Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:54:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > When the > kernel boots, it reads the partition table off disk and knows that the > first partition starts at cylinder 0 and the second partition starts at > say cylinder 2000. The kernel doesn't update this information when you > run

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

On Thursday 25 January 2007 11:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:54:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > When the > > kernel boots, it reads the partition table off disk and knows that > > the first partition starts at cylinder 0 and the second partition > > starts at say cylinder 200

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gives backtrace during first-time install of gentoo in a Debian sarge chroot.

On Thursday 25 January 2007 07:41, Mick wrote: > > (5) I found the installation of locales and keymaps.  None of the > > available locales had "UTF-8" in their names, even though some of the > > suggested ones did.  Should I presume that the UTF-8 adaptation is > > created by the locale generating

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:28:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > You can do this with "hdparm -z". If it reports an error, you'll need > > to reboot to ensure the kernel's partition table is up to date. > > Ah, but I don't want to reboot to update the kernels' view of things. Who does? > All I w

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

> Are you absolutely sure you pressed "w" in fdisk after creating the > partitions? It sure looks to me like your changes were not written to > disk. Try mounting /dev/sdb2 > > alan I used cfdisk and I'm sure that I allocated whole disk (I just deleted remaining partition and created new one an

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there a program to log the memory consumption of just one selected process...

* Wolfgang Liebich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-23 07:33] : > Hi, > I want to trace the memory consumption of one selected process > (threads and maybe child processes included). In WindowsNT and higher > the Performance Monitor can do that. Is there a linux tool out there > which can perform

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

Hi, On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:25:20 +0100 jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used cfdisk and I'm sure that I allocated whole disk (I just deleted > remaining partition and created new one and just confirm size, because > it should take whole disk, and even if not, it souldn't create new > partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:37, Thomas Kear wrote: > Well I've grown quite attached to my low-cost laser, an HP LaserJet 1022. > 19ppm black on A4, 20ppm on letter, 1200x600 or 600x600dpi. They could > have been a bit more generous than the 8MB of ram they gave this model, but > it doesn't pre

[gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

Hello, I woke up this morning and turned on my laptop to find that it no longer boots. It initially hung on starting hald, and once I prevented hald from starting it hung on gdm, and once I prevented gdm from starting I could log in as root but vi failed with a "Bus error". I booted a LiveCD, mou

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Grant wrote: > Hello, I woke up this morning and turned on my laptop to find that it > no longer boots. It initially hung on starting hald, and once I > prevented hald from starting it hung on gdm, and once I prevented gdm > from starting I could lo

[gentoo-user] Php and Mysql 5 dependency

Hi list, I have PHP 5 installed and now I want to enable a new option for this package (xsl option of /etc/portage/package.use), but when I type emerge php emerge tell me that dev-db/mysql is blocking mysql-community. It seems that emerge wants to install mysql5 (I have mysql 4.0 installed and

[gentoo-user] Re: Php and Mysql 5 dependency

# emerge -vp php [blocks B ] dev-db/mysql (is blocking dev-db/mysql-community-5.0.27-r1) [ebuild N] dev-db/mysql-community-5.0.27-r1 USE="berkdb perl ssl -big-tables -cluster -debug -embedded -extraengine -latin1 -max-idx-128 -minimal (-selinux) -static" 25,261 kB [ebuild N] virtua

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

Hi Grant, on Thursday, 2007-01-25 at 08:20:37, you wrote: > I successfully wrote an iso of some important files after booting up > normally (minus hald, X, and vi) so that's good. Is there a utility I > can run on the disk to see if there is permanent damage? Should I try > re-emerging packages t

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

I ran 'fsck -t ext3 /dev/hda3' and it detected and corrected a bunch of stuff. After that, /bin/bash was missing so I copied it from a LiveCD and now it's behaving exactly as it was before I ran fsck. Do you know of any way to try and bring the hard drive in its current form back to full usabili

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency info is missing and /sbin/depscan.sh is not helpful

Problem solved. All I had to do was booting with a live Linux, chrooting to my Gentoo installation and # emerge mktemp # /sbin/depscan.sh --update Regards, Jan Stępień -- Mailjan at stepien com pl Jabber jano at jabber aster pl GG 1894343 Web http://stepien.com.pl signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

Congratulation, I'm happy too, It means that our community works!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Here are what I did: gpart -W /dev/sdb hdparm -z /dev/sdb (Without any warnings) mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/zaloha and I get my data back. Thaks very very much everybody here. I learned many new things f

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

On Thursday 25 January 2007 19:28, Grant wrote: > Matthias, > > I just realized that I still have a network connection with the laptop > so I should be able to move its data to my desktop machine across the > network as you suggest. Can you recommend the best way to move > /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda1

[gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

Hello! I've been trying to get the standby of my harddisk work for hours. I am actually really frustrated :-) . My problem is that whenever I but my hdd to standby, it stays there for a few seconds and then comes back to work again. So I first thought that there must be any program accessing

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

I've just been doing my regular emerge -pvu world and the system wants to update xorg-x11 to 7.2, fine. To do this I needed to add some packages to the packages.keywords file, again fine. My problem is I had to go through the cycle emerge -pvu world add a package to package.keywords 11 times, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

On Friday 26 January 2007 4:32 am, Hamie wrote: > Damn, that's a good price... > > I have a LaserJet 2600N (Network connected), which works like a charm. It > needed a custom config file from the net somewhere, but it's a cracker > apart from that (Except the envelope feed. You have to remove the p

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

Matthew R. Lee ha scritto: > I've just been doing my regular emerge -pvu world and the system wants to > update xorg-x11 to 7.2, fine. Are you running x86 stable? I just synced, and I see no xorg-x11 upgrade. > To do this I needed to add some packages to > the packages.keywords file, again fi

Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

n 1/26/07, Jakob Buchgraber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! I've been trying to get the standby of my harddisk work for hours. I am actually really frustrated :-) . My problem is that whenever I but my hdd to standby, it stays there for a few seconds and then comes back to work again. So I fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

dd if=/dev/hda3 bs= | bzip2 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > /suitable/path/to/hda3.img.bz2" Or, if you can mount the partition, you can use tar: tar -cjvf - /mount/point/ | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cd /some/path ; tar -xjvf -" you could also use netcat to transfer the files instead of ssh, would

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:50, "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage': > My problem is I had to go through the cycle emerge -pvu world add a > package to package.keywords 11 times, to deal with the 11 masked > packages that xorg-x11-7.2 requir

[gentoo-user] Who does save my screen? (xorg-server-1.2.0)

Hi! After updating up to xorg-server-1.2.0 after ~10-15min "somebody" turns my monitor off as I have configured this or that screensaver. But I have not changed anything at all. Where to dig in? Andrew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Who does save my screen? (xorg-server-1.2.0)

On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:41, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > After updating up to xorg-server-1.2.0 after ~10-15min "somebody" turns my > monitor off as I have configured this or that screensaver. But I have not > changed anything at all. > > Where to dig in? > > > Andrew xset ? -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

Kent Fredric wrote: n 1/26/07, Jakob Buchgraber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! I've been trying to get the standby of my harddisk work for hours. I am actually really frustrated :-) . My problem is that whenever I but my hdd to standby, it stays there for a few seconds and then comes back t

[gentoo-user] [OT - samba] smbpasswd fails to find user

Running Gentoo (synced yesterday) in vm on Winxp Samba 23d security = user Attempting to add smb user passwd with smbpasswd errors out with: Failed to find entry for user reader Where is samba looking?. Reader is in smbusers and /etc/passwd -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT - samba] smbpasswd fails to find user

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Running Gentoo (synced yesterday) in vm on Winxp > Samba 23d > > security = user > > Attempting to add smb user passwd with smbpasswd errors out with: > Failed to find entry for user reader > > Where is samba looking?. Reader is in smbusers and /etc/passwd Please di

[gentoo-user] Problems with dbus

I'm having a strange problem with dbus. If I do an emerge -avDuN world, I get: [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jakob Buchgraber wrote: > So does it only work if no partition of the harddisk is mounted? I can't help you with your problem, but I can say that laptop mode doesn't properly spin down my laptop's hard drive, and my / partition is mounted there when i

Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

Jakob Buchgraber wrote: The drive is mounted (contains the / partition). If no program access the harddisk, this actually shouldn't matter as otherwise the whole concept of laptop-mode etc. is nuts (or I completely misunderstood it :-) ). Some more guesses that are not solutions :-) : Oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with dbus

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Larsson wrote: > I'm having a strange problem with dbus. > If I do an emerge -avDuN world, I get: > [blocks B ] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2 [0.62-r2] USE="X -debug -doc > (-selinux) (-gtk%*) (-mono%) (-python%*) (-qt3%) (-qt4%)" 1,3

Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randy Barlow wrote: > I can't help you with your problem, but I can say that laptop mode > doesn't properly spin down my laptop's hard drive, and my / partition is > mounted there when it does so. OK, I'm an idiot - I meant to say that it DOES properl

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with dbus

On 1/26/07, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Larsson wrote: > I'm having a strange problem with dbus. > If I do an emerge -avDuN world, I get: > [blocks B ] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2 [0.62-r2] USE="X -debug -doc > (-selin

[gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

Running gentoo in a vmware hosted on winxp. I find I cannot install the vmware-tools becasue the install script expects there to be directories with names like rc[0-9] and blows up when they are not found. I stumbled around in the script trying to make it work for gentoo but only succeded in reap

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with dbus

I did the upgrade to dbus-1.0.2 on this box and it crippled gnome. I rebuilt everything and I couldn't get gnome-session to want anything other than libdbus-1.so.2 so X would start and quit. I checked for loose copies of gnome-session and dbus and found nothing out of place. I ended up downgrading

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with dbus

Statux wrote: > I did the upgrade to dbus-1.0.2 on this box and it crippled gnome. I > > Any thoughts? Did you run revdep-rebuild? I found I had to do that after upgrading dbus. Doug -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with dbus

Doug Asherman wrote: > Statux wrote: > >> I did the upgrade to dbus-1.0.2 on this box and it crippled gnome. I >> >> Any thoughts? >> > > Did you run revdep-rebuild? I found I had to do that after upgrading dbus. > > Doug > > > Same here. KDE started but the media manager was not happy

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems with dbus

In , Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oddly, I noticed (via eix) that dbus-1.0.2 was still ~x86 masked but > emerge swore that it was what the rest of the system wanted but > nothing else, that I've found, seems to have required it. I'm > guessing that dbus-1.0.2 isn't g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with dbus

»Q« wrote: > In , > Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Oddly, I noticed (via eix) that dbus-1.0.2 was still ~x86 masked but >> emerge swore that it was what the rest of the system wanted but >> nothing else, that I've found, seems to have required it. I'm >> guessin

Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

On 1/26/07, Jakob Buchgraber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The drive is mounted (contains the / partition). If no program access the harddisk, this actually shouldn't matter as otherwise the whole concept of laptop-mode etc. is nuts (or I completely misunderstood it :-) ). So does it only work if n

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:50, "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote about '[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage': > > My problem is I had to go through the cycle emerge -pvu world add a > > package to package.keyword

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with dbus

On Friday 26 January 2007 00:44, Statux wrote: > I did the upgrade to dbus-1.0.2 on this box and it crippled gnome. I > rebuilt everything and I couldn't get gnome-session to want anything > other than libdbus-1.so.2 so X would start and quit. I checked for loose > copies of gnome-session and dbus

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with dbus

On Friday 26 January 2007 01:28, Dale wrote: > Let me know if revdep-rebuild doesn't return anything.  Maybe I can give > you my list and it will help. Please stop making that kind of silly suggestions. The list of packages you need to remerge is relevant to you and to you alone. It's only releva

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with dbus

revdep-rebuild was run immediately after but gnome-session failed to link with any other version of dbus. I even removed gnome-session and manually checked for loose copies on the system but found nothing. I reinstalled it and it still wasn't happy. update-eix fixed the one issue. I don't usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with dbus

dbus-glib-0.72 was installed alongside dbus-1.0.2 right from the start. Didn't work. On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 03:51 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > gnome-session requires either 0.35 <= dbus < 0.90 OR >= dbus-glib-0.71. The > latter is able to coexist with dbus-1.0.2 so you can have gnome working

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with dbus

Reordered for readability... On Friday 26 January 2007 04:48, Statux wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 19:05 -0600, »Q« wrote: > > I think you need update-eix. dbus-1.0.2 has been stable on x86 since > > 21 January. > > update-eix fixed the one issue. I don't usually run update-eix (though I > did r