[gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Persson
My (parallel port laser) printer started spewing garbage (i.e. pcl data as text - a few characters per sheet) as a result, I think, of a loose cable. Trouble is I can't stop it. I cleared the print jobs. Even stopped cups. Tried to rmmod parport_pc and lp, but was refused. Tried pressing the sto

Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 09:56, Robert Persson wrote: > My (parallel port laser) printer started spewing garbage (i.e. pcl data as > text - a few characters per sheet) as a result, I think, of a loose cable. > > Trouble is I can't stop it. I cleared the print jobs. Even stopped cups. > Tried to rmmod pa

Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Persson
On Thursday 16 February 2006 00:18 Uwe Thiem was like: > > I'm about to reboot, hoping that that will do the trick. But surely > > there's a way to stop the diarrhoea without rebooting, isn't there? > > Don't, it won't help. Do a "ps ax | less" and try to find everything > remotely related to print

Re: [gentoo-user] nagios & cgi.cfg

2006-02-16 Thread Herman Grootaers
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 18:20, Arnau Bria Ramírez wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed nagios on my gentoo box and after some time of > configuration I pointed my web-browser to localhost/nagios and found > Error: Could not open CGI config file '/etc/nagios/cgi.cfg' for > reading! error message. >

Re: [gentoo-user] nagios & cgi.cfg

2006-02-16 Thread Arnau Bria Ramírez
El Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:03:12 +0100 Herman Grootaers dijo: > You just tested the configuration of nagios. To start it run either the > startscript in /etc/init.d, or if it does not exists with the same > command replacing the -v with -d. That should start nagios, and start > also the output on

[gentoo-user] Centos guest on Gentoo Vserver

2006-02-16 Thread Avdija Ahmedhodzic
Hello, I'm trying to install Centos as guest on Gentoo Vserver. I'm folowing this Howto: http://linux-vserver.org/CentOS_HowTo ant this is result: vlan10-virtual / # vserver min-centos4 build -m yum --hostname domain.com --interface domain=eth0:192.168.0.136/24 --initstyle sysv --context 500 -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X without console log window?

2006-02-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:49 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't have currently syslog-ng running, but I think I remember that > > similar configuration was in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf (maybe > > commented out?) > > Yes, it was commented out as the default setting is to se

Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread William Kenworthy
At times you also have to go to the cups cache directory and delete the print job there as well, as on restart it stats the printjob from the beginning again. They really need to fix this ... BillK On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 01:00 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 00:18 Uwe

[gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Izar Ilun
I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space I should use for /. My machine is Pentium4, 1GB RAM, 200 GB HD ATA It's a desktop machine with Gentoo as the only and exclusive OS. Will run KDE. Amarok, OpenOffice, firefox Thanx!

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
40 GB is enough, these are my stats with / partition of 35GB / 200GB Filesystemblocchi di 1K Usati Disponib. Uso% Montato su * /dev/sdb1 34185192 18272204 15912988 54% / ***

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
IMHO you could just use the rest of the disk (after the /boot [hda1] and swap [hda2]), but if you intend to get a /home (or anything), I usually use 10GB for / just in case (still at 50%, but you never know). I got two 40GB disks however, if I were you (and I'm not, so, you can just disconsider wha

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:19:21 +0100, Izar Ilun wrote: > I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc > space I should use for /. That depends on what you are going to put on it. Will /usr or /var be on it? They use most of the space. 10GB will be plenty. I have / or a 300MB p

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Izar Ilun
I say that, It'll be just: - /boot - swap - /home - / (all the rest)On 2/16/06, Ibai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It'll be just: - /boot - swap - /home - / (all the rest)On 2/16/06, Neil Bothwick < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:19:21 +0100, Izar Ilun wrote:> I'm installing Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Izar Ilun wrote: > I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space > I should use for /. 512 MB. The rest should go to filesystems for /var, /usr, /opt and /home. And maybe also additional filesystems for /usr/src and all that Gentoo stuff. Alexander Skwar -- BOFH Excus

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Izar Ilun wrote: > I say that, It'll be just: > - /boot > - swap > - /home > - / (all the rest) That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var and / (of course). This way you're more flexible and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of r

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: phpmyadmin

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Ernie Schroder wrote: I am just starting to play with php and mysql. I've got mysql working and can log into root accounts using a password. php scripts work on http://localhost. For example, http://localhost/php/index.php in a browser shows a whole lot of info re php, mysql and apache2. Howev

Re: [gentoo-user] nagios & cgi.cfg

2006-02-16 Thread Herman Grootaers
On Thursday 16 February 2006 12:26, Arnau Bria Ramírez wrote: > El Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:03:12 +0100 > > Herman Grootaers dijo: > > You just tested the configuration of nagios. To start it run either > > the startscript in /etc/init.d, or if it does not exists with the > > same command replacing the

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:06:12 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create > filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var > and / (of course). This way you're more flexible > and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of running > out of space on /).

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread apn
> > I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space > > I should use for /. > > 512 MB. > > The rest should go to filesystems for /var, /usr, > /opt and /home. And maybe also additional filesystems > fo This is (part) what i have mount i`ve instales stuff for workstatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Module (3c59x) not recognized

2006-02-16 Thread Gilberto Martins
This problem was solved already, I really commited a huge compilatiom mistake. So, I decided using genkernl to help. But this is another thread ... 2006/2/15, Emmanuel Durin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The make module_install command installs the modules into > /lib/modules/2.x.xx/. Search for your fil

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-16 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 15 février 2006 à 04:42 -0800, Mark Knecht a écrit : > OK, good info - but what can I remove? Or more important how can I > find what's talking up too much space. I know you've already solved that problem, but I think the following might be interesting. I found xdiskusage to be a ve

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Izar Ilun wrote: > > I say that, It'll be just: > > - /boot > > - swap > > - /home > > - / (all the rest) > > That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create > filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var > and / (of course).

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:19, Izar Ilun wrote: > I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space I > should use for /. > > My machine is Pentium4, 1GB RAM, 200 GB HD ATA > > It's a desktop machine with Gentoo as the only and exclusive OS. > > Will run KDE. Amarok, Ope

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space >> > I should use for /. >> >> 512 MB. >> >> The rest should go to filesystems for /var, /usr, >> /opt and /home. And maybe also additional filesystems >> fo > > This is (part) what i have moun

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread jarry
"Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To put everything on its own partition was good, when harddisks were > 2gb-10gb big. But today it is just a waste of space and time. IMHO there still might be advantages to using more partitions, for example security (you can mount /boot /tmp /

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread jarry
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I say that, It'll be just: > > - /boot > > - swap > > - /home > > - / (all the rest) > > That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create > filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var > and / (of course). Moreover I have created separat

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Izar Ilun wrote: >> > I say that, It'll be just: >> > - /boot >> > - swap >> > - /home >> > - / (all the rest) >> >> That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create >> filesystems for /boot, swap, /hom

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:06:12 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create >> filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var >> and / (of course). This way you're more flexible >> and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of r

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes > life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people > still do the old style partitioning. > > For example, in your setup, how do you make /var larger, if need > be? > > With LVM, it would just be a matter of "lvresize

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/16/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on their own partition. Additionally, the more partitions, the more useless > head movement, the slower data transfer the earlier the harddisk dies. I disagree. Sensible partitioning can _reduce_ head movement and improve performance.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread jarry
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes > life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people > still do the old style partitioning. Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do not have control over physical placement of your partitions.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Crawford
The main reason for putting /var, /tmp, and portage on their own partitions is to minimize fragmentation on /, especially with a source distro like Gentoo. And yes, Linux does fragment and does require attention, especially with reiserfs, where the only solution is to dump/format/restore. On T

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread John Jolet
On 2/16/06 9:04 AM, "Martin Eisenhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes >> life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people >> still do the old style partitioning. >> >> For example, in your setup, how do you make /

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 February 2006 10:02 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the > installation of Gentoo > > > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:25:52 +0100, Bo Andresen wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
On Thursday February 16 2006 16:15, John Jolet wrote: > > > > Having said that, I would like to suggest that instead of using LVM, the > > top-poster might be better off by using EVMS > > (http://evms.sourceforge.net) since EVMS sports different UIs for all > > kinds of users (CLI, ncurses, X) and

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
On Thursday February 16 2006 16:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes > > life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people > > still do the old style partitioning. > > Correct me if I am wrong, but with

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes >> life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people >> still do the old style partitioning. > > Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do not have > control over

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > you'll never fill up root, so making a lot of partitions is just wasted space. No, it's not wasted space. Well, okay, not much wasted space. > And yes, I once put all and everything on its own partition. > I learnt the hard way, that this does not solve problems, i

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:14, Robert Crawford wrote: > The main reason for putting /var, /tmp, and portage on their own > partitions is to minimize fragmentation on /, especially with a source > distro like Gentoo. And yes, Linux does fragment and does require > attention, especially with re

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Izar Ilun wrote: > >> > I say that, It'll be just: > >> > - /boot > >> > - swap > >> > - /home > >> > - / (all the rest) > >> > >> That's not

Re: [gentoo-user] nagios & cgi.cfg

2006-02-16 Thread Arnau Bria Ramírez
El Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:37:10 +0100 Herman Grootaers dijo: > > So Nagios is started correctly. Sure, and it send emails correctly. (it found my smtp server down during a reboot) > Now another question: is apache running and if so is there an entry in > the apache-configuration for the nagios we

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/16/06, Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 15 février 2006 à 04:42 -0800, Mark Knecht a écrit : > > > OK, good info - but what can I remove? Or more important how can I > > find what's talking up too much space. > > I know you've already solved that problem, but I think

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:02, Richard Fish wrote: > Having / on its own partition can result in a similar improvement, > because the drive doesn't have to seek over your files in /home or > /opt to get to something in /lib. it still has to move at the beginning of the partition, look up, whe

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do not have > control over physical placement of your partitions. Right? While true in theory, in practice the first LV you create is created at the lowest numbered PV extents, which correspond to

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
On Thursday February 16 2006 16:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes > >> life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people > >> still do the old style partitioning. > > > > C

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:19:36 -, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > make install does exactly the same, and sets up the vmlinuz and > > vmlinuz.old symlinks to point to your new and previous kernel > > respectively, so you don't need to edit grub.conf. > > Hmm, it doesn't on my two boxen. :-( I do

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:39:02 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt > > while > > Not really. And even if so - who cares? Make the > fs larger, and you're set. Also, if those fs > run out of space, it's not a DoS. No, but it means you

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> >> Izar Ilun wrote: >> >> > I say that, It'll be just: >> >> > - /boot >> >> > - swap >> >> > - /home >> >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Martin Eisenhardt wrote: > On Thursday February 16 2006 16:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do not have >> > control over physical placement of your partitions. Right? >> >> Right. >> > > No, wrong, please see my other message.

[gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors laptop issues

2006-02-16 Thread James
> > It also looks like the power supply is not regulating very well? > > Can I believe these voltages? > no > but you can never believe the voltages. > The absolut numbers are irrelevant. > What is important: are there any fluctuations? Does the voltages change under > load? > if yes, a new PSU

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:50:01 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I found xdiskusage to be a very practical tool to findout where space > > is wasted on a disk. It's basically a tool giving a graphical output > > to du, showing how the space is shared by directory and > > subdirectories (and files with t

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff
Moving my thread over to the proper list... first... Now then - thanks to everyone on the list for your help. I've had barely any sleep lately, so I must apologize first, for putting the original thread onto the security mailing list by mistake. For anyone who's wondering - I have an AMD64 box, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Por qué eres tan maravilloso Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Rafael Fernández López
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[gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Forgive me if this ends up being the "stupid question of the day". But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. (Obviously I could download it from kernel.org and go that route, but I would like to keep as much as possible in portage

[gentoo-user] BIND 9.3.2 won't start

2006-02-16 Thread Chris Bare
I just upgraded to BIND 9.3.2 and now when I try: /etc/init.d/named start it says: * WARNING: "named" has already been started. I used to have this problem before, so I checked my notes and saw this is what I did to fix it: oberon log # mkdir /var/run/named oberon log # chmod 700 /var/run/nam

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness... [SOLVED]

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff
Ok, so with some quick tips from the nice peoples here in the list, I was almost instantly able to track down the culprit to my hard draive whackiness. It's my ATI IDE controller: 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI In the kernel, I found: Dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Forgive me if this ends up being the "stupid question of the day". > > But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. > (Obviously I could download it from kernel.org and go that rou

[gentoo-user] Re: BIND 9.3.2 won't start

2006-02-16 Thread Remy Blank
Chris Bare wrote: > I just upgraded to BIND 9.3.2 and now when I try: > > /etc/init.d/named start > > it says: > > * WARNING: "named" has already been started. Kill all named processes: killall named Tell the init script that you have done so: /etc/init.d/named zap Start named: /et

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Jarry
Martin Eisenhardt wrote: >>Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do not have >>control over physical placement of your partitions. Right? > > No, wrong, I am sorry :-D > > You might let LVM choose where to put the extends for a newly created logical > volume, but you might also tell LVM wh

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:39:02 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> > But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt >> > while >> >> Not really. And even if so - who cares? Make the >> fs larger, and you're set. Also, if those fs >> run out of space, it's no

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread kashani
Alexander Skwar wrote: I can't. But that's just not needed. Make the filesystems as large as they *now* need to be. If more space is required, extending is a matter of a few seconds. I agree with that. 80GB drive, lvm up 50GB of it, and then you can grow whatever as needed. It's not like you

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry wrote: > But even if it is so, if you resize partition by lvm, this advantage > could be lost. And if it even is possible to keep some partition > continuous, than resizing partition in lvm would be very long process: > if I resize 1st partition (the fastest, on the most outer cylinders) > a

Re: [gentoo-user] updating glibc-2.3.5-r2: segmentation fault... (part 2)

2006-02-16 Thread Jarry
Rumen Yotov wrote: > Now run: "gcc-config 5" and check again with gcc-config -l that vanilla > is your default gcc profile. > > Next try re-emerging GCC-3.4.4. I tried. Changed to vanilla, verified, started re-emerging gcc, but it failed without saying anything (frozen, after 4 hours of nothing-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Konqueror as an FTP Client

2006-02-16 Thread Ryan Holt
Thanks all for your help!Turns out that Kasablanca will work for me, gftp for some reason or another crashes, but Konqueror still can't work correctly; guess is it has something to do with that bug. On 2/16/06, Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 02:05, Ryan Holt wro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors laptop issues

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:27, James wrote: > > > It also looks like the power supply is not regulating very well? > > > Can I believe these voltages? > > > > no > > but you can never believe the voltages. > > The absolut numbers are irrelevant. > > What is important: are there any fluctuation

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel da Veiga wrote: >On 2/16/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Forgive me if this ends up being the "stupid question of the day". > > But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. > (Obviously I could download it from ker

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Jeff: > > See here: > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 3016 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1507.91 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads:4 MB in 3.68 seconds = 1.09 MB/sec > > Horribly slow! This machine should be blazing fast, with the 7200 rpm > 200 GB hard dri

Re: [gentoo-user] updating glibc-2.3.5-r2: segmentation fault... (part 2)

2006-02-16 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:25 +0100, Jarry wrote: > Rumen Yotov wrote: > > > Now run: "gcc-config 5" and check again with gcc-config -l that vanilla > > is your default gcc profile. > > > > Next try re-emerging GCC-3.4.4. > > I tried. Changed to vanilla, verified, started re-emerging gcc, but it >

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> >> Izar Ilun wrote: > >> >> > I say that,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:32, Jeff wrote: > Moving my thread over to the proper list... first... > > Now then - thanks to everyone on the list for your help. I've had barely > any sleep lately, so I must apologize first, for putting the original > thread onto the security mailing list by mist

[gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Nick Smith
is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for instance i have a package that is blocking another package when i do an emerge, is there a way to tell if the package that is blocking the other is actually needed by any other package on the system before i unmerge it? thanks Nick

[gentoo-user] what does this mean?

2006-02-16 Thread Nick Smith
is this bad or is it ok to ignore? when ever i start spamd it gives me this error, but it does say OK and starts the process anyway, is there something wrong with perl? or should i just ignore this if it works (which is to be determined, im still installing/setting it up) # /etc/init.d/spamd start

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: > > >Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? > > >I mean, "u" for "update"? > > emerge -uav gentoo-sources > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB >

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Ghaith Hachem
usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need On 2/16/06, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for > instance i have a package that is blocking another package when i do

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: > > > >Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? > > > >I mean, "u" for "update"? > > > > emerge -uav gentoo-sources > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Smith wrote: >is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for >instance i have a package that is blocking another package when i do >an emerge, is there a way to tell if the package that is blocking the >other is actually needed by

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread james
gentuxx gmail.com> writes: > > emerge -uav gentoo-sources > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB > > Nothing to merge; do you want me to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] n when was the last time you enter

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
gentuxx schreef: > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >>> On 2/16/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > >>> Forgive me if this ends up being the "stupid question of the >>> day". >>> >>> But, I haven't been able to upgrade my kernel for some reason. >>> (Obviously I could download it from kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Nick Smith
On 2/16/06, Ghaith Hachem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what > anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need > right, but i want to know that the package im going to remove because its blocking something else isnt needed by another package

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/16/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:02, Richard Fish wrote: > > > Having / on its own partition can result in a similar improvement, > > because the drive doesn't have to seek over your files in /home or > > /opt to get to something in /lib

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> >> >> Iz

[gentoo-user] Re: what does this mean?

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 16 14:03, Nick Smith (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > # /etc/init.d/spamd start > * Starting spamd... > [18773] error: persistent_udp: no such method at > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line > 99 [ ok ] I h

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/16/06, Ghaith Hachem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what > > anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need > > > right, but i want to know that the package im going to remove becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: >gentuxx schreef: > >>Daniel da Veiga wrote: >> On 2/16/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forgive me if this ends up being the "stupid question of the day". But, I haven't been able to upgrade my ker

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 james wrote: >gentuxx gmail.com> writes: > >>emerge -uav gentoo-sources >> >>These are the packages that I would merge, in order: >> >>Calculating dependencies ...done! >> >>Total size of downloads: 0 kB >> >>Nothing to merge; do you want me to auto-

[gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-16 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i've followed this how http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash to have a framebuffer splash under gentoo. I've added "splash" to the boot runlevel; however the framebuffer images start only in the default runlevel. # rc-status boot .. .. splash .. .. This is the GRUB entries: title=Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] updating glibc-2.3.5-r2: segmentation fault... (part 2)

2006-02-16 Thread Jarry
Rumen Yotov wrote: > Have you compiled anything after compiling GCC with 'hardened'? (genlop) Negative, only gcc, then emerge failed trying to compile 2nd package - glibc-2.3.5-r2. I tried to go back (removed those hardened-flags), and could not compile gcc-3.4.4 > Try with MAKEOPTS="-j1" in /et

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Andresen wrote: >On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: > Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? I mean, "u" for "update"? >> >>emerge -uav gentoo-sources >> >>These are the packages that I would merge, in order: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed > > that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So I run an `emerge --sync`, and > > `emerge -av gentoo-sources`. And it wants to rebuild my 2.6.13-r3 > > Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:57 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > If partition A > > runs out of space while partition B has plenty, > > Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. Of course, but if your needs change, that's the situation you find yourself in, as I did recen

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:40:49 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > "needed" - What's "needed", anyway? / and swap, nothing else :) -- Neil Bothwick Crayons can take you more places than starships. * Guinan signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Mick
Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 2/16/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: >> > > >Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? >> > > >I mean, "u" for "update"? >> > >> > emerge -uav gentoo-sources >> > >> > These are the packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 21:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:57 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > If partition A > > > runs out of space while partition B has plenty, > > > > Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. > > Of course, but if your need

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:45, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> >> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >> I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed >> >>>that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So I run an `emerge --sync`, and >>>`emerge -av gentoo-sources`. An

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the > installation of Gentoo > > > > make install does exactly the same, and sets up the vmlinuz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread John Jolet
On 2/16/06 11:05 AM, "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the >> installation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: >Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >>On 2/16/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: >>> >>Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? >>I mean, "u" for "update"? e

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/16/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > > >> I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed > >> > >>>that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:21, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > You *can* tell LVM where to put LVs but you do not *have* to. > > But how do you actually do that? Or are you talking about > the "allocation policy"? Like "--contiguous y"? > Well, first of all, you can pass lvcreate a list of physi

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