[gentoo-user] [OT?] MTRR and PAT

2008-05-11 Thread pk
Hi, (Sorry if this is off-topic but I really don't know where to turn to...) Anyone with experience/knowledge about MTRR/PAT and who can tell me where to find information about these things so that I might see if there's a problem or not? I've tried google but in this case they're not my

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Problems...

2008-05-11 Thread pk
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've run into this problem a number of times on my Linux systems. In a couple of cases what where essentially scratched disks played on both my HT DVD player as well as Windows but would not play in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] MTRR and PAT

2008-05-11 Thread Andrey Falko
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:49 AM, pk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, (Sorry if this is off-topic but I really don't know where to turn to...) Anyone with experience/knowledge about MTRR/PAT and who can tell me where to find information about these things so that I might see if there's a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] MTRR and PAT

2008-05-11 Thread pk
Andrey Falko wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:49 AM, pk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kernel version are you using? How are you compiling your kernel (i.e. with genkernel or manually)? If you are manually compiling your kernel, can you send us your .config file? gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r9,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 May 2008 01:02:24 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Isn't that exactly what I said three wrong turns and four red herrings ago? ;-) maybe - the whole thread is way too long. It went past its shelf life two days ago ;) It's not long, it's infinite; having met itself and

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-11 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Sunday 11 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's more like a magnificent hand-made piece of fine Italian machinery. All Italian machinery I've had the misfortune to be acquainted with (from cars to washing machines) have turned out to be rust buckets (literally). Italians should stick to

[gentoo-user] emerge nano ?

2008-05-11 Thread Dani Crisan
hello, I'm trying to emerge nano but here is the message error: make: *** [all] Error 2 * * ERROR: app-editors/nano-2.1.1 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2033: Called die * The specific snippet of code: *

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge nano ?

2008-05-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008, Dani Crisan wrote: Any idea ? yeah, you cut away the important part of the error and just posted the gentoo-standard error message. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge nano ?

2008-05-11 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Dani Crisan wrote: * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Um... since you seem to need support, could you please post the topmost build error, and the call stack of relvant? make: *** [all] Error 2 is the bottommost build error, not the topmost.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge nano ?

2008-05-11 Thread Dani Crisan
- Original Message From: Anno v. Heimburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 1:01:01 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge nano ? Dani Crisan wrote: * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sat, 10 May 2008, Willie Wong wrote: Having just upgraded to baselayout2 and openrc, I found that when I run df, I get Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 8008068 6827336 1180732 86% / /dev/root 8008068 6827336

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge nano ?

2008-05-11 Thread Dani Crisan
- Original Message From: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 1:15:45 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge nano ? On Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008, Dani Crisan wrote: Any idea ? yeah, you cut away the important part of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge nano ?

2008-05-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008, Dani Crisan wrote: the error starts here: global.c: In function 'shortcut_init': global.c:1036: error: 'do_spell' undeclared (first use in this function) have a look here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221219 your first step should always be bugs.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge nano ?

2008-05-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
oh, and please don't break threading. Don't start a new thread to answer other mails and answer the mails below them. If your programm can't do it, switch to one that can. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Martin Lehmann
Hi, i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage. I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is not there after the emerge. Any hints? regards, Martin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 May 2008, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Sunday 11 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's more like a magnificent hand-made piece of fine Italian machinery. All Italian machinery I've had the misfortune to be acquainted with (from cars to washing machines) have turned out to be rust

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 May 2008, Martin Lehmann wrote: Hi, i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage. I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is not there after the emerge. Any hints? According to this very useful site:

[gentoo-user] Gnome File Browser - smaller Symbols

2008-05-11 Thread Max
Hi, I think the main toolbar of the gnome filemanager uses up far to much space. So I'd like to make it smaller. Is there any way to do that? I would be happy with the text and no icons as well, or smaller icons and no text. cu Max -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008, Martin Lehmann wrote: Hi, i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage. I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is not there after the emerge. Any hints? emerge xen-tools -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Martin Lehmann
According to this very useful site: http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery the only package that provides lomount is xen. Which seems odd. ok, its seems that this will only be the last chance if nothing else will work. What is it that you want to do? Do you have a single

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Justin
Paul Colquhoun schrieb: On Sat, 10 May 2008, Willie Wong wrote: Having just upgraded to baselayout2 and openrc, I found that when I run df, I get Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 8008068 6827336 1180732 86% / /dev/root

[gentoo-user] Re: Fun with Foo (matic) ?

2008-05-11 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Mick wrote: On Friday 09 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 09 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: See other thread on this very subject yesterday and today for details: emerge -avC all foomatic ebuilds emerge -av  all foomatic ebuilds Yes; that worked. Thank you very much for patiently

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Graham Murray
Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For me it is the same. Could it be that this is new in the new coreutils? For me it started after the upgrade from baselayout-1 to baselayout-2. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 May 2008, Martin Lehmann wrote: Now the problem is, that this is a image of a whole hdd. I only need one partition out of it. Then i want to copy the content of this partition to a partition located of the real hdd A brute force approach, but probably the easiest and fastest:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge nano ?

2008-05-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
This has been reported to bugs.gentoo.org -- it seems to be a bug in nano. For the time being you can get it to build if you enable the spell USE flag: echo app-editors/nano spell /etc/portage/package.use emerge nano -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:18:47PM +0100, Penguin Lover Graham Murray squawked: For me it started after the upgrade from baselayout-1 to baselayout-2. Same here. W -- omega says hi i think he might be sulking because he has fur ~S Sortir en Pantoufles: up 520 days, 13:42 --

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 13:24 +0200, Martin Lehmann wrote: Hi, i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage. I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is not there after the emerge. Any hints? It's parte of xen-tools. But if you don't want the

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Joe User
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008 13:40:18 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Sunday 11 May 2008, Martin Lehmann wrote: Hi, i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage. I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is not there after the emerge. Any hints?

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 08 May 2008 05:53:29 -0500, Dale wrote: I have gotten a few replies off list about this issue and found out that I am not the only one having this problem. It seems the ATT family does not like TLSv1 messages or something. That's one possibility, but the two mails I cced to you have

[gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, This summer's electrical storms are coming and I can count on my PC stopping dead several times over the season. I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there. What can the group recommend? I only need something that will give me about a minute's head

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008 schrieb Graham Murray: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For me it is the same. Could it be that this is new in the new coreutils? For me it started after the upgrade from baselayout-1 to baselayout-2. Interesting. I never saw it look different. What's the problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Michael Beasley
On 10:15 Sun 11 May , maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, This summer's electrical storms are coming and I can count on my PC stopping dead several times over the season. I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there. What can the group recommend? I only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

2008-05-11 Thread brullo nulla
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-05-10, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm talking about the USB wireless adapter (I don't think I can connect the antenna to my laptop directly), not the passphrase key... Ah. I've got a Hawking HWUG1 USB WiFi

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Roy Wright
I have several Belkin UPSs which over the years have only let me down once (we had a power substation fire which did some really funky things to the AC for a couple of minutes, afterward my motherboard on one computer protected by a Belkin UPS was dead). My main complaint with the Belkins is

[gentoo-user] Change NIC ordering

2008-05-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, In a machine with two NICs: 1) How do I configure which is considered eth0? 2) After drivers are loaded how do I see what hardware is using which driver? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:15 AM, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, This summer's electrical storms are coming and I can count on my PC stopping dead several times over the season. I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there. What can the

Re: [gentoo-user] Change NIC ordering

2008-05-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: In a machine with two NICs: 1) How do I configure which is considered eth0? Use udev to name them as you like, see http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html. 2) After drivers are loaded how do I see what hardware is using which driver?

Re: [gentoo-user] Change NIC ordering

2008-05-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: In a machine with two NICs: 1) How do I configure which is considered eth0? Use udev to name them as you like, see

Re: [gentoo-user] Change NIC ordering

2008-05-11 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 11 May 2008, 20:03, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, In a machine with two NICs: 1) How do I configure which is considered eth0? Probably editing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. 2) After drivers are loaded how do I see what hardware is using which driver? The above file

Re: [gentoo-user] Change NIC ordering

2008-05-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 May 2008, 20:03, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, In a machine with two NICs: 1) How do I configure which is considered eth0? Probably editing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. 2) After

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

2008-05-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 11 May 2008 18:06:16 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 08 May 2008 05:53:29 -0500, Dale wrote: I have gotten a few replies off list about this issue and found out that I am not the only one having this problem. It seems the ATT family does not like TLSv1

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 May 2008 22:32:04 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: Neil, you'd better check if your IP address is not in some of the popular public grey/black lists [2]. Sometimes it happens even if you had nothing to do with abusing activities...false positives. [2] I personally use these two:

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 9 May 2008 15:43:35 -0400 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having just upgraded to baselayout2 and openrc, I found that when I run df, I get Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 8008068 6827336 1180732 86% / /dev/root

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Arthur Britto
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 10:15 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there. What can the group recommend? I only need something that will give me about a minute's head start to safely turn of the box. You likely want more than a

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 May 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs                 8008068   6827336   1180732  86% / /dev/root              8008068   6827336   1180732  86% / udev                     10240        88     10152   1% /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] MTRR and PAT

2008-05-11 Thread Andrey Falko
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:15 AM, pk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrey Falko wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:49 AM, pk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kernel version are you using? How are you compiling your kernel (i.e. with genkernel or manually)? If you are manually compiling your kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Problems...

2008-05-11 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently got a couple seasons of Star Gate SG-1, and can read nearly all the DVDs except the 3rd DVD of Season 2, which under Kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 yielded the following error messags to dmesg:

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Hal Martin
Arthur Britto wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 10:15 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there. What can the group recommend? I only need something that will give me about a minute's head start to safely turn of the box. You

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Arthur Britto
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:35 -0400, Hal Martin wrote: Arthur Britto wrote: You likely want more than a minute. Most likely, you don't want your system to crash when coming back up when power fails soon after it is restored: your system could be in the middle of a fsck. Generally, you

[gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to get my domain frpm OpenSRS until they put a knife in my back, which has resulted in two things: My being completely separated from [EMAIL PROTECTED], and instead using [EMAIL PROTECTED] (thank you, GoDaddy!). I'm going to see if the BBB is

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:39 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to get my domain frpm OpenSRS until they put a knife in my back, which has resulted in two things: My being completely separated from [EMAIL PROTECTED], and instead using [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:44:39PM +0300, Penguin Lover Daniel Iliev squawked: On Fri, 9 May 2008 15:43:35 -0400 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having just upgraded to baselayout2 and openrc, I found that when I run df, I get Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:15:49AM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: Hi group, This summer's electrical storms are coming and I can count on my PC stopping dead several times over the season. I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there. What

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:39 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to get my domain frpm OpenSRS until they put a knife in my back, which has resulted in two things: My being

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:39 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to get my domain frpm OpenSRS until they put a knife in my back, which has resulted in two things: My being

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 11 May 2008 21:59:35 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 May 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: Are you, guys, doing some funky remounts like switch_root or pivot_root (perhaps in initrd or initfs)? No, I get it too since the upgrade to baselayout-2 I have a small

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 11 May 2008 17:35:10 -0400 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:44:39PM +0300, Penguin Lover Daniel Iliev squawked: Are you, guys, doing some funky remounts like switch_root or pivot_root (perhaps in initrd or initfs)? Not that I know of. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 May 2008 01:05:56 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: So, please, check what your /etc/fstab reads about / in case you have accidentally overwritten it by answering yes to etc-update or dispatch-conf. That's not it. I also get the two odd entries for / with no change to fstab. /dev/root is

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:39:25 -0400 Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On many other lists, I've already done it be identifying one person who could access the lists in question, and make sure that chuckr.org no longer existed. Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get the full list of

Re: [gentoo-user] help!

2008-05-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:39:25 -0400 Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On many other lists, I've already done it be identifying one person who could access the lists in question, and make sure that chuckr.org no longer

[gentoo-user] conntrack and the netfilter howto

2008-05-11 Thread reader
I'm trying to bone up on netfilter, iptables, conntrack etc etc. Using the howto at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Iptables_and_stateful_firewalls#Firewall_design_basics Early on after describing how to generate a netfilter enabled kernel, the author has this to say: If you've already

Re: [gentoo-user] conntrack and the netfilter howto

2008-05-11 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you've already rebooted and are using your new netfilter-enabled kernel, you can view a list of active network connections that your machine is participating in by typing cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack Even with no firewall configured, Linux's conntrack

[gentoo-user] emerge output confusion regarding upgradeable packages

2008-05-11 Thread PaulNM
Hey Folks, this one has me confused I use http-replicator, but that's not directly related to my problem, it's just how I discovered it. I occasionally prune the http-replicator cache by emptying every system's distfiles directory, then run emerge -fe world to download only the current