Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lilo vs. LVM

2010-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:03 on Saturday 04 September 2010, walt did opine thusly: On 09/04/2010 07:11 AM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, I have a VM with a gentoo guest. For testing I set it up with an LVM Volume Group that consisted of only one disk. Now I added a 2nd

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo vs. LVM

2010-09-05 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In aanlkti=z6rz7umnm3jbcupbvbehpqzt4xsd=l_hfa...@mail.gmail.com oss.el...@googlemail.com (Al) writes: 2010/9/4 Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de: Hi, I have a VM with a gentoo guest. For testing I set it up with an LVM Volume Group that consisted of only one disk. Now I added a 2nd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 04 September 2010 08:23:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Something seems screwed in your config. Try creating a new test user and login with that one. See if it still happens there. You're right. I did that and info:grub was displayed properly in Konqueror. Now to find what's gone

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-05 Thread Stroller
On 4 Sep 2010, at 15:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:15:01 +0100, Stroller wrote: Needed to use: PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=use...@mydomain.com mymailserver.com I've got it without that, Portage 2.1.8.3. $ grep ELOG /etc/make.conf PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=warn error log

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

2010-09-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 04 September 2010 23:30:55 you wrote: On Saturday 04 September 2010 22:43:01 kashani wrote: On 9/3/2010 10:53 PM, Jarry wrote: On 31. 8. 2010 20:30, Mick wrote: I stop apach mysql, run the update, dispatch-conf and then restart them both. Haven't had problems since.

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

2010-09-05 Thread Mick
On Sunday 05 September 2010 10:29:29 you wrote: On Saturday 04 September 2010 23:30:55 you wrote: On Saturday 04 September 2010 22:43:01 kashani wrote: On 9/3/2010 10:53 PM, Jarry wrote: On 31. 8. 2010 20:30, Mick wrote: I stop apach mysql, run the update, dispatch-conf and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Baselayout 1.12.13 bug 291916

2010-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
100904 Mick wrote: On Saturday 04 September 2010 13:20:06 Philip Webb wrote: Today I ran into bug 291916. I updated my Asus EEE netbook to Baselayout 1.12.13 got the messages assuming udev failed somewhere, as /dev/zero does not exist etc ; downgrading back to Baselayout 1.12.11.1 solved the

[gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly prefer to the 1600x900 display on the more modern Inspiron 1545 I own. Most of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 05.09.2010 14:58, schrieb John Blinka: Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly prefer to the 1600x900 display

Re: [gentoo-user] is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ? -- SOLVED

2010-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
100904 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 04.09.2010 14:13, schrieb Philip Webb: I successfully removed Hal from my desktop machine some time ago. Today, I tried removing it from my ASUS EEE netbook : I dropped 'hald' from the default runlevel, recompiled Xorg-server + Xf86-input-synaptics with

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-09-05, John Blinka john.bli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly prefer to the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Al
2010/9/5 John Blinka john.bli...@gmail.com: Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly prefer to the 1600x900 display

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-05 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 10:14:18 +0100 Stroller wrote: On 4 Sep 2010, at 15:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:15:01 +0100, Stroller wrote: Needed to use: PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=use...@mydomain.com mymailserver.com I've got it without that, Portage 2.1.8.3. $ grep ELOG

[gentoo-user] Trying to configure alsa for INTEL HDA (ATI)

2010-09-05 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, on my mobo there is the following audio related PCI-items (exerpt from lspci): 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) The current lsmod gives me: snd_hda_codec_atihdmi 1807 0 snd_pcm_oss32995 0 nvidia 10064990 28

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-05 Thread Alex Schuster
David Relson writes: Having my own domain, I run my own mailserver -- but it's not on my gentoo development machine. I read the emerge python code, specifically mail.py, to find how PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI is handled. Reading the code lead me to (finally) realize that I need to have a

[gentoo-user] Re: creating ssh account without directory browsing

2010-09-05 Thread Kalkin Sam
Hi, Young padawan Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com spoke: Everytime I uncomment: ChrootDirectory /work and I try to connect, I receive this message on the console: Write failed: Broken pipe Any ideas?! Yes RTFM and Google :) man sshd_config and look at ChrootDirectory entry: cite All

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Sunday 05 September 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: On 2010-09-05, John Blinka john.bli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Sunday 05 September 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: On 2010-09-05, John Blinka john.bli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new

[gentoo-user] [Chong Yidong] Re: bug#6987: 23.2; failure adding --group-directories-first to dired-listing-switches

2010-09-05 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Chong has fixed this *already*. allan ---BeginMessage--- Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu writes: emacs -Q (setq dired-listing-switches --group-directories-first -l) M-x dired Although typing s in dired correctly alternates the sorting between by name and by date, the mode line always says

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-09-05, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Sunday 05 September 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: On 2010-09-05, John Blinka john.bli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Al
How do you explain the widespread popularity of portrait mode for printed material?  Text is much easier to read in tall, narrow, columns.  The more lines of code you can see at once when editing source code, the fewer the bugs.  Both those have been experimentally verified. And I like to

[gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-05 Thread Ajai Khattri
This box hasn't been updated in awhile: # emerge -uDtav1k portage * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ]

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-05 Thread Dale
Ajai Khattri wrote: This box hasn't been updated in awhile: # emerge -uDtav1k portage * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done!