Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.
ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata5.04: hard resetting link ata5.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 Scontrol 0) and ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata5.04: hard resetting link ata5.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 Scontrol 0) beside all the install/reinstalls - both errors indicate the drive is failing OR (my best guess) the cable is bad. Replace the cable with a new one and try again. Oli On 2021-02-15 21:13, gevisz wrote: пн, 15 февр. 2021 г. в 20:59, Jude DaShiell : Check the date and time when you boot and if it isn't correct, you probably have a dead battery on your motherboard. I had to replace one a couple days ago. Fortunately the kind of battery my computer uses is sold in pharmacies since blood sugar meters also use them. Legacy system shows incorrect time but I think that it is because of the dual-boot with Linux and not because of the battery issue. The date is still correct: Monday, February 15, 2021. Well, probably my best option to reinstall the system from scratch. :( On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, gevisz wrote: > Yesterday, my relatively new install of Gentoo failed to boot with the > following repeated messages: > > ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > ata5.04: hard resetting link > ata5.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 Scontrol 0) > > My first thought was that something is wrong with my old IDE (ATA) > drive. (The Gentoo system partition was on /dev/sda5.) > > Nevertheless, I was able to boot from a flash drive with a live Gentoo > CD and chroot into the Gentoo system partition of my IDE drive. > > So, I formatted a new SATA drive according to instructions given in > Gentoo AMD64 Handbook, rsynced the corresponding IDE system partition > into it by the following command: > > rsync -qaHAXS source_dir target_dir > > made the necessary changes to the corresponding fstab file, chrooted > into the new system SATA partition, recompiled grub and installed it > on the new disk. > > After all that I was able to boot the Gentoo system from the new > partition. However, the booting process went as slow as hell, and at > the end Xorg server failed to start. > > My next guess was that something went wrong with the last kernel I > used to boot. So, I tried to boot using the previous kernel. > > However, this time the booting failed with almost the same messages as above: > > ata5.03: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > ata5.03: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > ata5.03: hard resetting link > ata6.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > > (Now, my new Gentoo system partition is on /dev/sdb2.) > > Shall I try to do something to fix it before reinstalling Gentoo anew? > > For example, I thought of booting with a live Gentoo flash drive, > chrooting into the new system partition and recompiling @system. > However, if it is not some package that is corrupted, it may be a waste of time. > Or, maybe, @system may be narrowed to just a few packages needed at boot time? > Shall I try to recreate initramfs, what in my case means re-emerging > gentoo-kernel package? > What do you think? > > P.S. Nevertheless, I still can successfully boot my very old legacy > system from another partition of my IDE drive. > >
Re: [gentoo-user] Bittorrent tracker available with gentoo miniinstall ISOs
Good idea - remind me on getting the latest iso's. Thanks a lot Oli On 2012-09-03 17:53, Roland Häder wrote: Hello, I have added (more may follow) both ISOs of the AMD64 and I386 mini-installer as torrents to my tracker: http://mxchange.org:23456/ AMD64: http://mxchange.org:23456/file?info_hash=%C5%C4%B2%88%92%F5%A9O%01udg%92%17gy%22%9A%ED%B7 I386: http://mxchange.org:23456/file?info_hash=i8%C1%5D%0D%FE%A8M%8E%C5k%FE%B9%8A%1E%A2%9A9%DB%7B I thought you might be interested in. :) I can track more if you like (of course no illegal things). Regards, Roland
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation, Kernel Panic
On 2012-07-19 21:32, Randolph Maaßen wrote: 2012/7/19 Andrejs Igumenovs andrejs.igumen...@gmail.com [2] Hi, After going over the installation instructions and performing the standard operations (genkernel etc.), the Kernel halts during the boot. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1 [1] Im attaching the screenshot of what happens… Im not the Linux expert, so dont know how to fix. - Andrejs Hi, looks like the kernel cant find your root partition. (VFS: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknowen block(0,0)). Please make sure that you configured your grub correctly (which version do you use?). On grub legacy (0.9) edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst and add the root=your root partiton parameter it should look like this title Gentoo root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel* root=/dev/sda2 When you need further help, please post your partitioning and grub menu entry, grub device names can be verry confusing for beginners. The more complex idea in my mind is that your kernel is missing some device drivers for the ide/sata controler. This should not happen, because you used genkernel. Randolph Links: -- [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1 [2] mailto:andrejs.igumen...@gmail.com Make sure the filesystem support is correct. What fs do you use - did you enable it in the kernel config ? regards Oli
Re: [gentoo-user] script for sending mail with attachement?
On Tue, 11 May 2010 21:29:02 +0200, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, my small mysql-database is archived every couple of hours, but all those backups (~5MB each) are still on the server, which I do not consider secure. I would like to have them sent to me per email. What I am looking for is some command-line mailer, which could be used in script-mode, and able to send attachements. Any ideas? Jarry -- There 3 good and simple ways to do .. : - use biabam command line program (emerge it) - sendemail.pl (google it) - uuencode (uuencode somefile.zip | mailx -s daily mail s...@user.com) Oli
Re: [gentoo-user] domainname command shows blank - NIS/YP domain name?
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:22:47 +, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Ok, this question comes about because I noticed that I manually have to set $mydomain in Postfix. I'm about to set up Samba, too, and thinking that I might have to manually set the domain name in that, too, I thought to investigate this. Surely Postfix should get its hostname domainname from the system itself, right? $ hostname hex $ dnsdomainname stroller.uk.eu.org $ domainname (none) $ domainname -v getdomainname()=`(none)' (none) $ This mention of getdomainname agrees with the comments in Postfix's main.cf: # The myhostname parameter specifies the internet hostname of this # mail system. The default is to use the fully-qualified domain name # from gethostname(). $myhostname is used as a default value for many # other configuration parameters. `man domainname` tells me that `domainname` should in particular show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name. Can anyone explain the significance of this, please? /etc/conf.d/net.example suggests that it's rare that you would need to set a NIS domainname, but you can anyway, and the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook [1] says if you don't know what [a NIS domain] is, then you don't have one. I guess that a typical desktop system might use ssmtp and not need either postfix or a NIS domainname, however I'm still confused. I guess the best question I can ask is why Postfix might choose to use this apparently-less-common config to set its hostname? I really feel like I must be missing out. It's not a massive hardship to set $mydomain manually in Postfix on several boxes, it just seems like I ideally shouldn't have to. Is there anyone who can help clarify for me? Hi The only way found for me was echo the domainname on startup onto proc echo domainname.ch /proc/sys/kernel/domainname Does that work for you too ? Oliver
