[gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Group, I do not meean to be persistent regarding this problem but I am unable to emerge vmware-server or xen. the error I am experioencing is attached at a the build.log. Environment: x86, 2.6.30-r5 Your Help is Greatly Appreciated, Ninus build.log Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: error compiling virtual box

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Walt, Thank you for your response, I know that there is a number of patches out there but I just want to know which one to use. Surely someone has vmware-server 2 or XEN, or Virtual box running off of the 2.6.30-r5 kenrel. I know that I can uise layman and emerge vmware-server 2 the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Do any of the emulators work with 2.6.30r5 kernel? I am not bound to only vmware, what about XEN, VirtualBox etc... Thanks In Advnaced, Ninus.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Neil, I tried to compile virtualbox using intructions here http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VirtualBox;. And it was unsuccesful, I have attached the build.log Regards, Ninus. build.log Description: Binary data

[gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I have a fresh isntall x86 and I am trying to emerge vmware-server 1.0.9, and I am presented with the follwoing: * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options... * CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS: is not set when it should be. * Please check to make sure these options are

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Stefan, I figured that much, I am in .config - Linux Kernel v2.6.30-gentoo-r5 Configuration right now and I cannot find CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS. Where the hell is this things. Thanks In Advanced! Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I moddified the CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS paramter and when trying to emerge vmware-server I am presented with another error: * * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile *

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I moddified the CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS paramter and when trying to emerge vmware-server I am presented with another error: * * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile *

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
I emerged vmware-modules with no problem but still have a hard time with vmare-server: * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3723: Called linux-mod_src_compile *

[gentoo-user] vmware-server error

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Everyone, I emerged vmware-modules with no problem but still have a hard time with vmare-server: * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3723: Called

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I am having no luck at all trying to emerge vmware-server 1.0.9 using kernel .30 r5. I know vmware 2 can be instlled easily using layman but I do not want that clunker on this 16 core server. The show must go on... what is my safest bet XEN? I need an emulator that can handle

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
I was thinking XEN how will that par up compared to virtualbox?

[gentoo-user] Recompile Gentoo Environemnet

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, what emerge parameters recompiles everything in my gentoo environment afer changing use flags emerge --update --deep --*newuse* world? I issued a emerge -e world and I saw it was installing 450 things so I ctrl+c the process, did I kill everything. Anyhow I would like to

[gentoo-user] error compiling virtual box

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I am recieving the following message when trying to compile virtualbox. I receieved the same error when trying to compile vmwareserver * * ERROR: app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-1.6.6-r1 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile *

[gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type 'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction for the installation of the

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hell Sir, Thank You for your response, I did add it after I sent the original message, chrooted, mounted, and copied over trhe new bzimage file to the /boot partition. Now I am getting special device dev/sda1 does not exist when trying to issue a mount /boot Thanks In Advnaced, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Thank you all for your help, im an idiot everything works perfect. The only problem I am having is that when xdm is loading I am using nvidia-drivers, xdm loads and nothing works no keyboard etc... I am almost there xorg.conf looks ok, modprobe nvidia with no issues. I cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
I am using a Dell D820 ICH7 family, I am chking to see if appropriate modules have been selectd in the kernel right now. Reagrds, Ninus.

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Exactly! In console everything is find. but when I issue startx my keybaord and mouse are non functional. I did remerge xf86 mouse and keyboard and still nothing. I looking into xorg.conf. Regards, Ninus

[gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I got gnome to fire with some problems: 1) startx startx gnome but rc-update add xdm default starts xdm: ~/.xinitrc: exec gnome-session /etc/conf.d/xdm: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm That is not my problem, the reason why I am almost getting blue in the face is because when I issue a

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
dbus is running yes. Please Help :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
hald is running too

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
When I do a: rc-update add xdm default Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought I know its the right username password. Regards, Ninus.

[gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no direcotry message when I log in using console. Regards, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
I was considering something as is pointed out at the following link: http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-a-loadbalanced-mysql-cluster-with-mysql5.1 Regards, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Sir, ~/.xinitrc: exec gnome-session /etc/conf.d/xdm: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm Thank You For Your Response, I did do that. I had Gnome fireed up and working fine, then I am not sure what was it I did that now it fires up using startx but nothing works, my session is not loaded etc.. Thanks In

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
oops I did mean gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
I just created a new user and the home firecotry is fine. However my root user has no home. I did not rename it and /dev/sda3 is mounted. I tries useradd -m root, I am getting useradd:user root exists. fstab - dev/sda3/ ext3 noatime Thanks in Advnaced, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
oops, i'm stupid, I tries to login xdm using root, I saw this was possible using gnome so I figures what the heck. So that is fine (not being able to login xdm using root). But I still have a problem in regard to gnome not being able to work. Firefox does not start, nothing starts not even

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Yes of course Now when I fire up gnome, I see nothing on my desktop and nothing is working (cannot open console, or firefox etc..). I When I load gnome I see: please contact your system administration to resolve the follwoing issue: could not resolve the address xml:readwrite:d/.gconf in the

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Ok I just created a new user and gnome works fine, but with my root it is getting the errors described above.

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Yes for sure, hmmm but its broken an I want to fix it. I have logged into X using root just earlier today and now when I log into console using root I get the No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/. I would like to fix this. fstab is as per the gentoo documentation. Regards, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
oops. I think trying to fiz my original problem of gnome+root, I invented a new one root console + error message (No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/). This is not an error root has /root not home so when someone logs into console using root this message will always show? Sorry about that

[gentoo-user] Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait) Just a few porblems with this fresh install: When logging into gnome I presented with the follwoing messagebox: There was an error starting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Walt, Thank you so much for your response, I am sitting behind the machine right now. (I know we are not suppose to but I just want it to be working as expected) Basically when using root user and logging into console I get my first suspicious message, No direcotory, logging in with HOME=/,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
That does not fail. I can cd /root/Desktop perfectly. What I decided to do is a fresh install to see where it was that I went wrong. fstab and mtab looked ok. I did load the live cd, mounted and chrooted over and saw that echo $HOME did return /root. If I do not make mistakes I will not learn.

[gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-02 Thread Nick Khamis
We are looking to set up a cluster that uses MySQL, UltraMonkey and yours truly Gentoo. Where best to check first then the group of the O.S. of choice. Anyone have any feedback, comments, advice etc... please send them this way. We are looking to set it up for free as in beer so which MySQL

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-02 Thread Nick Khamis
The database cluster will be the backend to our own Customer Relation Management System that needs to be scaled to size and performance. In terms of what is and not is avail in the portage tree can we not just build 5.1 from binary source how hard is this lb_curses etc The problem with MySQL 5

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-02 Thread Nick Khamis
I should also point out that we are interested in load balancing and high availability. Regards, Ninus.

[gentoo-user] Down By The River I Shot My Gentoo

2009-09-01 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone. Long time user not the first time fu_ _ up. I emerge --umerrge e2fsprogs because I was trying to emerge gnome-light. Anyhow I forgot to emerge e2fsprogs now I am recieving the libbkid.s0.1 cannot open error message. proc mounting proc [oops] at bootup. Can I fix this without

[gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-01 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone. I am trying to update-python and I am stuck at checking for working mkstemp. for ever, what should I do.. This is a fresh install AMD64. Thanks in Advanced, Ninus.

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-01 Thread Nick Khamis
I did not change CHOST just CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS as per the manual. h Regards, Ninus

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