Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning and LVM problem (partially solved)

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Richard,

> On 8/29/06, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >   /dev/hda4: No label detected
> 
> Did you do "pvcreate /dev/hda4"?

At that time, NO.  Later I did, having completed vgcreate, lvcreated,
mkdir, mounting, etc.  All went through w/o problem.  Problem came
after chroot.  I'll post another topic.  Tks.

B.R.
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[gentoo-user] problem re ebuilds

[Stephen Liu]

Hi folks,

Installing Gentoo amd64
Guide:- Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml


On running;
# emerge --sync --quiet

following warning popup:
* An update to portage is available.  It is highly recommended
* that your update portage now, before any other packages are updated
* please do so and then update All your configuration files
* end *


Ran;
# emerge update portage
Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satify "update"
* end *

I left it aside and continued to;
Code Listing 22: installing a kernel source
# USE="-doc symlink" emerge gentoo-sources

following warning popup;
Calculating denpendencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "gentoo-source"
* end *

Please advise how to solve these problems.  How to update other
packages?  What are those packages?

TIA

B.R.
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Re: [gentoo-user] problem re ebuilds

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:36:09 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote:

> # emerge update portage
> Calculating dependencies
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satify "update"
> * end *

That should be "emerge --update portage"

> I left it aside and continued to;
> Code Listing 22: installing a kernel source
> # USE="-doc symlink" emerge gentoo-sources
> 
> following warning popup;
> Calculating denpendencies
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "gentoo-source"
> * end *

Did you use gentoo-source or gentoo-sources? You indicate you used the
latter but the error message claims you used the former, a typo? The
correct name is gentoo-sources.


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Re: [gentoo-user] problem re ebuilds

[Daniel Huckstep]

It's 'gentoo-sources', with a trailing 's'

And to update, you just emerge foo, not emerge update foo

Read the manpage for emerge to find out more options, or check the
Gentoo handbook

Daniel

Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Installing Gentoo amd64
> Guide:- Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml
>
>
> On running;
> # emerge --sync --quiet
>
> following warning popup:
> * An update to portage is available.  It is highly recommended
> * that your update portage now, before any other packages are updated
> * please do so and then update All your configuration files
> * end *
>
>
> Ran;
> # emerge update portage
> Calculating dependencies
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satify "update"
> * end *
>
> I left it aside and continued to;
> Code Listing 22: installing a kernel source
> # USE="-doc symlink" emerge gentoo-sources
>
> following warning popup;
> Calculating denpendencies
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "gentoo-source"
> * end *
>
> Please advise how to solve these problems.  How to update other
> packages?  What are those packages?
>
> TIA
>
> B.R.
> SL
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] problem re ebuilds

[malary]

Hali!

Try --update instead of update

# emerge --update portage

And the kernel source build name is gentoo-sources 


# emerge gentoo-sources


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- Original Message - 
From: "Stephen Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:36 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] problem re ebuilds



Hi folks,

Installing Gentoo amd64
Guide:- Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml


On running;
# emerge --sync --quiet

following warning popup:
* An update to portage is available.  It is highly recommended
* that your update portage now, before any other packages are updated
* please do so and then update All your configuration files
* end *


Ran;
# emerge update portage
Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satify "update"
* end *

I left it aside and continued to;
Code Listing 22: installing a kernel source
# USE="-doc symlink" emerge gentoo-sources

following warning popup;
Calculating denpendencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "gentoo-source"
* end *

Please advise how to solve these problems.  How to update other
packages?  What are those packages?

TIA

B.R.
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Re: [gentoo-user] problem re ebuilds

[Uwe Thiem]

On 30 August 2006 08:36, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Installing Gentoo amd64
> Guide:- Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml
>
>
> On running;
> # emerge --sync --quiet
>
> following warning popup:
> * An update to portage is available.  It is highly recommended
> * that your update portage now, before any other packages are updated
> * please do so and then update All your configuration files
> * end *
>
>
> Ran;
> # emerge update portage
> Calculating dependencies
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satify "update"
> * end *

Well, you tried to emerge a package by the name "update". Try "emerge 
portage".

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

[Justin Piszcz]

nobarrier went into 2.6.17 I believe (kernel related change) and was 
discussed on the XFS mailing list.


On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Mick wrote:


On Wednesday 30 August 2006 02:35, Richard Fish wrote:

On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

$ mount  | grep xfs
/dev/hda6 on /home type xfs (rw)


Hmm, I missed this before.  "nobarrier" should be showing up here.  Try:

mount /home -o remount,nobarrier


Where did you find this option?!  Couldn't see it in man mount . . .

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Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

[Richard Fish]

On 8/30/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 02:35, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > $ mount  | grep xfs
> > /dev/hda6 on /home type xfs (rw)
>
> Hmm, I missed this before.  "nobarrier" should be showing up here.  Try:
>
> mount /home -o remount,nobarrier

Where did you find this option?!  Couldn't see it in man mount . . .


http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#wcache_fix

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Re: [gentoo-user] openLDAP clients

[Marc Blumentritt]

bijayant kumar schrieb:
> Hi,
>   I have installed openLDAP server and configure the clients on the same 
> system.  Now, i have to install the server on one machine and clients on the 
> other system.  I want to ask that what to do for this. On the client machine, 
> which files i have to configure. And is it neccessary to configure the 
> /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/pam.d/system-auth  files on the server ?? or that 
> files will be configured only on the clients machinePlease help me.. 
> I will be very thankful to you all..

I have no experience with this, but I think you have to configure:

- /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/pam.d/system-auth as you did on your server
- /etc/openldap/ldap.conf and /etc/ldap.conf as you did on your server,
but replace local IP with IP of the ldap server.

Regards,
Marc

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Re: [gentoo-user] openLDAP clients

[bijayant kumar]

Marc,   Hi Once again you have solved my problem. Thank you very very much.Marc Blumentritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: bijayant kumar schrieb:> Hi,>   I have installed openLDAP server and configure the clients on the same system.  Now, i have to install the server on one machine and clients on the other system.  I want to ask that what to do for this. On the client machine, which files i have to configure. And is it neccessary to configure the /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/pam.d/system-auth  files on the server ?? or that files will be configured only on the clients machinePlease help me.. I will be very thankful to you all..I have no experience with this, but I think you have to configure:- /etc/nsswitch.conf
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Re: [gentoo-user] openLDAP clients

[Jeff Grant]

Don't forget --> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml

:-)

-Jeff

bijayant kumar wrote:
> Marc,
>Hi Once again you have solved my problem. Thank you very 
> very much.
> 
> 
> Marc Blumentritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: bijayant kumar schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>   I have installed openLDAP server and configure the clients on the same 
>> system.  Now, i have to install the server on one machine and clients on the 
>> other system.  I want to ask that what to do for this. On the client 
>> machine, which files i have to configure. And is it neccessary to configure 
>> the /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/pam.d/system-auth  files on the server ?? or 
>> that files will be configured only on the clients machinePlease help 
>> me.. I will be very thankful to you all..
> 
> I have no experience with this, but I think you have to configure:
> 
> - /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/pam.d/system-auth as you did on your server
> - /etc/openldap/ldap.conf and /etc/ldap.conf as you did on your server,
> but replace local IP with IP of the ldap server.
> 
> Regards,
> Marc
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[gentoo-user] OT - WiFi cards for laptop

[Mick]

Hi All,

I am about to splash out on a WiFi card for my laptop and I have foudn the 
whole choice experience daunting.  I would ideally like to be able to also 
use this card on the laptop as a wireless access point when I am at home.

Would something like the belkin device below do the trick:

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=203586

What's your experiences with 802.11g+, turbo, MIMO, N, N+ and who knows what 
other proprietary garbage all these hardware manufacturers are ready to 
launch for their M$windoze users?
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[gentoo-user] MySQL clustering.

[Pupeno]

Hello,
I've been searching for a while and reading some code and it seems that the 
mysql ebuild doesn't have support for clustering aside that building the 
binaries (that is, no config and init files to start the management and 
backends and so on).
Am I right or am I missing something ?
Thanks.
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Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes - GNOME/nautilus Issue?

[Joshua Schmidlkofer]

On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 18:35 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > $ mount  | grep xfs
> > /dev/hda6 on /home type xfs (rw)
>
> Hmm, I missed this before.  "nobarrier" should be showing up here.  Try:
>
> mount /home -o remount,nobarrier
>

I did mention that I tried that as well. (but I just re-tried it anyway)
and it didn't have any changes.


I don't think it's a good idea.  Do you know what the write barriers
provide?   They give you a much higher chance of no damage if you are
able ot run with barriers.  The only real danger to an XFS partition
is out-of-order commits (and of course massive hardware failure).
Write barriers prevent out-of-order journal vs. FS commits, and that
is a Good Thing(tm).


They are only in as of 2.6.17 for XFS.



Out of curiousity, I just tried to copy a file using an xterm (instead
of using nautilus) from DIsk 2 to disk1

disk2/partition2 - VFAT
disk1/partition6 - XFS partition (/home)


$ ls -lah WinXP-01-cl1-01-cl1-01-s002.vmdk
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root 620M Aug 29 19:10
WinXP-01-cl1-01-cl1-01-s002.vmdk

$ time cp WinXP-01-cl1-01-cl1-01-s001.vmdk ~/Desktop/
real0m37.353s
user0m0.157s
sys 0m5.445s


Transfer rate ~16.8MB/s


I read an article recently (<2 years ago , heh)  about how Nautilus,
mc, Cp and other OSS copy utilities suffer from a lack of real
intuitive optimization work.  They highlighted the GNU cp command.
Overall copying with Linux tends to be lack luster.  It's services we
do well.  i.e. Http, SQL, etc.  So, that begs the question: Are there
any good, well optimized file copy utilities for Linux?



Using Nautilus (I don't know of a good way to measure throughput using
this, so it's basically what I see in the progress bar
~5min
gkrellm2 notes transfer rate ~2.0MB/s


However, doing the same thing to my /tmp directory (ext3 partition) the
same file copies in ~30secs and w/ ~17MB/s transfer rate.

What gives??


BTW, what's the difference between mc and mc-mp??

*  app-misc/mc
  Latest version available: 4.6.1
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of downloaded files: 11,606 kB
  Homepage:http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/
  Description: GNU Midnight Commander cli-based file manager
  License: GPL-2

*  app-misc/mc-mp [ Masked ]
  Latest version available: 4.1.40_pre9
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of downloaded files: 2,904 kB
  Homepage:http://mc.linuxinside.com/cgi-bin/dir.cgi
  Description: GNU Midnight Commander cli-based file manager. 4.1.x
branch
  License: GPL-2



From the URL:

"The goal of this project is creating a stable, well-working, usefull
console-only version of well-known Midnight Commander, without bugs
and garbage, like tk, xv and gnome. I'm bored waiting for bugfixes,
and A'rpi's ESP team stops their work in this direction too, so I did
it. I'm fixing all (found) bugs, reported by my friends, and made some
really pleasent new features, like real-time clock, or filegroups
colorizing."

Basically, this guy is sane, (thank God), and doing what MC really
needs: SIMPLICITY.  I have never bitched at the mc guys, but when I
get to my desk, I am converting to mc-mp.  Cause MC sucks recently.
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[gentoo-user] mysql dump bad encoding

[Arnau Bria]

Hi,

I've done a dump from a mysql db from my old not utf8 Debian (I don't
really know what it was... and now is crashed).

I've installed a fresh utf-8 gentoo and wanted to restore the db.

Now I see lots of strange characters in my new db, mainly cause old one
was using latin1. So, following some docs, I did an iconv to the file,
but this did not solve my problem. So looking a little more, 
I found that original file already was utf8 like:

$ file drupal.sql
drupal.sql: UTF-8 Unicode English text, with very long lines

so, when I do a iconv from latin1 to iconv it does nothing...

Anyone has similar experience with this?
What may I do to correct strnage charcters from teh db?

It looks like:
Ni la ONU, ni la Liga Ã<81>rabe hace nada al respecto, y mientras,
cada día hay más muertos.

(it's spanish, accents are missing...)

Thanks in advance,

PS: I can't see my own post to list, is this normal?

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[gentoo-user] Re: Gmail + Email Client = No way

[Thufir]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Lord Sauron wrote:
[...]

Otherwise, it only grabs about a hundred or so
emails at a time, and will never get the latest emails.


Which is an issue with Gmail, I think.


On a weekend I set up KMail with my GMail account.  About 6,000 threads.

What I did was set up the account and then enabled interval checking for
every minute and then went off and did other things while ignoring
KMail.

I'd suggest leaving the machine on overnight with KMail using interval
checking.

[...]

Pine seems to work.  Are you using filters and so forth on your gmail 
page?  Google is philosophically opposed, apparently, to directories, so 
the way in which messages are stored by google is different, of course, 
from how they're stored with whichever client you POP your messages with, 
which will use directories.


There are weird behaviors, I believe, when first setting up POP3 with 
google, in that not all the messages are grabbed.  However, after that 
initial weirdness it's consistent, to my knowledge.


You can check (google) the archives for comp.mail.pine, and probably other 
groups, about gmail weirdness, historically, at least.  It might be better 
now.


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see:  for a .pinerc file 
which works with (my) gmail.



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Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL clustering.

[kashani]

Pupeno wrote:

Hello,
I've been searching for a while and reading some code and it seems that the 
mysql ebuild doesn't have support for clustering aside that building the 
binaries (that is, no config and init files to start the management and 
backends and so on).

Am I right or am I missing something ?
Thanks.


	That sounds right. Assuming you're talking about clustering and not 
replications, they are two separate and distinct mechanisms, it is not 
something to enter into lightly. There are serious trade offs in using 
NDB tables which are required for clustering which why no one is 
inclined to write "default" configs.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail + Email Client = No way

[b.n.]

I am currently using this mailing list on a Gmail account with 
Thunderbird on Gentoo, never had problems. I can grab hundreds of mails 
at a time etc.etc. - it just works, it seems. It's more than a year that 
I use it this way.


Have you checked all your settings are in line with that advised by 
gmail help pages?


m.
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[gentoo-user] HELP! Network status changes randomly, how to diagnose?

[Erik]

I am trying to connect my Gentoo computer to my D-Link DVG-1120 (VoIP
Gateway with NAT) again after 3 months. It used to work great, but now
the network status is changing randomly. Sometimes I can load a webpage,
but then when I click on a link I get an error message. Then it may
suddenly work again. The Internet connection to the gateway works fine
and I can make phonecalls with the phones that are connected to it. It
is the link to the computer that is broken. The computer works when
connected directly to the internet and the cable works perfectly too
(tested elsewhere). I see that it is changing randomly by executing the
command
   ifconfig eth0|grep "inet addr:"
repeateldy. Sometimes I get nothing, sometimes I get:
 inet addr:192.168.0.46  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
It looks random. What can I do about it? Is there some software for
analyzing it?


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[gentoo-user] Emerge firefox error

[Oliver Klein]

Hi


I want to re-emerge firefox but it ends with this error message

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 1.3.7... Package atk was not found in the
pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing
`atk.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'atk', required
by 'GTK+', not found
configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 1.3.7) not met; consider
adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in
a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

!!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to
bugs.gentoo.org:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.5/work/mozilla/config.log

!!! ERROR: www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.5 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1539:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 939:   Called src_compile
  mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.5.ebuild, line 164:   Called econf
  ebuild.sh, line 541:   Called die

!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.

So i decide to install dev-libs/atk but this tells me

>> checking atk-1.12.1.tar.bz2
!!! Digest verification failed:
!!! /usr/portage/distfiles/atk-1.12.1.tar.bz2
!!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
!!! Got: 641378
!!! Expected: 632397

So please can anyone help me to install firefox?

THX and regards
Olly


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Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail + Email Client = No way

[Bruno Lustosa]

On 8/26/06, Samuel Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Unfortunately, the only time I have had any success with this was with the
Windows port of Thunderbird. Otherwise, it only grabs about a hundred or so
emails at a time, and will never get the latest emails. As well, the time
(...)


Samuel, I've had similar problems with Gmail, but I'm not using
thunderbird. I was getting mail using standard fetchmail, delivering
them to a local maildir and then using good old mutt to display them.
I had to do this twice in the past, because my mailbox would fill and
I had to empty it, so I could keep receiving mails (*yes*, that's it,
I filled my 2.5gb inbox twice).
The problem I had was getting the mails in some strange order, and
only by the hundreds. As I had about 3 emails, I had to keep
fetching and deleting until I got all mail. It's a bit weird, but I'm
pretty sure this isn't an issue with thunderbird, but an issue with
Google's POP server. It just doesn't show all your messages if you
have lots of them. Maybe they do this to avoid trouble, as if the
connection is broken before the client sends the QUIT command, the
messages are not deleted.
Of course, I had Gmail set to delete mail already received via POP, I
haven't tried without this set.

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[gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions

[James]

Hello,

I have successfully upgraded several gentoo systems, (workstations and 
laptops) to xorg-x11 7.0, without incident.

On a clevo portable, I did the same thing, following:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml

During the install, it hung upon xkb so it told me to remove:
/usr/lib/X11/xkb

I did what what suggested, thinking it would get rebuilt.

I used 'equery belongs xkb' and rebuilt those packages:
x11-apps/xkbcomp  and   x11-misc/xkeyboard-config


Still in /etc/X11/xkb the symbolic link flashes red
indicated that /usr/lib/X11/xkb does not exit.

KDM will not fire up automactically. So I log
in and run 'startx' and here are the errors I get:

'failed to load module "kbd" (modules does not exist, 0)'
and
'Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or dir'

On the mouse issue 'ls /dev/input' shows only this dir:
by-path

On my other xorg 7.0 systems I get this:
# ls /dev/input
event0  event1  event2  mice  mouse0  mouse1


I've hacked at this a while but not making any progress...

Ideas?


James



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[gentoo-user] Re: boot slave drive

[Thufir]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Thufir wrote:


From: Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot slave drive
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user

fedora (FC5) is on hda (master), hdb (slave) has windows 2000 and gentoo.

I'm only unable to boot gentoo.  When booting gentoo here's the error 
message:

[...]

Progress :)

New error message:

checking root filesystem
fsc ext3:  No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hda4

Possibly non existen or swap device?

* fileystem couldn't be fixed

Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue).


dismounting filesystem
rebooting


//

current grub file:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su -
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf -n
 1  # grub.conf generated by anaconda
 2  #
 3  # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this 
file
 4  # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
 5  #  all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
 6  #  root (hd0,0)
 7  #  kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
 8  #  initrd /initrd-version.img
 9  #boot=/dev/hda1
10  default=0
11  timeout=5
12  splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
13
14  #hiddenmenu
15
16  title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
17  root (hd0,0)
18  kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 
rhgb quiet

19  initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
20
21  title win2k
22  map (hd0) (hd1)
23  map (hd1) (hd0)
24  rootnoverify (hd1,0)
25  chainloader +1
26
27  title Gentoo
28  kernel (hd1,1)/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hdb4

29  initrd (hd1,1)/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5
30
31
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit
logout

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date
Wed Aug 30 23:10:34 IST 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$

/

I don't think it's a problem with grub per se, but that hdb used to be 
hda, which is why there's an error regarding the filesystem of hda.


Gentoo needs to be "informed", I think, that it's on hdb now.

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[gentoo-user] gcc 4.1 with gentoo 2006.1

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

I just was doing heavy updates here to use up my monthly download-volume
 when I got in via eix-sync that there was a stable gcc-4.1.1.

Browsed the web a bit and saw that Gentoo 2006.1 was released.

Hooray ! ;-)

I just *ask* 

Is it recommended/worth it/useful to recompile my stuff now?

Remembering recent threads I assume this leads to some "emerge -e
system; emerge -e world" to get the full BANG out of it.

Any pointers to some infos on the improvements with gcc-4.1.1 that are
also understandable for a non-programmer?

Greets to you, have a nice september,

Stefan.

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[gentoo-user] HELP! Network status changes randomly, how to diagnose?

[Erik]

I am trying to connect my Gentoo computer to my D-Link DVG-1120 (VoIP
Gateway with NAT) again after 3 months. It used to work great, but now
the network status is changing randomly. Sometimes I can load a webpage,
but then when I click on a link I get an error message. Then it may
suddenly work again. The Internet connection to the gateway works fine
and I can make phonecalls with the phones that are connected to it. It
is the link to the computer that is broken. The computer works when
connected directly to the internet and the cable works perfectly too
(tested elsewhere). I see that it is changing randomly by executing the
command
   ifconfig eth0|grep "inet addr:"
repeateldy. Sometimes I get nothing, sometimes I get:
 inet addr:192.168.0.46  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
It looks random. What can I do about it? Is there some software for
analyzing it?



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Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! Network status changes randomly, how to diagnose?

[Frank Jahn]

Erik schrieb:

I am trying to connect my Gentoo computer to my D-Link DVG-1120 (VoIP
Gateway with NAT) again after 3 months. It used to work great, but now
the network status is changing randomly. Sometimes I can load a webpage,
but then when I click on a link I get an error message. Then it may
suddenly work again. The Internet connection to the gateway works fine
and I can make phonecalls with the phones that are connected to it. It
is the link to the computer that is broken. The computer works when
connected directly to the internet and the cable works perfectly too
(tested elsewhere). I see that it is changing randomly by executing the
command
   ifconfig eth0|grep "inet addr:"
repeateldy. Sometimes I get nothing, sometimes I get:
 inet addr:192.168.0.46  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
It looks random. What can I do about it? Is there some software for
analyzing it?




could you post your config please?

regards
Frank
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Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.1 with gentoo 2006.1

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> I just was doing heavy updates here to use up my monthly download-volume
>  when I got in via eix-sync that there was a stable gcc-4.1.1.
> 
> Browsed the web a bit and saw that Gentoo 2006.1 was released.
> 
> Hooray ! ;-)
> 
> I just *ask* 
> 
> Is it recommended/worth it/useful to recompile my stuff now?

Ok, ok, I am following the GCC Upgrade Guide now ...
Sorry for FAQing.

Stefan
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail + Email Client = No way

[Lord Sauron]

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 12:09, Bruno Lustosa wrote:
> Of course, I had Gmail set to delete mail already received via POP, I
> haven't tried without this set.

I have.  Same behavior.

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Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

[Justin Piszcz]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote:


Mark Kirkwood wrote:

Ow Mun Heng wrote:


I've already updated it to the latest based on the suspend2 version.
$uname -r
2.6.17-suspend2-r4

$eix xfsprogs
 Available versions:  2.7.3 2.7.11 2.8.10
 Installed:   2.8.10


If not mistaken, the issue, (or barriers if not mistaken) was introduced
in the 2.6.17 kernel series.
the 2.6.16 series wasn't affected. (I could be wrong, I don't have net
access so, I can't verify)



Right - as it happens I'm doing an update today, so will let you know if 
I see any write performance change.





FWIW, I've updated to 2.6.17 and I don't see any change in performance at all 
(215Mb/s reads and 100Mb/s writes).


Now I'm on the standard source tree:

$ uname -r
2.6.17-gentoo-r7

$ eix xfsprogs
Available versions:  2.7.3 2.7.11 ~2.8.10
Installed:   2.7.11

which may be a factor.

The other thing I notice is that my filesystems are all under 50%, whereas 
your troublesome one was at 80%or so:


$ df -m
Filesystem   1M-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md/2  529   134   395  26% /
/dev/md/0  12910   120   8% /boot
/dev/md/3 391132  3880   1% /tmp
/dev/md/4 3911   175  3737   5% /var
/dev/md/519537  3008 16530  16% /usr
/dev/md/619537  2668 16870  14% /home
/dev/md/7   104841 25682 79160  25% /data0

I might try writing a few big files to fill one of 'em up and see if it makes 
any difference!


Cheers

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You can also check your fragmentation, xfs_db -c frag /dev/..
and defrag it with xfs_fsir ..

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Re: [gentoo-user] Freezing on Mounting Local Filesystems

[Jason Weisberger]

Martins,The problem just seemed to disappear I did a few kernel upgrades since this thread, and it never seemed to kick in again.  I've also switched to reiser 4, but that was recently, so I guess I'm not really sure where the problem was.  I'm still using ck sources without problems now.
Jason Weisberger

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! Network status changes randomly, how to diagnose?

[Neil Bothwick]

Posting the same question three times in one day is likely to increase
the number of responses you get, but only from people complaining about
your repeated posting.


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NOTE: The most fundamental particles in your computer are held together
by a "glueing" force about which little is known and whose adhesive power
cannot therefore be permanently guaranteed.


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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions

[Richard Fish]

On 8/30/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

'failed to load module "kbd" (modules does not exist, 0)'
and
'Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or dir'


Do you have ModulePath settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf?  If so delete
them or make sure they point to directories under
/usr/lib/xorg/modules.

Otherwise post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot slave drive

[Richard Fish]

On 8/30/06, Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

checking root filesystem
fsc ext3:  No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hda4


Fix /etc/fstab.  Replace all /dev/hda with /dev/hdb.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions

[Donnie Berkholz]

James wrote:
> Still in /etc/X11/xkb the symbolic link flashes red
> indicated that /usr/lib/X11/xkb does not exit.

I've never heard of /etc/X11/xkb, and I don't have it on my systems. Get
rid of it.

> 
> KDM will not fire up automactically. So I log
> in and run 'startx' and here are the errors I get:
> 
> 'failed to load module "kbd" (modules does not exist, 0)'

Perhaps you don't have the keyboard driver installed. Install
portage-utils and run `qlist -I x11-drivers` -- this should get
installed if you have configured the INPUT_DEVICES variable properly in
make.conf, or even if you left it blank (Assuming you aren't on a
super-old profile).

> and
> 'Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or dir'
> 
> On the mouse issue 'ls /dev/input' shows only this dir:
> by-path

Sounds like your kernel's missing mouse support, or you've specifically
configured udev to do something other than the default behavior.

> On my other xorg 7.0 systems I get this:
> # ls /dev/input
> event0  event1  event2  mice  mouse0  mouse1

Thanks,
Donnie



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[gentoo-user] Wireless Card On Laptop - Help Setting Up

[Lord Sauron]

My laptop has a wireless card.  Wow.  Don't die of the shock.

I never use it.  No, really, I don't.  I'm never in a location with 
wireless access, so I just content myself with a good old fashioned 
Cat5e cable and call it a day.

Now my life has changed.  There is a wireless access point in my AP 
Computer Science class (or so they tell me).  It might be time to 
configure my wireless card (right now it's not configured, so I don't 
know if it's even in /dev, /proc, or /anything).

I know this is sort of dumb, but where would I start?  I've never added 
a whole new device to the system before, though I'd like to learn.

The card is:  Intel PRO/Wireless (the kind they put in the IBM X40 type 
2386-1CU - I don't know anything other than that part of the card's 
name - I'm sorry.)

It worked under Kubuntu, so I know there is a linux driver.

Thanks for any help.

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions

[Jeff Grant]

For my K/V/M (keyboard, video, mouse) to all work snappy with the new
Xorg, I made sure to include these items in my /etc/make.conf:

INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick"

VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia v4l vesa"

My Logitech mouse was acting crappy until I added those lines.

As always, YMMV.

-Jeff

Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> James wrote:
>> Still in /etc/X11/xkb the symbolic link flashes red
>> indicated that /usr/lib/X11/xkb does not exit.
> 
> I've never heard of /etc/X11/xkb, and I don't have it on my systems. Get
> rid of it.
> 
>> KDM will not fire up automactically. So I log
>> in and run 'startx' and here are the errors I get:
>>
>> 'failed to load module "kbd" (modules does not exist, 0)'
> 
> Perhaps you don't have the keyboard driver installed. Install
> portage-utils and run `qlist -I x11-drivers` -- this should get
> installed if you have configured the INPUT_DEVICES variable properly in
> make.conf, or even if you left it blank (Assuming you aren't on a
> super-old profile).
> 
>> and
>> 'Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or dir'
>>
>> On the mouse issue 'ls /dev/input' shows only this dir:
>> by-path
> 
> Sounds like your kernel's missing mouse support, or you've specifically
> configured udev to do something other than the default behavior.
> 
>> On my other xorg 7.0 systems I get this:
>> # ls /dev/input
>> event0  event1  event2  mice  mouse0  mouse1
> 
> Thanks,
> Donnie
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[gentoo-user] Re: xorg 7.0 upgrade questions

[James]

Donnie Berkholz  gentoo.org> writes:


> I've never heard of /etc/X11/xkb, and I don't have it on my systems. Get
> rid of it.

done


> portage-utils and run `qq` -- 

x11-drivers/synaptics
x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev
x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
x11-drivers/xf86-video-apm
x11-drivers/xf86-video-ark
x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati
x11-drivers/xf86-video-chips
x11-drivers/xf86-video-cirrus
x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix
x11-drivers/xf86-video-dummy
x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev
x11-drivers/xf86-video-glint
x11-drivers/xf86-video-i128
x11-drivers/xf86-video-i740
x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810
x11-drivers/xf86-video-imstt
x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga
x11-drivers/xf86-video-neomagic
x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc
x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv
x11-drivers/xf86-video-rendition
x11-drivers/xf86-video-s3
x11-drivers/xf86-video-s3virge
x11-drivers/xf86-video-savage
x11-drivers/xf86-video-siliconmotion
x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis
x11-drivers/xf86-video-sisusb
x11-drivers/xf86-video-tdfx
x11-drivers/xf86-video-tga
x11-drivers/xf86-video-trident
x11-drivers/xf86-video-tseng
x11-drivers/xf86-video-v4l
x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa
x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga
x11-drivers/xf86-video-via
x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware
x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo



> Sounds like your kernel's missing mouse support, or you've specifically
> configured udev to do something other than the default behavior.

Hm. It's the same kernel (2.6.17-gentoo-r4) that worked well with
xorg-x11 6.8. But I have had problems with udev and made a few
/rules.d/ changes trying to fix things with ttys and ptys. 

The profile was very old. I did a synlink to 2006.1.

I'm recompiling lots of stuff right now so when it's done
I'll post again and detail and problems.



James








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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Card On Laptop - Help Setting Up

[Richard Fish]

On 8/30/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

The card is:  Intel PRO/Wireless (the kind they put in the IBM X40 type
2386-1CU - I don't know anything other than that part of the card's
name - I'm sorry.)


Intel cards are well supported.  The 3945 requires out-of-tree drivers
(net-wireless/ipw3945, plus microcode, plus daemon).  For the 2100 and
2200 you can choose between in-kernel or out-of-tree drivers, but you
will still need the firmware packages.

Figure out which card you have by looking at the output of lspci, then
google, then come back here if you have problems.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes - GNOME/nautilus Issue? (SOLVED w/ ReFORMAT)

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:38 -0700, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I just re-formatted my partitions and moved things around. Things are
looking up.
Meaning, I am able to achieve good write/read speeds which is where i
was previously. 15-20MB/s on both writes/reads on btoh nautilus and cp
commands.

So. I'm gonna put it at either.

1. xfs frag
2. xfs dir curruption or something


> Are there
> any good, well optimized file copy utilities for Linux?
> >

Hmm.. interesting

> >
> > *  app-misc/mc
> >   Latest version available: 4.6.1
> >   Size of downloaded files: 11,606 kB
> > *  app-misc/mc-mp [ Masked ]
> >   Latest version available: 4.1.40_pre9

>  Basically, this guy is sane, (thank God), and doing what MC really
> needs: SIMPLICITY.  I have never bitched at the mc guys, but when I
> get to my desk, I am converting to mc-mp.  Cause MC sucks recently.

Well, if I look at the size of the tar, it's 5x difference

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot slave drive

[THUFIR HAWAT]

On 8/31/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 8/30/06, Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> checking root filesystem
> fsc ext3:  No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hda4

Fix /etc/fstab.  Replace all /dev/hda with /dev/hdb.

-Richard

[...]

Excellent!  thanks :)


-Thufir
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