Re: [gentoo-amd64] ldconfig breaks my system

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Alex Bennee wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 18:59 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Alex Bennee wrote: Yes that one. I've been unable to succesfully upgrade to 2.3.5 without hitting the failure. However I left my system building a fresh partition from scratch over the weekend - it managed to upgra

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ldconfig breaks my system

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
Alex Bennee wrote: Yes that one. I've been unable to succesfully upgrade to 2.3.5 without hitting the failure. However I left my system building a fresh partition from scratch over the weekend - it managed to upgrade to 2.3.5 without a problem. Something has obviously broken on my main partit

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ldconfig breaks my system

2005-07-15 Thread Zac Medico
Alex Bennee wrote: > Hi, > > Applogies for the cross-post. I'm unsure if this is and amd64 specific > problem or a more general b0rkage. > > I've posted about my failing glibc emerges before: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/114627 > > I think I've narrowed it down to ldconfi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 64-bit or 32-bit?

2005-07-12 Thread Zac Medico
Anand Buddhdev wrote: > One of the choices I'm facing is whether to install gentoo 64-bit, or > 32-bit. Installing 32-bit on the AMD64 would make life easy, but kind of > defeats the purpose of having a 64-bit processor. Hence my request for > opinions. Should I go 64-bit, or stay in the 32-bit wor

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Messed up virtual/glibc?

2005-07-11 Thread Zac Medico
Richard Freeman wrote: > > I've done several emerge syncs and the problem has persisited. Neither > dia nor gimp-print appear anywhere in my local portage overlay, and both > of these packages are giving me issues. If I mask gimp-print I'm sure > I'll hit more. > > Neither of these ebuilds has

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Messed up virtual/glibc?

2005-07-11 Thread Zac Medico
Richard Freeman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > For some reason after upgrading glibc yesterday many packages cannot be > emerged: > emerge -puD world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies / > emerge: there are no

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --emptytree problem

2005-07-10 Thread Zac Medico
Mark wrote: > I'll have to try again and see, I've already rebooted to start again. > When it fails (most recently it was at the qt- package install, it > has the usual "post the topmost error" message. But since I'm in the > console, I can't scroll up higher than the current screen displays. >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is 2005 broken?

2005-07-09 Thread Zac Medico
Tim Ames wrote: > At 11:44 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: > >> Errors with both md5 and gzip? Can you use a separate computer to >> determine if the problem is with md5/gzip programs or corruption of >> the distfiles themselves? >> >> Zac > > > > I was able to download the gzip from the mirror and pu

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is 2005 broken?

2005-07-08 Thread Zac Medico
Tim Ames wrote: > I'm running it looks like linux-2.6.7-gentoo-r14 > I haven't been able to get online for quite a while now. When I originally > compiled I was on satellite and had a network connection that enabled me to > download just about anything I wanted. I didn't have ppp compiled in th

Re: [gentoo-amd64] arts

2005-07-07 Thread Zac Medico
Benny Pedersen wrote: > Sound server informational message: > Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) > The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > i get a requester when starting x11 now and i don't know how to solve t

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge + libraries

2005-07-05 Thread Zac Medico
Tres Melton wrote: > Yesterday I had a situation that required me to run revdep-rebuild, and > after a number of runs + some manual emerges I got: > > thor:/home/tres # rm /root/.revdep-rebuild*.?_* ; revdep-rebuild > rm: cannot remove `/root/.revdep-rebuild*.?_*': No such file or > directory > >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Feasibility of Gentoo on ancient hardware?

2005-06-22 Thread Zac Medico
Peter Humphrey wrote: > Having had a good deal of success maintaining useful Gentoo systems on > this dual-Opteron workstation (with lots of help from my friends > hereabouts, of course), I thought I'd try building a minimal system on > an old P5-60 box, to be a firewall to replace an even older 48

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Announcing Canoe: a package file list database

2005-06-20 Thread Zac Medico
> > > > > - Is it feasible with that much data? > > > > I have 432 packages installed, mostly only one version of them, and my / > > has nearly one million files (/home, /proc, /dev, /sys, /mnt not > > included of course). In view of 15'000 packages, multiple versions of > > each, with multiple u

Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc 4.0

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Luigi Pinna wrote: > - sys-devel/gcc-4.0.0 (masked by: -* keyword) > echo "=sys-devel/gcc-4.0.0 -*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > What I must do? And why is the new gcc in amd64 architecture hard > masked? Are you kidding? We need testers like you ;-). > Thanks, > Luigi > Zac -- gent

Re: [gentoo-amd64] fan cooler bad problem

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
--- Msuro Venanzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > iteresting. > can i update the kernel using emerge directly and > recompilig it after? > the link who give me is empty > > thanks > Hi Msuro, Yes, just emerge gentoo-sources and compile. Don't miss the ! on the end of the link http://gentoo-wik

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Installation Fails at . . .

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Langsley T Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The boot block device is unspecified or not > detected. > Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a > Shell ... > boot() :: > Maybe if you add "dosata" to the kernel command line before the cd boots then it will load the needed dri