Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks Dirk. JBanks --- Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 16. September 2003 04:34 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > > Gentoo doesn't run with the boot partition mounted. I guess it mounts at > > boot time and is then unmounted for safety. > > Why should it be mounted and umounted?

AW: [gentoo-user] Samba & NT Domain

2003-09-15 Thread Brian Reichholf
Thanks, Steve. It turned out all i needed to do was add an adduser script to the global section, that creates the users after checking with the PDC (haven't tried the `worst case' - logging in with a user not added to the domain) anyway, it works (for now). Thanks anyway. Best regards, -brian -

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources and freeswan won't compile

2003-09-15 Thread Mike Diehl (Encrypted email prefer red)
On Thursday 11 September 2003 04:17 am, Mike Williams wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 05:53, Mike Diehl > > I'm trying to get FreeSwan IPsec installed on my machines. I emerged a > > fresh copy of the latest gentoo sources. Then I patched it with the > > latest freeswan kernel patch. But

Re: [gentoo-user] advice regarding LVM needed

2003-09-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 15. September 2003 18:12 schrieb ext Gour: > Dirk Heinrichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Both LVM2 and EVMS2 use Sistina's Device Mapper which has been > > integrated into 2.6 in favor of LVM1. > > What do you recommend: LVM2 or EVMS2 since both use the same Device > Mapper? Depends o

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 16. September 2003 04:34 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Gentoo doesn't run with the boot partition mounted. I guess it mounts at > boot time and is then unmounted for safety. Why should it be mounted and umounted? There is no need to mount /boot unless you want to copy a new kernel to it.

[gentoo-user] gpm dependency?

2003-09-15 Thread Owen Gunden
Why is emerge -DUpv world trying to install gpm? I am not USEing gpm, and I don't have any of the apps that directly depend on gpm installed: $ etcat depends gpm | tail +2 | perl -ne '$_ .= <>; print unless /gpm\?/' * app-editors/xwpe-1.5.29a >=sys-libs/gpm-1.20.0 * app-misc/twin-0.3.8-r1 >=s

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks Andrew. JBanks --- Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Banks wrote: > > Whats the easiest command to cp all the subdirectories and files in those > > subdirectories in > /ect > > to another directory? > > mkdir /etc.bak; cp -r /etc/* /etc.bak > > -- > Andrew Gaffney > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Joshua Banks wrote: Whats the easiest command to cp all the subdirectories and files in those subdirectories in /ect to another directory? mkdir /etc.bak; cp -r /etc/* /etc.bak -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread blade-
might try cp -r man says -r for recursive Joshua Banks wrote: Thanks Collins, Whats the easiest command to cp all the subdirectories and files in those subdirectories in /ect to another directory? JBanks --- Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Jo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks Collins, Whats the easiest command to cp all the subdirectories and files in those subdirectories in /ect to another directory? JBanks --- Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:15:19 -0700 (PDT) > Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A. Funny you

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks Blade.. --- blade- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sorry there is more then 3 choices you got 1 is keep new and 2 is > keep old or vice versa, cant remeber which way, anyway when u select > first message by pressing enter or pressing 1, it will give you a list > of commands after showin

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A. Funny you should mention this. > This is exactly how I screwed myself then. To funny.. > Your given 3 choices when "etc-update" is run... > -1 > -3 > and -5. > > Whats the diff between -3 and -5this is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread blade-
also sorry there is more then 3 choices you got 1 is keep new and 2 is keep old or vice versa, cant remeber which way, anyway when u select first message by pressing enter or pressing 1, it will give you a list of commands after showing you the difference between the 2 files blade- wrote: you

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread blade-
you shouldnt do -3 either just press enter to see differences on for first file, if you edited the file keep original, if its something thats never seen by you replace it, thats what i do anyway and never had any problems, if you are unsure never delete original. Joshua Banks wrote: A. Fu

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
A. Funny you should mention this. This is exactly how I screwed myself then. To funny.. Your given 3 choices when "etc-update" is run... -1 -3 and -5. Whats the diff between -3 and -5this isn't makig sense to me even after reading some stuff on the forum.. Thanks Collins, Joshua Banks

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Kevin Miller, Jr.
I found out what the problem was. Turns out that alpha.gnu.org is not a mirror site yet my computer considered it as such. Thus, I edited the make.conf file and added the Oregon State mirror. I used it since it is the closest and I have had no problems with it. Problem solved and I was able to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:58:47 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do you say that Collins? > > Joshua Banks > --- Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:28:26 -0700 (PDT) > > Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What do you mean "ti

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Why do you say that Collins? Joshua Banks --- Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:28:26 -0700 (PDT) > Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What do you mean "times out"like your not gettting a reply from the needed > > site assuming that you have interne

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks Chris and Mark. When you do a "etc-update system" what do you usually choose? This is a very confusing area for me and this is where I know that I messed up. I don't really understand what I need to do here even after reading stuff on the Forum the choices still don't make sense. You have

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs Build Failure During Upgrade

2003-09-15 Thread Steven Elling
On Friday 01 August 2003 19:23, Steven Elling wrote: > Why is the build trying to use > '/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libstdc++.la' when I have > gcc-3.2.3-r1 install and not 3.2.2? Hey guys / gals, this has cropped up again while trying to do an upgrade from kdeaddons 3.1.2 to 3.1.3

Re: [gentoo-user] clearing out distfiles?

2003-09-15 Thread lexxx_h
Thanks for that. Any reason that distclean isn't in portage? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 05:26, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > Gentoo kernels create /proc/config which is the contents of the > config file used to generate the kernel. Even if you wipe out your > kernel tree you can just copy /proc/config to .config in a new kernel > tree and you can reproduce t

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Chris I
On 2003.09.15 22:29, Joshua Banks wrote: I'm assuming that I can just reconfig /etc/fstab and manually create a grub directory and grub.conf file in that directory? Recreate fstab and mount your /boot partition. Oh,,, when I try and open another shell window and "su" my password keeps on being r

[gentoo-user] Gentoo or Knoppix for ancient laptop?

2003-09-15 Thread Carl Hudkins
Hi, folks! Ok, here's the machine: 133 MHz (yes, *mega*, not giga or tera) Pentium! 48 MB RAM, 1.8 GB hard drive. (This is a Compaq LTE 5300.) It currently has a rudimentary OpenBSD installation -- it boots up, but X doesn't work and I don't really understand how the system is put toget

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 issues.

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:55:54 -0700 Josh Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 15 September 2003 02:06 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:50:06 -0700 > > > > Josh Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi folks... > > > > > > I have been playing with 2.6 for a while now (

Re: [gentoo-user] LC_ALL undeclared (app-editors/gedit-2.4.0)

2003-09-15 Thread Leendert van den Berg
LC_ALL is defined in the include file The source file where the compile fails is probably failing to include this header file. (Configure script problem?) Leendert On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:55:14 -0500 John Ziniti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently upgraded to the ~x86 version of gnome-2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
Keep asking questions. That's the best way to learn. In a year or two, you'll be fielding these questions for a new crop of newbies. It's best, of course, to do a little bit of research on your own. Otherwise, some people on the list get a little bit cranky. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:26, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Gentoo kernels create /proc/config which is the contents of the config file > used to generate the kernel. Even if you wipe out your kernel tree you can > just copy /proc/config to .config in a new kernel tree and you can reproduce > the runni

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:29, Joshua Banks wrote: > > What the hell did I do??? > mount /boot Gentoo doesn't run with the boot partition mounted. I guess it mounts at boot time and is then unmounted for safety. If you copied things there, you'll need to move them somewhere else so that the dir

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba & NT Domain

2003-09-15 Thread Steven Elling
On Monday 15 September 2003 06:15, Brian Reichholf wrote: > Actually, let me rephrase that: > > Logon works quite fine, but what do I use for `valid users'? > %U is a bit harsh, also that didn't turn out to work (so far) > > trying to share /tmp as an attempt to get general shares working I > enter

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 19:06, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: > You haven't made a mistake. Brett & Collins. You say mistake. I say 'mistake'. I did understand, especially after Lindsay's explanation about the 'convention' being to change the name, that it's just a 'mistake' and not a mistake. ;-) But

[gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub.conf are gone???

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Ok... I just upgraded KDE to 3.1.3 stable finally... I went to load the new kernel. I was running 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 and upgraded to 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 These are the steps that I took as root. 1> cd /usr/src 2> dir linux linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 3> rm linux 4> ln -s linux-

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake Mark Knecht on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:31:46PM CDT > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:40, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > bzImage doesn't contain the system symbol map, but the symbol map is > > frequently used to translate numeric locations in bzImage into symbol names > > for debugging purposes.

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread David Friggens
* Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-15 18:31]: > Does 'make vmlinuz' make an uncompressed kernel? No, 'make vmlinux' does, but you don't want that on x86. 'make vmlinuz' produces an error. > The other 2/3's are where do the System.map and config files come from? I've just been reading Se

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:31:46 -0700 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:40, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > bzImage doesn't contain the system symbol map, but the symbol map is > > frequently used to translate numeric locations in bzImage into symbol names > > for debugg

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
You haven't made a mistake. You can name them anything you want so long as the lilo.conf or grub conf files have the right name. Distros like Caldera used vmlinuz for the kernel name, Gentoo has bzImage. I name mine vmlinuz-2.4.20-XFS for example or vmlinuz-2.4.20-XFS-test - it helps me keep

[gentoo-user] Re: how to install gentoo without a CDROM?

2003-09-15 Thread David Stewen
I found this on a web page about 3 months ago and have been using thismethod of installing ever since. I hope someone finds it useful.from David Gentoo Floppy InstallAuthor: Matthias Kerstner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]Last changed: 16.06.2003NOTE

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:40, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > bzImage doesn't contain the system symbol map, but the symbol map is > frequently used to translate numeric locations in bzImage into symbol names > for debugging purposes. System.map isn't required. > > The file /usr/src/linux/arch/xxx/boot/

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Poll #8

2003-09-15 Thread Norberto Bensa
Sean Johnson wrote: > The question is: > > Where did you first hear about gentoo?. > > I'm pretty sure it was slashdot ... Slashdot and/or OSnews. Regards, Norberto -- 20:29:56 up 1 day, 2 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.07 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] web cam

2003-09-15 Thread momesana
The probably best software for video-conferencing is "Gnomemeeting" developed by Damien S. just do: emerge gnomemeeting and everything should work. another Software that might be usable in testing out ya webcam in "xawtv". If you have got a logitech Express you need either the: qce-ga (the frame

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread David Friggens
* David Friggens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-16 11:16]: > * Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-15 17:40]: > > bzImage doesn't contain the system symbol map, but the symbol map is > I'm sure I read that it does. I'll assume I'm wrong as I wait to track > down my source later on. OK, fi

Re: [gentoo-user] jar

2003-09-15 Thread Luke Macken
emerge dev-java/blackdown-jdk java-config --set-system-vm=blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 that took care of it for me luke On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:15:13AM +0200, Pietro Leone wrote: > Emerging and compiling db-4.0.14-r2 (for vlc) I obtain this output, why > it does not like my jar executable? The dire

[gentoo-user] LC_ALL undeclared (app-editors/gedit-2.4.0)

2003-09-15 Thread John Ziniti
I've recently upgraded to the ~x86 version of gnome-2.4, and most things compiled fine. I had to "--inject" a few packages to get through the emerge (gedit, and zenity). Compiling broke with the following message about LC_ALL. Line 354 is: setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); I don't have LC_ALL set in t

[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and Gentoo Weekly Newsletter

2003-09-15 Thread TongKe Xue
Hello, I'm currently thinking about installing Gentoo on a laptop with a centrino processor. I tried reading through the fourms but could not find a definitive answer to the following: for the optimizations flags, should I use those for a pentium 3 or a pentium 4? Similarly, if I wanted to insta

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean "times out"like your not gettting a reply from the needed > site assuming that you have internet connectivity issues resolved? Can you get > to other sites on the internet? > > Works for me

[gentoo-user] SATA woes!!

2003-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Having given up, at least for now, on the onboard Promise RAID controller on my new mb, I switched the two Seagate SATA HDs onto the descrete SATA connectors on the MB. They're coming up, but with errors, or not at all in the stock gentoo kernel. The stock gentoo kernel hangs on boot after the IC

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
What do you mean "times out"like your not gettting a reply from the needed site assuming that you have internet connectivity issues resolved? Can you get to other sites on the internet? Works for me deadmeat jbanks # emerge -up system These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] jar

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Pietro Leone was rumored to have written: > Emerging and compiling db-4.0.14-r2 (for vlc) I obtain this output, why > it does not like my jar executable? The directory in which jar is IS > into the PATH env variable, but the bash does not view it and so does > make. > > [snip] > check

[gentoo-user] jar

2003-09-15 Thread Pietro Leone
Emerging and compiling db-4.0.14-r2 (for vlc) I obtain this output, why it does not like my jar executable? The directory in which jar is IS into the PATH env variable, but the bash does not view it and so does make. [snip] checking for gcj... gcj -C checking if gcj -C works... yes checking for ja

Re: [gentoo-user] advice regarding LVM needed

2003-09-15 Thread Matthew Vaughn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Both EVMS2 and LVM2 are backwards-compatible with LVM1 and the volumes generated by it. Stroller wrote: | | On 15 Sep 2003, at 2:05 pm, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | |> Am Montag, 15. September 2003 15:04 schrieb Collins Richey: |> |>> Correct me if I'm wrong

[gentoo-user] Poll #8

2003-09-15 Thread Harold Martin
Slashdot. Need I say more? Harold -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gnome 2.4 : Raise window on mouse click

2003-09-15 Thread Lloyd D Budd
Hi, I upgraded to Gnome 2.4, and I like "Select windows when the mouse moves over them". Since upgrading, a click on the window does not "raise" the window. I have to click on the title bar or border. I do not see anything relevant in: Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Windows Any one els

Re: [gentoo-user] advice regarding LVM needed

2003-09-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Sep 2003, at 2:05 pm, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 15. September 2003 15:04 schrieb Collins Richey: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the 2.6 kernel dropped support for LVM, and thus EVMS is now the only way to fly? Both LVM2 and EVMS2 use Sistina's Device Mapper which has been i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread blade-
its all ok for me [EMAIL PROTECTED] blade- # emerge -u system Calculating system dependencies ...done! >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. [EMAIL PROTECTED] blade- # Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: Has anyone e

[gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-09-15 Thread Kevin Miller, Jr.
Has anyone else had problems using emerge -u system today? Everytime I have used this command today, it has timed out on me. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Cups Quandry

2003-09-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
I have re-emerged cups, ghostscript, hpijs and gimp-print but still cannot get my printer working again. I believe that the problem started at the last cups update. (somewhere around 8/4/03) It is a USB HP deskjet 932 and worked fine until then. After re-emerging the above apps, I attempted to

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread David Friggens
* Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-15 17:40]: > Thus spake David Friggens on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:57:22PM CDT > > * Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-15 09:57]: OK, I've got my wires crossed a bit. Mark - you can pretty much ignore what I said. :-) I started to do a bit more

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Poll #8

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Tedesco
This guy was telling me to check it out on IRC. Ausnet server #melb-wireless Ciao for now. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Poll #8

2003-09-15 Thread Sean Johnson
The question is: Where did you first hear about gentoo?. I'm pretty sure it was slashdot ... Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hyper-threading, SMB and Gentoo

2003-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Bingo! Two penguins! Thanks. Thus spake Michael Niethen on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:40:06PM CDT > [Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:44:10 -0500] Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <-- : > > I'm building a system with an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe mb. I'm using the smp > > kernel on the Gentoo livecd, v1.4-20030911.

[gentoo-user] CLOOP gotcha...

2003-09-15 Thread Jerry McBride
I just had a devil of a time setting up a kernel for cloop support... Before you can emerge cloop, you have to have a kernel with zlib compression support compiled INTO the kernel... not modules. What I had a hard time figuring out was... you can't have zlib compiled in the kernel and have cry

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake David Friggens on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:57:22PM CDT > * Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-15 09:57]: > >I just did a kernel build of gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 by hand (make dep > > clean bzImage modules modules_install & then copy bzImage to /boot by hand) > > and I do not ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is "sendmail: Cannot open mail:25" popping up

2003-09-15 Thread Sean Higgins
Chris, The base version of Gentoo installs net-mail/ssmtp which links ssmtp to sendmail. This program is only run when you try to send mail from your system. The error message that you are getting: sendmail: Cannot open mail:25 Means, ssmtp could not open a mail connection to the host "mail

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread David Friggens
I'm not too knowledgable in this area but I'm pretty sure the other two answers you've got so far are (in part) wrong. I did my first x86 install and kernel build the other day and found this info myself after trying to figure out why the x86 and ppc kernel procedures were different. (So I can conf

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 issues.

2003-09-15 Thread Josh Helmer
On Monday 15 September 2003 02:06 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:50:06 -0700 > > Josh Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks... > > > > I have been playing with 2.6 for a while now (mm-sources-2.6.0-test5). > > For the most part I am happy with it. > > > > The only real

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
They are created during a kernel build (make dep && make ). vmlinuz is a linux kernel. Some distros use this while others use bzImage. Wen I move bzImage to /boot I usually rename the Gentoo bzImage to vmlinuz-x.y.z where x.y.z is a version such as 2.4.20. I'm just used to seeing vmlinuz

[gentoo-user] Re: post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread Heribert Slama
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:20:15 +0500, in gmane.linux.gentoo.user, "bob bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for the replys guys.. clearly I need to track down and read the >doco.. I wasn't aware of this feature :-P etc-update isn't a feature, it's a _nuisance_ :-<<< But I'm sure "Easy-as-a-pie"

Re: [gentoo-user] Hyper-threading, SMB and Gentoo

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Niethen
[Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:44:10 -0500] Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <-- : > I'm building a system with an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe mb. I'm using the smp > kernel on the Gentoo livecd, v1.4-20030911. The BIOS settings tell me that > hyperthreading is enabled, and the flags line in /proc/cpuinfo lists t

Re: [gentoo-user] a7n8x freezes with serial ata.

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:47:37 -0700 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just copy your .config file from your old kernel directory into the > ac-sources dir, and type "make oldconfig" at the prompt. This will only > prompt you for new options. It's probably still advisable to go through > the new k

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Mark, I'm, not an expert with this, but I'll try... Am Montag, 15. September 2003 18:57 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi, >I've never received an answer for these question in the Redhat > reflectors, and never asked here. Please excuse my ignorance on this > subject. > >I just did a kernel bui

Re: [gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:57:12 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I've never received an answer for these question in the Redhat > reflectors, and never asked here. Please excuse my ignorance on this > subject. > >I just did a kernel build of gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 by h

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #7 results.

2003-09-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, I think, gentoo-user is a good place for your poll: it is user related, gentoo-user has many subscriptors, and the traffic is so high, that an additional e-mail does not hurt anybody. 27149 emails since the middle of april and 7 of it are the polls. Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a s

Re: [gentoo-user] a7n8x freezes with serial ata.

2003-09-15 Thread Arlo
thanks for the help. I will give the ac-sources a try tonight. is there anyway I can reuse my .config file, or how can I print my kernel config. I made alot of changes and I know I will miss some if i re-enter them. -arlo- On Monday 15 September 2003 14:59, Alan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 issues.

2003-09-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:50:06 -0700 Josh Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks... > > I have been playing with 2.6 for a while now (mm-sources-2.6.0-test5). For > the most part I am happy with it. > > The only real issue that I have had is logging in. When I boot into 2.4, I > can l

Re: [gentoo-user] a7n8x freezes with serial ata.

2003-09-15 Thread Alan
Just copy your .config file from your old kernel directory into the ac-sources dir, and type "make oldconfig" at the prompt. This will only prompt you for new options. It's probably still advisable to go through the new kernel config anyway and make sure there's nothing out of order there. The u

[gentoo-user] Hyper-threading, SMB and Gentoo

2003-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I'm building a system with an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe mb. I'm using the smp kernel on the Gentoo livecd, v1.4-20030911. The BIOS settings tell me that hyperthreading is enabled, and the flags line in /proc/cpuinfo lists the ht flag, but only one CPU is listed in /proc/cpuinfo and only one shows up in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem couldn't be fixed?

2003-09-15 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
On Monday 15 September 2003 05:09, Spider wrote: > Thats strange, 40Mb for root? Unless you partitioned /usr off I'm > really quite curious about how you managed to do that. :). :s/Mb/Gb/g. Yes, that's curious :-). Nowadays I noticed that I often replace Gb with Mb in my mind :). Sorry. That's r

[gentoo-user] Promise hw RAID and Gentoo 1.4 livecd

2003-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I'm building a system with an ASUS P4C800 Delux mb which has an onboard Promise PDC20378 controller chipset. I've read the discussions on this list from last spring about Gentoo and Promise raid, but am still having trouble, and everything I can find on google indicates that a lot of people are ha

[gentoo-user] UML problems

2003-09-15 Thread Mike Bellemare
I followed the instruction of the doc-uml but resulted with the system booting but failing after entering: level3 Starting locale [ok] here's the error messages when i boot it: Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/ Copyright 2001-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL * Moun

[gentoo-user] gnucash crashes

2003-09-15 Thread Klaus D. Neumann
Hi, just emerged GnuCash 1.8.6 on a fresh Gentoo installation. Whether I load my old gnucash file or try to generate a new account tree, whenever I open an account, gnucash crashes with this message: Application '/usr/bin/guile" (process 9224) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Segmentation faul

Re: [gentoo-user] a7n8x freezes with serial ata.

2003-09-15 Thread Alan
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:40:29PM -0400, Arlo wrote: > I have an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with built in Sil3112a serial ata > controller and a Seagate Barracuda serial ata harddisk. I'm getting random, or > semi-random system lockups. The lockups happen more when the system is under > load. This i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: horribly slow portage updates (fixpackages)

2003-09-15 Thread Marius Mauch
On 09/15/03 sf wrote: > I would have thought only the uncompressed tbz2-specific tail has to > changed, not the tbz part. Do I miss anything here? Yes, after I took some closer looks at the code I think you're right. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the begin

Re: [gentoo-user] IP address of a DNS

2003-09-15 Thread Core
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 09:46, Chris I wrote: > > FWIW, nslookup is deprecated. It's better to use 'host', which is in > > net-misc/host. > > The replacement for nslookup is dig, is it not? No, it is indeed "host" since bind 9 IIRC. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] a7n8x freezes with serial ata.

2003-09-15 Thread Arlo
I have an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with built in Sil3112a serial ata controller and a Seagate Barracuda serial ata harddisk. I'm getting random, or semi-random system lockups. The lockups happen more when the system is under load. This is documented well on sites like http://www.nforcershq.com I al

[gentoo-user] What creates System.map, config and vmlinuz?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've never received an answer for these question in the Redhat reflectors, and never asked here. Please excuse my ignorance on this subject. I just did a kernel build of gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 by hand (make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install & then copy bzImage to /boot by hand)

[gentoo-user] 2.6 issues.

2003-09-15 Thread Josh Helmer
Hi folks... I have been playing with 2.6 for a while now (mm-sources-2.6.0-test5). For the most part I am happy with it. The only real issue that I have had is logging in. When I boot into 2.4, I can login to my system without any problems. When I boot into 2.6 and try to login as a user

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #7 results.

2003-09-15 Thread Fred Van Andel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On September 15, 2003 04:10 am, Alexander Futasz wrote: > This whole poll should be taken off of the list and added to the > newsletter. I have some misgivings about that. I like to ask open ended questions because then I make sure that I can see

Re: [gentoo-user] currupt icons in nautilus from gnome 2.4 ~x86

2003-09-15 Thread Alan
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 04:39:44PM +0930, Chris van der Pennen wrote: > I had something similar to that in the latest Evolution. Fix was to turn > off RenderAccel in the nvidia drivers. Worked perfectly, thanks! -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Networking (Linux iPaq to Gentoo)

2003-09-15 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 15:13, Brian Doob wrote: > I want to set up USB networking between my Linux-iPaq (an ARM based > handheld with 2.4.19 Linux) and my Gentoo desktop box. The gentoo box > is connected to a broadband router with an active DHCP server. I want > the iPaq to get an address f

Re: [gentoo-user] advice regarding LVM needed

2003-09-15 Thread Gour
Dirk Heinrichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Both LVM2 and EVMS2 use Sistina's Device Mapper which has been integrated > into 2.6 in favor of LVM1. What do you recommend: LVM2 or EVMS2 since both use the same Device Mapper? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #27849

RE: [gentoo-user] Lost lm-sensors modules on gentoo-sources-2.4.2 0-r6 to -r7 upgrade...

2003-09-15 Thread Budd, Tracy
Yes, I was planning on moving them by hand, but I was wondering if I had done something wrong. Thanks, -Tracy -Original Message- From: Mark Knecht Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Lost lm-sensors modules on gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Poll #8

2003-09-15 Thread Fred Van Andel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is the eighth gentoo poll. The question is: Where did you first hear about gentoo? If you can then please be specific. Please respond by emailing your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Please do NOT reply within the mailing list, any replies to the

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Networking (Linux iPaq to Gentoo)

2003-09-15 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:37, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: > Brian Doob wrote: > > I want to set up USB networking between my Linux-iPaq (an ARM based > > handheld with 2.4.19 Linux) > > What linux do you have on your iPaq, and is that with or without extra ram / > microdrive? It would be Familiar Linux,

RE: [gentoo-user] Lost lm-sensors modules on gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6 to -r7 upgrade...

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
> I just built a new kernel from gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 according to the > installation instruction on gentoo.org (i.e. make dep && make > clean bzImage > modules modules_install). I then reemerged nvidia-kernel and > lm-sensors. For > some reason lm-sensors installed its modules under > /lib/mod

[gentoo-user] Lost lm-sensors modules on gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6 to -r7 upgrad e...

2003-09-15 Thread Budd, Tracy
I just built a new kernel from gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 according to the installation instruction on gentoo.org (i.e. make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install). I then reemerged nvidia-kernel and lm-sensors. For some reason lm-sensors installed its modules under /lib/modules/gentoo-so

Re: [gentoo-user] How to not respond WAS Re: [gentoo-user] re: SCO gets personal!

2003-09-15 Thread Sigurd Stordal
On Monday 15 September 2003 14:41, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Sigurd Stordal wrote: > > On Saturday 13 September 2003 05:26, Stephen Turner wrote: > > > no no no dont send them there! its too friendly! send them to osama bin > > > laden so he can rape them and use them as human bombs :D > > > > This i

Re: [gentoo-user] How to not respond WAS Re: [gentoo-user] re: SCO gets personal!

2003-09-15 Thread Norberto Bensa
Sigurd Stordal wrote: > On Saturday 13 September 2003 05:26, Stephen Turner wrote: > > no no no dont send them there! its too friendly! send them to osama bin > > laden so he can rape them and use them as human bombs :D > > This is an example on how you should not respond > > So, I hope we will

Re: [gentoo-user] [Q] ping

2003-09-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Keep in mind ... the local universities here have been blocking pings at the borders because of a windoze worm/virus flooding the networks. Caught me out when my favourite off-site ping responders disappeared in the middle of tracing a network fault ... BillK On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 22:09, YOON. J

RE: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: vanilla-sources (2.4.22) No Athlon XPchoice?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Have a look at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml, the very > useful kernel guide. > > BillK > Bill, This was a great link. Thanks! Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] [Q] ping

2003-09-15 Thread YOON. Joo-Yung
After I re-installed gentoo with the latest one (1.4_rc4), ping has not been going out any more. And today there was an evidence what ping does. When I trace-route a domain at one pc, its ip address is first shown, and then it shows my server address, that is default gateway address in my small la

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