Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

2007-04-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 April 2007, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, After running make menuconfig 4x on a PIII, re-emerging --emptytree world and either booting to a highly unstable system or a maintenance login I feel it's time to call on the authorities. It looks like the kernel can't find the /

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

2007-04-12 Thread Guillermo A. Amaral
On Thursday 12 April 2007 03:02, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, snip When I chroot from the livecd(2005.1) everything seems to work; the modules all load, the software works etc. So, I'm at a complete loss. FWIW, when I do boot the maintenance console and run udevstart the system crashes

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is apache 2.2 hard masked?

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 12 April 2007 06:13:44 Wolfgang Liebich wrote: OK - it is in testing. Has anyone here experiences on how stable it is to run? Maybe I need it b/c of a new auth module which does not seem to be available in apache 2.0.58... Oddly enough...

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

2007-04-12 Thread Sami Samhuri
On 4/12/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 April 2007, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, After running make menuconfig 4x on a PIII, re-emerging --emptytree world and either booting to a highly unstable system or a maintenance login I feel it's time to call on the

[gentoo-user] eclipse

2007-04-12 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Hi I'm new to gentoo so bare with me. I'm trying to emerge eclipse-core, but can't seem to wrap my head around the idea about masked programs. I have read trough the documentation about the emerge tool but didn't find a working solution. Could anybody give me a few pointer? -- Regards /

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Benno, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need sometimes need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to be recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to be entered twice. Are it

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Arturo, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Benno Schulenberg wrote: Are it certain keys (like the 's') that have the problem? Are it [...] single-user maintenaince mode? Does it happen when running from a liveCD? I'd add: Does it happen on memtest86 I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse

2007-04-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 April 2007 14:24:16 Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: I'm new to gentoo so bare with me. I'm trying to emerge eclipse-core, but can't seem to wrap my head around the idea about masked programs. I have read trough the documentation about the emerge tool but didn't find a working

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse

2007-04-12 Thread Francisco Rivas
Hi all.. emerge eclipse-sdk dev-util/eclipse-sdk Latest version available: 3.2 Latest version installed: 3.2 Size of files: 80,120 kB Homepage: http://www.eclipse.org/ Description: Eclipse Tools Platform License: EPL-1.0 I think that is all you need

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse

2007-04-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Hi I'm new to gentoo so bare with me. I'm trying to emerge eclipse-core, but can't seem to wrap my head around the idea about masked programs. I have read trough the documentation about the emerge tool but didn't find a working

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse

2007-04-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 April 2007 15:02:28 Alan McKinnon wrote: There are not one but TWO ways that packages get masked. Actually there's at least 3 possible masking reasons.. ~arch keyword, missing keyword and package.mask. Also the missing keyword reason is overloaded. [SNIP] [...] and

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

2007-04-12 Thread Fabio
I think you did not enable the Unix Domain Sockets in your make menuconfig: Networking - Networking Support - Networking Options - Unix Domain Sockets This is the same thing Devon was talking about. On 11/04/07, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, After running make

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse

2007-04-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 12 April 2007 15:02:28 Alan McKinnon wrote: Umm... no it isn't. It's ~x86 and package.mask'ed. You are correct. I missed the (~) in the versions line Other ebuilds belonging to that category are socalled live ebuilds that

Re: [gentoo-user] video capture

2007-04-12 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Friday 06 April 2007 12:15, ds wrote: On 4/5/07, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:37, Uwe Thiem wrote: Does the camera generate a normal TV signal (PAL, SECAM, NTSC,...)? If so, the WinTV-PVR150 will work. I assume so, the manual doesn't

[gentoo-user] amarok, last.fm and recent updates

2007-04-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Hi everybody, after recent updates (emerge --sync emerge -uDN world) amarok stopped working with http://last.fm streams. I've experienced same behavior on two separate machines. First I've noticed it on my home machine but thought maybe something changed with last.fm and amarok can't connect

[gentoo-user] Re: Eclipse

2007-04-12 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Well it turns out I was on the wrong path from the start all I needed was the eclipse editor and the guide from Francisco did just that. Thanks for the enlightenment on the whole mask issue anyway. I'm sure it will come in handy later when I become more familiar with Gentoo. -- Regards /

[gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

2007-04-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-04-12, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like the kernel can't find the / device. The whole IDE/ATA/SATA/PATA/SCSI layout hingy changed with 2.6.19, so first thing to check is that everything you need is actually enabled in the kernel (yeah, there's some gotchas in

[gentoo-user] {OT} Generating an online graph/chart

2007-04-12 Thread Grant
Hello, does anyone know of a package in portage that will take my data and generate a graph or chart from it for online viewing? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Generating an online graph/chart

2007-04-12 Thread Fabio
Gnuplot, scilab... there are lots. Maybe you want to be more specific as to which format would you want to use for the generated graph: jpg, gif, svg: gnuplot flash: sswf On 12/04/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, does anyone know of a package in portage that will take my data and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

2007-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:47:52 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The whole IDE/ATA/SATA/PATA/SCSI layout hingy changed with 2.6.19, so first thing to check is that everything you need is actually enabled in the kernel (yeah, there's some gotchas in there). Please post your .config

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Generating an online graph/chart

2007-04-12 Thread Francisco Rivas
Hi all.. Some project to do that exist but they are not in portage... If you are still interest http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/ PHP HTML Graph Class GDGraph for PHP PHP-GNUPlot I do not wich one is the best but making a fast search that are the results.. I hope help you... On 4/12/07, Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

2007-04-12 Thread mereandor
Am Donnerstag 12 April 2007 17:23 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:47:52 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The whole IDE/ATA/SATA/PATA/SCSI layout hingy changed with 2.6.19, so first thing to check is that everything you need is actually enabled in the kernel (yeah, there's

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up complex routes for pppd with /etc/conf.d/net [SOLVED]

2007-04-12 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
pppd complains: ppp not replacing existing default route... (Isn't is possible to have multiple default routes with different metric values? Why not with pppd? How can I make pppd add another default route or replacing the current one?) So the solution is by hand: route -n # to see the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Generating an online graph/chart

2007-04-12 Thread Grant
Gnuplot, scilab... there are lots. Maybe you want to be more specific as to which format would you want to use for the generated graph: jpg, gif, svg: gnuplot flash: sswf gnuplot looks perfect. Thanks a lot. - Grant Hello, does anyone know of a package in portage that will take my data

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disasterFIXED

2007-04-12 Thread maxim wexler
--- Devon Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check that you have CONFIG_UNIX=y in your .config. Bingo! Thanks Devon! -Maxim Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food Drink

[gentoo-user] console blanks permanantly

2007-04-12 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Just after getting my unit w/2.6.19-r5 kernel to work this happens: I wanted to look at syslog so I did ctrlaltf12 as I usually do and found the console completely blank -- no login or cursor. When I try to get back to ctrlaltf1, it's blank too. Keyboard still works so I ctrlaltdel

[gentoo-user] console blanks permanantly--addendum

2007-04-12 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Just after getting my unit w/2.6.19-r5 kernel to work this happens: I wanted to look at syslog so I did ctrlaltf12 as I usually do and found the console completely blank -- no login or cursor. don't have to use the keyboard -- screen goes to sleep on its own but doesn't wake up when a

Re: [gentoo-user] after major upgrade questions remain

2007-04-12 Thread Mick
Not sure if anyone responded to this yet, so with the fear of being redundant here it goes: On Tuesday 10 April 2007 20:05, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I did an emerge -uD world on a box with the 2.6.12 kernel on it via the 2005.1 livecd. 1)From the logs or perhaps an online doc I read

Re: [gentoo-user] after major upgrade questions remain

2007-04-12 Thread maxim wexler
--- Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if anyone responded to this yet, so with the fear of being redundant here it goes: Yes, you are a trifle tardy ;) emerge -upDv sys-fs/udev It was already emerged. Problem was CONFIG_UNIX was set to m instead of * All sorted. Hmm, I must

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Roger Mason wrote: Does it also happen in another shell than bash (for example in 'busybox ash')? Just tried it: no, the problem was absent. Okay. Hmm... Which version of bash are you using? You're running stable so it should be 3.1. But I would have thought that the problem you're

Re: [gentoo-user] floppy flops: mtools vs file managers

2007-04-12 Thread Philip Webb
070411 David W Noon wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Philip Webb wrote: Ordinarily, I use Mtools to manage diskettes (floppies): it's very fast efficient to copy delete files from the CLI. I presume you use only FAT12 formatted floppies Yes: they have never been reformatted under Linux.

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

2007-04-12 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:02:54 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After running make menuconfig 4x on a PIII, re-emerging --emptytree world and either booting to a highly unstable system or a maintenance login I feel it's time to call on the authorities. Don't even have

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-12 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't be doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel, you only need emerge -P gentoo-sources to remove the rest. I use a script that removes all but the last two, and also cleans out

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 13 April 2007 01:12:08 Anthony E. Caudel wrote: At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't be doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel, you only need emerge -P gentoo-sources to remove the rest. I use a script that removes all but

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:33:43 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't be doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel, you only need emerge -P gentoo-sources to remove the rest. I use a script that removes

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 13 April 2007 01:59:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: Provided you have gentoolkit something as simple as this works: # emerge -Cva $(equery -q list gentoo-sources | head -n -2) That only cleans out /usr/src, it's slightly different to what I use (which rm's the directories first to speed

Re: [gentoo-user] floppy flops: mtools vs file managers

2007-04-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 05:52:57PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote Thunar mounts, writes deletes ok, but there's a 35 sec delay before the drive reacts to update the file list you have to 'unmount' the device, then reopen it; That's called caching. It does wonders for system responsiveness,

Re: [gentoo-user] console blanks permanantly

2007-04-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:54:00AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote I wanted to look at syslog so I did ctrlaltf12 as I usually do and found the console completely blank -- no login or cursor. When I try to get back to ctrlaltf1, it's blank too. Keyboard still works so I ctrlaltdel and reboot

[gentoo-user] more on the mysterious console blanking

2007-04-12 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, This is a puzzler. Can't get no relief. Can't be hardware cause it only started happening with this current 2.6.19-r5 install. Modules for video card, Rage 128 and frambuffer are not loaded. The screen goes blank after an interval as though it were going to sleep. But it can't be

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up complex routes for pppd with /etc/conf.d/net [SOLVED]

2007-04-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:29:03PM -0400, Sascha Hlusiak wrote Wow, got it solved with iproute2. Have these two statements in the /etc/conf.d/net now: I've have to do something similar when I use my backup dialup account instead of eth0 to the router to ADSL. Here are my ~/bin/dialup and

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up complex routes for pppd with /etc/conf.d/net [SOLVED]

2007-04-12 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Is it possible to set things up so that... - when only eth0 is active, everything routes via 192.168.123.254 - when both eth0 and ppp0 are active, my little LAN on 192.168.123.248/29 (aka netmask 255.255.255.248) routes via 192.168.123.254 and everything else routes through ppp0? What