Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup
Michael George wrote: Couldn't establish a connection to :9202: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname ':9202' I'm not sure why the kernel would make this difference, but it looks like something is trying to connect to No Host:9202. Do you have your hostname properly configured? And in /etc/hosts do you have your 127.0.0.1 entry? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
Dear All, I'm running out of space on my laptop (Compaq Presario V5000) so I've decided to intall a bigger hard disk. Currently I have an 80GB SATA drive, I'm also going to add more RAM (from 1GB to 2GB) as RAM is so cheap at the moment. I've been through various howto's online, including the one in the gentoo-wiki, but I'm not completely clear on a couple of things. I need this to go quickly and smoothly, I'm about to move house and job and I don't have too much time for messing around. My current partition table looks like this: Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6 68506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 699729 77601982+ 83 Linux I intend to keep the same partition layout on the new disk, but with /sda3 being a lot bigger. So here's how I think I'll do this, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. 1. place the new 160GB SATA drive in an external housing and create the partitions using fdisk, make the file systems, etc. Question 1: Should I keep the swap partition the same size or increase it? 2. Copy all the partitions from the old disk to the new disk using cp Question 2: (This is the main one!) The MBR? As the new disk is a direct replacement for the old one, with the same partitions etc, do I need to change anything in my grub.conf? or should it just work without modification? Here's my current grub.conf: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash2.xpm.gz title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r6 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.18-r6 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. Shutdown, replace the old drive with the new drive, reboot and cross my fingers :-) Will it work? Any comments, as always, greatly appreciated Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
Matthew R. Lee wrote: Question 1: Should I keep the swap partition the same size or increase it? If you are increasing the amount of RAM, and you currently do fine on 512 MB of swap, you should be OK. That said, if you are getting a ton more space, what is 1 GB to dedicate to swap just in case? Question 2: (This is the main one!) The MBR? As the new disk is a direct replacement for the old one, with the same partitions etc, do I need to change anything in my grub.conf? or should it just work without modification? If you use cp you will need to run grub-install, or run setup from within grub, again. Make sure you use the correct flags on cp to maintain permissions/owners/other attributes on the files that you are copying. Another option that may be simpler and will definitely be faster is using dd to copy. You will probably need to use grub-install/setup if you do dd as well, unless you dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb (or am I wrong about this?) -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] rc-update can't fix broken runlevel config
I'm stripping down a former regular desktop setup of gentoo to remove X and any unnecessary services like sendmail samba cups... and more. I've been checking dependences and removing thing in some attempt at sytematically .. but the end its `emerge -vC something' So I now have things set in some runlevels that are uninstalled. rc-update show has these error messages Broken runlevel entry: /etc/runlevels/default/samba Broken runlevel entry: /etc/runlevels/default/net.eth0 Broken runlevel entry: /etc/runlevels/default/sendmail [...] rc-update will not let me delete or readd them (since they are missing) I find mention of this problem with google but the only fix mentioned is to readd and then delet... I can't do that here. So I guess I need to hand edit whatever source file or files rc-update uses. Where are they? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update can't fix broken runlevel config
Hello On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:15:59AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I guess I need to hand edit whatever source file or files rc-update uses. Where are they? In /etc/runlevels, there is a directory for each runlevel. That directory contains symlinks to the scripts in /etc/init.d. Just delete the ones that point to non-existing files (they are usually red in bash, if you have colors). I hope this helps. -- Hello, I'm an extension to the infamous signature virus, called spymail. Could you please copy me into your signature and send back what you were doing last night between 10pm and 3am? Michal 'vorner' Vaner pgp1GuiSBXKSr.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] removing X
I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to see action as a semi-DMZ. What is the best way to go about removing X and all its files. Removing the basic x11-base/xorg-x11 is easy enough but there appears to be dozens of other X related pkgs installed. x11-proto/* has apparently dozens of relatives installed. emerge does not appear to accept globbing or maybe I'm just doing it wrong. Would just passing dozens of command line arguments to emerge be a suitable way to get rid of all the clutter? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: rc-update can't fix broken runlevel config
Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In /etc/runlevels, there is a directory for each runlevel. That directory contains symlinks to the scripts in /etc/init.d. Just delete the ones that point to non-existing files (they are usually red in bash, if you have colors). I hope this helps. Yup.. it did.. I should have thought of that and chased it down .. thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] removing X
Hello On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:31:16AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to see action as a semi-DMZ. What is the best way to go about removing X and all its files. Removing the basic x11-base/xorg-x11 is easy enough but there appears to be dozens of other X related pkgs installed. x11-proto/* has apparently dozens of relatives installed. emerge does not appear to accept globbing or maybe I'm just doing it wrong. Would just passing dozens of command line arguments to emerge be a suitable way to get rid of all the clutter? You could remove the meta-package (the one that has size 0 and depends on everything, I guess it's xorg-x11) and then emerge --depclean. You probably should check, what everything that might want to remove, as it might get the things a bit wrong, sometimes. -- When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. -- Gen. C. Abrams Michal 'vorner' Vaner pgpTBIgkd0FIE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
Matthew R. Lee wrote: Dear All, I'm running out of space on my laptop (Compaq Presario V5000) so I've decided to intall a bigger hard disk. Currently I have an 80GB SATA drive, I'm also going to add more RAM (from 1GB to 2GB) as RAM is so cheap at the moment. I've been through various howto's online, including the one in the gentoo-wiki, but I'm not completely clear on a couple of things. I need this to go quickly and smoothly, I'm about to move house and job and I don't have too much time for messing around. My current partition table looks like this: Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6 68506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 699729 77601982+ 83 Linux I intend to keep the same partition layout on the new disk, but with /sda3 being a lot bigger. So here's how I think I'll do this, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. 1. place the new 160GB SATA drive in an external housing and create the partitions using fdisk, make the file systems, etc. Question 1: Should I keep the swap partition the same size or increase it? 2. Copy all the partitions from the old disk to the new disk using cp Question 2: (This is the main one!) The MBR? As the new disk is a direct replacement for the old one, with the same partitions etc, do I need to change anything in my grub.conf? or should it just work without modification? Here's my current grub.conf: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash2.xpm.gz title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r6 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.18-r6 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. Shutdown, replace the old drive with the new drive, reboot and cross my fingers :-) Will it work? Any comments, as always, greatly appreciated Matt cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by. If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your grub.conf and fstab should be fine. You will need to install grub on the new drive tho. I usually do that from the Gentoo CD myself. Hope it all goes well. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: removing X
Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:31:16AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Would just passing dozens of command line arguments to emerge be a suitable way to get rid of all the clutter? You could remove the meta-package (the one that has size 0 and depends on everything, I guess it's xorg-x11) and then emerge --depclean. You probably should check, what everything that might want to remove, as it might get the things a bit wrong, sometimes. That appears not to be possible here since I've already begun uninstalling stuff the hard way. I get this message from --depclean I don't want to follow the advice offered there an run the newuse world yet... I want to finish cleaning house first. Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the following required packages not being installed x11-proto/kbproto required by x11-libs/libX11-1.1.1 x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 x11-proto/xextproto required by x11-libs/libXext-1.0.3 x11-proto/xproto required by x11-libs/libXau-1.0.3 x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.0.2 x11-libs/libXmu-1.0.3 x11-libs/libICE-1.0.3 x11-libs/libSM-1.0.2 x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 x11-libs/libXfont-1.2.7 x11-proto/fontsproto required by x11-libs/libXfont-1.2.7 =dev-lang/python-2.5 required by sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc11 =x11-proto/xproto-7.0.6 required by x11-libs/libX11-1.1.1 =sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5 required by sys-apps/hal-0.5.7.1-r5 Have you forgotten to run `emerge --update --newuse --deep world` prior to depclean? It may be necessary to manually uninstall packages that no longer exist in the portage tree since it may not be possible to satisfy their dependencies. Also, be aware of the --with-bdeps option that is documented in `man emerge`. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
Dale wrote: cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by. If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your grub.conf and fstab should be fine. You will need to install grub on the new drive tho. I usually do that from the Gentoo CD myself. Hope it all goes well. Dale :-) :-) Me and my sucky typing. Make that cp -a instead. That may work better. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
I would first create the new partitions on the new disk keeping the same sequence (and increasing swap partition to 1GB), and then format them. Say the new drive is /dev/sdb. I would go like this (mind the spaces): mkdir /mnt/dst /mnt/src mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/dst mount -o bind / /mnt/src cd / tar cfp - . |tar xfp - -C /mnt/dst (to copy the / partition) mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/dst/boot cd /boot tar cfp - . |tar xfp - -C /mnt/dst/boot (to copy the /boot partition) then install new grub on sdb's MBR: mount -t proc none /mnt/dst/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dst/dev chroot /mnt/dst /bin/bash env-update source /etc/profile grub device (hd0) /dev/sdb root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit exit unmount all previous (the reverse sequence) and shutdown and swap disks :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
on 12/24/2007 08:38 PM Thanasis wrote the following: I would first create the new partitions on the new disk keeping the same sequence (and increasing swap partition to 1GB), and then format them. Say the new drive is /dev/sdb. I would go like this (mind the spaces): mkdir /mnt/dst /mnt/src mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/dst mount -o bind / /mnt/src cd / tar cfp - . |tar xfp - -C /mnt/dst (to copy the / partition) mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/dst/boot cd /boot tar cfp - . |tar xfp - -C /mnt/dst/boot (to copy the /boot partition) then install new grub on sdb's MBR: mount -t proc none /mnt/dst/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dst/dev chroot /mnt/dst /bin/bash env-update source /etc/profile grub device (hd0) /dev/sdb root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit exit unmount all previous (the reverse sequence) and shutdown and swap disks :-) Please correct above to mount -o bind / /mnt/src cd /mnt/src tar cfp - . |tar xfp - -C /mnt/dst -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:06:21AM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: Michael George wrote: Couldn't establish a connection to :9202: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname ':9202' I'm not sure why the kernel would make this difference, but it looks like something is trying to connect to No Host:9202. Do you have your hostname properly configured? And in /etc/hosts do you have your 127.0.0.1 entry? I agree with your assessment. I found a similar message on an LTSP list, but the terminal's name was before 9202. (That post was about a different problem, so the solution there didn't help me.) My /etc/hosts file includes the localhost entry (127.0.0.1 localhost) and also an entry for my system's real IP address and hostname (192.168.0.251 brego ...). So I don't think that is the problem. Thank you for the suggestion, though, as I had not double-checked /etc/hosts yet... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
On Monday 24 December 2007 15:06:36 Dale wrote: Dale wrote: cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by. If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your grub.conf and fstab should be fine. You will need to install grub on the new drive tho. I usually do that from the Gentoo CD myself. Hope it all goes well. Dale :-) :-) Me and my sucky typing. Make that cp -a instead. That may work better. Dale :-) :-) Right, so when I've finished copying the partitions to the new disk, I swap the disks and boot with the Gentoo live CD and follow the instructions from the install handbook: Default: Setting up GRUB using grub-install To install GRUB you will need to issue the grub-install command. However, grub-install won't work off-the-shelf since we are inside a chrooted environment. We need to create /etc/mtab which lists all mounted filesystems. Fortunately, there is an easy way to accomplish this - just copy over /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, excluding the rootfs line if you haven't created a separate boot partition. The following command will work in both cases: Code Listing 5: Creating /etc/mtab # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts /etc/mtab Now we can install GRUB using grub-install: Code Listing 6: Running grub-install # grub-install --no-floppy /dev/hda If you have more questions regarding GRUB, please consult the GRUB FAQ or the GRUB Manual. Continue with Rebooting the System. Cheers! -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Monday 24 December 2007 15:06:36 Dale wrote: Dale wrote: cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by. If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your grub.conf and fstab should be fine. You will need to install grub on the new drive tho. I usually do that from the Gentoo CD myself. Hope it all goes well. Dale :-) :-) Me and my sucky typing. Make that cp -a instead. That may work better. Dale :-) :-) Right, so when I've finished copying the partitions to the new disk, I swap the disks and boot with the Gentoo live CD and follow the instructions from the install handbook: Default: Setting up GRUB using grub-install To install GRUB you will need to issue the grub-install command. However, grub-install won't work off-the-shelf since we are inside a chrooted environment. We need to create /etc/mtab which lists all mounted filesystems. Fortunately, there is an easy way to accomplish this - just copy over /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, excluding the rootfs line if you haven't created a separate boot partition. The following command will work in both cases: Code Listing 5: Creating /etc/mtab # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts /etc/mtab Now we can install GRUB using grub-install: Code Listing 6: Running grub-install # grub-install --no-floppy /dev/hda If you have more questions regarding GRUB, please consult the GRUB FAQ or the GRUB Manual. Continue with Rebooting the System. Cheers! If I recall correctly, mount the partitions, chroot in, do the env-update and I always do the source /etc/profile too, just in case. Then do the grub part. Thanasis seems to have that explained very well. Someone step up if I messed a step here. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:52:30 +0200, Thanasis wrote: mount -o bind / /mnt/src cd /mnt/src tar cfp - . |tar xfp - -C /mnt/dst tar cfp - . |tar xfp - -C /mnt/dst You don't need to mess around with bind mounting /, just do cd / tar clfp - ... For that matter, the f option is redundant, as tar send to stdout by default. cd / tar cp . | tar xp -C /mnt/dst Even simpler... rsync -ax / /mnt/dst/ -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 18: Taped live signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: removing X
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:56:57 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to follow the advice offered there an run the newuse world yet... I want to finish cleaning house first. Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the following required packages not being installed x11-proto/kbproto required by x11-libs/libX11-1.1.1 x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 x11-proto/xextproto required by x11-libs/libXext-1.0.3 ... You may have a long night ahead of you. Unless this is a slow machine, it is probably quicker to emerge -u world first, especially if most the packages you have removed as as small as the ones you listed. -- Neil Bothwick I'm not crying victim, but I am stating that a lot of spammers are genuine scumbags. -Sanford Wallace signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
On 24 Dec 2007, at 17:06, Randy Barlow wrote: ... You will probably need to use grub-install/setup if you do dd as well, unless you dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb (or am I wrong about this?) No, you're correct - `dd` would copy the boot-sector. But it would also leave all partitions at their original sizes, leaving 80gig of free space at the end of the drive. I'm not sure how one would go about enlarging the /dev/sda2 in order to fill this - I'm sure it's possible, but I can't say I've ever had to do so. It might be as simple as completing the `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb` and then using `fdisk` to delete the last partition, then recreate it with the same start point (and a later end point). The filesystem would then need to be resized. But I don't know if this will work, and it's potentially destructive if you get it wrong (although the original drive is still intact if it doesn't). Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: removing X
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:56:57 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't want to follow the advice offered there an run the newuse
world yet... I want to finish cleaning house first.
Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
the following required packages not being installed
x11-proto/kbproto required by x11-libs/libX11-1.1.1
x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 x11-proto/xextproto required by
x11-libs/libXext-1.0.3
...
You may have a long night ahead of you. Unless this is a slow machine, it
is probably quicker to emerge -u world first, especially if most the
packages you have removed as as small as the ones you listed.
Thanks... this wasn't a huge installation. I'm not sure how many
installed packages were there... but I was able to get it done in
about 1 hr.
emerge was able to gulp long cmdlines constructed like:
eix -I installed
Then a series of this type command:
emerge -vC `awk '/x11-drivers/{print $2}'`
Rebuilding the `installed' file occasionally.
I'm not sure what kind of a mess I've created yet .. I just started
emerge -vuDe world
Today about 1/2 hr ago
But at least the `world' file was pared way down; no monster kde
compiles to wait out.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] brlcad users here?--RESOLVED
--- Arttu V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:33:52 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just to clarify: What does a 'pre-compiled binary' do? I meant just regular binary files, which have been compiled -- as opposed to the source files (non-compiled ;) ). Sorry for being unclear. :) -- Arttu V. No, I get it Arrtu. But still, what advantage is software that's been compiled against a completely different system? _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
Question 2: (This is the main one!) The MBR? As the new disk is a direct replacement for the old one, with the same partitions etc, do I need to change anything in my grub.conf? or should it just work without modification? I just did this. My method: Duplicate the partitions, file systems. Then dd if=[old device] of=[new device] bs=32k for each partition. Note: won't work if new device old device. fschk each file system for corruption. Remove or reformat other drive for storage etc. Install grub on the partition of choice. That's it! Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 10:36:16PM -0500, Michael George wrote: I do have this error from startx, though: Couldn't establish a connection to :9202: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname ':9202' I hate to offer so primitive a suggestion, but grep -rl 9202 /etc might help. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:28:37 +, Stroller wrote: It might be as simple as completing the `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb` and then using `fdisk` to delete the last partition, then recreate it with the same start point (and a later end point). The filesystem would then need to be resized. But I don't know if this will work, It will, I've done it myself. The main disadvantages are that you can only resize the last partition,and it is very slow (because dd copies every byte of the source drive, not jut the ones in use). Although I have used this method, I wouldn't do it again, I'd set up the partitions, copy with rsync and run grub to install it on the new drive. -- Neil Bothwick Error reading FAT record: Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: removing X
On 2007-12-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to see action as a semi-DMZ. That sounds like a lot of work. My guess is that it would be a faster and easier to wipe the disk and install from scratch. -- Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Intel Wireless 3945ABG Adapter
I have laptop with wireless adapter: # lspci | grep -i wireless 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) It has 2 drivers: http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ (marked as deprecated) http://intellinuxwireless.org/ (masked in portage tree) At the moment I use IPW3945. Is it wort to switch to iwlwifi? How does it work with 2.6.23 kernel? Is it stable? Thanks for any help. -- Sergey -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Wireless 3945ABG Adapter
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:04:33 +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: At the moment I use IPW3945. Is it wort to switch to iwlwifi? How does it work with 2.6.23 kernel? Is it stable? I use iwlwifi with an Intel 4965 and it works well. -- Neil Bothwick Accordion: a bagpipe with pleats. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Why doesn't `sandbox' like /root/.bash_history?
Any usage of emerge gets: ACCESS DENIED open_rd: /root/.bash_history ACCESS DENIED open_rd: /root/.bash_history if I: mv ~/.bash_history ~/.bash_historyX It works fine. ls -l ~/.bash_history -rw--- 1 root root 1841 Dec 24 12:14 /root/.bash_history I've tried chmodding it to 644 but that does nothing. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: removing X
Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2007-12-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to see action as a semi-DMZ. That sounds like a lot of work. My guess is that it would be a faster and easier to wipe the disk and install from scratch. I would have done that without hesitation had it not been for the fact that this installation is a vm guest on winXP and I had a heck of a time getting it to work with gentoo. But as it turned out it wasn't all that hard. Mainly because it was kind of a basic installation even though it had X and KDE desktop. The fact that emerge can swallow giant size lists of stuff to uninstall was a big bonus. I didn't go over 86 on cmdline and just settled for doing it multiple times, but I think it would have swallowed more if I had. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:36:16 -0500 Michael George wrote: I just upgraded my kernel from 2.6.19 to 2.6.23 and it takes almost a minute for X to start now. I have changed window managers (normally ctwm, tested with twm) with the same results. I rebooted the 2.6.19 kernel and X fires right up as expected. Booting back to 2.6.23 and it's excruciatingly long. I saw some prior posts which indicated a network problem, but in that case the OP said that the loopback interface wasn't up. I checked my system (ifconfig) and both lo and eth0 are up and running. I do have this error from startx, though: Couldn't establish a connection to :9202: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname ':9202' I forgot to check if I had that error when running 2.6.19... I tried a web search for this type of error and came up empty. What part of X would this error be from? Thanks! -- -M A one minute delay makes me think of DNS lookup time-out failures. The can't establish connection ...9202 sounds like port 9202 of a non-existant host is wanted. grep 9202 /etc/services produces: wap-wsp-s 9202/tcp # WAP secure connectionless session service wap-wsp-s 9202/udp Do you do anything with wireless? HTH, David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: removing X
On 18:20 Mon 24 Dec , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2007-12-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to see action as a semi-DMZ. That sounds like a lot of work. My guess is that it would be a faster and easier to wipe the disk and install from scratch. I would have done that without hesitation had it not been for the fact that this installation is a vm guest on winXP and I had a heck of a time getting it to work with gentoo. But as it turned out it wasn't all that hard. Mainly because it was kind of a basic installation even though it had X and KDE desktop. The fact that emerge can swallow giant size lists of stuff to uninstall was a big bonus. I didn't go over 86 on cmdline and just settled for doing it multiple times, but I think it would have swallowed more if I had. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Something to remember for the future: You can delete entries in the world file Personally, I find that faster than going through and finding what is already installed, and doing the uninstall the long way. emerge --tree should help some, as well, but for a basic install (30 packages in world), deleting the entries should be the fastest way, followed by an emerge --depclean. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Dell XPS 420 (Nvidia video card)
Hello, Is anyone on the list using a Dell XPS 420 with an Nvidia card (I avoid ati)? I am curious as to how it is working out for you, as I am considering getting one. Also, if you went with their non-descript wireless card, did it work in linux? How about the onboard ethernet? I am interested in all hardware working with no special tricks (vanilla kernel). Thank you for your time. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dev-haskell/{cabal,haxml} -- runaway memory hog
On Dec 23, 2007 8:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emerging haxml directly repeats the greedy performance, and when I kill it, it gives me this message: * The 'prerm' phase of the 'dev-haskell/haxml-1.13.2' package has failed * with exit value -1. The problem occurred while executing the ebuild * located at '/var/db/pkg/dev-haskell/haxml-1.13.2/haxml-1.13.2.ebuild'. * If necessary, manually remove the ebuild in order to skip the execution * of removal phases. What the heck is going on here, and how do I manually remove haxml? Does deleting the ebuild (not haxml, just that particular ebuild, as suggested by manually remove the ebuild, make any difference? I don't have these problems, but I've got testing flags enabled for all my Haskell stuff and I'm using the Gentoo Haskell overlay. -- _jsn -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
