Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-03 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/04/2010 08:18 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system. Simple question (and may be complicate to answer... ;) ) How can I check, that my Gentoo system is uptodate emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/04/2010 08:18 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system. Simple question (and may be complicate to answer... ;) ) How can I check, that my Gentoo system is uptodate emerge --sync && emerge -uDN wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-03 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system. Simple question (and may be complicate to answer... ;) ) How can I check, that my Gentoo system is uptodate, consistent and sane? Best regards, mcc I think th

[gentoo-user] Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-03 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system. Simple question (and may be complicate to answer... ;) ) How can I check, that my Gentoo system is uptodate, consistent and sane? Best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Power

[gentoo-user] Re: How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-03 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/04/2010 02:01, Mark Knecht wrote: Tried changing root=/dev/md0. No change. The actual failure message is the fairly standard VFS - Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(9,0) [snip] CONFIG_MD_RAID1=y That's all that needs to be enabled within the RAID section of the kernel. Howev

Re: [gentoo-user] How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 16:07:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>    The install is complete but it won't boot. grub finds the kernel >> and starts booting but then I get the typical VFS file sync error as >> the kernel starts looking for the install

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk or filesystem issue?

2010-04-03 Thread Adam
> Probably neither. Can you Ctrl+F12 to see what the logs are > saying? I've been getting kernel Oops! on shutdown on one > machine of mine with the 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 kernel. Might be > similar Ok, i found this, which is mentioning fglrx, and the problem may have started when i changed drive

Re: [gentoo-user] How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 16:07 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > The install is complete but it won't boot. grub finds the kernel > and starts booting but then I get the typical VFS file sync error as > the kernel starts looking for the install on /dev/md3. What I'm not > understanding is how does the boot

[gentoo-user] Can't find bluetooth device (BCM2046)

2010-04-03 Thread Mick
My lsusb shows as much: Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth) dmesg: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15 NET: Registered protocol family 31 Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Bluetooth

Re: [gentoo-user] How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 16:07:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >The install is complete but it won't boot. grub finds the kernel > and starts booting but then I get the typical VFS file sync error as > the kernel starts looking for the install on /dev/md3. What I'm not > understanding is how does the b

[gentoo-user] How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm doing an install roughly following this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml Differences: 1) AMD64 2) A non-RAID Gentoo install already resides /dev/sda 3) I'm doing the RAID install on /dev/sdb3 & /dev/sdc3 4) RAID1 only 5) No LVM 6) Shared /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drive is hooked to which controller?

2010-04-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 03 April 2010 17:16:37 Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>    A new system has 2 SATA controllers, 6 SATA ports, 3 drives and 1 >> CDRW. Without opening the box is there a way I can determine which >> drives are hooked to the Intel controller vs w

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com

2010-04-03 Thread Dan Johansson
On Friday 02 April 2010 17.06:31 Dan Johansson wrote: > On Friday 02 April 2010 16.50:56 erdun...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 09:34:12AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Dan Johansson > > wrote: > > > > Hallo, > > > > > > > > Someone knows what's u

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drive is hooked to which controller?

2010-04-03 Thread Mick
On Saturday 03 April 2010 17:16:37 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >A new system has 2 SATA controllers, 6 SATA ports, 3 drives and 1 > CDRW. Without opening the box is there a way I can determine which > drives are hooked to the Intel controller vs which are hooked to the > Marvell? Try lshw. The

[gentoo-user] X crashes, how to troubleshoot?

2010-04-03 Thread Willie Wong
Recently X has spontaneously crashed on me several times. Each time it is triggered by opening up a new webpage in a new tab in Firefox. The URL of the webpages are random, so I don't think it has to do with any particular site (and those url often open fine on subsequent visits). The message tha

[gentoo-user] Which drive is hooked to which controller?

2010-04-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, A new system has 2 SATA controllers, 6 SATA ports, 3 drives and 1 CDRW. Without opening the box is there a way I can determine which drives are hooked to the Intel controller vs which are hooked to the Marvell? Thanks, Mark keeper ~ # lspci -k | grep SATA 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel C

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 03 April 2010 09:55:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 02 April 2010 23:28:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:50:09 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > Assuming your controller supports hotplugging, assuming you > > > > have a drive available to plug in, assuming

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: language [solved]

2010-04-03 Thread Roger Cahn
> With an usb key I put it in /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES > of my laptop where it wasn't. > And it worked :-) > I made a second try with xfdesktop.mo, and it succeeded also. An other method given by a friend, and more easier: compile again a package in english, and it will become in french.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: language [solved]

2010-04-03 Thread Roger Cahn
> Try > $LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 gedit I did it, but it opens gedit in english. The idea came to search where the config file of gedit is on my desktop computer. I made a locate gedit and I found within other files /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gedit.mo I saw that gedit.mo is a binary file. With a

[gentoo-user] Re: language

2010-04-03 Thread Nicolas Richard
Le 03/04/10 09:34, Roger Cahn a écrit : > (process:5573): Gtk-WARNING**: locale not supported by C library. > Using the fallback 'C' locale. Any similar message if you simple run "gedit" ? What's the output of "locale -a", and of "locale" ? Btw, did you need to install/modify anything to get the p

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 April 2010 23:28:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:50:09 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > Assuming your controller supports hotplugging, assuming you have a > > > drive available to plug in, assuming you are able to physically add a > > > drive. > > > > sata can

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 April 2010 14:45:29 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 02 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 14:08]: > > > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > only to be sure to have understood everything correctly: > > > > Sugge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: language

2010-04-03 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 03/04/2010 09:34, Roger Cahn a gentiment tapote: >> I propose an experiment. For example, if gedit is displaying the wrong >> language, then type this at a command prompt (in xterm or gterm, etc): >> >> $LC_ALL='fr' gedit >> > Thank you Walt, but it doesn't work. Here is the message: > > (

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 18:01:50 -0400, stosss wrote: > I have been following this thread. I decided to research to do my own > comparisons of ext3, ext4, JFS and XFS. Why have you ignored reiser3 and reiser4? The former in particular is widely used. -- Neil Bothwick Pepperami. Its a bit of an ani

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk or filesystem issue?

2010-04-03 Thread Mick
On Saturday 03 April 2010 09:08:08 Adam wrote: > For the last few weeks i have been getting the single user prompt on > shutdown, and reiserfs3 is performing a check(fix?) during boot. Seems > to happen about 4 times out of 5. smartctl report looks ok. I have been > using 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 for ag

[gentoo-user] Disk or filesystem issue?

2010-04-03 Thread Adam
For the last few weeks i have been getting the single user prompt on shutdown, and reiserfs3 is performing a check(fix?) during boot. Seems to happen about 4 times out of 5. smartctl report looks ok. I have been using 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 for ages without issue. Any ideas?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: language

2010-04-03 Thread Roger Cahn
> I propose an experiment. For example, if gedit is displaying the wrong > language, then type this at a command prompt (in xterm or gterm, etc): > > $LC_ALL='fr' gedit Thank you Walt, but it doesn't work. Here is the message: (process:5573): Gtk-WARNING**: locale not supported by C library. Us

Re: [gentoo-user] no javac on gentoo amd64?

2010-04-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday 03 April 2010 09:17:47 Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd 64. java-config -L show i have two VMs on my > system: > > The following VMs are available for generation-2: > 1) IcedTea6-bin 1.7.1 [icedtea6-bin] > *) Sun JRE 1.6.0.18 [sun-jre-bin-1.6] > > but when

[gentoo-user] no javac on gentoo amd64?

2010-04-03 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd 64. java-config -L show i have two VMs on my system: The following VMs are available for generation-2: 1) IcedTea6-bin 1.7.1 [icedtea6-bin] *) Sun JRE 1.6.0.18 [sun-jre-bin-1.6] but when i ran javac, it says: * javac is not available for sun-jre-bin-1.6 on