Re: [gentoo-user] 2 kernel config questions

2009-11-12 Thread Duane Griffin
2009/11/12 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org: 2) I notice that scsi_wait_scan *ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS* shows up as a module when I compile. Is there a way to compile it in? No, due to the nature of what it does. It is designed to be loaded after the modules that start probing hardware, to

Re: [gentoo-user] xx used greatest stack depth: nnn bytes left

2009-06-30 Thread Duane Griffin
2009/6/30 David Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com: Hi, I setup a gentoo 2008 amd 64 system, and then created my own initramfs file. But when the initramfs is processed during boot, I got the following message: exe used greatest stack depth: 6040bytes left mdev ...(similar as above) lvm

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-13 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/10/12 Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine for nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not always) scrollock and capslock LED blinking). If you have another machine lying around, try setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this because of make oldconfig?

2008-07-18 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/7/18 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, I rolled up a new kernel after I ran make oldconfig and noticed this little message: [snip] WARNING: modpost: Found 10 section mismatch(es). [snip] What's it telling me? Is this something I should ignore? The tool has detected something that could

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root dir, Segmentation failure with mount

2008-07-17 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/7/17 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I followed those steps, and where able to recover my system. Excellent, I'm pleased to hear that! I'd like to help, so that this problem can be fixed, if you got anything ready, just send it to me, and I'll giv it a try on that corrupted image. Thanks, I'll send

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root dir, Segmentation failure with mount

2008-07-14 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/7/14 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi gentoo-users, I'm running Gentoo flawlessly on my laptop for nearly one year now, but since yesterday, I'm in big trouble. At some instance (surfing in the web,.. nothing horrible) the screen froze and the only thing I was able to do, was pressing the power

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple TV Cards.

2008-06-20 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/6/21 Andrew MacKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: +++ Duane Griffin [gentoo-user] [Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:53:38PM +0100]: Nope, it doesn't work like that. But luckily, there is another way. The tuner parameter is an array. Try tuner=-1,2 to auto-detect on the first card and specify the tuner

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple TV Cards.

2008-06-19 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/6/17 Andrew MacKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But since I have two video cards that are both using bttv... How do I set this option for one but not the other? Can I 'rmmod' the driver for video1 but not video0? Nope, it doesn't work like that. But luckily, there is another way. The tuner

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot problem

2008-06-01 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/5/29 Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have no problem chrooting into a system on the hard disk if I've booted from an installation CD, but every time I try it after booting from another HD partition I get e.g. this: # chroot /mnt/rescue /bin/bash chroot: cannot run command

Re: [gentoo-user] recover log file

2007-10-15 Thread Duane Griffin
On 15/10/2007, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:26:02 +0200, dexter wrote: While tar-ing it I've messed up the command and file got deleted - I need it back desperately emerge testdisk and run photorec. But be sure it doesn't compile on the same partition that

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 and slow transfers over LAN

2007-09-25 Thread Duane Griffin
On 25/09/2007, Kacper KopczyƄski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm tring to transfer a big file from my gentoo box to windows (win_ip) box over smb the speed is about 2kB/s or less (until timeout). If in the same time I start `ping -f win_ip` the speed grows up to about 5MB/s. I couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Duane Griffin
On 06/08/07, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. You might want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory 3GB

2007-08-01 Thread Duane Griffin
On 29/07/07, Daniel van Ham Colchete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone!!! May be somebody can shed some light here... I'm building a server here with 4GB of RAM memory. The fact is, if I boot with mem=3072M everything goes as fast as it should but I'm not using 1GB of memory. If I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with kde and NIS/NFS users

2007-06-04 Thread Duane Griffin
name. If that completes quickly and shows your home directory then NFS is fine. If that all works fine then we are back to KDE. Next step I would suggest is strace'ing it to see what it is delaying on. See how you get on with the other stuff first. Cheers, Duane Griffin. -- I never could learn

Re: [gentoo-user] can't ssh w/out password as root into my gentoo box any more - SOLVED

2007-03-01 Thread Duane Griffin
On 28/02/07, Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Duane, it was an ownership problem It usually is, in my experience :) Glad to hear everything is working. Cheers, Duane. -- I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine - Bob Dylan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] can't ssh w/out password as root into my gentoo box any more

2007-02-26 Thread Duane Griffin
On 26/02/07, Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I had setup password-less ssh login for a backup process from another machine (FreeBSD) and all was working well, but for some reason it no longer works anymore, I tried to redo everything, but still no luck. I also tried as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Duane Griffin
On 14/02/07, Ivan Lucian Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lately since my fresh gentoo install, i've been having a lot of problems with the kernel locking up at random. It's not a hard lockup, or a panic crash, it just stops running new processes, i get a lot of defuncts.. and dosn't let new users

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Duane Griffin
On 14/02/07, Ivan Lucian Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried vanilla sources Fair enough, let's see where the problem seems to be, anyway. So wait for it to lock again, and check the kernel tasks with sysrq-t / echo t /proc/sysrq-trigger. Will get back as soon as I get more info.

Re: [gentoo-user] SCIRE Project

2007-02-13 Thread Duane Griffin
On 13/02/07, Daniel van Ham Colchete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone Here on my company we are going to start deploying Gentoo Linux on our customers. Every server will have the very same installed packages, the very same use flags, very same cflags, only a few configurations will

Re: [gentoo-user] why forbids making hard link for directory?

2007-01-30 Thread Duane Griffin
On 30/01/07, Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it forbids making hardlink for directory in current filesystem, but i don't know why? Can you tell me why? Hardlinking directories is forbidden as it allows you to introduce loops into the filesystem. E.g. directory a within b within a

Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion

2006-10-03 Thread Duane Griffin
On 01/10/06, Duane Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/09/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/30/06, Duane Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another issue you might run into is getting the onboard RTL8168 ethernet controller working. People on the forums claim they're using

Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion

2006-10-01 Thread Duane Griffin
On 30/09/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't the all-generic-ide line prevent you from using DMA and such? The two objections I've seen to that is that it restricts the speed, and also renames the drives to hd* instead of sd*, so things would get switched around if I ever got to drop

Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion

2006-10-01 Thread Duane Griffin
On 30/09/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/30/06, Duane Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running gentoo on exactly this setup. There was some trouble with support for the controller prior to 2.6.18, however it all works just fine if you use the all-generic-ide irqpoll boot

Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion

2006-09-30 Thread Duane Griffin
On 29/09/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at upgrading to a Core 2 Duo system, and looking at the Asus P5B series of motherboards. I've found a couple forum posts (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494387-highlight-p965.html and

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 installation fails on intels 965 chipset based moderboard

2006-09-11 Thread Duane Griffin
On 09/09/06, Nadav Horesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a core duo machine with an intel motherboard with the 965 chip set. There is a sata HD and ide DVD. The installation disk fails to boot since the jernel does not recognize the dvd. I tried the following bios configurations: * switch