Hi list,
I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a compile,
it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't confirm it's
due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been compiling things each
of the times this has happened.
One thing that might be
On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
I would go with Hammann with
"Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU."
Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how
major an effect it can have on systems. A dodgy PSU in my experience
can do e
On 11/02/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a
> compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't
On 12/02/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I recommend you look into memtest86 to check your ram, it's provided as
a boot option on the gentoo boot cds.
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Dan,
Quite correct
Funnily enough I had an Ubuntu LiveCD to hand with it on, so I used tha
On 12/02/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 12 February 2007, Matt Richards wrote:
> I wouldn't of thought it would be the RAM not from behavior like that
> but it does sound like a overheating issue, I have had computers just
> power off because they get too hot.
The thing
On 12/02/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
If you can read german (or if you know someone who is able to translate it
for
you):
http://hardware.thgweb.de/2007/01/15/stresstest_netzteile_2007/index.html
Luckily, I own the same enermax they tested...
--
F everyone's I, th
Hi list
On 12/02/07, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/02/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> If you can read german (or if you know someone who is able to translate it
for
> you):
>
>
http://hardware.thgweb.de/2007/01/15/stress
Hi Arnaud
On 28/03/07, Arnaud FARINE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I try to compile gcc 4.1 on my gentoo 2.16-r9. During compilation my machine
is stopped.
I doesn't get error message in messages log, emerge log or dmesg...
Strange...Could you know this problem ?
When I compiled I was on
Hi lug
Here's hoping the problem is solved, thanks to all (especially Alex)
for the help.
Jeff.
I have successfully compiled a few things, so it looks like the
problem IS solved. Thanks again where due.
Ignore the following if you don't like minirants.
1. Frankly, I'm not impressed with L
Hi Boyd.
On 28/03/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about 'SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help -
system reboots while compiling)':
> Ignore the fo
Hi Boyd
On 28/03/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about 'Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help -
system reboots while compiling)':
> > >
On 28/03/07, Fabio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey! How about emerging gcc while NOT being in KDE or even X?
That's one solution. If you can't emerge gcc whilst in KDE and/or X11
on recent hardware, however, I'd suggest that's pathological and more
likely to result in storing up more problems f
Hi lugs,
Sorry for the cryptic headline but wanted to keep the suspense; sorry for
crossposting too but this is important!
/Dell has announced it WILL be shipping preinstalled Desktop Linux on certain
machines, desktop and laptop/ - more details will follow later.
Happily, it seems that "[s]u
In the last episode, you wrote:
HH>
HH> In order to not get the deserved re-spammed like now, a few hints you
HH> probably know anyway:
HH> - Stop Cross-Posting. Seriously.
HH> - Stop redefining "importance".
So, preinstalled Linux is not important to you? Mind explaining why?
HH> - Mark OT posts
In the last episode, Richard Cox wrote:
RC> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:43:22AM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote:
RC> > So, preinstalled Linux is not important to you? Mind explaining why?
RC>
RC> I'd have to say its definatly not important to me. As it is, I never use
a 'generi
In the last episode, »Q« wrote:
»Q> In <news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
»Q> Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
»Q>
»Q> > So, preinstalled Linux is not important to you? Mind explaining why?
»Q>
»Q> I'm not the one you asked, but preinstalled Linux isn't im
In the last episode, Neil Bothwick wrote:
NB> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:20:27 -0500, »Q« wrote:
NB>
NB> > > 1) You know that all the hardware works with Linux. If they supply
NB> > > driver for Ubuntu, you can get them for Gentoo (unless Dell do
NB> > > something horrid like using ndiswrapper)
NB> >
N
In the last episode, Jeff Rollin wrote:
JR> Indeed - and that's even assuming you buy from a shop (that you walk
into).
JR> Here in the UK, companies that sell preloaded Linux are as rare as hen's
JR> teeth, and though I can cope with written German, there are linguistic
In the last episode, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
BS>
BS> Personally, I use Kubuntu on my laptop and have never had a reason to
BS> change root's password from the default. Even on my Gentoo desktop, I
use BS> sudo (and my user password) 100x more often than su/login and the
root BS> password.
Hi
Am I the only one seeing a ridiculous amount of borkage in Gentoo this week?
So far I have had gcc, perl, perl-dependent packages, autogen and some other
packages fail on me this week.
Jeff
--
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature canno
In the last episode, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
HV> On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote:
HV> > Hi
HV> >
HV> > Am I the only one seeing a ridiculous amount of borkage in Gentoo this
HV> > week?
HV> yes, you are.
HV>
HV> Have you filed bugs?
No, for t
In the last episode, Jeff Rollin wrote:
JR> In the last episode, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
JR> HV> On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote:
JR> HV> > Am I the only one seeing a ridiculous amount of borkage in Gentoo
this JR> HV> > week?
JR> HV> yes, you ar
Hi all
Somehow when updating the system the file /sbin/depscan.sh has gone missing -
please advise as to how to get it back!
TIA
Jeff
PS I have already run equery belongs /sbin/depscan.sh - no luck.
--
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for natur
Hi Dale
In the last episode, Dale wrote:
Da> Jeff Rollin wrote:
Da> > Hi all
Da> >
Da> > Somehow when updating the system the file /sbin/depscan.sh has gone
missing - Da> > please advise as to how to get it back!
Da>
Da> It is part of baselayout. So emerge -1
Hi again
In the last episode, Jeff Rollin wrote:
JR> Hi Dale
JR>
JR> In the last episode, Dale wrote:
JR> Da> Jeff Rollin wrote:
JR> Da> > Hi all
JR> Da> >
JR> Da> > Somehow when updating the system the file /sbin/depscan.sh has gone
JR> missing - Da&
Hi Mick
In the last episode, Mick wrote:
Mi> On Sunday 01 April 2007 01:04, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Mi> > In the last episode, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Mi> > JR> In the last episode, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
Mi> > JR> HV> On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Mi&
Hi again
In the last episode, Jeff Rollin wrote:
JR> Hi Mick
JR>
JR> In the last episode, Mick wrote:
JR> Mi> If my experience is anything to go by, then there
Mi> may be something wrong with your machine/build.
JR>
JR> Oh joy!
JR>
JR> More likely to be the mach
Hi list
I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make any
sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and that's from
someone who doesn't have any accessibility issues with websites.
Should this be filed as a bug?
Jeff
--
For a successful technology, real
In the last episode, Jeff Rollin wrote:
JR> Hi list
JR>
JR> I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make any
JR> sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and that's from
JR> someone who doesn't have any accessibility issues with
In the last episode, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote:
AG>
AG> Do you mean www.gentoo.org? If yes:
AG>
AG> IMHO this should not be filed as a bug. The colors all over the page are
AG> consistent and the links, which are not exactly purple, are visible.
The colors are consistent, but the links are only vi
Hello Herman
In the last episode, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
HV> On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote:
HV> > Hi list
HV> >
HV> > I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make
any HV> > sense of the links? Purple on black is a really ba
Hi Thomas
In the last episode, Thomas Wouters wrote:
TW> On Sunday 01 April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote:
TW> > Hi list
TW> >
TW> > I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make
any TW> > sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and
On 25/10/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 25/10/06, Richard Fish <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/24/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I have a 320GB hard drive with a small swap partition, a small boot
> partition, and the remainder in the root partition.
On 18/12/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:37:10PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:58:26 -0800, Grant wrote:
>
> It may, but you are confusing cause and effect. A distro with more
> developers should be a better distro, and should have m
On 20/12/06, Andrey Gerasimenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:23:25 +0300, Colleen Beamer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I, for one, would be devastated without Gentoo!
>
I looked deep into myself and found that possibly it is fear that drives
this thread. Am I no
On 19/12/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:18:19 +, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> On 18/12/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > It may, but you are confusing cause and effect. A distro with more
> > > developers should be
On 20/12/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/20/06, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I understand that every package is out there in some repository on the
> > web. I think Neil has pointed me toward it once or twice at least. The
> > problem is for a user ty
Hi all
A discussion on the staff blogs over at OSNews about the Linux desktop
got me thinking. Thom and Eugenia seem to think that "the linux
desktop peaked in 2001-2004", but I don't remember the hype around
Ubuntu starting till well after that. Their argument seemed to be that
because GNOME is
On 21/12/06, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The risk that the user might nuke the partitions containing Windows is
always there regardless of what distro you use. You still make the same
decisions, fdisk, cfdisk and gparted are still there. Whether you click
here, click OK then say "oo
On 21/12/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
All things considered, Mandrake is easier to install than windoze any
day. You think about it, you set up the drives, select ALL the software
you can fit and hit the install button. How easy is that? You only
have to reboot once too. I counted si
On 21/12/06, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > All things considered, Mandrake is easier to install than
> windoze any
> > day. You think about it, you set up the drives, select ALL
> the software
> > you can fit and hit the install button. How easy is that? You only
>
On 21/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Whats going on...?
No has slipped something deadly into portage or otherwise caused
upgrade world calamity.
After about 1 mnth, I just did -uD world and had no problems during or
after the update. And revdep-rebuild also came up clean.
On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with
worrying about Postfix, but has quickly escalated.
I was trying to figure out what Postfix knows and where it knows it when
I found that I seem to have no domain name
On 22/12/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:10:58 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> I'm starting to wonder if you missed this mail on the subject:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/175964/focus=176095
Possibly, I'm still missing mails from Gen
It is a known problem, discussed in its own bug and on gentoo-dev. A lot of
people (like me), don't get all the mails sent to gentoo-[user,dev,amd64...].
For some unknown reasons that mails are dropped and never delivered. And no,
the spam filters are not part of the problem.
--
OK, sorry.
Jef
Hi.
On 28/03/06, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey all.I have a question for any VMWare Linux users. My greatest concern, isWindows being installed and run on top of Linux. When Windows is
'virtually' up and running, does it work as normal? AKA, does it detectdevices and what not, enabling print
For best performance, you should have enough memory to run a VM with at
least 128MB RAM, plus 128MB+ for the host OS (assuming you are not
running anything else particularly memory-hungry).On 28/03/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi.
On 28/03/06, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Daevid,What reason do you have for not wanting to upgrade to R7, if I may ask? For me it's because it's masked, but I see you already use the ~x86 tree for some packages. Once it's stable it should be fine, though. Yeah, it's a nitpick, but the biggest change I don't like to X was made several rele
Works fine on mine; what are your USE flags?On 30/04/06, wu chuanwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi! Everybody!I think most of us are
using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my machine,if i open 6
or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not
scroll up and down.Many pepl
I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS="-O3", specifically in firefox 1.5.0.2On 30/04/06,
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
wu chuanwen wrote:>>> 2006/4/30, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAI
Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed of Gentoo till I added USE="-DG_DISABLE_DEBUG"On 30/04/06, Jeff Rollin <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS="-O3",
Alexander,
DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them smaller (and faster)
Jeff. On 30/04/06, Alexander Skwar <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jeff Rollin wrote:> I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any> trouble with CFLA
I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too-- --Argument against Linux number 6,033:
"...So
this is like most Linux viruses. You have to download the virus
yourself, become
whoops! my badOn 30/04/06, David Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 21:11 Sun 30 Apr , Jeff Rollin wrote:> I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it> improves the speed of KDE applications too"Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why p
Hmm,Unfortunately it's so long ago that I don't remember where I saw it. Anyway, works for me.Jeff.On 01/05/06, Ryan Tandy <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Farhan Ahmed wrote:> Jeff Rollin wrote:>
>> I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. A
Hi.
I'm trying to set GDM up so that it provides logins to machines logging
in over the network. I have set everything up as per the Gentoo XDMCP
howto Guide, and can start X by typing "X -broadcast :1" on the
server on which GDM is running, but other hosts cannot access it.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
On 01/05/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi.
I'm trying to set GDM up so that it provides logins to machines logging
in over the network. I have set everything up as per the Gentoo XDMCP
howto Guide, and can start X by typing "X -broadcast :1" on the
server on
On 01/05/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 01/05/06, Jeff Rollin <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi.
I'm trying to set GDM up so that it provides logins to machines logging
in over the network. I have set everything up as per the Gentoo XDMCP
howto Guide, and can sta
On 01/05/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 01/05/06, Jeff Rollin <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 01/05/06, Jeff Rollin <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi.
I'm trying to set GDM up so that it provides logins to machines logging
in over the network. I have set e
>> 1) do you prefer a console, a GUI, or both?
I would like to suggest a GUI, ncurses (console) functionality, and
also commandline functionality (a la cfdisk/fdisk/sfdisk, but rolled
into one)
Jeff.
don't cut it. FWIW the other day I need to do some "resurrection" work involving LVM and it would have taken a quarter of the time if I'd just been more careful ;-)
Jeff Rollin-- Proud Linux user since 1998
On 07/09/06, A. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Up until now, to remedy this when I want to attempt to use one of these> packages, I simply edit the ebuild, regenerate the digest, and do the> installation. I feel sure there is an easier way around this - I've
> read somewhere of being able to tell
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" makes the system pull in masked packages (rather than unmasked ones) by default.
Jeff Rollin-- Proud Linux user since 1998
ning anyway. "minimal" USEflag enabled globally and a "emerge -vuDN world" could bedesastrous. xDD.Just to stop another potential misunderstanding: "pretender" in Spanish = "to aim to" in English. "pretend" in English is "fingir" in Spanish!
Jeff Rollin
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