Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: Intel quad vs duo

2007-09-23 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Monday, 24. September 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > I'm getting close to buying the parts for my new machine (see earlier msgs) > & an Intel quad-core mentioned by a helpful responder > has now come down almost within my price range. > The CPU I have been contemplating for some weeks is > an 'Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] shared portage tree

2007-09-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 September 2007, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, folks > > > Is there any problem to share portage tree over nfs between different > archs? > In this particular case I want to use a machine with arc=amd64 > as a nfs server and share its tree with several x86 machines. That's fine. Uwe -- Jack Ni

[gentoo-user] Trying to recover ALSA functionality after PEBKAC error

2007-09-23 Thread Walter Dnes
It was a PEBKAC error. I built the new kernel but forgot to make it the default at bootup. They say that memory is the second thing to go, I forget what the first is. Anyhow I had ALSA 1.0.13 in the kernel, with 1.0.14 alsa-lib and alsa-utils. That obviously doesn't work. OK, so I've now s

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:53:11 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, Marc Redmann wrote: > > > boot from cd > > > > Don't want to start a flame war here, but why should he use > > reiserfs ??? > > it was an example. And I am free to choose any fs I

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:12:35 -0400 "John Blinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > that should be /etc/init.d/nfsmount start. /etc/init.d/nfs is for > > nfs server. > > > I''m confused by your answer, because tobey is the server, and > /etc/init.d/nfs > fails on tobey. Perhaps I don't und

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:16:03 -0400 Mark Shields wrote: ...[snip]... > Besides what everyone else has already suggested, I would suggest > backing up everything beforehand, or you can continue using your > 32-bit environment with your shiny new 64-bit processor, but you will > not be able to use a

Re: [gentoo-user] shared portage tree

2007-09-23 Thread Mark Shields
On 9/23/07, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, folks > > > Is there any problem to share portage tree over nfs between different > archs? > In this particular case I want to use a machine with arc=amd64 > as a nfs server and share its tree with several x86 machines. > > > -- > Best reg

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Mark Shields
On 9/22/07, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, > it's time for upgrading CHOST :-> > > According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a > couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. > > from: >U

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-23 Thread Alex Schuster
John Blinka writes: > Not a stupid question - I've been known to overlook the obvious. But > I've been running the same kernel for quite some time, and nfs has worked > before on that kernel. However, on tobey: I had a similar problem recently after an update. Some of the shares did still work

[gentoo-user] new machine: Intel quad vs duo

2007-09-23 Thread Philip Webb
I'm getting close to buying the parts for my new machine (see earlier msgs) & an Intel quad-core mentioned by a helpful responder has now come down almost within my price range. The CPU I have been contemplating for some weeks is an 'Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 4 MB 65 nm 2,67 GHz', which sells for CAD

[gentoo-user] shared portage tree

2007-09-23 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, folks Is there any problem to share portage tree over nfs between different archs? In this particular case I want to use a machine with arc=amd64 as a nfs server and share its tree with several x86 machines. -- Best regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, Marc Redmann wrote: > > boot from cd > > Don't want to start a flame war here, but why should he use reiserfs ??? it was an example. And I am free to choose any fs I want for that. Exept jfs. Besides reiserfs is a good fs, so no harm done. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-23 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:37:36PM -0400, John Blinka wrote: > -> ls -lA /var/lib/init.d/ [snip] > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 13:16 softscripts.old That shouldn't be there. Normally, that directory is created and later removed by /sbin/rc - which is run numerous times at boot. So this se

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-23 Thread John Blinka
> Ok, there are some funny things in there. Please also post the output of > the following commands. > > -> find /var/lib/init.d/ -name nfs | xargs ls -lh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 21 13:20 /var/lib/init.d/failed/nfs -> /etc/init.d/nfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 21 13:16 /var/lib/init.d/soft

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Marc Redmann
> boot from cd Don't want to start a flame war here, but why should he use reiserfs ??? I think he can use whatever filesystem he wishes to ... > mkfs.reiserfs > start stage3 installation. brgds, Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Doug Whitesell
On Sep 22, 2007, at 5:13 PM, David Relson wrote: Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, it's time for upgrading CHOST :-> According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. from: USE="x86 ..."

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Doug Whitesell
On Sep 23, 2007, at 5:47 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, David Relson wrote: Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, it's time for upgrading CHOST :-> According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a couple of chan

[gentoo-user] Fail to start slapd after reboot

2007-09-23 Thread Dan Johansson
Today I rebooted one of my servers and now slapd won't start (it's been running OK until this reboot). The is what the slapd.log says: ---8<- Sep 23 16:31:07 polar slapd[8763]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.3.35 (Sep 23 2007 16:28:27) $ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-23 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:24:42AM -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > > > Try `/etc/init.d/nfs --debug start`, that ought to give us some output > > to work on. > > The output is rather long - 1830 lines, so it's in the attached file. Ok, there are some funny things in there. Please also post the outp

Re: [gentoo-user] disable dropping to -j1 when building certain programs

2007-09-23 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:15:50 -0500 "Marzan, Richard non Unisys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I disable portage dropping or overriding my MAKEOPTS variable > setting when building certain programs? > > MAKEOPTS="jXXX -e" >From "man make": -e, --environment-overrides

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, David Relson wrote: > Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, > it's time for upgrading CHOST :-> > > According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a > couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. > > from: >USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Root NFS Kernel option

2007-09-23 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Sonntag, 23. Sep 2007, 13:19:17 +0200 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > Am Sonntag, 23. September 2007 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: > > Am Sonntag, 23. Sep 2007, 11:32:33 +0200 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > > > Am Sonntag, 23. September 2007 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: > > > > I wrote: > > > > > > So all prer

Re: [gentoo-user] Root NFS Kernel option

2007-09-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 23. September 2007 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: > Hi, > > Am Sonntag, 23. Sep 2007, 11:32:33 +0200 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > > Am Sonntag, 23. September 2007 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: > > > I wrote: > > > > > So all prerequisites seem to meet. What is still missing? > > > > > > Yes, I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Root NFS Kernel option

2007-09-23 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Sonntag, 23. Sep 2007, 11:32:33 +0200 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > Am Sonntag, 23. September 2007 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: > > > I wrote: > > > > So all prerequisites seem to meet. What is still missing? > > > > Yes, I have a kernel with TCP/IP activated. > > NET && NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP all mee

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-23 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:58:45PM -0400, John Blinka wrote: > And I guess you are using nfs3? > > I really don't know. Where would I look to determine whether I'm using 3 or > 4? If you don't know, then you are certainly running nfs3. nfs4 uses 'nfs4' as fs_type in fstab, as opposed to nfs3 whi

Re: [gentoo-user] Root NFS Kernel option

2007-09-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 23. September 2007 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: > I wrote: > > > So all prerequisites seem to meet. What is still missing? > > Yes, I have a kernel with TCP/IP activated. > NET && NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP all meet. > > ROOT_NFS still doesn't show up. What else could miss? Can you post your .con

Re: [gentoo-user] Root NFS Kernel option

2007-09-23 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Samstag, 22. Sep 2007, 22:45:48 -0500 schrieb Tim: > Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > there's just another kernel option I want to activate but > > cannot find it: > > > > Symbol: ROOT_NFS [=n] > > Prompt: Root file system on NFS > > Depends on: NET && NFS_FS=y && IP_PN

Re: [gentoo-user] man bash document doesn't match real life bash.

2007-09-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 23 September 2007, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > From man bash: > > ``When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a > non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and > executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. > After reading tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Root NFS Kernel option

2007-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Bertram Scharpf, > there's just another kernel option I want to activate but > cannot find it: While in make menuconfig, press / and you'll be able to search for any kernel option, including hidden ones. The output tells you which other options are needed to make it available. -- Neil Bo