Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/9/10 Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com:  Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could).  I've mostly followed the Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB partition for the whole system, and no swap).  

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread Jake Moe
On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/9/10 Jake Moejakesaddr...@gmail.com: Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly followed the Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/9/10 Jake Moejakesaddr...@gmail.com: Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread Al
If I give the root password, I can find no /dev/sda1.  However, mount shows /dev/sda1 on /, and there *is* a /sys/block/sda folders, with a sda1 folder in that as well.  It's almost like it had /dev/sda1, but then lost it somehow. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?  Any help

Re: [gentoo-user] strange network problem

2010-09-10 Thread
At 2010-09-10,Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:51:48PM +0800, ?? wrote Thinks everyone: DNS woks well for me. i can ping www.google.com. Just can't access it in web-browsers without rebooting system.Sometimes I thought mybe it's the problem of

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] strange network problem

2010-09-10 Thread
At 2010-09-10,路 xaoru2...@163.com wrote: At 2010-09-10,Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:51:48PM +0800, ?? wrote Thinks everyone: DNS woks well for me. i can ping www.google.com. Just can't access it in web-browsers without rebooting

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:05:12 +0200 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/9/10 Jake Moejakesaddr...@gmail.com: Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-10 Thread Al
What is your strategia to build up a community? Actually, I don't really have any. All I can do is offering it as OSS and do a little bit advocacy here and there - I don't have the resources to build up real community structures all alone. Of course, anybody's welcomed to join in. This is

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] strange network problem

2010-09-10 Thread Thomas Yao
2010/9/10 路 xaoru2...@163.com: At 2010-09-10,路 xaoru2...@163.com wrote: At 2010-09-10,Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:51:48PM +0800, ?? wrote Thinks everyone: DNS woks well for me. i can ping www.google.com. Just can't access it in web-browsers

Re: [gentoo-user] undetected DVD r/w device

2010-09-10 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon alain.didierj...@free.fr: Selon Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk: On 6 Sep 2010, at 09:55, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: For some unknown reason, my DVD r/w device is not detected as such by udev: I can mount /dev/hda and read a data CD, ... Current kernels

[gentoo-user] Properly handling missing files when downloading files from ftp:// via ISA proxy (emerge/wget)

2010-09-10 Thread Maciej Grela
Hi, Is there any way to make emerge (wget) correctly behave when it tries to download a non-existing file from FTP in a network using ISA as ftp_proxy ? I have one of these at work and it's really annoying because of situations like below: pazuzu ~ # LC_ALL=C wget -T 30 -t 1 --continue -O

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Gentoo deal with GCC's header fixes?

2010-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: When building GCC, it will scan all headers in /usr/include and apply fixes to them, and then copy them and use the modified versions.  Now a binary distro (AFAIK) will ship the GCC modified headers, so there's no problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-10 Thread Matt Neimeyer
Thanks all for your help! I knew it was something simple I should have known. Matt On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: On 09/09/2010 07:24 PM, Matt Neimeyer wrote: My generic question is: When I'm using a pipe line series of commands do I use up

Re: [gentoo-user] Properly handling missing files when downloading files from ftp:// via ISA proxy (emerge/wget)

2010-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Maciej Grela maciej.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there any way to make emerge (wget) correctly behave when it tries to download a non-existing file from FTP in a network using ISA as ftp_proxy ? I have one of these at work and it's really annoying because of

Re: [gentoo-user] Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: On 09/09/2010 07:24 PM, Matt Neimeyer wrote: My generic question is: When I'm using a pipe line series of commands do I use up more/less space than doing things in sequence? For example, I have a development Gentoo VM

Re: [gentoo-user] Properly handling missing files when downloading files from ftp:// via ISA proxy (emerge/wget)

2010-09-10 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/9/10 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Maciej Grela maciej.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there any way to make emerge (wget) correctly behave when it tries to download a non-existing file from FTP in a network using ISA as ftp_proxy ? I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 09.09.2010 22:28, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2010-09-09, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: When you look closer at `sort`, it is actually a quite impressive tool. It sorts in-memory for small amounts of data and switches to temporary files for larger. It can even compress

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.09.2010 01:49, schrieb Enrico Weigelt: * Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: But I'd really like to know what produces the performance hits on Posfix @ Linux. It comes down to the IO scheduler. Linux is designed to be general purpose. FreeBSD is designed to be much more

[gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Hi all, This morning I got centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! snip/ [ebuild UD] kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 [4.5.1-r1] USE=semantic-desktop (-aqua) -debug -doc -examples (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) 0 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 10 September 2010 18:53:52 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, This morning I got centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! snip/ [ebuild UD] kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 [4.5.1-r1] USE=semantic-desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Dale
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, This morning I got centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! snip/ [ebuild UD] kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 [4.5.1-r1] USE=semantic-desktop (-aqua) -debug -doc -examples

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:43 on Friday 10 September 2010, Florian Philipp did opine thusly: Am 10.09.2010 01:49, schrieb Enrico Weigelt: * Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: But I'd really like to know what produces the performance hits on Posfix @ Linux. It comes

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 10 September 2010 10:25, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Strange, I don't have pykde4-4.5.1-r1 at all. What does eix pykde4 say on your system? On mine it says: *** $ eix pykde4 [I] kde-base/pykde4     Available versions:        (4.4)   ~4.4.1[3] 4.4.5 **4.4.!m!t[1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 10 September 2010 10:25, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have the package listed in the unmask or keyword file?  If so, it ignores the mask file.  Actually, I think it reads mask first then the others. Ah! Yes, I do. That explains why package.mask is being ignored, I guess, but I

[gentoo-user] Re: Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-09-10, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Am 09.09.2010 22:28, schrieb Grant Edwards: Throw `cut`, `paste`, `join` and `grep` into the mix and you can build your own relational database system based on shell scripts ;) Sort of linke /rdb: http://www.rdb.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: So I'm confused. Why is package.mask not having any (apparent) effect for pykde4? How do I prevent the downgrade? It's probably unmasked as well. I think unmask overrides mask. As an alternative, you can try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:53 on Friday 10 September 2010, Hilco Wijbenga did opine thusly: Hi all, This morning I got centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! snip/ [ebuild UD]

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: Strange, I don't have pykde4-4.5.1-r1 at all. I do. What does eix pykde4 say on your system? On mine it says: *** $ eix pykde4 [I] kde-base/pykde4 Available versions: (4.4) ~4.4.1[3] 4.4.5 **4.4.!m!t[1] **4.4.!m!t[2] (4.5) ~4.5.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Dale
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On 10 September 2010 10:25, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have the package listed in the unmask or keyword file? If so, it ignores the mask file. Actually, I think it reads mask first then the others. Ah! Yes, I do. That explains why package.mask is

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread John Campbell
On 09/10/2010 09:53 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, So I'm confused. Why is package.mask not having any (apparent) effect for pykde4? How do I prevent the downgrade? pykde4-4.5.1-r1 was removed from the repository, not masked. In order to keep 4.5.1-r1 you need to obtain a copy of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:53:52 -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I decided that I did not want to go back to 4.5.1 so I added =kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 to /etc/portage/package.mask. To my utmost surprise, I got the exact same result as before when running the above emerge command again. I tried

[gentoo-user] What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines, others dont work at all. The worst case is one where Ive upgraded udev to the latest which only

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 10 September 2010 11:40, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: So I'm confused. Why is package.mask not having any (apparent) effect for pykde4? How do I prevent the downgrade? It's probably

[gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-10 Thread walt
On 09/10/2010 09:43 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: ..why hasn't FreeBSD's scheduler been ported to Linux? Or is the whole software stack (block devices etc.) so completely different that it wouldn't work? Well, I can't answer your question, but you just reminded me that Linus himself once

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/11/2010 01:18 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. If you updated from 2.6.34 or even 33, then there shouldn't be a problem; make oldconfig should have worked OK and presented

[gentoo-user] Re: undetected DVD r/w device

2010-09-10 Thread walt
On 09/10/2010 07:25 AM, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Selon alain.didierj...@free.fr: Selon Strollerstrol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk: On 6 Sep 2010, at 09:55, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: For some unknown reason, my DVD r/w device is not detected as such by udev: I can mount /dev/hda

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread walt
On 09/10/2010 03:18 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines... What kernel config items did you change to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, walt wrote: On 09/10/2010 03:18 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines... What kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/11/2010 01:18 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. If you updated from 2.6.34 or even 33, then there shouldn't be a problem; make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Ajai Khattri wrote: Under the old scheme I specified /dev/md1 as my root in grub.conf but since this doesn't exist the boot fails. In trying to fix this I see that the LiveCD uses the following device files for the RAID partitions: /dev/md123 /dev/md124 /dev/md125

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread John Campbell
On 09/10/2010 05:30 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, walt wrote: The two main ones seemed to be disabling the deprecated ATA drivers and another one was disabling some sysfs options. But these changes didn't help in this case. At this point, I think Im better off sticking to the

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/11/2010 03:31 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/11/2010 01:18 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. If you updated from 2.6.34 or even 33, then

[gentoo-user] How to correctly read CPU temperature ?

2010-09-10 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, with the command sensors (lm_sensor) I can read out the temperatures/voltages of my mobo/cpu: atk0110-acpi-0 Adapter: ACPI interface Vcore Voltage: +1.35 V (min = +0.80 V, max = +1.60 V) CPU/NB Voltage:+1.16 V (min = +0.80 V, max = +1.60 V) CPU