Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 08:54:38 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: I'm looking for a lightweight LiveCD that includes a graphical environment and gcc/clang so that we can make it available on our internal network for the students to download/burn and use at home. Does anyone have any

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot with SSD, GPT, GRUB2 and UEFI

2014-03-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.03.2014 08:18, schrieb Facundo Curti: And this says me: Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accesing EFI variables Try modprobe efivars as root The system has to be booted via UEFI to be able to access the EFI system (and tell it about

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot with SSD, GPT, GRUB2 and UEFI

2014-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 02:31:35 -0300, Facundo Curti wrote: Another - no related - problem I have is that I cant update my system ._. I do a emerge --newuse --deep --update world I dont get errors, but never starts to update. Emerge work as using a --pretend atribute, this say me all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot with SSD, GPT, GRUB2 and UEFI

2014-03-08 Thread Facundo Curti
2014-03-08 5:27 GMT-03:00 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 02:31:35 -0300, Facundo Curti wrote: Another - no related - problem I have is that I cant update my system ._. I do a emerge --newuse --deep --update world I dont get errors, but never starts to update.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot with SSD, GPT, GRUB2 and UEFI

2014-03-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.03.2014 10:25, schrieb Facundo Curti: About boot... :/ It still not working. I boot from sysresccd Did you boot via EFI or via BIOS? You have to choose (U)EFI in your BIOS to enable the whole EFI-environment. If you boot sysresccd via BIOS you don't get the efi variables accessible.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot with SSD, GPT, GRUB2 and UEFI

2014-03-08 Thread Facundo Curti
Yes. I press F8 (boot menu) and I choice UEFI:Sandisk :/ 2014-03-08 6:37 GMT-03:00 Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at: Am 08.03.2014 10:25, schrieb Facundo Curti: About boot... :/ It still not working. I boot from sysresccd Did you boot via EFI or via BIOS? You have to choose (U)EFI in

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot with SSD, GPT, GRUB2 and UEFI

2014-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 06:25:32 -0300, Facundo Curti wrote: About boot... :/ It still not working. I boot from sysresccd, make a: grub2-install /dev/sdb And give me this output: Path `/boot/grub` is not redeable by GRUB on boot. Installation is impossible. Aborting You

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot with SSD, GPT, GRUB2 and UEFI

2014-03-08 Thread Pavel Volkov
On Saturday 08 March 2014 06:25:32 Facundo Curti wrote: So, I try to do the same, but in chroot. I mount everything (Including proc and sys), and: chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash grub2-install --target x86_64-efi /dev/sdb //Without target gives another error And

[gentoo-user] Are the UK rsync mirrors down?

2014-03-08 Thread Mick
Hi All, I just tried my weekly rsync and it failed to find the server: * Running emerge --sync Synchronization of repository 'gentoo' located in '/usr/portage'... !!! getaddrinfo failed for 'rsync.uk.gentoo.org': [Errno 110] Connection timed out Starting rsync with

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot with SSD, GPT, GRUB2 and UEFI

2014-03-08 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 08.03.2014 10:40, schrieb Facundo Curti: Yes. I press F8 (boot menu) and I choice UEFI:Sandisk :/ Also, make sure, that you modprobe efivarfs before you enter the chroot. Then it sould work, you can verify that it works by using efibootmgr -v signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the UK rsync mirrors down?

2014-03-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 10:42:08 Mick wrote: I just tried my weekly rsync and it failed to find the server: ... Have you come across the same problem recently? Yes, I get the same. It worked all right at 04:20 but not now. -- Regards Peter

Re: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Two identical systems - different!

2014-03-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2014 23:26:00 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2014 15:20:07 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2014 13:49:00 Mick wrote: Have you manually disabled webDAV in your apache configuration? You will need to set 'Dav Off' under the entry for your Directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the UK rsync mirrors down?

2014-03-08 Thread Mick
On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 11:13:29 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 10:42:08 Mick wrote: I just tried my weekly rsync and it failed to find the server: ... Have you come across the same problem recently? Yes, I get the same. It worked all right at 04:20 but not now. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-08 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 08.03.2014 05:57, Andrew Lowe wrote: [ ... ] Too complicated. What I mean by this is that the user upon booting has options!!! Do you kick into a graphical environment, do you copy everything to memory, do you. you get the idea. The problem is that these are first year students in

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
systemrescuecd? Too complicated. What I mean by this is that the user upon booting has options!!! Do you kick into a graphical environment, do you copy everything to memory, do you. you get the idea. The problem is that these are first year students in a common first year, they

[gentoo-user] World update and dev-lang/python-exec weirdness...

2014-03-08 Thread Tanstaafl
Ok, I don't understand this... If I do an emerge -pvuDN world, it tells me I only need to update (among a few other things) ONE version of dev-lang/python-exec: (2.0.1 to -r1). I then tried to selectively update just the kernel, and it complains about python-exec-2.0.1 being masked, so I add

Re: [gentoo-user] World update and dev-lang/python-exec weirdness...

2014-03-08 Thread Todd Goodman
* Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org [140308 09:46]: Ok, I don't understand this... If I do an emerge -pvuDN world, it tells me I only need to update (among a few other things) ONE version of dev-lang/python-exec: (2.0.1 to -r1). I then tried to selectively update just the kernel, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the UK rsync mirrors down?

2014-03-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 11:33:15 Mick wrote: On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 11:13:29 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 10:42:08 Mick wrote: I just tried my weekly rsync and it failed to find the server: ... Have you come across the same problem recently? Yes, I get the

[gentoo-user] GBP character in KDE

2014-03-08 Thread Mick
I can't understand why a PC that uses the KDE desktop always sticks an accented capital A in front of the pound sign. It looks like this: £ This is what /etc/env.d/02locale contains: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C All KDE applications suffer from this affliction, as well as LibreOffice.

Re: [gentoo-user] World update and dev-lang/python-exec weirdness...

2014-03-08 Thread Tanstaafl
On 3/8/2014 10:12 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org [140308 09:46]: If I do an emerge -pvuDN world, it tells me I only need to update (among a few other things) ONE version of dev-lang/python-exec: (2.0.1 to -r1). I then tried to selectively

Re: [gentoo-user] GBP character in KDE

2014-03-08 Thread Pavel Volkov
On Saturday 08 March 2014 15:50:27 Mick wrote: I can't understand why a PC that uses the KDE desktop always sticks an accented capital A in front of the pound sign. It looks like this: £ I don't have this problem in KDE (though I'm not using UK layout to type it). I use the additional

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-08 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 03/08/2014 09:24 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: systemrescuecd? Too complicated. What I mean by this is that the user upon booting has options!!! Do you kick into a graphical environment, do you copy everything to memory, do you. you get the idea. The problem is that these are

Re: [gentoo-user] GBP character in KDE

2014-03-08 Thread Mick
On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 17:42:07 Pavel Volkov wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2014 15:50:27 Mick wrote: I can't understand why a PC that uses the KDE desktop always sticks an accented capital A in front of the pound sign. It looks like this: £ I don't have this problem in KDE (though

Re: [gentoo-user] GBP character in KDE

2014-03-08 Thread Mick
On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 18:10:21 Mick wrote: On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 17:42:07 Pavel Volkov wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2014 15:50:27 Mick wrote: I can't understand why a PC that uses the KDE desktop always sticks an accented capital A in front of the pound sign. It looks like this:

[gentoo-user] Re: World update and dev-lang/python-exec weirdness...

2014-03-08 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/08/2014 11:24 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 3/8/2014 10:12 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org [140308 09:46]: If I do an emerge -pvuDN world, it tells me I only need to update (among a few other

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] LENOVO Z510 + Dual Boot + Gentoo == True ?

2014-03-08 Thread »Q«
On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 08:23:21 +0100 Dan Johansson d...@dmj.nu wrote: I am considering buying a new Notebook and found that a LENOVO IdeaPad Z510 would fit into my budget and seems quite OK. Does anyone here on the list have any experience with the Z510 running dual-boot (Win8.x and Gentoo)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 08.03.2014 02:57, schrieb Andrew Lowe: On 8/03/2014 9:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 08.03.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was after any input the list may have. [snip] ... ... ... [snip] Any thoughts are greatly

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot with SSD, GPT, GRUB2 and UEFI

2014-03-08 Thread Facundo Curti
2014-03-08 6:46 GMT-03:00 Pavel Volkov negai...@gmail.com: On Saturday 08 March 2014 06:25:32 Facundo Curti wrote: So, I try to do the same, but in chroot. I mount everything (Including proc and sys), and: chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash grub2-install --target

[gentoo-user] ethernet dont use kernel module

2014-03-08 Thread Facundo Curti
Hi all. I'm again :P (I'm becoming an annoying). I have a realtek 8111F ethernet. I boot from a live-usb, make an lspci -v and says ethernet uses r8169 module. I compiled my kernel with this module, and when I start the system eth0 does not exist (Just lo), and a lspci -v says anything about

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet dont use kernel module

2014-03-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Facundo Curti facu.cu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I'm again :P (I'm becoming an annoying). I have a realtek 8111F ethernet. I boot from a live-usb, make an lspci -v and says ethernet uses r8169 module. I compiled my kernel with this module, and when I start

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-08 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 03/09/2014 04:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 08.03.2014 02:57, schrieb Andrew Lowe: On 8/03/2014 9:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 08.03.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was after any input the list may have. [snip]

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet dont use kernel module

2014-03-08 Thread Facundo Curti
This dont show anything ._. Here my dmseg complete: bpaste.net/show/186667 And my .config from kernel: http://bpaste.net/show/186668 2014-03-08 21:53 GMT-03:00 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Facundo Curti facu.cu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet dont use kernel module

2014-03-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Facundo Curti facu.cu...@gmail.com wrote: This dont show anything ._. Here my dmseg complete: bpaste.net/show/186667 And my .config from kernel: http://bpaste.net/show/186668 Please don't top-post. You have the module compiled in the kernel. That should not

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet dont use kernel module

2014-03-08 Thread Facundo Curti
2014-03-09 1:50 GMT-03:00 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Facundo Curti facu.cu...@gmail.com wrote: This dont show anything ._. Here my dmseg complete: bpaste.net/show/186667 And my .config from kernel: http://bpaste.net/show/186668 Please

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet dont use kernel module

2014-03-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Facundo Curti facu.cu...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Sorry about top posting, My bad. Gmail jaja. I need to find a email client :P No prob. Thank you for help. I'm trying to install firmware as you sugest. But now I have the problem, when I do modprobe r8168 it

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet dont use kernel module

2014-03-08 Thread Dale
Facundo Curti wrote: But now I have the problem, when I do modprobe r8168 it says: Error: Could not insert 'r8168': Function not implemented Typo maybe? It should be r8169. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet dont use kernel module

2014-03-08 Thread Facundo Curti
2014-03-09 3:25 GMT-03:00 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Facundo Curti wrote: But now I have the problem, when I do modprobe r8168 it says: Error: Could not insert 'r8168': Function not implemented Typo maybe? It should be r8169. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet dont use kernel module

2014-03-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Facundo Curti facu.cu...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] After install firmware, now I can see on my lspci -v http://bpaste.net/show/186693 Well, that's progress, I suppose. So, how you can see, now I have a kernel module. But I still cannot see a eth0 device :/

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet dont use kernel module

2014-03-08 Thread Facundo Curti
2014-03-09 3:59 GMT-03:00 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com: On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Facundo Curti facu.cu...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] After install firmware, now I can see on my lspci -v http://bpaste.net/show/186693 Well, that's progress, I suppose. So, how you can

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet dont use kernel module

2014-03-08 Thread Facundo Curti
Sorry, bad paste. I still don't recognize the error. What does lsmod | grep 816[89] says? It says: [0.190299] pci :03:00.0: [10ec:8168] type 00 class 0x02 [0.816810] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4096-byte physical blocks ^ I'm writing this by hand because I cant