Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread James Wall
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:22:48 -0500 >> "Albert W. Hopkins"  wrote: >> >>> But my feeling is, if you use the testing branch and you *don't* find >>> bugs, then you aren't testing hard enough :P >> >> Or maybe I just got used t

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread James Wall
will help me understand the term > 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is > really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin > I simply cannot find using Google? > > - Mark > > Ricer is used to refer to someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

2011-11-26 Thread James Wall
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me.  I'm sure > there will be those who claim its `simple'. > > Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible. > > So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox) > applianc

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-26 Thread James Wall
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Dale wrote: > James Wall wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Dale  wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to make this work?  I googled but I couldn't find anything >>> on >>> this one.  Well, a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-11 Thread James Wall
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:40:26 -0600, Dale wrote: >> The next thing you do is configure it to boot into text mode with all the kernel messages visible. Then you've got something that's almost tolerable. >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment

2011-11-11 Thread James Wall
2011/11/11 Lavender : > I have cost eight hours and forty minutes in installing KDE Meta. > When I wake up this morning it has done. But when I startx, > it can't work, output messages are below: >>xauth: file /root/.serverauth. ( is changed each time >>I use startx) does not exist >>/etc/X

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-11 Thread James Wall
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Nov 11, 2011 5:17 AM, "Paul Hartman" > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Dale wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > This is maybe a bit off topic but here goes.  I want to install Linux on >> > my >> > brothers rig.  The heat sink on t

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread James Wall
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David W Noon wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:07:23 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > >> Mick wrote: >> > On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 19:56:48 Dale wrote: >> > >> > I always have /boot on a separate partition and it is always ext2. >

[gentoo-user] UPnP server/client recommendations

2011-08-23 Thread James Wall
Hello All, I was wanting to set up a UPnP server so my wife could browse my music easily from her Windoze machine. What recommendations do you have on UPnP servers? Thanks, James Wall -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread James Wall
I use it for my laptop, desktop/HTPC. firewall/router, distfiles server and NFS boot server. The distfiles and NFS boot servers are actually VMs due to having to downsize PC space on my desk. (my wife had a fit about 6 PCs on my desk running constantly.) James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-27 Thread James Wall
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Dale wrote: > > Here is a update.  Let's see what folks think about this situation.  I > mentioned in another thread that I did a from scratch kernel.  It was a .35 > version.  It seemed to work fine, for a while.  When I tell Seamonkey to > download to my desktop,

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread James Wall
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and > I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how.  My USE line in > /etc/make.conf looks like this: > > USE="-setup declarative static-libs gallium moonlight seman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-11 Thread James Wall
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Grant wrote: >> >> Have you considered using PXE to network boot your systems? you can >> have various configurations set up based on mac addresses to address >> different hardware issues. I recommend trying out SystemRescueCD to >> experiment with PXE booting for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-08 Thread James Wall
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Grant wrote: >> And now that I look more closely at KVM switches, it looks like they >> provide a method of controlling multiple computers via a single >> keyboard, monitor, and mouse.  I need sort of the inverse.  I'd like >> to control a single Gentoo computer via

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread James Wall
Thanks for the appliance image. it has come in handy for trying out multiple ideas and setups at once on my machine. Keep up the great work Albert! :) -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-28 Thread James Wall
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > On Monday, June 27 at 22:44 (-0500), James Wall said: > >> 2. I then went into the properties of the VM and changed the >> controller type to SCSI and readded the disk image. > > If you let me know what c

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-27 Thread James Wall
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said: > >> Albert, >> Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my >> virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-27 Thread James Wall
Albert, Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing your work. James Wall -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Re: [gentoo-user] Diskless setup fails to mount /

2011-06-03 Thread James Wall
0 0 > queen# mount | grep torsson > torsson.dmj.nu:/Queen/tmp on /home/dan/tmp_torsson type nfs4 (rw,proto=tcp,soft,intr,addr=192.168.1.3,clientaddr=192.168.1.11) > > > Any idea why the diskless client can not mount it's root-FS? > > Regards, > -- > Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> > *** > This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! > *** > James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-05-31 Thread James Wall
es in > CONFIG_PROTECTed directories would be useful. > If you want to ensure that portage removes a configuration file then add CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc" to the unmerge line and portage will remove the configuration files as well. James Wall > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Format: (v.) to erase irrevocably and unintentionally. >(n.) The process of such erasure.

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-30 Thread James Wall
I have had that particular problem if I mounted /dev before extracting the stage3 tarball. Just follow those instructions and you sill be fine. James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild ChangeLog and emerge -l

2011-05-23 Thread James Wall
2.9-r1.ebuild, >  llvm-.ebuild: >  Fix broken reference that I missed yesterday This is pulled in because of the change to the live ebuild which evaluates as a newer ebuild. >  20 Apr 2011; Fabian Groffen llvm-2.9-r1.ebuild, >  llvm-.ebuild: >  Fix install_name_tooling > same as above. > Is this normal?  Bug? > > > HTH, James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

2011-05-18 Thread James Wall
they have been releasing new disc isos about once a month. James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...

2011-05-13 Thread James Wall
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Andrey Moshbear wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 18:35, Mick wrote: >> On Friday 13 May 2011 20:11:01 James Wall wrote: >>> >>> Another tool which will work well is dd. >>> as an example to back up my laptop before experiment

Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...

2011-05-13 Thread James Wall
ew apart big time" for me recently, a > disk failure, I rebooted into the rescue cd and hey presto, 30 minutes > later, everything was good. > >        Andrew > > Another tool which will work well is dd. as an example to back up my laptop before experimenting with new distros, I do dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/backup/jalopy.img bs=2M to back up the drive for a bare metal restore of the 40 GB hard drive. James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread James Wall
anyway. > > > > Reassuring, aren't they? > > I'd like a similar system for checking my marriage. > > +1 for the marriage checker. That would save me some headaches big time. James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread James Wall
d problems in the past, > this was a doozy.  It had the potential to really bork a system.  It appears > to have been a very easy one.  I don't think anyone had a REALLY big problem > with this upgrade.  The devs made sure all the ducks was in line on this > one.  Yeppie for that. > > Dale > > :-)  :-) > > I remember expat and e2fsprogs breaking spectacularly with no warning whatsoever back when That was fun. This update is a complete opposite from those nightmares. James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-06 Thread James Wall
e > set reasonably close to the actual time and the timezone needs to be set > correctly as well. You might also look into net-misc/ntp to set the > clock from the network. > > If your clock is set correctly, there's something horribly wrong and it > will require additional troubleshooting. > > -- > Kevin McCarthy > What does the outpute of "date" show for your current date? this looks like your clock/cmos battery is dead. I had one keep me from emerging anything because the system would go into a loop trying to emeerge things like glibc. James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last!

2011-04-17 Thread James Wall
und and > things like that. I also need to find a decent PDF viewer, and a decent > jpeg viewer. > > So, thanks for all the help, everybody! > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > I recommend xpdf for the PDF viewer James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel modules not autoloading with 2.6.38-gentoo-r1

2011-04-11 Thread James Wall
On Apr 11, 2011 3:42 AM, "du yang" wrote: > > On Monday 04/11/11 12:57:34 CST, James Wall wrote: > > Hi all, > > Has anyone run into an issue where the kernel is not detecting devices? The > > issue does not show up in 2.6.37 on amd64 testing branch. I just got

[gentoo-user] Kernel modules not autoloading with 2.6.38-gentoo-r1

2011-04-10 Thread James Wall
Hi all, Has anyone run into an issue where the kernel is not detecting devices? The issue does not show up in 2.6.37 on amd64 testing branch. I just got done re-emerging world to rule out any hidden surprises. Any ideas? TIA, James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-09 Thread James Wall
luan - IT Optimizer > My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/ > I am posting now from Gmail mobile by selecting the respond inline button towards the bottom of the compose screen. I just get rid of the virtual keyboard to find it. James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] how ati close source driver works with console framebuffer?

2011-04-06 Thread James Wall
nel command line to see what resolutions available in hexadecimal. For example 0x31B equals 795 in decimal. Hope that helps. James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting CD's etc

2011-03-08 Thread James Wall
You will need to set up pollution aka policykit. I use udisks to get automounting taken care of instead of Hal. See an earlier thread for details. I am working on a full policykit setup to document with examples for reboot and shutdown in lxde. Regards, James wall On Mar 8, 2011 1:05 AM, "

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread James Wall
Two dozen??? How many computers do you have? On Mar 6, 2011 12:55 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:03 AM, dhk wrote: > I think I have made some progress. After getting a new sound card > (Sound Blaster X-Fi) and buil... I've got one of these X-Fi devices although mine is

Re: [gentoo-user] apps-office/gtg Won't Work on ~amd64

2011-03-04 Thread James Wall
Does your system pass memtest86+ on an overnight run? On Mar 4, 2011 4:24 AM, "Nikola Hardi" wrote: Hi! I've got some troubles with running apps-office/gtg (Getting Things Gnome) on my ~amd64 machine. I'm just getting segmentation fault. A friend of mine told me that it works on amd64 arch. Have

Re: [gentoo-user] Identifying missing modules...

2011-01-24 Thread James Wall
t that the device wouldn't > function. > > Hope this helps, > Mark > Check out http://www.kernel-seeds.org for a walkthrough of kernel configuration or dump the results of lspci -n into http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ for a list of modules James Wall - -- No trees were harmed in the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-11 Thread James Wall
only used Konqueror >> as an example of another way of accessing the CDs that might have >> worked, but didn't. I can even stop XDM, log in from a console prompt >> with no X running, and try to play a CD with cdplay or dcd, and I'll get >> the same results.

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread James Wall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/14/10 12:28, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Dale [10-12-14 18:56]: >> meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Hi Dale, >>> >>> as I know, the hd hardware can't nearly as fast as the bus speed >>> regardless whether it is 6GB/s or 3GB/s. >>> Quickly doing t

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...

2010-10-16 Thread James Wall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/2010 01:59 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to record DVB-T broadcast with my (already working) DVB-T card. > Since there are only a couple of broadcasts which should be recorded > I have no problems with editing crontabs to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-11 Thread James Wall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/10/2010 01:49 PM, walt wrote: > On 10/10/2010 09:28 AM, Fatih Tümen wrote: > >> That I was fearing but I cant understand how it can fail all of a >> sudden. I did not drop it or something. Just ran eix and boom... > > My favorite disk failure s

Re: [gentoo-user] What network configuration should I use with vbox

2010-10-08 Thread James Wall
On 10/08/2010 05:47 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 10/08/2010 03:36 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: >> 2010/10/8 Mick : >>> I want to install MSWindows in a VM. I want to be able to use the guest >>> MSWindows OS to connect to a website run on apache on the Gentoo host OS on >>> the same machine. >>> >>> Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-24 Thread James Wall
On 7/24/2010 3:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2010 21:57:38 KH wrote: Hi there, my server was running strait for 8 month now. I did updates regularly but still used an 2.6.2x kernel. Never switched it of. Now someone from houskeeping pulled the plug for the vacuum cleaner ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: linux-uvc

2010-07-06 Thread James Wall
uvc. the driver has since been added to the kernel and is no longer necessary. tools available include media-video/luvcview which is only available for ~x86 and media-video/guvcview. -- James Wall No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electron

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-26 Thread James Wall
On 6/23/2010 4:36 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2010 03:29:16 Dale wrote: By all means, use genkernel. I will, RSN. This nearly new, shiny, quad-core box is as sluggish as hell, and I want to find out why. So I'll use genkernel to install everything under the sun and see if I

Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?

2009-03-08 Thread James Wall
as to why. > > May have to test it again now myself. > > Dale > > :-)  :-) > > Kdar looks to be what I needed. I will post reports after doing a full out backup/restore test tomorrow James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?

2009-03-07 Thread James Wall
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Friday 06 Mar 2009, James Wall wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a backup program that can back up to my DVD+-R/RW drive > > to back up my private portage tree/distfile/music/web server. What >

[gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?

2009-03-05 Thread James Wall
Hi all, I am looking for a backup program that can back up to my DVD+-R/RW drive to back up my private portage tree/distfile/music/web server. What programs would you recommend to handle this task? TIA James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modules in use

2008-12-07 Thread James Wall
jwlaptop ~ # as you can see it doesn't catch everything but it gives you a good idea what modules are critical. HTH James Wall