Re: [gentoo-user] Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub?
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 at 4:10am -0700, Grant wrote: Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub? If /boot is not mounted by default, then yes. The menu.lst and grub.conf files live in /boot/grub and these are updated when grub is upgraded, although menu.lst is usually a symlink to grub.conf. If you're upgrading grub through the emerge process, then /boot will be mounted for you, IIRC. -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmx.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano
On Fri, 16 May 2008 at 7:07pm -0700, Bob Young wrote: I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and have the basic system installed ( without X ). The problem began after I completed a successful emerge -DuN world The symptom is: when I start nano, (just nano by itself, not editing a file), several hundred lines similar to the following are spewed to the console: [...] BTW, if I edit with vi.everything works fine, and of course typing at the console works okay as well. What's the output of emerge -vp nano? -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display
On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 1:34pm -, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm running nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1 with a NVIDIA GPU Quadro NVS 290 (G86GL), connected via DVI to dual Samsung 204B displays running at 1600x1200. Did you rebuild the nvidia-drivers module? -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error
On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 5:53pm +0200, Wolf Canis wrote: Hello, I just experienced the same problem. Could you solve your problem? If so could you post the solution? Some data of mine: I'm in the groups: groups=10(wheel),11(floppy),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),85(usb),100(users),250(portage),443(plugdev),1000(rh),1001(wireshark) CD/DVD device: $ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-05-09 04:45 /dev/cdrom - sr0 $ ls -l /dev/sr0 brw-rw 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2008-05-09 04:45 /dev/sr0 dbus and hal are running. USB disks, cameras or MP3-players are correctly mounted. Only CDs are not. Tips, comments highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. W. Canis What does /etc/fstab look like? If you're using hald to auto-mount, the cdrom should *not* be in /etc/fstab. -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation cd for P1 P2
On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 3:07pm -, James wrote: Ian Hilt ian.hilt at gmail.com writes: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=2 So you are saying (implying) that i586 and k6 machines can use the 2008.0.beta2 minimum CD for installation? What about all of those old drivers that are often I was merely providing an official Gentoo document which provided information related to your question. -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system
On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 10:51pm +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
A backup device is just a storage appliance, if should not be parochial
about the origin of the data it stores.
hmmm ... parochial
#include wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
main()
{
printf(%s, parochial);
}
$ gcc parochial.c -o parochial
$ ./parochial
$ narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
Ah, got it.
--
Ian Hilt
ian.hilt (at) gmail.com
GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3
--
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display
On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 11:33pm -, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-05-09, Ian Hilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 1:34pm -, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm running nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1 with a NVIDIA GPU Quadro NVS 290 (G86GL), connected via DVI to dual Samsung 204B displays running at 1600x1200. Did you rebuild the nvidia-drivers module? Yes. The exact same version of nvidia-drivers was being used for both kernels. Um ... just to be clear, that means you did something like emerge nvidia-drivers *after* you built the kernel, right? -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display
On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 1:34pm -, Grant Edwards wrote: I recently tried switching from linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r9 to linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r7. The latter is configured as indentically as possible to the former, but when I run X under the 2.6.24 kernel, one of my two displays blinks off every 10-20 seconds (it's off for about 1 second, then comes back on). The blinking doesn't happen with the 2.6.23 kernel. The blinking doesn't happen in console mode. I'm running nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1 with a NVIDIA GPU Quadro NVS 290 (G86GL), connected via DVI to dual Samsung 204B displays running at 1600x1200. There's nothing in the system or X logs that conicides with the blinking. What's the output of dmesg while this is happening? -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installation cd for P1 P2
On Thu, 8 May 2008 at 5:03pm -, James wrote: Hello, I have an assortment of p1, p2 and old amd K6 (586) class machines. Do the 2008.0 iso beta 2 cover this arch? If not, what is the recommend minimal cd to use to install these machines? James http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=2 -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] to which package scrbook.cls belongs?
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Zhang Weiwu wrote: I need to install a package containing this file. to which package this file belongs to? I googled around without luck equery b scrbook.cls returns dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended-2007 (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrbook.cls) -- Ian Graeme Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is elog documentation
On Tue, 6 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I learn how to use elog? This may help get you started. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=1 /etc/make.conf.example has some nice ... examples. -- Ian Graeme Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub weirdness
On Tue, 6 May 2008, »Q« wrote: When I try to boot, the word GRUB gets written to the screen over and over and over, filling the screen. Pressing keys, AFAICT so far, doesn't stop this. The screen is just filled with GRUB, and I think it's an ongoing thing because of a little flicker at the bottom right. quote href=http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml#doc_chap7; 7. GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB ... Situation Code Listing 7.1: Grub Output GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB ... Solution According to airhead this can be caused by having your bios detect your disks automatically. Try to set your bios entry to User Type HDD. Another possibility is that you had Grub installed on your MBR and tried reinstalling it (for instance due to hard disk changes) but used the wrong setup and root commands. /quote -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3
Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0 profile
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 07:26:31 pm Daniel Mendler wrote: Hi, I switched to the 2008.0 profile with eselect profile set. Now every ebuild is masked. Is the 2008.0 profile not yet usable or are some special adjustments necessary? Not sure in your case, although if you provide some more information we may be able to determine if you have a problem. For example, which arch are you running? Which profile were you using before switching to 2008.0? When's the last time you sync'd and updated world? I'm running 2008.0 currently with no problems. However I did a fresh install with the 2008.0 minimal install CD. Some relevant output on my system: eselect profile list|grep 9 [9] default/linux/x86/2008.0 * emerge --info | grep ACCEPT ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 uname -a Linux sys-0 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 13:48:42 EDT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux -- Ian Graeme Hilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
