Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 22 Dezember 2009 20:01:16 schrieb Stroller: ZFS shouldn't be considered a FUSE-based filesystem. It should be considered a Solaris filesystem, which is yet to be (??) adequately ported to any other platforms. It just left experimental state in FreeBSD 8.0. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Me again. I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my /home directory. I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and muddy up the waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with the bash Gentoo uses? Links to a even better guide would be good too.

[gentoo-user] Re: No desktop after login with kdm

2009-12-23 Thread Nelis Botha
Hi I left the laptop on overnight and it resolved itself. Rebooted and it was still working okay. Been going through the logs but can't find anything that indicates what cuased this. Thanks Regards Nelis On 20/12/2009, nelis.bo...@gmail.com nelis.bo...@gmail.com wrote: I had to hardreboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No desktop after login with kdm

2009-12-23 Thread Marcus Wanner
It tends to be caused by crashes in which the session is not saved and the session manager has a hard time restoring it, so it doesn't start the panel and other stuff. Usually, starting the panel manually or logging out with out saving the session and then back in again will fix it. Glad you

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to make portage use puf instead of wget

2009-12-23 Thread Nguyen Bao Ngoc
Hi, why don't you try aria2? I replaced wget with it and it works well. Here is my fetch command in case you want to try. FETCHCOMMAND=/usr/bin/aria2c -d \\${DISTDIR}\ -o \\${FILE}\ \\${URI}\ RESUMECOMMAND=/usr/bin/aria2c -c -d \\${DISTDIR}\ -o \\${FILE}\ \\${URI}\

Re: [gentoo-user] make an -9999 ebuild compile only if necessary

2009-12-23 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:28:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 22 December 2009 19:21:21 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have ebuilds fetching the source code directly from a repository (be it CVS,SVN,HG,GIT,...) I'd like to modify the .ebuild to enter compilation

[gentoo-user] cannot compile kvm

2009-12-23 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i cannot access my computer now, so i can only tell you what i remember. i am using gentoo amd64, and the portage is updated. the kernel have kvm modules compiled. when i was trying to emerge kvm-kmod, it is said to have been masked, so i unmasked it. but while compiling, kvm-kmod failed

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to make portage use puf instead of wget

2009-12-23 Thread Ronan Mainbourg
Thanks! It works well on my box and since I did not succeed in using puf with emerge, it perfectly fits my needs. 2009/12/24 Nguyen Bao Ngoc baongoc...@gmail.com Hi, why don't you try aria2? I replaced wget with it and it works well. Here is my fetch command in case you want to try.

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to make portage use puf instead of wget

2009-12-23 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Nguyen Bao Ngoc baongoc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, why don't you try aria2? I replaced wget with it and it works well. Here is my fetch command in case you want to try. FETCHCOMMAND=/usr/bin/aria2c -d \\${DISTDIR}\ -o \\${FILE}\ \\${URI}\

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot compile kvm

2009-12-23 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, i cannot access my computer now, so i can only tell you what i remember. i am using gentoo amd64, and the portage is updated. the kernel have kvm modules compiled. when i was trying to emerge kvm-kmod, it is said

[gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/consolefont cannot find my console font

2009-12-23 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i have 2 servers, and both are amd64 and up to date, but 1 is have the problem when starting consolefont. the error message is: setfont: default8x16: no such file or directory i have checked my /usr/share/consolefonts directory, i these files do exist. i searched for a while, and some