Re: [gentoo-user] Changing system from single to dual CPU ?

2006-12-19 Thread Maurice E Johnson
Might I suggest trying the following prior to your normal (I assume genkernel) build process. cd to /usr/src/linuxyour version as root type make mrproper This will ensure that your build tree is pristene. Now you should be able to run genkernel without problems. ---BeginMessage--- I have an

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 corrupted after power cut off when emerged world

2006-05-07 Thread Maurice E Johnson
Why the --newuse portion of the command line did you change your system or otherwise modify your USE variable? Looks like you were interrupted during install of a package (specifically baselayout). I see that you have re-emerged baselayout with no luck. If you are like me, you don't empty

Re: [gentoo-user] cd record does not record!

2006-05-05 Thread Maurice E Johnson
At face value, I'd guess you have a dirty lens. On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 19:26 -0300, Matias Grana wrote: hi! I'm having serious problems with cdrecord (I actually use k3b, but it calls cdrecord). Every once in a while it used not to finish recording and exiting with errors. I lowered down the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

2006-04-30 Thread Maurice E Johnson
I do hope you have read the appropriate documentation. In the Gentoo world, we have a thing called genkernel. Genkernel receives a lot of bad publicity sometimes but it realy is a nice tool if you graduate from the simple command line. Under genkernel you have several options for building

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modprobe looks in wrong dir

2006-04-30 Thread Maurice E Johnson
modules-update only updates for the running version. In order to update the new version, you could simply reboot to the new version. On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 20:32 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 20:18, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, This should be an easy fix -- if

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp and/or mailx delivery problem

2006-04-28 Thread Maurice E Johnson
What is the senders address? That is where the first clue will be. On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 15:34 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: The following script is run as part of a nitely cron job. //garbanzo/home/festus cat /usr/bin/emerge_sync.sh #! /bin/bash ## /usr/bin/emerge_sync.sh # Sync now

Re: [gentoo-user] no net modules will load

2006-04-28 Thread Maurice E Johnson
It would seem that you failed to configure the necessary modules for loading any of the modules you list. Also, as of kernel 2.6.13, devfs is no longer in the kernel and you must use udev. without it you will never get your devices to be recognised. I do hope you kept your old kernel around

[gentoo-user] devices not being created at boot time

2006-04-26 Thread Maurice E Johnson
I am trying to upgrade to kernel 2.6.15-r1 from 2.6.12-r4. Now that we are in the brave new world of udev, My Fusion MPT 1030 scsi controller has suddenly become invisible to the kernel - read no devices being created. Platform - AMD Opteron Dual Processor 270 Tyan MoBo My favorite, LSIs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread Maurice E Johnson
OK, Here's how this works. Many (nearly all) primary SMTP servers on the Internet will not forward your email. The reason for this is because your ip belongs to an ISP (this means your IP is a client IP on the ISPs net). Well, one day, many moons ago a bunch of very intelligent folks got

Re: [gentoo-user] [Mayb OT]GUI client for Accessing Databases

2006-04-23 Thread Maurice E Johnson
Yeah... quite a few. pgaccess gnomedb mysqltcl mysqltcl-python (dev) mysqlnavigator many, many more... Better to write your own... too easy not to. On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 11:58 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi guys, Is there any available Free and Open Source GUI clients for accessing

Re: [gentoo-user] ndiswrapper module problem

2006-04-22 Thread Maurice E Johnson
Try # env-update #source /etc/profile DOH!!! reboot with hardware still connected :) On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 00:50 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: On 4/22/06, Gary Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/04/06, Fernando Meira