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

2011-11-02 Thread czernitko
Well, if nothing else, you could use binfmt support in kernel to execute 64bit code on 32bit OS, as same as you can execute ARM or other arch binaries. On the other hand, booting 64bit live system would be much easier, faster and better approach, I guess :) If you don't want to mess with chroot

[gentoo-user] Wireless network card not loaded on first boot after shutdown

2011-11-02 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Hi, I have a wireless card that works most of the time perfect with the ath9k kernel module but not on first boot after a few hours long shutdown. * Bringing up interface wlan0 * ERROR: interface wlan0 does not exist * Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel module for your

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

2011-11-02 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 04:54:06PM -0500, Dale wrote: 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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

2011-11-02 Thread Urs Schutz
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 19:00:04 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

2011-11-02 Thread Leho Kraav
On Wednesday, November 2, 2011 2:20:02 PM UTC+2, Urs Schutz wrote: eix-test-obsolete -d is easy if it is done often, as there is little corrective action to do on a day to day basis. I have been wondering if it's possible to get this particular check's output to be machine readable, so it

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

2011-11-02 Thread Urs Schutz
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 06:01:28 -0700 (PDT) Leho Kraav l...@kraav.com wrote: On Wednesday, November 2, 2011 2:20:02 PM UTC+2, Urs Schutz wrote: eix-test-obsolete -d is easy if it is done often, as there is little corrective action to do on a day to day basis. I have been wondering if it's

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

2011-11-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: I think that means you have a nice new door stop.  My first drive to ever fail that I recall.  I still say windoze screwed up my drive.  It lasted about 3 days in the windoze rig. It may also be that the Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

2011-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:09:13 -0200, Urs Schutz wrote: Sometimes I do a emerge --depclean -p more because portage says that one should do it. I feel that it is a lot of work to go through the package list manually and do not see the immediate benefit in doing it often. The obvious

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

2011-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:02:03 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I think that means you have a nice new door stop.  My first drive to ever fail that I recall.  I still say windoze screwed up my drive.  It lasted about 3 days in the windoze rig. It may also be that the Windows rig's PSU is

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

2011-11-02 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
OK.  For those that have never seen this before, here is what messages looks like when a hard drive is going belly up: (...) 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. Thanks, Dale. Actually I've

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

2011-11-02 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Thanks, Dale. Actually I've never experienced an hard drive failure, but your thread made me want to do one as soon as possible :D Sorry, I meant made me want to do a backup as soon as possible

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

2011-11-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 2, 2011 9:22 PM, Lorenzo Bandieri lorenzo.bandi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Dale. Actually I've never experienced an hard drive failure, but your thread made me want to do one as soon as possible :D Sorry, I meant made me want to do a backup as soon as possible I almost thought

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

2011-11-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:02:03 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I think that means you have a nice new door stop. My first drive to ever fail that I recall. I still say windoze screwed up my drive. It lasted about 3 days in the windoze rig. It may also be that the Windows rig's

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

2011-11-02 Thread Dale
Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: OK. For those that have never seen this before, here is what messages looks like when a hard drive is going belly up: (...) 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.

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

2011-11-02 Thread James Broadhead
On 2 November 2011 01:17, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 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 :-)  :-) Nov  1

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

2011-11-02 Thread Dale
James Broadhead wrote: On 2 November 2011 01:17, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 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 :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless network card not loaded on first boot after shutdown

2011-11-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Hi, I have a wireless card that works most of the time perfect with the ath9k kernel module but not on first boot after a few hours long shutdown.  * Bringing up interface wlan0  *   ERROR: interface wlan0

[gentoo-user] OT: Arm Cluster board

2011-11-02 Thread James
So Sorry, I just think that in a few years, Gentoo will be more about ARM( 64 or 128 bit) than Intel... Check out the cluster on a board in the link below! (and you can run it from a solar panel + battery). Low power is King. 72 quad-core ARM servers takes up just one rack unit equivalent

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Arm Cluster board

2011-11-02 Thread Nick Khamis
Someone watched some news regarding HP moving towards ARM ;) http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19240331 Nick. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:07 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: So Sorry, I just think that in a few years, Gentoo will be more about ARM( 64 or 128 bit) than Intel...

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

2011-11-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 18:58:14 Dale wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: [snip ...] === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! Drive failure expected in less than 24

[gentoo-user] Why no love for amd64 hardened?

2011-11-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
Why amd64 hardened stage3 never got any updates? I've checked here: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-hardened/ And here: http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-hardened/ the latest amd64 hardened stage3

Re: [gentoo-user] Why no love for amd64 hardened?

2011-11-02 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
El 03/11/11 06:41, Pandu Poluan escribió: Why amd64 hardened stage3 never got any updates? I've checked here: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-hardened/ And here: