Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2006-12-24 Thread PaulNM
Hi, These type of messages: [17180157.02] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [17180157.02] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=5, high=0, low=5, sector=0 [17180157.02] ide: failed opcode was: unknown [17180157.02] end_request:

Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2006-12-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:22:02 +, Alan E. Davis wrote: Neither of these worked: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s gparted shows the whole disk as

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:48:38 -0600, Dale wrote: OK. I downloaded Kdar so far. It was smaller and I'm on dial-up. Does these programs preserve file permissions? Yes, because the files are stored in an archive file, not directly on the CD. dar can split the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see Windows graphics chars

2006-12-24 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:28:05 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I would not ordinarily care about Windows pseudo-graphics characters, but for one brief moment on one project I need to manipulate them a bit. This is a bit hard on KDE and gentoo as things stand because the

[gentoo-user] Batch resizing of photos

2006-12-24 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have a load of photos which I would like to resize running some sort of ImageMagick batch command; e.g. convert -resize WxH something.jpeg something_resized.jpeg In this case something is meant to be the photos in a directory. How do I do this? (me useless at scripting). :(

[gentoo-user] LVM problem

2006-12-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
I'm about to start using LVM. I setup a secondary partition with fdisk, created a physical volume with pvcreate, made a group volume with vgcreate (out of only that physical volume), created several logical volumes with lvcreate, and installed filesystems on the logical volumes. One volume is

Re: [gentoo-user] working with overlays

2006-12-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:09:55 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/category/package ## Dont't copy all ebuilds, just the one to be tweaked: Unless you are really short of disk space, what's wrong with copying the complete package directory - it

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch resizing of photos

2006-12-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 24 December 2006 12:43, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have a load of photos which I would like to resize running some sort of ImageMagick batch command; e.g. convert -resize WxH something.jpeg something_resized.jpeg In this case something is meant to be the photos in a directory. How

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice. Yes, that can be done. Mondorescue makes the first backup CD

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-24 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 December 2006 12:20, David Relson wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:45:07 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ...[snip]... Oops. I should have known I could answer my own question with a little more digging. I now see that there's hostname hostname --fqdn

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:07:50 -0600, Dale wrote: Yes, because the files are stored in an archive file, not directly on the CD. dar can split the archives into CD (or DVD) sized chunks and kdar can (AFAIR) write them to disc. dar also creates an index of what's in which file and writes this

[gentoo-user] Re: LVM problem

2006-12-24 Thread Regis Decamps
Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm about to start using LVM. LVM-user or LVM2? So, what's the problem? The problem is that vgdisplay, vgscan, vgchange, pvdisplay, lvdisplay all say there are no volumes to be found! What did I miss? Have you modified lvm.conf? Can you provide /etc/lvm/.cache? One

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM problem

2006-12-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Regis Decamps wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm about to start using LVM. LVM-user or LVM2? LVM2. (Don't know about the former...) So, what's the problem? The problem is that vgdisplay, vgscan, vgchange, pvdisplay, lvdisplay all say there are no volumes to be found!

Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2006-12-24 Thread Alan E. Davis
It's looking really bad. However, I have seen some messages about similar messages/problems being addressed by flashing the bios. I have received a diagnostic utility from Gateway. This is a laptop. Thank you for the advice. I'll keep trying. Merry Christmas (in an hour, here in the W.

Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2006-12-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 December 2006 08:42, PaulNM wrote: Hi, These type of messages: [17180157.02] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [17180157.02] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=5, high=0, low=5, sector=0 [17180157.02] ide: failed

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice. Yes, that can be done. Mondorescue

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:07:50 -0600, Dale wrote: Yes, because the files are stored in an archive file, not directly on the CD. dar can split the archives into CD (or DVD) sized chunks and kdar can (AFAIR) write them to disc. dar also creates an index of what's in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Follow-up on the HDD problems...

2006-12-24 Thread Mick
On Saturday 23 December 2006 10:23, Chris Walters wrote: Some of you may remember the problem I was having with my SATA II HDD in Windows XP (but not in Linux). To recap: My drive got switched from UDMA mode to PIO mode in Windows (only). I ended up having to reinstall Windows. After some

[gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, guys! #emerge --resume gives me: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: !!! Error: The resume list contains packages that are no longer !!!available to be emerged. Please restart/continue !!!the merge operation manually. # How could I fix it? -- Best

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 December 2006 13:12, Dale wrote: OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. This slow dial-up sucks. :-( For complete partition/disk/OS backups I have used partimage. No doubt it comes with many recovery

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice. Yes, that can be done. Mondorescue

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice. Yes, that can be done. Mondorescue

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 13:12, Dale wrote: OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. This slow dial-up sucks. :-( For complete partition/disk/OS backups I have used partimage. No doubt it

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch resizing of photos

2006-12-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 December 2006 12:25, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: for i in *.jpeg; do   name=${i%.jpeg}   convert -resize WxH ${i} ${name}_resized.jpeg done Thank you for a lovely Christmas present! :) -- Regards, Mick pgpWQAFJDIlIK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-24 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:09:13 + Mick wrote: ...[snip]... Now, I'm curious! On my system, I see the following: dnsdomainname osagesoftware.com hostname osage.osagesoftware.com hostname --fqdn osage.osagesoftware.com /etc/hosts contains: 192.168.1.10

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Follow-up on the HDD problems...

2006-12-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
Mick wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 10:23, Chris Walters wrote: Some of you may remember the problem I was having with my SATA II HDD in Windows XP (but not in Linux). To recap: My drive got switched from UDMA mode to PIO mode in Windows (only). I ended up having to reinstall

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-24 Thread Stuart Howard
On 24/12/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, guys! #emerge --resume gives me: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: !!! Error: The resume list contains packages that are no longer !!!available to be emerged. Please restart/continue !!!the merge

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice. Yes, that can be

[gentoo-user] lvm setup questions

2006-12-24 Thread Martins
hi i'm trying setup lvm on running system using latest lvm2. lvm and kernel part seems ok but rest is problem,after reboot vg and lv are borked. For now im playing with junk partitions. Do I need put lvm-start(stop).sh in /etc/conf.d/local.start(stop) or somehow pass to grub initrd line? I

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:33, Dale wrote: OK. Now I get this for mindi-1.11. One version has something missing and the other fails to compile. Wonder why this is masked? [cut] Are you trying to install mindi by itself or as part of an emerge mondo-rescue? Seems like some dependency is

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 December 2006 15:12, Dale wrote: OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. Yes, you can skip them. /tmp as well, but you have to create the empty directory after restoration. Same for /dev. I am nott too sure

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:33, Dale wrote: OK. Now I get this for mindi-1.11. One version has something missing and the other fails to compile. Wonder why this is masked? [cut] Are you trying to install mindi by itself or as part of an emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:02:24 -0600 Dale wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:33, Dale wrote: OK. Now I get this for mindi-1.11. One version has something missing and the other fails to compile. Wonder why this is masked? [cut] Are you trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
First of all - where did my manners go!? ;-( MARRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! I wish you health, happiness and even more fun with our favorite Gentoo! ;- On the subject: Yes, yesterday I woke up with a broken root FS after a power failure. I did fix the FS with a boot CD I did emerge -e

[gentoo-user] Re: lvm setup questions

2006-12-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi i'm trying setup lvm on running system using latest lvm2. lvm and kernel part seems ok but rest is problem,after reboot vg and lv are borked. Please explain what you've done. The exact steps would be interesting. Also please show what error messages you've

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/24/06, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:09:13 + Mick wrote: ...[snip]... Now, I'm curious! On my system, I see the following: dnsdomainname osagesoftware.com hostname osage.osagesoftware.com hostname --fqdn

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 24 December 2006 17:04, Dale wrote: Unpacking source... Unpacking mondo-2.10.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/mondo-rescue-2.10/work gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors !!! ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 24 December 2006 18:00, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/iso/mondorescue.iso (it's there, despite the site saying that it's currently unavailable). Ok, it's definitely NOT there :) I've been fooled by the fact that after clicking on it the browser was asking me to

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 17:04, Dale wrote: Unpacking source... Unpacking mondo-2.10.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/mondo-rescue-2.10/work gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 18:00, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/iso/mondorescue.iso (it's there, despite the site saying that it's currently unavailable). Ok, it's definitely NOT there :) I've been fooled by the fact that after clicking on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM problem

2006-12-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/24/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you elaborate on this? What init script? Something in /etc/init.d? Something to be managed by rc-update? /sbin/rc starts up lvm volumes, provided you have lvm in RC_VOLUME_ORDER in /etc/conf.d/rc. The actual startup of lvm occurs in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-24 Thread Stuart Howard
On 24/12/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all - where did my manners go!? ;-( MARRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! I wish you health, happiness and even more fun with our favorite Gentoo! ;- On the subject: Yes, yesterday I woke up with a broken root FS after a power failure. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 23 December 2006 16:54, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql': since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs, Jakub is pretty bugzilla savvy, are you sure you bugs weren't closed for valid reasons? Sometime he does jump the gun

[gentoo-user] emacs shell color question

2006-12-24 Thread David Relson
G'day, I habitually run emacs shell sessions. When I forget the --color options, for example for the ls and emerge commands, the shell session displays the ascii escape sequences which is pretty ugly. Is there an option for telling emacs to handle escape sequences? Thanks. David --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM problem

2006-12-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/24/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you elaborate on this? What init script? Something in /etc/init.d? Something to be managed by rc-update? /sbin/rc starts up lvm volumes, provided you have lvm in RC_VOLUME_ORDER in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
Stuart Howard wrote: On 24/12/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all - where did my manners go!? ;-( MARRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! I wish you health, happiness and even more fun with our favorite Gentoo! ;- On the subject: Yes, yesterday I woke up with a broken root FS

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] emerge --resume

2006-12-24 Thread Daniel Iliev
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:59, Daniel Iliev wrote: Well, I tried emerge mc and I hit ctrl-c in the middle of the process. Then emerge --resume emerged mc. Now emerge --resume gives the same strange message again. ;-) emerge --resume reads the list of

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch resizing of photos

2006-12-24 Thread Canek Peláez
On 12/24/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a load of photos which I would like to resize running some sort of ImageMagick batch command; e.g. If you manage your photos with F-Spot, there is a cool utility to export your photos to a directory, scaling them in the way if you

[gentoo-user] RE: I'm not getting gentoo list emails anymore?

2006-12-24 Thread Daevid Vincent
Something in definitely strange... I turned off my Mailhop Outbound service and sent the mail directly via exim: I tried to subscribe to a list that I know I'm not already in (the osx one). I turned off .procmailrc (no recopies and full logging) daevid exim # grep gentoo /var/log/mail/current

[gentoo-user] which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

2006-12-24 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, emerge --sync should sync with rsync.gentoo.org, to which many IP adresses (5 at the moment). Here's what host says: # host rsync.gentoo.org rsync.gentoo.org has address 129.79.6.73 rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.73 rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.74 rsync.gentoo.org has

[gentoo-user] RE: I'm not getting gentoo list emails anymore?

2006-12-24 Thread Daevid Vincent
Would the list admin please double check the mlmmj list administration tools and see if there is some setting for my email address that says 'nomail' or 'suspended' or something like that... Is my email even showing up in the list (or did my unsubscribes go through). Does the list use

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Jakub is pretty bugzilla savvy, are you sure you bugs weren't closed for valid reasons? well, after some discussion @ gentoo-dev, it's now a little bit clearer: The bugs are not completely valid yet (but soon will be), since libpq

[gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-24 Thread Mike Myers
Hi! I know I don't post here much but I read it a lot and have been using Gentoo for several years now. I keep seeing users mention about how they do an update and then everything goes to crap. I've experienced this myself quite a bit too. I believe the reason this happens is the drawback one

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-24 Thread david
I have been using gentoo for over 5 years. For the first few years I would sync and update every few days or once a week. Now I may do it once every 6 months. I waited until the modular xorg kind of calmed down and there were some good howto's and I updated then. I have 4 boxes here two that are

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-24 Thread Mike Myers
Yeah, the documentation is one of the many great things about Gentoo. I just wish the software was a little more proactive in fixing update problems. On 12/24/06, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using gentoo for over 5 years. For the first few years I would sync and update every

[gentoo-user] gtk+ / Cairo / pdf-flag mutual build problem.

2006-12-24 Thread Walter Dnes
Did an emerge --sync and emerge --ask --deep --update --world. When emerge got to x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.6, the following happened... checking for cups-config... /usr/bin/cups-config checking cairo-pdf.h usability... no checking cairo-pdf.h presence... no checking for cairo-pdf.h... no configure:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short

2006-12-24 Thread Mike Myers
I'm using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL and DynDNS and they don't block anything inbound. I guess since they're blocking Joe's traffic, it's sort of a hit or miss with SBC or Yahoo or ATT or whoever it is now. On 12/23/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone out there using

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-24 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:52:55 +0300, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Gentoo, the system is updated while you are using it. This causes us users to modify whatever we're running to suit all these changes. As far as I know, Gentoo releases a Reference Platform

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-24 Thread reader
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G'day, I habitually run emacs shell sessions. When I forget the --color options, for example for the ls and emerge commands, the shell session displays the ascii escape sequences which is pretty ugly. Is there an option for telling emacs to handle