[gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Vishnupradeep
Installed Gentoo Linux with KDE. Worked on it for some days without any problem. The disk became full (now deleted some files downloaded to my documents to get 1.5Gb free space). Now i can't login to Gentoo. The login screen appears when username and password is entered and press enter It never

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 07:10:09 Vishnupradeep wrote: Installed Gentoo Linux with KDE. Worked on it for some days without any problem. The disk became full (now deleted some files downloaded to my documents to get 1.5Gb free space). Now i can't login to Gentoo. The login screen appears when

[gentoo-user] Selecting a particular svn version to emerge on 9999 ebuilds

2011-11-01 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am trying to troubleshoot e17 which on one laptop recently started shutting down the monitor backlight when the WM starts. I can't recover from it, Ctrl+Alt+F1 is also showing a black screen, stopping X does not fix it and the only solution is to shutdown again. Thankfully I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Vishnupradeep
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask localhost / # revdep-rebuild -v --ask bash: revdep-rebuild: command not found localhost / # ls bash: ls: command not found localhost / #

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 08:49:59 Vishnupradeep wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask localhost / # revdep-rebuild -v --ask bash: revdep-rebuild: command not found localhost / # ls bash: ls: command not found localhost / #

[gentoo-user] Re: Selecting a particular svn version to emerge on 9999 ebuilds

2011-11-01 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 08:43:25 Mick wrote: Hi All, I am trying to troubleshoot e17 which on one laptop recently started shutting down the monitor backlight when the WM starts. I can't recover from it, Ctrl+Alt+F1 is also showing a black screen, stopping X does not fix it and the only

Re: [gentoo-user] Error using safely remove for every USB DEVICE.

2011-11-01 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 01:47:44 Carlos Sura wrote: On 31 October 2011 19:30, Felix Kuperjans fe...@desaster-games.com wrote: Hello Carlos, this error is just telling you that udisks did not succeed in powering down the USB device, but actually it was unmounted cleanly (so no data will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-11-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 25.10.2011 07:25, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: How is video and mouse performance? VMware has drivers for that; you install them inside the guest. There is seamless mouse integration with guest-host, and very fast graphics (I can run Windows Aero without problem.) I can also dragdrop files

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-11-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 25.10.2011 19:08, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 25.10.2011 13:15, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I assume KVM isn't that handy yet as vmware-player is. sidenote: vmware-modules don't work yet with gentoo-sources-3.1.0. No surprise as that kernel is very new right now. (So

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-11-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/01/2011 01:13 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 25.10.2011 07:25, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: How is video and mouse performance? VMware has drivers for that; you install them inside the guest. There is seamless mouse integration with guest-host, and very fast graphics (I can run

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

2011-11-01 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 04:45:25AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I know of three commands to check the consistency of a Gentoo system: eix-sync emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world emerge -p -v --depclean revdep-rebuild --ignore -p -v of course,

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

2011-11-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:45 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I know of three commands to check the consistency of a Gentoo system:    eix-sync emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world    emerge -p -v --depclean    revdep-rebuild --ignore -p -v of course, one has to

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 02:19:59PM +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask localhost / # revdep-rebuild -v --ask bash: revdep-rebuild: command not found localhost / # ls bash: ls: command not found

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

2011-11-01 Thread Urs Schutz
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 04:45:25 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I know of three commands to check the consistency of a Gentoo system: eix-sync emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world emerge -p -v --depclean revdep-rebuild --ignore -p -v of course, one has to

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Jonas de Buhr
Am Tue, 1 Nov 2011 12:40:09 +0530 schrieb Vishnupradeep intermedia.vis...@gmail.com: Installed Gentoo Linux with KDE. Worked on it for some days without any problem. The disk became full (now deleted some files downloaded to my documents to get 1.5Gb free space). Now i can't login to Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Diego Augusto Molina
El 01/11/11 04:10, Vishnupradeep escribió: Installed Gentoo Linux with KDE. Worked on it for some days without any problem. The disk became full (now deleted some files downloaded to my documents to get 1.5Gb free space). Now i can't login to Gentoo. The login screen appears when username and

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jonas de Buhr jonas.de.b...@gmx.net wrote: failing kde login is likely due to a still full disk. And in this situation,usually login as root is still possible (as long as there is reserved space on the disk)

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

2011-11-01 Thread meino . cramer
Urs Schutz u.sch...@bluewin.ch [11-11-01 18:04]: On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 04:45:25 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I know of three commands to check the consistency of a Gentoo system: eix-sync emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world emerge -p -v --depclean

[gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: root@smoker / # smartctl -a /dev/sdc smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me.  Here is the info: SNIP What you folks think?  Can I fix it somehow?  I got a good shovel handy just in case. Dale Start doing backups before you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-11-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-11-01 13:12, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 11/01/2011 01:13 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 25.10.2011 07:25, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: How is video and mouse performance? VMware has drivers for that; you install them inside the guest. There is seamless mouse integration with

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Vishnupradeep
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: emerge -1aDv app-portage/gentoolkit revdep-rebuild -v --ask i can't use emerge command as it is shown as command not found. can u tell the correct path of emerge.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Vishnupradeep
yes full path works. On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:51 PM, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: and try using full paths: /bin/ls (or /usr/bin/ls)

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Vishnupradeep
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: If so use a LiveCD, chroot and run revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask I have fedora 15 installed on another drive. Can i chroot from fedora and execute the command

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: SNIP What you folks think? Can I fix it somehow? I got a good shovel handy just in case. Dale Start doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
Vishnupradeep wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: emerge -1aDv app-portage/gentoolkit revdep-rebuild -v --ask i can't use emerge command as it is shown as command not found. can u tell the correct path of

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
Vishnupradeep wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: If so use a LiveCD, chroot and run revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask I have fedora 15 installed on another drive. Can i chroot from fedora and execute the command

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: Well, it was in my brothers winders rig.  Winders couldn't do anything but puke on the keyboard so I brought it down here and put it in my old

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 02:47:27 PM Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: SNIP What you folks think? Can I fix it

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread YoYo Siska
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 01:00:12AM +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote: yes full path works. On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:51 PM, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: and try using full paths: /bin/ls (or /usr/bin/ls) What about the env or echo $PATH output? Might be that some files used to set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, thank you all very much for the checks listed. One question remains: What sequence of commands is adviced to guarantee the best effect on the one hand and on the other hand not to be urged to recompile things -- especially those like libreoffice...-- twice and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-11-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag 31 Oktober 2011, 17:21:23 schrieb Alex Schuster: Michael Mol writes: My point is that the numbers aren't what mattered here. My point is that SAMSUNG sold me a shoddy product, replaced it with another instance of the the same shoddy product, wouldn't replace it again, and never

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:49:30 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Vishnupradeep wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: emerge -1aDv app-portage/gentoolkit revdep-rebuild -v --ask i can't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 1. November 2011, 23:00:57 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:49:30 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Vishnupradeep wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: emerge -1aDv

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Dienstag, 1. November 2011, 23:00:57 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:49:30 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Vishnupradeep wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 01.11.2011 20:51, schrieb Dale: Don't boot a 32 bit OS and chroot into a 64 bit one. That can be done but it requires some additional commands. I always thought that is impossibl because the 32bit libs and kernel are unable to execute 64bit code. You could do the other way round with no

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 01.11.2011 20:51, schrieb Dale: Don't boot a 32 bit OS and chroot into a 64 bit one. That can be done but it requires some additional commands. I always thought that is impossibl because the 32bit libs and kernel are unable to execute 64bit code. You could do the

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

2011-11-01 Thread covici
Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 01.11.2011 20:51, schrieb Dale: Don't boot a 32 bit OS and chroot into a 64 bit one. That can be done but it requires some additional commands. I always thought that is impossibl because the 32bit libs and kernel are unable to

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: SNIP What you folks think? Can I fix it somehow? I got a good shovel handy just in case. Dale :-) :-) OK. For those that have never seen this before, here is what messages

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: So, if you see things like this in your log file, rescue data real soon. Make a note of this since this could happen on your rig one day. Now I know this is a Western Digital drive. Let's all face it, they all die eventually. I just find it ironic that it is only a few