Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-23 Thread Maxim Wexler
ounts as an idea :) BTW, the major problem with the LiveDvD is the tendency for the syslog(?) console to bleed into all the other consoles -- messages just popped onto the screen. mw On 10/23/09, walt wrote: > On 10/22/2009 04:31 PM, walt wrote: >> On 10/21/2009 11:25 AM, Maxim Wexler wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
OK, went ahead and did it. It's already broke, what's the harm?. Looks like I'll be answering a lot of questions before I'm done. STRIP_ASM_SYMS !? what th'? On 10/22/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> >> Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig? I thought of that, but isn't there too much difference in the versions? I read somewhere that taking to big a leap between versions is unsafe. Not to mention the great whack of new options. If you do a diff -y between the two configs the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
I missed? Read the OP again. On 10/21/09, William Kenworthy wrote: > Run diff on both config files and see what you missed ... > > BillK > > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 21:28 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> > Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new > kernel? I'm getting the impression that you did the menuconfig thing > from scratch, but maybe I'm wrong? I did the 30-r6 from scratch, then copied the .config over to the 30-r7 slot and ran make oldconfig. No change. Leas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
p either. On a related note, I see that CONFIG_NR_CPUS only allows for 8 in the 30 kernel. Trying any other number leads to an error "Invalid Number" , whereas for the 29 kernel, 64 seems to be the default. On 10/21/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> To me, that looks like /dev/sda1 (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
> To me, that looks like /dev/sda1 (which is what the kernel is using as > root=) doesn't contain any of the following: > /sbin/init > /etc/init > /bin/init > /bin/sh > > Noting that the kernel output implied that it was an ext2 filesystem, > that looks like it mounted your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Does /dev/sda1 genuinely contain / and not for example /boot? > This is on an Asus 900A. 4G SSD, / and /boot all on one partition, formatted ext2, to prevent journalling overhead, with e2fsck set to check the fs at every boot. An 8G card contains /home and /var. mw

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
as a follow up go here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13560 Virtually identical problem. Check out the screen pic. Just like mine, save for the hardware and fs differences. mw On 10/21/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Did linux#make menuconfig followed by li

[gentoo-user] kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Did linux#make menuconfig followed by linux# make && make modules_install on the .2.6.30-gentoo-r7 sources. And copied over the new kernel and rebooted. The kernel panicked. The relevant messages are: <...> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, Freeing unused kern

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/db-4.7.25_p4 fetch failure

2009-10-18 Thread Maxim Wexler
LOL I thought I was being a good citizen by using pastebin after being chastised in another forum for *not* using it. Note to self: no more pastebin. On 10/17/09, Stroller wrote: > > On 17 Oct 2009, at 21:10, Dale wrote: >>> ... >>> a) not use pastebin, but post the messages in your email? >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] livedvd v10.1 on eee PC

2009-10-18 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Are you getting squashfs errors? no mw

Re: [gentoo-user] livedvd v10.1 on eee PC

2009-10-18 Thread Maxim Wexler
> /etc/init.d/xdm start > > any better? > much better, thanks! the desktop is rock solid but the individual consoles all still suffer from 'log bleed', A bug I can live with ;] mw

[gentoo-user] livedvd v10.1 on eee PC

2009-10-17 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I'd like to hear of peoples' experiences with the gentoo-livedvd-10.1 especially on the eee PC. In my case(asus 900a), whether I use startx at the boot prompt or let xdm start by default, the X window starts to open and I see a glimpse of the desktop but then the screen goes black and f

[gentoo-user] sys-libs/db-4.7.25_p4 fetch failure

2009-10-17 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group There was a hitch in the latest #emerge -uDN world. Here's the details: http://pastebin.com/m4726a7e3 Appears to be some kind of bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285324 Anybody else had this problem? How should I proceed? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panics after 'ifconfig wlan0 up'

2009-10-13 Thread Maxim Wexler
ed to me there was a problem till I tried to go mobile and the wifi module gagged. I wonder why that one was singled out. So, crisis passed. Well, until I go mobile again and try to connect. Thanks for your interest mw On 10/13/09, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, M

[gentoo-user] kernel panics after 'ifconfig wlan0 up'

2009-10-13 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Emergency here. After my eee pc boots I log in and enter '#ifconfig wlan0 up' as usual to take advantage of the free wifi at the coffee shop. Then, just before I enter the next command, the kernel panics and the console freezes. The top line of hexidecimal barf reads: ath5k_tasklet_rx40

Re: [gentoo-user] opening port 8000

2009-10-09 Thread Maxim Wexler
sorry guys, must squint harder On 10/6/09, Andre Parker wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Maxim Wexler > wrote: >>>     b.) If directly connected iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8000 -j >>> ACCEPT >> >> sorry for the delay answering,  only just got

Re: [gentoo-user] opening port 8000

2009-10-06 Thread Maxim Wexler
> b.) If directly connected iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8000 -j > ACCEPT sorry for the delay answering, only just got back to mobile mode. soupeee # iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -dport 8000 -j ACCEPT Bad argument `8000' mw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile goneFOUND

2009-09-25 Thread Maxim Wexler
> drag-and-drop, too. I'll bet kde probably has a similar thing. Yeah, Konqueror has it, just click on the archive, but not Thunar, unless there's some config setting I'm not aware of. mw

[gentoo-user] re-extracting linux sources

2009-09-25 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, After my last -uvDN world and subsequent revdep-rebuild and emerge --depclean I found the main Makefile under /usr/src/linux was missing. I managed to extract it from the sources and copy it over only to find that, naturally, many other files were missing too. I gave up after the third

Re: [gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile goneFOUND

2009-09-25 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > That's why I never set up a linux system without mc. It's just so much > easier when you can > look inside an archive and manipulate files just as if it were part of > the file system. :) I remember Midnight Commander from the "old days" but forgot how useful it could be. > > Anyway, the arch

[gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile gone

2009-09-24 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I needed to configure iptables support into the kernel but when I tried to run make menuconfig got 'No rule to make target' error. The Makefile was gone. A casualty of a recent emerge -uDN world, I expect. So I ran distfiles# tar xvfj linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2 Makefile which told me 'tar:

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-24 Thread Maxim Wexler
> As mentioned yesterday, I now do all emerges in a chroot on my desktop to > build binary packages, then emerge -k on the Eee, so Ooo only takes 90 > minutes now. The only compiling I do on the Eee is kernel changes. I've decided to give your method a whirl. Are you talking about distcc here? Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues

2009-09-24 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 9/8/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Doing it again. Only change is to tell the conf to get debuggy. Unit > boots; last three lines before login: > > Starting Music Player Daemon > Starting local > Stopping Music Player Daemon > > This after several successful boots with no

[gentoo-user] opening port 8000

2009-09-23 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Shoutcast doesn't connect. nmap reveals all my ports are closed. How to open port 8000? netstat -a doesn't mention it. Maxim Wexler ps sorry if another similar post made it to the list; I was typing away and it just disappeared, honest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal[FIXED - almost]

2009-09-23 Thread Maxim Wexler
> root:566 ~> emerge -pv x11-terms/terminal > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N ] dev-util/xfce4-dev-tools-4.6.0 61 kB > [ebuild R ] x11-terms/terminal-0.4.0 USE="dbus -debug -doc (-nls%)" Ok, that restored my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal

2009-09-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
erm4 you get precisely one hit, which I believe is known as a "googlewhack". This is the terminal I want, the one I used to have: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/terminal This is the terminal I have now: http://www.xfce.org/projects/terminal mw On 9/21/09, walt wrote

[gentoo-user] upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal

2009-09-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Before I did -uvDN world a couple of days ago the terminal that came with xfce4 was quite nice, configurable, with tabs. Now the terminal app really sucks. I've looked in ~/.config/xfce4 for something to tweak but must have missed it. Settings->Preferred Applications->Utilities leads to

[gentoo-user] can't connect to shoutcast

2009-09-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, My connection times out whenever I try to get to shoutcast after entering in the browser: http://localhost:8000 I configured it accrording to the gentoo-wiki. I notice when I run #/etc/init.d/shoutcast start, I get 'SHOUTCAST starting' but that's it, no banner. the log: <...> <09/19/

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Funny thing is, our old phone lines were about that far too. Most of > the time I got about 3KB/s of throughput. I hope yours is better than that. > That's about the top speed here.

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
> As mentioned yesterday, I now do all emerges in a chroot on my desktop to > build binary packages, then emerge -k on the Eee, so Ooo only takes 90 > minutes now. The only compiling I do on the Eee is kernel changes. > This suggests using the fetchonly switch, write the files to USB key while mob

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
> 2. Don't change a winning team! If your kernel run's smoothly with no > weird glutches in drivers, leave it be. Only update if you want new > features. > Just my 2p's worth > Greetz, > Mark Works for my desktop. I haven't updated it for years. Just poked along fixing this and that; if something

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
> I have $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on the SD card, which is cheap enough to replace > if too many OOo compiles toast it. And I took your advice >> 2. It's sloow > > I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly some compiles completed. Not as > fast as my desktop of course, but faster than was expecting,

[gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-09 Thread Maxim Wexler
HI group, My netbook has only (4+8)G of sketchy SSD + SDHC RAM for everything and I am determined not to emerge anything I don't really need. But now that I'm mobile I have the capability of doing a -uD world whenever it's required without having to take days of dialup time. Question is, when's

Re: [gentoo-user] running e2fsck pre-mount

2009-09-09 Thread Maxim Wexler
> However, if every single time when the fsck is run you either reboot > or there is an error... there maybe something wrong with your > hardware. If you don't have smartd installed, you should consider it, > your data on the harddrive should be worth your time. > IIRC the el cheapo ssd on this ne

[gentoo-user] running e2fsck pre-mount

2009-09-08 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, On an Asus netbook during boot after the line *checking all filesystems there'll be a message something like 'filesystem mounted 36 times without being checked. Check forced' then something like '17.1% non-contiguous' then a long delay. Then one of two things, either a message saying '

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues

2009-09-08 Thread Maxim Wexler
September 2009 21:04:06 Maxim Wexler wrote: >> > NAFC. >> >> New anagram for me. Not As Far...? > > Not A F..king Clue > > :-) >> >> >But if you give me an account on that box I can have a look for you. >> > I'll send you a public key. >&g

[gentoo-user] trim for ssds

2009-09-06 Thread Maxim Wexler
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%29 trim has been implemented in the 28 kernel. Anybody know what the option is called? It ain't 'trim'. Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues

2009-09-03 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > NAFC. New anagram for me. Not As Far...? >But if you give me an account on that box I can have a look for you. > I'll send you a public key. Can't grok. If I have an "account" on this box it's news to me. How and what would you be looking for? > > Or, you could look in your logs and tell us

[gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues

2009-09-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Fresh issue, might as well keep the same thread. Like I said before the Music Player Daemon is set to start in the default level, so as the netbook boot msgs scroll by I've been use to seeing the msg: Music Player Daemon started just before login. Now suddenly, for some reason I can't f

Re: [gentoo-user] xcfe4 -- can't return to X after ctrl+alt+(f1-f6,f12)

2009-09-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
> This may be a stupid idea, but did you try Ctrl-Alt-F8? > > Wonko > term1 startx, full of X code term2-6, login term7, black on black term8-11, cursor term12, log

Re: [gentoo-user] xcfe4 -- can't return to X after ctrl+alt+(f1-f6,f12)

2009-09-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > Completely black terminal, black terminal with text cursor or black > terminal with mouse pointer? black on black

[gentoo-user] xcfe4 -- can't return to X after ctrl+alt+(f1-f6,f12)

2009-09-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I think this is xcfe specific, because it hasn't happen with other wms. If, after running startx, I move to another terminal using ctr+alt+(f1-f6,f12), when I return to the X window, ctrl+alt+f7, I see nothing but a blank terminal, not even a cursor. I have to navigate to wherever I sta

Re: [gentoo-user] mpd issues

2009-08-31 Thread Maxim Wexler
So I oughta be able just to #rc-update del mpd, since I don't need(or can't even use ) it as long as the client has permission to access the files under /var? On 8/31/09, Greg Fitzgerald wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:11:23AM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> Hi group

[gentoo-user] mpd issues

2009-08-31 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, This is too baffling to get my head around, I hope someone can explain it to me: mpd is set to run in the default level but if you want to update the database mpd must first be stopped! Then to top it off, it doesn't have to be restarted to run the client, ncmpcpp in my case. So what d

[gentoo-user] OT--ncmpcpp "Cannot connect"

2009-08-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, mpd starts OK and I created the database but whenever I start ncmpcpp I get: Cannot connect to mpd: problems connecting to "localhost" on port 6600: Connection refused. So far following "tips" from the web I've done rmmod ipv6, rmmod loop, stopped net.lo, added and subtracted '6600 l

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] eee PC crashes on shutdown.

2009-07-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> When you do # tail -f /var/log/messages do you see some sort of report >> when you push SysRq. > > Yes. > > Jul 10 21:17:12 zaphod SysRq : Emergency Sync > Jul 10 21:17:12 zaphod Emergency Sync complete > That's strange; I see nothing. Is there a hotkey number associated with it as there is for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] eee PC crashes on shutdown.

2009-07-10 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Do you have CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ enabled in your kernel? yes > >> BTW, when I try getting back to the X console, it's blank. Is this an > > Xfce4 thing? I remember sysrescuecd which also uses Xfce4 had the same >> bug/feature. I have to ctrl-c on the first console to get back to the >> prompt so

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] eee PC crashes on shutdown.

2009-07-09 Thread Maxim Wexler
> You have to hold down Alt, hold down Fn, hold down PrtSc, release Fn then > press the command keys. If you keep Fn held down, U is seen as 4 etc. > >> How do I test it out? Must I induce a freeze somehow or can I just >> apply it to a working rig? > > Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the first VC then

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] eee PC crashes on shutdown.

2009-07-08 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Why? Magic SysRq keys are a much safer option. > Learn something new... Ok, I'll try that, thanks. But I forsee difficulties: the Sys Rq key on the eee is part of the fn + blue-labelled-key system. Is that similar to yours? How do I test it out? Must I induce a freeze somehow or can I just app

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] eee PC crashes on shutdown.

2009-07-08 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> > May not help, but that change should be made in any case. >> > >> >> Definitely related to alsa. I deleted alsasound from runlevel boot > > What's the point of quoting a message that gives useful advice, then > going on to explain that you ignored that advice and took a completely > different,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] eee PC crashes on shutdown.

2009-07-08 Thread Maxim Wexler
> The very first thing to try is to change your /etc/conf.d/alsasound so > that it has these two lines: > > # Deprecated options: > # Upstream feels, and we wholehartedly agree, that this was a silly idea > UNLOAD_ON_STOP="no" > KILLPROC_ON_STOP="no" > > May not help, but that change should be made

[gentoo-user] [OT] eee PC crashes on shutdown.

2009-07-08 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Here's a switch: a computer that refuses to turn OFF. When I open a root console and enter shutdown -h now my eee 900A Asus Intel-n270 freezes with the message: The system is going down for a system halt NOW! Looking at ctrl alt F12, after the usual, normal messages there is this: <.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2

2009-07-04 Thread Maxim Wexler
> you even quoted the part where it clearly says the package is NOT in > portage. ouch. > > It's in an overlay, Sunrise to be exact, and you need layman for that. There > is an excellent layman guide on the gentoo docs site. > didn't > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > finish my post

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2

2009-07-03 Thread Maxim Wexler
> "Also this script uses acpi_fakekey which you can find eg. as part of > the sys-power/acpi-support package in the Sunrise overlay. " OK, there's a fakekey(fakephp.ko) module in bus options, which I configured and installed. No help. I think that script is outdated, too. It mentions modules whic

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2

2009-07-03 Thread Maxim Wexler
> There's a script to do this on the Wiki > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC_701#Wireless "Make sure that you have compiled PCI Express Hotplug as module in kernel." check "Also this script uses acpi_fakekey which you can find eg. as part of the sys-power/acpi-support package in the

[gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2

2009-07-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I recall a reference, which I can't find anymore, to a method of toggling the wireless on/off for a EEE-PC that involved first, disabling wireless in the BIOS, and then echo'ing a 1 or a 0 to some file or other. Does anybody know the method I refer to? I can't remember the file or the c

[gentoo-user] synaptics support in xorg

2009-06-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, According to 'The X Server Configuration HOWTO' "If you use alternative input devices, such as a Synaptics touchpad for a laptop, be sure to add it to INPUT_DEVICES. " So I put in make.conf INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard synaptics" and did emerge -pv xorg-server. In the output after IN

[gentoo-user] please disregard post re: portage move

2009-06-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I didn't preserve the rwx permissions. Crisis averted! Sorry 'bout that. Maxim

[gentoo-user] after moving /usr/portage -> /var/portage, user can't --pretend

2009-06-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
HI group, I moved /usr/portage to /var/portage and readjusted PORTDIR in make.conf and re & re'd the link to /etc/make.profile. Now emege -p pkg for user leads to Permission denied: '/var/portage/profiles/categories' It's OK for root. NB:user is in portage group, /var/portage/profiles/categori

Re: [gentoo-user]WAS lvm problem -- NOW sleep tweak?FIXED

2009-06-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > 1. Add that sleep to fsck (or any earlier script) instead of localmount. > Thanks Mike, I put 'sleep 5' in checkfs and that seemed to do the trick. Interesting: The file systems are checked in two stages. *Checking root fiilesystem... and /dev/sda is set up followed by *Remounting root fil

Re: [gentoo-user]WAS lvm problem -- NOW sleep tweak?

2009-06-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Put it in localmount, not bootmisc, just before > ebegin "Mounting local filesystems" No lvm but same problem: the two partitions sdb1, sdb2 aren't mounted during boot, but are mountable by hand following login. I added the sleep command to localmount and the partitions are now mounted during b

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-24 Thread Maxim Wexler
> But you've been using Gentoo for some time now, so you would be expected > to have a grasp of the fundamentals. After all, you passed the Gentoo > Entrance Exam :) True enough, but I have a lot of hobbies. I may leave gentoo for a while and go on to something else completely different as the ha

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-23 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Create two partitions on sdb > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/gentoo/var > mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/gentoo/home > > It's really not that hard, but you seem to be trying to find clever Walking's hard -- until you learn. > solutions when the simple one will do. Well, of course the simple things have a way of

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-23 Thread Maxim Wexler
> I'd put /home and /var on the SD card to start with, you may need to > put /usr/src on there too or your SSD may fill up when installing or > compiling a second or third kernel. > > I'd also move the portage tree there, but you can do that > post-installation by moving /usr/portage to /var/portag

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Forget LVM, forget a separate /boot, just stick / on the SSD and mount > the likes of /var on the SD card. I use LVM on my Eee, but that's because > it has two SSDs, I wouldn't dream of including the SD card in there. > Ok, I did it! No more LVM! Wiped the SSD and made one partition out of it. M

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
> >> Necessary? Don't know but is meant to spare the SSD too much r/w strain. > > How? By spanning an LVM across the two, you have no control over which is > written to the most. I'd put / on the SSD then mount write-heavy > directories, like /var and /home, on the SD card. I'd also set $PORTDIR >

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Actually, it's /etc/init.d/localmount, not bootmisc. Add a sleep command > just before No, you'de need to edit the bootmisc script and add a sleep > command just before Sorry, this doesn't scan well. Do I put the sleep command in localmount or not? Then edit bootmisc too? How many seconds do I

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
> That could either mean that (not all of) the drivers needed to access this > device are available (not compiled into the kernel), or what Neil already > wrote: a delay in discovering the device. > > dmesg output would also be a good thing to sort this out. > 477 lines! Rather than post it, what

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Are CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD and CONFIG_SCSI also compiled in? > Yes mw

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Would I be correct in thinking the SSD is a sata device while the SD is > a usb device?? > > How are you USB drivers compiled in the kenrnel? # CONFIG_USB_ZD1201 is not set # CONFIG_USB_NET_RNDIS_WLAN is not set CONFIG_RT2500USB=m # CONFIG_RT73USB is not set CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB_USB=m # USB Network

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/21/09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:16:49 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > >> mount: /dev/vg/tmp already mounted on /tmp >> mount: tmpfs already mounted on /tmp > > It's nothing to do with your problem, but why are you mounting two > filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
> differences: no device-mapper, no consolefont, no lvm, no root My bad: root IS there. > noted above) eg bootmisc -> /etc/init.d/bootmisc. Maybe if I add the > missing links to /usr/share/openrc/runlevels that'll fix things...I'll > try that in the meantime. No change whatever. Back to the draw

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Could you please remove rc.log, reboot and post the fresh rc.log? Done: rc shutdown logging started at Sun Jun 21 14:40:55 2009 * Stopping local... [ ok ] * Saving random seed... [ ok ] * Deactivating swap devices... [ ok ] * Unmounting network filesystems... [ ok ] * Bringing down interfa

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-20 Thread Maxim Wexler
> So you should really put device-mapper into the boot runlevel. And btw, why > do > compile things as modules which you need in any case? Doesn't make sense to > me. > I put device-mapper into the boot runlevel. I re-compiled the kernel with dm-mod=<*>, dm_crypt=<*>, mmc_block=<*> and rebooted.

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-20 Thread Maxim Wexler
> As said above, it's not not needed. Maybe it's better to investigate wether > there are any leftovers from baselayout 1 in the runlevels. This was at How? > least > the reason I got an unbootable system after switching to bl 2. > I upgraded to bl-2 to avoid this problem but it didn't help. The

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-20 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Guess you can do the same, at least if you don't have dm-crypt > mappings, or you can try adding device-mapper to sysinit level directly. > > > Here's my boot sequence (from rc.log): > > > rc sysinit logging started at Fri Jun 12 04:24:55 2009 No good. rc-update shows udev, devfs, dmesg, devic

[gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Rather than resurrect an old thread though I'd start anew with a fresh clue. Seems if I add the commands: vgscan --mknodes vgchange -a y mount -a to /etc/conf.d/bootmisc and add it to the boot runlevel, the eee boots to a coherent system BUT not before going through LVM failure, error

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-17 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > Locking type 1 initialisation failed googling this finds precious little -- whether spelled with an 's' or a 'z', but check this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118275#c16 A lot like my situation: the unit boots, the above error flashes by, I log into a crippled system and enter the

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)NOT-FIXED

2009-06-17 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> Guess you're right, I don't want hotplugging. > > I never said you don't want hotplugging. Set rc_hotplug to you said "automatic" hotplugging; is that something else? > "!net.*" to disable network hotplugging, and add net.lo back to the boot thanks Neil, speeds up the boot process a lot. May

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)NOT-FIXED

2009-06-16 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/16/09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:39:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I also find in general that rescue systems are not very good at these >> desktopy things, and automagic SD card hotplugging is very much >> something driven by desktop usage. Try by all means, I just t

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)FIXED

2009-06-16 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/16/09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:39:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I also find in general that rescue systems are not very good at these >> desktopy things, and automagic SD card hotplugging is very much >> something driven by desktop usage. Try by all means, I just t

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-16 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > If google or menuconfig's help function doesn't give me an answer in 10 > minutes, I boot off Ubuntu Netbook Remix on a usb stick (it's a 1G > download), > and note which modules it loads and settings it uses for stuff. Boot back > into > gentoo, configure and build accordingly ... sorted Does

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-16 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/16/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: >>> FWIW only one device, the SD card, can't be found and it is listed >>> about 20 times in the boot console before the LVM gives up. >> >> Is everything needed to use the SD card compiled into the kernel? As it >> works

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-16 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> FWIW only one device, the SD card, can't be found and it is listed >> about 20 times in the boot console before the LVM gives up. > > Is everything needed to use the SD card compiled into the kernel? As it > works after everything is loaded, I suspect not. Look for anything > relevant in the out

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-15 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > So where is the second SSD. This is the 900 you have? 900A, maybe different from yours. >> Cool! There's all my little dirs. Thanks Neil. But isn't it supposed >> to do this automaticamente? > > Yes, but the duplicate filter line is preventing your VGs from being > created, so mounting those

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-15 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > #LVM should normally only be started after mdraid is available > #this is because LVM physical volumes are very often MD devices > RC_AFTER="mdraid" > > #vim: ft=gentoo-conf-d > > Well, I don't have mdraid, as far as I know. I'll just comment out > that line and see where it leads. > > mw nowh

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-15 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > With baselayout2 and openrc, you need to explicitly put lvm into the boot Wow! I didn't even realize lvm was in init.d. There's nothing in the doc about it. So I went ahead and added to the boot-level and rebooted. Same as before with (looks like) one addition: ... *The lvm init-script is wri

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-15 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Have you tried with the default filter > filter = [ "r|/dev/nbd.*|", "a/.*/" ] exact same result. mw

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-15 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/15/09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:04:35 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > >> My fllter in lvm.conf : filter = [ "a|/dev/sd[ab]|", "r/.*/"] which >> corresponds to my Phison SSD and a 8G SD card. > > On an Eee 900, the SD card is sdc.

[gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-14 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, My fresh install of 2.6.29-r5 goes kablooey just after 'Loading module dm-mod' Then the boot console reports: Couldn't find device with uuid 'ldwVeS-gw14-HE42-M3Gw-DILI-Dbjh-2lHroF' and Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg. and Volume group "vg" not found The abo

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in fstab w/ lvm?

2009-06-12 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/12/09, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:45:04 -0600 > Maxim Wexler wrote: > >> #shm /dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 > > I wonder, what's the rationale behind commenting out shm? > Good question. I was given to understand

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in fstab w/ lvm?

2009-06-12 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/12/09, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 16:45, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> Hi group, >> >> Following the LVM2 gentoo doc I have in fstab: >> >> ... >> /dev/vg/tmp /tmp ext2 noatime 0 2 >> ... >> >> But also(s

[gentoo-user] conflict in fstab w/ lvm?

2009-06-12 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Following the LVM2 gentoo doc I have in fstab: ... /dev/vg/tmp /tmp ext2 noatime 0 2 ... But also(suggested by the eee forum): ... #shm/dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 tmpfs /tmptmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 Is this legal? Mountin

[gentoo-user] building packages remotely

2009-06-12 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I've read references here and in other forums to building packages on a desktop PC and installing them on a note/netbook remotely as a way of relieving stress on the smaller machine. Can someone point me to the documentation or howto? I can't seem to come up with the proper google input

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config for eee w/Atom N270 CPU

2009-06-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/11/09, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> Hi group, >> >> Been tracking down other's kern config for 900A w/ N270 Atom cpu and >> notice, so far, everyone goes for CONFIG_SMP=y. Why, particularly when >> most c

[gentoo-user] kernel config for eee w/Atom N270 CPU

2009-06-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Been tracking down other's kern config for 900A w/ N270 Atom cpu and notice, so far, everyone goes for CONFIG_SMP=y. Why, particularly when most commenters stress keeping the kernel as slim as possible? In the window we have 'If you have a system with only one CPU, like most personal c

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge gentoo-sources from sysrescd-1.2.0FIXED

2009-06-10 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/10/09, Boris Fersing wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 22:44, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> Hi group, >> > Hi, > >> I thought that this was the fault of my dialup connection at home but >> now I find it's doing it at the wifi spot in the library. >> >

[gentoo-user] can't emerge gentoo-sources from sysrescd-1.2.0

2009-06-10 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I thought that this was the fault of my dialup connection at home but now I find it's doing it at the wifi spot in the library. I'm following the quick-install guide and got to 'code listing 2-19'. Portage goes through the mirror addresses but can't resolve any; as if there were no conn

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