Re: [gentoo-user] dev-haskell/{cabal,haxml} -- runaway memory hog

2007-12-24 Thread Jason Dusek
On Dec 23, 2007 8:23 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Emerging haxml directly repeats the greedy performance, and when I > kill it, it gives me this message: > > * The 'prerm' phase of the 'dev-haskell/haxml-1.13.2' package has failed > * with exit value -1. The problem occurred while executing

[gentoo-user] Dell XPS 420 (Nvidia video card)

2007-12-24 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, Is anyone on the list using a Dell XPS 420 with an Nvidia card (I avoid ati)? I am curious as to how it is working out for you, as I am considering getting one. Also, if you went with their non-descript wireless card, did it work in linux? How about the onboard ethernet? I am interested i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: removing X

2007-12-24 Thread forgottenwizard
On 18:20 Mon 24 Dec , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 2007-12-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now > >> going to see action as a semi-DMZ. > > > > That sounds like a

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup

2007-12-24 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:36:16 -0500 Michael George wrote: > I just upgraded my kernel from 2.6.19 to 2.6.23 and it takes almost a > minute for X to start now. > > I have changed window managers (normally ctwm, tested with twm) with > the same results. I rebooted the 2.6.19 kernel and X fires righ

[gentoo-user] Re: removing X

2007-12-24 Thread reader
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2007-12-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now >> going to see action as a semi-DMZ. > > That sounds like a lot of work. My guess is that it would be a > faster and easier to

[gentoo-user] Why doesn't `sandbox' like /root/.bash_history?

2007-12-24 Thread reader
Any usage of emerge gets: ACCESS DENIED open_rd: /root/.bash_history ACCESS DENIED open_rd: /root/.bash_history if I: mv ~/.bash_history ~/.bash_historyX It works fine. ls -l ~/.bash_history -rw--- 1 root root 1841 Dec 24 12:14 /root/.bash_history I've tried chmodding it

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Wireless 3945ABG Adapter

2007-12-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:04:33 +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > At the moment I use IPW3945. Is it wort to switch to iwlwifi? How does > it work with 2.6.23 kernel? Is it stable? I use iwlwifi with an Intel 4965 and it works well. -- Neil Bothwick Accordion: a bagpipe with pleats. signature.asc

[gentoo-user] Intel Wireless 3945ABG Adapter

2007-12-24 Thread Sergey Kobzar
I have laptop with wireless adapter: # lspci | grep -i wireless 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) It has 2 drivers: http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ (marked as deprecated) http://intellinuxwireless.org/ (masked in portage tree) At the

[gentoo-user] Re: removing X

2007-12-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now > going to see action as a semi-DMZ. That sounds like a lot of work. My guess is that it would be a faster and easier to wipe the disk and install from scratch. -- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:28:37 +, Stroller wrote: > It might be as simple as completing the `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb` > and then using `fdisk` to delete the last partition, then recreate it > with the same start point (and a later end point). The filesystem > would then need to be resiz

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup

2007-12-24 Thread felix
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 10:36:16PM -0500, Michael George wrote: > I do have this error from startx, though: > Couldn't establish a connection to :9202: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname > ':9202' I hate to offer so primitive a suggestion, but grep -rl 9202 /etc might help. -- ... _._.

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread maxim wexler
> Question 2: (This is the main one!) The MBR? As the > new disk is a direct > replacement for the old one, with the same > partitions etc, do I need to > change anything in my grub.conf? or should it just > work without > modification? I just did this. My method: Duplicate the partitions, f

RE: [gentoo-user] brlcad users here?--RESOLVED

2007-12-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- "Arttu V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:33:52 -0800 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Just to clarify: What does a 'pre-compiled binary' > do? > > I meant just regular binary files, which have been > compiled -- as opposed > to the source files (non-compiled

[gentoo-user] Re: removing X

2007-12-24 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:56:57 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I don't want to follow the advice offered there an run the newuse >> world yet... I want to finish cleaning house first. >> >> Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to >>

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Dec 2007, at 17:06, Randy Barlow wrote: ... You will probably need to use grub-install/setup if you do dd as well, unless you dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb (or am I wrong about this?) No, you're correct - `dd` would copy the boot-sector. But it would also leave all partitions at their orig

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: removing X

2007-12-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:56:57 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't want to follow the advice offered there an run the newuse > world yet... I want to finish cleaning house first. > > Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to > the following required packages not being install

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:52:30 +0200, Thanasis wrote: > mount -o bind / /mnt/src && cd /mnt/src && tar cfp - . |tar xfp - > -C /mnt/dst && tar cfp - . |tar xfp - > -C /mnt/dst You don't need to mess around with bind mounting /, just do cd / && tar clfp - ... For that matter, the f option is redu

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Dale
Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Monday 24 December 2007 15:06:36 Dale wrote: > >> Dale wrote: >> >>> cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems >>> yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by. >>> >>> If you have the same partitions on the new

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Monday 24 December 2007 15:06:36 Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems > > yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by. > > > > If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your > > grub.

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup

2007-12-24 Thread Michael George
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:06:21AM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: > Michael George wrote: > > Couldn't establish a connection to :9202: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname > > ':9202' > > I'm not sure why the kernel would make this difference, but it looks > like something is trying to connect to "No Host

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Thanasis
on 12/24/2007 08:38 PM Thanasis wrote the following: > I would first create the new partitions on the new disk keeping the same > sequence (and increasing swap partition to 1GB), and then format them. > Say the new drive is /dev/sdb. I would go like this (mind the spaces): > > mkdir /mnt/dst /mnt/s

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Thanasis
I would first create the new partitions on the new disk keeping the same sequence (and increasing swap partition to 1GB), and then format them. Say the new drive is /dev/sdb. I would go like this (mind the spaces): mkdir /mnt/dst /mnt/src mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/dst mount -o bind / /mnt/src && cd /

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > > cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems > yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by. > > If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your > grub.conf and fstab should be fine. > > You will need to ins

[gentoo-user] Re: removing X

2007-12-24 Thread reader
"Michal 'vorner' Vaner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:31:16AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] >> Would just passing dozens of command line arguments to emerge be a >> suitable way to get rid of all the clutter? > > You could remove the meta-package (the

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Dale
Matthew R. Lee wrote: > Dear All, > I'm running out of space on my laptop (Compaq Presario V5000) so I've > decided > to intall a bigger hard disk. Currently I have an 80GB SATA drive, I'm also > going to add more RAM (from 1GB to 2GB) as RAM is so cheap at the moment. > I've been through va

Re: [gentoo-user] removing X

2007-12-24 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:31:16AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to > see action as a semi-DMZ. > > What is the best way to go about removing X and all its files. > > Removing the basic x11-base/xorg-x11 is easy enough

[gentoo-user] Re: rc-update can't fix broken runlevel config

2007-12-24 Thread reader
"Michal 'vorner' Vaner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In /etc/runlevels, there is a directory for each runlevel. That > directory contains symlinks to the scripts in /etc/init.d. Just delete > the ones that point to non-existing files (they are usually red in bash, > if you have colors). > > I ho

[gentoo-user] removing X

2007-12-24 Thread reader
I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to see action as a semi-DMZ. What is the best way to go about removing X and all its files. Removing the basic x11-base/xorg-x11 is easy enough but there appears to be dozens of other X related pkgs installed. x11-proto/* has ap

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update can't fix broken runlevel config

2007-12-24 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:15:59AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So I guess I need to hand edit whatever source file or files rc-update > uses. Where are they? In /etc/runlevels, there is a directory for each runlevel. That directory contains symlinks to the scripts in /etc/init.d. Just

[gentoo-user] rc-update can't fix broken runlevel config

2007-12-24 Thread reader
I'm stripping down a former regular desktop setup of gentoo to remove X and any unnecessary services like sendmail samba cups... and more. I've been checking dependences and removing thing in some attempt at sytematically .. but the end its `emerge -vC something' So I now have things set in some

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Randy Barlow
Matthew R. Lee wrote: > Question 1: Should I keep the swap partition the same size or increase it? If you are increasing the amount of RAM, and you currently do fine on 512 MB of swap, you should be OK. That said, if you are getting a ton more space, what is 1 GB to dedicate to swap just in case?

[gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Matthew R. Lee
Dear All, I'm running out of space on my laptop (Compaq Presario V5000) so I've decided to intall a bigger hard disk. Currently I have an 80GB SATA drive, I'm also going to add more RAM (from 1GB to 2GB) as RAM is so cheap at the moment. I've been through various howto's online, including the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup

2007-12-24 Thread Randy Barlow
Michael George wrote: > Couldn't establish a connection to :9202: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname > ':9202' I'm not sure why the kernel would make this difference, but it looks like something is trying to connect to "No Host:9202". Do you have your hostname properly configured? And in /etc/hosts