Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 May 2011 02:01:13 Adam Carter wrote: WRT why it stopped after 10MB, if i specified a smaller size it would just stop after whatever was specified, so its just doing a single chunk equal to whatever bs has been specified as. I recall zeroing drives/partitions and getting this

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

2011-05-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 May 2011 02:47:31 Dale wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:12, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply append

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Adam Carter
To check my understanding - would it be correct to say that; 1. Using dd to copy the first 512 bytes (MBR) is ALL that is needed to setup the partitions - that is i wont need to run fdisk etc afterward. This is correct if you only have primary partitions. It will not copy the extended

[gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

2011-05-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! I am trying to get the 'Zen' of emerge. Please CMIIW on the following points: * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world * To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it explicitly (emerge --update package), or use --deep against world

Re: [gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 08:35 on Monday 16 May 2011, Pandu Poluan did opine thusly: Hello list! I am trying to get the 'Zen' of emerge. Please CMIIW on the following points: * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world Yes * To update a

[gentoo-user] Re: --oneshot and --update

2011-05-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/16/2011 09:35 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello list! I am trying to get the 'Zen' of emerge. Please CMIIW on the following points: * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world * To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it explicitly (emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

2011-05-16 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Monday 16 May 2011 08:35:19 Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello list! I am trying to get the 'Zen' of emerge. Please CMIIW on the following points: * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world right * To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 May 2011 22:54:14 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Why setup didn't get this right via emerge I have no idea, unless it didn't actually do anything toward actually setting Grub up. Emerging GRUB installs it, that's all. The post installation message would have told you to set i up, but

Re: [gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 13:35:19 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world Yes. * To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it explicitly (emerge --update package), or use --deep against world (emerge --update --deep

[gentoo-user] Can't get help in Gnome - Silly error message

2011-05-16 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. Would somebody please help me. In every program in Gnome, there is a help menu. When I click on any of them, I get the wierd error message: Couldn't display help The specified location is not supported Does this just mean couldn't find file or does it have some deeper

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Mick
On 16 May 2011 07:31, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: To check my understanding - would it be correct to say that; 1. Using dd to copy the first 512 bytes (MBR) is ALL that is needed to setup the partitions - that is i wont need to run fdisk etc afterward. This is correct if you

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:37:10 +0100, Mick wrote: Then you can use gparted and resize partitions, add new ones, etc. BTW do not resize ntfs partitions unless you have booted into them defragged them first. If you're going to resize/move partitions afterwards, you may as well just dd the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...

2011-05-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-12 5:46 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:00 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Tanstaafl did opine thusly: If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case' something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /, since

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-13 4:16 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: KDE3 was fine as it was. I think that pretty much sums it up... No one forced anyone to upgrade to 4.0 when it was released. Anyone (you) could have continued using 3.x until *you* were satisfied with 4.x...

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Mick
On 16 May 2011 11:45, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:37:10 +0100, Mick wrote: Then you can use gparted and resize partitions, add new ones, etc. BTW do not resize ntfs partitions unless you have booted into them defragged them first. If you're going to

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] media center with gentoo

2011-05-16 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 05/14/2011 08:42 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, Building myself a new media center setup. I used to have an old xbox with xbmc. But the CPU is to slow for hi-def video. Now I have a normal PC with keyboard and mouse in its place. Normal Gentoo install. How can I get X to

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 12:16:51 +0100, Mick wrote: If you're going to resize/move partitions afterwards, you may as well just dd the whole drive in one go. But the OP's new drive is larger, so I assume that he will be rearranging partitions afterwards - could be wrong. So if you've got to

Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...

2011-05-16 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:47:59AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On last question/confirmation - There are a few updates other than just the baselayout/OpenRC updates pending... can I still emerge those now, prior to the baselayout update, like normal? Yes, as long as they do not have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-15 10:05 AM, pk wrote: (I'm not happy with my current mail client either [Thunderbird]). Why not? It isn't perfect, but is by far the best GUI+IMAP client I've found... Maybe you didn't know you could highlight the test you want to include in your reply, and it will include *only*

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Adam Carter
But the OP's new drive is larger, so I assume that he will be rearranging partitions afterwards - could be wrong. So if you've got to rearrange the partitions anyway, it is easier to just dd the whole thing in one go and then do the rearranging. Alternatively, set up the new partition

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-15 10:54 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Why setup didn't get this right via emerge I have no idea, unless it didn't actually do anything toward actually setting Grub up. If so, it could be there was already some mismatched Grub code there already from a previous use of the sectors there

Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...

2011-05-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-16 7:38 AM, William Hubbs wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:47:59AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On that note - I think I asked this a few months ago - I'm assuming I could continue using the old baselayout for a while, if I wanted, emerging updates (skipping the baselayout/OpenRC

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

2011-05-16 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Monday 16 May 2011 02:47:31 Dale wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:12, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...

2011-05-16 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-05-16 7:38 AM, William Hubbs wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:47:59AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On that note - I think I asked this a few months ago - I'm assuming I could continue using the old baselayout for a while, if I wanted, emerging updates (skipping

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread JDM
That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? JDM -Original Message- From: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 07:58:34 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video)

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 12:43:05 +, JDM wrote: That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? Read the settings for PORTAGE_ELOG in man make.conf. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 001: Windows loaded - System in danger signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Double mount entry?

2011-05-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hmmm... just installed a new system... and when I type `mount`, I get this: rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) rc-svcdir on /lib64/rc/init.d type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755) sysfs on /sys

[gentoo-user] What is the proper usage of module_rebuild?

2011-05-16 Thread felix
I have an ancient emerge script which does this: rm -rf /var/lib/module-rebuild module-rebuild -C list and I do not know why -- did I dream this up myself, or did I inherit it from somewhere? I do not know. At any rate, it seems kind of odd. What is the proper way of using

Re: [gentoo-user] Double mount entry?

2011-05-16 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: Hmmm... just installed a new system... and when I type `mount`, I get this: rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) rc-svcdir on /lib64/rc/init.d type tmpfs

[gentoo-user] Re: Genkernel + ROOT=/tmp/rootfs ?

2011-05-16 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm building a catalyst target for installing with ROOT=/tmp/rootfs Looking on the genkernel man page and I can't find a way to install the kernel to ROOT. Is there a way to do that? Thanks, Kfir Anyone?

Re: [gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

2011-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 16/5/2011, at 7:35am, Pandu Poluan wrote: ... * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world * To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it explicitly (emerge --update package) ... Will this not cause the package to be recorded in world? I

[gentoo-user] Gentoo and a Mobile Phone

2011-05-16 Thread dhkuhl
I have an Optimus V 3G mobile phone.  When I connect it to my Gentoo box with the usb cable, and turn on usb storage, I get the following message in a pop-up box.Unable to mount 2.0 GB FilesystemNot AuthorizedShould I make the device rwx for all, make a udev rule, or do something else?  The

Re: [gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

2011-05-16 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 16/5/2011, at 7:35am, Pandu Poluan wrote: ... * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world * To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it explicitly (emerge --update package) ... Will this not cause the package to be

Re: [gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

2011-05-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Way back when, --update did not record to the world file. That may have changed but I sort of doubt it. It has changed indeed. Wonko

[gentoo-user] An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind Reading

2011-05-16 Thread Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
16 May 2011 Monday 7:28 P.M. Singapore Time For Immediate Release SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) would like to report first hand account of mind intrusion and mind reading. I have been hearing voices for quite some time now but I have not been able to

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 16/5/2011, at 12:56pm, Adam Carter wrote: ... Yes the new drive is bigger, going from 66G to 500G. Single partition only, ... So how do i proceed? Is it; 1. dd the mbr without partition table, to get the boot code (so bs=446 count=1) 2. use fdisk to set one big primary partition,

Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...

2011-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 16/5/2011, at 11:47am, Tanstaafl wrote: ... On that note - I think I asked this a few months ago - I'm assuming I could continue using the old baselayout for a while, if I wanted, emerging updates (skipping the baselayout/OpenRC updates) for a while, without any problems, right? I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 16/5/2011, at 1:43pm, JDM wrote: Most people set things up so they get emails of the post install messages when emerging things, but it is up to you to actually read them and, when necessary, follow the instructions. That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? $ grep -i

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the proper usage of module_rebuild?

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:20 on Monday 16 May 2011, fe...@crowfix.com did opine thusly: I have an ancient emerge script which does this: rm -rf /var/lib/module-rebuild module-rebuild -C list and I do not know why -- did I dream this up myself, or did I inherit it from

Re: [gentoo-user] Double mount entry?

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:45 on Monday 16 May 2011, Pandu Poluan did opine thusly: Hmmm... just installed a new system... and when I type `mount`, I get this: rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) rc-svcdir on

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 03:10:03PM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 12:43:05 +, JDM wrote: That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? Read the settings for PORTAGE_ELOG in man make.conf. Or as that man page says, Please see

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the proper usage of module_rebuild?

2011-05-16 Thread felix
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 04:49:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The correct way to use module-rebuild is to run once: module-rebuild populate This will search the tree to find out-of-kernel-tree module ebuilds you are using and put them in a db or later use. Every time you emerge and

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:00:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading the kernel works, but chainload gives error 13 invalid

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Mick
On 16 May 2011 15:21, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 16/5/2011, at 12:56pm, Adam Carter wrote: ... Yes the new drive is bigger, going from 66G to 500G. Single partition only, ... So how do i proceed? Is it; 1. dd the mbr without partition table, to get the boot code (so

Re: [gentoo-user] Double mount entry?

2011-05-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: What's rootfs? /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt [snip] What is rootfs? --- Rootfs is a special instance of ramfs (or tmpfs, if that's enabled), which is always present in 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and a Mobile Phone

2011-05-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:39 AM, dhk...@optonline.net wrote: I have an Optimus V 3G mobile phone.  When I connect it to my Gentoo box with the usb cable, and turn on usb storage, I get the following message in a pop-up box. Unable to mount 2.0 GB Filesystem Not Authorized Should I make

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/16 11:26 (GMT-0400) Indi composed: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:00:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 16/5/2011, at 4:35pm, Mick wrote: GParted is the next choice, then - I understand it to be more than just a graphical front-end, and I don't think you'll have such good results trying to use command-line tools to expand NTFS partitions. ... After your dd the data over to the new disk

[gentoo-user] An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind Reading

2011-05-16 Thread Em Teo
16 May 2011 Monday 7:28 P.M. Singapore Time For Immediate Release SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) would like to report first hand account of mind intrusion and mind reading. I have been hearing voices for quite some time now but I have not been able to

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my plan. After so much time passed (days, not just hours) and I had good kernel, NFS, and MC that I didn't see much point delaying KDE. After the errors

[gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind Read

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
Generally speaking, either messages sent to the list should be instantaneously available after hitting send OR someone is delaying the messages so they can be confirmed On Topic, or at least not spam? Crazy thought... -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:18:49PM -0400, Indi wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my plan. After so much time passed (days, not just hours) and I had good kernel, NFS, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and a Mobile Phone

2011-05-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 16.05.2011 15:39, schrieb dhk...@optonline.net: I have an Optimus V 3G mobile phone. When I connect it to my Gentoo box with the usb cable, and turn on usb storage, I get the following message in a pop-up box. Unable to mount 2.0 GB Filesystem Not Authorized Should I make the device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind

2011-05-16 Thread Dale
Indi wrote: Generally speaking, either messages sent to the list should be instantaneously available after hitting send OR someone is delaying the messages so they can be confirmed On Topic, or at least not spam? Crazy thought... But WHO is going to do that? Since it is rare that this

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-16 Thread pk
On 2011-05-16 13:46, Tanstaafl wrote: Why not? It isn't perfect, but is by far the best GUI+IMAP client I've found... Because of slowness and other little annoying things... I plan to install Pine, an old favorite of mine. :-) Maybe you didn't know you could highlight the test you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind

2011-05-16 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Dale. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:58:08PM -0500, Dale wrote: Indi wrote: Generally speaking, either messages sent to the list should be instantaneously available after hitting send OR someone is delaying the messages so they can be confirmed On Topic, or at least not spam? Crazy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:26 on Monday 16 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: Generally speaking, either messages sent to the list should be instantaneously available after hitting send OR someone is delaying the messages so they can be confirmed On Topic, or at least not spam? Crazy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:10:02PM +0200, Dale wrote: Indi wrote: Generally speaking, either messages sent to the list should be instantaneously available after hitting send OR someone is delaying the messages so they can be confirmed On Topic, or at least not spam? Crazy thought...

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my plan. After so much time passed (days, not just hours) and I had good

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the proper usage of module_rebuild?

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:59 on Monday 16 May 2011, fe...@crowfix.com did opine thusly: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 04:49:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The correct way to use module-rebuild is to run once: module-rebuild populate This will search the tree to find

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 May 2011 17:03:36 Stroller wrote: On 16/5/2011, at 4:35pm, Mick wrote: GParted is the next choice, then - I understand it to be more than just a graphical front-end, and I don't think you'll have such good results trying to use command-line tools to expand NTFS partitions.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind

2011-05-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com wrote: Generally speaking, either messages sent to the list should be instantaneously available after hitting send OR someone is delaying the messages so they can be confirmed On Topic, or at least not spam? Never attribute

Re: [gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 14:38:37 +0100, Stroller wrote: This probably doesn't arise very often, as you probably won't be updating oneshotted packages very often. --oneshot is fairly strictly a temporary solution - to fulfil a virtual in a certain way or just for testing how a package behaves with

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 16:35:07 +0100, Mick wrote: Only to add that the new larger drive will appear as small as the original because the fs size is after all that of the smaller drive. After your dd the data over to the new disk you will need to run gparted as suggested by Stroller, or use

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 10:57:14 -0400, Indi wrote: Read the settings for PORTAGE_ELOG in man make.conf. Or as that man page says, Please see /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for elog documentation. I know that's what the man page currently says, but I expect it will be updated to

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 May 2011 20:54:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 16:35:07 +0100, Mick wrote: Only to add that the new larger drive will appear as small as the original because the fs size is after all that of the smaller drive. After your dd the data over to the new disk you will

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread JDM
Thnx, have followed advice. I am impressed. JDM -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 20:57:26 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!) On Mon,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com wrote: Generally speaking, either messages sent to the list should be instantaneously available after hitting send OR someone is

[gentoo-user] ldd -r /usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 = undefined symbol:

2011-05-16 Thread Pau Peris
Hi, does anyone knows how to solve it? Reemerging did nothing ldd -r /usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 linux-vdso.so.1 = (0x7fff373fd000) libQtGui.so.4 = /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 (0x7f0687701000) libQtDBus.so.4 = /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtDBus.so.4 (0x7f068748)

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my plan. After so much time passed (days, not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind

2011-05-16 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 16.05.2011 22:55, schrieb Alan McKinnon: When automated software cannot deal with it anymore, it is time for that MailMan to go away and be replaced. Do you have any suggestions? As far as I am concerned that MailMan does his work very good. Greetings Sebastian signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:25 on Monday 16 May 2011, Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: Am 16.05.2011 22:55, schrieb Alan McKinnon: When automated software cannot deal with it anymore, it is time for that MailMan to go away and be replaced. Do you have any suggestions? As far as

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:15 on Monday 16 May 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: Actually after the first or 2nd

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:10:02PM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 10:57:14 -0400, Indi wrote: Read the settings for PORTAGE_ELOG in man make.conf. Or as that man page says, Please see /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for elog documentation. I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:30:03PM +0200, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com wrote: Generally speaking, either messages sent to the list should be instantaneously available after hitting send OR someone is delaying the messages so

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic Alan, but something held me back. Lucky it went that way, he later posted he read 1667MHZ as 167MHz. Amazing what a difference a 1 can make :-) Not nearly as much as

[gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-16 Thread Felix Miata
After attempting to install for the first time last week, I started 3 different threads here looking for help. I'm pleased with the nature of the responses, and being able to succeed eventually using a mix of those responses and my own efforts digging into Google, gentoo.org and cranial

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:01 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic Alan, but something held me back. Lucky it went that way, he later

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/16 19:01 (GMT-0400) Neil Bothwick composed: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: he read 1667MHZ as 167MHz. Amazing what a difference a 1 can make :-) Not nearly as much as a 6 :P Sure it can! In 101000b, any of those 1s represents more than 6.

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:10:02AM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic Alan, but something held me back. Lucky it went that way, he later posted he read 1667MHZ as 167MHz.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-16 Thread Adam Carter
+1 It bit me, and just seems stupid. +1 I like Neil's suggestion - eselect can put packages it knows about into a specially-named set. I've logged the bug; http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367611 Based on the quality of Neil's posts i'm sure you're right, but i'll leave the devs

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:10 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Felix Miata did opine thusly: After attempting to install for the first time last week, I started 3 different threads here looking for help. I'm pleased with the nature of the responses, and being able to succeed eventually using a

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:10:02AM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic Alan, but

[gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

2011-05-16 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, After a recent sync, I ended up with these two modules /lib64/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vboxdrv.ko /lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r4/misc/vboxdrv.ko and others too. I expected the directory for the older kernel to be removed. Is this the case? Virtualbox was re-emerged after the

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:11 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Valmor de Almeida did opine thusly: Hello, After a recent sync, I ended up with these two modules /lib64/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vboxdrv.ko /lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r4/misc/vboxdrv.ko and others too. I expected

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:33:39AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: grep GET /Tmp/Linux/G | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v myip | \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc In true grand Unix tradition you cannot get quicker, dirtier or more effective than that You can replace sort | uniq

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

2011-05-16 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/16/2011 08:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 02:11 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Valmor de Almeida did opine thusly: [snip] In other words, what you have is exactly what you should have and things as working as designed. To remove anything in /lib/modules, you

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

2011-05-16 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: This is basic Linux stuff. There is a /lib/modules/ for each installed kernel binary. Portage will never remove them as portage did not install them, they are installed by the make modules_install target of the kernel build process, which you always run manually

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind

2011-05-16 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Dale. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:58:08PM -0500, Dale wrote: Indi wrote: Generally speaking, either messages sent to the list should be instantaneously available after hitting send OR someone is delaying the messages so they can be confirmed On Topic, or at

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

2011-05-16 Thread Thanasis
on 05/17/2011 04:55 AM Dale wrote the following: So, if I delete a bzImage from /boot that came from kernel version 2.6.32-1 and no longer plan to use it, I could also remove the modules from /lib/modules/2.32-1 as well? Of course, and in fact you should, as there is no point in keeping them

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

2011-05-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 May 2011 13:10:52 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Did you try creating a new runlevel (dale_special) and then booting into it by appending softlevel=dale_special ? That will prove if the Gentoo softlevel mechanism is no longer available. I tried some of the other runlevels,