Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
finally I've got to optimum (in my opinion) combination:
title Gentoo linux (update)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 real_root=/dev/hda11
video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose
You should also change real_root= to just root=.
On 2005-07-13 23:29:56 + (Wed, Jul), aabb wrote:
I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type
c (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries
in /etc/fstab are almost identical:
/dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:03 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
happens only when I switch to 2.6.12, weird... anybody seen symptoms
like that? First time since I've switched to 2.6.x kernels I've got
so many issues with simple kernel upgrade, is there something going
on I
Zac Medico wrote:
That sounds nice. Do you use busybox for the root-on-loop-AES setup? What is
better about initramfs? Do you have to compile the cpio archive into the
kernel or is it just as good when you load it like an initrd? I'm looking
forward to the howto ;-).
Well, I don't
aabb wrote:
Thanks for all replies so far.
What's the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda?
Output from fdisk -l /dev/hda:
Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start
Iain Buchanan wrote:
-install: applet not found
/init: 41: In: not found
/init: 45: cat: not found
/init: 150: sed: not found
Apparently it is a problem with busybox configuration:
From another thread on this list less than 12 hours old:
Zac Medico wrote:
It's not as bad as it looks. I
I noticed that in the windows version of tightvnc, there is an option to
send ctrl-alt-del to window boxes. In the linux version, there is not
such capability.
Or am I wrong?
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Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM
98% Microsoft(tm) Free!!
Neuromancer 17:02:56 up 1 day,
hi to all
i'm having some problems, with, i think, the permissions
of /dev/null /dev/console and /dev/zero. every time i boot they're set up to
660, like this
crw-rw 1 renna root 5, 1 Jul 13 17:04 /dev/console
crw-rw 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 9 06:31 /dev/null
crw-rw 1 root root 1,
yes there is, I think its right click in vncviewer for the menu, or
shiftF8 to get the menu. Going from memory but this should point you
in the right direction.
BillK
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:03 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I noticed that in the windows version of tightvnc, there is an option to
Hello Daniel,
Just to clarify, this is a problem with all 2.6.12 releases (not just
-gentoo-r4)
Thanks for the information. I only became aware of the issue when -gentoo-r4
became stable.
Sean
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http://www.systura.com - Where
Try checking a file called /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions, this
file sets the permissions of devices during boot. My line in that file is:
null:root:root:0666
which sets the permissions to 0666 which is what you expect.
I had problems with some other devices, like misc/nvram,
All my previously working apache sub directorys have started to throw a
forbidden message.
I have checked my configs and they have not changed at all. I did a emerge
world the other day that installed the new PHP, but thats all. I really can
not think of any reason why this has happend. All
Try giving access to anyone to tost if it's a permissions related
problem. (Perhaps using php files need also execution rights).
Does the apache server run with apache user rights (check with ps aux)?
Michael Thompson wrote:
All my previously working apache sub directorys have started to throw
On Thursday 14 July 2005 15:23, Emanuele Morozzi wrote:
Try giving access to anyone to tost if it's a permissions related
problem. (Perhaps using php files need also execution rights).
The permissions have not changed. They are all apache:apache with a mask of:
drwxrwxr-- 20 apache apache
Am Donnerstag, 14. Juli 2005 12:52 schrieb ext Sean Higgins:
Try checking a file called /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions,
this file sets the permissions of devices during boot.
No. This has already changed since more than 10 versions of udev.
Permissions are now set in
Hi,
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:40:42 +0100
Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 14 July 2005 15:23, Emanuele Morozzi wrote:
Try giving access to anyone to tost if it's a permissions related
problem. (Perhaps using php files need also execution rights).
The permissions have
On Thursday 14 July 2005 12:52, Sean Higgins wrote:
Try checking a file called /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions,
this file sets the permissions of devices during boot. My line in that
file is:
null:root:root:0666
which sets the permissions to 0666 which is what you expect.
I
On Thursday 14 July 2005 14:04, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:40:42 +0100
Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 14 July 2005 15:23, Emanuele Morozzi wrote:
Try giving access to anyone to tost if it's a permissions related
problem. (Perhaps using
Hallo,
I'm checking my freshly installed system for SUID/SGID files, and to my
surprise I see:
-r-xr-s--x 1 man 41172 Jul 13 13:28 /usr/bin/man
Does /usr/bin/man really have to have SGID-bit on? Why?
I just checked one debian-box, where /usr/bin/man is without SGID...
Jarry
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Hi,
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:28:57 +0200
Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does /usr/bin/man really have to have SGID-bit on? Why?
For caching the rendered man pages for all users, IMHO.
I just checked one debian-box, where /usr/bin/man is without SGID...
On debian, if configured to be chatty
Hi,
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:12:56 +0100
Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even the drwxr-xr-x will not run at all. These have not changed since they
were working previously.
Hm. Isn't anything written to the apache error log that could give a hint?
Did you restart apache after
Michael Thompson wrote:
All my previously working apache sub directorys have started to throw a
forbidden message.
I have checked my configs and they have not changed at all. I did a emerge
world the other day that installed the new PHP, but thats all. I really can
not think of any reason
Hi folks,
I've got a couple of questions regarding localisation.
1. OO and English
If I set OO to either British or South African English the spellchecker still
accepts American spelling which is wrong in Namibia. Anybody in the know how
to make it stick to British spelling?
2. OO and
For archiving purposes:
I've finally fixed my machine up with as follows:
1. chosen kernel was 2.6.12-r5 as it fixes ugly bug with iptables
which takes ages for applications to load.
2. configured grub without using initrd
title Gentoo linux (update)
root (hd0,0)
kernel
Hi there
I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to
know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make
it a dual boot with XP, but upgrade to KDE 3.4.1?
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On Tuesday 12 July 2005 18:23, Zac Medico wrote:
Yuval Scharf wrote:
Hi,
I'm using KDE 3.4.
Since few days ago I can't login using KDM.
The login process can't pass the initializing peripherals stage.
I can see that there are two processes running kded (one of the is the
father of
On Thursday 14 July 2005 15:15, Craig Duncan wrote:
Try adding a directory statement in the http.conf file
Directory /var/www/localhost
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
/Directory
Then modify to suit your needs.
Craig
Does
The machine I posted about earlier (GRUB GRUB GRUB...) is dead.
It hung booting the 2005.0 CD, and if I booted a DriveImage CD
with a DOS partition, every key on the keyboard was echoed ^A.
Ah well.
So I just installed another machine, using the 2005.0 CD and using
the new instructions. It has a
Thanks for this information. It helped to solve my problem. :)
Uwe
Daniel Drake wrote:
Sean Higgins wrote:
Did you recently update your kernel? There is a problem with
gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4. There is a bug in iptables that causes problems
with KDE logins. If you stop iptables, your
I'd have thought lots of people in the gentoo crowd would have been
eagerly awaiting subversion 1.2.x with its substantial new reserved
checkout - but nothing seems to have moved forward.
Portage (by default) still gives me version 1.1.3... but version 1.2 has
been available for a couple of
On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:39, Mark Humphrey wrote:
Hi there
I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to
know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make
it a dual boot with XP, but upgrade to KDE 3.4.1?
first, read the instructions on
Hi,
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:27:49 +0100
Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I just installed another machine, using the 2005.0 CD and using
the new instructions. It has a Matrox G400 so I added support for
that in the kernel. This may have been a mistake.
Everything is fine until I
Jim Hatfield wrote:
BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the
kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have
an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to
build them in, though before I built them as modules. I'm not
clear as to the pros
Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
I'd have thought lots of people in the gentoo crowd would have been
eagerly awaiting subversion 1.2.x with its substantial new reserved
checkout - but nothing seems to have moved forward.
Portage (by default) still gives me version 1.1.3... but version 1.2
has been
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
I switched last night from devfs to udev and had the same kde problem.
I solved it by running udevstart as root. Oh, and I checked the permissions
file in /etc/udev
If running 'udevstart' fixes your ownership/permissions problem, try logging
in again and see if the
Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
I'd have thought lots of people in the gentoo crowd would have been
eagerly awaiting subversion 1.2.x with its substantial new reserved
checkout - but nothing seems to have moved forward.
you must have missed this link from the gentoo homepage (on the left):
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Michael Thompson wrote:
Umm, I thought of that earlier, here is the complete ls -all of the htdocs
dir, nothing wrong here that I can see
Do those sub-dectories have index.html file in them?
If not, then you need to explicitly switch on directory listings (they are
off by
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote:
I heard there was a problem like that with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 and
iptables: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-userm=112129686806476
Im using the kernel with iptables - no problems.
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On Thursday 14 July 2005 18:25, A. Khattri wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Michael Thompson wrote:
Umm, I thought of that earlier, here is the complete ls -all of the
htdocs dir, nothing wrong here that I can see
Do those sub-dectories have index.html file in them?
If not, then you need to
Hi,
I'm trying to update glibc with nptl and nptlonly USE flags, but I'm
getting an error.
The emerge command I'm running is:
emerge --newuse -buD glibc
The error is:
Install glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1 into
/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1/image/ category sys-libs
On 7/13/05, Petr Kocmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your modem/router which is 192.168.1.254 on eth0 fits the netmask of the eth1
network.
Weird thing is that this configuration as always been working for me,
with no problems whatsoever... until now.
Anyways, thank you!
Problem solved!
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Ian K wrote:
Some of the other things that I have read or can think of that might
effect the fans would be:
1. In dual boot system with Windows, warm or cold restarts from Windows
to Linux can affect whether the fans spin up.
What would you recommend along those lines?
Why, my Standard
Marco Matthies wrote:
Gentoo leaves packages in unstable for a default period of time to make sure
they work allright. If you want the newest version of a package, you must tell
portage to do so by putting the appropriate stuff (subversion and it's
dependencies) in
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
Hmmm - that all sounds sane, but what is this default period of time?
What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and
specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked?
At least a month and there can't be any
kristina clair wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to update glibc with nptl and nptlonly USE flags, but I'm
getting an error.
The emerge command I'm running is:
emerge --newuse -buD glibc
The error is:
Install glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1 into
/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1/image/
I'm trying to update glibc with nptl and nptlonly USE flags, but I'm
getting an error.
The emerge command I'm running is:
emerge --newuse -buD glibc
The error is:
Install glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1 into
/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1/image/ category sys-libs
At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:38:43 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:39, Mark Humphrey wrote:
Hi there
I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to
know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make
it a
At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:58:42 +0100 Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Hatfield wrote:
BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the
kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have
an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to
build them
kristina clair wrote:
Hm!
CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer
CHOST=i386-pc-linux-gnu
I did not set this box up, so I'm not sure - is there any reason why
someone would set the CHOST to that?
I checked the /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1/work directory,
and indeed
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions into
the free space, / and /boot.
Don't you also need swap? /boot is desirable, but not required.
You can create a swap file at any time..so a partition is really not
necessary here.
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
*Very* interesting. Please let us know when the documentation is
available. I have build everything into the kernel (including alsa)
and so far it is working well, but I haven't stressed audio. What
problems should I be looking for and do you advise rebuilding the
On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:22, Richard Fish wrote:
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions
into the free space, / and /boot.
Don't you also need swap? /boot is desirable, but not required.
You can create a swap file at any time..so a
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 10:53 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:48 -0400, daniel wrote:
On July 12, 2005 05:12 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Why doesn't mplayer let me compile with win32codecs? It doesn't pull
down win32codec as a dependency and having that USE flag in the CLI as
Hello list,
I have today attempted to do a stage 2 installation and I got to the
point of building the system using emerge --newuse --emptytree system.
I was not shure how to understand the Handbook entry in that respect,
and I got an error like:
!!!Files listed in the manifest do not exist!
Hi,
I recently repartitioned my harddisk. Before my HD had 4 partitions,
all primary ones: boot, swap, Linux (Reiserfs) and Windows (FAT32).
I shrinked the reiserfs-partition and then deleted it. I deleted swap,
too. Then I created an extended partition. Within this extended
partition I created a
Robert G. Siebeck wrote:
The only thing which seems strange is an error thrown by fdisk:
# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 116280.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that
Folks,
I'm trying to update my system with this command:
emerge world -Dup
and got this type of output:
snip
...
[ebuild NS ] kde-base/kdebase-3.4.0
[ebuild NS ] kde-base/kdeartwork-3.4.0
[ebuild NS ]
Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
Hmmm - that all sounds sane, but what is this default period of time?
What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and
specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked?
I *think* it is something along the lines of 30 days without a bug,
not 100% sure though.
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:58 -0500, Qv6 wrote:
I am currently running kde-3.3, and do not want to have both 3.3 and 3.4
on the box. How can I update kde or any other app and not have the old
version still installed.
Update kde as usual, then
# emerge -av --depclean
Make sure that portage
I have been having this problem with kernels starting with 2.6.11-x
including the most recent 2.6.12 version. They are all gentoo kernels,
and I have also tried them with kernels directly from kernel.org with
the same result. Here is the error:
# modprobe ivtv
WARNING: Error inserting i2c_core
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:36 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
Iain Buchanan wrote:
-install: applet not found
/init: 41: In: not found
/init: 45: cat: not found
/init: 150: sed: not found
Apparently it is a problem with busybox configuration:
From another thread on this list less than
Thanks all. It's fixed. When I ran dosfsck /dev/hda5 I got the error:
Logical sector size is zero
So I re-created the file system with mkfs -t vfat -F 32 /dev/hda5
(after backing up all my files!) and now it mounts properly. Not sure I
understand it because I hadn't run the mkfs command on hda1
We have several Dell Precision workstations (530, 610,
and 620 models) with 3Com 3c905 10/100 NICs. We'd like
to upgrade the NICs to GB. Which GB PCI card would you
recommend to work with Gentoo 2005.0 running Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4?
Intel, Broadcom, 3Com?
Thanks.
Mike
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:10:40 -0500
Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have several Dell Precision workstations (530, 610,
and 620 models) with 3Com 3c905 10/100 NICs. We'd like
to upgrade the NICs to GB. Which GB PCI card would you
recommend to work with Gentoo 2005.0 running Linux
Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:36 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
Iain Buchanan wrote:
-install: applet not found
/init: 41: In: not found
/init: 45: cat: not found
/init: 150: sed: not found
Apparently it is a problem with busybox configuration:
From another thread on this
Hello list,
The described error, or failure, always occures when building the 59th
app after emerge --newuse --emptytree system:
sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.12-r4
and again:
!!!Files listed in the manifest do not exist!
files/digest-baselayout-1.12.0-pre1
baselayout-1.12.0_pre1.ebuild
Why can
I'm trying to finish up a fresh install of gentoo, and I've run into
the following problem: when trying to start xdm, the screen turns
black, flickers once, and the system freezes. According to the xdm
log (attached) I get errors regarding AGP, sometimes xf86_EINVAL and
sometimes xf86_ENODEV. I
On 7/14/05, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So far the forums and googling have yielded
unhelpful results, except for the suggestion of changing the
permissions, so I'm assuming I've done something boneheaded that
perhaps the list will catch. Thanks in advance.
Yes, boneheaded indeed.
At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:33:23 +0100 Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
*Very* interesting. Please let us know when the documentation is
available. I have build everything into the kernel (including alsa)
and so far it is working well, but I haven't stressed audio.
Karsten Gebbert wrote:
Hello list,
The described error, or failure, always occures when building the 59th
app after emerge --newuse --emptytree system:
sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.12-r4
and again:
!!!Files listed in the manifest do not exist!
files/digest-baselayout-1.12.0-pre1
Zac Medico wrote:
Karsten Gebbert wrote:
Hello list,
The described error, or failure, always occures when building the 59th
app after emerge --newuse --emptytree system:
sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.12-r4
and again:
!!!Files listed in the manifest do not exist!
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