Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote:  My responses are inline this time. It's easier when there's so much going on! On 09/23/10 16:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Two pictures posted: Top half of boot screen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29328...@n03/5018717650/

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote: SNIP None of these things are weird, they're expected! Really? OK - cool then. When you start the system with init=/bin/bash, the only thing your system does is start bash as the only process. Things like mounting proc,

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP 3) If this is a kernel config issue - and it seem plausible that it is - then I'll point out that the kernel config page of the Gentoo PPC Istall Guide had a possible command that didn't work for me:

Re: [gentoo-user] Dropbox, cli, and all that

2010-09-25 Thread Jean-Christophe Bach
Hi, * fe...@crowfix.com fe...@crowfix.com [24.09.2010. @21:11:46 -0700]: I have recently discovered Dropbox as an interesting thing to experiment with, not without its drawbacks, but interesting. I have it running on a work Mac laptop and an Android phone, and it is another interesting idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 25 September 2010, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/23/2010 04:18 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: $sudo gui-admin No protocol specified gui-admin:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-25 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Saturday 25 September 2010 8:33:09 am Dale wrote: Well, I don't really know what it is using. I just set up the menu item to run the program as root. i assume you mean you setup a menuitem to run a paticular application as root like say to run konsole/konqueror as root. I don't know if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-25 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2010, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/23/2010 04:18 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-25 Thread Dale
Yohan Pereira wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2010 8:33:09 am Dale wrote: Well, I don't really know what it is using. I just set up the menu item to run the program as root. i assume you mean you setup a menuitem to run a paticular application as root like say to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-25 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Saturday 25 September 2010 2:51:45 pm Dale wrote: In the Advanced tab, I set it to run as user root. When I then select to run the item from the menu, a little GUI window will pop up and ask me for the root password. i just tried that and it worked perfectly for konqueror, maybe you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-25 Thread Dale
Yohan Pereira wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2010 2:51:45 pm Dale wrote: In the Advanced tab, I set it to run as user root. When I then select to run the item from the menu, a little GUI window will pop up and ask me for the root password. i just tried that and it worked perfectly

Re: [gentoo-user] Dropbox, cli, and all that [SOLVED]

2010-09-25 Thread felix
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 08:31:14AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote: I'm using Dropox to synchronize few conf files and data between my Gentoo boxes (desktops and server). I only use it in CLI, without nautilus or something else (my server has no X server). Since I do not want to let Dropbox

Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception errors

2010-09-25 Thread Grant
Thanks Mick.  My host is big with multiple data centers of their own. They did exactly as I asked and I'm running on new RAM.  There was a problem bringing my system back online and the cause was purported to be an unseated ethernet cable.  I handed over my root password as I was

[gentoo-user] Re: machine check exception errors

2010-09-25 Thread walt
On 09/25/2010 09:38 AM, Grant wrote: Do any of these warnings sound an alarm for anyone? Warning: The command '/usr/bin/ldd' has been replaced by a script: /usr/bin/ldd: Bourne-Again shell script text executable Warning: The command '/usr/bin/whatis' has been replaced by a script:

[gentoo-user] Re: iwl5000 firmware fails to load

2010-09-25 Thread James
Any thoughts / ideas would be greatly appreciated. :o) I'm about to rip a handful of hair out of my head. :) -james On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:46 AM, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: Folks, I am having a fairly strange problem with my iwl5000 and the microcode. After a fresh install Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: machine check exception errors

2010-09-25 Thread Grant
Do any of these warnings sound an alarm for anyone? Warning: The command '/usr/bin/ldd' has been replaced by a script: /usr/bin/ldd: Bourne-Again shell script text executable Warning: The command '/usr/bin/whatis' has been replaced by a script: /usr/bin/whatis: POSIX shell script text

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: machine check exception errors

2010-09-25 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: Do any of these warnings sound an alarm for anyone? Warning: The command '/usr/bin/ldd' has been replaced by a script: /usr/bin/ldd: Bourne-Again shell script text executable Warning: The command '/usr/bin/whatis' has been replaced by a script: /usr/bin/whatis: POSIX shell script

[gentoo-user] Re: machine check exception errors

2010-09-25 Thread walt
On 09/25/2010 02:53 PM, Dale wrote: Grant wrote: Did you configure your kernel without any modules? Yes, no modules except that one that seems to be required called something along the lines of scsi-wait-scan. I tried getting rid of that, I don't like modules much, but I had no luck. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: machine check exception errors

2010-09-25 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 09/25/2010 02:53 PM, Dale wrote: Grant wrote: Did you configure your kernel without any modules? Yes, no modules except that one that seems to be required called something along the lines of scsi-wait-scan. I tried getting rid of that, I don't like modules much, but I had

Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception errors

2010-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 21 September 2010, Stroller wrote: On 21 Sep 2010, at 18:37, Grant wrote: I'm getting a lot of machine check exception errors in dmesg on my hosted server. Running mcelog I get: ... They offered to take my machine down and do a memory test which they said would take a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Sep 2010, at 03:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is not free (as in beer). Is that true? I don't know but I can emerge -q icc There is other non-Free software you can install with Portage. Just yesterday I was

Re: [gentoo-user] iwl5000 firmware fails to load

2010-09-25 Thread Adam Carter
For reference here's mine iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree: iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation iwlagn :04:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 17 iwlagn :04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 iwlagn :04:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless