Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, Thanks. I usually edit '/etc/group' but the extra info is v. useful. Gavin. On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 08:20 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: There are a couple ways of modifying groups; First you can use vigr, this will load /etc/groups in your default editor and allow you to change the file.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] disk error [OT]

2005-12-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 10:29, David Boucher wrote: Hi ! I have started my laptop this morning and at the startup it writes many lines like hdc: write_intr: error=0x10 {SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=97370035, high=5, low=13483955, sector=97370035 ide: failed opcode was: unknown /

Re: [gentoo-amd64] further vmware issues

2005-12-06 Thread Taka John Brunkhorst
ls -al /dev/vmmon ? if there is none, rm all the config, (/etc/vmware) remerge, remodprobe, reconfig -- Int'l Anti-Microsoft Assn. Japan/S'pore Dept. fsck /dev/urandom; Taka John Brunkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] further vmware issues

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I tried to remerge but, 'Oemerge remodprobe Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy remodprobe.' Thanks Gavin ps I 'rm -rf /etc/vmware' n Tue, 2005-12-06 at 21:27 +0800, Taka John Brunkhorst wrote: remodprobe, reconfig -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and

[gentoo-amd64] athlon-xp

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi I am so impressed with Gentoo I have volunteered to put it on a pals pc. He has an athlon-xp. Would this use a x86 inst. cd? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-amd64] athlon-xp

2005-12-06 Thread Jordi Molina
Yes, you'll see that there is an optimized tarball for stage3-athlonxp on th egentoo install cd =) Spread gentoo! On 12/6/05, Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am so impressed with Gentoo I have volunteered to put it on a pals pc. He has an athlon-xp. Would this use a x86 inst.

[gentoo-amd64] Considering going no-multilib

2005-12-06 Thread Duncan
As the title suggests, I'm considering going no-multilib, given that I don't use 32-bit software in general, anyway. It would sure save compile time on glibc and gcc, and would eliminate the issues I seem to get with 32-bit compile failures when I compile glibc using gcc4, as well as /greatly/

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Considering going no-multilib

2005-12-06 Thread Nuitari
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Duncan wrote: Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 08:20:36 -0700 From: Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Considering going no-multilib As the title suggests, I'm considering going no-multilib,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] athlon-xp

2005-12-06 Thread Barry . SCHWARTZ
Jordi Molina [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: Spread gentoo! That makes it sound as if Gentoo were a virus. I guess it _is_ infectious. :) pgpNMdq1xf60d.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Considering going no-multilib

2005-12-06 Thread Duncan
Nuitari posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:31:01 -0500: lilo can be compiled and works without multilib That's cool, and up until a few weeks ago, that's what I would have been asking about. g However, with my recent switch to a RAID layout, I decided I might

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Considering going no-multilib

2005-12-06 Thread Rob Lesslie
On 06/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: I /like/ being able to upgrade my kernel, and not have to rerun grub as I would lilo. I /like/ being able to browse the system from the grub interface. I /like/ having a dynamic if limited grub

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware

2005-12-06 Thread John Myers
On Monday 05 December 2005 06:20, Brett Johnson wrote: There are a couple ways of modifying groups; There's actually a third way: gpasswd -a. Use it like gpasswd -a user group don't forget to log out and back in, or use newgrp -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia #

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Considering going no-multilib

2005-12-06 Thread Olivier Crete
On Tue, 2005-06-12 at 08:20 -0700, Duncan wrote: Question. If I do so, will grub still compile for me, or will I have to use grub-static (I /guess/ that's the binary-only ebuild?)? Hmm... the package.mask for no-multilib includes sys-boot/grub, so I apparently answered my own question...

[gentoo-amd64] mce log errors

2005-12-06 Thread Deedra Waters
All, I'm getting a lot of these, but it only seems to happen when i put the machine under a lot of stress, and even then it's not always happening. This machine is a duel opteron 242, the board is an asus k8, and with the latest bios update, the machine has no real problems at all. MCE 1 CPU 0

Re: [gentoo-amd64] mce log errors

2005-12-06 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 14:56 -0600, Deedra Waters wrote: All, I'm getting a lot of these, but it only seems to happen when i put the machine under a lot of stress, and even then it's not always happening. This machine is a duel opteron 242, the board is an asus k8, and with the latest bios

Re: [gentoo-amd64] mce log errors

2005-12-06 Thread Deedra Waters
Is there a way to test that fact? I've tried to work with lm_sensors, but the readings for that are way way off. So, considering lm_sensors isuseless is there another way to tell if overheating is the problem? The case itself has a lot of fans, but it's also got 5 harddrives in it. On Tue, 6 Dec

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Considering going no-multilib

2005-12-06 Thread Duncan
Olivier Crete posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:35:25 -0500: Last time I checked, the grub configure script just passed -m32 to gcc on amd64. That's why I made grub-static which is exactly which is, I believe, all you can use on a system that doesnt have a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] mce log errors

2005-12-06 Thread Deedra Waters
Hrm, it doesn't look to be a heat issue. I opened the case and took a look inside when i saw the last message,and it looks perfectly cool and happy. I do notice however, that it's only happening when i hammer the raid array, which is on a pci promise controler. On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Deedra Waters

[gentoo-amd64] Re: mce log errors

2005-12-06 Thread Duncan
Deedra Waters posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:04:50 -0600: Is there a way to test that fact? I've tried to work with lm_sensors, but the readings for that are way way off. So, considering lm_sensors isuseless is there another way to tell if overheating is

[gentoo-amd64] Re: mce log errors

2005-12-06 Thread Duncan
Deedra Waters posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:44:40 -0600: Hrm, it doesn't look to be a heat issue. I opened the case and took a look inside when i saw the last message,and it looks perfectly cool and happy. I do notice however, that it's only happening

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: mce log errors

2005-12-06 Thread Deedra Waters
Hrmmm, The origional ps in this case was 500. We replaced it with 550 which from what i gather should have been enough to handle the drives as well as everything else, that's what i was told anyway. What would generally be recommended for this much stuffed into a case like this? On Tue, 6 Dec

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: mce log errors

2005-12-06 Thread Nuitari
The origional ps in this case was 500. We replaced it with 550 which from what i gather should have been enough to handle the drives as well as everything else, that's what i was told anyway. What would generally be recommended for this much stuffed into a case like this? Which brand / model it

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: mce log errors

2005-12-06 Thread Duncan
Nuitari posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:26:03 -0500: The origional ps in this case was 500. We replaced it with 550 which from what i gather should have been enough to handle the drives as well as everything else, that's what i was told anyway. What would