Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount

2012-06-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 from this disk: Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512

[gentoo-user] VMware Perl SDK

2012-06-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Anyone managed to install the VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK on gentoo? In my case: VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.0.0-422456.x86_64.tar.gz I'd need it to monitor VMware ESX servers via Nagios/Icinga (some special perl check script). The tarball-installer looks for stuff like rpm etc ... more

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount

2012-06-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 from this disk: [...] which results in a hanging mount process, which cannot be killed. I was urged to use the sysreq-key to reboot and

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423149 As it turned out, it was my CFLAGS. Not the ones anyone usually cares about, either. If you build glibc with CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -g3, your glibc will be very, very broken.

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list !!! Error: Pattern  does not

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27.06.2012 15:58, Michael Mol wrote: SNIP The other big thing I kept hearing about was try changing {this|that|other thing}; it might be affecting glibc, because glibc is a whiny b*tch. Are there alternatives to glibc? SNIP Alternatives?

[gentoo-user] Hibernate and missing drives have reappeared - Gentoo-user is also missing!!!!

2012-06-27 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I posted a message a few days ago regarding mapped drives not showing up in Dolphin and the Hibernate button disappearing. I hadn't got around to replying to peoples suggestions, don't you just hate work interfering with your enjoyment of life, and was feeling bad about it so decided

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:58:57 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: If you build glibc with CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -g3, your glibc will be very, very broken. Apparently, it's old, known and has been a problem for about five years.[1] Thisd sounds worthy of a bug report, an ebuild allowing you to break something

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=jpeg not part of hardened/linux/x86 profile

2012-06-27 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
El 27/06/12 04:38, Alecks Gates escribió: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) klond...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, First sorry for taking this long to answer this, somehow this mail slipped through my radar and couldn't find it when somebody moved it to

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423149 As it turned out, it was my CFLAGS. Not the ones anyone usually cares about, either. If you build glibc

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:58:57 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: If you build glibc with CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -g3, your glibc will be very, very broken. Apparently, it's old, known and has been a problem for about five years.[1]

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:45:13 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: Also, even if the ebuild issued a warning, there's no guarantee the warning would ever be made visible; the system is well and truly hosed before the 'postinst' stage of the install, so who knows whether or not the cache-and-show-later

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:45:13 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: Also, even if the ebuild issued a warning, there's no guarantee the warning would ever be made visible; the system is well and truly hosed before the 'postinst'

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate and missing drives have reappeared - Gentoo-user is also missing!!!!

2012-06-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 June 2012, at 16:36, Andrew Lowe wrote: ... archives.gentoo.org, and to my surprise the gentoo-user list in not there in the master list. Looking at the format of the url I guessed the url to be archive.gentoo.org/gentoo-user I entered this and the list came up, but it's last entry

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   One of my machines is giving an undesired response in

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht

[gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Frank Peters
Hello, This question more than likely has been posted before, either to this or some other list. If so, then please let me know and I'll start searching. I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the available Gentoo Live DVD iso. Can this be done by simply copying the iso file to

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: Hello, This question more than likely has been posted before, either to this or some other list.  If so, then please let me know and I'll start searching. I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Frank Peters
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:15:56 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml Don't know if it works but like all things Gentoo I suspect it does... That's the first thing that I tried, but it does not seem to involve the Gentoo Live DVD. For

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread David Abbott
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: Hello, This question more than likely has been posted before, either to this or some other list.  If so, then please let me know and I'll start searching. I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:15:56 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml Don't know if it works but like all things Gentoo I suspect it does... That's the first thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:06:49 -0400, Frank Peters wrote: I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the available Gentoo Live DVD iso. Can this be done by simply copying the iso file to the USB drive with a utility like dd? The latest Gentoo ISOs are hybrid files, able to boot

[gentoo-user] Gentoo install script

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Mol
Very rough, and very much a works-for-me thing, but I thought I'd share. https://github.com/mikemol/gentoo-install I wrote it to ease the pain of the install-configure-build cycle I was going through to figure out what was breaking glibc. -- :wq