Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Jamie, Jamie Dobbs schrieb: Also I'm not running at Athlon X2 system, ifs there any _real_ advantage to running AMD64 or should I still to x86? Just a few questions before I plunge in to it again :-) you need a 64-bit system only if you have more then 4GB memory on your pc. If not I

[gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-08 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I tried today to build vim but it fails. Now I want to make sure all packages needed by vim are installed correctly. To do this I decided to reinstall all packages need be vim. I checked the man page of emerge but could not found an option for this. Is there a possibility to reinstall all

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-08 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Justin, Justin schrieb: Provide ous some more information about how vim fails. Runtime, build or what failure you get. ok here you are: :) /usr/lib/python2.4/config/libpython2.4.a(posixmodule.o): In function `posix_tmpnam': (.text+0x94e): warning: the use of `tmpnam_r' is dangerous,

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-09 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Justin, Justin schrieb: Try doing what the ebuild is telling you. Re-emerge perl and libperl with the same USE FLAGS that is what I tried to say, but maybe two commands make it more clear: equery u libperl [ Found these USE variables for sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r1 ] U I + + berkdb :

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-09 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Abraham, [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: emerge --emptytree vim thanks for that. It completed now successfully and vim is installed fine :) Best regards, Matthias -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-04 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I have here a problem. I updated the shell bash today and the computer stalled while installing bash so I was not able to reboot my PC. I rebooted then from a rescue system and the bash was completely crashed so I copied the bash from the rescue system. Now I can boot my system again. Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-04 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Philip, Philip Webb wrote: The first thing to try what it says: run Ranlib. However, it's not clear which library you need to run it on: my system has no dir /lib/readline ; I found the directory, it's: /var/tmp/portage/app-shells/bash-3.2_p17/work/bash-3.2/lib/readline But that should

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-04 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Daniel, * Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-09-07 22:55]: In your first message the portage output says version 3.2_p17 now you write 3.2_p15-r1, which one is bugging you? the bugging version is 3.2_p17. I reinstalled now 3.1_p17 which works. (regarding to eix 3.2_17 and 3.1_p17 are

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-05 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Benno, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Please show us the output of 'qlop -ul bash' (qlop is from portage-utils). And paste the output of 'emerge --info'. ---snip--- Tue Apr 17 21:43:38 2007 app-shells/bash-3.1_p16 Tue Apr 17 21:43:38 2007 app-shells/bash-3.1_p17 Tue Sep 4 22:37:57 2007

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-05 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Benno, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Please don't snip anything, show the full output. sry, that was the full output it was a snip to the email itself. Do 'cd /var/db/pkg/app-shells; rm -rf bash-3.2_p17'. This removes the record of the no longer installed bash-3.2. Then try re-emerging the

[gentoo-user] Bug in /etc/init.d/netmount?

2007-10-05 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I have here a gentoo diskless system which boots over pxeboot and mount everything over NFS from my big Gentoo server. But at shutdown I get the error message: Failed to simply unmount filesystems Unmounting network filesystems (retry #1) ... INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in /etc/init.d/netmount?

2007-10-07 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Dan, Dan Farrell wrote: AFAIK you are correct, this is a bug in a few of the initscripts that don't behave sensibly if the root fs is network mounted. thx for your answer a raised a bug report with the number: 194967. Bye Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software

[gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I created today a raid5 with three 1.5TB harddisks. What I did: 1. created partitions on every harddisk with type 0xfd, fdisk says: Platte /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GByte, 1500301910016 Byte 255 K?pfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 182401 Zylinder Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 ? 512 = 8225280 Bytes Disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Dirk, Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Kernel w/o CONFIG_LBD? thanks a lot! Best regards, Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-20 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Paul, Paul Hartman wrote: 1 a: be commanded or requested to you must stop b: be urged to : ought by all means to you must read that book 2: be compelled by physical necessity to one must eat to live : be required by immediate or future need or purpose to we must hurry to catch the bus 3 a:

[gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-17 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I have here an AMD64 (32-bit installation) with a MSI K8N-Neo2FX running. Gentoo is installed on a serial ATA drive. lspci says: 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2) 00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5)

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-17 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Volker, * Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [17-04-07 10:11]: which is correct. You don't set dma for SATA devices and you don't do it with hdparm. ah ok, thx for that information. But I have a problem. If I copy some data on disks the system is at a very high load and extremely

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Daniel, * Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [17-04-07 15:22]: May be it's a io-scheduling issue. This topic from the forums could be helpful: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462230.html thx, that helps a lot. Now I can trottle high volume copy operations. Best regards, Matthias --

[gentoo-user] Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, is it possible to monitor SATA disks with smart? sys-apps/smartmontools can not read smart on that disks. Best regards, Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Markus, * Markus Schnhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [18-04-07 12:26]: It can. Try something like smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda This ahould print all SMART info about the disk /dev/sda. The important part wrt SATA disks is -d ata thx, works now fine. Best regards, Matthias -- Programming

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Alexander, * Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [18-04-07 12:35]: Keep in mind though, that SMART doesn't give you reliable information, though. Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5038 http://storagemojo.com/?p=383

[gentoo-user] Mount NFS mounts as soon as possible

2007-05-05 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I use here a gentoo for my diskless video recorder but I have the problem the some mounts e.g. /usr is mounted to late (is mounted via NFS). Is there a possibility to say gentoo to mount at first all disk (including NFS) and then start the normal startscripts. Best regards, Matthias --

Re: [gentoo-user] Mount NFS mounts as soon as possible

2007-05-07 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schrieb: IIRC, you can modify specific initscripts (in /etc/init.d) to depend on nfsmount. i moved now the script netmount from default to boot and everything works fine. Bye Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build

[gentoo-user] Scrollback the bootmessages

2006-10-13 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I have the problem on one PC that I cannot mount my root partion. I tried to define it with root= parameter in grub but no success. The problem is now if the kernel panic happens I cannot scroll back to see the possible problem. Is there a possibility to scroll back the boot messages after

[gentoo-user] Several arches installed, flag kernel automatically

2007-01-03 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I have here two gentoo systems one 32-bit and one 64-bit. To save space on my harddisk the mounts /home and /boot are used from both systems. Now I have the problem with the kernel version. Both systems running kernel 2.6.18-gentoo-r6. If I install now the kernel from the 64-bit system it

Re: [gentoo-user] Several arches installed, flag kernel automatically

2007-01-03 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Ryan, * Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-01-07 12:11]: I assume you're using make install after building your kernel? I usually do a cp arch/[insert your arch here]/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-[version string] (and then one for the System.map) Would that do what you want? No :) I want

Re: [gentoo-user] can't find my partition when config grub

2007-01-04 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, Chuanwen Wu schrieb: Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1NTFS /dev/cciss/c0d0p2Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p3extended grub root (hd0,1) or grub root (hd0,0) grub cannot access ntfs so you need to fire the bootloader from windows. I have no idea what the device

[gentoo-user] Port for gnome-commander

2007-01-08 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I tried today to get gnome-commander to run on my gentoo box. I did the following: - create dir /usr/local/portage/app-editors/gnome-commander - downloaded the ebuild fire from http://www.nongnu.org/gcmd/download.html - added PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage in /etc/make.conf - add the

Re: [gentoo-user] Port for gnome-commander

2007-01-08 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Neil, * Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08-01-07 17:12]: Under what name did you save the ebuild. thx a lot, that was the tip I needed. Now renamed the file from gnome-commander.ebuild to gnome-commander-1.2.3.ebuild, downloaded the bz2 file and executed ebuild

[gentoo-user] Improvement Request for Install CD

2007-01-11 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I miss the tool cpio on the install CD. Where ca I submit that feature request? I would really appriciate it to have cpio on the install cd. Thx a lot Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Improvement Request for Install CD

2007-01-14 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Avaricen, * Avaricen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-01-07 02:03]: I'd suggest reading, start here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_LiveCD_and_LiveUSB thx a lot for your link. The article is very interesting but it is not what I wanted. I asked which person or group I should ask that cpio is

Re: [gentoo-user] Improvement Request for Install CD

2007-01-15 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Neil, Neil Bothwick schrieb: File a request at http://bugs.gentoo.org a thx is commited. Bye Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far,

[gentoo-user] Problem with X apps from remote PC

2006-08-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I have here Xorg running. My system is a AMD64, software is up-to-date. X is compiled with xinerama tag. Now if I start emacs or a xterm etc on my FreeBSD pc I can only see the decoration of the window but nothing is displayed in it. As window manager I use XFCE4. Everything worked fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with X apps from remote PC

2006-08-20 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, * Matthias Fechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [19-08-06 01:33]: I have here Xorg running. My system is a AMD64, software is up-to-date. X is compiled with xinerama tag. Now if I start emacs or a xterm etc on my FreeBSD pc I can only see the decoration of the window but nothing is displayed

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP4?

2006-08-31 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Anthony, * Anthony Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [31-08-06 14:24]: I have just installed SquirrelMail, and found that parts of it are not working. The version of PHP that is installed is 5.1.2. Searching the sqirrelmail website, it appears that squirrelmail doesn't work with php5. is running

Re: [gentoo-user] Joomla

2010-06-09 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Mick, Am 09.06.10 08:05, schrieb Mick: I can't answer directly your question, but unless you have a particular reason to use Joomla, I would strongly recommend to give Drupal a try. It is a more powerful CMS with more modules than Joomla. yes you are right with your comment, I

[gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install

2010-06-24 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I followed now the wiki page: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 At the step to create the config file with: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg and install grub2 with: grub-install /dev/sda it needs several hours to complete each of the commands. Is this normal? Bye, Matthias --

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install

2010-06-24 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, Am 24.06.10 15:48, schrieb Alex Schuster: The old grub sometimes paused for around a minute because it searched for the floppy, the --no-floppy switch speeded this up. hm, that is a really good point, I found in dmesg in in the logfile, tones of the following lines: Jun 24 06:54:42

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install

2010-06-29 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, Am 24.06.10 17:09, schrieb Matthias Fechner: hm, that is a really good point, I found in dmesg in in the logfile, tones of the following lines: Jun 24 06:54:42 idefix-pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 24 06:54:54 idefix-pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0

[gentoo-user] Cannot upgrade kde-base/superkaramba

2010-07-08 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I tried the last days to do a emerge -avuDN world but it fails at the package kde-base/superkaramba-4.4.4 I get the error message: Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libsuperkaramba.so CMakeFiles/superkaramba.dir/python/meter.o: In function `QString2PyString(QString)':

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot upgrade kde-base/superkaramba

2010-07-11 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, On 07/10/10 16:18, Arttu V. wrote: Wild guess: you might have a python version installed which is not compiled with the wide-unicode support. I'm not sure what all will be broken by such a situation, but following might help: hm, should not, i started to recompiled everything, but it does

[gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread Matthias Fechner
Dear list, I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the root partition. After the panic I cannot scroll up to check what drives are detected

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, On 20.01.11 04:35, John Campbell wrote: I had that problem or something similar some time ago when updating to the new, at the time, pata drivers. I ended up using a brute force technique... I booted grub to it's built in shell and used it's limited tools to figure out which

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, On 20.01.11 11:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: The whole point of a panic is that the kernel stops executing code. It has to, something has gone badly wrong and it's too risky to continue execution of anything. Scrolling up involves running some code. You can't have it both ways. yes, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Jarry, Am 20.01.2011 17:13, schrieb Jarry: I had a movie-camera in mind of course (or photo-camera with ability to record movies). You turn it on, point on screen, start recording, and after that turn computer on. If it can record at least 20fps (my cheap digi-camera can make 60fps), it

[gentoo-user] Networkdriver for Intel 82579

2011-01-22 Thread Matthias Fechner
Dear list, I have here a brand new mainboard (Asus P8P67 Pro) with the new sandy chip on it. If I look into the manual it says there is an Intel 82579 Gigabit LAN chip on-board. I tried it with kernel 2.6.37 (from kernel.org) and dmesg tells me: e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver -

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkdriver for Intel 82579

2011-01-22 Thread Matthias Fechner
On 01/22/11 12:12, Dale wrote: Just build it in or add it as a module. In case you are new, go to Device Drivers, Network Device support, Ethernet 1000 Mbit then look for Intel Pro/1000. Sort of lists it backwards up there. ;-) no it is not working (kernel 2.6.37). But I got the above

[gentoo-user] Something like nullfs (FreeBSD) available in linux

2011-01-26 Thread Matthias Fechner
Dear list, I want to build up a NFS share for several host. The base system is always equal, only some files are different (files in /etc and /var, maybe more). The structure should look like: Base system is on /basesystem Then I want a directory for every host: /nfsroot/host1 /nfsroot/host2

Re: [gentoo-user] Something like nullfs (FreeBSD) available in linux

2011-01-26 Thread Matthias Fechner
On 26.01.11 16:56, YoYo Siska wrote: Unionfs or aufs should be able to do that. thanks a lot, aufs work perfectly. Thanks, Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Matthias Fechner
Am 21.03.2011 20:32, schrieb Jarry: resizeable (if possible online) I switched to ext4, it can resize in both direction. Bye Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger