Re: [gentoo-user] Re: stage3 only for i486?

I On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 04/04/2013 10:15, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > > Well, an installer certainly would find its users. But none is perfect, > > and writing another (imperfect) one exclusively for Gentoo is sort of > > wasting time. A "true" Gentoo way IMO wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating our live servers. I'm scared!

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Just got a ticket assigned to me where we need to update our production > servers. > > uname -a > Linux noun 3.4.9-gentoo #2 SMP Sat Oct 13 09:35:07 EDT 2012 x86_64 > Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to > compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared > to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such? > > Also, I read that Nasdaq runs a modified version of Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 08.01.2013 18:35, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: >> Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2013, 08:27:51 schrieb Florian Philipp: >>> Am 08.01.2013 00:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:11:35 +0100 Florian Philipp wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? -> what was wron with SysVInit?

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > [ snip ] > * Really simple service unit files: The service unit files are really > small, really simple, really easy to understand/modify. Compare the 9 > lines of sshd.service: > > $ cat /etc/systemd/system/sshd.service > [Unit] > Desc

Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:58:10AM +, Jorge Almeida wrote >> By the way, I don't suppose there is a mailing list to talk about these >> matters (mdev/ udev-alternative/ udev-fork related)? This is really >> distro-agnostic stuff... > > F

Re: [gentoo-user] Users hi!

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Dale wrote: > BRM wrote: > > > > > Hey, > > Check this out: > > List-Unsubscribe: > > Bye. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > > P.S. I wonder if he will get the hint. LOL > > -- > I am only responsible for what I sai

Re: [gentoo-user] access Linux "X" from android tablet

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 11/04/12 03:13, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > [snip] > > I'm running OpneVPN server/client configuration on Linux machines but >>> I'm not sure which setting to select on Android to talk to OpneVPN >>> >>> Android 4 comes with VPN type: >>> PPTP >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Which tool to diagnose wireless connection problem?

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > I never really understood wireless in linux, it has always "just > worked". I use wicd although I don't really even know what that > means. I have no clue what is a wpa supplicant, ndis, etc. > > I now have a problem. Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> >> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:00:34 +0200 >> Alex Schuster wrote: >> >> > Michael Mol writes: >> > >> > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > Section 8c of the handbook tells me: > > === > > You now have the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings in > the /etc/env.d/02locale file: > > === > > Code Listing 3.8: Setting the default system locale in /etc/env.d

Re: [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:41:54 +0800 > Andrew Lowe wrote: > >> On 08/29/12 11:35, Michael Mol wrote: >> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Andrew Lowe >> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight serv

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile program with older libraries

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Marko Košmerl wrote: > I was able to find suitable gentoo stage 3 tarball: > http://88.191.254.16/gentoo/releases/x86/2007.0/stages/ > > Chrooted, compiled the source and tried to run binary it in old system. And > it worked! > > Glad you got it working! I was wor

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Dale wrote: > Joshua Murphy wrote: > > Well, I don't see why not.  As you say, lack of a proper clean up after > a bad shutdown can cause problems.  Anything in /run would disappear > after a shutdown, clean or not, since it is in tmpfs.  

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Dale wrote: > Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> On May 27, 2012 7:19 AM, "Dale" >>> >>> What I was saying tho, since it appears to be needed now, since /var may >>> not be mounted yet, it was created and is used during booting up.  Since >>> it is there, why not use it, e

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile program with older libraries

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Marko Košmerl wrote: > Hi! > > I have some program which I am using in a thin client  which has Gentoo > stage 3 root fs (kernel 2.6.39.4), > lets call it system A. > I've also compiled that program chroot-ed in this stage 3 fs from my > personal computer. > > I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17.05.2012 22:13, Michael Scherer wrote: > >> >> 1) make output: >> >> CHK     include/linux/version.h CHK >> include/generated/utsrelease.h CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK

Re: [gentoo-user] make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: > I'm always replying to gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org and I'm not aware I ever > used > one of the addresses you mentioned below. I'm rather new to this forum, so > it's > entirely possible I did something wrong somewhere, so please tell me w

Re: [gentoo-user] why is it using OpenDNS?

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Grant wrote: >> Try appending this into your /etc/conf.d/net >> >>    dns_servers_wlan0=208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 >> >> with or without quotes and brackets I am not really sure. >> >>    dns_servers_wlan0=( "208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220" ) >> >> Hope this help

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB sticks now mounting on /run/media instead of /media ?

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:00 PM, walt wrote: > On 05/03/2012 02:48 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:18 PM, walt wrote: >>> On 04/13/2012 05:19 PM, walt wrote:  A recent update (udev?) on my ~amd64 machines is now mounting removable drives on /run/media

Re: [gentoo-user] SCP bash script

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:44 AM, LiangYun Gong wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have a problem with scp bash script. I was trying to automate scp command > to copy files in and out, and I was trying to avoid key in the password > myself. > > So I attempt to use the "here string" feature of bash, it didn't w

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice color

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:06, Stephane Guedon wrote: > Le lundi 30 avril 2012 12:50:48 Neil Bothwick a écrit : >> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:36:54 +0200, Stephane Guedon wrote: >> > In libreoffice, which I have had compiled several months ago, the small >> > help text is not readable. It appears in g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Please help, kernel can not load root

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 20:11, Ignas Anikevičius wrote: > On 29 April 2012 18:35, Ignas Anikevičius wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> it's been several since I have tried to make my machine boot again without >> any live CDs and I could not narrow the main issue down. The problem is that >> the kernel ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help, kernel can not load root

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 14:35, Ignas Anikevičius wrote: > Hello, > > it's been several since I have tried to make my machine boot again without > any live CDs and I could not narrow the main issue down. The problem is that > the kernel can not mount the root partition. > > Some info about my syste

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin opengl compositing w/ nouveau?

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 21:25, Doug Hunley wrote: > Me again ;) > > I just ran 'startx' on my machine for the first time in a dog's age > and had to switch the rendering engine to XRender from OpenGL to get a > usable desktop (couldn't see the desktop. was a bunch of black > squares). I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] list of kernel modules

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:02 AM, András Csányi wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm a little bit confused regarding modprobe command. As far as I > remember I used the command below to list all of kernel modules > independently it's loaded or not. > modprobe -l or modprobe -L > > But now I can see that ther

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd [SOLVED-sorta]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >>> with ppp connections you are not using a dhcp client, pppd gets the nameserver ip addressess as part of the connection negotiation (if peerdns is set) and the aforemetioned script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh writes thos

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > On 03/18/2012 06:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On that note - is it possible, and if so, does anyone have any decent >> detailed How-to's on how I might be able to convert a separate /user to >> one on directly on / on a running system? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> >> yoyo > > Thanks for your response. I did some research(ppp documentation is > OLD!) and saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from > ubuntu, and rebooted into gentoo. > > Just for the heck of it I made myself root right from t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 18/03/12 03:45, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> * It tries to unify Linux behaviour among distros (some can argue that >> this is a bad thing): Using systemd, the same >> configurations/techniques work the same in every

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:55 AM, wrote: >> Hi, >>    I'm interested in the idea of cloning a live, complicated hardware >> system onto a single external hard drive as a simple backup. I would >> like this external drive to be completely bootable. What's the best >> way to approach doing this? I wa

Re: [gentoo-user] netcat - which?

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > eix netcat returned net-analyzer/gnu-netcat and net-analyzer/netcat > > What's the difference? Which one should I emerge? > > Rgds, > -- > FdS Pandu E Poluan > ~ IT Optimizer ~ > >  • LOPSA Member #15248 >  • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Grant writes: > >> > The performance is only impacted if the sector size is something other >> >  than 512 bytes. The newer 4K sector size used by some higher density >> > drives requires that you start partitions on a sector boundary or they

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Mar 4, 2012 12:54 AM, "Grant" wrote: >> >> >>> I just received the new Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook and I'm trying to >> >>> install Gentoo but I can't get install-amd64-minimal-20120223.iso to >> >>> boot via a USB key. >> >> >> >> Have you tes

Re: [gentoo-user] screen locker

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Grant wrote: > Has anyone found a screen locker they like?  I'd like to move away > from xscreensaver.  It seems bloated plus it isn't working right for > me anymore. > > slimlock looks interesting but the ebuild in the miramir overlay fails with: > > !!! Fetched f

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread, > > But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can perform > hardware audit? i.e., detect installed processor model, RAM parameters & > layout, etc. > > It's gotta be a Live CD because

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:24 AM, LinuxIsOne wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > >> That would likely be because cacert.org isn't a "trusted' authority by >> default and that is the issuer for B.G.O., making the certificate >> t

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:32 AM, LinuxIsOne wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Troeder wrote: > >> Also (ir)relevant: bug report concerning the mascot Larry the cow: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727 > > But your links shows untrusted connection in my browser! > That

Re: [gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't > understand.  The entire output is below. > > As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring > packages from gnome-3, which must be wrong.  I don't see

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:04 PM, wrote: > And yet the documentation is clear enough for anyone to follow along. Which > leads me to my next point: the Gentoo documentation is far and away the best > of any distro I have tried. Whoever writes these docs deserves a heap of > accolades for his effort

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Trifu Catalin Florin wrote: > Hi Michael > I have 1.9GB left and it works to create a new file. > BTW: What means don't top-post if possible? > > From: Michael Schreckenbauer > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Wednesday, S

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 31 July 2011 14:15:20 Joshua Murphy wrote: > >> Well, GParted, if I recall, does a couple checks to guess 'best' block >> size when cloning or moving a partition, but I'm really not sure how >

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 09:49:33 Dale wrote: >> Mick wrote: >> > On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 01:53:39 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> I hope you're pleased to know the process finished. 23 hours to move a >> >> partition! Never heard anything like it. >> > >> > N

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 30 July 2011 15:50:11 Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > One thing's certain: it's a good test of the USB disk! I just hope your >> > power incident doesn't happen to me too.   :-) >> >> That would suck.  I sure did hate t

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dale  wrote: >> >>> >>> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote: >>> >>> I have 16Gbs here.  It's not like I'm going to run out or anything.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Grant wrote: Have you considered using PXE to network boot your systems? you can have various configurations set up based on mac addresses to address different hardware issues. I recommend trying out SystemRescueCD to experiment with PXE booting

Re: [gentoo-user] bridge

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Daniel Hilst Selli wrote: > Hi people, I'm using brctl to create bridges for some qemu guests... > > I create a br0 with brctl addbr br0 > the I attach my wireless card to it with brctl addif br0 eth1 > > Then some times I get right ip with dhcpcd br0 (after doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Dale  wrote: >> >> >>> >>> It works as long as I don't open Firefox.  If I open Firefox, poof!!  No >>> more trapped smoke.  lol >>> >>> Dale >>> >> >> So I had suggested running it in gdb and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> On 07/10/2011 12:59 AM, john wrote: >>> >>> Help. >>> >>> I have tried everything to remove thunderbugs which are causing havoc >>> behind my screen. Small black mites have taken over xorg-server! >>> >>> rm -r thunderbug

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Monday 04 July 2011 14:15:12 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > >>> I'm curious, however, about my Gentoo VMs. Can KMS run on a VM's >>> kernel and do anything useful there? This is more

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Powering off Windows XP, crashing NTFS with a Live CD.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 04 Jul 2011 15:48:06 Joshua Murphy wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:12:03 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> >> > > o - Do live CD

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Powering off Windows XP, crashing NTFS with a Live CD.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:12:03 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> > > o - Do live CDs actually mount filesystems on HDDs? >> >> > Only when you ask them to. >> >> I'm stupid.  Of _course_ a live CD can't mount HDD filesystems at boot. >> To do thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> How's this for sheer persistence and grit? >> >> $ genlop -c >> >>  Currently merging 321 out of 368 >> >>  * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204 >> >>        current merge time: 11 hours, 41 minutes and 9 se

Re: [gentoo-user] New installation and problem with rp-pppoe

2011/3/30 Andrzej Styczeń : > Hello, > > I try today install Gentoo on my PC. Every thing go well until to install > net-dialup/rp-pppoe > then I got: >>=x11-libs/cairo-1.10.0 [-qt4] > > How to resolve. If I add the 'qt4' flag to USE in > /etc/portage/package.use > this not work. If I set it global

Re: [gentoo-user] tmux first impression

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Dale wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:48:47PM -0600, Dale wrote >> >> >>> >>> I read that but still would love to here of someone else's experience. >>>  From that link tho, it sounds . . . interesting. >>> >> >>   I emerged tmux a coupl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: >> >> >>> >>> If the machine is not fast enough - mine is a PII 233 w/160 MB RAM, >>> takes a while do to updates - then you really have to separate out what >>> you are ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and noscript... (maybe off-topic)

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:29 PM, pk wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using firefox together with noscript which has worked fine for quite > a while now and I don't have a real problem with it... Although in the > latest update, I've discovered that it always connects to 188.121.36.239 > (which belongs to "Go

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:21 AM, BRM wrote: > - Original Message > >> Joshua Murphy wrote: >> > Well, glancing at the GET request it's making  there, as well as the >> > API google points me to when I look it  up... >> > >> >  ht

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Dale wrote: > BRM wrote: >> >> Wireshark will show you the raw packet data, and decode only a little of >> it - >> enough to identify the general protocol, senders, etc. >> So to understand the packet, you will need to understand the application >> layer >> protoc

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ?

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 31 July 2010 16:33:18 Dale wrote: >> Kacper Kopczyński wrote: >> > Dnia 2010-07-31, o godz. 16:15:51 >> > >> > Volker Armin Hemmann  napisał(a): >> >> On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote: >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> My problem i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blurred bold characters in urxvt

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 05 June 2010 19:13:24 Mick wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I emerged rxvt-unicode because aterm which I have been using faithfully for >> years does not do UTF8, but as you can see in the attachment all bold >> characters look distorted.  In xterm

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo initrd docs?

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >   Does there happen to be a Gentoo doc anywhere that goes through > creating an initrd from scratch? > >   If not Gentoo, then any good web site would be a big help. I'm > interested in booting from RAID - or at least investigating it - s

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync to a USB stick

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Steven wrote: > > > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Mick wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I run: >> >>  rsync -a -l --delete -v /mnt/Business_dir /media/sdf1 >> >> to back up a directory from a PC to a USB stick.  However, from a cursory >> look >> this *seems* to copy

Re: [gentoo-user] in-memory database

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 11 Feb, Hung Dang wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am looking for an open source in-memory database for data mining purpose. >> I have tried to look into /usr/portage/dev-db/ and have not found any >> in-memory package. Any suggestion? >> > > Y

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010/1/3 Thanasis : > on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: >> Thanasis writes: >> >> >>> Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? >>> >> This "EMBEDDED" just means "don't touch these unless you really know >> what you're doing". >> >> BTW I r

Re: [gentoo-user] All those helpful post emerge messages...

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Jon Hardcastle wrote: >> Guys, >> >> I have just done an emerge -eva system and it has >>  installed/reinstalled/upgraded ~102 packages. When it finished i noticed >>  some of them had some helpful YOU MUS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd - bytes at a time

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:11:27 +, Stroller wrote: > >> > Incidentally, if you want to use dd, adding bs=4096 speeds it up quite >> > significantly. >> >> Thank you. I have always wondered what the optimal bs might be. >> And why - could yo

Re: [gentoo-user] High load, idle CPU?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > My virtual server seems to have a problem and I don't know how to find it. > > Today, while trying to create a new postgresql database I noticed that > certain system operations seem to take ages. Normal work on the shell > wor

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Grant wrote: >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda (or what ever) > > After reading over all the info here, I think I'm going to go with dd > since the data isn't too sensitive. > > I created a "9.1_Live_x64" USB key with unetbootin, but the laptop > won't boot to it.  I

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: >> >> It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120 drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device D

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken upgrade from udev troubles.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Tom Bennet wrote: > I spent the day recovering from a Gentoo upgrade, and thought I'd document > the experience in case it helps someone else. > > I'm running a custom kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 on amd64, though I don't think > the rarer hardware is relevant. > > I t

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Dale wrote: > Joshua Murphy wrote: >> That is, of course, when shredding individual files, where the final >> location and initial locations for them may not wind up being the same >> place on disk. When 'shredding' a whole partit

Re: [gentoo-user] gmonstart / jvregisterclasses in tons of binaries with commands,malware?

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:01 PM, wrote: > In linux binaries, in any linux distro, I've discovered the same strings > which I believe may be due to a virus or trojan. > > Yet, clamav, rkhunter, chkrootkit do not detect abnormalities. > > Whether I run 'strings' on the binary files or view with vim

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I (partially) rebuild a package with emerge?

2009/12/16 Jesús Guerrero : > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:44:29 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Hi, gentoo, >> >> I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting for >> VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf.  Does emerge have a facility to rebuild >> only those portions of xorg-x11 dependent

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: >> >> On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and >>> install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any >>> more).  I've got a bootab

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 14 December 2009 20:25:25 GerhardosG wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT >> >> >> tux ~ # lsmod >> >> Module                  Size  Used by >> test_nx                 1824  0 >> psmouse               1980  0 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:08 PM, GerhardosG wrote: > Hi , > > recompile the evdev driver solved the problem NOT. > > > > In the console, the output looks like this: > > > > > tux / # startx > > xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.3072 > > X.Org X Server 1.6.5 > Release Date: 2009

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:29 AM, GerhardosG wrote: > Hi , > > My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT > > X11 start breaks with this messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log : > > > (II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE > (II) Initializing extension GLX > (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Transl

Re: [gentoo-user] building your own stage3?

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > Does anybody here know how a stage3 tarball is made? I'd like to mode > one myself. > > -- Keith Dart > > -- > > -- ~ >   Keith Dart >   public key: ID: 19017044 >  

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory?

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:30 AM, wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann [09-12-13 15:24]: >> On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> > Volker Armin Hemmann [09-12-13 14:28]: >> > > On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> > > > Volker Armin Hemmann [09-12-13 13:40]:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: went from x86 to ~x86: no more X11

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.12.2009 19:15, schrieb Joshua Murphy: > >>> I am now trying to use your solution, I just have to find a way to make >>> it work with my pam_mount-based setup. Working on it ;-) >> >> H

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: went from x86 to ~x86: no more X11

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 10.12.2009 05:41, schrieb Joshua Murphy: > >> Respawns on close/crash... doesn't allow attempts to start more than >> once (hence the 'lockfile' type hack in the script), doesn't break on >

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Stroller > wrote: >> >> On 10 Dec 2009, at 03:07, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> ... >> >> I just burned the install-x86-minimal-20091103 iso on a cd and tried to >> boot a relatively old machine wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:36:41AM +, Penguin Lover Alan Mackenzie > squawked: >> How did this breakage happen?  I would guess that at the time the >> installation procedure was devised, this line >> >>     # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: went from x86 to ~x86: no more X11

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 10.12.2009 05:41, schrieb Joshua Murphy: > >> # auto_start_x.sh > > Thanks for that! I will maybe set that up but shouldn't gdm work as > well? I mean it doesn't crash for *all* ~x86-users, correct? &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: went from x86 to ~x86: no more X11

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 09.12.2009 16:31, schrieb walt: > >>> So it seems more gdm/gnome-related to me, right? >> >> That would be my guess.  I don't use gdm so I don't know how to fix it. >> I use startx with "exec /etc/X11/Sessions/gnome" in my ~/.xinitr

Re: [gentoo-user] went from x86 to ~x86: no more X11

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Greets, gentoo-users, > > I wanted to go to full ~x86 on my thinkpad these days, so I started with > an "emerge -avu system" and after a successful reboot I did "emerge > -avuDN world". > > X11 didn't come up anymore ... I even tried

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater failure

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So I ran a big emerge --update world and it picked up Python 2.6 from 2.5. > It'd be nice if python-updater ran automatically when this happens but it > doesn't, but gcompris failing to build was a nice reminder that it needed to > be do

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:48:36PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote >> Hi, folks! >> >> I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my >> laptop.  The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop >> system into th

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Alan Mackenzie schrieb: >> Hi, folks! >> >> I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my >> laptop.  The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop >> system into this laptop to do the rest of the in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:16 PM, daid kahl wrote: >> On 12/4/2009 10:21 PM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> Thanks goodness for Konsole and being able to scroll up. >> >> Where I come from, we use " | less" :p > > Meh, just > into /tmp and use anything you want to view it if you > really want to be hardcore. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, walt wrote: > On 12/03/2009 09:08 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > ... >> >> Lately, I've had zero issues with alsa pretty much configuring itself >> properly, given I'm using the in kernel alsa drivers for my systems... >> and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:12 PM, walt wrote: > On 12/03/2009 01:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: >> >> Hi, >> On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card >> (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one >> application can access the sound card at a time... > > I hope Nik

Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Kirill Lipatov wrote: > I do have an NVIDIA card. Moreover, I have the very same version of wine on > Ubuntu and all of the games are running with no problem. It is only on > gentoo, where I have this problem. > > Kirill > That makes me wonder a bit... you might se

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: > We just want to help you -- that's what the police say before they tase your > ass > > On 12/1/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> meh, you got nothing >> >> On 12/1/09, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 22:19:24 Neil Bothwick wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] tunneling or redirect attack?

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:53 PM, laurent wrote: > Helmut Jarausch a écrit : >> >> On  1 Dec, laurent wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it a common thing, or really easy to do,  to redirect the content from >>> a server to another one? >>> >>> Like launching an lil app telling the port to listen and

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > When my netbook boots under battery power w/o the ac adapter connected > I get this warning msg in the boot  window: 'Skipping fsck due to not > being an ac adapter'. Chaos ensues. The warning appears in > /etc/init.d/fsck. > > H

Re: Gentoo for many servers (was: Re: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once)

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > >> On Saturday 14 November 2009 19:36:06 Alex Schuster wrote: >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: > clusterssh will let you log into many machines at once and run emerge -avuND world everywhere >>> This is way cool. I j

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 13 November 2009 01:21:49 Joshua Murphy wrote: >> Useless? well, not exactly. ~amd64 marked packages in it are >> redundant, but every box I put wine on runs git builds >> (=app-emulation/wine- in the porta

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Mick wrote: >> On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:08:18 Iain Buchanan wrote: >>> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 22:18 +, Mick wrote: >>> > On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:09:01 Al

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