Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-15 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:46 AM, sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: On 03/12/2011 01:28 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: But if this was a pre-existing build, he should have had numerous kernels configured, unless he removed/moved the config each time he upgraded. Sean, Two

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-15 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:46 AM, sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: On 03/12/2011 01:28 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: But if this was a pre-existing build, he should have had numerous kernels configured,

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-15 Thread sean
On Mar 15, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Matthew Finkel wrote: Is it possible you ran depclean prior to compiling the newest kernel that you emerged? Do not think so. I keep things up to date and there were no warnings flags such as the nvidia-drivers that notified me of the missing .config in

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-13 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/12/11, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: when I got an error saying that /boot was mounted read-only. On investigating, I found that everything I'd put on those two disks had disappeared, as though in a puff of smoke. All that was left was the underlying partition layout, but

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 13 March 2011 09:34:31 Arttu V. wrote: On 3/12/11, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: when I got an error saying that /boot was mounted read-only. On investigating, I found that everything I'd put on those two disks had disappeared, as though in a puff of smoke. All

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-13 Thread sean
On 03/12/2011 01:28 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: But if this was a pre-existing build, he should have had numerous kernels configured, unless he removed/moved the config each time he upgraded. Sean, Two questions. I don't think you ever replied as to whether /usr/src is a mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread sean
On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: Did you reboot your system and then realize it was empty or did you notice it was empty after merging the updates? As the updates were running, when it came time to update the nvidia-drivers, a message appeared that it could not find a

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread sean
On Mar 10, 2011, at 5:12 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2011 03:31:55 Dale wrote: Did you perhaps run --depclean and it removed it? That's the only way I can think of that emerge would remove it. Depclean might have removed the files from the source package, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread sean
On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Another random cause I can think of would be some of the cruft cleaning scripts that there are around and that are not part of Gentoo. On a more paranoid though, it could also be a rootkit, or maybe your box was hacked.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread Gregory Fontenele
way out of this list? On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 09:11, sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Another random cause I can think of would be some of the cruft cleaning scripts that there are around and that are not part of

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/12/11, sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: If you have anything you wish me to check, I will. It's probably too late to think about this option, but just in case: you don't happen to have a copy of root's bash history from around the time you noticed the problem? -- Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 23:29:56 sean wrote: I just did an update of my system and now the linux directory under /usr/src is not there. In fact under /usr/src there is nothing. Something change or would anyone have any ideas of what might have happened, and how to fix? I can't help with

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread Thanasis
on 03/12/2011 02:11 PM sean wrote the following: I su'd in the terminal, started the updates, and as mentioned eventually saw the nvidia-drivers complaining about not finding a .config. Not finding a .config is an indication that the kernel source may have never been touched (configured) so all

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread Matthew Finkel
2011/3/12 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org on 03/12/2011 02:11 PM sean wrote the following: I su'd in the terminal, started the updates, and as mentioned eventually saw the nvidia-drivers complaining about not finding a .config. Not finding a .config is an indication that the kernel source

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-11 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:29 PM, sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: I just did an update of my system and now the linux directory under /usr/src is not there. In fact under /usr/src there is nothing. Something change or would anyone have any ideas of what might have happened, and how to

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 10 March 2011 03:31:55 Dale wrote: Did you perhaps run --depclean and it removed it? That's the only way I can think of that emerge would remove it. Depclean might have removed the files from the source package, but it wouldn't have removed .config or anything resulting from

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-10 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
As someone said above, a possible cause is that /usr/src was a mount point, maybe with -obind, or even a symlink. Many people do this to handle kernels manually on their own $HOME directory (I do it this way myself). Another random cause I can think of would be some of the cruft cleaning scripts

[gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-09 Thread sean
I just did an update of my system and now the linux directory under /usr/src is not there. In fact under /usr/src there is nothing. Something change or would anyone have any ideas of what might have happened, and how to fix? Thanks Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/03/11 01:29, sean wrote: I just did an update of my system and now the linux directory under /usr/src is not there. In fact under /usr/src there is nothing. Something change or would anyone have any ideas of what might have happened, and how to fix? You rm'ed it while doing a

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-09 Thread sean
On 03/09/2011 06:41 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: You rm'ed it while doing a fantastic imitation of a numbnut? Portage for sure did not do it, so that leaves you. I did not delete it.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/03/11 01:51, sean wrote: On 03/09/2011 06:41 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: You rm'ed it while doing a fantastic imitation of a numbnut? Portage for sure did not do it, so that leaves you. I did not delete it. Well I don't know where your files went. But I described how to put them

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-09 Thread Dale
sean wrote: On 03/09/2011 06:41 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: You rm'ed it while doing a fantastic imitation of a numbnut? Portage for sure did not do it, so that leaves you. I did not delete it. Did you perhaps run --depclean and it removed it? That's the only way I can think