[gentoo-user] remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I plan to install a fresh gentoo linux in parallel to an existing SLES 10 server. The server runs with /boot and / on 2 raid1 devices, there is a large RAID6 array building the PV for several logical volumes with data on it. The idea is to have the server booted from live media (chroot does not

Re: [gentoo-user] remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 23.04.2015 17:09, Mike Gilbert wrote: Some pointers: - Unpack your stage tarball. - Build the kernel and initramfs on an existing Gentoo system and copy them over. - Add the gentoo kernel and initramfs to menu.lst. - Clear out the root password in /etc/shadow. - Reboot the box. You

[gentoo-user] wicd not restarting after hibernation

2015-04-23 Thread »Q«
On my amd64 laptop, on resume from hibernation, wicd almost always fails to restart. This problem goes back to when I set up the machine, over a year ago, but it seems to have gotten a lot worse in the last month or so. I'm using openrc and sys-power/hibernate-script. I run mostly stable; AFAIK

Re: [gentoo-user] remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 23.04.2015 17:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I will see if I get that figured out ... got to get the kernel-options and dracut modules right. first try started booting but couldn't mount rootfs ... and now the box hangs there and I can't press the power button (only PS/2 attached

Re: [gentoo-user] remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: I plan to install a fresh gentoo linux in parallel to an existing SLES 10 server. The server runs with /boot and / on 2 raid1 devices, there is a large RAID6 array building the PV for several logical volumes with

[gentoo-user] Re: How do kernel modules load automatically during boot? [SOLVED]

2015-04-23 Thread walt
On 04/22/2015 12:17 PM, walt wrote: I just did a huge update on an older ~amd64 machine, and now only three out of a dozen or so kernel modules load during bootup, which leaves a lot of hardware in an unusable state. Thanks to everyone who replied. The infuriating thing about this problem is

[gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-23 Thread james
Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: On 23.04.2015 17:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I will see if I get that figured out ... got to get the kernel-options and dracut modules right. first try started booting but couldn't mount rootfs ... and now the box hangs there and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ?

2015-04-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Donnerstag, 23. April 2015, 07:51:30 schrieb james: I'll wait at least until there is an ebuild of some kind. Those folks (toolchain) that put out the 5.0.x builds should have one for 5.1 soon.. I do agree with the subliminal suggestion that I should find those gcc compile and

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ?

2015-04-23 Thread james
Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: On 23.04.2015 10:12, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I've just renamed the gcc-6.0.0_alpha20150412.ebuild (the 6 must be typo) from toolchain overlay to gcc-5.1.0.ebuild which I have attached. It worked just fine here. very cool! thx. I now

Re: [gentoo-user] grep -lr ignoring subdirs that start with dot (.)?

2015-04-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 07:32:54 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: What I'd like is the output you get with 'grep -ir searchstring .' which includes the line of text from each matching file that contains the searchstring, like this:

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Java VM and SDK: icedtea X oracle's

2015-04-23 Thread Francisco Ares
2015-04-23 10:52 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org: On Thursday, April 23, 2015 08:41:42 AM Francisco Ares wrote: 2015-04-22 14:10 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com: snipped Thanks for the tip, gonna try to understand everything from that thread, but meanwhile I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 23.04.2015 18:57, james wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: On 23.04.2015 17:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I will see if I get that figured out ... got to get the kernel-options and dracut modules right. first try started booting but couldn't mount rootfs ... and

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-23 Thread lee
hydra hydrapo...@gmail.com writes: You mean the documentation at Gentoo about Xen sucks or the upstream documentation? What information are you missing from there? Maybe we can add the missing pieces for Xen being more accessible and easier to use, what do you think? :) I mean the

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-23 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On 8 April 2015 14:43:02 GMT-07:00, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: hydra hydrapo...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: symack sym...@gmail.com writes: Other than that, unless you really do need full

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ?

2015-04-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 23.04.2015 19:18, james wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: I now try to build gcc-5.1.0 with itself ... and maybe later I will try at system in a btrfs-subvolume. Hello Stephan, Very interesting. emerge -e @system didn't get very far in my btrfs-subvolume (a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ?

2015-04-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 23.04.2015 23:06, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I am sure it will enter portage soon ... btw ... there you go: https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-devel/gcc/gcc-5.1.0.ebuild?view=markup

[gentoo-user] Installing python-2.6

2015-04-23 Thread Guillaume Poulin
I'm currently contributing to a python project still supporting python 2.6. Since python 2.6 is no more in portage tree, I currently have no way to run the unit tests locally. Is there an easy way to install python 2.6? I don't need other packages support for python 2.6, just a python 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python-2.6

2015-04-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Guillaume Poulin poulin.guilla...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently contributing to a python project still supporting python 2.6. Since python 2.6 is no more in portage tree, I currently have no way to run the unit tests locally. Is there an easy way to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ?

2015-04-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 04/23/2015 07:51:30 AM, james wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com writes: So is my best hope the toolchain repo ? You can always compile and install locally in your $HOME directory. 5.1 was just released, so you can try that. I hear you. It'd take me a long time to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ?

2015-04-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 23.04.2015 10:12, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I've just renamed the gcc-6.0.0_alpha20150412.ebuild (the 6 must be typo) from toolchain overlay to gcc-5.1.0.ebuild which I have attached. It worked just fine here. same here, just a bit later ;-) I now try to build gcc-5.1.0 with itself ...

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Java VM and SDK: icedtea X oracle's

2015-04-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 23, 2015 08:41:42 AM Francisco Ares wrote: 2015-04-22 14:10 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com: snipped Thanks for the tip, gonna try to understand everything from that thread, but meanwhile I'm going to do what Alon has suggested. Best Regards, Francisco

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Java VM and SDK: icedtea X oracle's

2015-04-23 Thread Francisco Ares
2015-04-22 14:10 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com: 2015-04-22 10:54 GMT-03:00 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 10:34:05 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: A few months ago I got rid of oracle's java jre and jdk in favor of icedtea. Now, when issuing an emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] grep -lr ignoring subdirs that start with dot (.)?

2015-04-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 4/17/2015 5:59 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Since you want to search the entire contents f the current directory, there is no need to pass grep a list of directories (especially not an incomplete list), use grep -lr . Ok, thanks Neil, but this is still not what I'm looking