[gentoo-user] Is it safe to change the start of the first partition?

2012-07-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, modern fdisk puts the first partition at block 63 while older version have put it at block 1. Now, I'm going to upgrade an older system. Is it safe to repartition it by letting the first partition start 63 and shortening the first partition by 62 blocks? (I will loose the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to change the start of the first partition?

2012-07-03 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.07.2012 09:09, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, modern fdisk puts the first partition at block 63 while older version have put it at block 1. Now, I'm going to upgrade an older system. Is it safe to repartition it by letting the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to change the start of the first partition?

2012-07-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/03/2012 09:25:20 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.07.2012 09:09, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, modern fdisk puts the first partition at block 63 while older version have put it at block 1. Now, I'm going to upgrade an older system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to change the start of the first partition?

2012-07-03 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.07.2012 09:42, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 07/03/2012 09:25:20 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.07.2012 09:09, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, modern fdisk puts the first partition at block

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to change the start of the first partition?

2012-07-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: modern fdisk puts the first partition at block 63 while older version have put it at block 1. No, it's older versions that use 63, while the new fdisk uses 2048. This way the new 4K sectors of huge drives are aligned well. It does not need to be 2048, as long as it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-07-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.07.2012 14:11, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I don't really need UUID working, but it would be fine to debug this, just to know about the issue. Aside from the UUID-issue I am fiddling with booting ISOs from hdd. Numerous howtos, but I think it doesn't work with isos on LVM and/or RAID

[gentoo-user] Not receiving emails

2012-07-03 Thread David Kuhl
I only recieved one email since signing up on this list yesterday. I expected to see more traffic. There's nothing going to spam, I'm not sure it I should repost or not. The forum doesn't seem to have it either.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [SOLVED]

2012-07-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Hi all, I promised to tell you when I cracked this nasty little problem of mine, though it's somewhat embarrassing for me: in short, don't put shell scripts called ld or cc in your /usr/local/bin. I had an ld script to give me lists of directories in a certain format and then forgot about its

[gentoo-user] genkernel 3.3.8 fails to build initramfs

2012-07-03 Thread David Kuhl
When running genkernel all on the latest source 3.3.8 I get the following error. CC util-linux/mkfs_ext2.o CC util-linux/volume_id/ocfs2.o util-linux/mkfs_ext2.c:51:27: fatal error: linux/ext2_fs.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. When I do a find the ext2_fs.h is

[gentoo-user] genkernel 3.3.8 fails to build initramfs

2012-07-03 Thread David Kuhl
When running genkernel all on the latest source 3.3.8 I get the following error. CC util-linux/mkfs_ext2.o CC util-linux/volume_id/ocfs2.o util-linux/mkfs_ext2.c:51:27: fatal error: linux/ext2_fs.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. When I do a find the ext2_fs.h is

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with sudo

2012-07-03 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:41:12AM +0800, Penguin Lover 赵佳晖 squawked: I have use your method , it didn't work . Like: sudo echo sys-boot/grub:2 ** /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/package.keywords.grub2 echo sys-boot/grub:2 ** | sudo tee

Re: [gentoo-user] Not receiving emails

2012-07-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi David! I only recieved one email since signing up on this list yesterday. I expected to see more traffic. There's nothing going to spam, I'm not sure it I should repost or not. The forum doesn't seem to have it either. Your mails arrive just fine, I see six altogether. You can see them

Re: [gentoo-user] Not receiving emails

2012-07-03 Thread David Kuhl
Thanks, I'll take a look. Though I'm not sure why I'm not seeing the user list email traffic. Thanks again. On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Hi David! I only recieved one email since signing up on this list yesterday. I expected to see more traffic.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-07-03 Thread Poncho
On 03.07.2012 12:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 02.07.2012 14:11, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I don't really need UUID working, but it would be fine to debug this, just to know about the issue. Aside from the UUID-issue I am fiddling with booting ISOs from hdd. Numerous howtos,

Re: [gentoo-user] Not receiving emails

2012-07-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:00 AM, David Kuhl dhkuhl1...@gmail.com wrote: I only recieved one email since signing up on this list yesterday. I expected to see more traffic. There's nothing going to spam, I'm not sure it I should repost or not. The forum doesn't seem to have it either. I

[gentoo-user] Is there a Gentoo Expert in NYC?

2012-07-03 Thread David Kuhl
I need a Gentoo Expert to take a look at this. Are there any in NYC around West 72nd? I've got to get this laptop working. After following the recomendations on building the latest kernel I don't have a system anymore. Everything on my LVM2 partitions are gone or at least not working. I added

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-07-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.07.2012 15:45, schrieb Poncho: I can boot the systemrescuecd from /boot/systemrescuecd-x86-2.8.0.iso on lvm. No raid though. menuentry SystemRescueCD { set isofile=/systemrescuecd-x86-2.8.0.iso loopback loop $isofile linux (loop)/isolinux/rescue64 docache isoloop=$isofile

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-03 Thread David Kuhl
I'm so stuck with this Gentoo laptop. It started with a standard update which was the first in three months. Then when the X didn't run due to xorg-server getting upgraded, the 3.3.8 gen kernel was suppose to be built with KSM. That failed due to mkfs_ext2.h. The a beta of genkernel was used

[gentoo-user] Re: genkernel 3.3.8 fails to build initramfs

2012-07-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello David, it seems that this bug has been reported before: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424579 Best, Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 03.07.2012 20:00, schrieb David Kuhl: I'm so stuck with this Gentoo laptop. It started with a standard update which was the first in three months. Then when the X didn't run due to xorg-server getting upgraded, the 3.3.8 gen kernel was suppose to be built with KSM. That failed due to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-07-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.07.2012 14:11, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: The question is, where does that blkid come from? busybox? Inside the initramfs? (I also rebuilt that initramfs, just in case) I *assume* it can't access that library because it is located on / which might not yet be mounted at that time?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-03 Thread Alex Schuster
David Kuhl writes: I'm so stuck with this Gentoo laptop. It started with a standard update which was the first in three months. Then when the X didn't run due to xorg-server getting upgraded, the 3.3.8 gen kernel was suppose to be built with KSM. That failed due to mkfs_ext2.h. The a

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/07/12 21:35, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.07.2012 20:00, schrieb David Kuhl: I'm so stuck with this Gentoo laptop. It started with a standard update which was the first in three months. Then when the X didn't run due to xorg-server getting upgraded, the 3.3.8 gen kernel was suppose to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/03/12 17:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/07/12 21:35, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.07.2012 20:00, schrieb David Kuhl: I'm so stuck with this Gentoo laptop. It started with a standard update which was the first in three months. Then when the X didn't run due to xorg-server getting

[gentoo-user] Anyone have cinnamon working properly?

2012-07-03 Thread walt
Cinnamon almost works well for me except that the Applications menu does nothing when I click on it. The other dropdown menus work as expected. If it works for you, I'll do more debugging here, but if it's just broken then I won't spend any more time on it. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
120704 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Am 03.07.2012 20:00, schrieb David Kuhl: I'm so stuck with this Gentoo laptop. It started with a standard update which was the first in three months. Then when the X didn't run due to xorg-server getting upgraded, the 3.3.8 gen kernel was suppose to be built

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with sudo

2012-07-03 Thread 赵佳晖
Oh,yes , i misunderstand it . Thank you 2012/7/3 Willie WY Wong wong...@member.ams.org On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:41:12AM +0800, Penguin Lover 赵佳晖 squawked: I have use your method , it didn't work . Like: sudo echo sys-boot/grub:2 **

[gentoo-user] Failed to emerge Spamassassin

2012-07-03 Thread meino . cramer
hi, I tried to emerge Spamassassin bit it failes due to missing dependencies, which I would exspect to be resolved by emerge itsself. I wanted, I will post the referenced logfiles also. How can I fix this? Best regards, mcc solfire:/home/usersudo emerge spamassassin Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-07-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 07:05:31PM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote And i am still happy with lilo. Am i the only one? ;) Me too. I have 2 kernels in the boot menu. Production and Experimental. Boot defaults to Production. New kernels are loaded as experimental. If it panics/dies consistently,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo install script

2012-07-03 Thread Kaddeh
Very well done, reminded me of some code that I wrote (poorly, I might add) but, I dug it up and found some changes that you might be able to implement instead of lines and lines of static configs. That being said, take some of these changes into consideration. Dynamic detection of drives and

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge Spamassassin

2012-07-03 Thread Oszkár Ocsenás
You need to install required Perl modules I think. Please google it how, if there is no ebuild. 2012.07.04. 4:57, meino.cra...@gmx.de ezt írta: hi, I tried to emerge Spamassassin bit it failes due to missing dependencies, which I would exspect to be resolved by emerge itsself. I wanted, I