Walt Rarus writes:
> WALRUS ~ # whoami
> root
> WALRUS ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/
> ls: cannot access /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild:
> Permission denied
> total 12
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot2675 2008-05-09 09:37 ChangeLog
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot
Laurent Kappler writes:
> I'm tryin to emerge ImageMagick version 6.4.7.0 while current in
> portage is 6.5.7.
>
> How could I do that??
Look in the attic [*] for old ebuilds. Looks like 6.4.7.0 is not
available, so maybe you will download 6.4.8.3 which is the nearest
version. Put the ebuild
Wow, seven mostly similar answers. Is the list becoming slow? When I
posted about an hour after the question was posted, there were no answers
yet. Let's see how long this post takes to arrive. Usually it's just a
matter of a few minutes.
Wonko
Walt Rarus writes:
> I have a java (clojure, actually) program which is invoked via a bash
> script. When the script is invoked from the shell, the java program
> always runs and succeeds. However, when the script is invoked via a
> cron job, the java program always runs and crashes with a null po
Dale writes:
> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
Whoops?
> Have you synced lately? According to mine it is not masked or
> keyworded and should install without changing anything. I synced last
> night and I get this:
You're probably running an x86 system, whil
Frank Steinmetzger writes:
> Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong:
> > Instead of guessing using this rather imprecise metric, why not just
> > look up the serial number of your drive and see what the physical
> > sector size is?
>
> Well, at differences of 50%, precision is of no rel
Stefan G. Weichinger writes:
> Am 17.02.2010 20:10, schrieb walt:
> > Are you using ext4 on the hard drives also? For how long?
>
> phew, for quite some time ... I'd have to think a while ...
> AFAIK there is no way to read that info from the fs
>
> "formatted on 2009-06-." or something ;-
Enrico Weigelt writes:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their
> > farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer
> > for. When are they going to start considering the environment?
>
> What frakk'in greenhouse gases ? Is any
Renat Golubchyk writes:
> My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help
> her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a
> regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and
> time consuming. I thought some screen sharing software
James Homuth writes:
> I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after
> reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently
> have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist.
> But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic purpo
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from
> > running out of disk space. A little research showed that an
> > odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in
> > some
roun...@hotmail.ru writes:
> roun...@lister ~ $ sudo emerge -vp equery
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "equery".
[...]
> So what package is it part of?
wo...@weird ~ $ equery belongs /u
Peter Humphrey writes:
> On Thursday 25 February 2010 00:10:18 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > This KMail window has spell checking which is nice to have. But when
> > I open the spell checking dialog in order to add words to the
> > dictionary, I always have to start at the very b
Mark Knecht writes:
> Do I just watch the logs looking for problems? I have no way of
> knowing right now whether this was a disk problem that's going to come
> back, a 1 time deal due to power, or something else entirely.
>
> As these cheap machines that don't use RAID what's the right way to
>
BRM writes:
> > > If you keep your world file (/var/lib/portage/world) tidy, simply
> > > deleting all lines with KDE3 packages and running emerge -a --
> > > depclean will take care of it.
> >
> > > You *do* keep your world file tidy, don't you? :P
> >
> > That would be the easiest method. If
Kyle Bader writes:
> > I opted to reinstall from source that machine, which wasn't exactly a
> > bad choice anyway. But as always, rtfm is good advice! Thanks (not
> > sarcastic, except to mock myself).
>
> Another option other than rsync or dd is to use tar:
Yeah, that's what I usually do.n T
Mark Knecht writes:
>Yes, I do use smartctl on some other machines although I'm not very
> good about it and your write-up is helpful so thanks for that.
>
>My wife's machines is older and and I don't think SMART is
> supported on her drive. Note the lack of a * on the SMART line in
> hdp
Mark Knecht writes:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Alex Schuster
> wrote:
> > Okay, but it still states:
> >> *SMART error logging
> >> *SMART self-test
> >
> > So maybe smartctl -t long /dev/hda still works? Just give it
Peter Humphrey writes:
> I'm still using etc-update, which seems adequate except when squid is
> upgraded, but I thought I'd try cfg-update. Problem though: it demands
> dev-util/xxdiff which doesn't exist. What's a suitable substitute?
Whatever you like. Just edit the MERGETOOL definition in /et
Harry Putnam writes:
> All fail when aclocal is trotted out. I don't see recent threads here
> about it... googling turns up a herd of bugs involving aclocal but
> then newest is 2008.
>
> The newest threads here that even mention aclocal date around Jan 20.
>
> I didn't change the compiler (gc
Alex Schuster wrote:
[KDE4 problems]
> And so on. But it's not so bad I cannot work with it (well, sometimes
> it is, and then I have to fix it, like when the password dialog no
> longer accepted passwords), and so I keep using it, waiting it to
> become really stable and usa
Paul Hartman writes:
> - utilizing device labels and/or volume labels instead of hoping
> /dev/sda stays /dev/sda always
Good idea. Or use LVM.
> - better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need
> portage on its own, maybe /var as well?)
I like to have many partitions. When m
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I
> > cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve
> > this. And there are these annoying things. L
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small
> > > cluster size maybe.
> >
> > I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended.
>
> The data I
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I
> > > use.
> >
> > I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from
> >
Mick writes:
> On Monday 01 March 2010 16:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > And another weekend of KDE4 trouble. I rebooted after some upgrades,
> > along those were Qt and MySQL. Now, plasma-desktop crashed, also
> > when restarting it on the command line.
>
> [sni
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2010 14:21:23 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > That's right, they should both be in /var.
>
> I concur. /usr has a long tradition is Unix of often being mounted
> read-only (think thin clients that mount it over NFS).
Any idea why it's different with Gentoo
Willie Wong writes:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from
> > the notail option in reiserfs? Did you change the block size?
>
> You mean the other way around, right?
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2010 13:27:45 Alex Schuster wrote:
[RANT RANT RANT]
> > Ah, I see the problem. It mainly scans /data/mp3/incoming, a
> > directory I have NOT selected as collection folder (but most other
> > directories in /data/mp3 are se
Neil Bothwick writes:
> > Wasn't Agrajag the toothless wonder that kept getting accidentally
> > killed by Arthur Dent?
>
> Yes, all my hostnames are HHGTTG characters. Agrajag never crashes and
> has only died once... so far.
Uh, makes me wonder if I am along your hosts, too?
Wonko
Alex Schuster writes:
> Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change.
Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:)
Wonko
Alex Schuster writes:
> Neil Bothwick writes:
> > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I
> > > > use.
> > >
> > > I thought the small files of th
Alex Schuster writes:
> Neil Bothwick writes:
> > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I
> > > > use.
> > >
> > > I thought the small files of th
text console with Alt-F1
(the additional Ctrl key was also not needed) and back.
Alex Schuster writes:
> The next test gives 93 seconds, that's nice.
What is not so nice is that emerge -a --depclean took over half an hour of
CPU time, needing half a gigabyte of memory. WOW.
Wonko
Stroller writes:
> I have this /etc/portage/bin/post_sync file on a couple of systems,
> and strangely `equery b /etc/portage/bin/post_sync` doesn't tell me
> what package it belongs to. I might guess `eix`, but who knows?
It's part of portage, and it's called after a sync of the portage tree.
>
Alex Schuster wrote:
> Alex Schuster writes:
> > Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change.
>
> Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:)
But still they are not well. But you can safely ignore this if you don't
have KDE4 or
Philip Webb writes:
> I see 1 improvement & 2 regressions so far;
> NB I don't use the desktop (that's Fluxbox), only some apps.
>
> Konsole has lost its 'fixed GNU' font, which now calls up something
> nasty (yes, I know there's an entry in the list, but it's a different
> font). I've switch
Dale writes:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now?
> I am in KDE4. I still have KDE3 installed tho. Thing is, I'm still
> using the same programs I was in KDE3. Dolphin looks nice and all but
> I can't use it as r
Dale writes:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Dale writes:
> >> I am in KDE4. I still have KDE3 installed tho. Thing is, I'm still
> >> using the same programs I was in KDE3. Dolphin looks nice and all
> >> but I can't use it as root at all.
> >
Stroller writes:
> I'm going to assume that you're not being facetious, however I'm
> amazed you don't know `screen`. Everyone should know `screen`! It's
> amazing, and I can't believe that if you had tried it then you
> wouldn't have it installed. I sure you'll wonder how you lived without
> it.
Stroller writes:
> On 16 Mar 2010, at 22:26, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > ...
> > I want to add one thing: I suggest changing the defscrollback value
> > in /etc/screenrc from 100 to something much larger, I have 10.
> > If not, you can only scroll back 100 lines, whi
Mick writes:
> In an aterm I launch top. Then press z c and Shift+W. I get:
>
>Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc'
Cool. Didn't know about this yet.
> Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on. Next time I fire up top,
> even from the same terminal, it's all looking white with
o0o.atlantis@gmail.com writes:
> Same thing here, nothing was highlighted and my .toprc looked like
> yours I added Def, Job, Mem and usr in the file and it's fine now.
> The question is why is the file not having the right syntax?
> here:
> top: procps version 3.2.8 on amd64
I tried with sy
Alan McKinnon asks:
> And Dale himself holds the record for starting the longest email thread
> ever outside of UseNet.
>
> It started with ... wait for it ... Xorg and hal!
>
> It makes me just a little bit sad to see that the next version of Xorg
> (ebuild sitting in some testing proving groun
Dale writes:
> Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm
> hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be
> sequential instead of random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to
> be a slideshow but if done in random order, they make no sense at all.
> All I
Mick writes:
> On 25 March 2010 11:50, Helmut Jarausch
> wrote:
> > Many thanks, do you have an estimate when 10.4 appears in the tree?
> > Helmut.
>
> I can't answer that (as far as I know the devs will only say that it
> will appear when it is ready) but I got myself into a pickle with
> tryi
Helmut Jarausch writes:
> On 26 Mar, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > I think you have to wait for ati-drivers-10.4 to work with xorg-1.7.
>
> I just want to report back, that xorg-server-1.7.6 (+ friends) is
> running just fine with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.721 .
> The only m
Jarry writes:
> I'd like to ask if there is some way to include multiple discrete
> hosts/IP's in --source and --destination options of iptables.
>
> I'm trying to write firewall rules for my server, but it has
> 12 IP's from different segments (and maybe it gets a few more
> later), and the scri
Kraus Philipp writes:
> I run in a virtual machine a gentoo (~x86) system. I synced the portage
> tree at the weekend an run emerge --update
>
> The update runs without errors, but emerge installed the gcc 4.3.4,
> but on the system is the 4.4.3 installed
>
> [ebuild NS ] sys-devel/gcc-4.3.4
Damian writes:
> Thus, I'm thinking about switching all of my system to the unstable
> branch. But first I want to be sure that this is reasonable given the
> problems I described before.
>
> Can you provide me some useful advice according to your experience?
I have asked a similar question here
Mark Knecht writes:
> OK, let's start with xfce4-meta because there was only one failure.
> eix-update was done this morning and emerge -DuN @system is clean
> using ~arch in make.conf. I'll paste make.conf & emerge --info at the
> end of this message
[...]
> >>> Source prepared.
> >>> Configuring
Florian Philipp writes:
> Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar:
> > Can boot be sped up even more?
>
> The fastest way to boot is not to boot at all. Just use Suspend2Disk or
> SuspendToRam.
>
> Take a look at TuxOnIce and hibernate-script. Unless something is
> broken, I hardly ever rebo
Peter Humphrey writes:
> On Monday 12 April 2010 17:17:52 Florian Philipp wrote:
> > Unless something is broken, I hardly ever reboot.
>
> How do you take backups?
I do my backups from the running system, not from a live-cd. I create an
LVM snapshot of the partition, and backup with use rdiff-b
Mark Knecht writes:
>One minor annoyance is that the task bar at the bottom is about 1/3
> black on the left. Resolution is 1920x1080 so I'd guess about the
> first 800 pixels are painted the wrong color. The task bar still
> works, it just doesn't look right.
I think I have the same problem,
Jarry writes:
> Is there any way to find out in which order services are
> started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up
> screen and making notes)?
I think the output of 'rc-status' shows the services in the right order.
Wonko
Dale writes:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Jarry writes:
> >> Is there any way to find out in which order services are
> >> started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up
> >> screen and making notes)?
> >
> > I think the output of 'rc-sta
I wrote:
> Alan McKinnon writes:
> > On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
[...]
> > > solve this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being
> > > very unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it
> > > doing in
Dale writes:
> Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know
> it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in
> KDE3.
It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after
becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting
Hi there!
I just migrated a friend's machine to ~am64. Everything was updated, but
after a reboot some partitons are not found. No wonder, there are no
/dev/sd? devices, only /dev/sg?. I suspect the problem is udev, because
that was updated. Root is encrypted, so this machine makes use of an
i
Iain Buchanan writes:
> A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard
> drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can
> replace it with the external disk and continue straight away.
I do the same, but with a 2nd internal drive. The drive is parti
I wrote:
> I just migrated a friend's machine to ~am64. Everything was updated,
> but after a reboot some partitons are not found. No wonder, there are
> no /dev/sd? devices, only /dev/sg?. I suspect the problem is udev,
> because that was updated. Root is encrypted, so this machine makes use
> of
Iain Buchanan writes:
> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > All my partitions are LVM volumes, so before the backup starts, I
> > make a LVM snapshot of the partition. This way I can modify it while
> > the backup is still in
Helmut Jarausch writes:
> My 'standard' way of updating is
> emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree
> @system @world
>
> but it didn't update anything.
>
> Still, eix confirmed there were quite a lot of kde packages which have
> newer versions, and indeed,
> emerge -auv
Mick writes:
> I am getting a bit confused from the messages that I receive in my
> gmail account sent from my crontab.
>
> First, is related to the title which is:
>
> Cron test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
> /usr/sbin/run-crons
>
> I am not sure what this "test -x" part represents?
It means:
KH writes:
> Am 04.05.2010 21:41, schrieb Dale:
> > I have with-bdeps set in my make.conf so that it is enabled each
> > time. I just ran the command given above and it found over 40
> > packages that need to be upgraded. I'm not even going to claim that
> > I understand all the chicken scratch
Iain Buchanan writes:
> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > using this script, adapted to their needs, I started to rewrite it in
> > a way that it reads a config file, and no modification of the script
> > itself is necessary. If anyone is interes
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes:
> I have a question -- where would lvm put a snapshot and how could I
> pass some list of excludes to rdiff-backup. I have an lvm which is
> taking all the PEs and a snapshot would take up lots of disk space --
> or would it. Would I need some free pes to put the sn
I wrote:
> Still not on sourceforge, but here:
> http://www.wonkology.org/utils/snackup
Whoops, access denied. After a chmod o+r snackup, it is accessible now.
In case anyone already wrote me about this issue, I had lost my domain for
two days, and all the e-mails going to wonkology.org.
Willie Wong writes:
> When the filesystem fills up, services can start failing left and
> right because they cannot write logs, cannot write temp files, etc. At
> this point human intervention is necessary: root has to log in and
> clear out the disk. But if the $ROOT filesystem is completely full
John J. Foster writes:
> I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home
> machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of
> curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know
> I was getting close to 11 months, which would be a record for me.
T
John J. Foster writes:
> > Hope you broke the record,
> > Wonko
>
> fes...@localhost ~ $ last | grep "system boot"
> reboot system boot 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 Thu May 13 16:39 - 17:30
> (00:51)
>
> OK, so after looking at "man last", I tried
>
> fes...@localhost ~ $ last reboot
> reboot
Roy Wright writes:
> Argh. Just have to vent a little.
We feel with you :)
> So on to my list a applications to be installed. Firefox check,
> openoffice check, handbrake...crap. Handbrake is one of the
> non-standard packages that includes their own version of support
> libraries. You gues
Hi there!
I want to setup an USB printer. So I http://localhost:631/, and notice
that the interface has changed. And when I try to add a printer, the only
options for a local printer are SCSI-printer and HAL printing backend. And
on the next screen, I have to enter the device URI by hand. How s
Mick writes:
> On Saturday 15 May 2010 22:56:22 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > I want to setup an USB printer. So I http://localhost:631/, and
> > notice that the interface has changed. And when I try to add a
> > printer, the only options for a local printer are SCSI-printer
walt writes:
> On 05/15/2010 04:01 PM, Dale wrote:
> > Just for reference, this is my USE flags:
> >
> > USE="X avahi dbus gnutls java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl
> > tiff zeroconf -acl -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd"
>
> Good grief, Dale, you're almost stark nekkid! Wher
Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:56:23 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > But my main problem is another one: How do I tell CUPS which device
> > my printer is? I tried usb:/dev/usb/lp0 (found this notation when
> > googling 'usb printer device uri'), but nothing
Harry Putnam writes:
> Alex Schuster writes:
> > After writing down some ideas about installing the old libraries
> > somewhere in parallel, I just checked eix, and there is an extra
> > slot for the 1.2 version. So, just emerge media-libs/libpng:1.2 ,
> > and I&#
Madhurya Kakati writes:
> Philip, Thanks for the detailed answer.
Yeah, that was a nice one.
> On 5/25/2010 9:09 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
> > 100525 Madhurya Kakati wrote:
> >> I am currently using Archlinux and Windows 7 and want to try out
> >> Gentoo.
> >
> > Welcome aboard ! -- Gentoo require
kitti jaisong writes:
> I just install sparc machine. i found error "failed: No space left on
> device (28)" when i check inode by df -i command
[...]
> /dev/sda4 2.0G 952M 963M 50% /mnt/gentoo/usr
> /dev/sda5 2.0G 83M 1.8G 5% /mnt/gentoo/var
> /dev/sda6
Johannes Kimmel writes:
> On 06/02/2010 03:27 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use
> > all the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB or even a little
> > more available? What is your output of free
Hi there!
I have 4GB of RAM, but the system is swapping A LOT. I think I will have
to go to 64 bit, but I need some time for that, and I need to use the
system in the meantime.
But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use all
the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB
J. Roeleveld writes:
> > > Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory.
> >
> > Oh, thanks! Did not think about this. It's an ATI Radeon HD4300
> > onboard card, so I guess this must be the cause. Seems like I will
> > have to do the migration to 64bit then.
> Wonko,
>
> If your grap
Dale writes:
> For the record, hda and hdb are not even mounted. I am currently using
> hdc for the OS. The drive used to be a lot faster than this. I used
> it for my OS a good while back and recently used it for /var/portage
> and /usr/portage. I'm not sure what has changed so I can't figure
Mick writes:
> I am getting worried now about fs corruption.
I would be, too.
> The fs is supposed to be checked at boot time
But only if it was not shut down correctly. To force a complete fsck on
reboot on a file system that looks sane, issue a 'touch /force_fsck'.
Wonko
Jake Moe writes:
> j...@aus10224 ~ $ ssh -Y jhb5970
> Password:
> Last login: Wed Jun 9 08:05:09 EST 2010 from 192.168.0.114 on pts/0
> j...@jhb5970 ~ $ firefox
> Error: no display specified
> j...@jhb5970 ~ $ konqueror
> konqueror: cannot connect to X server
> j...@jhb5970 ~ $
Try "echo $DISPLA
Tanstaafl writes:
> So... for those of use who have already installed it (and thankfully I
> did actually read the notes about not switching to it), should me
> uninstall it then mask it? Or just leave it alone?
For the sake of simplicity, I just leave it alone.
> I'm guessing it
> won't hurt an
Walter Dnes writes:
> I'm converting an older Dell E521 AMD K8 machine from XP to Gentoo.
> I intend to use it with an HDHomerun ATSC tuner, for recording and
> playback. I don't know if it supports AGP, but I am including... <*>
> AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support
> <*> NVIDIA nFor
Daniel D Jones writes:
> eix gcc shows:
>
> Installed versions:
>
> 4.3.4(4.3)!s(10:56:18 AM 02/27/2010)(gtk mudflap nls nptl openmp
> -altivec - bootstrap -build -doc -fixed-point -fortran -gcj -hardened
> -libffi -multilib - multislot -n32 -n64 -nocxx -nopie -objc -objc++
> -objc-gc -test -va
Helmut Jarausch writes:
> On 10 Jun, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > You could either first use mkfs for ext3 or 4 to check, or you could
> > run "badblock" manually over the partition first to check.
>
> Thanks, Joost,
>
> but I don't know how to feed the output of badblocks to mkbtrfs.
> It looks as
Jose Juan Montiel writes:
> yesterday i finally decide to try Gentoo (I came from debian).
Welcome!
> I follow all step of
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml but when i
> finally go to install gnome... in the latests package (mailclient or
> something similar) fail...
Michael Sullivan writes:
> 4: mich...@camille ~ $ nmblookup -B BIGSERVER __SAMBA__
> querying __SAMBA__ on 192.168.1.255
> 192.168.1.2 __SAMBA__<00>
>
> 4: carter ~ # nmblookup -B camille *
> querying xorg.conf.new on 192.168.1.3
> name_query failed to find name xorg.conf.new
>
> *I'm not sure
I wrote:
> J. Roeleveld writes:
> > > > Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory.
> > >
> > > Oh, thanks! Did not think about this. It's an ATI Radeon HD4300
> > > onboard card, so I guess this must be the cause. Seems like I will
> > > have to do the migration to 64bit then.
> >
>
board. I'm doing this with every longer mail now. I saved the mail as
draft, and went to my Linxu machine where I resumed the edit. I wanted to
try something and went into the import menu: Crash! Good thing
the Windows Clipboard still had it.
Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 March 2010
Rod writes:
> Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit
> or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall?
I am using net-analyzer/fail2ban. That can block an IP after some
unsuccessful login attempts. This helps a lot, but not against bot nets,
walt writes:
> On 06/16/2010 04:05 PM, Jake Moe wrote:
> > I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and
> >
> > strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get
> > is:
> >Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7`
> >
> > root (hd0,1)
> >
> > Filesystem t
Allan Gottlieb writes:
> The machine seems to have two "hardware" states determined by whether
> windows has been run since power on.
I _think_ I read about such a problem ages ago, and there was a
workaround. Either in the BIOS, or in Windows, some Wake-On-LAN option. If
activated, Windows wou
Colleen Beamer writes:
> First, I looked in the archives and didn't find anything relevant -
> could be my stupidity, but I did try!
Fine :)
> From my kdm log the last few lines are as follows:
>
> (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) Failed to load module "dri2"
Colleen Beamer writes:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alex Schuster
> wrote:
> I don't remember why I unmasked the unstable version of libpng.
> However, following your advice, I first attempted to reinstall kdm.
> This had been an update 6 days ago when all this
>
> Why is /usr/share in there twice? Could this mess things up?
>
> On 17 June 2010 00:23, Alex Schuster wrote:
> [snip ...]
>
> > Mick wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex Schuster wrote:
> >>> - Kontact. The old address book I had importe
hare:/usr/local/share:/usr/share'
>
> Why is /usr/share in there twice? Could this mess things up?
Seems to be normal, I also have this with a fresh setup.
> On 17 June 2010 00:23, Alex Schuster wrote:
> [snip ...]
>
> > Mick wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 09 March
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