Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Thanasis
on 01/05/2011 09:39 AM Dale wrote the following: > Thanasis wrote: >> date 0101010101&& /etc/init.d/ntpd restart&& date > > I got this: > > Jan 1 01:05:16 localhost ntpd[5709]: time correction of 315880203 > seconds exceeds sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct > UTC time. > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Thanasis
Try the following and see if it resets time correctly date 0101010101 && /etc/init.d/ntpd restart && date

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Adam Carter
> > I had a similar problem before and I did solve it by running this > command: > > eselect php set apache2 php5.3. I believe I get this command from a > Gentoo > > official PHP guide. > > > > Hung > > Thank you, that fixed it. I'm getting some errors in squirrelmail but > functionality seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] trackpoint *and* trackpad

2011-01-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 04:42:53 James wrote: > All, > > Has anyone gotten both the trackpad and trackpoint on a t400 to work > simultaneously? I can't seem to get it to work. Here are the relevant > sections of my xorg.conf file. > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout0" >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 00:55:49 Alex Schuster wrote: > Dale writes: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, > >> Stroller did > >> > >> opine thusly: > >>> I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or > >>> so, and s

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/04/11 14:42, Grant wrote: > > Thank you, that fixed it. I'm getting some errors in squirrelmail but > functionality seems to be intact. > > Since things seem to be working with php-5.3.4, how can I get rid of > the older version of php that must be installed in another slot? I'm > hoping

[gentoo-user] gpg-agent crach on arm

2011-01-04 Thread Maxime Brachet
Hi, I installed gnupg 2.0.16-r2 (and r1 previously) on the AC100 which is arm based. When I start gpg-agent i got this error : $ gpg-agent *** longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame ***: gpg-agent terminated Aborted there is a bugfix in ubuntu : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: Is the clock almost in sync? - if its too far out ntp will silently fail to sync (by design - large scale time steps can be destructive for heavily active databases for instance) Check out the -g option to ntpd in 'man ntpd' or 'tinker panic 0' in ntp.conf Also, has nt

[gentoo-user] trackpoint *and* trackpad

2011-01-04 Thread James
All, Has anyone gotten both the trackpad and trackpoint on a t400 to work simultaneously? I can't seem to get it to work. Here are the relevant sections of my xorg.conf file. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreK

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread William Kenworthy
Is the clock almost in sync? - if its too far out ntp will silently fail to sync (by design - large scale time steps can be destructive for heavily active databases for instance) Check out the -g option to ntpd in 'man ntpd' or 'tinker panic 0' in ntp.conf Also, has ntp.conf specified a writable

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Duong "Yang" Ha Nguyen
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Grant wrote: > > Since things seem to be working with php-5.3.4, how can I get rid of > the older version of php that must be installed in another slot? I'm > hoping that simplifies things a bit. PHP on Gentoo just got more > complicated and all I need out of it is squirrelmai

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller >> did >> opine thusly: >> >>> I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or >>> so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of >>> describing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing "root=" to the kernel. http://www.li

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-04 Thread Dale
KIM WHALEN wrote: Yes, it looks like I'm using python 3. I change it to python2.6 and it looks like it's emerge'ing without errors. This should be mentioned in the install documentation. Now do I need to rebuild everything else, emerge --empty-tree, now that I switched python interpreters?

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-04 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 21:35:08 KIM WHALEN wrote: > Yes, it looks like I'm using python 3. I change it to python2.6 and it > looks like it's emerge'ing without errors. This should be mentioned in > the install documentation. Now do I need to rebuild everything else, > emerge --empty-tree, no

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-04 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 22:35:08 KIM WHALEN wrote: > Yes, it looks like I'm using python 3. I change it to python2.6 and it > looks like it's emerge'ing without errors. This should be mentioned in > the install documentation. Now do I need to rebuild everything else, > emerge --empty-tree, no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:50 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote: > > I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that > > machine from previous updates. > > Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 01/03/2011 10:23 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> uvesafb will not give

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: > On 4/1/2011, at 9:42am, Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> ... > >> Does > >> > >> boot=LABEL= > >> > >> in grub config work for you? > > > > I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not findi

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-04 Thread KIM WHALEN
Yes, it looks like I'm using python 3. I change it to python2.6 and it looks like it's emerge'ing without errors. This should be mentioned in the install documentation. Now do I need to rebuild everything else, emerge --empty-tree, now that I switched python interpreters? # eselect python l

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-04 Thread Matías Marquez
Hello. Are you using python 3 as your main python interpreter? Try: #emerge -av python:2.6 #eselect python lists #eselect python set N where N is the number of python 2 in the previos command. I can't help with the video card problem. Sorry about my poor English. Bye.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-04 Thread David Abbott
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Jacques Montier wrote: > Le 04/01/2011 21:00, Thanasis a écrit : >> What happens if you give the command >> eject >> >> > CD tray opens then close. > > Jacques > > This may help; http://gentoo-pr.org/node/27 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319829 -- David A

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-04 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 04/01/2011 21:00, Thanasis a écrit : > What happens if you give the command > eject > > CD tray opens then close. Jacques

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-04 Thread Thanasis
What happens if you give the command eject

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Grant
> I just upgraded to php-5.3.4 which I believe went into a new slot. Is > slotted behavior new for PHP? I think things have been rearranged. > Can someone clue me in to the new layout? For example, I get: > > # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > * Caching service dependencies ... > * apache2 has de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Andrea Conti
>> boot=LABEL= >> >> in grub config work for you? > > I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding the > root device. Is this available in the grub-0.97 series at all? I am not sure about grub 2, but 0.97 knows nothing about filesystem labels (and neither does the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 18:47:30 Hung Dang wrote: > On 01/04/11 10:27, Grant wrote: > > I just upgraded to php-5.3.4 which I believe went into a new slot. Is > > slotted behavior new for PHP? I think things have been rearranged. > > Can someone clue me in to the new layout? For example, I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-04 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi again, Some tests about the problem : 1- problem = cdrom and cdrw tray open and close. 2- I run /etc/init.d/dbus restart, then : dbus, consolekit, cupsd and hald restart => the problem is gone. 3- I open Nautilus => problem is back... 4- I uninstall gvfs ; i open Nautilus => problem is gone, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Hung Dang
On 01/04/11 10:27, Grant wrote: > I just upgraded to php-5.3.4 which I believe went into a new slot. Is > slotted behavior new for PHP? I think things have been rearranged. > Can someone clue me in to the new layout? For example, I get: > > # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > * Caching service depe

[gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Grant
I just upgraded to php-5.3.4 which I believe went into a new slot. Is slotted behavior new for PHP? I think things have been rearranged. Can someone clue me in to the new layout? For example, I get: # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Caching service dependencies ... * apache2 has detected an err

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-04 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman [11-01-04 17:28]: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:04 PM, wrote: > > Very last question: > > Is there any way to test what font looks best without haveing > > to boot each time ? > > setfont > Hi all, thank you very much for your help again! Now I have a beautiful console! Long lives

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2011 01:31:27 Dale wrote: Anybody else ran into this? Am I missing something that is different on a 64 bit rig? I discovered chrony some years ago, which has a sophisticated clock slewing mechanism, and haven't used ntp since. Chrony runs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Mick
On 4 January 2011 11:01, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2011 09:44:05 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >> > One way to avoid USB-devices to be picked up before the kernel >> > picks its boot- device is to put the USB-stuff as modules and have >> > them loaded later. >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Steffen Loos
Am 04.01.2011 02:31, schrieb Dale: Hi, I been watching my clock here for a while. On my old rig, ntp kept the clock set very, very well. This rig seems to have issues. I tried the stable version of ntp and it just seems to keep resetting the time but not adjusting the drift file at all. I eve

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:04 PM, wrote: > Very last question: > Is there any way to test what font looks best without haveing > to boot each time ? setfont

[gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-04 Thread KIM WHALEN
I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot of problems somewhere between X, Gnome, and the Graphics card. I'm using genkernel so there shouldn't be too much of a problem there. The graphics card as identified by the system is: nVidia Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700L

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 09:44:05 Jörg Schaible wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > One way to avoid USB-devices to be picked up before the kernel > > picks its boot- device is to put the USB-stuff as modules and have > > them loaded later. > > > > I haven't found a way to delay usb-device detectio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/03/2011 10:23 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Nikos Chantziaras  wrote: >>> >>> uvesafb will not give you extra resolutions.  It will however allow you >>> to >>> use non-default refresh-rates which is s

[gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-04 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi all, With last updates, i encounter some strange behaviour witth my cdrom and cdrw tray. When i open the tray, this one closes quite immediatly, and i can't insert any CD or DVD... It's not very convenient... :-( Where is the problem ? hal ? udev ? gvfs ? When i uninstall gvfs, problem is gone.

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-04 Thread walt
On 01/04/2011 02:50 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote: I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that machine from previous updates. Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64 since before it had a complete system. Could your machine be t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Stroller
On 4/1/2011, at 9:42am, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> ... >> Does >> >> boot=LABEL= >> >> in grub config work for you? > > I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding the > root device. Is this available in the grub-0.97 series at all? I found numerous references to this sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 01:31:27 Dale wrote: > Anybody else ran into this? Am I missing something that is different > on a 64 bit rig? I discovered chrony some years ago, which has a sophisticated clock slewing mechanism, and haven't used ntp since. Chrony runs on my gateway machine to main

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote: > I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that > machine from previous updates. Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64 since before it had a complete system. > Could your machine be trying to start something other than kdm by >

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Joost, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2011 18:43:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel >> it seems that anything that is internally c

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Alan, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 21:36 on Monday 03 January 2011, Jörg > Schaible did opine thusly: > >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my bo

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Paul, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jörg Schaible > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel >> it seems that anything that is internally co

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Stroller, Stroller wrote: > > On 3/1/2011, at 7:36pm, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> ... >> And how does this help the kernel to find the root device where >> /etc/fstab is located ? > > The kernel doesn't. You leave that to GRUB. > > I'm not saying this helps solve your problem, I'm just sayin'.

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 03 January 2011 18:43:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > > starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device > changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel > it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a > devic