Re: [gentoo-user] Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

2009-09-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 08 September 2009 21:24:52 schrieb Grant Edwards: > Does this have something to do with the fact that > apps-misc/gnuit used to be called apps-misc/git? I'd rather say it has something to do with the fact that both packages provide a binary called /usr/bin/git, Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set udev rule?

2009-08-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 30 August 2009 23:26:52 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Jesús Guerrero writes: > > On Sun, August 30, 2009 21:38, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Am Sonntag 30 August 2009 19:29:39 schrieb Alex Schuster: > > >> I have to change the bus from usb to scsi, then i

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set udev rule?

2009-08-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 30 August 2009 19:29:39 schrieb Alex Schuster: > I have to change the bus from usb to scsi, then it works. But what about > unmounting? Is is possible to have it unmounted after I pull the memory > stick? How do want to umount something that's not there anymore? You have to umount _be

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 installation

2009-08-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 28 August 2009 19:42:00 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > > That said, just try it, it's the best KDE you've ever seen :) . > Well, I still do have constant crashes of KDE4 in conjunction with NVidia > drivers. Hmm, I don't. > So for me it is definitely not stable yet. Also, it still mis

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 installation

2009-08-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 28 August 2009 17:41:42 schrieb Massimiliano Ziccardi: > That's not very nice. I can't update to KDE4 'couse it's not ready stable > enough, but KDE3 could get maskedIt's seems like I'm living on the > edge... :-) Seems this needs some clarification: KDE 4.3 _is_ stable, otherwise

Re: [gentoo-user] Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

2009-08-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 20:04:57 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > Hi all, > > the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate entries in > KDE's (4.3.0) K menu. Any idea how to get rid of them? Google doesn't give > a definitive answer :( Ok, some more det

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

2009-08-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 20:21:27 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 08/26/2009 09:04 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate entries in > > KDE's (4.3.0) K menu. Any idea how to get r

[gentoo-user] Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

2009-08-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi all, the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate entries in KDE's (4.3.0) K menu. Any idea how to get rid of them? Google doesn't give a definitive answer :( Thanks... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

2009-08-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 09:25:55 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > >> 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers). > > > > However, you can unmerge 4.2.x,

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 won't work!

2009-08-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 19 August 2009 21:49:44 schrieb Michael Sullivan: > 00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) > Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2a6c > Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23 > Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetcha

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 won't work!

2009-08-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 19 August 2009 21:10:27 schrieb Michael Sullivan: > A couple of weeks ago my ten year-old(ish) server box died. I've wanted > to replace it for a long time, and last week we finally did. We took it > to our local computer shop to have a new hard drive installed, as the > old one used

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 won't work!

2009-08-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 19 August 2009 21:10:27 schrieb Michael Sullivan: > I just can't figure out why it's not working, since it > works when I boot with the livecd... That's the good news. Please post output of lspci -v from the LiveCD. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitall

Re: [gentoo-user] Install kernel 2.6.22

2009-08-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 17 August 2009 09:22:16 schrieb Song Zhiwei: > I want to emerge the gentoo-source-2.6.22, but the latest portage does > not have it but only have 2.6.16, 2.6.25 and above. How can I install > the kernel 2.6.22 for gentoo? Thanks in advance. If you don't need any special things provided

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

2009-08-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 23:18:40 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > And if the changes between kde-4.2 and kde-4.3 DO require changes to the > set files to build everything, then what should one do? Not copy the files > and live with the omission/breakage? I maybe wrong here, but aren't the sets in kde-t

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

2009-08-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 17 August 2009 00:12:33 schrieb Roy Wright: > So it looks like the kde-4.3 upgrade is still tightly coupled to the > kde-testing overlay. No, it's not. I don't have the kde-testing overlay and update went smooth, except for the blockers you mentioned, but they were solved by simply

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

2009-08-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers). However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

2009-08-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:02:50 schrieb Roy Wright: > So for the kde-4.3 upgrade, it looks like this is what will be > necessary: > > 1) grab the sets again from the kde-testing overlay and put them in / > etc/portage/sets (assumption is to do a replace). > 2) unmerge kde-4.2 using: emerge --un

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 15 August 2009 19:25:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > A common misunderstanding is that you have to rebuild gcc twice. This is > not true as gcc's own build system in fact builds gcc three times and does > a binary diff between the last two, the build only proceeds if they are > bit-for- bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 15 August 2009 19:24:09 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > system has to be rebuilt twice. When you get a new toolchain > ("system"), you need to rebuilt it with itself. The first time you do > that, it is rebuilt using the *old* toolchain. The second time it is > rebuilt using the *new* t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 15 August 2009 18:42:11 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Code Listing 2.2: Rebuilding system > > # emerge -eav system > # emerge -eav world I still wonder about this one. Doesn't world include system, so that the above would result in rebuilding a vast amount of packages twice? Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 14 August 2009 22:47:46 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > > > Note that on Linux you may need to add "-no-fsync" because file I/O is > > > slow on Linux. On Solaris,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > Note that on Linux you may need to add "-no-fsync" because file I/O is slow > on Linux. On Solaris, not using -no-fsync slows things down by aprox. 10% > but allows star to grant that everything was really copied to stable > storage. On

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 14 August 2009 18:11:34 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > star by default only overwrites a file if it is older than the file that is > going to be extracted. Thanks. Will definitely try it out on next occasion. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > The fastest method for copying directory trees (typicalls 30% faster than > any other known method) is to use star: > > star -copy -p -xdot -acl -sparse -C . That's a really nice one. However, does it also handle the "update " case

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: > I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at > the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I > cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a hiss no matter > which player I us

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 03 August 2009 22:51:58 schrieb Thierry de Coulon: > Anyway, I would not use such a full partition for / or /home. When it > happend I moved /usr to another partition. Hmm, I simply extend the logical volume. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 04 August 2009 11:21:49 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System > > was first and did it. Yeah, I liked the database characteristics of Old BFS, but unfortunately its performance was suboptimal, even on the faster BeBoxen. Bye... Dirk s

Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 27 Juli 2009 03:18:34 schrieb Harry Putnam: > I'm not that familiar with nfs usage ... only used lightly a few > times. > > I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. > > The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). > > Also has the set-gid bit set.

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 09 Juli 2009 01:19:10 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > As many have pointed out, you don't set "kde". I knew that, and put > "kdm" in the config file, but described it as "kde" because that's how > I think about it. Well, we can only see what you write, not what you think. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 08 Juli 2009 19:27:03 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > # What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm | kdm | kdm-3.5 | > kdm-4.0 | gpe | entrance ] > > I've tried changing the DISPLAYMANAGER to kde, Hmm, where in the list above do you see "kde"? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 08 Juli 2009 19:24:01 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > I do have xinit, which installs /etc/init.d/xdm. That's only the init-script and its config file. > I see no ebuild > called xdm, so if there's something else I need, please tell me. # paludis -q xdm * x11-apps/xdm gentoo:

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start

2009-07-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 08 Juli 2009 19:15:29 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory This is usually a symlink to the drivers opengl libs. Is the driver for your graphic adapter installed? If yes, did you "es

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 08 Juli 2009 19:22:25 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > > So is xdm emerged? Seems strange. > > xdm comes from xinit, which is emerged. No, it comes from xdm, as Mark wrote. > Back in May, when this was working, it booted into KDE. However, > /etc/conf.d/xdm seems to be set to start "xdm",

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 08 Juli 2009 18:09:18 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > Script started on Wed 08 Jul 2009 09:00:25 AM PDT > treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm stop > * Stopping xdm ... > /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory If that what you want to start isn't there, well, you can't

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able > to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. > > What is the gentoo way to do that? Gentoo or not, make your changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, logout from yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 20:26:23 schrieb Alex Schuster: > > The LUKS key isn't stored as cleartext, it's encrypted. > > Um, I mean the passphrase I specify with --key-file to cryptsetup. Or which > would be asked at the prompt if I would not give it. OK, now I get it. But those are two different

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 19:53:20 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Right :) I didn't want my LUKS key to be in clear-text The LUKS key isn't stored as cleartext, it's encrypted. > even if it's in a > binary file on some server which probably no one will ever see and identify > as a boot partition. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 16:28:22 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Dirk Heinrichs writes: > > > > And how do you protect the key on the stick? What if you loose it? > > It's a long sentence from The Hichhiker's Guide To The Galaxy I can find > again. And meanwhile I also

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 04 Juli 2009 14:51:54 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Dirk Heinrichs writes: > > > > having said that, you can even do w/o > > initramfs, just put everything into /boot (which should be a separate > > partition, then). Again, see my reply to David for the details. &

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 01 Juli 2009 12:40:20 schrieb Alex Schuster: > The last two PCs (A and B) I installed are fully encrypted. I used > different methods. I used genkernel --luks --lvm --install all to create > kernel and initramfs. First, see one of my replies to David Shen's thread "Self created initra

Re: [gentoo-user] Why did this happen?

2009-06-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 30 Juni 2009 19:54:23 schrieb Michael Higgins: > Can anyone speculate as to why this error? Because it's /sbin/nologin. > Is the fix to usermod -s /sbin/nologin for each of these? Yes. Or vipw. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message par

Re: [gentoo-user] Self created initramfs cannot work

2009-06-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 29 Juni 2009 14:08:54 schrieb David Shen: > my /init script is running now, but I got '/bin/sh: can't access tty; > job control turned off' error. I google a lot, and I think it would > relate with my HD. When this error occurs, I got a simple shell. I > tried 'lvm vgscan' in that shell,

Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 28 Juni 2009 01:31:04 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > If you switch default compiler emerge -s world has to be done. That should be -e instead, I guess? But no, it doesn't need to be done. The only case we had were it was needed was the switch from 3.4.x to 4.x, because of C++ ABI ch

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel cross compilation

2009-06-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 27 Juni 2009 19:33:48 schrieb David Relson: > My workstation is an AMD64 and I want to build a 486 kernel. I've > tried oldconfig, menuconfig, and xconfig and they all change > the .config from X86_32 to X86_64. How do I stop this behavior? make CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- ARCH=i

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing qt4 meta

2009-06-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 27 Juni 2009 18:13:56 schrieb Marco: > Is there a way to find out if packages depend on qt? Although I think > I did not install any packages that depend on qt (saving space) I am > not 100% sure... Well, paludis said it couldn't uninstall it because there were packages depending on i

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing qt4 meta

2009-06-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 27 Juni 2009 15:51:20 schrieb Marco: > How can I remove all the packages in the meta package? No need to do that. It's about the meta package only. > 'emerge --unmerge qt' only removes > x11-libs/qt but not the dependencies/meta ebuild That's correct, x11-libs/qt _is_ the meta eb

Re: [gentoo-user] Self created initramfs cannot work

2009-06-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 27 Juni 2009 10:25:11 schrieb David Shen: > yep, i'd like to learn from your script. OK, here you are. > BTW, I also put my initramfs into a separate partition /boot. Seems you misunderstood. I don't use an initramfs anymore, /boot _is_ my initramfs replacement. Whatever you put int

Re: [gentoo-user] Self created initramfs cannot work

2009-06-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 27 Juni 2009 03:32:50 schrieb David Shen: > I build by gentoo kernel without genkernel, and I want to create the > initramfs by hand. Following is the steps I did: I also did this for some years, I could send you my setup script if you want. Nowadays I've switched to putting the stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 21 Juni 2009 23:16:49 schrieb Maxim Wexler: > Couldn't find device with uuid 'ldwVeS-gwl4-HE4Z-M3Gw-DILI-Dbjh-2lHroF'. > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg. That could either mean that (not all of) the drivers needed to access this device are available (not com

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 22 Juni 2009 03:20:02 schrieb Maxim Wexler: > > Would I be correct in thinking the SSD is a sata device while the SD is > > a usb device?? > > > > How are you USB drivers compiled in the kenrnel? And what about: > # NOTE: USB_STORAGE depends on SCSI but BLK_DEV_SD may also be needed; >

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 21 Juni 2009 01:51:34 schrieb Maxim Wexler: > > So you should really put device-mapper into the boot runlevel. And btw, > > why do > > compile things as modules which you need in any case? Doesn't make sense > > to me. > > I put device-mapper into the boot runlevel. I re-compiled the ker

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 22:23:58 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > > No good. rc-update shows udev, devfs, dmesg, device-mapper in sysinit > > runlevel. > > device-mapper is wrong, there. After reading your initial post in this thread again, that explains the problem. You have d

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 22:26:31 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 21:23:29 schrieb Maxim Wexler: > > > As said above, it's not not needed. Maybe it's better to investigate > > > wether there are any leftovers from baselayout 1 in the runlevels

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 21:23:29 schrieb Maxim Wexler: > > As said above, it's not not needed. Maybe it's better to investigate > > wether there are any leftovers from baselayout 1 in the runlevels. This > > was at > > How? You could start by comparing the contents of the bl2 and openrc packages w

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 21:14:35 schrieb Maxim Wexler: > > Guess you can do the same, at least if you don't have dm-crypt > > mappings, or you can try adding device-mapper to sysinit level directly. > > > > > > Here's my boot sequence (from rc.log): > > > > > > rc sysinit logging started at Fri J

Re: [gentoo-user] How to nail the order of modules loaded

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 18:10:20 schrieb Konstantinos Agouros: > >Naming makes the order irrelevant. > > How so? Because you no longer have eth0 and eth1 which may be one or the other NIC depending on module load order or in which order the kernel discovers the NICs. Look at my example rules ag

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 13:56:51 schrieb Mike Kazantsev: > > > So LVM would start before dmcrypt? Great. > > > > Yes. > > No, because encrypted partitions hold LVM volumes as well. Well, the usual way is to encrypt LVs, so LVM mut be first. Gentoo support's this scheme as default. If you decide

Re: [gentoo-user] How to nail the order of modules loaded

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 12:48:03 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > True, but, depending on how you interpret the original question, it cold > also mean that the wrong driver claiming the card means the interface > doesn't come up. It all depends on how you interpret "this doesn't work", > which isn't the m

Re: [gentoo-user] How to nail the order of modules loaded

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 11:06:19 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 10:06:37 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > I thought that,but reading the question again, I don't think the problem > > is naming, but the wrong driver claiming the card. > > Naming makes the ord

Re: [gentoo-user] How to nail the order of modules loaded

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 10:06:37 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > I thought that,but reading the question again, I don't think the problem > is naming, but the wrong driver claiming the card. Naming makes the order irrelevant. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-user] How to nail the order of modules loaded

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 09:42:43 schrieb Dale: > Could he not just build the modules into the kernel and then not have to > worry about the loading at all? Heck, the only module I use is nvidia > but it is not a "in kernel" option. That doesn't prevent the order from changing with a different ker

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 09:37:24 schrieb Mike Kazantsev: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > I believe there's "after device-mapper" line already in lvm-2.02.45, so > > > it should run fine, but as an additional precaution I have dm-crypt > > > script at

Re: [gentoo-user] How to nail the order of modules loaded

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 09:06:51 schrieb Konstantinos Agouros: > Hi, > > I have a box that serves as a firewall and thus has different NICs. > However when booting I run into a problem: > > One of the NICs needs the de4x5 driver another the tulip one. Udev > loads tulip first, which then tries to c

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

2009-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 07:33:38 schrieb Mike Kazantsev: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:15:12 -0600 > > Maxim Wexler wrote: > > Seems if I add the commands: > > > > vgscan --mknodes > > vgchange -a y > > mount -a > > > > to /etc/conf.d/bootmisc and add it to the boot runlevel, the eee boots > > to a coh

Re: [gentoo-user] Umlaut trouble in filenames

2009-06-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 19 Juni 2009 16:42:23 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > which works well. utf gave me trouble in the past, so I shelfed that idea a > long time ago. OTOH, utf8 works perfectly well here, since years. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message par

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RAID 1 over network

2009-06-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 16 Juni 2009 15:58:37 schrieb Philipp Riegger: > On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 16:45 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > DRBD is HA solution which is achieved by switching the role of the > > nodes in case the "active node" goes offline. I think DRBD is not meant > > for the schema OP has described,

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.5 packages blocking each other

2009-06-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 22:45:49 schrieb Francisco Ares: > And how do I tell if an ebuild is monolithic or not? The monolithic ones install larger parts of KDE, and usually have the same names as the original source packages offered at KDE.org. The split ebuilds, well, split those packages into

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.5 packages blocking each other

2009-06-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 22:24:26 schrieb Francisco Ares: > It looks like there's some issue in some packages being 3.5.10 and all the > rest being 3.5.9, but I have no keywords set in > /etc/portage/packages.keywords - perhaps I should. Partly. It seems to be a mix of split ebuilds and monolithic

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 21:56:04 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > There's a few guidlelines one can give (but only a few). The variables tend > to be large than the amounts with guidelines though. > > /var/tmp/portage should be at least 1G on a modern system, 6G+ if building > mozilla stuff and OOo is som

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in fstab w/ lvm?

2009-06-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 21:54:45 schrieb Daniel da Veiga: > > Is this legal? Mounting two things at the same place? > > AFAIK, no. Yes. However, unless you do union mounts, you'll only see what's mounted last. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message p

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ESATA drive changes the root device -- how to deal with it?

2009-06-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009 17:32:18 schrieb walt: > I've tried using a disk label in fstab instead of a device name, but the > problem is that the kernel mounts the wrong partition before it has a > chance to read fstab. fstab is the wrong place. It should be on the kernel command line (that thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost free space on /

2009-06-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009 09:49:02 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > or you never 'saw' the impact because you are used to it. Errh, no. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost free space on /

2009-06-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009 09:33:46 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > I tried too but it slows down disk speed to a crawl when there's disk > activity by an order of magnitude (commands take 3-4 seconds to execute > while without LVM they give sub-second responses.) Hmm, that's strange. I've never see

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009 00:44:51 schrieb Philip Webb: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > > But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? > > I haven't followed this thread in detail, but has anyone suggested LVM ? No. I'm so used to it I can't even imagine t

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 22:49:39 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > my /var is 36gb in size. Mine has only 2. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 21:56:21 schrieb KH: > Well something creating that much messages is just buggi! The cpu will > be on havy duty no diffrence where /var is mounted. This is a bug which > should not happen. But if it happens, it only fills /var! Bye... Dirk signature.asc Descrip

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: > I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did > not respond well when network connection was lost. My > /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message > repeated tens of millions of times. Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009 21:34:10 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Jorg - Is there some reason that cdrecord isn't in portage? I am not > seeing it listed. Maybe it's my mistake. I'll look again later. app-cdr/cdrtools Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message pa

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to 2008.0 live-install CD

2009-06-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 1. Juni 2009 04:10:25 schrieb Maxim Wexler: > On 5/31/09, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 31. Mai 2009 21:38:59 schrieb Maxim Wexler: > >> Can somebody recommend an alternative, preferably non-debian; > > > > Did you try GRML? That's what I u

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 31. Mai 2009 19:57:01 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > Not updating your MBR means your stage 1 is a different version from your > stage1.5 and stage2, which may or may not cause problems. > > Or you you mean there's no need to install the newer version at all? Yes, so that the above cannot ha

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to 2008.0 live-install CD

2009-05-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 31. Mai 2009 21:38:59 schrieb Maxim Wexler: > Can somebody recommend an alternative, preferably non-debian; Did you try GRML? That's what I usually use. HTH... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 30. Mai 2009 20:59:00 schrieb John P. Burkett: > On a x86 machine I did "emerge -D -uav world" and got a response that > read in part as follows: > * Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9: There's no need whatsoever to update grub once it's in your MBR. There's even no need to k

Re: [gentoo-user] was paludis and make.conf - reply to DH

2009-05-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 26. Mai 2009 01:16:48 schrieb maxim wexler: > You mean it actually says what it is not uninstalling; Yes, there's some keyword in [] before each file it (un-)installs. I think for config protected files it prints "[cfg]" or something similar. Bye... Dirk signature.asc De

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: paludis and make.conf

2009-05-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 24. Mai 2009 16:42:53 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > That should be explained in the portage docs. > > Best possible answer :-) Indeed it was, given that I didn't know it myself? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: paludis and make.conf

2009-05-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 24. Mai 2009 02:59:43 schrieb maxim.wex...@gmail.com: > I meant I did not want things to get too complicated by adding lots of > packages before I understood the system. > > In my grep of env.d their are only 5 lines _all_CONFIG_PROTECT_MASKs. > None of then lead to /etc/init.d. So why

Re: [gentoo-user] was paludis and make.conf - reply to DH

2009-05-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 24. Mai 2009 00:43:07 schrieb maxim wexler: > For instance, it appears CONFIG_PROTECT kept some important files in etc > after my trying to uninstall cpufreqd and cpufrequtils. Does this mean I > need to turn on and off CONFIG_PROCTECT on an adhoc basis? Or is there some > option to se

Re: [gentoo-user] Is paludis bad for SSDs?

2009-05-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 23. Mai 2009 18:30:43 schrieb maxim wexler: > > Are you using baselayout1 or baselayout2/openrc? > > Hadn't thought about it. baselayout-1.12.11.1 appears under > /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/ > > Do you recommend migrating to openrc as per My point was not that you should migrate, but if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Is paludis bad for SSDs?

2009-05-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 23. Mai 2009 01:15:16 schrieb maxim wexler: > Does this have anything to do with #paludis -u some-pkg not getting along > with the SSD? It's the only cause/effect scenario I can come up with. No, I don't think so. Watch the shutdown messages carefully and look wether one or more of th

Re: [gentoo-user] sudoers syntax questions

2009-05-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 22. Mai 2009 11:12:12 schrieb Arnau Bria: > I'd like to allow some users to umount any dir under certain path, but > as man says: > > Any idea will be appreciated. Use the kernel automounter (autofs). Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messag

Re: [gentoo-user] paludis and make.conf

2009-05-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2009 22:57:05 schrieb maxim wexler: > Now that I'm starting to use paludis in place of portage Congratulations :-) > Sure enough, under /var/db/pkg/.cache, appear the following: > > all_CONFIG_PROTECT > all_CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK > > But how did paludis decide to use these vari

Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 19. Mai 2009 20:28:44 schrieb Jarry: > Concerning LVM: IIRC it is not recommended to use lvm for /boot or > / partition (maybe this has changed since I tested lvm last time). /boot: Of course not. /: Was possible ever since (given that /boot is separate). Bye... Dirk signa

Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 19. Mai 2009 18:59:06 schrieb Jarry: > is there some software for "live" partition backup/copying/cloning > with raw/smart copying capabilities, like Acronis TrueImage, Norton > Ghost or O&O DiskImage in windows-world? What's wrong with dd? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: solved

2009-05-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 17. Mai 2009 09:18:52 schrieb Philip Webb: > > However, I can't even find it in menuconfig. > > > >> # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG is not set > > > > As written before: No SG, no write (to CD). > > No, I didn't have it in 2.6.25 & have just blanked a CD without it. > The kernel help recommends 'N

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 18:38:26 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > > CONFIG_HAVE_IDE=y > > Useless. Hmm, seems to be selected automatically, thus not that useless ;) However, I can't even find it in menuconfig. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 11:55:18 schrieb Philip Webb: > 090516 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Please post your kernel config. Please post it completely, > > best together with output from "lspci -v" when booted into the LiveCD. > > I have got 2.6.25 to work again a

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 08:56:38 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 01:11:53 schrieb Philip Webb: > > 090515 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 11:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb: > > >> For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 01:11:53 schrieb Philip Webb: > 090515 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 11:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb: > >> For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD & discovered > >> that /dev/sr0 is not being created nor symlink

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 11:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb: > For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD & discovered > that /dev/sr0 is not being created nor symlink /dev/cdrom ; > I looked at 'dmesg': no mention of 'sr' or 'cd' being found. > > I've searched the Forum (more noise than signa

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 11:25:07 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Furthermore, how to unmerge all of KDE:3.5, e.g. > emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:3.5 > does not work. paludis --uninstall --with-dependencies =kdelibs-3.5.9 HTH... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally si

[gentoo-user] Re: /boot or not /boot

2009-05-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009 14:24:21 schrieb Stroller: > Indeed. So this seems an "unnecessary rule" to me. No, it's not. There are situations, where compiling the drivers into the kernel is not enough (as is the case with an encrypted root fs). Then you need to do some userspace "magic" to enable

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