In linux.gentoo.user, allan wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12 2013, thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote:
>
>> on 10/12/2013 05:40 PM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote the following:
>>> copy the lvm partitions to directories on an external disk (ext3)
>>
>> What command did you use for copying?
>
> cp -ax
>
> rsync not is on
In linux.gentoo.user, James wrote:
> Gregory Shearman gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> b) The important reason I need an initramfs is that I have my root
>> filesystems on LVM partitions (except for my ARM servers).
>
> Hello Gregory,
>
> Please tell me, as much as
In linux.gentoo.user, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2013-09-29 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 29/09/2013 19:59, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>> I've been told that this shouldn't be a big deal... while I am a
>>> (barely) passable linux sys admin
>>
>> Allow me to forward an opinion. The above is not true, not
In linux.gentoo.user, Mr Schilling wrote:
>
> On Solaris, you can disable loading unsigned modules, is this not supported
> by
> Linux?
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG
--
Regards,
Gregory.
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>>
>> search for CONSOLE in this file and find:
>>
>> # exec >${CONSOLE} <${CONSOLE} 2>&1
>>
>> Just remove the hash at the start of the line, rebuild my initramfs
>> and it is ready to go.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Gregory.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Gregory.
>
> I really
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
> While trying to learn about dracut, I found a detail that made me look
> closer to the genkernel generated initramfs, and I found that the error
> message was perfectly clear: there was no /dev/sda5, where my "real_root"
> is, that initramfs has just /dev/sda1 t
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I do a
>
> beagleboneblack:/root>swapon /dev/sda2
> beagleboneblack:/root>free
> total used free sharedbuffers cached
> Mem:507476 50812 456664 0 13108 1724
n
> default the firmwares ware installed.
I can confirm that these firmware files are in the linux-firmware
package.
--
Regards,
Gregory Shearman.
' option:
emerge -auDN --with-bdeps=y world
For some reason I can't understand, it seems to work. It may not help
with mesa-9.1.2-r1 but it doesn't take much effort and can't hurt to try
--
Regards,
Gregory Shearman.
In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote:
> Randolph Maaßen wrote:
>>
>> I'm so damn lucky
>>
>> I dd'ed the SSD onto an external drive and worked at first on the
>> image with qemu. A simple recreation of the partition brought the
>> system back to live on the image. I tried the same on the real machine
>
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:29:19 +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote:
>
>> Good idea, but as I updated udev yesterday on one of my Gentoo systems,
>> in the usual after-update messages there was a line in red, telling me
>> "You don't have CONFIG_DEVTMPFS enabled. udev will
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> * Helmut Jarausch [121206 09:27]:
>> Hi,
>>
>> on one of several machines I have a problem with initramfs.
>>
>> The machine has a single SATA drive. When the kernel boots it shows
>> that it is called /dev/sda,
>> Now, within the init script of my initra
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
> I've been using Gentoo for quite a long time, and today I decided to try
> compiling the kernel myself, Thing I've never done before. I want a smaller
> kernel, a faster boot (without initramfs) and, of course, some fun :).
Good for you. I've rolled my own kern
In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote:
> I have ran into a issue here. I copied everything over to sdb, my temp
> drive. When I try to boot it, it still boots from sda which is the
> primary drive. I can not get it to boot from the copy. I did update
> the fstab file to point to the new sdb partitio
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
> On 02/02/2012, at 11:02, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>>
>> I am asking for a recommendation of a router/wap. I know the
>> wired/wireless tradeoffs.
>>
>> thanks, allan
>>
>
> Sorry, read it as wired or wireless.
>
> Check out the buffalo routers -I have a G300NH
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
> Our 286 (that Tandy) came with a 20MB hard disk. The 386 I got as a
> hand-me-down had a 540MB disk. (That was a bit of a golden age for me;
> I never managed to fill that drive.)
I had twice the storage. My 286 had a 40MB hard disk. It also had 1MB of
memory b
In linux.gentoo.user, Mick wrote:
>>
>> I use a separate output directory that is under control of the user.
>> What I do as an ordinary user:
>>
>> mkdir
>>
>> zcat /proc/config.gz > /.config
>>
>> # assuming you have this option set in your kernel ie the current
>> kernel # config saved in /proc
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 20:58:18 -0200
> Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote:
>
>> I'm not currently at my Gentoo box, sorry for this, but if I don't
>> post this now I'll probably forget to post it at all.
>> Anyways, last time I tried upgrading my kernel, I copied
In linux.gentoo.user, Lavender wrote:
> I have checked my Xorg.0.log, there is no error message. I have a
> question,I read xorg.conf , I didn't find any area about Window
> Manage, so how xorg-server knowswhich WM to invoke when I use "X
> -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf" ?BTW, among my class I am the
In linux.gentoo.user, Lavender wrote:
> Thanks a lot ! But I used lspci -v | less, it printed vebose
> information, then I looked up carefully for my video card, but I did
> not find anything about R600,R700 or other like, I'm still not clear
> about R*** things , is it chipset name?
>>Hmm, I re-i
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On 12/05/11 21:56, Gregory Shearman wrote:
>>hmmm...
>>
>>Which directory are you running the command from? I ran mine from
>>/var/lib/postgresql which has the properties:
>>
>>drwxr-xr-x 4 postgres root
>>
>>I d
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On 12/05/11 13:37, Gregory Shearman wrote:
>>In linux.gentoo.user, Joseph wrote:
>>> I'm upgrading form posgresql 9.0 to 9.1, it seem to the upgrade went OK but
>>> when try to transfer the data
>>> base:
>>> pg_
In linux.gentoo.user, Joseph wrote:
> I'm upgrading form posgresql 9.0 to 9.1, it seem to the upgrade went OK but
> when try to transfer the data
> base:
> pg_upgrade91 -v --old-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data/
> --new-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data
> --old-bindir=/usr/lib/postgresql
In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote:
>
> I'm getting this LVM thing down pat tho.
>
> cfdisk to create partitions, if not using the whole drive.
> pvcreate
> vgcreate
> lvcreate
> then put on a file system and mount.
Sounds good.
> I still get them confused as to what comes first but I got some pict
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote:
>
> I have a midget server on the LAN (Atom N270) which runs Gentoo, but it's
> too underpowered to do all the compiling itself, so it NFS-exports its
> packages directory to my workstation, where I have a 32
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
> 2011/7/4 Dale :
>> I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I may try
>> my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I did have a
>> power failure the other day and the relay on my UPS was not quite fast
>> enough. I th
In linux.gentoo.user, Todd Goodman wrote:
> * Tanstaafl [110528 12:43]:
>> After seeing an older thread asking about a router, I figured I'd ask my
>> own question...
>>
>> I'm looking for a cheap but reliable router that has decent and SIMPLE
>> way to add VLANs (I'm not a CISCO guy and don't wa
Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 May 2011 04:55:46 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'll leave it like it is I guess. I like all the little green OK's
>>> that scroll up anyway.
>>>
>> Reassuring, aren't they?
>>
>>
>>
>
> What's bad is when something doesn't start for s
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
> On Thursday 07 April 2011 05:44:17 Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> Someone really should mention 'screen' in the handbook; that venerable
>> tool just saved my day :)
>> I was in the midst of 'emerge --update --newuse world' over SSH when
>> my office had a 'temporary po
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:22:41 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I want to do it this way because I don't trust LVM enough to put my OS
>>> on. Just my personal opinion on LVM.
>>>
>> This doesn't make sense. Your OS can be reinstalled
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> many distributions have something like a 'switch' command such that an
> ordinary user can switch the version of his/her default gcc compiler.
>
> Is there something similar in GenToo?
>
> Many thanks for a hint,
Forgive previous post. Didn't read it pro
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> many distributions have something like a 'switch' command such that an
> ordinary user can switch the version of his/her default gcc compiler.
>
> Is there something similar in GenToo?
>
> Many thanks for a hint,
$ gcc-config -h
--
Regards,
Gregory.
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> Gregory Shearman gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> Are you using kernel modesetting? If you are then you have to get your
>> microcode built into the kernel.
>
> Not sure, can you be more specific on "modesetting" as
> greppi
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I cleanup up a system, per the postings to not use HAL.
> k3b does not work, but, I'll look for a fix for it later.
>
> I keep 2 kernels on this system.
>
> kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r12 and kernel-2.6.36-gentoo-r5
>
> the *36 does not work. I have copied i
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
> Some people, such as myself, use kernel sources outside of portage (I
> follow a git repo) and do so as a non-root user. In this case the
> kernel tree is not owned by root and the config/compile is easily done
> as a non-root user.
>
> If you are super-paranoi
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>> I'm reading your message via a usenet server. linux.gentoo.user is the
>> newsgroup. Replies of course go via the mailing list address.
>
> Is that seamless? Can you directly reply to a posting? Easy to set up? How?
More or less. Instead of press "f" to reply in
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al wrote:
>> >> I was trying to figure this out myself. I thought maybe I was missing
>> >> something in the message. Maybe not.
>> >
>> > Isn't the list aggregated into that news site gmain or whatever its
>> > called?
>> > Then h
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Friday 03 September 2010, James wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> What the usual admin cycle/tools/habits
>> for pruning /usr/tmp/portage
>> for a Gentoo workstation
>> or server?
>>
>>
>> James
>
>
> tmpfs 8,0G 0 8,0G 0% /var/tmp/portage
>
> thu
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> I have a broken Firefox-3 reference in my KDE favorites menu. Is there a
> tool to fix these broken items because I haven't found one.
In another message I suggested kmenuedit. I missed the bit about the
favourites menu. You should be able to remove it with a ri
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
> I have a broken Firefox-3 reference in my KDE favorites menu. Is there a
> tool to fix these broken items because I haven't found one.
>
If you are on KDE 4.x then:
emerge kde-base/kmenuedit
Then type:
kmenuedit
That should be all you need.
--
Regards,
G
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> I have xchat installed. An update is failing to install with error:
>
> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpng12.la' or unhandled
> argument `/usr/lib/libpng12.la'
>
> libpng is installed:
>
> /usr/lib$eix libpng
> [I] media-libs/libpng
> A
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Gregory Shearman wrote:
>> In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>>
>> GentooPenguin# /usr/sbin/lspci | grep Radeon
>>
>> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon
>>
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
GentooPenguin# /usr/sbin/lspci | grep Radeon
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon
Xpress 200M]
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>> Shawn Haggett writes:
>> > Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of
>> > course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following
>> > happens:
>> >
>> > sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > /var/tm
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
> --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> Gregory Shearman said:
>> In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>> > he will over time. I
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
>> Roger Mason writes:
>> > I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I
>> > can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful
>> > catastrophe. This is the output of emerge on
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
Completed installing ati-drivers-8.552-r2 into
> *
> * Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
> *
> * Press Ctrl-C to Stop
> *
> * x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
> */usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
> *
> * Package 'x11-dr
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> In <20090415113152.ga11...@pacific.net.au> zek...@gmail.com (Gregory
> Shearman) writes:
>
>>I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers
>>(x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The
>>latest 96.
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse.
> Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk
> and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but
> then it gets garbled again. I am using n
Marc Blumentritt wrote:
> I have since 2 months a problem with my boot up splash. Splash is
> working, but the init messages (like starting daemon foh ... [ok]) are
> written an screen "above" (for lack of a better word) my splash. When
> the messages reach the bottom of the screen, the splash is
James wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann tu-clausthal.de> writes:
>
>
>> > NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] && NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
>
>> that is not true. Both cards are still supported by nvidia drivers.
>
>
>> The FX card ist even supported by the latest drivers!
> Yep I got this one(FX 5200) workin
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Gregory Shearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>
>> > I cannot emerge world any more because portage keeps barfing on some
>> > random java ebuild.
&g
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I cannot emerge world any more because portage keeps barfing on some
> random java ebuild.
> Java's not even in the list of things to emerge, but here's what I see:
>
> Total: 14 packages (14 upgrades), Size of downloads: 99,898 kB
>
> Would you like to merge these packag
Last week I upgraded the kernel on one of my 5 year old Pentium 4 desktop
machines to 2.6.24-gentoo-r3. Kernel compilation went fine as usual but
when I tried to emerge the current (x86) binary nVidia driver [96.43.01]
for its GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x graphics card it failed with an error
message tha
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