[gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

Installed Gentoo Linux with KDE. Worked on it for some days without any problem. The disk became full (now deleted some files downloaded to my documents to get 1.5Gb free space). Now i can't login to Gentoo. The login screen appears when username and password is entered and press enter It never log

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 07:10:09 Vishnupradeep wrote: > Installed Gentoo Linux with KDE. Worked on it for some days without any > problem. The disk became full (now deleted some files downloaded to my > documents to get 1.5Gb free space). Now i can't login to Gentoo. The login > screen appears when

[gentoo-user] Selecting a particular svn version to emerge on 9999 ebuilds

Hi All, I am trying to troubleshoot e17 which on one laptop recently started shutting down the monitor backlight when the WM starts. I can't recover from it, Ctrl+Alt+F1 is also showing a black screen, stopping X does not fix it and the only solution is to shutdown again. Thankfully I use sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mick wrote: > revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask localhost / # revdep-rebuild -v --ask bash: revdep-rebuild: command not found localhost / # ls bash: ls: command not found localhost / #

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 08:49:59 Vishnupradeep wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mick wrote: > > revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask > > localhost / # revdep-rebuild -v --ask > bash: revdep-rebuild: command not found > localhost / # ls > bash: ls: command not found > localhost / # emerge -1aDv app-

[gentoo-user] Re: Selecting a particular svn version to emerge on 9999 ebuilds

On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 08:43:25 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to troubleshoot e17 which on one laptop recently started > shutting down the monitor backlight when the WM starts. I can't recover > from it, Ctrl+Alt+F1 is also showing a black screen, stopping X does not > fix it and the only

Re: [gentoo-user] Error using "safely remove" for every USB DEVICE.

On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 01:47:44 Carlos Sura wrote: > On 31 October 2011 19:30, Felix Kuperjans wrote: > > Hello Carlos, > > > > this error is just telling you that udisks did not succeed in powering > > down the USB device, but actually it was unmounted cleanly (so no data > > will be lost). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

Am 25.10.2011 07:25, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > How is video and mouse performance? VMware has drivers for that; you > install them inside the guest. There is seamless mouse integration with > guest-host, and very fast graphics (I can run Windows Aero without > problem.) I can also drag&drop f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

Am 25.10.2011 19:08, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 25.10.2011 13:15, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> I assume KVM isn't that handy yet as vmware-player is. > > sidenote: vmware-modules don't work yet with gentoo-sources-3.1.0. > No surprise as that kernel is very new right now. > > (So v

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

On 11/01/2011 01:13 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 25.10.2011 07:25, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: How is video and mouse performance? VMware has drivers for that; you install them inside the guest. There is seamless mouse integration with guest-host, and very fast graphics (I can run Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 04:45:25AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I know of three commands to check the consistency of a Gentoo system: > > > eix-sync && emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world > emerge -p -v --depclean > revdep-rebuild --ignore -p -v > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:45 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I know of three commands to check the consistency of a Gentoo system: > > >    eix-sync && emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world >    emerge -p -v --depclean >    revdep-rebuild --ignore -p -v > > of course, one has to remove the -

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 02:19:59PM +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mick wrote: > > > revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask > > > localhost / # revdep-rebuild -v --ask > bash: revdep-rebuild: command not found > localhost / # ls > bash: ls: command not found > localhost / # m

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 04:45:25 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I know of three commands to check the consistency of a > Gentoo system: > > > eix-sync && emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update > --deep world emerge -p -v --depclean > revdep-rebuild --ignore -p -v > > of course

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

Am Tue, 1 Nov 2011 12:40:09 +0530 schrieb Vishnupradeep : > Installed Gentoo Linux with KDE. Worked on it for some days without > any problem. The disk became full (now deleted some files downloaded > to my documents to get 1.5Gb free space). Now i can't login to > Gentoo. > The login screen appe

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

El 01/11/11 04:10, Vishnupradeep escribió: Installed Gentoo Linux with KDE. Worked on it for some days without any problem. The disk became full (now deleted some files downloaded to my documents to get 1.5Gb free space). Now i can't login to Gentoo. The login screen appears when username and pas

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jonas de Buhr wrote: > failing kde login is likely due to a still full disk. And in this situation,usually login as root is still possible (as long as there is reserved space on the disk)

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

Urs Schutz [11-11-01 18:04]: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 04:45:25 +0100 > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I know of three commands to check the consistency of a > > Gentoo system: > > > > > > eix-sync && emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update > > --deep world emerge -p -v --depclea

[gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: root@smoker / # smartctl -a /dev/sdc smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me.  Here > is the info: > > > What you folks think?  Can I fix it somehow?  I got a good shovel handy just > in case. > > Dale Start doing backups before you write even 1 more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

Am 2011-11-01 13:12, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 11/01/2011 01:13 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 25.10.2011 07:25, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: >>> How is video and mouse performance? VMware has drivers for that; you >>> install them inside the guest. There is seamless mouse integration

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mick wrote: > emerge -1aDv app-portage/gentoolkit > > revdep-rebuild -v --ask > i can't use emerge command as it is shown as command not found. can u tell the correct path of emerge.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

yes full path works. On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:51 PM, YoYo Siska wrote: > and try using full paths: > /bin/ls (or /usr/bin/ls) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mick wrote: > If so use a LiveCD, > chroot and run revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask > I have fedora 15 installed on another drive. Can i chroot from fedora and execute the command

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dale wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: What you folks think? Can I fix it somehow? I got a good shovel handy just in case. Dale Start doing backups before you write even

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

Vishnupradeep wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mick > wrote: emerge -1aDv app-portage/gentoolkit revdep-rebuild -v --ask i can't use emerge command as it is shown as command not found. can u tell the correct path of emerge. /usr/bin/emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

Vishnupradeep wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mick > wrote: If so use a LiveCD, chroot and run revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask I have fedora 15 installed on another drive. Can i chroot from fedora and execute the command I have never used Fedor

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dale  wrote: > Well, it was in my brothers winders rig.  Winders couldn't do anything but > puke on the keyboard so I brought it down here and put it in my old Linux > rig.  I mounted it ro and got

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 02:47:27 PM Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dale wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. > >> Here> > >> is the info: > > > > > >> What you folks think? Can I fix it som

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 01:00:12AM +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote: > yes full path works. > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:51 PM, YoYo Siska wrote: > > > and try using full paths: > > /bin/ls (or /usr/bin/ls) > > What about the env or echo $PATH output? Might be that some files used to set up the en

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, thank you all very much for the checks listed. One question remains: What sequence of commands is adviced to guarantee the best effect on the one hand and on the other hand not to be urged to recompile things -- especially those like libreoffice...-- twice and mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

Am Montag 31 Oktober 2011, 17:21:23 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Michael Mol writes: > > My point is that the numbers aren't what mattered here. My point is > > that SAMSUNG sold me a shoddy product, replaced it with another > > instance of the the same shoddy product, wouldn't replace it again, > > an

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:49:30 -0500 Dale wrote: > Vishnupradeep wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mick > > wrote: > > > > emerge -1aDv app-portage/gentoolkit > > > > revdep-rebuild -v --ask > > > > i can't use emerge command as it is show

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

Am Dienstag, 1. November 2011, 23:00:57 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:49:30 -0500 > > Dale wrote: > > Vishnupradeep wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mick > > > > > > wrote: > > > emerge -1aDv app-portage/gentoolkit > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Dienstag, 1. November 2011, 23:00:57 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:49:30 -0500 Dale wrote: Vishnupradeep wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mickmailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com>> wrote: emerge -1aDv app-portage/gentoolkit revde

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

Am 01.11.2011 20:51, schrieb Dale: > Don't boot a 32 bit OS and chroot into a 64 bit one. That can be done > but it requires some additional commands. I always thought that is impossibl because the 32bit libs and kernel are unable to execute 64bit code. You could do the other way round with no pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 01.11.2011 20:51, schrieb Dale: Don't boot a 32 bit OS and chroot into a 64 bit one. That can be done but it requires some additional commands. I always thought that is impossibl because the 32bit libs and kernel are unable to execute 64bit code. You could do the oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Am 01.11.2011 20:51, schrieb Dale: > > > Don't boot a 32 bit OS and chroot into a 64 bit one. That can be done > > but it requires some additional commands. > > I always thought that is impossibl because the 32bit libs and kernel are > unable to execute 64bit code. Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

Dale wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: SNIP What you folks think? Can I fix it somehow? I got a good shovel handy just in case. Dale :-) :-) OK. For those that have never seen this before, here is what mes

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

Dale wrote: So, if you see things like this in your log file, rescue data real soon. Make a note of this since this could happen on your rig one day. Now I know this is a Western Digital drive. Let's all face it, they all die eventually. I just find it ironic that it is only a few month