[gentoo-user] Re: 7. Configuring the Kernel

2007-11-19 Thread Thufir
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:18:23 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > If you get a file not found error, drop into the GRUB shell and run > "find /kernel-has-alsa". I did get to a point with GRUB where I edited the line which specifies the kernel and used tab-completion to select the kernel I wanted. (Th

[gentoo-user] [OT] Grab info off the net

2007-11-19 Thread reader
What are people using and can vouch for that can snag webpages or parts of web pages to store/save/organize/report on etc etc, as well as handling clipboard content or the like? Something to collect disparate pieces of information with that can organize and present it. I've used a windows oriente

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:48:36 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >> I found a drive to replace this one. I'll get it installed in a month >> or so. I'll put useless stuff on this old one. >> > > Like Vista? ;-) > > > NO ! There is no windoze allowed in this house. I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Billy Holmes
Jeff Cranmer wrote: When it fails after re-pointing the grub booter to /dev/sdb, it does at least fail so that I can get to a shell as root. dmesg doesn't work from the shell, however. I wonder if there is a command I can use to query the new sda and find out where it is getting it from?

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Monday 19 November 2007 11:46:39 pm Billy Holmes wrote: > Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB > > drive at sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel > > still panics (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main dri

Re: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Billy Holmes
Jeff Cranmer wrote: > The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB drive > at > sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel still panics > (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive at sda, not sdb). > that's very odd that there is a sda

Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Monday 19 November 2007 12:35:14 am Billy Holmes wrote: > Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown block (0,0) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option. > > Here are the available partitions > > run "make menuconfig" in your new kernel dir. > > check to ensure ext

Re: [gentoo-user] The generated cache was invalid...

2007-11-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 00:40:16 Iain Buchanan wrote: > I've been seeing this error during every emerge for a while now, and I > don't know where it comes from, or what it means: > > * Updating desktop mime database ... > * Updating shared mime info database ... > * Updating icons cache ...

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Teng Wang writes: > Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that > was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my > laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it > really matter? Or what should I do to recover? With a litle luck,

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Teng Wang
Since I don't think there is anything important in the root partition, I still try to reboot my computer to see what will happen. Very Lucky, my computer reboot normally. Thank you for all your suggestion. But I still want to know what on earth mkswap does to the disk. IF it would rewrite the met

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:25:47 -0600, Teng Wang wrote: > So, how can I exclude these directory when I use cp -av? Add -x/--onefilesystem, it's all in TFM. -- Neil Bothwick Scrotum is a small planet near Uranus. True/False? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Teng Wang
I think it is not hard to do a backup right now. But the problem is I use separate partition for /home /usr /usr/portage/distfiles /var /tmp. So, how can I exclude these directory when I use cp -av? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 19. November 2007, Teng Wang wrote: > Hi there, > > Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that > was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my > laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it > really matter? Or what s

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Teng Wang
I still wonder that after mkswap the root partition, I even do swapon. But this time, it says it is invalid argument. So I think the data on that disk will not be lost, since it did not serve as the swap partition. So is it still screwed? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages not in portage

2007-11-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:41:14 +0100, pepone.onrez wrote: > There are same interesting packages that i can't found in gentoo > portage. If any body knows about a non oficial ebuild for any of then i > interesting in it. > Vmime c++ mail library > http://www.vmime.org/index.shtml % eix vmime * dev-

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 17:36 -0600, Teng Wang wrote: > No, I don't have a backup. > And I still didn't turn off my laptop. The > problem is how I can recover my system? The first solution I was thinking of would be to back your system up before you reboot, and then re-create the filesystem and re

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:48:36 -0600, Dale wrote: > I found a drive to replace this one. I'll get it installed in a month > or so. I'll put useless stuff on this old one. Like Vista? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick I am Barry Norman of the Borg - you will be assimilated - and why not? signature.asc De

[gentoo-user] Packages not in portage

2007-11-19 Thread pepone.onrez
Hello all There are same interesting packages that i can't found in gentoo portage. If any body knows about a non oficial ebuild for any of then i interesting in it. AppWeb embeded web server http://www.appwebserver.org. Vmime c++ mail library http://www.vmime.org/index.shtml CTemplate is a sim

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Teng Wang
No, I don't have a backup. And I still didn't turn off my laptop. The problem is how I can recover my system? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] The generated cache was invalid...

2007-11-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I've been seeing this error during every emerge for a while now, and I don't know where it comes from, or what it means: * Updating desktop mime database ... * Updating shared mime info database ... * Updating icons cache ... The generated cache was invalid.

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 16:45 -0600, Teng Wang wrote: > Hi there, > > Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that > was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my > laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it > really matter? Or

[gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Teng Wang
Hi there, Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what should I do to recover? Thank you all! --- Teng -- [EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread Frank Gruellich
* de Almeida, Valmor F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 19. Nov 07: > >>From: Mark Shields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Nov 19, 2007 12:03 PM, de Almeida, Valmor F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Is this execution time expected? Yes, I can confirm that. In addition you should run it mo

[gentoo-user] Failed to allocate mem

2007-11-19 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, This is showing up on my /var/log/messages file. I've done a memtest and the memory seems fine. I wonder what does this mean. Maybe it is not even related to the physical memory. PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for :01:00.0 The machine and OS seem fine but I

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
> Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > >> Hi list! > >> > >> I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people > >> experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. > >> > >> It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. > >>

RE: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan > > memtest86 will keep retesting your memory over and over. Look at the > "Pass" and "Errors" column. If Errors is 0 and Pass is more than 1, > your memory is fine. If Pass is 0 and Errors is 0, th

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread Bryan Whitehead
memtest86 will keep retesting your memory over and over. Look at the "Pass" and "Errors" column. If Errors is 0 and Pass is more than 1, your memory is fine. If Pass is 0 and Errors is 0, then it is still on the "first run". It shouldn't take this long. In that case make sure you have the latest ve

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 19. November 2007, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > >> > >>From: Mark Shields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >On Nov 19, 2007 12:03 PM, de Almeida, Valmor F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >Is this execution ti

Re: [gentoo-user] "free -m" under x86_64

2007-11-19 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Looks fine. Looks like you see nearly all of the 4GB of ram (3982104). You probably have a lot of memory reserved in BIOS shadows or other hardware (like video card). This looks perfectly normal. If you have an onboard video card, a chunk of your memory is probably being used for that. In the BIOS

RE: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
>> >>From: Mark Shields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Nov 19, 2007 12:03 PM, de Almeida, Valmor F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is this execution time expected? >Thanks for any comments, >-- >Valmor de Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread Mark Shields
On Nov 19, 2007 12:03 PM, de Almeida, Valmor F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > After looking at the /var/log/messages file, I saw an entry which seemed > to indicate a memory address problem. I decided to run memtest86+. > However it is taking too long. So far 17 hours and still going.

[gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

2007-11-19 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, After looking at the /var/log/messages file, I saw an entry which seemed to indicate a memory address problem. I decided to run memtest86+. However it is taking too long. So far 17 hours and still going. The "Pass" field reads 25%; I hope this is an indication of how much of the total has

Re: [gentoo-user] Building all packages except gcc

2007-11-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 19 November 2007 16:35:17 Dan Farrell wrote: > > How would I go about rebuilding all installed packages, except gcc? I > > suppose I could do "emerge --emptytree world", but that would also > > merge gcc, which I don't want, because I want to be sure that the > > whole system is rebuilt w

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread ew
check out http://diveintopython.org/ you can read the book online and then think about buying it for having some paper in your hands :) Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for p

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:46:52 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking around on Newegg for a new hard drive. I found a 250GB > that should work. You might consider getting a Seagate ES. Enterprise level seagate drives, although they cost maybe $30 USD more, are spec.'d to spin con

Re: [gentoo-user] Building all packages except gcc

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:19:06 +0200 ~/Timur Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > How would I go about rebuilding all installed packages, except gcc? I > suppose I could do "emerge --emptytree world", but that would also > merge gcc, which I don't want, because I want to be sure that the >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 19 November 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Hi list! > > > > I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people > > experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. > > > > It shouldn't focus on Linux all

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk blocking pygobject

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
> > >=dev-python/pygtk-2.9 > > in package.mask for some unknown reason. Sorry to bother everyone. Ahh, I've had that happen... though I usually insert a timestamp/reason comment so I know what I did it. -a -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people > experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. > > It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Well, the usual answers are: python.org

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk blocking pygobject

2007-11-19 Thread Grant
> > app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3 (python? >=dev-python/pygtk-2) > > gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.18.3-r1 (python? dev-python/pygtk) > > gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.3 (python? >=dev-python/pygtk-2.8) > > media-gfx/gimp-2.2.17 (python? >=dev-python/pygtk-2) > > x11-libs/vte-0.16.8 (python? >=dev-python/pygtk-2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Montag, 19. November 2007, Dale wrote: > > AFAIK Pre-fail is not a problem. If the harddisk is close to failing you'll > get something this in your logs: > > Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP > DATA NOW!_ > Nov 19 15:25:0

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Dale
Billy Holmes wrote: > Quoting Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think. >> Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure >> Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 > > I had a harddrive on a server exhibi

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 19. November 2007, Dale wrote: AFAIK Pre-fail is not a problem. If the harddisk is close to failing you'll get something this in your logs: Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!_ Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think. Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 I had a harddrive on a server exhibit this behavior for about a year

Re: [gentoo-user] /bin/sh -> dash?

2007-11-19 Thread Vaeth
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Sean wrote: > I'd really like to replace the /bin/sh link to point to a smaller shell, > such as ash or dash instead of the bash default, but that apparently makes > functions.sh _very_ unhappy. Use baselayout-2. I use /bin/sh -> dash with baselayout-2 and have no problems wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:28:34 -0500 Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did not. What is the procedure for doing this, and what exactly > does it accomplish? > > Thanks # cp /wherever/old/.config /usr/src/linux/.config # cd /usr/src/linux # make oldconfig this prompts only for new or ch

[gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Dale
Hi, I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think. Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 Oct 21 22:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Perfor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 7. Configuring the Kernel

2007-11-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:02:06 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: > Booting 'gentoo Linux' > > root (hd1,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > kernel /kernel-has-alsa root=/dev/hdb3 > > Error 15: File not found > Press any key to continue... > > The significance, to my mind, is that in th

Re: [gentoo-user] Building all packages except gcc

2007-11-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:19:06 +0200, ~/Timur Aydin wrote: > How would I go about rebuilding all installed packages, except gcc? I > suppose I could do "emerge --emptytree world", but that would also merge > gcc, which I don't want, because I want to be sure that the whole system > is rebuilt with t

Re: [gentoo-user] "free -m" under x86_64

2007-11-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > Bryan Whitehead schrieb: >> Can you just run "uname -a" and cut/paste that to an email and send to >> us? I think you are still in 32bit land. > > # uname -a > Linux hiro 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 17 02:42:03 CET 2007 > x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 66

Re: [gentoo-user] "free -m" under x86_64

2007-11-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Bryan Whitehead schrieb: > Can you just run "uname -a" and cut/paste that to an email and send to > us? I think you are still in 32bit land. # uname -a Linux hiro 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 17 02:42:03 CET 2007 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Stefa

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem

2007-11-19 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Peter Alfredsen wrote: > Please re-emerge perl. *Somebody* played with a stable ebuild without > committing a revision bump (which would have gone to unstable first). > emerge --sync&&emerge -1 dev-lang/perl > should fix this. > See this bug: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/199518 > for more informatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem

2007-11-19 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Monday 19 November 2007, Andreas Vinsander wrote: > Hi! > > It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place > (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules, but the perl-cleaner utility > didn't catch that properly. Now all perl modules/utilities (like genlop) > are broken for me. > > What is the e

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem

2007-11-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 19. November 2007 schrieb ext Andreas Vinsander: > It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place > (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules Hmm, I don't have this directory on my system with 5.8.8-r3 installed and I don't see any traces of it in "perl -V" output. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem

2007-11-19 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (19/11/07 09:00) Andreas Vinsander wrote: > Hi! > > It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place > (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules, but the perl-cleaner utility > didn't catch that properly. Now all perl modules/utilities (like genlop) > are broken for me. > > What is the easiest

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem

2007-11-19 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Andreas Vinsander wrote: > Hi! > > It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place > (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules, but the perl-cleaner utility > didn't catch that properly. Now all perl modules/utilities (like genlop) > are broken for me. > > What is the easiest way out? Trying to

[gentoo-user] Perl problem

2007-11-19 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Hi! It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules, but the perl-cleaner utility didn't catch that properly. Now all perl modules/utilities (like genlop) are broken for me. What is the easiest way out? Trying to find out which perl modules are installed