Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: emerge is along the same lines. make menuconfig is the limits of my expertise. I remember RPM hell with Redhat linux, trying to find an RPM package for a program I wanted, where the developer hadn't linked it against a bunch of stuff I didn't have. I can take a text-only basic system, emerge gimp, and emerge will pull in and build, in the right order, all the necessary X libraries, GTK, etc, etc. I end up with a functional TWM desktop. emerge bbkeys emerges blackbox key-controls... after first emerging blackbox. Try doing that with RPMs. What makes you think that you can't do that with RPMs now? Seven years ago they were a nightmare but things have moved on since then. The same goes for deb files (can't think of any other major ones off the top of my head). Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman wont start
Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: mailman # /etc/init.d/mailman start * Starting mailman ... [ !! ] Obliviously something did not went as plan, but I can't seem to find anything in the log files (/var/log/mail.*). Am I looking the wrong place? If not where should I look? Try /usr/local/mailman/logs - HTH! No nothing there! -- Regards / Venlig hilsen Johannes Skov Frandsen *Address:* Egelundsvej 18, DK-5260 Odense S *Web:* www.omesc.com | *Email:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
On 7/5/07, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
emerge is along the same lines. make menuconfig is the limits of my
expertise. I remember RPM hell with Redhat linux, trying to find an
RPM package for a program I wanted, where the developer hadn't linked it
against a bunch of stuff I didn't have. I can take a text-only basic
system, emerge gimp, and emerge will pull in and build, in the right
order, all the necessary X libraries, GTK, etc, etc. I end up with a
functional TWM desktop. emerge bbkeys emerges blackbox
key-controls... after first emerging blackbox. Try doing that with
RPMs.
What makes you think that you can't do that with RPMs now? Seven years
ago they were a nightmare but things have moved on since then. The same
goes for deb files (can't think of any other major ones off the top of
my head).
Paul
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* Binary Dependency
* No USE
* Binary Dependency Breaks = No solution other than choose which of
the 2 programs you want to lose.
* Forceful ignorance of binary dependencies triggers stupid stuff like
spontaneous removal of all of libc.
( i think thats the sort of headaches he was referring to with rpm-hell )
Conclusion on binary based distros:
wait for upstream to fix.
Conclusion on source based distros:
you can fix it yourself, and today.
I'd rather be able to have breakages I can work around ;)
So not only is gentoo healthy, imo, its a very healthy test-bed for
the whole world of OSS.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:40:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Try doing that with RPMs. Generally, works fine with YUM. I expect that yum and portage are about the same, and end result differences on dependencies are more due redhat/ fedora using multiple repo's for liability/policy reasons, not due to the superiority of portage over yum. My two cents. -Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1
csütörtök 05 július 2007 03.04 dátummal Rumen Yotov ezt írta: On (04/07/07 15:26) Stefán István wrote: Hello! I got the following error: * Failed Running automake ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/temp/automake-24490.out !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1615: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 752: Called qa_call 'src_unpack' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_unpack gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1.ebuild, line 97: Called eautoreconf autotools.eclass, line 97: Called eautomake autotools.eclass, line 194: Called autotools_run_tool 'automake' '--add-missing' '--copy' autotools.eclass, line 218: Called die !!! Failed Running automake ! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/temp/build.log'. What should I do to avoid this problem? Thanks for the help in advance, István -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Hi, Try re-emerging 'libtool' or gnome-vfs a second time (sometimes helps). Also check/search in b.g.o. HTH. Rumen Hello! Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't solve the problem. Istvan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1 - SOLVED
szerda 04 július 2007 15.26 dátummal Stefán István ezt írta: Hello! I got the following error: * Failed Running automake ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/temp/automake-24490.out !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1615: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 752: Called qa_call 'src_unpack' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_unpack gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1.ebuild, line 97: Called eautoreconf autotools.eclass, line 97: Called eautomake autotools.eclass, line 194: Called autotools_run_tool 'automake' '--add-missing' '--copy' autotools.eclass, line 218: Called die !!! Failed Running automake ! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1/temp/build.log'. I've emerged automake-1.9.6-r2 and that solved the problem. But I think that maybe it is a bug in the portage. This package (gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1) should be dependent from automake-1.9.6-r2. Regards, Istvan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: problem emerging gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1 - SOLVED
Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think that maybe it is a bug in the portage. This package (gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.16.3-r1) should be dependent from automake-1.9.6-r2. If you think so, go to bugzilla and check, if that issue has been filed already. If not, go ahead and create a bug entry. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman wont start
Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: mailman # /etc/init.d/mailman start * Starting mailman ... [ !! ] Obliviously something did not went as plan, but I can't seem to find anything in the log files (/var/log/mail.*). Am I looking the wrong place? If not where should I look? Try /usr/local/mailman/logs - HTH! No nothing there! I finally found the error log. I have included it with this post. It seems to me that there is two errors, but is one causing the other or are they independent? Any hints on how to fix the issues? -- Regards / Venlig hilsen Johannes Skov Frandsen *Address:* Egelundsvej 18, DK-5260 Odense S *Web:* www.omesc.com | *Email:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 29 09:41:23 2007 mailmanctl(25698): Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 09:41:23 2007 (25698) Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 09:51:41 2007 mailmanctl(25837): Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 09:51:41 2007 (25837) Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 11:00:03 2007 mailmanctl(28982): Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 11:00:03 2007 (28982) Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 11:43:53 2007 mailmanctl(4930): Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 11:43:53 2007 (4930) Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 12:31:36 2007 mailmanctl(22150): Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 12:31:36 2007 (22150) Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 12:37:33 2007 mailmanctl(22301): Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 12:37:33 2007 (22301) Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 15:48:54 2007 mailmanctl(5278): Site list is missing: mailman Jun 29 15:48:54 2007 (5278) Site list is missing: mailman Jun 30 11:09:14 2007 mailmanctl(5244): Site list is missing: mailman Jun 30 11:09:14 2007 (5244) Site list is missing: mailman Jun 30 11:13:29 2007 mailmanctl(5240): Site list is missing: mailman Jun 30 11:13:29 2007 (5240) Site list is missing: mailman Jun 30 11:16:20 2007 mailmanctl(5240): Site list is missing: mailman Jun 30 11:16:20 2007 (5240) Site list is missing: mailman Jul 01 05:00:01 2007 (14760) Site list is missing: mailman Jul 05 09:57:32 2007 admin(13454): admin(13454): [- Mailman Version: 2.1.9 -] admin(13454): [- Traceback --] admin(13454): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(13454): File /usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver, line 101, in run_main admin(13454): main() admin(13454): File /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py, line 56, in main admin(13454): process_request(doc, cgidata) admin(13454): File /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py, line 190, in process_request admin(13454): mlist.Create(listname, owner, pw, langs, emailhost) admin(13454): File /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py, line 493, in Create admin(13454): self.InitVars(name, admin, crypted_password) admin(13454): File /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py, line 404, in InitVars admin(13454): baseclass.InitVars(self) admin(13454): File /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py, line 96, in InitVars admin(13454): os.mkdir(self.archive_dir()+'.mbox', 02775) admin(13454): OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/brutus.mbox' admin(13454): [- Python Information -] admin(13454): sys.version = 2.4.4 (#1, May 24 2007, 14:36:53) [GCC 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)] admin(13454): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(13454): sys.prefix = /usr admin(13454): sys.exec_prefix = /usr admin(13454): sys.path= /usr admin(13454): sys.platform= linux2 admin(13454): [- Environment Variables -] admin(13454): HTTP_COOKIE: PHPSESSID=77d2314c92e9a2102ffb3d89f33f7c6b admin(13454): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache admin(13454): SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/create admin(13454): SERVER_SIGNATURE: addressApache Server at www.omesc.com Port 80/address admin(13454): admin(13454): REQUEST_METHOD: POST admin(13454): HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE: 300 admin(13454): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 admin(13454): QUERY_STRING: admin(13454): CONTENT_LENGTH: 151 admin(13454): HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 admin(13454): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/2.0.0.4 admin(13454): HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive admin(13454): HTTP_REFERER: http://www.omesc.com/mailman/create admin(13454): SERVER_NAME: www.omesc.com admin(13454): REMOTE_ADDR: 85.218.191.254 admin(13454): SERVER_PORT: 80 admin(13454): SERVER_ADDR: 195.41.139.234 admin(13454): DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/omc/htdocs/ admin(13454): PYTHONPATH: /usr/local/mailman admin(13454): SCRIPT_FILENAME: /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/create admin(13454): SERVER_ADMIN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin(13454): HTTP_HOST: www.omesc.com admin(13454): REQUEST_URI: /mailman/create admin(13454): HTTP_ACCEPT:
[gentoo-user] Re: Beryl, kde and updating
Novensiles divi Flamen schrieb: Since syncing the night before last beryl is no longer diplaying properly. I get the desktop, I get the cube, and I get window decorations on programs. But most programs display absolutely nothing inside the window decorations, and a few other programs (ie kppp) show a solid box but no buttons or input visible. Anyone else having similar issues? Have a look in your elog files of your last update. I got a similiar problem a few weeks before. I had to reemerge one programm (can't remember which) to get beryl working properly. The program was metioned in the elog files. Hope it helps. Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am sure to target the right kernel image with no typo into grub.conf . This new kernel is a =xen-sources-2.6.16.49, and I configured it making an oldconfig based on current =gentoo-sources-2.6.20 running kernel. So, errors cannot come from drivers or such things, but specific xen options. Does anyone know any xen option able to prevent the kernel to boot up ? Many thanks for your support, Gal' 2007/7/4, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 21:54 +0200, Galevsky wrote: ... the matter is Grub falls back to previous 2.6.20 kernel. So I have no log at all about what went wrong during the dom0_2.6.18 boot. Any idea to know what went wrong ? Nevertheless, if you want to actually know what the error is then you should disable the fallback. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] Storing ssh and gpg keys in USB flash drives
Hi there, I would like to store my ssh and gpg keys in my usb flash drive, but I'm not sure what's the best way to do it: If I use vfat so I can also read them from Windows I have two problems: first you must mount your USB key with a 0077 umask, so ssh and gpg doesn't complain about key permissions; latest KDE version seems to auto mount USB flash drives using pmount with a 0022 umask and I haven't been able to change this, so I either mount it manually or change the permissions after being mounted. The second problem is related to gpg: it seems that gpg uses links to lock the keyrings, and vfat doesn't support them, so I'm able to read keys, but not to make any modfication on them. If I use ext2 the permission problem goes away (kind of), but I have the feeling that this isn't as portable as vfat, as the filesystem uses the user id to control access to files, and pluging the drive in another system where my user may have anoter uid leads me to chowning/chmoding in the better case or not having access to my keys in the worst case. Any ideas? Best regards Jose
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:37:14 + (UTC) Thufir wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:40:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Try doing that with RPMs. Generally, works fine with YUM. I expect that yum and portage are about the same, and end result differences on dependencies are more due redhat/ fedora using multiple repo's for liability/policy reasons, not due to the superiority of portage over yum. My two cents. -Thufir Mandrake/Mandriva has urpmi which handles RPM dependencies. Several times I've updated from one Mandriva release to the next by downloading the new release's package list then running urpmi --auto-select. Once the many packages are downloaded, the upgrade goes very well. I used YUM for a while and it worked fine, though its dependency resolving was much slower than urpmi. Gentoo with portage makes it easier to stay up-to-date with the latest and greatest. The existence of /etc/portage/package.* provides lots of power to customize but adds a significant level of complexity. urpmi and YUM are easier to use as both lack the customizability and the associated complexity. Just my $0.02. David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beryl, kde and updating
Thanks for the tip. Turns out it was the newer i810 video driver, which also breaks dual monitor output. I downgraded back to 1.7.4 and normal operation is resumed. Would this be considered a reportable bug in the video driver? - Noven On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:24:02 Marc Blumentritt wrote: Novensiles divi Flamen schrieb: Since syncing the night before last beryl is no longer diplaying properly. I get the desktop, I get the cube, and I get window decorations on programs. But most programs display absolutely nothing inside the window decorations, and a few other programs (ie kppp) show a solid box but no buttons or input visible. Anyone else having similar issues? Have a look in your elog files of your last update. I got a similiar problem a few weeks before. I had to reemerge one programm (can't remember which) to get beryl working properly. The program was metioned in the elog files. Hope it helps. Marc -- -- Novensiles divi Flamen -- Miles Militis Fons -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] about grub
Hi On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? and I install another kernel , Then write the file menu.lst at /boot/grub/menu.lst, But Grub DON`T read it when booting,Why?? anybody help me? thanks!! -- == I'm sorry for my poor english!!!
Re: [gentoo-user] about grub
On Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007, sain yan wrote: Hi On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? and I install another kernel , Then write the file menu.lst at /boot/grub/menu.lst, But Grub DON`T read it when booting,Why?? anybody help me? thanks!! forget /etc/menu.lst forget /boot/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst is deprecated - and a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf are you sure that grub is not reading grub.conf in /boot/grub? Is the boot - . symlink in /boot? Are you sure that your settings are correct? Correct harddrive? Correct partition? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] about grub
Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dominik Żyła: Hi, [14:01] concubine:~ $ ll /boot/grub/menu.lst lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 gru 14 2005 /boot/grub/menu.lst - grub.conf [14:01] concubine:~ $ So what? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] about grub
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 07:51:10PM +0800, sain yan wrote: On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? The file you want is stored as: /boot/grub/grub.conf on Gentoo systems. You need to edit that file in order to make any changes and grub will read them correctly at the next reboot (you don't need to run any commands as you do with lilo). Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] about grub
Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dominik Żyła: 2007/7/5, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dominik Żyła: Hi, [14:01] concubine:~ $ ll /boot/grub/menu.lst lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 gru 14 2005 /boot/grub/menu.lst - grub.conf [14:01] concubine:~ $ So what? So, it`s exactly what Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote above your post. Yes, but I don't think it's the cause of the problem. And, according to grub's man page, is also (partly) wrong: --config-file=FILE specify stage2 config_file [default=/boot/grub/menu.lst] (or is the man/info/--help out of date?) As I wrote in my first answer to this thread (which somehow didn't make it to the list, yet), the problem is (IMHO) with /boot not beeing mounted at all. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time
What I do is maintain two xorg.conf files: xorg.conf.home xorg.conf.work. Hm... that's what I wanted to avoid, since it's usually a PITA to maintain multiple instances of a config (I'm already doing this with sendmail...). Then I do not start X during startup. Instead I log into the console and run one of two scripts: x-home or x-work, which simply copies the corresponding xorg.conf.* file to xorg.conf then starts xdm. Yes, that's pretty close to what I'm doing right at the moment. But I would really like to automate this process - that's why I woul really like to be able to acquire the EDID or something similar (model specs or just a unique binary value) at boot time, so I can invoke an appropriate script during system init. *sigh* ... I guess I'll have to post to the unfriendly nVnews forums again. Regards, Aleks pgpME7lQP4Wxh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
Thufir wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:40:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Try doing that with RPMs. Generally, works fine with YUM. I expect that yum and portage are about the same, and end result differences on dependencies are more due redhat/ fedora using multiple repo's for liability/policy reasons, not due to the superiority of portage over yum. My two cents. -Thufir Admittedly, I haven't used any other distro but Gentoo since I made the transition in 2004, but yum wasn't perfect. I guess my complaint with yum was more on the lines of what was said above regarding the repo's. IIRC, there were many instances where I needed something in order to install something else and then, the package was not in the repo. At least with Gentoo, if there is some error on install, I can either unmask a package to solve something or wait a short period of time, till the issue is fixed, and fixed it *will be*. I don't have to go hunting for a needle in a haystack to find the repo that has what I need. But as I said, I haven't used yum in 3 years, so things may be different now. I still am not going to give up Gentoo - it's the best distro around, as far as I'm concerned. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] about grub
2007/7/5, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dominik Żyła: Hi, [14:01] concubine:~ $ ll /boot/grub/menu.lst lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 gru 14 2005 /boot/grub/menu.lst - grub.conf [14:01] concubine:~ $ So what? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net So, it`s exactly what Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote above your post.
Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time
Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: I would really like to automate this process - that's why I woul really like to be able to acquire the EDID or something similar (model specs or just a unique binary value) at boot time, so I can invoke an appropriate script during system init. $ eix edid * x11-misc/read-edid Available : 1.4.1 ~1.4.1-r1 Description : program that can get information from a pnp monitor. Now pray that this works before having started X. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:37:02 +0200, Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: Yes, that's pretty close to what I'm doing right at the moment. But I would really like to automate this process - that's why I woul really like to be able to acquire the EDID or something similar (model specs or just a unique binary value) at boot time, so I can invoke an appropriate script during system init. What about x11-misc/read-edid? -- Neil Bothwick I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.21 and sundance.ko problems.
2007/7/4, Dominik Żyła [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2007/7/4, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dominik Żyła wrote: Hi, I have 4 port D-Link DFE-580TX NIC and running Gentoo with 2.6.21 kernel. When I load sundance.ko there is no interfaces available in my `ifconfig -a` output. Besides, all 4 interfaces are listed in `lspci` output. Have anyone had such a problem? Send the output of dmesg right after modprobind sundance. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica ¿Su empresa consume demasiado ancho de banda? ¡Consulteme! Free (as in Freedom) Punk Rock from Argentina: http://www.futurabanda.com.ar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGi53MAlpOsGhXcE0RCmUQAJ0UkXAg6PhxOBQnBnPq4YedhXQnEwCfabsi NEAXafefBEMbPkJIeOSDvOY= =Tq9i -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I`ve got only this output: sundance.c:v1.2 11-Sep-2006 Written by Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:04.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 18 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:05.0[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 19 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:06.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 20 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:07.0[A] - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 21 This is my lspci output: 02:04.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 15) 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 15) 02:06.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 15) 02:07.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 15) So, any ideas?
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.21 and sundance.ko problems.
Hi, On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:08:42 +0200 Dominik Żyła [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 4 port D-Link DFE-580TX NIC and running Gentoo with 2.6.21 kernel. When I load sundance.ko there is no interfaces available in my `ifconfig -a` output. Besides, all 4 interfaces are listed in `lspci` output. Have anyone had such a problem? That's a sundance.ko compiled against your current kernel, right? dmesg output on loading sundance? Are all dependencies met? Tried compiling it into the kernel? Maybe play with transceiver support (MII and stuff)... -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
On 7/5/07, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: emerge is along the same lines. make menuconfig is the limits of my expertise. I remember RPM hell with Redhat linux, trying to find an RPM package for a program I wanted, where the developer hadn't linked it against a bunch of stuff I didn't have. I can take a text-only basic system, emerge gimp, and emerge will pull in and build, in the right order, all the necessary X libraries, GTK, etc, etc. I end up with a functional TWM desktop. emerge bbkeys emerges blackbox key-controls... after first emerging blackbox. Try doing that with RPMs. What makes you think that you can't do that with RPMs now? Seven years ago they were a nightmare but things have moved on since then. The same goes for deb files (can't think of any other major ones off the top of my head). Paul Well, in the world of audio RPMs anyway the problem always was that different audio apps used different versions of libraries. Last time I used Fedora (maybe 3-4 years ago now) none of the RPM managers would automatically go find all the right libraries for some odd audio app I wanted to try out, and then even if they did if I decided to take the app off my system there wasn't a good way to clean up after the fact. Beyond that I never had a major Fedora upgrade go cleanly. My Gentoo machines are now multi-years old and they just update each week or two as new revisions come out. I'm sure things are much better today but I still hear folks complain about this sort of this on the pro-audio lists once in awhile. I couldn't have written a better description of my use of Gentoo than Walter did. I'm pretty much exactly the same sort of user. Gentoo works great for me. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 02:09:43 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: David Relson wrote: Why is emerge giving me 2.9.2 rather than the newer 2.10.0_rc1 ??? try emerge -upv claws-mail If you omit -u (means --upgrade), you will re-emerge currently installed version. -u means direct deps will be updated too and that the target (in this case claws-mail) won't be remerged unless there's an upgrade (or downgrade). Without -u it still merges the latest visible version of the target itself.. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] usb mp3 player can't be mounted
maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I posted earlier on this subject but scored no hits. I've been poking around on the Web for answers but so far without luck. When I plug the player into port and $dmesg, this comes up: SNIP Why won't it assign a drive, like /dev/sda? It does on another machine with virtually the same setup. Nothing shows up in udevinfo, cat /proc/partitions. but, #lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04e8:9826 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd and $cat /proc/bus/usb/devices snip S: Manufacturer=NewTech Inc S: Product=USB Mass Storage Device 2.0 snip I tried making the node manually(assuming /dev/sda) #mknod /dev/sda b 8 0 but attempts to mount the device return /dev/sda is not a valid block device What am I missing? Maxim In the other post you mentioned that the kernel configs of those two machines are, concerning USB settings, the same. But how about SCSI disk support? It seems to be needed for USB storage, or at least its help text in menuconfig says so... :) Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:36 +0200, Galevsky wrote: Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am sure to target the right kernel image with no typo into grub.conf . This new kernel is a =xen-sources-2.6.16.49, and I configured it making an oldconfig based on current =gentoo-sources-2.6.20 running kernel. So, errors cannot come from drivers or such things, but specific xen options. Does anyone know any xen option able to prevent the kernel to boot up ? I guess I (still) don't understand what your issue is. So I went back and read your original post. Maybe I misunderstood it. * What do you mean by remote host? * If your box does not boot how would you expect to see a boot.log or dmesg? They don't exist if the system has not booted. In fact does not boot implies that you can't even log in to check for dmesg or boot logs. Perhaps you can explain what it is exactly you mean by does not boot. * Usually there is an error message on the console if there is a boot loader/kernel issue with booting. * Also you never posted your grub.conf. So hopefully you can come up with a specific explanation of does not boot as well as your config and any console messages you get. Else this becomes a blind leading the blind issue. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb mp3 player can't be mounted
on Thursday 07/05/2007 Michael Niggli([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I posted earlier on this subject but scored no hits. I've been poking around on the Web for answers but so far without luck. When I plug the player into port and $dmesg, this comes up: SNIP Why won't it assign a drive, like /dev/sda? It does on another machine with virtually the same setup. Nothing shows up in udevinfo, cat /proc/partitions. but, #lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04e8:9826 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd and $cat /proc/bus/usb/devices snip S: Manufacturer=NewTech Inc S: Product=USB Mass Storage Device 2.0 snip I tried making the node manually(assuming /dev/sda) #mknod /dev/sda b 8 0 but attempts to mount the device return /dev/sda is not a valid block device What am I missing? Maxim In the other post you mentioned that the kernel configs of those two machines are, concerning USB settings, the same. But how about SCSI disk support? It seems to be needed for USB storage, or at least its help text in menuconfig says so... :) There is also another config which I found very helpful -- for at least recognizing a card reader which is not in the default config and that is # Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs # CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y Hope this helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
2007/7/5, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:36 +0200, Galevsky wrote: Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am sure to target the right kernel image with no typo into grub.conf . This new kernel is a =xen-sources-2.6.16.49, and I configured it making an oldconfig based on current =gentoo-sources-2.6.20 running kernel. So, errors cannot come from drivers or such things, but specific xen options. Does anyone know any xen option able to prevent the kernel to boot up ? I guess I (still) don't understand what your issue is. So I went back and read your original post. Maybe I misunderstood it. * What do you mean by remote host? I rent a dedicated host. Thus, I have no physical access to the machine. And the reason why I used the fall-back feature into grub is to avoid the use of a boring rescue system (via a web interface) to take back the control of a not-responding box. * If your box does not boot how would you expect to see a boot.log or dmesg ? They don't exist if the system has not booted. In fact does not boot implies that you can't even log in to check for dmesg or boot logs. Perhaps you can explain what it is exactly you mean by does not boot. When I try to boot on the new kernel, I set it as the default one in grub.conf and reboot the box. And I wait for a few minutes. Then I try to log on, praying to find the box responding. First, with grub fall-back activated, the boot had fallen back and I was able to read the logs that contained the running kernel logs, but no info about the kernel boot that failed. That was the matter of my first mail: how to read the reasons of the first kernel-boot-attempt failure. Secondly, you advised me to turn fall back off. I do. The box is no more responding after reboot, and I have to launch the rescue system to log on my box, and read the /var/log/*. I thought previously that some pb happened -I didn't know when exactly-... and was waiting for more info in log files. But files were empty. So, I conclude that the boot procedure failed (and you too ;o)). Finally, I have to find out why my kernel is not booting. I tuned up well my previous kernel, a gentoo-sources-2.6.20 -this kernel runs currently my box very well- and the kernel I want to boot now is a xen-sources-2.6.16. I made an oldconfig on /proc/config.gz of the 2.6.20 running kernel, and fill in xen-dom0 specific options as indicated on the wiki tutorial [1]. So, I guess I did something wrong with the dom0 xen config, and asked for advice on xen specific options with my second post. * Usually there is an error message on the console if there is a boot loader/kernel issue with booting. * Also you never posted your grub.conf. So hopefully you can come up with a specific explanation of does not boot as well as your config and any console messages you get. Else this becomes a blind leading the blind issue. I have no console message to provide you, I just know that my remote box is not responding when I try to boot another kernel (If you know the way to get logs, I'll be grateful :o)). And I checked the /var/log/* to be sure that the kernel was not running but just missing any network feature so that I could not log on the box despite the kernel was actually running. As for my grub.conf + 'ls -l /boot' , I will provide you in a while (I need to go home before), but I am not sure it is relevant. (just to check for typo I guess). -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Many thanks to take care of my problem :o) Gal' [1]: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: -u means direct deps will be updated too and that the target (in this case claws-mail) won't be remerged unless there's an upgrade (or downgrade). Without -u it still merges the latest visible version of the target itself.. - From man emerge: --update (-u) Updates packages to the best version available, which may not always be the highest version number due to masking for testing and development. This will also update direct dependencies which may not be what you want. Package atoms specified on the command line are greedy, meaning that unspecific atoms may match multiple installed versions of slot-ted packages. You can use --nodeps, too, so you only update the specific package, with no deps. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica ¿Su empresa consume demasiado ancho de banda? ¡Consulteme! Free (as in Freedom) Punk Rock from Argentina: http://www.futurabanda.com.ar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGjTN+AlpOsGhXcE0RCjRhAJ4uEPcB6MLr15IT33hWjLYyT0OAYQCePm/8 JWP+42psKO+HrL+dj24GXEM= =dZ6R -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] about grub
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:51:10 +0800 sain yan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? and I install another kernel , Then write the file menu.lst at /boot/grub/menu.lst, But Grub DON`T read it when booting,Why?? anybody help me? thanks!! I had a similar issue. My boot partition contained a /boot/grub/menu.lst with the option: title Gentoo-2.6.20.r8 on /dev/sdb2 - hd1,1 root(hd1,1) kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/sdb6 but changes to /boot/bzImage-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 seem to have no effect. The cause was the value for root ( (hd1,1) ) which pointed to a different partition than the partition mounted as / and which held /boot. I had to mount hd1,1 which was /dev/sdb2 as /mnt/sdb2 and sure enough in /mnt/sdb2/boot I found the image that was run at boot time. I really need to tidy up my partitions! -- # ##### ## /###### /# / / ##### // /### ## / / ## ## ## ## ## /### ## ## ## ## ## / ### / ##### / ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] /### ## / / ###/ ## ###/ ## mobile: 07972184336 / ### ## / #### ## ## ## ## ##/ #### ## ## ## ## ## #### ## ## ## ## ## #### ## ## ## ## ## ##/# ## /# ## ## ##/ ## ##/ ## ### / ## ## ## ### ## # ## ##/ ### # / ###/ #/ ### Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] about grub
On 7/5/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] As I wrote in my first answer to this thread (which somehow didn't make it to the list, yet), the problem is (IMHO) with /boot not beeing mounted at all. Yes, if you followed the Gentoo install instructions closely /boot is not mounted during normal operation, so if you install a new kernel it will write /boot/grub/grub.conf (or /boot/grub/menu.lst) to your root partition, not your boot partition. Grub is instructed to use (hd0,0) or whatever your particular boot partition is, so it's not going to see the /boot directory on your root partition - mount /boot and re-install the new kernel version and it'll probably boot fine. Then you can clean up the version of /boot that's on your root partition (verify that /boot is not mounted first!). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail
On Thursday 05 July 2007 20:07:58 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -u means direct deps will be updated too and that the target (in this case claws-mail) won't be remerged unless there's an upgrade (or downgrade). Without -u it still merges the latest visible version of the target itself.. From man emerge: --update (-u) Updates packages to the best version available, which may not always be the highest version number due to masking for testing and development. This will also update direct dependencies which may not be what you want. Package atoms specified on the command line are greedy, meaning that unspecific atoms may match multiple installed versions of slotted packages. You can use --nodeps, too, so you only update the specific package, with no deps. Why are you posting this? Was I unclear about anything? If foo has a direct dependency on =cat/bar-1.5 and you have =cat/bar-1.4 installed then `emerge foo` will upgrade both foo and bar to latest visible versions because that direct dependency on bar is not satisfied. With -u the same would happen except foo won't be remerged if there is no upgrade. With --nodeps only foo would be upgraded or remerged despite the dependency on bar not being satisfied. If instead you already had =cat/bar-1.5 installed then `emerge foo` would upgrade or remerge foo only because the dependency on bar is already satisfied. With --update bar would be upgraded if a later version is available even though it isn't necessary to satisfy the dependency. With --nodeps still only foo gets upgraded or remerged. In summary --nodeps is potentially *very* dangerous. Don't use it unless you know what you are doing. Also don't use --update or --deep if you want to minimize the number of upgrades... -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Why are you posting this? Was I unclear about anything? Nevermind, man. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica ¿Su empresa consume demasiado ancho de banda? ¡Consulteme! Free (as in Freedom) Punk Rock from Argentina: http://www.futurabanda.com.ar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGjT7IAlpOsGhXcE0RCgWhAJ4hlpkkuEzxq2vjjzNltYvpVdiWAgCeKoRw rlHkNivCtdvNGYbIJkHG6xA= =km+C -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb mp3 player can't be mounted
concerning USB settings, the same. But how about SCSI disk support? It It's there. CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y No help. OS finds the device and scans it but refuses to assign a drive letter. -mw We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Storing ssh and gpg keys in USB flash drives
On 7/5/07, José González Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
I would like to store my ssh and gpg keys in my usb flash drive, but I'm not
sure what's the best way to do it:
If I use vfat so I can also read them from Windows I have two problems:
first you must mount your USB key with a 0077 umask, so ssh and gpg doesn't
complain about key permissions; latest KDE version seems to auto mount USB
flash drives using pmount with a 0022 umask and I haven't been able to
change this, so I either mount it manually or change the permissions after
being mounted. The second problem is related to gpg: it seems that gpg uses
links to lock the keyrings, and vfat doesn't support them, so I'm able to
read keys, but not to make any modfication on them.
If I use ext2 the permission problem goes away (kind of), but I have the
feeling that this isn't as portable as vfat, as the filesystem uses the user
id to control access to files, and pluging the drive in another system where
my user may have anoter uid leads me to chowning/chmoding in the better case
or not having access to my keys in the worst case.
Any ideas?
Best regards
Jose
vfat{
vfatfiles
ext2fs{
gpg_stuff
}
}
1. Mount vfat drive
2. dd if=/dev/full bs=1048580 count=4096 of =/mountpoint/mynewextfile
3. mkfs.ext2 /mountpoin/mynewextfile
4. mount /mountpoint/mynewextfile/ /someothermountpoint/
5. cp files to /someothermountpoint/
6. use /someothermountpoint/
7. umount /someothermountpoint/
8. umount /mountpoint/
I didn't say it would be pretty, but that is a handy trick to have up the sleve.
that would make a 4 Meg file containing a filesystem to hold your
files, just like a TAR file, except with all the features of ext2 and
no need unpack it to use.
You can do anything with linux, really. Yes. even format a file as a
filesystem and mount it
( a word of warning : dont do this and format with reiserfs and then
store that file on a reiserfs fs ... if you do, next time you need to
--rebuild-tree reiser will try to be smart and trash your drive :) ...
learn't the hard way )
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Re: [gentoo-user] usb-storage detected but drive not assigned
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:57:49 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, I can't mount a usb music stick with a fat fs because a drive letter eg /dev/sda has not been assigned. Here's dmesg: snip usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB FLASH DISK V2.0 2120 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 usb-storage: device scan complete usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 3 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB FLASH DISK V2.0 2120 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 usb-storage: device scan complete And $cat /proc/partitions only lists the two hard-drives. The device works OK in another gentoo unit with the same kernel config and modules as far as usb is concerned. I did #mknod /dev/sda b 8 0 and tried to mount it there and then tried /dev/sda1 but got /dev/sda not a valid block device and /dev/sda1 does not exist respectively. Yes, the fat and vfat modules are inserted. Maxim Did you include modules for scsi disks? I think it's sd_mod. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:49:23 +0530 Gentoo Voyager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i confirm whether my spamassassin woking or no. i'm using qmail,qmail-scanner spammassassin in gentoo.. I typed up some notes while setting up SA enhancements. Maybe they'd prove useful to you: http://spore.ath.cx/~dan/spamd_add_razor.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:40:20 +0200 Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/7/5, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:36 +0200, Galevsky wrote: Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am sure to target the right kernel image with no typo into grub.conf . This new kernel is a =xen-sources-2.6.16.49, and I configured it making an oldconfig based on current =gentoo-sources-2.6.20 running kernel. So, errors cannot come from drivers or such things, but specific xen options. Does anyone know any xen option able to prevent the kernel to boot up ? I guess I (still) don't understand what your issue is. So I went back and read your original post. Maybe I misunderstood it. * What do you mean by remote host? I rent a dedicated host. Thus, I have no physical access to the machine. And the reason why I used the fall-back feature into grub is to avoid the use of a boring rescue system (via a web interface) to take back the control of a not-responding box. * If your box does not boot how would you expect to see a boot.log or dmesg ? They don't exist if the system has not booted. In fact does not boot implies that you can't even log in to check for dmesg or boot logs. Perhaps you can explain what it is exactly you mean by does not boot. When I try to boot on the new kernel, I set it as the default one in grub.conf and reboot the box. And I wait for a few minutes. Then I try to log on, praying to find the box responding. First, with grub fall-back activated, the boot had fallen back and I was able to read the logs that contained the running kernel logs, but no info about the kernel boot that failed. That was the matter of my first mail: how to read the reasons of the first kernel-boot-attempt failure. Secondly, you advised me to turn fall back off. I do. The box is no more responding after reboot, and I have to launch the rescue system to log on my box, and read the /var/log/*. I thought previously that some pb happened -I didn't know when exactly-... and was waiting for more info in log files. But files were empty. So, I conclude that the boot procedure failed (and you too ;o)). Finally, I have to find out why my kernel is not booting. I tuned up well my previous kernel, a gentoo-sources-2.6.20 -this kernel runs currently my box very well- and the kernel I want to boot now is a xen-sources-2.6.16. I made an oldconfig on /proc/config.gz of the 2.6.20 running kernel, and fill in xen-dom0 specific options as indicated on the wiki tutorial [1]. So, I guess I did something wrong with the dom0 xen config, and asked for advice on xen specific options with my second post. * Usually there is an error message on the console if there is a boot loader/kernel issue with booting. * Also you never posted your grub.conf. So hopefully you can come up with a specific explanation of does not boot as well as your config and any console messages you get. Else this becomes a blind leading the blind issue. I have no console message to provide you, I just know that my remote box is not responding when I try to boot another kernel (If you know the way to get logs, I'll be grateful :o)). And I checked the /var/log/* to be sure that the kernel was not running but just missing any network feature so that I could not log on the box despite the kernel was actually running. As for my grub.conf + 'ls -l /boot' , I will provide you in a while (I need to go home before), but I am not sure it is relevant. (just to check for typo I guess). -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Many thanks to take care of my problem :o) Gal' [1]: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo from /etc/conf.d/rc: # RC_BOOTLOG will generate a log of the boot messages shown on the console. # Useful for headless machines or debugging. You need to emerge the # app-admin/showconsole package for this to work. Note that this probably # won't work correctly with boot splash. RC_BOOTLOG=no I recommend you install showconsole and set RC_BOOTLOG to yes, that might help you. It is possible that maybe something as mundane as networking is failing for a stupid reason, and therefore you cant get to the computer because it cant finish booting. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Switching virtual desktops in KDE with Xinerama
Hi Can I switch virtual desktops in KDE with Xinerama separately on each screen? I know that it can be done without Xinerama(by using two X11 screens), but I might have the ability moving windows between screens - with Xinerama I can this. Thanks for any suggestions -- best regards, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy my public GPG/PGP key: http://www.alexey-kv.org.ua/pubkey.asc pgpuWDxVzrpIJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
I recently discovered 'savefallback' in grub which I did not know about. I'll assume you're using that but again, I haven't seen your grub.conf. Dan Farrell made an intresting point about boot log and showconsole, but I assumed you were already using that. But I still don't that will help you because your problem appears to be one of the following: * Grub is not loading your kernel and is falling back (same as my original theory) * Your kernel/hypervisor is loading but is crashing immediately. If the Xen hypervisor is crashing you really need the console. AFAIK there's no option to log. The only option you really have is whether or not to immediately reboot when it crashes. If Xen is loading successfully then it loads your dom0. If that's crashing it's probably crashing immediately (i.e. not even mounting root). If it is the dom0 then that seems to be the case since you can't find any record of it having booted. If you crash before you mount root read/write then showconsole and bootlog are useless. All things said, I'm still guessing that it's either a grub problem or Xen doesn't like your hardware. Xen is picky about hardware and sometimes you have to turn on/off things in the BIOS or as a parameter to Xen (like the ACPI controller) but it's going to be hard to guess without an error message and I'm betting that error message appears before bootlog/showconsole take effect. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb-storage detected but drive not assigned-FIXED
Did you include modules for scsi disks? I think it's sd_mod. Well, I *thought* I did. Thanks Dan. Maxim Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
2007/7/5, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:40:20 +0200 Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/7/5, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:36 +0200, Galevsky wrote: Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am sure to target the right kernel image with no typo into grub.conf . This new kernel is a =xen-sources-2.6.16.49, and I configured it making an oldconfig based on current =gentoo-sources-2.6.20 running kernel. So, errors cannot come from drivers or such things, but specific xen options. Does anyone know any xen option able to prevent the kernel to boot up ? I guess I (still) don't understand what your issue is. So I went back and read your original post. Maybe I misunderstood it. * What do you mean by remote host? I rent a dedicated host. Thus, I have no physical access to the machine. And the reason why I used the fall-back feature into grub is to avoid the use of a boring rescue system (via a web interface) to take back the control of a not-responding box. * If your box does not boot how would you expect to see a boot.log or dmesg ? They don't exist if the system has not booted. In fact does not boot implies that you can't even log in to check for dmesg or boot logs. Perhaps you can explain what it is exactly you mean by does not boot. When I try to boot on the new kernel, I set it as the default one in grub.conf and reboot the box. And I wait for a few minutes. Then I try to log on, praying to find the box responding. First, with grub fall-back activated, the boot had fallen back and I was able to read the logs that contained the running kernel logs, but no info about the kernel boot that failed. That was the matter of my first mail: how to read the reasons of the first kernel-boot-attempt failure. Secondly, you advised me to turn fall back off. I do. The box is no more responding after reboot, and I have to launch the rescue system to log on my box, and read the /var/log/*. I thought previously that some pb happened -I didn't know when exactly-... and was waiting for more info in log files. But files were empty. So, I conclude that the boot procedure failed (and you too ;o)). Finally, I have to find out why my kernel is not booting. I tuned up well my previous kernel, a gentoo-sources-2.6.20 -this kernel runs currently my box very well- and the kernel I want to boot now is a xen-sources-2.6.16. I made an oldconfig on /proc/config.gz of the 2.6.20 running kernel, and fill in xen-dom0 specific options as indicated on the wiki tutorial [1]. So, I guess I did something wrong with the dom0 xen config, and asked for advice on xen specific options with my second post. * Usually there is an error message on the console if there is a boot loader/kernel issue with booting. * Also you never posted your grub.conf. So hopefully you can come up with a specific explanation of does not boot as well as your config and any console messages you get. Else this becomes a blind leading the blind issue. I have no console message to provide you, I just know that my remote box is not responding when I try to boot another kernel (If you know the way to get logs, I'll be grateful :o)). And I checked the /var/log/* to be sure that the kernel was not running but just missing any network feature so that I could not log on the box despite the kernel was actually running. As for my grub.conf + 'ls -l /boot' , I will provide you in a while (I need to go home before), but I am not sure it is relevant. (just to check for typo I guess). -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Many thanks to take care of my problem :o) Gal' [1]: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo from /etc/conf.d/rc: # RC_BOOTLOG will generate a log of the boot messages shown on the console. # Useful for headless machines or debugging. You need to emerge the # app-admin/showconsole package for this to work. Note that this probably # won't work correctly with boot splash. RC_BOOTLOG=no I recommend you install showconsole and set RC_BOOTLOG to yes, that might help you. It is possible that maybe something as mundane as networking is failing for a stupid reason, and therefore you cant get to the computer because it cant finish booting. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Thank you Dan, but I did it before, and boot.log remains empty. In fact, the new kernel boot turns on like grub couldn't find the kernel image Hereafter my /boot content: sd-4421 boot # ll /boot total 13M -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 767k Jul 6 00:02 System.map-2.6.16.49-xendedibox_r6_final -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 929k Jun 16 19:29 System.map-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root1 Apr 30 19:40 boot - ./ -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 31k Jul 6 00:02 config-2.6.16.49-xendedibox_r6_final
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
Sorry, I was building again my kernel image to confirm that It was not a stupid mistake. 2007/7/6, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I recently discovered 'savefallback' in grub which I did not know about. I'll assume you're using that but again, I haven't seen your grub.conf. Dan Farrell made an intresting point about boot log and showconsole, but I assumed you were already using that. Ya, I did it. No boot.log created when booting the xen-kernel, but reporting good status when I boot up the good 2.6.20 one. So, feature is on. But I still don't that will help you because your problem appears to be one of the following: * Grub is not loading your kernel and is falling back (same as my original theory) Ya, you should be right... * Your kernel/hypervisor is loading but is crashing immediately. If the Xen hypervisor is crashing you really need the console. AFAIK there's no option to log. The only option you really have is whether or not to immediately reboot when it crashes. If Xen is loading successfully then it loads your dom0. If that's crashing it's probably crashing immediately (i.e. not even mounting root). If it is the dom0 then that seems to be the case since you can't find any record of it having booted. If you crash before you mount root read/write then showconsole and bootlog are useless. All things said, I'm still guessing that it's either a grub problem or Xen doesn't like your hardware. Xen is picky about hardware and sometimes you have to turn on/off things in the BIOS or as a parameter to Xen (like the ACPI controller) but it's going to be hard to guess without an error message and I'm betting that error message appears before bootlog/showconsole take effect. Okay, thanks a lot, I am looking for such information since I am new to xen. I will google for people running xen solutions on the same kind of boxes. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Many thanks for your support guys ;o) Gal' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to rebuild without full reinstall?
Howdy folks. Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas. Any suggestions? I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III. Now i've gone and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based machine, which doesn't support the P-III instruction set completely. The computer boots and the kernel runs just fine, but many of the programs do not work. The biggest thorn in my side is emerge not working; therefore, I can't fix the problem with a simle empty-tree emerge. I am considering doing a full reinstall. But, I don't want to be bothered. What do you all think of the idea of extracting a stage3 onto an existing installation? Is there any way this could yield a set of utilities (namely python or emerge, whichever isn't working now) enough so that I could successfully issue an 'emerge -e world' ? Thanks for your time and suggestions, Dan Farrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
Galevsky wrote: Thank you Dan, but I did it before, and boot.log remains empty. In fact, the new kernel boot turns on like grub couldn't find the kernel image SNIP and my grub.conf: ### START (grub.conf) sd-4421 boot # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # Customized boot procedure default 0 timeout 1 #fallback 1 2 title Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo_xen_dom0 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen ro root=/dev/sda2 title Gentoo Linux 2.6.20-r8 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 ro root=/dev/sda2 title Gentoo Linux 2.6.18-r4-dedibox_r6_final root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/ref/2.6.18-gentoo-r4dedibox_r6_final ro root=/dev/sda2 ### END (grub.conf) Well, let's try a boot on kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen = box not responding. and via the rescue system: # ls /mnt/sda2/var/log/ portage user.log xen # more /mnt/sda2/var/log/user.log Jul 6 00:12:30 sd-4421 shutdown[4571]: shutting down for system reboot thus no log at all (xen log also empty). Gal' This is my grub.conf entry: title Gentoo new kernel kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.20-r8-3 root=/dev/hda6 ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66 vga=788 Note the missing /boot before the kernel? If you have /boot on a separate partition, you need to remove the /boot and make it read something like kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 ro root=/dev/sda2 Keep in mind, the root partition is not mounted when it loads the kernel. That is mounted later. I hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:44 +0200, Galevsky wrote: and my grub.conf: ### START (grub.conf) sd-4421 boot # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # Customized boot procedure default 0 timeout 1 #fallback 1 2 title Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo_xen_dom0 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen ro root=/dev/sda2 title Gentoo Linux 2.6.20-r8 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 ro root=/dev/sda2 title Gentoo Linux 2.6.18-r4-dedibox_r6_final root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/ref/2.6.18-gentoo-r4dedibox_r6_final ro root=/dev/sda2 ### END (grub.conf) Wow, it really does make a difference when we can see the configuration! Actually you are not using savedefault like I was assuming. Which basically means fallback only works when grub fails to load the kernel. You said you followed the HOWTO Xen and Gentoo but looks like you ignored section 6 on configuring the boot loader. It should look more like this: title Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo_xen_dom0 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=98M module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 ro root=/dev/sda2 Likely the dom0 kernel is failing because it expects to be run within the hypervisor. You need to load that first as in the above. Hope this helps. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PPTP connection to Windows server 2003 vpn
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 12:50 -0500, Karl Haines wrote: I've been following the guide at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_PPTP_VPN_client_%28Microsoft-compatible_with_mppe%29 Trying to get my vpn to work going from my linux laptop. That would really make the boss jealous! heh, vpn from my linux laptop to our windows servers worked for me over a bad modem, and my boss who was travelling with me couldn't get his working from his windows laptop! Anyhow, when i run my ifconfing ppp0, after doing /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start, it looks like this: [snip] hmm, looks like you haven't got an ip address for the connection... Personally, I use pon to start my vpn link. what do you see in your syslog? try pon and see if the output tells you anything. I see no inet entries like i think i should, and if i do: route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev ppp0 is says the interface doesn't exist!! yeah, that won't work unless you have an ip address... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au You don't sew with a fork, so I see no reason to eat with knitting needles. -- Miss Piggy, on eating Chinese Food -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to rebuild without full reinstall?
Dan Farrell wrote: Howdy folks. Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas. Any suggestions? I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III. Now i've gone and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based machine, which doesn't support the P-III instruction set completely. The computer boots and the kernel runs just fine, but many of the programs do not work. The biggest thorn in my side is emerge not working; therefore, I can't fix the problem with a simle empty-tree emerge. I am considering doing a full reinstall. But, I don't want to be bothered. What do you all think of the idea of extracting a stage3 onto an existing installation? Is there any way this could yield a set of utilities (namely python or emerge, whichever isn't working now) enough so that I could successfully issue an 'emerge -e world' ? Thanks for your time and suggestions, Dan Farrell There is a portage rescue method. Here is the info for ya: Please see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml for a recovery guide for a broken portage installation. Then you should be able to adjust make.conf and emerge the whole world. I hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to rebuild without full reinstall?
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:31:33 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell wrote: Howdy folks. Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas. Any suggestions? I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III. Now i've gone and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based machine, which doesn't support the P-III instruction set completely. The computer boots and the kernel runs just fine, but many of the programs do not work. The biggest thorn in my side is emerge not working; therefore, I can't fix the problem with a simle empty-tree emerge. I am considering doing a full reinstall. But, I don't want to be bothered. What do you all think of the idea of extracting a stage3 onto an existing installation? Is there any way this could yield a set of utilities (namely python or emerge, whichever isn't working now) enough so that I could successfully issue an 'emerge -e world' ? Thanks for your time and suggestions, Dan Farrell There is a portage rescue method. Here is the info for ya: Please see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml for a recovery guide for a broken portage installation. Then you should be able to adjust make.conf and emerge the whole world. I hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) Thanks Dale, I'm sure it will help. - Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problems compiling ikvm
I'm trying to compile ikvm-0.34.0.2 but i fails with no errors. It
looks as if javac doesn't get any input and therefore spits out usage
information, much like typing javac on a shell prompt:
[nant]
/var/tmp/portage/dev-dotnet/ikvm-0.34.0.2/work/ikvm-0.34.0.2/classpath/classpath.build
Buildfile:
file:///var/tmp/portage/dev-dotnet/ikvm-0.34.0.2/work/ikvm-0.34.0.2/classpath/classpath.build
Target framework: Mono 1.0 Profile
Target(s) specified: IKVM.GNU.Classpath.dll
jars:
classes:
[exec] javac: invalid source release: 1.5
[exec] Usage: javac options source files
[exec] where possible options include:
[exec] -gGenerate all debugging info
[exec] -g:none Generate no debugging info
[exec] -g:{lines,vars,source}Generate only some
debugging info
[exec] -nowarn Generate no warnings
[exec] -verbose Output messages
about what the compiler is doing
[exec] -deprecation Output source
locations where deprecated APIs are used
[exec] -classpath path Specify where to
find user class files
[exec] -sourcepath pathSpecify where to
find input source files
[exec] -bootclasspath path Override location
of bootstrap class files
[exec] -extdirs dirs Override location
of installed extensions
[exec] -d directorySpecify where to
place generated class files
[exec] -encoding encoding Specify character
encoding used by source files
[exec] -source release Provide source
compatibility with specified release
[exec] -target release Generate class
files for specific VM version
[exec] -help Print a synopsis
of standard options
BUILD FAILED - 0 non-fatal error(s), 18 warning(s)
/var/tmp/portage/dev-dotnet/ikvm-0.34.0.2/work/ikvm-0.34.0.2/classpath/classpath.build(27,10):
External Program Failed: javac (return code was 2)
Total time: 1.2 seconds.
BUILD FAILED
Nested build failed. Refer to build log for exact reason.
Total time: 6.1 seconds.
!!! ERROR: dev-dotnet/ikvm-0.34.0.2 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1621: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 973: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile
ikvm-0.34.0.2.ebuild, line 41: Called die
!!! ikvm build failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-dotnet/ikvm-0.34.0.2/temp/build.log'.
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[gentoo-user] memtest fails, but is it the RAM?
Hi all, slightly OT I know, but the usual excuses apply :) I'm running memtest from a live-cd on a P4 3GHz HT desktop, with two sticks of corsair VS512MB on an ASUS P4P800-X. It always freezes at the start of test 3. The cursor keeps flashing, and there is no display corruption, but I can't do anything but press the reset button. I've swapped the sticks around, used either by themselves, tried different slots, - everything except completely different RAM. I've never seen this behaviour with memtest before, actually, I've never had it fail, so I don't know how it fails. It seems a bit strange that it fails the same way regardless of what I do - could it possibly be a hardware/memtest incompatibility, and not actually a faulty memory problem? (Ultimately, I'm trying to diagnose a random reboot problem, which makes me suspicious of the memory, but I'm not sure) thanks heaps for the advice, -- Iain Buchanan iain at pcorp dot com dot au Given some of the recent threads, the interactive discussions might need to be conducted on canvas, in the presence of a referee, while wearing padded gloves. ;-) -- Phil Hands -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] usb external drive
Hello, I use ivman with usb sticks and move them between windoze and linux systems without issue. I just got a FreeAgent usb 2.0 external disk drive and expected it to work just like a usb stick (not really sure why I had this expectation). It does not show up with a 'df' command, like a usbstick would under /media. I'm not sure why it does not behave like a generic usb stick? Anyway, the only doc I could find is of moderate usage. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/usb-guide.xml The device does not show up but I do get this error message to console: df: `/media/sdb1': Input/output error The kernel supports dos/fat file systems and the what the aforementioned web page suggests for kernel options are included in my kernel. I did manage to mount the device: mkdir /mnt/usb mount /media/sdb1 /mnt/usb and then create and edit a file with vi. What I'm looking for is a simple procedure I can use to set up all my gentoo systems so I can easily move this drive from machine to machine and have access to the files under gentoo and windoz (2k,xp,vista). ideas? James Any documents I missed or suggestions on seamless access are most welcome. James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: memtest fails, but is it the RAM?
Iain Buchanan iain at pcorp.com.au writes: I've swapped the sticks around, used either by themselves, tried different slots, - everything except completely different RAM. hello Iain, Not sure this is useful, but, if you can get the system to boot, you and look more closely at the memory specifics with the 'lshw' command. Then if you can find the mobo book, look at the published memory requirements and go into the bios, and look at the bios settings for something out of the ordinary. If you can, swap the memory with another know good system for a few days Something might show up as a problem (Ultimately, I'm trying to diagnose a random reboot problem, which makes me suspicious of the memory, but I'm not sure) I always look at the temperature as the mobo makes it available, or checking the temperature of the hard drive with 'hddtemp /dev/drive' Often power supplies will run ok can then glitch causing a reboot. It cannot hurt to swap the power supply to see if that fixes the random reboots hth, James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb mp3 player can't be mounted
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:20:38PM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: concerning USB settings, the same. But how about SCSI disk support? It It's there. CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y No help. OS finds the device and scans it but refuses to assign a drive letter. -mw Perhaps a udev problem? What is your kernel version and what is your udev version? I had a problem several months ago when a usb mass storage device gets scanned but udev would not create the entry in /dev. For me the solution is to either downgrade udev to a version compatible with the running kernel or to upgrade my kernel so it communicates well with udev. W -- It's one o them musics with little sticky prongs all over it so it can cling to the inside of your head for days. ~S Sortir en Pantoufles: up 209 days, 23:56 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] about grub
Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 schrieb ext sain yan: Hi On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine! But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why??? Because you didn't mount /boot? and I install another kernel , Then write the file menu.lst at /boot/grub/menu.lst, But Grub DON`T read it when booting,Why?? Because grub looks at another partition. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
