Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 2007.1

2008-06-02 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 June 2008, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote: 2008/6/1 Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Actually i'm a newbie to Linux world but my final year project requires me to use Gentoo Linux as my platform. So can u assist me the easiest way to install Gentoo Linux 2007.1 and how to

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot problem

2008-06-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 01 June 2008 20:10:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:51:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: * Is there a way to find out what USE flags a package has been compiled with when it's not the current system but a rescue system mounted temporarily in it? Anyone? Look in

[gentoo-user] OT: finding package versions in use

2008-06-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folk, I'd like to add some package usage information to the Comprehensive Source Database (http://sourcefarm.metux.de/): The database should know whether some specific release is used by some distribution, and maybe whether additional patches are needed. This should help the OSS-QM

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: finding package versions in use

2008-06-02 Thread Justin
Enrico Weigelt schrieb: Hi folk, I'd like to add some package usage information to the Comprehensive Source Database (http://sourcefarm.metux.de/): The database should know whether some specific release is used by some distribution, and maybe whether additional patches are needed. This

Re: [gentoo-user] apache + semaphores

2008-06-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Marcin Niskiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In apache error log I had: [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock of course I had lot of free disk space... I read that it's about semaphores - there are no free space for new ones... Yep, a long

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware autodetection at boot

2008-06-02 Thread Pawel K
gt; Yes. You need to compile the drivers for your hard disc, hard disc controller gt; and root filesystem into the kernel, not as modules. Otherwise the kernel gt; can't access the hardware to load the drivers it needs. While it is easy to find the kernel configuration entry for ext3 it is not

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware autodetection at boot

2008-06-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 02:12:39 -0700 (PDT), Pawel K wrote: What kernel configuration should I set up for my controller. I cannot see the PIIX_IDE in my kernel. Try ATA_PIIX. Type /piix while in make menuconfig to see the possibilities. -- Neil Bothwick Everybody needs a little love sometime;

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring network bandwidth utilization

2008-06-02 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Not too long ago, I set up a router powered by Gentoo Linux and old computer hardware. So far, it has worked like a charm and I am quite pleased

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale (SOLVED)

2008-06-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:45 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman ha scritto: TOP POSTED SUMMARY: operator error. An incorrect setting of LANG and LC_ALL were in /etc/profile. They had been suggested by the guide, but were incorrectly done and override the results of all the

[gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2, openrc and env-update

2008-06-02 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Hi, Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:11:04 +0200, Marc Blumentritt wrote: [ Searching for file(s) env-update in *... ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 (/usr/sbin/env-update - ../lib/portage/bin/env-update) sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 (/usr/lib/portage/bin/env-update) portage provides

[gentoo-user] /boot keeps mounting itself

2008-06-02 Thread Grant
I've been noticing this for awhile and it's time I ask you guys about it: # mount /boot # umount /boot # mount /boot mount: /dev/hda1 already mounted or /boot busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda1 is already mounted on /boot A few hours elapsed after the second command was issued, but these

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot keeps mounting itself

2008-06-02 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 01:39:17PM -0700, Grant wrote: I've been noticing this for awhile and it's time I ask you guys about it: # mount /boot # umount /boot # mount /boot mount: /dev/hda1 already mounted or /boot busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda1 is already mounted on /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot keeps mounting itself

2008-06-02 Thread Grant
I've been noticing this for awhile and it's time I ask you guys about it: # mount /boot # umount /boot # mount /boot mount: /dev/hda1 already mounted or /boot busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda1 is already mounted on /boot A few hours elapsed after the second command was issued, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2008-06-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 22:14 +0200, Rev. Ferris wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Unfortunately this card doesn't accept that command: iwconfig eth2 power off Error for wireless request Set Power Management (8B2C) : SET failed on device eth2 ; Operation not supported.

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware autodetection at boot

2008-06-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 02:12 -0700, Pawel K wrote: What kernel configuration should I set up for my controller. I cannot see the PIIX_IDE in my kernel. The best option for me would be to compile the kernel with everything build-in. Then to run a tool that generates the minimal kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware autodetection at boot

2008-06-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:59:10 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: don't change everything at once! You risk jumping from a non-working solution to a non-working solution, then giving up! Just try the couple of options suggested - you'll probably get it working soon. If that doesn't work, enable them

[gentoo-user] Re: quickcam pro 4000

2008-06-02 Thread James
Statux statux at optonline.net writes: I use ekiga with gnome for conferencing and camorama with the same camera you have. I haven't found a video capturing program yet, though. I hope someone knows of a nice one I'll test out ekiga. If I run across an application for capture, I'll drop

Re: [gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk (SOLVED ?)

2008-06-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Thank you alan and Q. The problem seems to be that I was trying to mount (a partition of) the usb disk at boot time with localmount. The localmount init script is run before the usb filesystem (usbfs) is mounted. I have now listed it as noauto in fstab and mount it in local.start. But I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 2007.1

2008-06-02 Thread Norman Hakim
By the way, you may want to just shrink your MSWindows partition with e.g. gparted LiveCD and then create new partitions to install Gentoo in. This will allow you to multiboot into either OS. A common data partition will allow you access to your data files, music, etc. by both OS too.

[gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25

2008-06-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25, I can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device other than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this: 20:49:32.909144 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown)