -svga. The last step of the gcc
upgrade is emerge -eav world. dosemu 1.4.0 built under gcc 4.1.2 but
not under 4.3.4. I've added my report to
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to get KDE 4 where I can use it so I used the layman to get the
latest. Anyway, I seem to have ran into a Block, may not be related to KDE4
tho, that I just can't make sense of. This is the error I get:
[blocks b
yeah, that was a typo! =/ the file I want to mask (and that's the same
glsa-check wants to update) is really being masked when I run emerge.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana cristiandei...@gmail.com wrote:
it didn't work :(
On Thursday 17 December 2009 14:09:37 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which
used to contain this file no longer does -- any ideas on how to proceed?
Thanks.
nazgul ~ # locate XInput.h
/usr/include/X11/extensions/XInput.h
nazgul
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 22:51 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
Right. Mine (MX 1000) has those plus others (I inherited the mouse).
My problem is that several of these send multiple events (i.e.
clicking
one physical button results in two button-down events for different
X11
buttons and then the
On Thursday 17 December 2009 16:26:20 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:40:40 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
That would be a bit inconvenient...I still vote for dd, overwriting the
thing 26 times sounds like WAY overkill for a hdd...
Doesn't that depend on the contents of the disk?
Willie Wong writes:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it
On 12/17/2009 11:06 AM, Willie Wong wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the /dev/fd0
device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block device
corresponding to my floppy
Am Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2009 schrieb Bruce Hill:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down,
presses down, and clicks left and right. All seem to work fine, except
I don't use the latter as I haven't
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 14:09:37 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which
used to contain this file no longer does -- any ideas on how to proceed?
Thanks.
nazgul ~ #
Hello,
Well I keep getting the same 32 files to rebuild
even after running 'emerge @preserved-rebuild'
several times. Here is the list of files:
ebuild R ] sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.19-r2
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1
[ebuild R ] dev-libs/apr-1.3.9
[ebuild R ]
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:55:06 -0600, Dale wrote:
I didn't post the whole thing but the part about the Blocks with a
capital B. I have unmerged both lzma-utils and xz-utils but I still
get this error. How can they block it when they are not installed
yet? I'm missing something here. I just
On 12/17/2009 04:09 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which
used to contain this file no longer does -- any ideas on how to proceed?
Hm. On my x86 and ~amd64 machines I have freeglut-2.4 and freeglut-2.6,
respectively, but no
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to get KDE 4 where I can use it so I used the layman to get the
latest. Anyway, I seem to have ran into a Block, may not be related to KDE4
tho, that I just can't make sense of. This is the
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:55:06 -0600, Dale wrote:
I didn't post the whole thing but the part about the Blocks with a
capital B. I have unmerged both lzma-utils and xz-utils but I still
get this error. How can they block it when they are not installed
yet? I'm missing
Am Donnerstag 17 Dezember 2009 19:32:54 schrieb Dale:
I have tried a few things but just to make sure, I tried this just to be
sure. I unmerged both blockers and emerged xz-utils again, same block
as before.
Ideas?
The solution is in the ebuilds (as always): eix 0.17.0 still depends on
Hello folks,
Quick question.
My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the
only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what
Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM
device forced to /dev/cdrom in Audacious, unwittingly, before
Dale schrieb am 17.12.2009 16:55:
[blocks b ] kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kdeprefix]
(kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kdeprefix] is blocking kde-base/kde-meta-)
[blocks B ] app-arch/lzma-utils (app-arch/lzma-utils is blocking
app-arch/xz-utils-)
[blocks B ] app-arch/xz-utils
Well,
I got the same problem in a recent past.
What I did to solve this problem was to remove sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs and to
install it again:
emerge -C e2fsprogs-libs
emerge -van1 e2fsprogs-libs
But I don't if it is good for your case.
Regards,
--
Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
Control and
On 17 Dec 2009, at 13:40, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 12/17/2009 6:42 AM, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 05:13:32 Joshua Murphy wrote:
chicane ~ # shred test/
shred: test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory
chicane ~ # shred -v -n 25 -z -u ~/test/
shred: /root/test/: failed to
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:04:37PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked:
Willie Wong writes:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:04:56PM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
The only floppy options I can find in the kernel relating to floppy drives
in the kernel config are mac floppy, amiga floppy, and atari floppy, none
of which apply to me. I believe I am using udev, and both the
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:42:33PM -0500, Penguin Lover Denis squawked:
My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the
only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what
Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM
device forced to
The default udev scripts should have been able to automatically create
symlinks for optical devices in /dev. Whether yours is broken, you can
find out by trying to ls -l /dev/cdrom :)
It appears the links /dev/cdrom1 and /dev/cdrw1 are tied to /dev/hda.
Is that the default behavior instead of
At Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:30:58 +0100 Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 17. Dezember 2009 16:07:46 schrieb walt:
That's why I was wondering if just a simple front-or-back turn of the
wheel also produces two different button events for each notch -- you
should see only
Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
Dale schrieb am 17.12.2009 16:55:
[blocks b ] kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kdeprefix]
(kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kdeprefix] is blocking kde-base/kde-meta-)
[blocks B ] app-arch/lzma-utils (app-arch/lzma-utils is blocking
app-arch/xz-utils-)
[blocks B ]
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:45:20 +0100, fei huang daniel.huang...@gmail.com
wrote:
I've found the slim login manager will hang the computer if I enter
exit
or console in the panel,
blank screen and no response at all, had to push the reset button to
recover.
I did not test it under the
On 12/17/2009 12:04 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
Willie Wong writes:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
At Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:49:43 -0500 Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org
wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 22:51 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
Right. Mine (MX 1000) has those plus others (I inherited the mouse).
My problem is that several of these send multiple events (i.e.
clicking
one physical
On 12/17/2009 10:42 AM, Denis wrote:
Hello folks,
Quick question.
My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the
only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what
Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM
device forced to
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:49:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Let's look at the obvious solution then:
remove the hard drive containing sensitive data, replace it with a new
one, sell laptop.
Ka-Ching! Problem solved.
Unfortunately, the hard drive seller gets more Ka-Ching and the OP gets
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:51:33 + (UTC), James wrote:
Well I keep getting the same 32 files to rebuild
even after running 'emerge @preserved-rebuild'
several times. Here is the list of files:
Where is the list of libraries causing the need for the rebuild?
This is given in the message that
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:12:19 -0600, Dale wrote:
You are both right. I tried installing a later version on the blockers
but not the packages that depended on them. So, I added the following
to my package.keyword and package.unmask files:
=app-portage/eix-0.18.3
On Thursday 17 December 2009 19:51:33 James wrote:
Hello,
Well I keep getting the same 32 files to rebuild
even after running 'emerge @preserved-rebuild'
several times. Here is the list of files:
ebuild R ] sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.19-r2
[snip]
ldd is your friend
run on those
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120
drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers - Block
devices - Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled as a module,
maybe you just need to modprobe
On Thursday 17 December 2009 19:30:32 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 14:09:37 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the package which
used to contain this file no longer
From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:49:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Let's look at the obvious solution then:
remove the hard drive containing sensitive data, replace it with a new
one, sell laptop.
Ka-Ching! Problem solved.
Unfortunately, the hard drive
On 12/17/2009 01:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I do have two InputDevice sections in xorg.conf about the mouse, but my
ServerLayout only mentions one. I attach both my log and xorg.conf
below.
If you are using evdev (and you are) you should delete (or comment out)
anything to do with Input
On 12/17/2009 12:14 PM, Denis wrote:
The default udev scripts should have been able to automatically create
symlinks for optical devices in /dev. Whether yours is broken, you can
find out by trying to ls -l /dev/cdrom :)
It appears the links /dev/cdrom1 and /dev/cdrw1 are tied to /dev/hda.
Is
On 12/17/2009 08:42 PM, Denis wrote:
Hello folks,
Quick question.
My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the
only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what
Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM
device forced to
On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120
drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers - Block
devices - Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Steffen Loos fe...@gmx.net wrote:
Xi Shen schrieb:
sorry, could you be more specific? i cannot follow you ;)
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 09:47:14 Xi Shen wrote:
hi,
i
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:14:48AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
ok. but it looks like the gmail web client encourage top post ;)
That doesn't make it easy to read. This is how we see it when you top-post:
A: Because you are doing it wrong.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 19:30:32 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 14:09:37 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Hi. This happened on my latest update -- looks like the
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:47:14PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked:
i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb,
ata drivers into the kernel. but when boot, the system still cannot
At Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:34:51 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/17/2009 01:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I do have two InputDevice sections in xorg.conf about the mouse, but my
ServerLayout only mentions one. I attach both my log and xorg.conf
below.
If you are using evdev (and you
On 12/17/2009 02:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
solar flares
cosmic rays
a quantum level event
leprechauns
tooth fairies
jubbjubb monsters
Single malt, I hope? ;o)
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote:
On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120
drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device
On Friday 18 December 2009 04:28:32 walt wrote:
On 12/17/2009 02:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
solar flares
cosmic rays
a quantum level event
leprechauns
tooth fairies
jubbjubb monsters
Single malt, I hope? ;o)
Sadly, no. I come from a long line of fine single malt liqueur makers
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