Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo x86 to AMD64

2008-08-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 22. August 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > no. > > Why? > > > Easiest way: complete reinstall. > > What about re-building every single package, and re-installing it isn't > a complete -reinstall? > > I can under

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo x86 to AMD64

2008-08-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 24. August 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 22 August 2008 17:48:32 Anthony Metcalf wrote: > >> What about re-building every single package, and re-installing it isn't > >> a complete -reinstall? > >> > >> I can understand that this wouldn't work withou

Re: [gentoo-user] prelink on AMD64 with no "--conserve-memory"

2008-08-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 26. August 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > (I originally posted this on gmane.linux.gentoo.amd64, but even though > GMane authorized me to post there, my posts don't get through. So I'm > reposting it here.) > > Usually, when prelinking a system, it's recommended to use prelink's > "

[gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, I have tried to setup a software Raid1 for root (/), boot, home and var. So far, so good. Support is in kernel. The four ones are assembled: Personalities : [raid1] md3 : active raid1 sda6[0] sdb6[1] 421906944 blocks [2/2] [UU] md2 : active raid1 sda5[0] sdb5[1] 19534912 blocks [

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:54:03 +0200, Xav' wrote: > > You have to know that the kernel isn't able to assemble RAID devices > > together without the use of mdadm. So you have to use an initrd with the > > mdadm binary to use a RAID root ! > > Coul

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, ert256 wrote: > [ 28.08.2008 16:41 ], Volker Armin Hemmann : > > Hi, > > > > I have tried to setup a software Raid1 for root (/), boot, home and var. > > > > So far, so good. Support is in kernel. The four ones are assembled: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 17:30:44 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > thanks, the last thing I want to deal with is an initrd. > > It's initramfs nowadays and that's quite easy to handle. do you have a nice littl

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 17:30:44 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > > thanks, the last thing I want to deal with is an initrd. > > > > It&#

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:41:04 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > From the stuff I read it > > should work - but I always get a root not found panic > > Root device or root fs? it doesn't find /dev/md1 (unknown blo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2008 17:56:37 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > Ben, sorry, my question is OT wrt your message. > > > > Are there indeed good things (I don't mean ruches and flowers) in KDE4 to > > worry about them at all? Reading all those KDE4

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Xav' wrote: > Le Thursday 28 August 2008 20:45:15 Volker Armin Hemmann, vous avez écrit : > > On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:41:04 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > From

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2008 21:03:28 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Thursday 28 August 2008 17:56:37 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > > Ben, sorry, my q

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > It's far from fixed here. Admittedly better than 173.*, but the vast > > majority of work remains to be done: > > What ever happened to all of those folks that said Nvidia is the > superior video vendor? once upon

Re: [gentoo-user] pic use flag

2008-08-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 30. August 2008, Michele Schiavo wrote: > There are some befit to set pic use flag on amd64 ? no don't touch it. If anything needs it, it will override it anyway. pic will make stuff a lot slower.

Re: [gentoo-user] pic use flag

2008-08-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 30. August 2008, Dale wrote: > > Is this one of those 'if you ask you don't know what you are doing' > situations? LOL yes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I > couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for > a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB > available? > > camille ~ # df

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, kashani wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> you have space left, but the inodes are all used up. > >> > >> Typical problem for fs like extX. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:15:03 -0300, Ale wrote: > > I am thinking if i will get better performance mounting /var/tmp/ > > and/or /usr/portage in other partition. > > I use ext2 for each of these, as it is the fastest filesystem and > journallin

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:26:45 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > /tmp and /var/tmp/portage are good candidates for tmpfs. > > /tmp is already on tmpfs, I don't have enough RAM to build OOo > with /var/tmp on tmpfs :

Re: [gentoo-user] migrate from 32 to 64bit...

2008-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 4. September 2008, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > Hi, > > the mainboard on my main workbox needs a replacement (currently still an > athlon-xp based system). So I will go amd64 with that machine. Booting > a 64bit kernel on all the 32bit binaries works fine. What gives me a bit > of a

Re: [gentoo-user] bash: no job control in this shell

2008-09-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Michele Schiavo wrote: > it's only appears on first console (tty1) > > but i think i'm ok with kernel and /dev/ permission > > #ls -alh /dev/tty[0-2] > crw--w 1 root root 4, 0 10 set 19:57 /dev/tty0 > crw--- 1 root root 4, 1 10 set 20:21 /dev/tty1 > crw--

Re: [gentoo-user] bash: no job control in this shell

2008-09-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 10 September 2008 22:02:29 Dale wrote: > > There is a recent thread about the splash not working. It may not be a > > console problem but a splash problem. Something about the splash image > > being moved or something. I don't u

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 14 September 2008, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Erik Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If only 4.1.1 was there... :') > > > > You know, there's an overlay... > > But unfortunately it requires plaudis ... no it does not. kdesvn-portage has ebuilds for:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 14 September 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag, 14. September 2008 19:16:08 schrieb Mariusz Przygodzki: > > But unfortunately it requires plaudis ... > > Why is it unfortunate? because not everybody wants to install that bloated thing - watch it devour config files and be insulte

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 14 September 2008, David Leverton wrote: > On Sunday 14 September 2008 19:28:28 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > because not everybody wants to install that bloated thing > > Not bloated. I am sorry: extremly bloated. > > > watch it devour config files &g

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 14 September 2008, David Leverton wrote: > On Sunday 14 September 2008 21:37:21 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sunday 14 September 2008, David Leverton wrote: > > > On Sunday 14 September 2008 19:28:28 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > because not e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 17 September 2008, David Leverton wrote: > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 22:47:49 »Q« wrote: > > It's not "backwards logic". > > "The Paludis developer posts evidence that the liar is lying, therefore I'm > going to believe the liar" is entirely backwards. since you can't stop and fill

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-09-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann a écrit: > > and in grub.conf I have this: > > title=raid > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/md1 md=1,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 nopat > > Did you tried this : > kernel /vmlinuz

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 17 September 2008, kashani wrote: > Vaeth wrote: > >> Could you please use a mail client which insert correctly the fields > >> "In-Reply-To" ans "Reference" ? > > > > Thanks for the hint, I was not aware of this. But unfortunately, it > > appears that it is not just a question of the

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixergui with gentoo-sources-2.6.26

2008-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 17 September 2008, James wrote: > All, > > I have a weird one here. I have been using alsamixergui for quite some > time without problems on kernel 2.6.24. The other day I upgraded to > 2.6.26 and now every time I try to modify the volume level(s) on > alsamixergui for any one of the d

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixergui with gentoo-sources-2.6.26

2008-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 18 September 2008, James wrote: > Misery loves company, they say. ;) the funny thing: every mixer I try works. Except alsamixergui.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Theoretical] Copy make.conf or Create New Profile

2008-09-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2008 17:32:51 Anthony Metcalf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is a theoretical question, and a very simplified example of > > what I'm thinking, but it serves to get the idea across > > > > Suppose I am planning mu

Re: [gentoo-user] [Theoretical] Copy make.conf or Create New Profile

2008-09-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> You could even set up a mini- trimmed-down sync server. Put your master > >> copies of stuff there, take steps so that

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-09-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann a écrit: > > and in grub.conf I have this: > > title=raid > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/md1 md=1,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 nopat > > Did you tried this : > kernel /vmlinuz

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about difference between emerge --update world and emerge vigra

2008-09-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 25 September 2008, Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hi, > > ~ > Then, revdep-rebuild display like this. > > | [ebuild R ] media-libs/tiff-3.8.2-r5 > | [ebuild R ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.4.3.5 > | [ebuild R ] media-libs/lcms-1.17 > | [ebuild U ] media-libs/vigra-1.6.0 [1.5.0-r1] >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 26 September 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > No, no, no!... I was, is and am going to be on Gentoo. Just want to install > Linux to my friend's PC. I can download installation CD iso (or two), but > the main problem is, that PC during next few months will have dialup > connection (33600) o

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 27 September 2008, jaeyoung lee wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Steven Lembark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gentoo is only net-hungry on the install and on updates.If you can > > > >> do the install before he goes net-free, then your fine, glsa-check > >> should cover yo

Re: [gentoo-user] State of ATi drivers in Linux

2008-09-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 28 September 2008, Hal Martin wrote: > Hello all, > > I am contemplating building a new computer with an AMD/ATi graphics > card. I've been following the subject of ATi driver quality in linux for > a while, but I realize that the experiences I read on Google search > results are, shall w

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-Sources/Vanilla-Sources/Video 4 Linux

2008-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 29 September 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > Hi, i have spent the weekend trying to get my new Hauppage USB tv stick to > work under linux. > > I have been constantly perplexed by references to compilable kernel modules > I couldn't see! I assumed it was because they referred to old modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-Sources/Vanilla-Sources/Video 4 Linux

2008-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 29 September 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > --- On Mon, 29/9/08, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] clausthal.de> wrote: > > From: Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-Sources/Vanilla-Sources/Video 4 Linux > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-Sources/Vanilla-Sources/Video 4 Linux

2008-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 29 September 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > > > > On Monday 29 September 2008, Jon Hardcastle > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, i have spent the weekend trying to get > > > > my new > > > > > > Hauppage USB tv stick to > > > > > > > > > work under linux. > > > > > > > > > > I have been constant

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-Sources/Vanilla-Sources/Video 4 Linux

2008-09-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > > > > Jon Hardcastle wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, i have spent the weekend > > > > trying to get > > > > > > my new > > > > > > > > > > Hauppage USB tv stick to > > > > > > > > > > > > > work under linux. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have been cons

Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-10-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 03 Oktober 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My first install of Gentoo, and I'm pleased by how far I've progressed on > my own, not being a programmer or computer person, but I'm a bit wary of > proceeding further without advice. > > I was trying to emerge some several files which had a

Re: [gentoo-user] Some KDE apps under KDE4 stability

2008-10-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 04 Oktober 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > I have notice KDE 4.1.2 ebuilds were added to the official protage tree > (still masked though). I'm interested in most brave KDE users' opinions wrt > some concrete KDE apps' stability under KDE4 (in order of importance): > > KMail (with

Re: [gentoo-user] Some KDE apps under KDE4 stability

2008-10-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 04 Oktober 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 04 October 2008 17:28:32 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > why compiz? kde 4.1 has rather nice effects build in (which can be > > > turned off easily in systemsettings). > > > > I mean multiple debates about KDE 4 and video-drivers. > > If y

Re: [gentoo-user] Some KDE apps under KDE4 stability

2008-10-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 04 Oktober 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > > for the two above: there are countless plasmoids, just look around. > > As far as I have not KDE 4 installed, I can not look around yet :-) kde-looks.org ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Some KDE apps under KDE4 stability

2008-10-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 04 Oktober 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Konsole (he-he :-) ) > > Works just fine. A few minor things are missing, like having the current > command show in the title bar. well, with 4.1.68 it works (and I am too lazy to check 4.1.2 right now ;) )

Re: [gentoo-user] Some KDE apps under KDE4 stability

2008-10-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 04 Oktober 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > === On Saturday 04 October 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: === > > > > Amarok 2.x (dealing with local files only) > > > > stay with amarok 1.4 > > Do you mean, 1.4 does work under KDE4? sure, as long as you keep 3.5 installed

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord - devname - was burning a dvd+r dl...

2008-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 07 Oktober 2008, KH wrote: > Joerg Schilling schrieb: > > KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> man says: dev=scsibus,target,lun > >> > >> #cdrecord -dao -v -gracetime=3 -dev=5,0,0 dvd.iso > >> > >> so then I only can run this as root. On the other hand there is a > >> Average write speed

Re: [gentoo-user] common user has problem with opengl

2008-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 08 Oktober 2008, 魏亮 wrote: > Hi > I now add this word to my make.conf file,should i re-emerge some package? > I've already re-emerged the nvidia-drivers package,and the problem stayed > still. how about eselect opengl set nvidia?

Re: [gentoo-user] kein Profile

2008-10-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 08 Oktober 2008, Ralf Hinz wrote: > Hallo > > Wollte mein Profile updaten. Leider kein Glück!!! > > eselect profile list > /usr/bin/sed: kann //profiles/profiles.desc nicht lesen: Datei oder > Verzeichnis nicht gefunden > !!! Error: Failed to get a list of valid profiles > Getötet > L

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Продажа квартир.Скидки становятся меньше...

2008-10-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 08 Oktober 2008, Denis wrote: > Um no - it was Russian SPAM. > > The message said "Apartments for Sale!" without being able to read it - the formating and the numbers really made it look like spam.

Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder

2008-10-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Almost perpetually, the following packages or their versions are > blocking. I have run emerge -e system several times. Some other > problems were cleared up, and this > avahi--mDNSResponder/mdnsresponder-compat whatever it all is, just > keeps c

Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder

2008-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 12 October 2008 10:25:51 Andrey Vul wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > On Sunday 12 October 2008 08:04:22 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 15 Oktober 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've had some experience in the past with software (BIOS) RAID. > Obviously there would be a big performance difference with hardware vs > BIOS RAID. Has anyone done any benchmarks to the effect of BIOS vs > linux kernel RAID? yes. go

Re: [gentoo-user] State of ATi drivers in Linux -- IMO, it's horrific...

2008-10-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 16 Oktober 2008, Hal Martin wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sunday 28 September 2008, Hal Martin wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I am contemplating building a new computer with an AMD/ATi graphics > >> card. I've been fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 17 Oktober 2008, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Hi, > > Alan McKinnon schrieb: > > On Wednesday 15 October 2008 15:13:45 Pintér Tibor wrote: > >>> I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought > >>> one with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 20 Oktober 2008, Conway S. Smith wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:54:20 +0200 > > Wolfgang Liebich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > the howtos on gentoo-wiki worked well for me. > > > > I'm working with them, too. Just one question remains: I want to use > > udev. Do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 20 Oktober 2008, Conway S. Smith wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:24:11 +0200 > > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Montag 20 Oktober 2008, Conway S. Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:54:20 +0200 > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Smartd

2008-10-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 23 Oktober 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > Probably not strictly a Gentoo issue, but as i am running Gentoo I'll see > if the collective knowledge here can help me! > > I have a strange problem with my server. All the hard drives go to sleep > after ~3hrs of inactivity. BUT if they happ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd uses fake MAC address

2008-10-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 25 Oktober 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Nick Stinemates wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 02:07:20AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> My router has big problems assigning the correct IPs to Gentoo boxes. If > >> the NIC in the box has a MAC address of, say, 01:00:12:11:41:49:1e,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd uses fake MAC address

2008-10-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 25 Oktober 2008, Nick Stinemates wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:34:36PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 25 Oktober 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > Nick Stinemates wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 02:07:20AM +0300, Nikos

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd uses fake MAC address

2008-10-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 26 Oktober 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 25 Oktober 2008, Nick Stinemates wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:34:36PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> my dhcpd reports the right mac adress (when I try

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg crashes with signal 11, backtrace

2008-10-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 26 Oktober 2008, Strake wrote: look for broken symlinks. Sometimes when you upgrade/deinstall drivers, the symlinks are broken - and eselect fails miserably with broken symlinks. Remove them all, then install the nvidia driver, eselect, check symlinks, try again.

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, I have the same 'problem'. Which portage version are you using?

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 30 Oktober 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 30 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have the same 'problem'. Which portage version are you using? > > I'm using portage-2.2_rc12 on amd64 hardware. same here. Would nice to

Re: [gentoo-user] Burn-in test

2008-11-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 01 November 2008, Andrey Vul wrote: > I just bought a new laptop: > http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=019626&cid=8 >96.645 Which packages should I emerge (and run) as a burn-in test? > Note: I will run the burn-in off either a stock or custom-mastered > Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Burn-in test

2008-11-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 01 November 2008, Andrey Vul wrote: > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Samstag 01 November 2008, Andrey Vul wrote: > >> I just bought a new laptop: > >> http://canadacomputers.com/index.

Re: [gentoo-user] Burn-in test

2008-11-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 01 November 2008, Andrey Vul wrote: > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Samstag 01 November 2008, Andrey Vul wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > >> > >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot my installed gentoo system - Please help

2008-11-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 04 November 2008, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal wrote: > Hi > I am new to Gentoo. My previous experience is with slackware . I > Downloaded the Live CD and installed Gentoo twice .. but the problem is > Grub is not installed. I have a dual boot with Widowz and Grub for dos > ... So I trie

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel BUG

2008-11-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 04 November 2008, David Relson wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:33:09 -0200 > > Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > >> For about a week, my workstation has been crashing every day or so. > > >> Typically it happens late at night while BackupPC is backing up a > > >> hard drive. With "

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot my installed gentoo system - Please help

2008-11-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 04 November 2008, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal wrote: > Thanks & Regards, > "/dev is populated by udev. If you chroot from a livecd, > you need to bind mount dev to your chroots dev first." How do I do this > ...? before you chroot: mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev for example google

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 04 November 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others > amd64. All are gentoo. > > The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version for > x86. I realize it will boot on all my systems. I am hoping that > > 1. I

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2008/11/5 Momesso Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So it is possible to chroot from a 32 to a 64 bit enviroment? And is it > > safe? > > AFAIK chroot from 32 to 64 bit is not possible. you are wrong. You can do it, BUT you need a 64bit kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 05 November 2008 09:44:46 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > 2008/11/5 Momesso Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > So it is possible to chroot from a 32 to a 64 bit enviroment? And is it > > > safe? > > > > AFAIK chroot from 32 to 64 bit is n

Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system

2008-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 05.11.2008, 12:50 +0530 schrieb Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan > > Neomal: > > Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system? > > Yes: /var/db/pkg (/var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS) no, that is just a LIST. . > > > Becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 05 November 2008 18:22:00 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > > 2008/11/5 Momesso Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > So it is possible to chr

Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system

2008-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 05 November 2008 18:26:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > * Use 'qsize' from app-portage/portage-utils to find out package sizes. > > > * Use 'du -sm /* /*/* | sort -n' to take a first p

Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2008 19:08:23 schrieb Denis: > > This probably was already discussed at length... But I keep waiting > > for an automatic portage tree fix to this... Any idea if there will > > be a fix, or will I need to take care of

Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2008 19:08:23 schrieb D

Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system

2008-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 05 November 2008 20:39:54 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Wednesday 05 November 2008 18:26:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > > * Use

Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 06 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch 05 November 2008 23:26:57 schrieb ext KH: > > quickpkg ss com_err > > That doesn't make sense at all. They're the ones you need to get rid of. > > Bye... > > Dirk it is good to have backups - just in case.

Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 06 November 2008, KH wrote: > Alex Schuster schrieb: > > KH writes: > >> To be on the save side of gentoo :-) > >> > >> quickpkg ss com_err e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs > > > > Yeah, that saved me some trouble. > > > >> imho quickpkg is a good idea whenever changing something which ist pa

Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 06 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag 06 November 2008 08:21:26 schrieb ext KH: > > Well that's the point. You want to get rid of them. So you are unmerging > > them. The moment something fails after unmerging and before emerging the > > new packages, you will be ver

Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 06 November 2008, KH wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > > On Donnerstag 06 November 2008, KH wrote: > >> Alex Schuster schrieb: > >>> Or you can put buildyspkg into your FEATURES list in make.conf. Then, > >>> whenever a system p

Re: [gentoo-user] xulrunner-1.8.1.17 fails to emerge - libxul.so.1 error

2008-11-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 10 November 2008, Mick wrote: > This is the first time xulrunner is being pulled in on a box of mine, > probably because I use firefox-bin and OOo-bin on this build. > > Anyway, it failed with this error: > = > -lXrender -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lz -lX11

Re: [gentoo-user] xulrunner-1.8.1.17 fails to emerge - libxul.so.1 error

2008-11-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 10 November 2008, Mick wrote: > 2008/11/10 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Montag 10 November 2008, Mick wrote: > >> This is the first time xulrunner is being pulled in on a box of mine, > >> probably because I use firefox-bin and OOo-bi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated. And I haven't > followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little > baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or > something causing 16 different

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] thanks for the other useful info I've snipped > > > 4) update world with the "ignore blocks" option turned on (don't know > > which that is, since I use paludis). > > a quick grep of man emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] Many thanks for the other useful info I've snipped > > >> [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc > >> ("x11-drivers/xf86-vid

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:31:41 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of > > sudden konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more, but I'm sure > > something e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From the output you gave, I would suggest that you > > > > 1) update portage to the latest (evantually keyword masked) version. This > > should be able to ignore blocks. > > > > 2) Adjust your VIDEO_C

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > On November 12, 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > I had something similar on my first try: > > > > > > kde-4 went into /usr > > > kde-3 went into /usr/kde/3.5 > > > > > > And biz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote: > On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > as root: lspci > > Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own > user as when I run it as root. Or have I got my system

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote: > On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 November 2008, Dirk Uys wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote: > >> On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto > >> > >> <[E

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease > the update of etc files following updates. > > Can anyone say what tools are currently available. cfg-update makes updates REALLY easy and comfortable.

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 15 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 14. November 2008 17:14:03 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > On Freitag 14 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease > > > the up

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 15 November 2008, Mick wrote: > Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my > memory!) > > What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? tar

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