I am having problems with gnome3/X on an old Sony Vaio. Its had
gentoo/gnome2 on it for years but after this upgrade to gnome3 gdm stops
at a black screen with a rotating cursor.
So far I have tried 3.1.1 and 3.4.4 kernels plus rebuilding everything I
can think of. KMS looks like its set
udev-186 replaces libudev.so.0 with libudev.so.1, and pulseaudio
won't compile against it. If you need pulse, avoid udev-186.
I backed down to udev-182-r3, which fixed the problem, but I had
to run revdep-rebuild (again) to fix all the other packages that
did build against libudev.so.1 and now
On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote:
Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative.
Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory in /etc/passwd?
Philipp
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote:
On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote:
Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative.
Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory in /etc/passwd?
Philipp
Not polkitd but a
On 05.07.2012 14:43, William Kenworthy wrote:
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote:
On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote:
Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative.
Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory in
On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote:
Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative.
BTW, you could check ~/.xsession-error (or something like this). Nice
logfile.
Philipp
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:57 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote:
On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote:
Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative.
BTW, you could check ~/.xsession-error (or something like this). Nice
logfile.
Philipp
Except it never gets
Am 03.07.2012 20:42, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Should I file a bug? Anyone else hitting this?
I hesitate as I might have forgotten something simple/stupid.
bit the bullet:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424904
;-)
William Kenworthy writes:
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote:
On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote:
Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative.
Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory
in /etc/passwd?
Not
On Thu, Jul 05 2012, Philipp Riegger wrote:
On 05.07.2012 14:43, William Kenworthy wrote:
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote:
On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote:
Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative.
Hmm, do you have a user
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 09:21 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
On Thu, Jul 05 2012, Philipp Riegger wrote:
On 05.07.2012 14:43, William Kenworthy wrote:
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote:
On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote:
Any hints where to look next as the
Running gentoo as guest in Vbox on win7 64bit
Attempting to update with: emerge -vuDp world
Lists gentoo-sources in output like this:
,
| [ebuild NS] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.21 [3.3.4] USE=-build
| -deblob -symlink 452 kB
`
Even when adding -t (tree) to the cmdline it still
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Running gentoo as guest in Vbox on win7 64bit
Attempting to update with: emerge -vuDp world
Lists gentoo-sources in output like this:
,
| [ebuild NS] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.21 [3.3.4] USE=-build
|
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Running gentoo as guest in Vbox on win7 64bit
Attempting to update with: emerge -vuDp world
Lists gentoo-sources in output like this:
,
| [ebuild NS] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.21 [3.3.4] USE=-build
| -deblob -symlink 452 kB
`
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:40:15 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
I backed down to udev-182-r3, which fixed the problem, but I had
to run revdep-rebuild (again) to fix all the other packages that
did build against libudev.so.1 and now had to be rebuilt a second
time against libudev.so.0.
I ran
Has anyone seen/tried this guide?
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/docs/grub2-migration.xml
The devs seem to be moving along with migration to grub2.
as evidence in the gentoo-dev thread. I curious if folks
are going to follow the docs, or are we each going to
wing out way to grub2 with the
* Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [120705 11:53]:
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:40:15 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
I backed down to udev-182-r3, which fixed the problem, but I had
to run revdep-rebuild (again) to fix all the other packages that
did build against libudev.so.1 and now had to be
On 2012-07-05, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Has anyone seen/tried this guide?
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/docs/grub2-migration.xml
The devs seem to be moving along with migration to grub2.
as evidence in the gentoo-dev thread. I curious if folks are going to
follow the docs, or
Linux was used to find the Higgs:
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/w2ly6/new_boson_found_by_linux/
I am not really surprised, but what does disturb me is that the distros
used in the effort were mainly Scientific Linux and Ubuntu.
Where was Gentoo?
Somebody had better counsel these
On 2012-07-05, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
Linux was used to find the Higgs:
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/w2ly6/new_boson_found_by_linux/
I am not really surprised, but what does disturb me is that the
distros used in the effort were mainly Scientific Linux and
Hello,
On 07/05/2012 08:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2012-07-05, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Has anyone seen/tried this guide?
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/docs/grub2-migration.xml
The devs seem to be moving along with migration to grub2.
as evidence in the gentoo-dev
One way to fix that would be to boot a livecd, chroot, build and install
another kernel.
Why does not the old kernel boot?
regards, Dmitry
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:07 AM, David Kuhl dhkuhl1...@gmail.com wrote:
I need a Gentoo Expert to take a look at this. Are there any in NYC
around West
hey,
it sounds like a list of troubles, not a single problem.
i wonder: is there any data on the notebook that needs saving?
is starting from scratch an option?
best,
sebastian
Sebastian Pipping wrote:
Hello,
On 07/05/2012 08:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2012-07-05, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Has anyone seen/tried this guide?
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/docs/grub2-migration.xml
The devs seem to be moving along with migration to grub2.
as
On Friday 06 July 2012 00:20:15 Dale wrote:
Sebastian Pipping wrote:
8
Short version: if it's fear of the unknown with you too, I
recommend getting to know that beast a little better. You'll
either end up with many good arguments against it or find out that
it's better than you
David Kuhl writes:
I need a Gentoo Expert to take a look at this. Are there any in NYC
around West 72nd? I've got to get this laptop working. After
following the recomendations on building the latest kernel I don't
have a system anymore. Everything on my LVM2 partitions are gone or
at
Peter Humphrey wrote:
I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to
upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other
than chroot'in in and all. I have a lot of partitions and they are
on LVM right now. That chroot'in is a pain in the butt. Oh, LOTS
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Peter Humphrey wrote:
I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to
upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other
than chroot'in in and all. I have a lot of partitions and they are
On 07/05/2012 04:20 PM, Dale wrote:
I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to
upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other than
chroot'in in and all.
There are basically only two ways that grub2 or grub1 can fail:
First, you reboot and you
walt wrote:
On 07/05/2012 04:20 PM, Dale wrote:
I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to
upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other than
chroot'in in and all.
There are basically only two ways that grub2 or grub1 can fail:
First, you
On Friday 06 July 2012 01:18:42 Dale wrote:
But if you try to boot and the grub menu doesn't come up at all, then
what? You can't select to boot anything including the rescue system.
Yet to happen, but if it did I'd have to boot a rescue CD, mount the
rescue system and chroot to it, rerun
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Friday 06 July 2012 01:18:42 Dale wrote:
But if you try to boot and the grub menu doesn't come up at all, then
what? You can't select to boot anything including the rescue system.
Yet to happen, but if it did I'd have to boot a rescue CD, mount the
rescue system
Hi,
I yesterday got a ssd to replace my kaput hdd which had no data but os.
Apparently something went wrong while migration, and now everything
disappeared in portage's world list.
So whenever I run depclean it tries to remove all packages. How to fix this?
I don't have data on original hdd now,
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 08:41 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
Hi,
I yesterday got a ssd to replace my kaput hdd which had no data but
os.
Apparently something went wrong while migration, and now everything
disappeared in portage's world list.
So whenever I run depclean it tries to remove
Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate
/var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want
installed.
Good luck,
Mark
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:34:12 -0700
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate
/var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want
installed.
AFAIK, Gentoo does not have a script or an option to back up the
world file and other
**This is what my laptop's screen with a newly installed Gentoo system
running twm to test X looks like (attached image). It's distorted with
overlapping and mirrored image. I have a Dell Latitude C800 with the video
card.
http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/qq4qz9jf/0705122206.jpg
01:00.0 VGA
Plus you don't technically need a menu at all. You can.use the grub cli to boot
whichever partitions you have mind to.
Terry
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
On Friday 06 July 2012 01:18:42 Dale wrote:
But if you try to boot and the grub menu doesn't come up at all, then
what?
There are.many good docs on the web about it. Yes much of this is just
resistance to change.
--
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote:
Hello,
On 07/05/2012 08:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2012-07-05, James
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