Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Trifu Catalin Florin
On 2011-09-14 22:23, Michael Mol wrote:


 like get hidden by '-Show quoted text-'. Hit reply, hit ctrl-End to
 get to the bottom, reply...and not realize that you jumped past five
 kilobytes' worth of stale, quoted conversation.

 Ouch! That (almost) physically hurt! ;-)

 Best regards

 Peter K, longing for Pine (but too busy  lazy to configure fetchmail
 right now)



It seams that the discussion degenerated on how to send emails... Can anyone 
please help regarding my problem?
It seems that indeed I have an old kernel version, but how is that possible 
taking into consideration that I have used genkernel?
How can I upgrade it?




Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 15, 2011 2:32 PM, Trifu Catalin Florin sviatov...@yahoo.com
wrote:

 It seams that the discussion degenerated on how to send emails... Can
anyone please help regarding my problem?
 It seems that indeed I have an old kernel version, but how is that
possible taking into consideration that I have used genkernel?
 How can I upgrade it?



First, make sure you have emerged the kernel's sources.

Second, check that the newer sources have been selected: 'eselect kernel
list' followed by 'eselect kernel set'.

Build the kernel, either using genkernel or make triumvirate (make
menuconfig  make  make modules_install)

Install the new kernel in /boot.

Reboot.

Warning: packages that build their own kernel modules, e.g., xtables-addons,
must be re-emerged prior to rebooting.

Rgds,


Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Dale

Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
It seams that the discussion degenerated on how to send emails... Can 
anyone please help regarding my problem? It seems that indeed I have 
an old kernel version, but how is that possible taking into 
consideration that I have used genkernel? How can I upgrade it? 


I would try emerging it with -j1 option.  I googled for similar errors 
and that was the fix.  It may not work but worth a try.  Sometimes when 
it does parallel builds, it sort of gets ahead if itself and starts 
looking for things that should be there but isn't built quite yet.  Sort 
of sounds like my mouth sometimes.  Mouth is engaged but brain is in 
park.  lol


Hoe that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)



Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Thursday, 15. September 2011 00:27:43 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 On 2011-09-14 22:23, Michael Mol wrote:
  like get hidden by '-Show quoted text-'. Hit reply, hit ctrl-End to
  get to the bottom, reply...and not realize that you jumped past five
  kilobytes' worth of stale, quoted conversation.
  
  Ouch! That (almost) physically hurt! ;-)
  
  Best regards
  
  Peter K, longing for Pine (but too busy  lazy to configure fetchmail
  right now)
 
 It seams that the discussion degenerated on how to send emails... Can anyone
 please help regarding my problem? It seems that indeed I have an old kernel
 version, but how is that possible taking into consideration that I have
 used genkernel? How can I upgrade it?

You did not reboot. genkernel maybe built a new kernel and installed it into 
/boot, but to make use of the newly built kernel, you have to reboot.
If you think, that rebooting is not suitable right now, I offered two 
alternative (possible) solutions to your compile problems.

1) disable sandbox temporarily
2) use busybox's touch instead

googling now... a here's a reference:
http://foxpa.ws/2011/04/12/portage-errors-touch-no-such-file-or-directory/
I was wrong. You don't need a kernel  2.6.22, you need a kernel = 2.6.22 :)

Best,
Michael




Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Trifu Catalin Florin


First, make sure you have emerged the kernel's sources.
Second, check that the newer sources have been selected: 'eselect kernel list' 
followed by 'eselect kernel set'.
Build the kernel, either using genkernel or make triumvirate (make menuconfig 
 make  make modules_install)
Install the new kernel in /boot.
Reboot.
Warning: packages that build their own kernel modules, e.g., xtables-addons, 
must be re-emerged prior to rebooting.
Rgds,

---

:(((
:(((

Is it possible to compile the kernel without emerging kernel's sources?
I have made an installation one week ago on a virtual machine and it worked 
fine. The kernel on that virtual machine is 2.6.39-gentoo-r3.
How is it possible to use the same manual, same mirrors, same steps and still 
to have a different kernel version?
How is it possible not to work?

If I use genkernel is because I DON'T KNOW how to compile the kernel manually. 
This being said, sentences like:

Warning: packages that build their own kernel modules, e.g., xtables-addons, 
must be re-emerged prior to rebooting. 

are the Gordian knot for me.

I'm very frustrated because on gentoo's forum no one didn't answer for three 
days now, and on this mailing list we have changed 4-5 emails regarding how an 
email should be written. Meanwhile, my server is still offline.

Now, in another order of ideas:

- I have searched the internet for 2-3 days before sending an email here
- I didn't read the standard of how to send an email and I'm sorry for that but 
I didn't had time
- I wrote the emails using the format that seemed more natural for me, the 
newest on top having the track of emails bellow, so that anyone who sees the 
email can understand what's this all about, including myself; I had to search 
for a half an our in my emails to find the first email on another topic...
- I do not now how you format your emails to look the way they look, having 
that sentence on top with x wrote on... and  before each line of the text 
you keep for reply; this is why I have used standard reply from yahoo, because 
I didn't wanted to reinvent the wheel 

- I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR EACH USER ON THIS EMAIL LIST BUT I NEED URGENT 
HELP ON THE TOPIC: I CANNOT INSTALL GENTOOO
- I AM NOT AN EXPERIENCED USER WHO CAN CREATE HIS OWN KERNEL, RE-WRITE DRIVERS 
AND SO ON; PLEASE TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION AND IF YOU ANSWER HAVE PATIENCE

Thank you in advance!




Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Thursday, 15. September 2011 01:16:12 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 First, make sure you have emerged the kernel's sources.
 Second, check that the newer sources have been selected: 'eselect kernel
 list' followed by 'eselect kernel set'. Build the kernel, either using
 genkernel or make triumvirate (make menuconfig  make  make
 modules_install) Install the new kernel in /boot.
 Reboot.
 Warning: packages that build their own kernel modules, e.g., xtables-addons,
 must be re-emerged prior to rebooting. Rgds,
 
 ---
 
 :(((
 :(((
 
 Is it possible to compile the kernel without emerging kernel's sources?

No.

 I have made an installation one week ago on a virtual machine and it worked
 fine. The kernel on that virtual machine is 2.6.39-gentoo-r3. How is it
 possible to use the same manual, same mirrors, same steps and still to have
 a different kernel version? How is it possible not to work?

You did not reboot.

 If I use genkernel is because I DON'T KNOW how to compile the kernel
 manually. This being said, sentences like:
 
 Warning: packages that build their own kernel modules, e.g.,
 xtables-addons, must be re-emerged prior to rebooting.
 
 are the Gordian knot for me.

No problem. Just use genkernel, if you like. It works for many of us without 
problems. But you have to reboot. No matter how you build your kernel.

 I'm very frustrated because on gentoo's forum no one didn't answer for three
 days now, and on this mailing list we have changed 4-5 emails regarding how
 an email should be written.

If you want help, you need to know, how to ask questions in a correct way - 
if your mails are unreadable, nobody will read them and you will get no 
answers.

 Meanwhile, my server is still offline.

Why don't you follow my advices? Have you tried only one of the options I 
offered? You know, I am an experienced user, I don't tell you shit.

 Now, in another order of ideas:
 - I have searched the internet for 2-3 days before sending an email here

Here's a tip. If you see an error, you cannot decipher, put it into google 
with quotes and gentoo, in your case:

touch: setting times of gentoo

The second hit, I get here, describes your problem.

 - I didn't read the standard of how to send an email and I'm sorry for that
 but I didn't had time - I wrote the emails using the format that seemed
 more natural for me, the newest on top having the track of emails bellow,
 so that anyone who sees the email can understand what's this all about,
 including myself; I had to search for a half an our in my emails to find
 the first email on another topic... - I do not now how you format your
 emails to look the way they look, having that sentence on top with x wrote
 on... and  before each line of the text you keep for reply; this is why
 I have used standard reply from yahoo, because I didn't wanted to reinvent
 the wheel

I hit reply in my mail-client (kmail). That's all I have to do. Is yahoo's 
reply really so broken? Hmmm.

 - I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR EACH USER ON THIS EMAIL LIST BUT I NEED URGENT
 HELP ON THE TOPIC: I CANNOT INSTALL GENTOOO - I AM NOT AN EXPERIENCED
 USER WHO CAN CREATE HIS OWN KERNEL, RE-WRITE DRIVERS AND SO ON; PLEASE TAKE
 THIS INTO CONSIDERATION AND IF YOU ANSWER HAVE PATIENCE

Shouting at people, that try to help, is a bad idea in my book.

 Thank you in advance!

Best,
Michael




Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Trifu Catalin Florin


On Thursday, 15. September 2011 01:16:12 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 First, make sure you have emerged the kernel's sources.
 Second, check that the newer sources have been selected: 'eselect kernel
 list' followed by 'eselect kernel set'. Build the kernel, either using
 genkernel or make triumvirate (make menuconfig  make  make
 modules_install) Install the new kernel in /boot.
 Reboot.
 Warning: packages that build their own kernel modules, e.g., xtables-addons,
 must be re-emerged prior to rebooting. Rgds,
 
 ---
 
 :(((
 :(((
 
 Is it possible to compile the kernel without emerging kernel's sources?

No.

 I have made an installation one week ago on a virtual machine and it worked
 fine. The kernel on that virtual machine is 2.6.39-gentoo-r3. How is it
 possible to use the same manual, same mirrors, same steps and still to have
 a different kernel version? How is it possible not to work?

You did not reboot.

 If I use genkernel is because I DON'T KNOW how to compile the kernel
 manually. This being said, sentences like:
 
 Warning: packages that build their own kernel modules, e.g.,
 xtables-addons, must be re-emerged prior to rebooting.
 
 are the Gordian knot for me.

No problem. Just use genkernel, if you like. It works for many of us without 
problems. But you have to reboot. No matter how you build your kernel.

 I'm very frustrated because on gentoo's forum no one didn't answer for three
 days now, and on this mailing list we have changed 4-5 emails regarding how
 an email should be written.

If you want help, you need to know, how to ask questions in a correct way - 
if your mails are unreadable, nobody will read them and you will get no 
answers.

 Meanwhile, my server is still offline.

Why don't you follow my advices? Have you tried only one of the options I 
offered? You know, I am an experienced user, I don't tell you shit.

 Now, in another order of ideas:
 - I have searched the internet for 2-3 days before sending an email here

Here's a tip. If you see an error, you cannot decipher, put it into google 
with quotes and gentoo, in your case:

touch: setting times of gentoo

The second hit, I get here, describes your problem.

 - I didn't read the standard of how to send an email and I'm sorry for that
 but I didn't had time - I wrote the emails using the format that seemed
 more natural for me, the newest on top having the track of emails bellow,
 so that anyone who sees the email can understand what's this all about,
 including myself; I had to search for a half an our in my emails to find
 the first email on another topic... - I do not now how you format your
 emails to look the way they look, having that sentence on top with x wrote
 on... and  before each line of the text you keep for reply; this is why
 I have used standard reply from yahoo, because I didn't wanted to reinvent
 the wheel

I hit reply in my mail-client (kmail). That's all I have to do. Is yahoo's 
reply really so broken? Hmmm.

 - I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR EACH USER ON THIS EMAIL LIST BUT I NEED URGENT
 HELP ON THE TOPIC: I CANNOT INSTALL GENTOOO - I AM NOT AN EXPERIENCED
 USER WHO CAN CREATE HIS OWN KERNEL, RE-WRITE DRIVERS AND SO ON; PLEASE TAKE
 THIS INTO CONSIDERATION AND IF YOU ANSWER HAVE PATIENCE

Shouting at people, that try to help, is a bad idea in my book.

 Thank you in advance!

Best,
Michael


Dear Michael

Thank you for your help!

I didn't reboot my machine as the installation is not complete yet. How can I 
reboot when the installation isn't finish, if things that should work don't 
work in the first place?

I didn't try your advices as I don't now how to try them. How do I deactivate 
sandbox?
I tried to search for 
touch: setting times of gentoo
but I don't understand how this is related to my problem.

Yahoo reply broken? I don't know what to say about that... gmail works in the 
same way, outlook in the same way, thunderbird in the same way.

Now I'm at work, but when I will get home I will try your advices. I don't know 
how to that but I will find a way. Suppose that it will work, I'm afraid that I 
will have big problems with my server after that. I think it will keep stop me 
from working with errors similar to this one.

Sorry for shouting but I do not have power to continue anymore... :(( what 
should have been a straight forward installation, converted into a nightmare




Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 01:58:59 AM Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 On Thursday, 15. September 2011 01:16:12 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:

snipped undecypherable part

 
 Dear Michael
 
 Thank you for your help!
 
 I didn't reboot my machine as the installation is not complete yet. How can
 I reboot when the installation isn't finish, if things that should work
 don't work in the first place?

I could not find the currently running kernel you are using in this thread. 
Possibly, you are hitting an issue caused by a feature lacking in that kernel.
What did you boot your machine with prior to starting the installation?
Please also include the version and URL where you downloaded this from.

 I didn't try your advices as I don't now how to try them. How do I
 deactivate sandbox?

Michael grimlog Schreckenbauer actually already told you how to do this:
**
If you cannot upgrade your kernel right now, you can disable the sandbox
FEATURES=-sandbox in /etc/make.conf
(I do not recommend this)
**

The sandbox is a security feature. If you disable it to get the install 
working and a newer kernel-version. Please undo this change after the first 
boot into the new kernel.

  I tried to search for
 touch: setting times of gentoo
 but I don't understand how this is related to my problem.
 
 Yahoo reply broken? I don't know what to say about that... gmail works in
 the same way, outlook in the same way, thunderbird in the same way.

In other words, they're all broken.
A good Email client will allow you to send non-HTML email. Puts quote marks 
in front of the lines and add a bladibla wrote this or similar line.
It should also allow you to easily put your reply at the bottom of the email.

GMail has been mentioned a few times as doing things wrongly. I won't even 
mention the many ways in which MS Outlook does things badly and Thunderbird 
wants to be a copy of MS Outlook.

 Now I'm at work, but when I will get home I will try your advices. I don't
 know how to that but I will find a way. Suppose that it will work, I'm
 afraid that I will have big problems with my server after that. I think it
 will keep stop me from working with errors similar to this one.
 
 Sorry for shouting but I do not have power to continue anymore... :(( what
 should have been a straight forward installation, converted into a
 nightmare

Lets see if we can find out.
Using the current live-cd from the gentoo website, I managed to install Gentoo 
without problem. If you are using an older kernel-version, you are likely 
using an older live-cd / host-environment. For this, there are usually work-
arounds, but it might be an idea to start with a more current live-cd 
environment.

--
Joost



Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Thursday, 15. September 2011 01:58:59 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 On Thursday, 15. September 2011 01:16:12 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
  First, make sure you have emerged the kernel's sources.
  Second, check that the newer sources have been selected: 'eselect kernel
  list' followed by 'eselect kernel set'. Build the kernel, either using
  genkernel or make triumvirate (make menuconfig  make  make
  modules_install) Install the new kernel in /boot.
  Reboot.
  Warning: packages that build their own kernel modules, e.g.,
  xtables-addons, must be re-emerged prior to rebooting. Rgds,
  
  ---
  
  :(((
  :(((
  
  Is it possible to compile the kernel without emerging kernel's sources?
 
 No.
 
  I have made an installation one week ago on a virtual machine and it
  worked fine. The kernel on that virtual machine is 2.6.39-gentoo-r3.
  How is it possible to use the same manual, same mirrors, same steps and
  still to have a different kernel version? How is it possible not to
  work?
 
 You did not reboot.
 
  If I use genkernel is because I DON'T KNOW how to compile the kernel
  manually. This being said, sentences like:
  
  Warning: packages that build their own kernel modules, e.g.,
  xtables-addons, must be re-emerged prior to rebooting.
  
  are the Gordian knot for me.
 
 No problem. Just use genkernel, if you like. It works for many of us without
 problems. But you have to reboot. No matter how you build your kernel.
  I'm very frustrated because on gentoo's forum no one didn't answer for
  three days now, and on this mailing list we have changed 4-5 emails
  regarding how an email should be written.
 
 If you want help, you need to know, how to ask questions in a correct way
 - if your mails are unreadable, nobody will read them and you will get no
 answers.
 
  Meanwhile, my server is still offline.
 
 Why don't you follow my advices? Have you tried only one of the options I
 offered? You know, I am an experienced user, I don't tell you shit.
 
  Now, in another order of ideas:
  - I have searched the internet for 2-3 days before sending an email here
 
 Here's a tip. If you see an error, you cannot decipher, put it into google
 with quotes and gentoo, in your case:
 
 touch: setting times of gentoo
 
 The second hit, I get here, describes your problem.
 
  - I didn't read the standard of how to send an email and I'm sorry for
  that but I didn't had time - I wrote the emails using the format that
  seemed more natural for me, the newest on top having the track of
  emails bellow, so that anyone who sees the email can understand what's
  this all about, including myself; I had to search for a half an our in
  my emails to find the first email on another topic... - I do not now
  how you format your emails to look the way they look, having that
  sentence on top with x wrote on... and  before each line of the
  text you keep for reply; this is why I have used standard reply from
  yahoo, because I didn't wanted to reinvent the wheel
 
 I hit reply in my mail-client (kmail). That's all I have to do. Is yahoo's
 reply really so broken? Hmmm.
 
  - I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR EACH USER ON THIS EMAIL LIST BUT I NEED
  URGENT HELP ON THE TOPIC: I CANNOT INSTALL GENTOOO - I AM NOT AN
  EXPERIENCED USER WHO CAN CREATE HIS OWN KERNEL, RE-WRITE DRIVERS AND SO
  ON; PLEASE TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION AND IF YOU ANSWER HAVE PATIENCE
 
 Shouting at people, that try to help, is a bad idea in my book.
 
  Thank you in advance!
 
 Best,
 Michael
 
 
 Dear Michael
 
 Thank you for your help!
 I didn't reboot my machine as the installation is not complete yet. How can
 I reboot when the installation isn't finish, if things that should work
 don't work in the first place?

I can well understand, that you don't like to reboot your server right now.

 I didn't try your advices as I don't now how to try them. How do I
 deactivate sandbox?

In /etc/make.conf
1) it already has a line starting with FEATURES=
a) that line already has an entry sandbox
solution: add a - before it, so it reads -sandbox
b) the line does not contain sandbox
solution: add -sandbox at the end
2) there's no line starting with FEATURES=
solution: add line FEATURES=-sandbox to /etc/make.conf

 I tried to search for
 touch: setting times of gentoo
 but I don't understand how this is related to my problem.

That's (part of) the error-message you got, when you tried to compile syslog-
ng (in fact, it was part of the error, when emerge tried to compile autoconf, 
which is needed by syslog-ng)

 Yahoo reply broken? I don't know what to say about that... gmail works in
 the same way, outlook in the same way, thunderbird in the same way.

No, they don't. A lot of people here on the list use thunderbird and gmail, 
most replies are wellformed. Don't know, what outlook does. There's no linux- 
or BSD-version, so I don't care.

 Now I'm at work, but when I will get home I will try your advices. I don't
 

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Trifu Catalin Florin


From: Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install 
syslog-ng

On Thursday, September 15, 2011 01:58:59 AM Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 On Thursday, 15. September 2011 01:16:12 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:

snipped undecypherable part

 
 Dear Michael
 
 Thank you for your help!
 
 I didn't reboot my machine as the installation is not complete yet. How can
 I reboot when the installation isn't finish, if things that should work
 don't work in the first place?

I could not find the currently running kernel you are using in this thread. 
Possibly, you are hitting an issue caused by a feature lacking in that kernel.
What did you boot your machine with prior to starting the installation?
Please also include the version and URL where you downloaded this from.

 I didn't try your advices as I don't now how to try them. How do I
 deactivate sandbox?

Michael grimlog Schreckenbauer actually already told you how to do this:
**
If you cannot upgrade your kernel right now, you can disable the sandbox
FEATURES=-sandbox in /etc/make.conf
(I do not recommend this)
**

The sandbox is a security feature. If you disable it to get the install 
working and a newer kernel-version. Please undo this change after the first 
boot into the new kernel.

  I tried to search for
 touch: setting times of gentoo
 but I don't understand how this is related to my problem.
 
 Yahoo reply broken? I don't know what to say about that... gmail works in
 the same way, outlook in the same way, thunderbird in the same way.

In other words, they're all broken.
A good Email client will allow you to send non-HTML email. Puts quote marks 
in front of the lines and add a bladibla wrote this or similar line.
It should also allow you to easily put your reply at the bottom of the email.

GMail has been mentioned a few times as doing things wrongly. I won't even 
mention the many ways in which MS Outlook does things badly and Thunderbird 
wants to be a copy of MS Outlook.

 Now I'm at work, but when I will get home I will try your advices. I don't
 know how to that but I will find a way. Suppose that it will work, I'm
 afraid that I will have big problems with my server after that. I think it
 will keep stop me from working with errors similar to this one.
 
 Sorry for shouting but I do not have power to continue anymore... :(( what
 should have been a straight forward installation, converted into a
 nightmare

Lets see if we can find out.
Using the current live-cd from the gentoo website, I managed to install Gentoo 
without problem. If you are using an older kernel-version, you are likely 
using an older live-cd / host-environment. For this, there are usually work-
arounds, but it might be an idea to start with a more current live-cd 
environment.

--
Joost




Dear Joost, thank you! Indeed this is the problem, my LiveCD is an old one. I'm 
not at home right now but I can bet it will work if I will create a new LiveCD. 
I haven't take that into consideration as I thought that it won't be a problem 
since I download the kernel.

Anyway, thanks! I will send a new email in the this evening with solved.

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Thursday, 15. September 2011 11:25:56 Joost Roeleveld wrote:
 On Thursday, September 15, 2011 01:58:59 AM Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
  On Thursday, 15. September 2011 01:16:12 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 snipped undecypherable part
 
  
  Dear Michael
  
  Thank you for your help!
  
  I didn't reboot my machine as the installation is not complete yet. How
  can I reboot when the installation isn't finish, if things that should
  work don't work in the first place?
 
 I could not find the currently running kernel you are using in this thread.

It's 2.6.19-something.
He hit's a problem with new coreutils running on kernels older than 2.6.22
Something related to futimesat, that was introduced with this kernel.

 Possibly, you are hitting an issue caused by a feature lacking in that
 kernel. What did you boot your machine with prior to starting the
 installation? Please also include the version and URL where you downloaded
 this from.
  I didn't try your advices as I don't now how to try them. How do I
  deactivate sandbox?
 
 Michael grimlog Schreckenbauer actually already told you how to do this:
 **
 If you cannot upgrade your kernel right now, you can disable the sandbox
 FEATURES=-sandbox in /etc/make.conf
 (I do not recommend this)
 **
 
 The sandbox is a security feature. If you disable it to get the install
 working and a newer kernel-version. Please undo this change after the first
 boot into the new kernel.

Ack.

   I tried to search for
  
  touch: setting times of gentoo
  but I don't understand how this is related to my problem.
  
  Yahoo reply broken? I don't know what to say about that... gmail works
  in
  the same way, outlook in the same way, thunderbird in the same way.
 
 In other words, they're all broken.
 A good Email client will allow you to send non-HTML email. Puts quote
 marks in front of the lines and add a bladibla wrote this or similar
 line. It should also allow you to easily put your reply at the bottom of
 the email.
 
 GMail has been mentioned a few times as doing things wrongly. I won't even
 mention the many ways in which MS Outlook does things badly and Thunderbird
 wants to be a copy of MS Outlook.

Afaict, there are quite a few people here using thunderbird. Most replies are 
wellformed. Outlook, well... it's not a mail-client after all.

Best,
Michael




Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 15 Sep 2011 09:14:34 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
 On Thursday, 15. September 2011 00:27:43 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
  On 2011-09-14 22:23, Michael Mol wrote:
  
  It seams that the discussion degenerated on how to send emails... Can
  anyone please help regarding my problem? It seems that indeed I have an
  old kernel version, but how is that possible taking into consideration
  that I have used genkernel? How can I upgrade it?
 
 You did not reboot. genkernel maybe built a new kernel and installed it
 into /boot, but to make use of the newly built kernel, you have to reboot.
 If you think, that rebooting is not suitable right now, I offered two
 alternative (possible) solutions to your compile problems.
 
 1) disable sandbox temporarily
 2) use busybox's touch instead
 
 googling now... a here's a reference:
 http://foxpa.ws/2011/04/12/portage-errors-touch-no-such-file-or-directory/
 I was wrong. You don't need a kernel  2.6.22, you need a kernel = 2.6.22
 :)

If you are still chroot'ed into your new installation you are using the LiveCD 
kernel, which may not be particularly fresh.

To use your newly compiled genkernel you will need to exit the chroot and 
reboot into your new system (don't forget to eject the LiveCD).  I think it 
shouldn't matter if syslog-ng is not emerged yet, you should be able to emerge 
it when you boot into your new Gentoo system.

An alternative would be to use a different LiveCD with a more up to date 
kernel.  You can try:

  http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

which is kept current by its developers.

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:37:12 AM Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
   Yahoo reply broken? I don't know what to say about that... gmail
   works
   in
   the same way, outlook in the same way, thunderbird in the same way.
 
  
 
  In other words, they're all broken.
  A good Email client will allow you to send non-HTML email. Puts quote
  marks in front of the lines and add a bladibla wrote this or similar
  line. It should also allow you to easily put your reply at the bottom of
  the email.
 
  
 
  GMail has been mentioned a few times as doing things wrongly. I won't
  even mention the many ways in which MS Outlook does things badly and
  Thunderbird wants to be a copy of MS Outlook.
 
 Afaict, there are quite a few people here using thunderbird. Most replies
 are  wellformed. Outlook, well... it's not a mail-client after all.

Thunderbird works fine, if you're ok to do things Thunderbird wants to do 
things.
The last time I tried it, it decided it wants to have copy of all the email 
from my IMAP-server locally.

If it were a laptop with sufficient disk-space, then it would be ok. But as 
it's a desktop where I want to have usefull stuff locally.
Having a copy of all my email locally on a desktop with gigabit connectivity 
to the mail-server doesn't really give any benefit.

With that behaviour, I never bothered to see how replies would look.

--
Joost



Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Joost Roeleveld writes:

 Thunderbird works fine, if you're ok to do things Thunderbird wants to
 do things.
 The last time I tried it, it decided it wants to have copy of all the
 email from my IMAP-server locally.

I ran into this, too. I sort of like the feature, but it's better to do
the synchronization when not working with Thunderbird, because it eats
much CPU time. At least on my very slow laptop.

But you can turn it off: in the 'synchronization and space' settings,
first option at the top.

Now if I only knew why Thunderbird on Linux (not on Windows) does not
check my folders for new mails... this makes it unusable for me. So I'm
using Claws now.

Wonko



Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 14 September 2011 21:49:56 pk wrote:

 ... longing for Pine

Been pining for long?

:-)

-- 
Rgds
Peter   Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23



Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Wed 14 Sep 2011 08:31:56 PM IST, Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 Hi everyone!

 I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all
 the steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm
 stuck trying to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an
 Athlon processor and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The
 error can be seen bellow:

 Making all in emacs
 make[3]: Entering directory
 `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68/lib/emacs'
 WARNING: Warnings can be ignored. :-)
 touch: setting times of `elc-temp': No such file or directory
 make[3]: *** [elc-stamp] Error 1
 make[3]: Leaving directory
 `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68/lib/emacs'
 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
 make[2]: Leaving directory
 `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68/lib'
 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
 make[1]: Leaving directory
 `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68'
 make: *** [all] Error 2
 emake failed
  * ERROR: sys-devel/autoconf-2.68 failed (compile phase):
  *   emake failed
  *
  * Call stack:
  * ebuild.sh, line  56:  Called src_compile
  *   environment, line 147:  Called _eapi2_src_compile
  * ebuild.sh, line 669:  Called die
  * The specific snippet of code:
  *  emake || die emake failed
  *
  * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info
 =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68',
  * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv
 =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68'.
  * The complete build log is located at
 '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/build.log'.
  * The ebuild environment file is located at
 '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/environment'.
  * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68'

  Failed to emerge sys-devel/autoconf-2.68, Log file:

   '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/build.log'

  * Messages for package sys-devel/autoconf-2.68:

  * ERROR: sys-devel/autoconf-2.68 failed (compile phase):
  *   emake failed
  *
  * Call stack:
  * ebuild.sh, line  56:  Called src_compile
  *   environment, line 147:  Called _eapi2_src_compile
  * ebuild.sh, line 669:  Called die
  * The specific snippet of code:
  *  emake || die emake failed
  *
  * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info
 =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68',
  * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv
 =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68'.
  * The complete build log is located at
 '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/build.log'.
  * The ebuild environment file is located at
 '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/environment'.
  * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68'

  * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

  * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
  * Use eselect news to read news items.



 The same error I get for vixie-cron.

 Some other things worth mentioning:
 - portage didn't request for an update
 - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of
 mirrors or something similar.

 I will really appreciate your help as my server is down for two days
 now.

 Thank you!

 Best regards!

It would be more helpful if you could post the details emerge asks you 
to, before terminating.
 
-- 
Nilesh Govindarajan
http://nileshgr.com



Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi,

On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 08:01:56 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 Hi everyone!
 
 I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all the
 steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm stuck trying
 to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an Athlon processor
 and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The error can be seen
 bellow:
 snip
 The same error I get for vixie-cron.

this is sys-devel/autoconf failing, building some emacs related things.
Try
USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf

If that works, add
sys-devel/autoconf -emacs
to /etc/portage/package.use

 Some other things worth mentioning:
 - portage didn't request for an update

What version is installed?

 - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of mirrors or
 something similar.

No idea.

 I will really appreciate your help as my server is down for two days now.
 Thank you!
 Best regards!

Regards,
Michael




Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Trifu Catalin Florin
Hi

the version of portage:

Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 
2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686)

USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf - ir doesn't work; same error

Nilesh, can you please be more explicite?

Thank you!




From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install 
syslog-ng

Hi,

On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 08:01:56 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 Hi everyone!
 
 I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all the
 steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm stuck trying
 to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an Athlon processor
 and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The error can be seen
 bellow:
 snip
 The same error I get for vixie-cron.

this is sys-devel/autoconf failing, building some emacs related things.
Try
USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf

If that works, add
sys-devel/autoconf -emacs
to /etc/portage/package.use

 Some other things worth mentioning:
 - portage didn't request for an update

What version is installed?

 - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of mirrors or
 something similar.

No idea.

 I will really appreciate your help as my server is down for two days now.
 Thank you!
 Best regards!

Regards,
Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 09:00:02 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 Hi
 
 the version of portage:
 
 Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5,

2.1.10.11 is the latest. So no error here

 glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686)
 
 USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf - ir doesn't work; same error

Is there space left on the device?
If so, does something like
touch /var/tmp/portage/foo.stamp
(as root) work?

 Nilesh, can you please be more explicite?
 
 Thank you!

Best,
Michael

BTW: please don't top-post if possible.

 
 From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:27 PM
 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to
 install syslog-ng
 
 Hi,
 
 On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 08:01:56 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
  Hi everyone!
  
  I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all the
  steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm stuck
  trying to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an Athlon
  processor and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The error
  can be seen bellow:
  snip
  The same error I get for vixie-cron.
 
 this is sys-devel/autoconf failing, building some emacs related things.
 Try
 USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf
 
 If that works, add
 sys-devel/autoconf -emacs
 to /etc/portage/package.use
 
  Some other things worth mentioning:
  - portage didn't request for an update
 
 What version is installed?
 
  - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of mirrors
  or something similar.
 
 No idea.
 
  I will really appreciate your help as my server is down for two days
  now. Thank you!
  Best regards!
 
 Regards,
 Michael



Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Trifu Catalin Florin
Hi Michael

I have 1.9GB left and it works to create a new file.

BTW: What means don't top-post if possible?



From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install 
syslog-ng

On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 09:00:02 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 Hi
 
 the version of portage:
 
 Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5,

2.1.10.11 is the latest. So no error here

 glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686)
 
 USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf - ir doesn't work; same error

Is there space left on the device?
If so, does something like
touch /var/tmp/portage/foo.stamp
(as root) work?

 Nilesh, can you please be more explicite?
 
 Thank you!

Best,
Michael

BTW: please don't top-post if possible.

 
 From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:27 PM
 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to
 install syslog-ng
 
 Hi,
 
 On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 08:01:56 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
  Hi everyone!
  
  I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all the
  steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm stuck
  trying to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an Athlon
  processor and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The error
  can be seen bellow:
  snip
  The same error I get for vixie-cron.
 
 this is sys-devel/autoconf failing, building some emacs related things.
 Try
 USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf
 
 If that works, add
 sys-devel/autoconf -emacs
 to /etc/portage/package.use
 
  Some other things worth mentioning:
  - portage didn't request for an update
 
 What version is installed?
 
  - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of mirrors
  or something similar.
 
 No idea.
 
  I will really appreciate your help as my server is down for two days
  now. Thank you!
  Best regards!
 
 Regards,
 Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 14.09.2011 18:48, schrieb Trifu Catalin Florin:

 BTW: What means don't top-post if possible?

What you do is top posting, you post your message on top of the other
messages.



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Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 09:48:33 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 Hi Michael
 
 I have 1.9GB left and it works to create a new file.

Ah, got it.
Your kernel is too old. You need a kernel  2.6.22 to make this work.

If you cannot upgrade your kernel right now, you can disable the sandbox
FEATURES=-sandbox in /etc/make.conf
(I do not recommend this)

Or you can replace touch with busybox's implementation (if bb is installed)

mv /bin/touch /root (to save it for later restauration)
ln -s /bin/bb /bin/touch

 BTW: What means don't top-post if possible?

- http://idallen.com/topposting.html

Best,
Michael


 
 From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:12 PM
 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to
 install syslog-ng
 On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 09:00:02 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
  Hi
  
  the version of portage:
  
  Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5,
 
 2.1.10.11 is the latest. So no error here
 
  glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686)
  
  USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf - ir doesn't work; same
  error
 
 Is there space left on the device?
 If so, does something like
 touch /var/tmp/portage/foo.stamp
 (as root) work?
 
  Nilesh, can you please be more explicite?
  
  Thank you!
 
 Best,
 Michael
 
 BTW: please don't top-post if possible.
 
  
  From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
  To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
  Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:27 PM
  Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to
  install syslog-ng
  
  Hi,
  
  On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 08:01:56 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
   Hi everyone!
   
   I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all
   the
   steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm stuck
   trying to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an
   Athlon
   processor and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The
   error
   can be seen bellow:
   snip
   The same error I get for vixie-cron.
  
  this is sys-devel/autoconf failing, building some emacs related things.
  Try
  USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf
  
  If that works, add
  sys-devel/autoconf -emacs
  to /etc/portage/package.use
  
   Some other things worth mentioning:
   - portage didn't request for an update
  
  What version is installed?
  
   - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of
   mirrors or something similar.
  
  No idea.
  
   I will really appreciate your help as my server is down for two
   days
   now. Thank you!
   Best regards!
  
  Regards,
  Michael



Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Trifu Catalin Florin
sviatov...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Hi Michael
 I have 1.9GB left and it works to create a new file.
 BTW: What means don't top-post if possible?
 
 From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:12 PM
 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to
 install syslog-ng

 On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 09:00:02 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 Hi

 the version of portage:

 Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5,

 2.1.10.11 is the latest. So no error here

 glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686)

 USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf - ir doesn't work; same error

 Is there space left on the device?
 If so, does something like
 touch /var/tmp/portage/foo.stamp
 (as root) work?

 Nilesh, can you please be more explicite?

 Thank you!

 Best,
 Michael

 BTW: please don't top-post if possible.

 
 From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:27 PM
 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to
 install syslog-ng

 Hi,

 On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 08:01:56 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
  Hi everyone!
 
  I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all the
  steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm stuck
  trying to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an Athlon
  processor and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The error
  can be seen bellow:
  snip
  The same error I get for vixie-cron.

 this is sys-devel/autoconf failing, building some emacs related things.
 Try
 USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf

 If that works, add
 sys-devel/autoconf -emacs
 to /etc/portage/package.use

  Some other things worth mentioning:
  - portage didn't request for an update

 What version is installed?

  - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of mirrors
  or something similar.

 No idea.

  I will really appreciate your help as my server is down for two days
  now. Thank you!
  Best regards!

 Regards,
 Michael





Top posting refers to adding your reply to an email above the quoted
text from what you're replying to. Bottom posting is the standard on
many mailing lists because it allows a more natural flow of
conversation to progress down the set of nested replies, so context is
provided before the response being given. That preference, along with
a preference for plain-text rather than HTML mail, is generally
overlooked when a particular mail client is incapable of one or the
other (common on phone-based clients, primarily).

-- 
Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy



Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Trifu Catalin Florin





From: Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install 
syslog-ng

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Trifu Catalin Florin
sviatov...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Hi Michael
 I have 1.9GB left and it works to create a new file.
 BTW: What means don't top-post if possible?
 
 From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:12 PM
 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to
 install syslog-ng

 On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 09:00:02 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 Hi

 the version of portage:

 Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5,

 2.1.10.11 is the latest. So no error here

 glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686)

 USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf - ir doesn't work; same error

 Is there space left on the device?
 If so, does something like
 touch /var/tmp/portage/foo.stamp
 (as root) work?

 Nilesh, can you please be more explicite?

 Thank you!

 Best,
 Michael

 BTW: please don't top-post if possible.

 
 From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:27 PM
 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to
 install syslog-ng

 Hi,

 On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 08:01:56 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
  Hi everyone!
 
  I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all the
  steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm stuck
  trying to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an Athlon
  processor and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The error
  can be seen bellow:
  snip
  The same error I get for vixie-cron.

 this is sys-devel/autoconf failing, building some emacs related things.
 Try
 USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf

 If that works, add
 sys-devel/autoconf -emacs
 to /etc/portage/package.use

  Some other things worth mentioning:
  - portage didn't request for an update

 What version is installed?

  - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of mirrors
  or something similar.

 No idea.

  I will really appreciate your help as my server is down for two days
  now. Thank you!
  Best regards!

 Regards,
 Michael





Top posting refers to adding your reply to an email above the quoted
text from what you're replying to. Bottom posting is the standard on
many mailing lists because it allows a more natural flow of
conversation to progress down the set of nested replies, so context is
provided before the response being given. That preference, along with
a preference for plain-text rather than HTML mail, is generally
overlooked when a particular mail client is incapable of one or the
other (common on phone-based clients, primarily).

-- 
Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy


This can't be true. My kernel version is 2.6.39-gentoo-r3.

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 12:16:19 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
  Me wrote:

  Ah, got it.
  Your kernel is too old. You need a kernel  2.6.22 to make this work.

  If you cannot upgrade your kernel right now, you can disable the sandbox
  FEATURES=-sandbox in /etc/make.conf
  (I do not recommend this)

  Or you can replace touch with busybox's implementation (if bb is 
installed)

  mv /bin/touch /root (to save it for later restauration)
  ln -s /bin/bb /bin/touch

 This can't be true. My kernel version is 2.6.39-gentoo-r3.

Are you sure? To quote you from an earlier mail:

Hi

the version of portage:

Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 
2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686)


See? 2.6.19... Did you reboot with the new kernel?

Best,
Michael




Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Trifu Catalin Florin







From: Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install 
syslog-ng

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Trifu Catalin Florin
sviatov...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Hi Michael
 I have 1.9GB left and it works to create a new file.
 BTW: What means don't top-post if possible?
 
 From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:12 PM
 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to
 install syslog-ng

 On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 09:00:02 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 Hi

 the version of portage:

 Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5,

 2.1.10.11 is the latest. So no error here

 glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686)


 USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf - ir doesn't work; same error

 Is there space left on the device?
 If so, does something like
 touch /var/tmp/portage/foo.stamp
 (as root) work?

 Nilesh, can you please be more explicite?

 Thank you!

 Best,
 Michael

 BTW: please don't top-post if possible.

 
 From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:27 PM
 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to
 install syslog-ng

 Hi,

 On
 Wednesday, 14. September 2011 08:01:56 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
  Hi everyone!
 
  I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all the
  steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm stuck
  trying to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an Athlon
  processor and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The error
  can be seen bellow:
  snip
  The same error I get for vixie-cron.

 this is sys-devel/autoconf failing, building some emacs related things.
 Try
 USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf

 If that works, add
 sys-devel/autoconf -emacs
 to /etc/portage/package.use

  Some other things worth mentioning:
  - portage
 didn't request for an update

 What version is installed?

  - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of mirrors
  or something similar.

 No idea.

  I will really appreciate your help as my server is down for two days
  now. Thank you!
  Best regards!

 Regards,
 Michael





Top posting refers to adding your reply to an email above the quoted
text from what you're replying to. Bottom posting is the standard on
many mailing lists because it allows a more natural flow of
conversation to progress down the set of nested replies, so context is
provided before the response being given. That preference, along with
a preference for plain-text rather than HTML mail, is generally
overlooked when a particular mail
 client is incapable of one or the
other (common on phone-based clients, primarily).

-- 
Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy


This can't be true. My kernel version is 2.6.39-gentoo-r3.


I have restarted the installation. If I try to select the mirrors by issuing:

mirrorselect -i -o  /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf 

I receive the error: ERROR: Could not get mirror list. Check your internet 
connection.

For the sync mirrors by issuing the command:

mirrorselect -i -r -o  /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf 

it works fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 12:36:40 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
.

Hi,

may I ask, how you actually reply to this list?
I see you now learned about top-posting :)
But your replies still are very hard to read.
First of all, you really should delete unrelated parts of the mail.
See? I don't refer to the content of your mail, so I simply deleted it.
Second, but less important, no html, please - your mails are so called 
multipart, that's better than plain html. but plain text is preferred here on 
the list.
And last and imo most important: the way you reply, damages the quoting of the 
content. It's hard to see, who wrote what in what context. Do you hit forward 
mail or reply mail?

Best,
Michael




Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread pk
On 2011-09-14 19:04, Joshua Murphy wrote:

 text from what you're replying to. Bottom posting is the standard on
 many mailing lists because it allows a more natural flow of

Yes, but... netiquette also says you should edit and trim away all text
not necessary for the reply... I wish more would do that on the lists
that I subscribe to but even very experienced people seem to have given
up on this, or something... sigh! :-(

Best regards

Peter K



Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:14 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:
 On 2011-09-14 19:04, Joshua Murphy wrote:

 text from what you're replying to. Bottom posting is the standard on
 many mailing lists because it allows a more natural flow of

 Yes, but... netiquette also says you should edit and trim away all text
 not necessary for the reply... I wish more would do that on the lists
 that I subscribe to but even very experienced people seem to have given
 up on this, or something... sigh! :-(

It's not always obvious that it's there, so sometimes it slips by me.
In GMail, for example, large swaths of nested conversation and the
like get hidden by '-Show quoted text-'. Hit reply, hit ctrl-End to
get to the bottom, reply...and not realize that you jumped past five
kilobytes' worth of stale, quoted conversation.

The fewer layers of irrelevant nested conversation left embedded, the
better. And the fewer nested regards, respectfully and other
signatures, the better.

Now if only I could get GMail to not dedicate four lines to a two-line sig...

-- 
:wq



Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Trifu Catalin Florin


As you can probably see I'm using yahoo mail, so obviously I use yahoo's reply. 
This mail will be sent as plain text.
I'm sorry for the inconvenient of having you read emails that do not respect 
the standard, I didn't even knew there is one.

Michael, I didn't reboot the computer. How could I when I'm reinstalling gentoo?
Anyway, can someone please tell me how can I see the kernel version?




Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 13:25:41 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
 As you can probably see I'm using yahoo mail, so obviously I use yahoo's
 reply. This mail will be sent as plain text. I'm sorry for the inconvenient
 of having you read emails that do not respect the standard, I didn't even
 knew there is one.

No problem, really.

 Michael, I didn't reboot the computer. How could I when I'm reinstalling
 gentoo? Anyway, can someone please tell me how can I see the kernel
 version?

uname -r
does this

Best,
Michael




Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread pk
On 2011-09-14 22:23, Michael Mol wrote:

 like get hidden by '-Show quoted text-'. Hit reply, hit ctrl-End to
 get to the bottom, reply...and not realize that you jumped past five
 kilobytes' worth of stale, quoted conversation.

Ouch! That (almost) physically hurt! ;-)

Best regards

Peter K, longing for Pine (but too busy  lazy to configure fetchmail
right now)