Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-09-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2005 04:13 schrieb ext Brett I. Holcomb: I'm wondering if it's just me or is anyone else having problems. I am running 2.6.11-r6 with no problems on a system with an Adaptec 39160 card. I tried to go to 2.6.12-r6 and r9 but kept getting kernel panics on boot. I

[gentoo-user] sacked my rc.conf

2005-09-01 Thread Jason W Elliot
I accidentally removed my rc.conf file (don't ask). I'm not sure how to write a new one. Is there a good set of defaults to start with? Is there an easy way to recover the old one, or generate a new one? Please help! My configuration now sucks! Thanks in advance! --

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Nagatoro
Steve B wrote: On 9/1/05, *Matt Garman* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and why? I use gnome with enlightenment as the WM, nice and good looking setup. But... still I'm thinking about trying KDE for real.

Re: [gentoo-user] sacked my rc.conf

2005-09-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2005 08:16 schrieb ext Jason W Elliot: I accidentally removed my rc.conf file (don't ask). emerge baselayout HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland |

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, [solved] -- where do the flags come from?

2005-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:36:22 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: That would be unworkable as flags are added or removed. It would also override and changes to the defaults without your knowing why. Get into the habit of using -av with emerge. You'll son see when you need to make changes to the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:38:24 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: When kde started the first time, the wizard showed its face and I told it to quit (didn't want to lose my preferences, of course). You didn't have any preferences, that's why the wizard

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:45:17 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 Nope. Nope what? Nope, it didn't work? nope you didn't try it? Didn't work. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Norberto Bensa wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: My best guess is that you didn't emerge whichever component is responsible for this. I think it is kdebase-startkde It was emerged. Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gpasswd not function immediately?

2005-09-01 Thread Qiangning Hong
I want to create a crontab for my account using crontab -e. However system tells me I have no permission to run crontab. I checked the Gentoo Linux Cron Guide_ and find that I must add my account to the cron group to use crontab. Follow the guide, I ran: $ sudo gpasswd -a hongqn cron and run

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs

2005-09-01 Thread Stefan Frank
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 19.02, Christoph Daldrup wrote: Am 31.08.2005 18:44 schrieb Sergio Polini: I emerged -uvDN world on Sunday and dhcpcd 2.0.0 is masked. According to http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?dhcpcd-2.0.0 , it isn't anymore, at least for amd64, x86 and sparc. ;) On

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:58:36 -0400, John Dangler wrote: I've figured out that if you open apps in one workspace, and then switch to another, those apps don't appear, which does give me some idea of the mechanics, but I'd like to customize what starts and what is available in each one

Re: [gentoo-user] sacked my rc.conf

2005-09-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
bunyip ~ # cat /etc/rc.conf # /etc/rc.conf: Global startup script configuration settings # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/rc.conf,v 1.30.4.1 2005/02/10 01:11:52 vapier Exp $ # UNICODE specifies whether you want to have UNICODE support in the console. # If you set to yes, please

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge win fails -- what to do

2005-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:37:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: A second ebuild in the latest batch failed for me. This time it's wine. Again, I'm not sure how to report such a thing; http://bugs.gentoo.org maybe someone could point me in the right direction. It's over there -- :) -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
050831 John Dangler wrote: As in - workspace1 | workspace2 | workspace3 | workspace4 (bottom right of the task bar in gnome desktop) I've figured out that if you open apps in one workspace and then switch to another, those apps don't appear, I'd like to customize what starts is available in

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:16:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 2) If it's a file in /etc/initd then I update it automatically. This rule is still true. I am not a programmer and will never edit an init script. For me these are 100% updated ASAP. Add /etc/init.d to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK in

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
050831 Matt Garman wrote: what window manager do you use, and why? I've done my own review a couple of times, when dissatisfied, so I have an idea of what each of a fair number does. I started with a very primitive KDE on an early Mandrake, read about Xfce, tried it -- version 3.18.8 -- , liked

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
050831 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: How can I find out the last few things I emerged? It's all in /var/log/emerge.log , which just keeps growing. If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an emerge, goto /etc/make.conf set (dirname to taste)

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:30:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an emerge, goto /etc/make.conf set (dirname to taste) PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs which will add 2 new files to that dir for each emerge you do. NB this

Re: OT [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-09-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 September 2005 09:30, Philip Webb wrote: NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is limited. I like that: ... if your disk space is limited. Where can I purchase unlimited disk space? Sorry - couldn't resist. ;-) Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

2005-09-01 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:04 -0500, Paul Maszy wrote: You shouldnt have restarted. mysql is already starting on boot up. It showing that many mysql daemons is normal and ok. [snip] I ran /etc/init.d/mysql stop and it stopped without error - all of them.

Re: [gentoo-user] sacked my rc.conf

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
Here's mine...not much in it. On Thursday 01 September 2005 01:16, Jason W Elliot wrote: I accidentally removed my rc.conf file (don't ask). I'm not sure how to write a new one. Is there a good set of defaults to start with? Is there an easy way to recover the old one, or generate a new one?

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Martins Steinbergs
what window manager do you use, and why? I stick with KDE, got on it since kde 3.0. and still using it 'cause just i am confortable with it, and looks pretty. Also got installed Gnome - to run gnope apps Xcfs - for emergency e 17 - just for eye, and actualy this works even if xorg goes bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.

2005-09-01 Thread Adrian
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:15:33 -0400 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: pixie: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libdpstk.so.0: undefined symbol: DPSDefaultErrorProc A google search for libdpstk indicates that this is a core library for x11 with some references to it being

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs

2005-09-01 Thread Christoph Daldrup
Am 01.09.2005 09:41 schrieb Stefan Frank: I just did a emerge -u dhcp and I was able to do /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart without problems. Try to clear the cache of dhcpcd under /var/lib/dhcpc (?) and to start it again. Thanks for that suggestion, I will try later. Maybe you should

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Nagatoro schreef: [Way off topic] But where did you find AA? I've looked around and all I've seen is sorry tray again later when we've upgraded the linux code Portage? eix america * games-fps/americas-army Available versions: 230 Installed: none Homepage:

RE: [gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.

2005-09-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hi Dave -- thanks for the response. I'm not sure I understand it all, but I understand enough to get me started and do some testing. One question however, when you say to build pixie manually, what do you mean by building it manually? Is that different from emerge pixie Yeah.

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

2005-09-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:26:08PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: You should use rc-update to run the startup script. Local is for commands that you want run, not really a great way to run other startup scripts. The command you want is probably `rc-update add rc.firewall default`. -Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread krzaq
On 9/1/05, Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I was just hoping to start a pub-style conversation on what people like/disklike in a window manager. Xfce4 is really great in my opinion. KDE is just ... too much. I see all tons of icons/apps that I never use and get discouraged. I

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:58:36 -0400, John Dangler wrote: I've figured out that if you open apps in one workspace, and then switch to another, those apps don't appear, which does give me some idea of the mechanics, but I'd like to customize what starts and what is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can't create lock in NFS exported distfiles directory

2005-09-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:55:36 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: As you can see, emerge (/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_locks.py) failed to create a lock file - or rather failed to lock the file. Add distlocks to FEATURES in make.conf I already had distlocks in the FEATURES

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:30:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an emerge, goto /etc/make.conf set (dirname to taste) PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs which will add 2 new files to that dir for each

Re: [gentoo-user] sacked my rc.conf

2005-09-01 Thread Jason W Elliot
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! -Jason On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, W.Kenworthy wrote: bunyip ~ # cat /etc/rc.conf # /etc/rc.conf: Global startup script configuration settings # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/rc.conf,v 1.30.4.1 2005/02/10 01:11:52 vapier Exp $ # UNICODE specifies

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can't create lock in NFS exported distfiles directory

2005-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:25:52 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Why is portage failing to create a lock? (Answer: Because it's not allow - Permission denied. Q: Why is the permission not granted? What to do, to grant the permission?) Maybe this will give a clue? # ls -ld

Re: OT [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-09-01 Thread Matt Randolph
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 01 September 2005 09:30, Philip Webb wrote: NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is limited. I like that: ... if your disk space is limited. Where can I purchase unlimited disk space? Sorry - couldn't resist. ;-) Uwe You just

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:30:18 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Gzipping them saves a lot of space, i do it from a cron job $ cat /etc/cron.daily/portagelogs #!/bin/bash for f in $(portageq envvar PORT_LOGDIR)/*.log; do gzip -f $f 2/dev/null || echo Failed to gzip $f done Can they

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-09-01 Thread brettholcomb
I was afraid of that G. There is a bug with rmmod causing crashing in Bugzilla. What puzzles me is these two systems have never had any problem at all - I even did a make oldconfig with the 2.6.11 .config so they would be the same. From: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-09-01 Thread brettholcomb
I tried 2.6.12-r9 which was released a short time ago. I'm in the process of trying the old driver. From: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/01 Thu AM 02:05:46 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems? --

[gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Charles Marcus
IceWM (with ROXFiler if you want Desktop icons, etc) lightening fast, easy to configure -- Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can't create lock in NFS exported distfiles directory

2005-09-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:25:52 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Why is portage failing to create a lock? (Answer: Because it's not allow - Permission denied. Q: Why is the permission not granted? What to do, to grant the permission?) Maybe this will give a clue? Not

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 find Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules are being installed removed at each (re)boot. There is a recent thread on the forum which reported that removing ACPI from the kernel config options solved the

Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd not function immediately?

2005-09-01 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:35 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: I want to create a crontab for my account using crontab -e. However system tells me I have no permission to run crontab. I checked the Gentoo Linux Cron Guide_ and find that I must add my account to the cron group to use crontab.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 find Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules are being installed removed at each (re)boot. There is a recent thread on the forum which reported that removing ACPI from the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] WEP woes

2005-09-01 Thread Nick Smith
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:52 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: any help or a config file would be greatly appreciated. thanks Nick no one has anything? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] PC hardware failure

2005-09-01 Thread Martins Steinbergs
hi there, this isn't really linux, but anyway i have one old Celeron 850 box and during overnight full system scan with clamav, something gone wrong. now the state is that turning power on no IDE devices found, and as i write, i think memory isn't detected also. what these problems relies to?

Re: [gentoo-user] PC hardware failure

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 01 September 2005 12:24, Martins Steinbergs wrote: hi there, this isn't really linux, but anyway i have one old Celeron 850 box and during overnight full system scan with clamav, something gone wrong. now the state is that turning power on no IDE devices found, and as i write, i

[gentoo-user] TV Programs problem (was Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i)

2005-09-01 Thread Luigi Pinna
Hello! I prefer to open a new thread because the card works... I can say that I solve the problem (I tried to modprobe the module saa7134_dvb e the analog and the digital devices were created). The real problem is a program configuration problem: I done a scan with tvtime without problem, I can

[gentoo-user] emerge (?) broke thunderbird opening links in firefox

2005-09-01 Thread Antoine
Hi, I think it was that anyway - I certainly haven't played with the config of either for a long time. I get nothing when I run thunderbird from the cl either... I searched for a preference somewhere but couldn't find anything. Any ideas? Cheers Antoin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PC hardware failure

2005-09-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:24, Martins Steinbergs wrote: hi there, this isn't really linux, but anyway i have one old Celeron 850 box and during overnight full system scan with clamav, something gone wrong. now the state is that turning power on no IDE devices found, and as i write, i

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ Holly Bostick [gentoo-user] [Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:03:47PM +0200]: If lm_sensors the package compiles against the kernel, as I would imagine it must, it would need to be re-emerged when you upgraded the kernel. I don't mean to thread-hijack, but... I was just thinking that it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrew MacKenzie schreef: +++ Holly Bostick [gentoo-user] [Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:03:47PM +0200]: If lm_sensors the package compiles against the kernel, as I would imagine it must, it would need to be re-emerged when you upgraded the kernel. I don't mean to thread-hijack, but... I

[gentoo-user] NetworkManager

2005-09-01 Thread Nick Smith
I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage, i have checked the gentoo-portage site, done numerous searched with emerge and cant seem to locate it, there website says gentoo has it Your favorite Linux distribution probably already has packages for NetworkManager. Fedora Core, Debian,

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-09-01 Thread Markus Döbele
Hy Nick, I uploaded a new version 1.0.4 yesterday. Maybe it would be best if you monitor the page of this game on sourceforge. Than I can easily send you a notice everytime I upload a new version. I am working a lot for the game right now. And so there will be a lot of new versions in the near

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:48:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Or... since you know (sometimes) which of such packages need to be re-emerged, and you also know when you have upgraded your kernel, you *could* just write a (one line) script to re-emerge the relevant packages, throw it in /usr/sbin or

[gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi Long story short - power outage damages hard drive - under liveCD data can still be read [phew] - comp will not boot from damaged hdd - man runs to shop and buys new hdd plus UPS - installed new hdd | /dev/hda - old damaged hdd is /dev/hdb [3 partitions, hdb1 = /boot ext3, hdb2 = /swap, hdb3

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

2005-09-01 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:53, Nick Smith wrote: I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage What is networkmanager ? url ? -- José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

2005-09-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández schrieb: On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:53, Nick Smith wrote: I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage What is networkmanager ? url ? Dunno what it is, but it seems to be http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/downloadcontribute.html.

[gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...

2005-09-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.lo start * Starting lo * Bringing up lo * 127.0.0.1/8 SIOCSIFADDR: File exists SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address

[gentoo-user] (AMD64) wrong soundcard is becoming default - Gnome unhappy

2005-09-01 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, In my previous Athlon XP I was using two sound cards - an AP2496 and an RME HDSP 9652. I had /etc/modules.d/alsa set up so that the AP2496 was the default card and the HDSP wa used only when I specifically called it. On my new AMD64 machine I wanted to do much the same thing except I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.lo start * Starting lo * Bringing up lo * 127.0.0.1/8 SIOCSIFADDR: File

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: My question :- I need to copy all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? If both drives are the same size dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096 -- Neil Bothwick I heard Tasha Yar is the Enterprise's expert on Data entry.

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: My question :- I need to copy all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? If both drives are the same size dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096 will that get the

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández schrieb: On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:53, Nick Smith wrote: I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage What is networkmanager ? url ? Dunno what it is, but it seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread Ben Blount
MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run grub-install just to be sure. You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course) Ben Blount On 9/1/05, John Jolet [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Peter Ruskin schreef: On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:37, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: I don't mean to thread-hijack, but... I was just thinking that it would be really nice if after I run genkernel I got a list of packages that need to be recompiled against the new kernel (i.e.

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:16, Ben Blount wrote: MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run grub-install just to be sure. You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ I'd do a cp -pR if I did that, to maintain

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Ben Blount schreef: MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run grub-install just to be sure. You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course) Ben Blount Wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:06:38 -0500, John Jolet wrote: dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096 will that get the mbr, or does he still need to do the grub-install step? It gets *everything* -- Neil Bothwick OPERATOR ERROR: Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah! pgpHrLnrcAPld.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

2005-09-01 Thread Nick Smith
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 01:14 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: There is, however, an ebuild for 0.3.1 on b.g.o-- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69396 which can 'legitimately' be put in one's overlay. HTH, Holly well since it isnt stable yet, is there anything else out there that

[gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

2005-09-01 Thread Ian K
Hi there, When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, I get: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error Any ideas? Thanks!! Ian __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca --

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi people MANY thanks people for the advice, after some painful time I have got my system back or at least everything seems fine so far [typing from opera in X]. As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I performed the following steps 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to

[gentoo-user] Re: loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...

2005-09-01 Thread Sarpy Sam
I had the same problem. I did an emerge sync and emerge -uDva world. There was a new version of baselayout from the one this morning when I did an update so I installed it and everything works fine now. On 9/1/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Peter Ruskin schreef: On Friday 02 September 2005 00:21, Holly Bostick wrote: Peter, why does running this command give me the following output: emerge -v $(equery b /lib/modules | sed -e 's:^:=:' ) !!! No command or unknown command given

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

2005-09-01 Thread Jason Cooper
Ian K ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, I get: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error Does the arch of the stage tarball you installed match the arch of the processor? cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

2005-09-01 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Have you untared your stage file already? Have you mounted all the partitions? Give us some more info so we can help you 2005/9/1, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, I get: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error Any ideas?

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:40:08 +0800 Qiangning Hong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Sanders wrote: enlightenment E16. After messing with KDE, Gnome, Openbox, fluxbox, flirting with XCFE and a few others, I came back to Enlightenment. As an XFCE user currently, I'm curious about what make you

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Bob Sanders schreef: But it does come down to personal preferences. And I've used a lot of window managers. snip ripped off the wm in Win98 and put Litestep on Hey, finally, another Litestep expat! I was beginning to think I was the only one :) Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-09-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:13:43 -0400 (EDT) Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if it's just me or is anyone else having problems. I am running 2.6.11-r6 with no problems on a system with an Adaptec 39160 card. I tried to go to 2.6.12-r6 and r9 but kept getting kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge of glibc-2.3.5-r1 fails

2005-09-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:19:39 -0400 Lincoln Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I consistently get an ACCESS DENIGHED error will trying to emerge glibc. Does anyone else get this: I haven't seen the problem. A few things to look at may be - - running out of diskspace. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:05:48 + Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I performed the following steps 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to buy a UPS. Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well with

[gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

2005-09-01 Thread Justin Kelly
Hi All, Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is there anything like the Packages CD but more :) Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or gentoo provides such a thing? I don't mind paying for such a

Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

2005-09-01 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 20:32 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: [quote] Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE) The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious low

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Greg Shikhman
I have tried out KDE and I am now using GNOME. It seems like GNOME has more of a skinning functionality although it does look a lot more bland initially. ++ OT: In KDE, if I emerged an app, it would appear in the applications menu. In GNOME, I have to add them in manually. Is there any

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-09-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I'll look into this and try it. On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Bob Sanders wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:13:43 -0400 (EDT) Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if it's just me or is anyone else having problems. I am results in system not running. I run a couple of 32-bit

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

2005-09-01 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 20:05 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 01:14 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69396 well since it isnt stable yet, is there anything else out there that integrates with gnome that allows you to switch network

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
I get that when I boot from a 32-bit boot disk and try to chroot into a 64-bit environmentor vice versa On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:06, Ian K wrote: Hi there, When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, I get: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error Any ideas?

[gentoo-user] AMD64/Gnome - I have detected a panel already running, and will now exit

2005-09-01 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've been running Gnome for awhile on all my machines. In setting up my new AMD64 it was a natural choice for me. However I am getting a strange message: 1) When I first log in after a boot I get a message I have detected a panel already running, and will now exit. I answer OK 1 time and

Re: [gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.

2005-09-01 Thread Adrian
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:51:23 -0400 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: Hi Dave -- thanks for the response. I'm not sure I understand it all, but I understand enough to get me started and do some testing. One question however, when you say to build pixie manually, what do

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

2005-09-01 Thread Mark Shields
My guess this is normal, since you need either: amd64 install disk or ia64 install disk: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xmlOn 9/1/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I get that when I boot from a 32-bit boot disk and try to chroot into a 64-bit environmentor vice versaOn Thursday

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Mark Shields
They should be adding automatically, Greg. Mine does.On 9/1/05, Greg Shikhman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried out KDE and I am now using GNOME. It seems like GNOME has more of a skinning functionality although it does look a lot more bland initially. ++ OT: In KDE, if I emerged an app, it

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

2005-09-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:51:13 +1000 Justin Kelly wrote: Hi All, Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is there anything like the Packages CD but more :) Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...

2005-09-01 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
Alexander Skwar, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: Hello! Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/104415 It's fixed now. sync and update baselayout. -- Sex and drugs and UNIX. --

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
050901 Holly Bostick wrote: Philip Webb schreef: I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 find Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules are being installed removed at each (re)boot. There is a recent thread on the forum which reported that

[gentoo-user] No auto-add to programs list in GNOME after emerges

2005-09-01 Thread Greg Shikhman
Hi, After installing gentoo and gnome on my current system, I don't get programs added to my program files after emerging them (ex: firefox-bin does not enter the menu after emerging it, I have to do it manually). Could anyone list any reasons why this could happen?

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: Philip Webb schreef: I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 find Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules are being installed removed at each (re)boot. There is a recent thread on the forum which reported that removing

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

2005-09-01 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 01 September 2005 21:52, Mark Shields wrote: My guess this is normal, since you need either: amd64 install disk or ia64 install disk: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml yes, it is...but I was saying that is the message I get when, say I boot my x86_64-built box with the rescue

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
050902 Holly Bostick wrote: Philip Webb schreef: I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . I am also using GKrellm2, and while I didn't know it had its own sensors, they work fine : temperature, fan, thermal, hdd, and

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64/Gnome - I have detected a panel already running, and will now exit

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/1/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I first log in after a boot I get a message I have detected apanel already running, and will now exit. I answer OK 1 time and itstops.I had this too after I botched a VNC install. I solved it by purging /tmp and all the config files in my home

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

2005-09-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:57:09PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote Hi Walter, I'm setting up the same thing, although I used the 64-bit Gentoo install CD. Why are you using 32-bit? I did some RTFM, and it appears that emerging 32-bit apps requires a bit of a hassle. You basically have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

2005-09-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/1/05, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the ATI driver I set it up quickly today using the radeon driver from xorg-x11. After reading your message, I tried Radeon, and it seems to work. I manually entered the frequencies for my monitor, and 1600 X 1200 works fine.