[gentoo-user] Re: /boot or not /boot

2009-05-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 15:13:35 schrieb Stroller: > I believed you could manage without either a /boot volume or an > initramfs. Yes, of course you can. If you don't use an encrypted root fs, for example. That's the main reason I use it on my laptop, and on other machines because root fs is

Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)

2009-05-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 14:46:39 schrieb Dale: > Wasn't there a security reason for this setup at one time? If you put > /boot on a separate partition, then the only time it needed to be > mounted was to update the kernel or edit grub/lilo. That was what I was > reading when I installed Gentoo

/boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)

2009-05-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller: > > This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_, > > it definitely > > _is_ a rule. > > Could you possibly explain why, please? Because it eliminates the need for an initramfs (which I used until a few weeks ago), even if y

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 8. Mai 2009 23:12:22 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > But that only applies to you, not always. Yes, of course it applies to me - always ;) > I stopped using /boot > partitions a few years ago and removed my last one earlier this year. Shame on you :) Bye... Dirk signature.asc D

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 8. Mai 2009 19:17:28 schrieb Daniel da Veiga: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 14:04, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 22:53:18 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > >> Mirrored - no problem. But how else would you boot off a striped / with > >> /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 22:53:18 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Mirrored - no problem. But how else would you boot off a striped / with > /boot not on a separate partition? /boot is _always_ a separate partition, isn't it? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume I doubt that :-) Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?

2009-05-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 18:59:54 schrieb maxim wexler: > Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. Yes, you did. Just guess where the "k" in klibc comes from? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 18:48:15 schrieb Saphirus Sage: > I've never managed to successfully boot a gentoo laptop without initrd. Then you're doing something wrong. I boot mine without, even with encrypted / on logical volume. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 22:41:54 schrieb Masood Ahmed: > maxim wexler writes: > >> Are you > >> using an initrd? > > > > No, never used one on a gentoo box before. That's a fedora thing, isn't > > it? > > Nope! Its not distribution specific. It's a kernel feature. But it's up to the distribution

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 21:51:55 schrieb maxim wexler: > Still panics Sure, because of CONFIG_USB_[EOUW]HCI_HCD=m. If you want to boot from USB, kernel needs to have a means to access your USB device. Don't know if that matters, but I would also enable some/all sub-options of USB-Storage. HTH

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf

2009-05-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, would you please be so kind not to hijack other threads. Thanks... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 19:11:56 schrieb maxim wexler: > VFS: Cannot opent root device "sda2" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option: here are the available > partitions:#doesn't say what they are Kernel panic = not syncing: > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on u

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 19:47:45 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 4 May 2009 18:31:06 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > #mount -o bind / /mnt/root > > > #du -max-dep=1 > > > > Or just forget about the useless bind-mount and add "-x" to the "du"

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 16:02:39 schrieb Platoali: > Try to remount route on another directory and check which directory is > using so much. I had a similar problem asked this a couple of month before > on this mailing list. They gave this commands: > > #mount -o bind / /mnt/root > #du -max-dep=1

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 28. April 2009 22:45:53 schrieb Dale: > I was also hoping you could see the humor in my reply as well. Well, I did :) Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 28. April 2009 21:45:34 schrieb Dale: > I always put the pointer where I want my cursor to be and then click. > Works every time for me. Now that you mention it - yes, works fine for me to ;) Worth a FAQ entry. *SCNR* Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digi

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia

2009-04-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 17. April 2009 08:42:42 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > grub OTOH, does understand filesystems and you can point it at a kernel > image file and it works. grub is the preferred choice for most distros for > this reason. Also, you can select the file image and edit options to use at > boot tim

Re: [gentoo-user] how to stop the mailing list?

2009-04-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 17. April 2009 19:23:30 schrieb Norman Hakim: > i would like to unsubscribe from mailing list. how to unsubscribe? Unsubscribe address is in the headers of each mail you get. HTH... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Kolourpaint segaults (KDE 4.2.1 & 4.2.2)

2009-04-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 14. April 2009 19:49:17 schrieb Jochen Becker: > kolourpaint allways crashes if I try to start it. You don't want to keep sending this every 30 mins now, do you? Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptsetup lvm2 blocker

2009-04-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 10. April 2009 17:08:24 schrieb Momesso Andrea: > After last sync I get this blocker: > > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be > * installed at the same time on the same system. > > ('installed', '/', 'sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.28', 'nomerge') pulled

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 22. März 2009 21:15:14 schrieb Momesso Andrea: > P.S. I'm not using vgextend to simply add sda4 to the lvm because I > might want to migrate my root (sda1) to ext4 Why do want to do that? ext4 is just a couple of months old and there's no proof of stability whatsoever for it. Better t

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 22. März 2009 02:17:53 schrieb Mike Diehl: > Ok now, I'm getting fed up with all of the breakage that I've seen in > Gentoo in the last few months. > > I'm trying to upgrade MythTV. Emerge told me to upgrade my profile, which > I did. > > Now I'm doing an emerge -u world. > > But befo

Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition...

2009-03-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 21. März 2009 19:39:08 schrieb Jarry: > And one more counter-argument: with traditional partitions I can select > where a certain partition is (physically). Those partitions accessed > frequently I put to the beginning of the disk with higher transfer-rate. > In my case, it makes quite

Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition...

2009-03-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 21. März 2009 19:39:08 schrieb Jarry: > I remember having lvm2 a few years ago, and despite of that I could not > extend any partition, which was being used. What is then lvm2 good for, > if I can not extend partitions on-the-fly? I can not unmount /usr before > extending... The files

Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition...

2009-03-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 21. März 2009 19:12:56 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > cp -a /mnt/gentoo/backup/var /mnt/gentoo/var > > cp -a /mnt/gentoo/backup/usr /mnt/gentoo/usr > > Um, no. This gives you new usr and var directories like so: > > /usr/usr/ > /var/var > > You want: > > cp -a /mnt/gentoo/backup/var /mnt/g

Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition...

2009-03-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 21. März 2009 19:05:42 schrieb Jarry: > I found out my /usr is getting full pretty fast, so I want > to increase it before it happens a real problem. I have: > > /dev/md4 (sda5+sdb5), ~5GB size, used for /var, nearly empty > /dev/md5 (sda6+sdb6), ~5GB size, used for /usr, nearly full (

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync + tar + bz2 ?

2009-03-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 7. März 2009 17:04:17 schrieb Grant: > I'm backing up numerous large files on another machine on my local > network. I've only been using rsync, but it occured to me that I > might be able to save some time and space if I incorporate tar and > bzip2. How will rsync interact with those

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync + tar + bz2 ?

2009-03-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 7. März 2009 21:13:49 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > Am Samstag, 7. März 2009 17:04:17 schrieb Grant: > > I'm backing up numerous large files on another machine on my local > > network. I've only been using rsync, but it occured to me that I > > might be able

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync + tar + bz2 ?

2009-03-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 7. März 2009 17:04:17 schrieb Grant: > I'm backing up numerous large files on another machine on my local > network. I've only been using rsync, but it occured to me that I > might be able to save some time and space if I incorporate tar and > bzip2. How will rsync interact with those

Re: [gentoo-user] More weird portage behavior

2009-03-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 1. März 2009 19:20:25 schrieb Grant: > >>  [0] /usr/portage > >>  [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/berkano > > > > Any chance ffmpeg is provided by both overlays? > > Yes, media-video/ffmpeg-2009 is provided by berkano and > media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p2009020 is provided by /usr/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] More weird portage behavior

2009-03-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 1. März 2009 18:42:05 schrieb Grant: >  [0] /usr/portage >  [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/berkano Any chance ffmpeg is provided by both overlays? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installation questions

2009-02-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009 12:28:29 schrieb b.n.: > James ha scritto: > > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > >>> Yes, you heard me right - I recommend one uses Ubuntu to install > >>> Gentoo > >> > >> I took that a stage further with my Eee. > >> Knowing how long it would take to build every

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2, gstreamer backend and flac

2009-02-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 22:37:53 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > Further installed are phonon-kde and phonon. Would it make a difference > > if I install qt-phonon instead? > > a) don't install qt-phonon Why not? > b) use xine as backend Why? I know xine works. However, I would prefe

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2, gstreamer backend and flac

2009-02-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi all, with KDE 4.2, it seems to be impossible to play flac files in either amarok or juk when the gstreamer backend is used by phonon. The gstreamer flac plugin is installed and I can play flac files from a shell using a pipe of gstreamer commands. Further installed are phonon-kde and phonon

Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

2009-02-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009 23:06:13 schrieb maxim wexler: > I would love to hear from someone who managed a gentoo install on a 4G SSHD > with the onboard Atheros wifi chipset Which chipset exactly? Depending on the chipset you'll nedd to use either madwifi, ath5k or ath9k. The latter is only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

2009-02-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2009 19:22:31 schrieb Grant: > Is this the right thing to do? > > $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make > # make install Yes. However, the better way is to follow Alex' proposal. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message par

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub broke out of the blue

2009-02-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2009 05:44:07 schrieb Stroller: > To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, > just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. There's still a bug open to remove this stupid behaviour. BTW: Once it's in your MBR, you can just "paludis --uninstall grub" (or whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

2009-02-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 16. Februar 2009 21:54:51 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > It's up the application to decide how to use prefix variable.  Most > applications are respecting it. Up to now, I didn't find one that doesn't. And if so, it'll receive a bug report right away. > But you make it sound like it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

2009-02-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 16. Februar 2009 21:40:19 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > Grant wrote: > > I thought running something like '.configure --prefix=/usr/local && > > make && make install' could still install files outside of /usr/local. > > No? > > That's true, it can. But *usually* it doesn't. No, it can'

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

2009-02-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 16. Februar 2009 21:31:39 schrieb Grant: > I thought running something like '.configure --prefix=/usr/local && > make && make install' could still install files outside of /usr/local. >  No? As long as you don't specify otherwise, no. Everything will be under the directory specified b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo as a production server - insecure?

2009-02-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 16. Februar 2009 21:15:50 schrieb james: > Um, you must not have read the response. I didn't reply to you, but to Johannes. Maybe your email client doesn't display the threads correctly. You can verify this by reading the headers, especially "In-reply-to:". > I did specifically addr

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

2009-02-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 16. Februar 2009 19:33:11 schrieb Grant: > > If you can install your apps into a specific location, I'd use xstow. > > > > emerge xstow > > cd ~/install/myapp-1.2.3 > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/myapp-1.2.3 && > > make && > > make install > > cd /usr/local/stow > > xstow myap

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade

2009-02-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 16. Februar 2009 02:17:36 schrieb Stroller: > System Rescue CD uses a kernel of about the same vintage as the one   > you're trying to upgrade to. I suggest you boot with it & see if your   > NIC works. If so, copy the kernel config & `make oldconfig`. Or even better: use lspci -v whil

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade

2009-02-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 22:52:42 schrieb Guillermo Garron: > sudo lspci -v | grep Ether > > 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DC Gigabit Network > Connection (rev 02) Where did I write "|grep Ether"? That's pretty much useless as there is nothing new in it. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a production server - insecure?

2009-02-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, would you please be so kind and avoid hijacking other threads next time. Thanks... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade

2009-02-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 22:31:40 schrieb Guillermo Garron: > Here you can find the config file for my current kernel. This has CONFIG_E1000=y > And the used to generate the new kernel (where NIC is not detected) This has both CONFIG_E1000=y and CONFIG_E1000E=y, maybe that's the problem. W

Re: [gentoo-user] Using "root=LABEL=xxxx" in grub.conf

2009-02-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 23:26:46 schrieb Stroller: > Am I not correct in thinking that initramfs used to be / can be / was > originally a separate file which goes in /boot and is described with > an extra boot parameter? Yes, you are. There are several ways nowadays. I use the easy one: Popula

Re: [gentoo-user] Using "root=LABEL=xxxx" in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 17:51:24 schrieb Stroller: > I don't "like" initrd and the longer kernel   > lines in grub.conf that they require. Errh, which longer lines in grub.conf? Here's mine, as an example: title=Gentoo Linux kernel /vmlinux.gz realroot=/dev/evms/root vga=0x31B notsc

Re: [gentoo-user] mit kerberos running on Gentoo Linux

2009-02-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 02:45:41 schrieb zhangwe...@realss.com: > zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ krsh emerson.realss.com > usage: rlogin [ -8EL] [-e char] [ -l username ] host > > Should I complain to Gentoo packager or MIT or have problem of my own? Any chance krsh is an alias in your shell? The outp

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 Konsole Title

2009-02-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 7. Februar 2009 07:16:28 schrieb Hilco Wijbenga: > I can only find "notitles" in /etc/make.conf Konsole profile, not portage profile. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther: > Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer What the heck is a "Windows Installer"? *SCNR* Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 Konsole Title

2009-02-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 16:10:34 schrieb Chris Lieb: > I recently switched to KDE 4.2 (completely removed KDE 3.5.9 and emerge > @kde-4.2) and fired up my system update script. I noticed right away > that the title bar of Konsole did not update to show my progress in my > emerge -u... world.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libtool problem

2009-02-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009 21:21:38 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 20:17:33 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009 04:25:34 schrieb ABCD: > > > The reason there wasn't a bump (IIRC) was that the ebuild never changed > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libtool problem

2009-02-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009 04:25:34 schrieb ABCD: > The reason there wasn't a bump (IIRC) was that the ebuild never changed > - only the eclass did.  If you emerged any version of GCC during the > window where the eclass was broken, that version of GCC would have been > broken. That also means

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client?

2009-02-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009 14:57:28 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > ntpd is really designed for Unix servers with 3 digit uptimes and clocks > not assembled by Mickey Mouse's younger brother (which seems to include all > pcs ever made.) Errh, no. It is designed for exactly those machines, so that

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool problem

2009-02-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2009 13:15:55 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > since a short time many (not all) packages fail to build with a message > like > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/libgomp.la > > The problem is that I have upgraded to gcc-4.3.3 so there is no path > /usr/lib

Re: [gentoo-user] localmount before fsck: e2fsck complaining

2009-02-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 2. Februar 2009 14:03:29 schrieb reQuiem23: > when i remove checkfs, though, it > would not solve the problem of localmount being run before fsck, would it? Sure it would. > the mounted /home part could still not be scanned, i suppose. am i wrong > here? Yes. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 2. Februar 2009 05:53:34 schrieb Grant Edwards: > Why would one need an initramfs? That question has already been answered in this thread. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 for a new installation?

2009-02-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 2. Februar 2009 06:14:17 schrieb Stroller: > Hence I'd be worrying about   > incompatibilities when chrooting in, if I used a non-Gentoo one. When you're chrooted, you _are_ in a Gentoo system. It doesn't matter what system you used to unpack that stage tarball before. I use GRML for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2009 17:26:23 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > who needs an initramfs? Those with an encrypted root fs? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: where are network interfaces?

2009-01-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2009 03:37:51 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: > Hi! > > KDE doesn't see network intefaces. At selecting System Settings -> Network > Settings -> Network Settings an error message appears (twice) saying about > XML file parsing error (with information message about platform detecting

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 19:49:33 schrieb Harry Putnam: > I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this > angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful > to that OP. > > I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that > makes it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 23. Januar 2009 15:48:48 schrieb Grant Edwards: > On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> You are still able to see the output from all the init scripts? > > > > yes > > That's interesting, because on my systems, if /dev/conso

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
it's a minor revision, config options usually don't change. For a major revision, it's sufficient to pick any one of the several *config targets. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemi

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 09:45 +0100 schrieb ext Justin: > But, who will remove this option? This is how it looks like in a freshly unpacked kernel tree (or after make mrproper): < > Kernel .config support So I guess kernel devs did it for him. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: dirk.heinri...@capgemini.com Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
nfig. What if he doesn't have CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y in his (running) kernel? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: dirk.heinri...@capgemini.com Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://w

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
ded initramfs is used (hence the size of the kernels). Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: dirk.heinri...@capgemini.com Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.c

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
o add this to the gentoo kernel upgreat guide but devs > didn't like this idea. Maybe they would be more keen on adding a note about /proc/config support to that guide. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2009 17:48:27 schrieb Grant Edwards: > Then all the stage3 tarballs I've ever seen are broken. They > either contain 5000+ entries, or nothing but these: Yes they are. Having 5000+ entries in there while udev is in used is just stupid. I'm glad they've fixed that know.

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 04:04 + schrieb ext Grant Edwards: > I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional > installation step to populate the /dev directory when using > recent stage3 snapshots? One usually bind-mounts /dev, /proc and /sys into the chroot, like mount --b

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2009 19:42:47 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > Not if he's got plenty of swap, it'll just run even slower. Expect a new > Debian release before OOo finishes building :) LOL, can't imagine that it compiles _that_ slow ;-) Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Share hard drive for multiple users

2009-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2009 18:16:47 schrieb Hung Dang: > Hi all, > I need to mount a new hard drive formatted in ext3 to /mnt/C such that > multiple users can use it. > However, all users can only read the data from the share drive > Any suggestion? > > Below is my fstab configuration: > /dev/sd

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2009 17:46:06 schrieb Grant Edwards: > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-boot: vga=ask...

2009-01-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, den 19.01.2009, 14:50 +0100 schrieb ext meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Any help will be very appreciated. Try 0x317. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: dirk.hei

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3 fails to emerge

2009-01-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, den 19.01.2009, 14:12 +0100 schrieb ext Justin: > > MAKEFLAGS, not CFLAGS. > > > > > MAKEFLAGS? Do you mean MAKEOPTS? Or am I missing another nice variable > to set? Yes, MAKEOPTS. I think we got it know :-) Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3 fails to emerge

2009-01-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
k at the full enchilada here: > > http://pastebin.com/m63b0d429 > > It is on line 815. The compilation command line, yes. The error message, still not :-( > PS. I have not tried -j1 (did not have to try using -j1 for years and > never on this machine, yet). If you did, the erro

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3 fails to emerge

2009-01-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
had. Here it goes: Nope, still not: > == > /bk-deps i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -c -o coredll_dirdlg.o ... vs. > make: *** [coredll_fontdlg.o] Error 1 So please provide the output for coredll_fontdlg.o. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Ma

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3 fails to emerge

2009-01-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
2666: Called die > * The specific snippet of code: > * emake || die "make failed."; > * The die message: > * make failed. > > > Any ideas? As long as you don't send the real error message of the compiler, no. Bye.

Re: [gentoo-user] Append string on Kernel builds

2009-01-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 16. Januar 2009 21:43:56 schrieb rea...@newsguy.com: > In the first section during a `makeconfig' session, there is a line > (the second one) that says: > > Local Version - append to kernel release > > I like to use that and put `-$MYHOST' as string. I wondered if there > is any way

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.28 BUGS

2009-01-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2009 14:36:11 schrieb Daniel Pielmeier: > 2009/1/14 David Relson : > > Can a program, i.e. rrdtool, be tainted? I'd not think so since the > > program is in user space, not kernel space. > > According to LWN [1] tainting the kernel from user space is possible. > > [1] http:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.28 BUGS

2009-01-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
on b.g.o, not kernel.org since you're using gentoo-sources). HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: dirk.heinri...@capgemini.com Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't extend an LVM2 volume

2009-01-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2009 19:31:33 schrieb John J. Foster: > In trying to extend a volume I get the following error: > > mockingbird ~ # lvextend -v -L400G /dev/vg00/data > Finding volume group vg00 > Archiving volume group "vg00" metadata (seqno 22). > Extending logical volume data to

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 7. Januar 2009 07:26:44 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > e1000e breaks the hardware > e1000 does not break the hardware > Or maybe it's the other way round Nope. None does. That bug was only present in one or two .27 release candidates and has been fixed since weeks. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install libselinux if it is masked?

2009-01-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009 17:54:29 schrieb Frank Schwidom: > Hi, > > i want to setup selinux, but it seems to failure because of no > installable tools and libs. > > All necessary packages are masked by > /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/package.mask and no alternative libs > and tools are wit

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009 11:14:08 schrieb Steven Susbauer: > e1000e had been disabled in 2.6.27 versions, was it put back in by -r7? Don't know. In vanilla-sources, it has always been there. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009 02:56:28 schrieb Denis: > I have Intel network hardware that > runs on the E1000 driver Did you try e1000e? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009 03:52:54 schrieb Francisco Ares: > Tried to use net.eth2 in boot group: it works, There's no need to do so, they belong into default. > but I still have the init > scripts frozen as X starts, up until I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and watch them go > on. What is the next service

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009 03:55:30 schrieb Nick Cunningham: > If thats xdm then ive no idea why its starting so early, Because it's perfectly fine to do so. On my system, there are about 10 services which are started _after_ xdm (kdm). Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udept dead upstream

2009-01-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2009 17:54:04 schrieb Harry Putnam: > Uhhh yeah... not developed anymore... anyone know why that is? head `which dep` #!/bin/bash # vim:set ts=4 sw=4: # # Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Ed Catmur # This program is licensed under the terms of the GPL version 2. Ask him. He's the o

Re: [gentoo-user] udept dead upstream

2009-01-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2009 03:01:12 schrieb Harry Putnam: > The reason given is `Dead upstream'. > > Anyone know why that is. It means it's not developed anymore. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Any advice on using postgresql-{base,server} ebuilds?

2009-01-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 3. Januar 2009 04:55:13 schrieb Mark David Dumlao: > I've looked around a bit and various sources, and some > experimentation, seem to say that the new > postgresql-{base,server}-8.3.5 ebuilds for 8.3.5 don't play well with > some packages, particularly, php-5.2.8-r1 seems to be unable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Genkernel: non-standard crypto setup

2009-01-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 2. Januar 2009 19:36:28 schrieb Jens Müller: > Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: > > Just to make sure I understand what you want to do: You have encrypted > > physical volumes which you want to combine into an LVM volume group and > > then put logical volumes into thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Genkernel: non-standard crypto setup

2009-01-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 2. Januar 2009 18:50:09 schrieb Jens Müller: > Hi, > > how can I achieve the following with minimal manual intervention based > on genkernel's default linuxrc script? > > 1) Scan for physical volumes, setup volume groups (I guess that is what > "startVolumes" does). > > 2) Do (the equiv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009 23:39:53 schrieb »Q«: > > Then why the test and warning? > > I haven't advocated a test and warning.  But why not? There _is_ a test and warning. See very first mail in this thread. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009 00:33:27 schrieb Michael P. Soulier: > Don't you think the default action here should be to do nothing instead of > breaking my system? What we think here is irrelevant. You should file a bug and see what the devs think. We can then express what we think by voting f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dispatch-conf problem

2009-01-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009 16:57:46 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > You cannot roll back if you choose to keep the new file with > dispatch-conf and didn't backup the current one first. However, if you want that, you should switch to cfg-update. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking object does not exist...

2009-01-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009 12:19:44 schrieb William Kenworthy: > Hi Neil - could you explain why? Because only packages which are not a dependency for any other package should be in world. If you install that many packages in one go emerge will put all of them into world, regardless of their

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2008 15:23:25 schrieb Ian Lee: > I just found this it might help > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/252380 Yes, it did. Thanks a lot. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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