In linux.gentoo.user, allan wrote:
On Sat, Oct 12 2013, thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote:
on 10/12/2013 05:40 PM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote the following:
copy the lvm partitions to directories on an external disk (ext3)
What command did you use for copying?
cp -ax
rsync not is on the minimal
In linux.gentoo.user, James wrote:
Gregory Shearman zekeyg at gmail.com writes:
b) The important reason I need an initramfs is that I have my root
filesystems on LVM partitions (except for my ARM servers).
Hello Gregory,
Please tell me, as much as you are confortable with,
about your
In linux.gentoo.user, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2013-09-29 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 29/09/2013 19:59, Tanstaafl wrote:
I've been told that this shouldn't be a big deal... while I am a
(barely) passable linux sys admin
Allow me to forward an opinion. The above is not
In linux.gentoo.user, Mr Schilling wrote:
On Solaris, you can disable loading unsigned modules, is this not supported
by
Linux?
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG
--
Regards,
Gregory.
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
search for CONSOLE in this file and find:
# exec ${CONSOLE} ${CONSOLE} 21
Just remove the hash at the start of the line, rebuild my initramfs
and it is ready to go.
--
Regards,
Gregory.
Thanks Gregory.
I really would like to find that partition
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
While trying to learn about dracut, I found a detail that made me look
closer to the genkernel generated initramfs, and I found that the error
message was perfectly clear: there was no /dev/sda5, where my real_root
is, that initramfs has just /dev/sda1 to
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Hi,
When I do a
beagleboneblack:/rootswapon /dev/sda2
beagleboneblack:/rootfree
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:507476 50812 456664 0 13108 17244
-firmware
package.
--
Regards,
Gregory Shearman.
For some reason I can't understand, it seems to work. It may not help
with mesa-9.1.2-r1 but it doesn't take much effort and can't hurt to try
--
Regards,
Gregory Shearman.
In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote:
Randolph Maaßen wrote:
I'm so damn lucky
I dd'ed the SSD onto an external drive and worked at first on the
image with qemu. A simple recreation of the partition brought the
system back to live on the image. I tried the same on the real machine
and Gentoo
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:29:19 +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote:
Good idea, but as I updated udev yesterday on one of my Gentoo systems,
in the usual after-update messages there was a line in red, telling me
You don't have CONFIG_DEVTMPFS enabled. udev will not
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
* Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de [121206 09:27]:
Hi,
on one of several machines I have a problem with initramfs.
The machine has a single SATA drive. When the kernel boots it shows
that it is called /dev/sda,
Now, within the init
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
I've been using Gentoo for quite a long time, and today I decided to try
compiling the kernel myself, Thing I've never done before. I want a smaller
kernel, a faster boot (without initramfs) and, of course, some fun :).
Good for you. I've rolled my own kernels
In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote:
I have ran into a issue here. I copied everything over to sdb, my temp
drive. When I try to boot it, it still boots from sda which is the
primary drive. I can not get it to boot from the copy. I did update
the fstab file to point to the new sdb partitions,
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
On 02/02/2012, at 11:02, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
I am asking for a recommendation of a router/wap. I know the
wired/wireless tradeoffs.
thanks, allan
Sorry, read it as wired or wireless.
Check out the buffalo routers -I have a G300NH
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Our 286 (that Tandy) came with a 20MB hard disk. The 386 I got as a
hand-me-down had a 540MB disk. (That was a bit of a golden age for me;
I never managed to fill that drive.)
I had twice the storage. My 286 had a 40MB hard disk. It also had 1MB of
memory but
In linux.gentoo.user, Mick wrote:
I use a separate output directory that is under control of the user.
What I do as an ordinary user:
mkdir kerneloutputdir
zcat /proc/config.gz kerneloutputdir/.config
# assuming you have this option set in your kernel ie the current
kernel # config
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 20:58:18 -0200
Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not currently at my Gentoo box, sorry for this, but if I don't
post this now I'll probably forget to post it at all.
Anyways, last time I tried upgrading my kernel,
In linux.gentoo.user, Lavender wrote:
I have checked my Xorg.0.log, there is no error message. I have a
question,I read xorg.conf , I didn't find any area about Window
Manage, so how xorg-server knowswhich WM to invoke when I use X
-config /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?BTW, among my class I am the only
In linux.gentoo.user, Lavender wrote:
Thanks a lot ! But I used lspci -v | less, it printed vebose
information, then I looked up carefully for my video card, but I did
not find anything about R600,R700 or other like, I'm still not clear
about R*** things , is it chipset name?
Hmm, I
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
On 12/05/11 13:37, Gregory Shearman wrote:
In linux.gentoo.user, Joseph wrote:
I'm upgrading form posgresql 9.0 to 9.1, it seem to the upgrade went OK but
when try to transfer the data
base:
pg_upgrade91 -v --old-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data/
--new
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
On 12/05/11 21:56, Gregory Shearman wrote:
hmmm...
Which directory are you running the command from? I ran mine from
/var/lib/postgresql which has the properties:
drwxr-xr-x 4 postgres root
I don't recall using the command pg_upgrade91, but I see
In linux.gentoo.user, Joseph wrote:
I'm upgrading form posgresql 9.0 to 9.1, it seem to the upgrade went OK but
when try to transfer the data
base:
pg_upgrade91 -v --old-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data/
--new-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data
In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote:
I'm getting this LVM thing down pat tho.
cfdisk to create partitions, if not using the whole drive.
pvcreate
vgcreate
lvcreate
then put on a file system and mount.
Sounds good.
I still get them confused as to what comes first but I got some pictures
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote:
I have a midget server on the LAN (Atom N270) which runs Gentoo, but it's
too underpowered to do all the compiling itself, so it NFS-exports its
packages directory to my workstation, where I have a 32-bit
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/7/4 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com:
I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I may try
my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I did have a
power failure the other day and the relay
In linux.gentoo.user, Todd Goodman wrote:
* Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org [110528 12:43]:
After seeing an older thread asking about a router, I figured I'd ask my
own question...
I'm looking for a cheap but reliable router that has decent and SIMPLE
way to add VLANs (I'm not a CISCO
Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2011 04:55:46 -0500, Dale wrote:
I'll leave it like it is I guess. I like all the little green OK's
that scroll up anyway.
Reassuring, aren't they?
What's bad is when something doesn't start for some reason and you don't
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:22:41 -0500, Dale wrote:
I want to do it this way because I don't trust LVM enough to put my OS
on. Just my personal opinion on LVM.
This doesn't make sense. Your OS can be reinstalled in an hour or
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
On Thursday 07 April 2011 05:44:17 Pandu Poluan wrote:
Someone really should mention 'screen' in the handbook; that venerable
tool just saved my day :)
I was in the midst of 'emerge --update --newuse world' over SSH when
my office had a 'temporary power
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Hi,
many distributions have something like a 'switch' command such that an
ordinary user can switch the version of his/her default gcc compiler.
Is there something similar in GenToo?
Many thanks for a hint,
$ gcc-config -h
--
Regards,
Gregory.
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Hi,
many distributions have something like a 'switch' command such that an
ordinary user can switch the version of his/her default gcc compiler.
Is there something similar in GenToo?
Many thanks for a hint,
Forgive previous post. Didn't read it properly.
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Hello,
I cleanup up a system, per the postings to not use HAL.
k3b does not work, but, I'll look for a fix for it later.
I keep 2 kernels on this system.
kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r12 and kernel-2.6.36-gentoo-r5
the *36 does not work. I have copied it over
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Gregory Shearman zekeyg at gmail.com writes:
Are you using kernel modesetting? If you are then you have to get your
microcode built into the kernel.
Not sure, can you be more specific on modesetting as
grepping the /usr/src/linux/.config does not find
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Some people, such as myself, use kernel sources outside of portage (I
follow a git repo) and do so as a non-root user. In this case the
kernel tree is not owned by root and the config/compile is easily done
as a non-root user.
If you are super-paranoid.
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al wrote:
I was trying to figure this out myself. I thought maybe I was missing
something in the message. Maybe not.
Isn't the list aggregated into that news site gmain or whatever its
called?
Then he can have it as a
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
I'm reading your message via a usenet server. linux.gentoo.user is the
newsgroup. Replies of course go via the mailing list address.
Is that seamless? Can you directly reply to a posting? Easy to set up? How?
More or less. Instead of press f to reply in slrn I
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
On Friday 03 September 2010, James wrote:
Hello,
What the usual admin cycle/tools/habits
for pruning /usr/tmp/portage
for a Gentoo workstation
or server?
James
tmpfs 8,0G 0 8,0G 0% /var/tmp/portage
thus with every reboot all
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
I have a broken Firefox-3 reference in my KDE favorites menu. Is there a
tool to fix these broken items because I haven't found one.
If you are on KDE 4.x then:
emerge kde-base/kmenuedit
Then type:
kmenuedit
That should be all you need.
--
Regards,
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
I have a broken Firefox-3 reference in my KDE favorites menu. Is there a
tool to fix these broken items because I haven't found one.
In another message I suggested kmenuedit. I missed the bit about the
favourites menu. You should be able to remove it with a
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
I have xchat installed. An update is failing to install with error:
libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpng12.la' or unhandled
argument `/usr/lib/libpng12.la'
libpng is installed:
/usr/lib$eix libpng
[I] media-libs/libpng
Available
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Gregory Shearman zek...@gmail.com wrote:
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
GentooPenguin# /usr/sbin/lspci | grep Radeon
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon
Xpress 200M]
Yesssir!
o_0 tony
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
GentooPenguin# /usr/sbin/lspci | grep Radeon
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon
Xpress 200M]
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
I wrote:
Shawn Haggett writes:
Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of
course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following
happens:
sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv
[...]
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
Roger Mason writes:
I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I
can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful
catastrophe. This is the output of emerge on the
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
--rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Gregory Shearman zek...@gmail.com said:
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
he will over time. If you switch default compiler
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Completed installing ati-drivers-8.552-r2 into
*
* Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
*
* Press Ctrl-C to Stop
*
* x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
*/usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
*
* Package
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Hi,
I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse.
Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk
and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but
then it gets garbled again. I am using
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
In 20090415113152.ga11...@pacific.net.au zek...@gmail.com (Gregory
Shearman) writes:
I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers
(x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The
latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11
You
Marc Blumentritt wrote:
I have since 2 months a problem with my boot up splash. Splash is
working, but the init messages (like starting daemon foh ... [ok]) are
written an screen above (for lack of a better word) my splash. When
the messages reach the bottom of the screen, the splash is
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Gregory Shearman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I cannot emerge world any more because portage keeps barfing on some
random java ebuild.
Java's not even in the list of things to emerge, but here's what I see
James wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes:
NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
that is not true. Both cards are still supported by nvidia drivers.
The FX card ist even supported by the latest drivers!
Yep I got this one(FX 5200)
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I cannot emerge world any more because portage keeps barfing on some
random java ebuild.
Java's not even in the list of things to emerge, but here's what I see:
Total: 14 packages (14 upgrades), Size of downloads: 99,898 kB
Would you like to merge these packages?
Last week I upgraded the kernel on one of my 5 year old Pentium 4 desktop
machines to 2.6.24-gentoo-r3. Kernel compilation went fine as usual but
when I tried to emerge the current (x86) binary nVidia driver [96.43.01]
for its GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x graphics card it failed with an error
message
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