Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!!

2012-10-26 Thread Mick
On Friday 26 Oct 2012 09:35:44 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:27:05 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > It is also stated in the emerge output that you need to add > > > udev-mount to the sysinit runlevel. > > > > I saw that too, but did not add udev-mount to any runlevel. I guess > > this is

Re: [gentoo-user] X was crash at login window (gdm)

2012-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
121026 sam new top-posted: Please try to remember not to do that (smile). > On 25 October 2012 23:40, Philip Webb wrote: >> 121025 sam new wrote: >>> I do not like to update my gentoo frequently cause compile takes >>> a long time, but I decided to upgrade my Xorg server to 1.13 >>> and gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] From Unstable to Stable: Screen share in Google Hangout and Skype no longer works

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Does anyone know how to get screen share to work again? Would this > depend on unstable OpenRC? Or a later udev? Or a later kernel? Try to upgrade to the latest unstable version of xrandr.

[gentoo-user] From Unstable to Stable: Screen share in Google Hangout and Skype no longer works

2012-10-26 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Hi all, I used to run Gentoo Unstable (~amd64) but reinstalled just about everything to go back to Stable (amd64). For Chromium, the Google Talk plugin, and Skype I'm running the latest (unstable) versions again (www-client/chromium-23.0.1271.40, www-plugins/google-talkplugin-3.9.1.0, and net-im/

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI Advice

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Trausch
You can still do things the "now" way, but only because current EFI systems provide either a BIOS compatibility interface (e.g., emulate the BIOS) or have an actual BIOS that it loads before executing a system that requires it. You should move to GPT, though, since you then get unlimited (practica

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking

2012-10-26 Thread Mick
On Friday 26 Oct 2012 04:03:09 Joseph wrote: > On 10/25/12 22:27, Silvio Siefke wrote: > >On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:17:00 -0600 > > > >Joseph wrote: > >> Why don't you want to install VirtualBox from portage. > > > >Has not internet, only mobile conection and so i have downloaded > >by my dad direct

[gentoo-user] UEFI Advice

2012-10-26 Thread john
I am upgrading to a UEFI motherboard from a BIOS/MBR combination. fx-8350 with 990 asus board. When I upgrade I believe you have to make changes to kernel to recognise UEFI. Can I still use MBR or do I have to switch to GPT? Also using grub2. Are there any other pitfalls or advice the Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] dual monitors and dual desktops

2012-10-26 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Oct 25, 2012 8:45 PM, "Kfir Lavi" wrote: > > Hi, > I have a laptop and an external monitor. > I would like to have both monitors showing different desktops. > My aim is to have IRC and Email client on one side, and my shell and programming stuff on the other side. > Currently I managed to do a

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Pau Peris
Thx a lot Paul, this morning i noticed there was some kind of issue on my old initrd which works fine for 2.6 kernels, so created a new initrd which works fine and let me to boot into GNU/Gentoo Linux with same 3.5 bzImage. Gonna check if the issue came from mdadm, thx :) 2012/10/26 Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] Paranormal Gentoo?

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:05 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > when I am watching TV via DVB-T with Kaffeine and do a > > sudo eject /dev/dvd2 > > the TV freezes and start to work again when the DVD is > completly ejected. > > I have no clue how that can happens... > > Any ideas? > > Best regards,

[gentoo-user] Paranormal Gentoo?

2012-10-26 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, when I am watching TV via DVB-T with Kaffeine and do a sudo eject /dev/dvd2 the TV freezes and start to work again when the DVD is completly ejected. I have no clue how that can happens... Any ideas? Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, > > > i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and i've just > migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5. > > > As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be able > to boot. While kernel 2.6 is able to bo

[gentoo-user] Re: dual monitors and dual desktops

2012-10-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-10-25, mindrunner wrote: > On 10/25/2012 07:40 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> So I actually have a total of 12 virtual desktops (3 sets of 4). > > Searching the terminal window opened 6 hours ago on one of the 12 > virutal desktops sounds like fun :D It's not as bad as it sounds. I rarely u

Re: [gentoo-user] X was crash at login window (gdm)

2012-10-26 Thread sam new
I can not find service udev-postmount ,Udev version is 194 , services udev and udev-mount start at runlevel On 25 October 2012 23:40, Philip Webb wrote: > 121025 sam new wrote: > > I do not like to update my gentoo frequently cause compile takes > > a long time, but I decided to upgrade my Xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Pau Peris
Hi, thanks a lot for both answers. I've just checked my kernel config and CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC is not setted so gonna take a look at it all with "set -x". Thanks :) 2012/10/26 J. Roeleveld > Pau Peris wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
Pau Peris wrote: >Hi, > > >i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and i've >just >migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5. > > >As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be >able to boot. While kernel 2.6 is able to boot without problems the new >3.5 >co

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:36:38 +0200, Pau Peris wrote: > As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be > able to boot. While kernel 2.6 is able to boot without problems the new > 3.5 compiled kernel fails to boot complaining about "no block devices > found". After taking a

[gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Pau Peris
Hi, i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and i've just migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5. As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be able to boot. While kernel 2.6 is able to boot without problems the new 3.5 compiled kernel fails to boot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!!

2012-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:27:05 +0100, Mick wrote: > > It is also stated in the emerge output that you need to add > > udev-mount to the sysinit runlevel. > > I saw that too, but did not add udev-mount to any runlevel. I guess > this is a problem only if /usr is on another partition than root, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-26 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:10:17 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Or just don't update the kernel until it is fixed. After all, if the >> kernel you are using works and is not a serious security problem, just >> use it for a while. They will fix it pretty soon I'm sure. > Several versio

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-26 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > On Oct 26, 2012 3:14 AM, "Dale" > wrote: > > > > Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Oct 25, 2012 10:08 AM, "Michael Mol" > wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > http://lwn.net/Articles/521022/ > >> > > >> > Links to relevan