Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Mick
On Thursday 06 May 2010 17:03:54 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:03:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Did you mean press e ? No. I don't see anything in the man page about hitting the c key. What does that do? I've used e, b and such but never heard of c. It drops

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Andrea Conti
Are you sure ext[234] is compiled statically into the kernel in this .config? Also the drivers for the EIDE / SATA controller. Missing FS and/or controller drivers will result in a regular kernel boot with a panic at the end, when it's time to mount root and load init. In this case grubs

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 7 May 2010 07:28:00 +0100, Mick wrote: It drops you to the grub command line, it's documented on the GRUB menu screen itself, just after it tells you about e. Oh OK. I didn't reboot and read that part. lol I learned something today. Just hope I will remember it when I

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 06 May 2010 12:52:55 Mick wrote: When I get problems like this I usually run grub in a terminal and then use autocompletion to find out what grub sees: root (hd --tab it will list all partitions and hopefully help you find your boot partition. Then search for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.05.2010 20:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: The main question is still unanswered: Why does pam_mount not work anymore with the given device/key ? additional digging: I found http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528366 where the poster tries the underlying mount.crypt

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Andrea, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net writes: I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer drivers and using a plain VGA console. Leave all advanced settings in your bios to their defaults. And

Re: [gentoo-user] arping network profile issue

2010-05-07 Thread Adam
On 05/06/10 03:35, Zhou Rui wrote: Hi folks, I setup a network interface to switch in two different network with different gateways using config_eth0=( arping ), and I can get gateway mac when use arping2 command directly. But the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start always fails, can you help me to

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 7 May, Roger Mason wrote: Hello Andrea, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net writes: I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer drivers and using a plain VGA console. Leave all advanced settings in

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Roger Mason
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: One more hint (that I've got earlier on this list) Boot from a rescue CD (preferably http://www.sysresccd.org/ ) then execute lspci -k it shows you all drivers that have been selected during boot. Many thanks fir the information.

[gentoo-user] Re: Loosing key presses since upgrade to xorg-server-1.7.6

2010-05-07 Thread Remy Blank
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: evdev? Right, I was trying to avoid that. But you were probably right. I have upgraded to xorg-server-1.8 and switched to evdev for the keyboard and mouse, with udev autodetection. This seems to have solved the issue. Of course, now we'll never know if switching to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.05.2010 10:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I think I am gonna file a bug for this now. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318865

[gentoo-user] KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend

2010-05-07 Thread Roman Naumann
Hi, when I suspend my computer, KDE locks the session. This usually happens, when I close my laptop lid. When I open it again, it takes 1 to 20 seconds (seamingly random) untill the login screen appears. During this time, I just see a black screen and a mouse pointer (somewhere), but I cannot

snackup (was: Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive)

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Iain Buchanan writes: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: using this script, adapted to their needs, I started to rewrite it in a way that it reads a config file, and no modification of the script itself is necessary. If anyone is interested, send me an email.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend

2010-05-07 Thread András Csányi
On 7 May 2010 19:33, Roman Naumann roman_naum...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hi, when I suspend my computer, KDE locks the session. This usually happens, when I close my laptop lid. When I open it again, it takes 1 to 20 seconds (seamingly random) untill the login screen appears. During this time, I

Re: snackup (was: Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive)

2010-05-07 Thread covici
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Iain Buchanan writes: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: using this script, adapted to their needs, I started to rewrite it in a way that it reads a config file, and no modification of the script itself is necessary. If

[gentoo-user] Re: snackup

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: I have a question -- where would lvm put a snapshot and how could I pass some list of excludes to rdiff-backup. I have an lvm which is taking all the PEs and a snapshot would take up lots of disk space -- or would it. Would I need some free pes to put the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: snackup

2010-05-07 Thread covici
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: I have a question -- where would lvm put a snapshot and how could I pass some list of excludes to rdiff-backup. I have an lvm which is taking all the PEs and a snapshot would take up lots of disk space -- or would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.05.2010 16:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 07.05.2010 10:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I think I am gonna file a bug for this now. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318865 Aside from the potential bug: As I store the verysekrit.key on the same hdd as the encrypted

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend

2010-05-07 Thread Mick
On Friday 07 May 2010 19:26:46 András Csányi wrote: On 7 May 2010 19:33, Roman Naumann roman_naum...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hi, when I suspend my computer, KDE locks the session. This usually happens, when I close my laptop lid. When I open it again, it takes 1 to 20 seconds (seamingly

[gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

2010-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an emerge update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails. I now have just the following ebuilds that cannot finish because of qt-webkit: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

2010-05-07 Thread William Kenworthy
FEATURES='-distcc -ccache' MAKEOPTS='-j1' emerge ... Worked for me on multiple systems BillK - Original message - For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an emerge update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails.  I now have just the following

Re: [gentoo-user] arping network profile issue

2010-05-07 Thread Zhou Rui
What I want is finding a gateway out with ARP, and then assign the correct gateway/route table, stuff in the configuration can be found in /etc/conf.d/net.example. BTW, what's IP level stuff meaning? thanks. 2010/5/7 Adam a...@jaftan.com.au On 05/06/10 03:35, Zhou Rui wrote: Hi folks, I