Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

2007-10-21 Thread Ralf Stephan
Daniel Vrcic wrote You should have unifont's path listed in the Files section of xorg.conf: Section Files: ... FontPath /usr/share/fonts/unifont ... Thanks, that was it. I relied on the usual etc-update to do such things. I mean, if I install a font, I sure want it in the xconfig?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome overriding screen resolution

2007-10-21 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
do you have the same problem with other wm/desktop environments(kde,fluxbox. etc.) or just with gnome?... O/H Richard Marzan έγραψε: Hello, Gnome is giving me some issues with respect to screen resolution. It doesn't want to display my preferred resolution nor does it have it as an

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

2007-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 19:35 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: Thanks, that was it. I relied on the usual etc-update to do such things. I mean, if I install a font, I sure want it in the xconfig? That's not what etc-update does. etc-update is just a tool that helps you manage files that a package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-21 Thread Don Jerman
On 10/20/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Don Jerman, So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root, When did 10GB become small for a root partition? I have a 400MB root partition, 35% full, no /boot and

[gentoo-user] Huge problem

2007-10-21 Thread econti
Hi all, after upgrading xorg, yesterday I started to upgrade gcc (from 3.x to 4.x) following the Gentoo GCC Upgrade Guide. All went well up to emerge -eav system. The command seemed work fine but, for some reason, it was not able to emerge man-pages. The process aborted. I added other gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Huge problem

2007-10-21 Thread Alex Schuster
econti writes: Here is the message: /sbin/rc: line 400: start: command not found Failed to start /etc/init.d/checkroot One or more critical startup scripts failed to start! Please correct this, and reboot ... Any suggestion? Should I reinstall everything? I don't know what's wrong here.

Re: [gentoo-user] Huge problem

2007-10-21 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:15:34 +0200 econti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, after upgrading xorg, yesterday I started to upgrade gcc (from 3.x to 4.x) following the Gentoo GCC Upgrade Guide. All went well up to emerge -eav system. The command seemed work fine but, for some reason, it was not

[gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, following http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID and some other docs, I moved my system to RAID 1. Using gentoo LiveCD, all my config worked fine: I was able to mount md0 and md1 (at this point my only raid devices) and see data. So after ensuring my raid was sync, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Huge problem

2007-10-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 21 October 2007 18:23:16 Kenneth Prugh wrote: At the end running etc-update I found 26 config files to upgrade . Surely I did something wrong (to upgrade udev I had to unmerge coldplug) and the result has been a failure in booting gentoo. Here is the message: /sbin/rc: line

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 21 October 2007 19:08:21 Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, following http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID and some other docs, I moved my system to RAID 1. Using gentoo LiveCD, all my config worked fine: I was able to mount md0 and md1 (at this point my only raid

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Arnau Bria
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:34:51 +0100 Mike Williams wrote: On Sunday 21 October 2007 19:08:21 Arnau Bria wrote: [...] The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 104420 blocks The physical size of the device is 104320 blocks Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 21 October 2007 20:29:47 Arnau Bria wrote: with /dev/md0 unmounted: resize2fs -f /dev/md0 If same thing happens with md1, I suppose I must boot with livecd and do the same with md1, am I right? Yeah, you can't reduce the filesystem online. The RAIDing shrinks the space

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Arnau Bria
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:42:57 +0100 Mike Williams wrote: On Sunday 21 October 2007 20:29:47 Arnau Bria wrote: [...] Yeah, you can't reduce the filesystem online. The RAIDing shrinks the space available for the filesystem slightly. I don't know why, but I've had the same problem before. thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:29:35 -0400, Don Jerman wrote: Since my smallest hard disk is a quarter terabyte :) 8G to 10G is plenty to keep portage and compile openoffice You have PORTAGE_TMPDIR in your root filesystem? You are braver than me, I point to to a filesystem where it won't cause

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Arnau Bria
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:30:51 +0200 Arnau Bria wrote: [...] Let me ask you one more thing. I have this device: md3 : active raid1 hdh6[1] 98727360 blocks [2/1] [_U] And I'd like to add hdf6, and then sync but against it (I mean, make hdf6 primary and copy its data to hdh6). I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros cons

2007-10-21 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Philip Webb wrote: Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems more professional allows

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 21 October 2007 22:03:23 Arnau Bria wrote: Let me ask you one more thing. I have this device: md3 : active raid1 hdh6[1]       98727360 blocks [2/1] [_U] And I'd like to add hdf6, and then sync but against it (I mean, make hdf6 primary and copy its data to hdh6). I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems

2007-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Mike Williams, Yeah, you can't reduce the filesystem online. The RAIDing shrinks the space available for the filesystem slightly. I don't know why, but I've had the same problem before. The RAID superblock is stored at the end of the partition. -- Neil Bothwick Puritanism: The

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-21 Thread Thufir
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:11:55 -0400, Don Jerman wrote: So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root, and LVM manages anything that gets dynamically large or uncertain like /home/, /opt/, and application directories like

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP: Slapd fails asking itself while startup

2007-10-21 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Freitag, 19. Okt 2007, 21:09:59 +0200 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: I just set up LDAP authentication and it works fine. However, when running the init script there comes up an error that clutters up my syslog with a lot of useless error messages. @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.3.38 (Oct 18