On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:45, Heinz Sporn wrote:
> > When I boot w/ the grub floppy I do:
> >
> > grub> root (hd0,1)
> > Fs is ext2, part type 0x83
> > grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6
> > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x120, size 0x1463b31]
> > ...VFS: Cannot open root device "sda6" or unkn
maxim wexler wrote:
Thanks for your suggestions. Here's where things
stand:
I did a fresh 2005.1 stage3 install onto the SATA
drive without a hitch. I removed the ide drive, so
there's only one hd.
In dmesg the drive comes up as /dev/sda
sda1(Macro$haft) sda2(/boot) < sda5(swap) sda6(/)
sda7
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 01:57, Uwe Klosa wrote:
> I have also a P4 + HT and I want to use it to. Have you tried the
> CONFIG_SUSPEND_SMP parameter. I will try it this evening.
>
> Cheers
> Uwe
>
> Robin Atwood wrote:
> > On Monday 28 November 2005 17:36, Uwe Klosa wrote:
> >>No they did not. I'
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:34:45 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:
> In dmesg the drive comes up as /dev/sda
>sda1(Macro$haft) sda2(/boot) < sda5(swap) sda6(/)
> sda7(home)>
>
> When I boot w/ the grub floppy I do:
>
> grub> root (hd0,1)
> Fs is ext2, part type 0x83
> grub> kernel /vmlinuz
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:45:53 +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote:
> > grub> root (hd0,1)
> > Fs is ext2, part type 0x83
> > grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6
> > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x120, size 0x1463b31]
>
> Shouldn't that read root=/dev/sda2 since your kernel obviously sits
> in /boot ==
Hi,
As far as I know, this happens, when a process waiting for a hardware
resource.
Maybe something happened, which blocks the hardware, that means, the
kernel process never returns to the userspace.
This can be caused by bad/buggy hardware or buggy driver.
So, Richard is right, check your
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:38:49 -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> Okay. I have removed dev-php/php-4.4.0 and installed
> dev-lanp/php-5.0.5 and everything appears to be working okay (except
> for Squirelmail, but I have another thread started for that
> discussion). But, now when I do a emerge -uaDv wo
The local resolver lib will use either /etc/hosts file or dns queries in
the order defined in your /etc/host.conf
You mean /etc/nsswitch.conf?
I probably do. Is /etc/host.conf still of any use?
Actually, I'm not sure. I've always edited nsswitch.conf to get it to
do what I want, with good r
On 11/28/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/28/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > kill -15 PID
> > kill -9 PID
> > killall -9 process_name
> >
> > but none worked. To make forward progress I just rebooted.
> >
> >Is there some other way I could have tried killing th
Richard Fish wrote:
> Pullling a hard drive out of the system while it is running is an easy
> way to duplicate this problem, as it will cause the kernel to enter an
> interminable reset loop to try and recover
I do not claim that what you said is not true, but once in
the past, when I was youn
Hi,
Up until the day before yesterday, xmms worked fine and I was able to
play audio files.
On the weekend, I updated the kernel following the instructions in the
"Kernel Upgrade Guide". Everything went fine. When I rebooted the
computer my kmix icon was "x'd" out, so I unmerged alsa-driver and
On 28/11/05, Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>to me.. linux in general has always ran slow if the net connection
> >>goes out. It might be constantly trying to access the internet.
> >>Kinda like the a cell phones battery dies alot faster when it cant
> >>connect to a tower. It
Followup:
Oh, it work, ok... until I rebooted. Then it didn't work for ordinary (non-super users) to #wvdial anymore.
Apparently, using udev and sysfs, etc., the devices are made on
boot. Funny, that I had to run MAKEDEV to make the higher
numbered nodes, like /dev/ttyS14, where my modem res
Hi,
try removing the config and menurc in ~/.xmms,
Did you use any visual plugins?
Because this are a little brittle and break easily after any upgrade.
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Thiago Lüttig wrote:
Hi, i have an gentoo with gcc 3.4.4, and I´ve executed the tcupdate
script to upgrade the gcc(after executed an emerge sync), well, the
tcupdate doesnt did nothing, and when i try tu run an emerge gcc, the
las version of gcc appears as 3.4.4.
Not sure what you want.
[EMA
On 11/28/05, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I saw somewhere in portage a daemon that managesconnection/disconnection from the network. I think it was for laptops. But now I don't know what it is called or where it is in portage.I wonder if it would work?
Rob.
That would be ifplugd. It listens for
Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It was never hidden and has always been available.
Not sure I understand that comment. Or rather I am sure I do not.
>The commands, excepting lshw, have been
> available since the 1970s. And lots of system inventory scripts ar
Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeff Grossman wrote:
>> Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in
>> /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/functions/imap_messages.php on
>> line 480
>
> Yup. You need to upgrade squirrelmail
>
To what version? I tried the 1.4.5-r1 ver
Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ellotheth rimmwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Is the dev-lang/php pretty stable? Is there anything I should know
>>> before I make the switch?
>>
>> I'm running 5.0.5. It's lovely. Just follow t
Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeff Grossman wrote:
>> Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in
>> /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/functions/imap_messages.php on
>> line 480
>
> Yup. You need to upgrade squirrelmail
>
Okay, I guess I was wrong. I thought I ha
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:27:23 -0500, Devon Miller wrote:
> > I saw somewhere in portage a daemon that manages
> > connection/disconnection from the network. I think it was for
> > laptops. But now I don't know what it is called or where it is in
> > portage.
> That would be ifplugd. It listens fo
On 11/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I do not claim that what you said is not true, but once in
> the past, when I was young and dumb (now I'm old and dumb)
> I intentionally pulled out that 80-wire data-cable from one
> of my 2 ata-disks during heavy i/o-loading (copying
Here is my dmesg without coldplug running. I have also posted the
results of my lsmod. One other thing to note, I am not able to load
these modules.
modprobe usb-uhci
modprobe usb-ohci
modprobe scsi_mod
modprobe sd_mod
Module Size Used by
usb_storage32768 0
snd_seq
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: US-ASCII, 19 lines --]
>
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:38:49 -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote:
>
>> Okay. I have removed dev-php/php-4.4.0 and installed
>> dev-lanp/php-5.0.5 and everything appears to be working
Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes:
> She runs Gnome.
>This evening one of these processes was unkillable. I tried
> kill -15 PID
> kill -9 PID
> killall -9 process_name
>Is there some other way I could have tried killing this process?
The next time it happens you might want to kill of X
On 11/28/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>My wife ran into a problem this evening that required I do a
> reboot. She runs Gnome. Sometimes something about her setup goes
> haywire and she loses all her desktop icons and her wallpaper. In the
> past I've found that if we log her
Do you and your wife have separate logons and if so, does this only happen when she is logged into her account using Gnome?
In the past I've seen problems on my sisters' computer that sound
similiar to what you've described and I've blown way the files that are
created with Gnome is setup (this is
"kill -9 -1" should just kill all her processes, even the Xsession
that she owns, and restart X. I would restart your manager (xdm, gdm)
just to be sure.
While you have your gnome locked, you could check what is running and
if any process is defunct at console, so you would know wich app
and/or gn
The man page for auto.master(5) refers to direct maps, ie
"The mount-point for the direct map is always specified as /- in the
auto.master map."
My auto.master map looks like this:
>speyburn ~ # ypcat -k auto.master
>/home auto.home
>/mp auto.mp
>/- auto.direct
and my auto.direct map looks like
Hello,
Jffnms is a very cool network management package, albeit a little
complex to install and configure. Thanks to 'angusyoung' installation
is now a breeze. I thought I'd post what I did to get it to
install, in explicit form, in case anyone else wanted to check out this
excellent 'network mana
Willie Wong wrote:
r/man/ -name mouse.*
/usr/man/man4/mouse.4x.gz
/usr/man/man4/mouse.4.gz
gnu man will allow you to give a full path :)
yes, that's a hack, but the "man # $page" uses the # as the directory.
so if mouse.4x.gz was in /usr/man/man4x/mouse.4x.gz, then man 4x mouse
would work.
Michael Sullivan wrote:
can you ping via name to other machines on your lan?
Yes I can.
maybe put some of your local machines into your /etc/hosts file, so it
won't attempt to do dns lookups on them.
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Mark Knecht wrote:
kill -15 PID
kill -9 PID
killall -9 process_name
see if you can perform a "top" and find the process that is hung.
if it has a state of "D", then you can't kill it. It's waiting for some
type of IO or for some hardware. This is typical of a hardware failure,
buggy driver,
Mark Knecht wrote:
Possibly it's a video driver issue?
I'd say this is probably the first place to start looking. Try using an
open source X driver and see if the problem goes away.
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>
> So grub loads abd boots the Linux kernel, but the
> kernel can't mount the
> root FS on /dev/sda6. So /dev/sda6 doesn't exist for
> some reason, which
> could be one of:
> 1) There is no /dev/sda6 partition
Huh? I just installed gentoo there.
> 2) You haven't compiled in support for your
>
> This means the kernel cannot mount your root
> partition (/dev/sda6 IS the
> correct setting for root). Either your root
> partitions's filesystem is
> not compiled into your kernel or you have not added
> support for your SATA
> controller. These must be compiled into the kernel,
I realize
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 13:58 -0500, Billy Holmes wrote:
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
>
> >>can you ping via name to other machines on your lan?
> > Yes I can.
>
> maybe put some of your local machines into your /etc/hosts file, so it
> won't attempt to do dns lookups on them.
Every computer in my n
> I've just moved from XFree86 to xorg and updated my KDE and now my
> wheel mouse doesn't scroll anymore. I'm using the same mouse lines in
> xorg.conf that I used in Xfree86.conf, but I can't get it to work. It
> must be something I just don't see. Any ideas?
exactly the same here. I have tried
Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't have a full DNS server for my domain. Each computer on my
> network has a copy of the same /etc/hosts file. Is there some way I can
> make it use that for DNS lookups locally?
Having the exact same copy on each system does not sound
correct
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 22:07 +0200, Timur Aydin wrote:
> Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I don't have a full DNS server for my domain. Each computer on my
> > network has a copy of the same /etc/hosts file. Is there some way I can
> > make it use that for DNS lookups locally?
>
Timur Aydin wrote:
Having the exact same copy on each system does not sound
correct. There should be a "localhost" alias in each /etc/hosts and it
should point to the IP address of the relevant machine.
No. Nononono. "localhost" should always point to 127.0.0.1.
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On Tuesday 29 November 2005 08:17 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Yeah. Each one has an entry that says
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>
> and then it has an entry consisting of
>
> 192.168.1.? name.espersunited.com name
Looks correct to me.
Someone may have already sugge
On 11/29/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y
>
> Yes, I got that one.
>
> > CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_YOURCONTROLLER=y
>
> NV_SATA worked(although SIL_SATA didn't, despite
> having a Sil3114 controller) before, but is not among
> the options(nor, for that matter, SIL_SATA) in
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 13:25 +, Josh Helmer wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 November 2005 08:17 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > Yeah. Each one has an entry that says
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> >
> > and then it has an entry consisting of
> >
> > 192.168.1.? name.espersunited
I guess I'm glad that I'm not alone Christoph. Like you, xev shows no activity
for the wheel.
As far as it's being a hardware related thing, unless 3 mice have died of the
same dreaded disease, it's not hardware. Of the 3 I've tried 2 are logitech
trackballs (USB) and the 3rd is a no-name intell
> So, I guess this shows that the scroll wheel is sending a signal. I
> have no idea if it's getting to the right place
the problem is that not many people understand the hidden ways of
keyboard and mouse events from the hardware through the kernel to the
console or even X. Writing a valid and
You might need to run fdisk /dev/sd? then mkfs.* /dev/sd?? . If you
don't have a /dev/sd? , check your kernel for SCSI block device support.
I have "generic scsi" support and there doesn't seem to be anything to
do with scsi in block devices... the usb key works fine under windows,
is format
On 11/29/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess I'm glad that I'm not alone Christoph. Like you, xev shows no activity
> for the wheel.
> As far as it's being a hardware related thing, unless 3 mice have died of the
> same dreaded disease, it's not hardware. Of the 3 I've tried 2 a
On 11/29/05, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the problem is that not many people understand the hidden ways of
> keyboard and mouse events from the hardware through the kernel to the
> console or even X. Writing a valid and properly designed xorg.conf is
> sort of alchemy (not only co
On 11/29/05, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You might need to run fdisk /dev/sd? then mkfs.* /dev/sd?? . If you
> > don't have a /dev/sd? , check your kernel for SCSI block device support.
>
> I have "generic scsi" support and there doesn't seem to be anything to
Do you have SCSI disk su
On 11/29/05, Brian Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here is my dmesg without coldplug running. I have also posted the
> results of my lsmod. One other thing to note, I am not able to load
> these modules.
>
> modprobe usb-uhci
> modprobe usb-ohci
> modprobe scsi_mod
> modprobe sd_mod
What do y
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Richard Fish wrote:
On 11/29/05, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You might need to run fdisk /dev/sd? then mkfs.* /dev/sd?? . If you
don't have a /dev/sd? , check your kernel for SCSI block device support.
I have "generic scsi" support and there doesn't seem to be anything to
Do you hav
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 04:29 pm, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to
write:
> On 11/29/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I guess I'm glad that I'm not alone Christoph. Like you, xev shows no
> > activity for the wheel.
> > As far as it's being a hardware related thing, unle
> Did you try the settings I mentioned previously? (using
> /dev/input/mice, ExplorerPS/2, and the Buttons option?) If so, and
> you still have the same problem, please post the relevant lines from
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
Thanks a lot for your help.
I currently use the following section for the
insert the device by doing a "tail -f /var/log/messages" and see which it gets
assigned.
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 15:28, Antoine wrote:
> > You might need to run fdisk /dev/sd? then mkfs.* /dev/sd?? . If you
> > don't have a /dev/sd? , check your kernel for SCSI block device support.
>
> I have
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Hi,
> Damn! I thought I had tried all of your suggestions Richard. Changing
> the protocol to ExplorerPS/2 has done the trick. Thanks for all of
> your help.
@Ernie: Could you please post the relevant device section you use? Just
for my personal interest.
@Richard: Let's stop here, I will figu
Thanks for the response, but . :-)
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>Hi,
>try removing the config and menurc in ~/.xmms,
>
>
Actually, I removed the whole ~/.xmms directory after the fresh install.
>Did you use any visual plugins?
>
>
I have the blursk and blur-scope plugins installed, but t
On 11/29/05, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I currently use the following section for the USB mouse:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "USB Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Device""/dev/input/mice"
> Optio
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Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
# Option "Protocol""auto"
Option "Protocol""ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
# Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# When usi
Hi,
> Possible. But maybe there is also some corruption (binary
> characters) in the xorg.conf file. I've seen xfree86/x.org behave
> strangely before, refusing to see some options, because of garbage
> characters in the configuration file.
does "garbage characters" mean weird printable charac
On 11/29/05, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I wonder that it only tells something about /dev/psaux and PS/S mouse,
> but where is my USB mouse?
Ah, I see now. Because you don't have "USB mouse" in your layout.
You can have many InputDevice sections, but only those listed in
Serv
On 11/29/05, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wonder that it only tells something about /dev/psaux and PS/S mouse,
> but where is my USB mouse?
Oh, a few more things. /dev/psaux is now deprecated, so you should
probably change this to be /dev/input/mouseX.
Also, you might want to
On 11/29/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/29/05, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I wonder that it only tells something about /dev/psaux and PS/S mouse,
> > but where is my USB mouse?
>
> Oh, a few more things. /dev/psaux is now deprecated, so you should
> probabl
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:36:38 -0600
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You mentioned possibly obscure system inventory scripts in perl.
> So apparently you already know it can be a time consuming undertaking
> to dig one up with google, test it, etc etc.
>
> Do you know of one off the
Jeff Grossman wrote:
> Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yup. You need to upgrade squirrelmail
>
> Okay, I guess I was wrong. I thought I had upgraded Squirrelmail to the
> 1.4.5-r1 release. I just did it again, and now everything is working.
>
Perhaps you didn't ran webapp-config th
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>Hi,
>try removing the config and menurc in ~/.xmms,
>Did you use any visual plugins?
>Because this are a little brittle and break easily after any upgrade.
Just though I'd let the list know, I've solved the problem. Seems
that xmms didn't like mikmod. When I instal
On 11/28/05, Budd, Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just need a bare-bones card to make backups of my VCR tapes and DVDs.
> Not even interested in a TV-tuner though I guess they all include that.
> Gentoo support is a must.
I've had great luck with the Hauppauge PVR-150 - ~$100. I'm running
Ge
There's an article in this month's Linux Journal about MythTV, and they
mention the Hauppauge PVR-150. They also mention Gentoo as the best
distribution for MythTV!
M
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, James Ausmus wrote:
On 11/28/05, Budd, Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just need a bare-bones card to
Tim Igoe schrieb:
> if you read the header of every email from this list, or the site it
> says to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to unsubscribe.
You're right. It would be nice, if the footer would say so as well.
It's just more visible.
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quoth the Harry Putnam:
> I'm sure many such scripts have been written in the past 35yrs. I
> hoped a few would have become famous and available by name that I
> could simply edit.
Perhaps so, but I decided to write one anyway. Just 'stroking the beard' I
guess. It is in python, as I cannot sta
Is there a benefit of compiling Openoffice 2.0 vs. installing from
binary.
I've AMD 1.8Mhz with 1Gb or Ram and it has been compiling OO 2.0 for
7-hours already.
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Joseph wrote:
Is there a benefit of compiling Openoffice 2.0 vs. installing from
binary.
I've AMD 1.8Mhz with 1Gb or Ram and it has been compiling OO 2.0 for
7-hours already.
It's likely to take somewhere around 8-11 hours on such a machine. It
took somewhere around 10 hours for me on a 15
On 29 November 2005 21:35, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > I've just moved from XFree86 to xorg and updated my KDE and now my
> > wheel mouse doesn't scroll anymore. I'm using the same mouse lines in
> > xorg.conf that I used in Xfree86.conf, but I can't get it to work. It
> > must be something I just
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