[gentoo-user] Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system

2012-03-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've just been bitten by sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908. After reboot, the network doesn't come up: localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3463]: ERROR: interface lo does not exist localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3464]: Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel module for your hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system

2012-03-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
I've just got an email from Samuli Suominen that this is a bug in openrc-0.9.9.2 which has just been fixed by openrc-0.9.9.3 Helmut. On 03/12/2012 09:32:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I've just been bitten by sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908. After reboot, the network doesn't come

[gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, even the most recent portage 2.2.0_alpha90 has difficulties handling @preserved-rebuild especially after many binary emerge operations. It tries to re-emerge the same packages again and again. As a last resort I have to remove /var/lib/portage/preserved_libs_registry. But after that

Re: [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree?

2012-03-12 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:36:07PM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:35:05PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:30:15 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Any tips on this? Does it make sense to use a special file system just for the portage tree? What would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree?

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
José Romildo Malaquias writes: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:36:07PM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: mke2fs -f -b1024 -i2048 /usr/img_portage The -f option from mke2fs is to specify a fragment size and expects an argument. Do you -F (which forces mke2fs to create a filesystem, even if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 05:09:12AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: This revision makes 2 changes... A) The removal of udev is now standard instead of optional. udev-181 and higher will be pulling in kmod, and anything else that kmod depends on. Removing udev will avoid unnecessary cruft on your

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:53:29 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Is there an elegant way to find these old libraries? (Removing them would alert revdep-rebuild afterwards). man qfile and look at the section on finding orphan files. Emerge portage-utils if you don't have qfile. -- Neil Bothwick

[gentoo-user] gnome tracker for thunderbird

2012-03-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I only recently emerged the gnome tracker and try to index my thunderbird emails. tracker-control -l shows that the email-miner is/seems disabled. I used USE=thunderbird for app-misc/tracker and I see the addon Trackerbird within thunderbird. But I saw the addon indexing mails (status bar in

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS problem

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Recently, my sister could not log in to KDE after I had done some updates. X crashed when loggin into KDE. It turned out that x11-libs/qt-gui-4.7.4-r1 was the problem when compiled with explict CFLAGS, instead of just using -march=native. Her CPU is an AMD A6-3500 with three cores. As

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS problem

2012-03-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/12/2012 12:32:01 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! Recently, my sister could not log in to KDE after I had done some updates. X crashed when loggin into KDE. It turned out that x11-libs/qt-gui-4.7.4-r1 was the problem when compiled with explict CFLAGS, instead of just using

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:34:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: My mother swears blind I watched England win the World Cup but I don't remember (being only 1 year old at the time). I fell asleep during it. To be fair I was nine and had just had an overnight car journey returning from holiday. --

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
man qfile and look at the section on finding orphan files. Emerge portage-utils if you don't have qfile. I just ran # find /usr/lib* -type f -print0 | xargs -0 qfile -o | more an was suprised how much orphans there are, already excluding the python and perl stuff. Here's some suprising

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system

2012-03-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/03/12 10:32, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I've just been bitten by sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908. After reboot, the network doesn't come up: localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3463]: ERROR: interface lo does not exist localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3464]: Ensure that you have loaded the

Re: [gentoo-user] how updating to gnome3 ?!

2012-03-12 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi Alan! I thought more or less that I have to unmask packages, or making any configurations to unlock the update to gnome3. If I run now: tamer@office ~ $ emerge -pav gnome These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R]

Re: [gentoo-user] how updating to gnome3 ?!

2012-03-12 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 12, 2012 at 8:56 AM Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Alan! I thought more or less that I have to unmask packages, or making any configurations to unlock the update to gnome3. If I run now: tamer@office ~ $ emerge -pav gnome These are the packages that would be

Re: [gentoo-user] how updating to gnome3 ?!

2012-03-12 Thread Tamer Higazi
and it still didn't bring me the desired result :( Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R] gnome-base/gnome-2.32.1-r1 USE=cdr cups dvdr ldap policykit -accessibility -mono 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB !!! The following update has been skipped due to

Re: [gentoo-user] how updating to gnome3 ?!

2012-03-12 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 12, 2012 at 10:04 AM Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: and it still didn't bring me the desired result :( Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R] gnome-base/gnome-2.32.1-r1 USE=cdr cups dvdr ldap policykit -accessibility -mono 0 kB Total: 1 package (1

Re: [gentoo-user] gmail smtp overwrites the sender

2012-03-12 Thread felix
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Andr??s Cs??nyi wrote: On 11 March 2012 13:49, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 10 March 2012, at 20:56, Andr??s Cs??nyi wrote: ??? I would like to ask some help! I would like to use gmail smtp to send my email from my domain

Re: [gentoo-user] how updating to gnome3 ?!

2012-03-12 Thread David Abbott
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr. da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On March 12, 2012 at 10:04 AM Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: and it still didn't bring me the desired result :( Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild   R    ]

Re: [gentoo-user] how updating to gnome3 ?!

2012-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:06:23 -0400, David Abbott wrote: Each one you get you will need to add to your package.keywords file. This is what I would have to do; echo x11-wm/mutter /etc/portage/package.keywords/gnome3 emerge autounmask and use it to write all the packages you need to your

Re: [gentoo-user] gmail smtp overwrites the sender

2012-03-12 Thread Stroller
On 12 March 2012, at 14:59, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Andr??s Cs??nyi wrote: On 11 March 2012 13:49, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 10 March 2012, at 20:56, Andr??s Cs??nyi wrote: ??? I would like to ask some help! I would like to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, even the most recent portage  2.2.0_alpha90 has difficulties handling @preserved-rebuild especially after many binary emerge operations. It tries to re-emerge the same packages again and again. As a last

[gentoo-user] virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in #gentoo are worse. What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it? Today's update output: server ~ # emerge -aDjNquv world [ebuild N] virtual/shadow-0 Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] No

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-12 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Hello! 2012/3/11 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com: The next step was to remove /usr from /etc/fstab to prevent /usr from being mounted twice (the boot process does not like it). Mmmh. Could you try to use LABEL= in /etc/fstab (not /etc/fstab), and see if that way it gets mounted, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-12 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Hi! 2012/3/11 walt w41...@gmail.com: On 03/11/2012 05:16 AM, Jorge Martínez López wrote: Hi! Hi Jorge. I had some struggle with a separate /usr on top of LVM I'm just curious why you use a separate /usr, and why you are willing to struggle to keep it that way.  Several people have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Jorge Martínez López jorg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! 2012/3/11 walt w41...@gmail.com: On 03/11/2012 05:16 AM, Jorge Martínez López wrote: Hi! Hi Jorge. I had some struggle with a separate /usr on top of LVM I'm just curious why you use a separate /usr, and

[gentoo-user] Re: gmail smtp overwrites the sender

2012-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-03-12, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 12 March 2012, at 14:59, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Andr??s Cs??nyi wrote: On 11 March 2012 13:49, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 10 March 2012, at 20:56, Andr??s

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS problem

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: On 03/12/2012 12:32:01 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: The command above does not tell about SSE stuff, so I used this one to find out about that: leela # echo | gcc -dME - -march=native | grep -Ei 'SSE|3DNOW|MMX' | Typo: The -E must be separate: gcc -dM -E -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-12 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 12, 2012 at 2:30 PM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget you're using Gentoo; you're implicitly not very far removed from the skill levels of the developers themselves. -- :wq Maybe you're not, but it only takes me a few minutes being around chithead and

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:  These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in #gentoo are worse. What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it? Virtual packages are kind of an abstraction layer for

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/12/2012 01:23:21 PM, Michael Hampicke wrote: man qfile and look at the section on finding orphan files. Emerge portage-utils if you don't have qfile. I just ran # find /usr/lib* -type f -print0 | xargs -0 qfile -o | more an was suprised how much orphans there are, already excluding

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-12 Thread pk
On 2012-03-11 20:28, Walter Dnes wrote: which blob to load. But, if I leave only the correct blob for my GPU in the library folder (move/delete all the others), it loads properly without any help from udev. Why not compile the firmware into the kernel?

[gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/03/12 20:05, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in #gentoo are worse. What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it? Paul's answers covers it, but I'll give an explanation that is the reverse of a fanboi answer. The

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 12, 2012 at 2:50 PM Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in #gentoo are worse. What is the purpose of

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-12 Thread pk
On 2012-03-11 15:17, Alan McKinnon wrote: As such, mdev is a good fit and we can add Walter to the long list of people before him who selflessly worked to make our software work better. Very well put, Alan! +1 Thanks Walter! Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 12, 2012 at 3:19 PM Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/12 20:05, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in #gentoo are worse. What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it? Paul's answers covers

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-12 Thread pk
On 2012-03-12 10:24, Alan Mackenzie wrote: #!/bin/busybox ash mount -t proc proc /proc mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys exec /sbin/init How do I know whether my /sbin/linuxrc actually ran? Maybe, I mean how can I be sure my append = init=/sbin/linuxrc actually worked? Well, you can always put

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
Here /usr/lib is a symlink to /usr/lib64 Now that you mention it: /usr/lib is supposed to be a symlink to /usr/lib64 on my workstation too (like it is on all my other machines). But it's not. Seems like something went wrong during installation. Maybe a bad stage3 image. I created the symlink

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-12 Thread Mick
On Monday 12 Mar 2012 18:39:26 Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: On March 12, 2012 at 2:30 PM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget you're using Gentoo; you're implicitly not very far removed from the skill levels of the developers themselves. -- :wq Maybe you're not, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:19:12 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/12 20:05, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in #gentoo are worse. What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it? Paul's answers

Re: [gentoo-user] how updating to gnome3 ?!

2012-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On your system emerge gnome wants to install gnome-2 So either your tree is outdated (you must re-sync) or gnome-3 is still masked. The second option is more likely and there are two possibilities for that: You run a stable system (gnome-3 is still unstable), or you masked it for some reason.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On March 12, 2012 at 2:30 PM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget you're using Gentoo; you're implicitly not very far removed from the skill levels of the developers themselves. -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:39:26 -0400 (EDT) Bruce Hill, Jr. da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On March 12, 2012 at 2:30 PM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget you're using Gentoo; you're implicitly not very far removed from the skill levels of the developers

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS problem

2012-03-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 12. März 2012, 12:32:01 schrieb Alex Schuster: Hi there! Recently, my sister could not log in to KDE after I had done some updates. X crashed when loggin into KDE. It turned out that x11-libs/qt-gui-4.7.4-r1 was the problem when compiled with explict CFLAGS, instead of just using

[gentoo-user] xfce4 tty7 session started twice

2012-03-12 Thread Joseph
I'm using slim on both computers and it seems to me they both have the same configuration but on one of them ck-list-sessions is showing that tty7 is started twice. and it is using the sessiont with active = FALSE so my logout buttons are grayed out. ck-list-sessions Session4: unix-user =

[gentoo-user] Very OT - Displaylink adapter and setting up X

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
I feel really stupid asking this, but I want to use an HDMI component to output one of my PCs to the TV set. I've followed all of the wiki entry at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/DisplayLink, but there's something else I need to know. I get the green screen on the TV that it mentions when the

[gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:29:10 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone care to offer an opinion on what it will take to get PROVIDES support in portage? IMO, it would take virtuals causing so many headachy breakages that some devs started keeping up a steady drumbeat on irc and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-12 Thread Dale
Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: On March 12, 2012 at 2:30 PM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget you're using Gentoo; you're implicitly not very far removed from the skill levels of the developers themselves. -- :wq Maybe you're not, but it only takes me a few minutes being

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tty7 session started twice

2012-03-12 Thread Joseph
On 03/12/12 16:24, Joseph wrote: I'm using slim on both computers and it seems to me they both have the same configuration but on one of them ck-list-sessions is showing that tty7 is started twice. and it is using the sessiont with active = FALSE so my logout buttons are grayed out.

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS problem

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: and of course we all just use our crystal balls because it is so easy without the error message. Hmm, something about X shutting down in kdm.log. Can't check now because the system is down. But anyway, I don't think it matters, the problem is that the crash

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: On March 12, 2012 at 2:30 PM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget you're using Gentoo; you're implicitly not very far removed from the skill levels of the developers themselves. -- :wq

[gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/03/12 00:34, »Q« wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:29:10 +0200 Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone care to offer an opinion on what it will take to get PROVIDES support in portage? IMO, it would take virtuals causing so many headachy breakages that some devs started keeping

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:54:30 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyone care to offer an opinion on what it will take to get PROVIDES support in portage? IMO, it would take virtuals causing so many headachy breakages that some devs started keeping up a steady drumbeat on irc and mailing

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 7:23 PM I like that quote. I may not be dev material but I know this /usr mess is not right. The only reason it is happening is because of one or two distros that push it to make it easier for themselves. If that's

Re: [gentoo-user]Can't went to the xfce desktop directly

2012-03-12 Thread 赵佳晖
At first , my /etc/slim.conf is the default config . then i change to yours , it didn't work ... Can i find some log to figure out something ? 在 2012年3月12日 下午1:46,Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com写道: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:26:40 +0800 赵佳晖 jiahui.tar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello ,

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 12 March 2012 12:21:17 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:34:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: My mother swears blind I watched England win the World Cup but I don't remember (being only 1 year old at the time). I fell asleep during it. To be fair I was nine and had just

[gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/03/12 02:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:54:30 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyone care to offer an opinion on what it will take to get PROVIDES support in portage? IMO, it would take virtuals causing so many headachy breakages that some devs started keeping up a

Re: [gentoo-user]Can't went to the xfce desktop directly

2012-03-12 Thread 赵佳晖
i find “/usr/bin.xauth: file /var/run/slim.auth does not exist” in my /var/log/slim.log , did this has some connection to my problem? 在 2012年3月13日 上午10:26,赵佳晖 jiahui.tar...@gmail.com写道: At first , my /etc/slim.conf is the default config . then i change to yours , it didn't work ... Can i

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 13, 2012 9:05 AM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 7:23 PM I like that quote. I may not be dev material but I know this /usr mess is not right. The only reason it is happening is because of one or two

[gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories under /usr, e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living somewhere else, on different partition and different filesystem. Let's say something mounted on /mnt/Persistent. My question: should I use bindmount or symlinks to do

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories under /usr, e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living somewhere else, on different partition and different filesystem. Let's say something mounted on

Re: [gentoo-user]Can't went to the xfce desktop directly

2012-03-12 Thread Willie
Try to run XFCE without having slim running. So lets stop xdm from starting by running /etc/init.d/xdm stop then you can try to run xfce by issuing the command startxfce4 or run startx. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:52 PM, 赵佳晖 jiahui.tar...@gmail.com wrote: i find “/usr/bin.xauth: file

[gentoo-user] Can't boot upgraded kerne;

2012-03-12 Thread roger
I recently decided to update my AMD64 box from 2.38 to the new 3.2 kernel. I used genkernel all to compile the upgraded kernel but when I go to boot I get the following error. Loading modules Determining root device !!Block device /dev/sdb2 is not a valid root device !!Could not find the root

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:11, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories under /usr, e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living somewhere else, on

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:11, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories under /usr,