Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-11 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 23:57 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 10 January 2012 21:45:21 Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > > > Initially, the RTC options were not enabled in my kernel, but even > after > > > setting these, I'm still getting this error. I'

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:02 -0600, Dale wrote: > Florian Philipp wrote: > > Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not > > designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate > > /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so that ntpd can keep it > > in sync af

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:56 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Define crashing? > > This looks more like problems with yout TZ variables than ntpd. > > try "ntpq -p" to check if its actually running/locked. If ntpd is > freewheeling, it is prpbably because your time is too far from lock so > it will s

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
This is true, however it's a temporary measure only, and I have backups. Once the prices drop again, I'll buy another 1.5TB disk and convert back to a RAID5. On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:14 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2012 8:48 AM, "Jeff Cranmer" > wrot

[gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-09 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi, Can anyone give me any pointers as to how to diagnose a problem with ntpd crashing. My time keeps defaulting to 5 hours earlier than it should. There's nothing in dmesg when I do dmesg | grep time, or dmesg | grep ntp, but /etc/init.d/ntpd status tells me that ntpd has crashed. Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-09 Thread Jeff Cranmer
> > > > Me too. > > > > mdadm --detail /dev/md0 thinks that /dev/sdc1 is faulty. > > I'm not sure whether it's really faulty, or just that my setup for RAID > > is screwed up. > > > > How do I get rid of an existing /dev/md0? > > you stop it. Override the superblock with dd.. and lose all data

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-09 Thread Jeff Cranmer
> > > > > > > Success - I managed to get a raid1 device operating. > I created the final filesystem by using mkfs.xfs -f /dev/md0, then > waited for the rebuild to complete before rebooting the system. > > It appears to be created successfully. Now I'll try the same sequence > with sdb and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-08 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 15:03 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 12:31 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > > > > > > What is going on here? > > > > (I didn't read this whole thread, sorry if I'm repeating someone else's > > a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-08 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 12:31 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > > > > What is going on here? > > (I didn't read this whole thread, sorry if I'm repeating someone else's > advice) > > kernel autodetection only works on old superblock version 0.90, you're > using 1.2. Not a big deal, we use mdadm to do i

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-07 Thread Jeff Cranmer
> > > > How do I get rid of an existing /dev/md0? > > you stop it. Override the superblock with dd.. and lose all data on the disks. > > > > > > I'm thinking that I can try creating a RAID1 array using the two > > allegedly good disks and see if I can make that work. > > yeah > > > > > If t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-07 Thread Jeff Cranmer
> > > > I tried changing the type of each array element in fdisk to fd (linux > > raid autodetect. > > > > The array is still not being recognised at boot, with the same 'cannot > > read superblock' error. > > > > I also tried re-running mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 > > --raid-devices=3 /d

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-07 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 10:11 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > > > > > > What am I missing? > > > > > > have you set the type to linux raid autodetect? > > > > > > have you tried mdadm --assemble? > > > > > mdadm

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-07 Thread Jeff Cranmer
> > > > > > What am I missing? > > > > have you set the type to linux raid autodetect? > > > > have you tried mdadm --assemble? > > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 didn't make any difference. > Where do I set the type? > after assembling, results of cat/proc/mdstat personalities : [linear] [raid

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-06 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 13:36 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 23:44:10 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: > > On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 02:42 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > in your case > > > > > > sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sf

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-05 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 02:42 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > in your case > > sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdc > > of course ;) > One of the disks had a GPT partition table which I was eventually able to get rid of with gdisk (emerge -av gptfdisk). I'm close. I had a 2.7TiB RAID5

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-05 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 11:22 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012, 22:45:45 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: > > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 04:01 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > the short one: > > > > > > partition one disk with (c)fdisk.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 04:01 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > the short one: > > partition one disk with (c)fdisk. Use sfdisk to transfer the partition scheme > to the other disks. > > run mdadm --create /dev/md0 level=whatever you want --raid- > devices=thenumberofdevices /dev/sdXY /dev/sdZ

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 14:39 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 21:57:18 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: > > Hi all, > > > > I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX > > motherboard. The board has a raid contro

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I was using a hardware-based 'fakeRAID'. It used to work on my old OpenSuse install, but that broke and I installed gentoo instead. I wasn't able to get that to work, and then the motherboard died, so I built a new system and reused the 3-drive RAID5 array. > > While in the first case you see al

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 22:21 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > On 01/03/2012 08:57 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > device-mapper: table: 253:0: raid45: unknown target type > > Maybe a dumb question, but is the raid45 module enabled in your kernel > config? > genkernel --dmraid all

[gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-03 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi all, I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. The board has a raid controller on which I'm running a 120GB solid state drive for the OS (Raid 0) and a set of three 1.5TB drives which were previously running as a RAID5 array. I can see the sda 120GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting KDE

2012-01-01 Thread Jeff Cranmer
> > > Jeff > > $ qfile libQtGui.so.4.7.4 > x11-libs/qt-gui (/usr/lib64/qt4/libQtGui.so.4.7.4) > > Look at the date time that you built x11-libs/qt-gui (in your emerge.log, or > use genlop) and compare with said file. The files match, last compiled in the morning, two days ago, which is before

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting KDE

2012-01-01 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 13:37 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 14:59 -0200, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 13:53, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > I'm attempting to bring up a new system. Processor is AMD Phenom 1055, > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 14:52 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > >> > > >> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6888730.html#6888730 > >> > > >> > Dale > >> > > >> > :-) :

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
> > > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6888730.html#6888730 > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > > Thanks for the link. > I tried changing the use flags for phonon to -gstreamer vlc, but for > some reason I'm still getting gstreamer pulled in as use flag > requirement, though it adds vlc. S

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 11:47 -0600, Dale wrote: > Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: > > Maybe some use flag inconsistency? Try adding --newuse or -N to your emerge. > > Try this: emerge -uavDN world. If this still just pulls > > phonon-gstreamer, then there should be some problem in the package

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 10:50 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > --tree > Sorry - please could you be a little more verbose? :-)

[gentoo-user] Problems starting KDE

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I'm attempting to bring up a new system. Processor is AMD Phenom 1055, running on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. Graphics card is an NVIDIA GEForce GTX550Ti. If I start X with twm, the xserver connection is made, and TWM comes up correctly with three Xterm windows. I note that I get two erro

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 09:59 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting an error when trying to emerge phonon-gstreamer on my > amdfam10 system. The compilation error is 'undefined reference to > 'typeinfo for Phonon::StreamInterface' > > Has an

[gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi, I'm getting an error when trying to emerge phonon-gstreamer on my amdfam10 system. The compilation error is 'undefined reference to 'typeinfo for Phonon::StreamInterface' Has anyone else seem this error? I'm trying to clear out all remaining items in an emerge -NDuav world prior to debuggin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-23 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 11:55 -0700, walt wrote: > On 08/20/2011 12:21 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > /usr/include/KDE/Plasma/../../plasma/service.h:321: error: > previous definition of 'struct QMetaTypeId' > > Hm, well purely a wild guess, but perhaps /usr/include/pla

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:16 -0700, walt wrote: > On 08/10/2011 03:04 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2011, 14:40:31 schrieb walt: > >> On 08/09/2011 08:34 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>>

[gentoo-user] Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-09 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade kde from 4.4 to 4.6, and I've run into a problem. Plasma-runtime-4.6.3 is failing. The error appears to be redefinition of 'struct QMetaTypeID' Has anyone encountered this problem, and is there an easy fix? Thanks Jeff

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-08-02 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:55 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > > I think this one should have worked? It seems to have found the > > superblock on /dev/sda, at least. > > > > Anyway, I imagine everyone (myself included) is afraid to tell you to do > > an

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-25 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:45 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/22/11 21:56, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? > > > >> > >> Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and > >> adding >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-25 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:45 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/22/11 21:56, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? > > > >> > >> Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and > >> adding >

Re: [gentoo-user] No keyboard or mouse with X after upgrade

2011-07-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:39 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 10:18 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:00 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world list

Re: [gentoo-user] No keyboard or mouse with X after upgrade

2011-07-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 10:18 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:00 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now I > > can't start X and keep the keyboard or mouse ope

[gentoo-user] No keyboard or mouse with X after upgrade

2011-07-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi All, I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now I can't start X and keep the keyboard or mouse operating. Is this a known issue? Any simple fixes? Thanks in advance Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 20:43 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:06 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 07/18/2011 11:08 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > > > > > > > Pardon my additiona

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-20 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:06 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/18/2011 11:08 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > > > > Pardon my additional questions before taking the plunge here. > > > > So, given that I have three devices, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sd

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 22:29 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Make sure your kernel supports RAID, and RAID5 (they're separate > options). Then emerge mdadm. Once you get it up and running once, you > can dump the current config to /etc/mdadm.conf so you don't have to > assemble it again. Then

[gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi all, After cleaning off my Opensuse O.S. and installing Gentoo, I'm having trouble getting my 3-disk nvidia SATA raid5 array back on line. The gentoo OS is on a separate non-raid IDE disk, and I can see the three individual disks which make up the raid array (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-17 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:28 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:51 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: > > I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; > > > > Section "Files" > > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:51 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: > I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; > > Section "Files" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/" > EndSection > > Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 22:24 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. > > First, get rid of the open source ati drivers > emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati > > Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
- the xorg.log file has this error. atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. Can anyone shed light on this? Thanks Jeff On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 20:11 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:32 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > > > You mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:32 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > You mentioned that you used "fglrxinfo" in your post, which assumes > you're using the closed source driver :-/ Another hint was that you're > using an HD5000 series card, which is not supported correctly by the > open source dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-13 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 17:06 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Forgot one last thing. After you do what I described in my other post, > make sure to execute: > > eselect opengl set ati > > Hi Nikos, Thanks for the advice. I think that the instructions that you're providing, however, are for

[gentoo-user] Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-12 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi, I have a Sapphire Radeon HD5750 graphics card installed on my Gentoo box, and I'm having some difficulty configuring it. When I run fglrxinfo, I get the OpenGL messages for a basic Mesa driver. I've attached the xorg.conf file, the Xorg.0.log file, and the results of the lspci command. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:44:37 pm Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > > On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote: > >> Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > >>> I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept > >>> keyword

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > > I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept > > keywords > > reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out > there. Your system is broke

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:15:41 pm Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > First avoid top posting > > > OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system, > > and it is failing due to several errors. Other than reformatting the > >

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2/temp/environment'. * On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:03:59 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
t keywords line in there, it simply adds to the list of keywords, rather than replacing the amd64 with ~amd64 Jeff On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:49:46 pm Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > > On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:35:56 pm Justin wrote: > >>> However, did yo

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:35:56 pm Justin wrote: > > However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib and you > > have attempted to downgrade glibc? > > My fault missed the c. > @Jeff > Please provide a emerge --info so that we can comment on it. Perhaps > this will protect you fro

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
> > > > > > Perhaps you should go back to a lower glib version. Latest versions of > > > such important packages might always have issues. > > > > What is the approved way to do this? > > There is no approved way to downgrade glibc. The output message from the > error you posted tells you why the

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 01:49:41 pm Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > >> Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you > >> can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a > >> look at the buildpkg section. Altern

Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 12:43:58 pm Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Penguin Lover > Jeff Cranmer squawked: > > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > > checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes > >

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
> Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you > can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a > look at the buildpkg section. Alternatively, you can cross compile > binary packages[1]. > > Or, why not just use a stage tarball? > > HTH. > > Joe > > [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:52:11 am Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:11:59 am Justin wrote: > > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > > > I have a problem with my gentoo system > > > > > > I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor "/lib

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:11:59 am Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > > I have a problem with my gentoo system > > > > I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity > > check error on a number of packages. > > > &

[gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have a problem with my gentoo system I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check error on a number of packages. After a bit of searching, the solution that I come across most often is to recompile glibc and gcc. Unfortunately, when I try to compile glibc,

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Monday 15 December 2008 03:40:00 am Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:48:47 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > I've also discovered that the /etc/make.profile symlink was pointing at > > the x86 default-linux profile set, not the amd64 profile. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer
It looks like fixing the /etc/make.profile symlink fixed my problem. I'm still a little nervous about whether I need to run any other commands in order to prevent my system going wrong after making this correction. Jeff On Sunday 14 December 2008 09:48:47 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer
hopefully this will fix my problems. I wonder if this latent error is not about to cost me a whole bunch more though. Is there anything I should do with the emerge command or any other command in order to correct this profile problem? Thanks Jeff On Sunday 14 December 2008 09:17:22 pm Jef

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer
ompilation to correct any errors resulting from the original (I believe invalid) variable? Any suggestions gratefully received. Jeff On Saturday 13 December 2008 06:43:24 pm Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: > 2008/12/13 Jeff Cranmer > > > Perhaps it would have done if I knew where the

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-13 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Perhaps it would have done if I knew where the download page was. On Saturday 13 December 2008 07:25:36 am Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:03:43 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > Failed to extract the files. Please refer to the Troubleshooting > > section of t

[gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-12 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I am getting an error when I try to update sun-jdK /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11/distdir/jdk-6u11-dlj-linux-i586.bin: line 821: ./install.sfx.14482: No such file or directory Failed to extract the files. Please refer to the Troubleshooting section of the Installation Instructions on

[gentoo-user] Printing to an HPD7400 Series Printer

2008-06-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Can anyone help me with the correct CUPs settings to print to an HP D7400 series printer over a wireless network? I can access the printer's home page via the IP address, but when I set up CUPS with the printer option socket://192.168.2.4, the job fails, and the printer screen returns the error

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
>> >> >> From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride > >I can use realplayer aswell, I use it to stream BBC radio, though it works >better if you click launch as a stand-alone player, the embeded version tends >to skip a bit > How do I get firefox to use realplayer for bbc audio and video files instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
TECTED]> >Sent: Feb 10, 2008 1:12 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo > >On Sunday 10 February 2008 12:48:44 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: >> Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo? >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
This PC is a 32 bit OS. It does have flash - all youtube videos work OK. Jeff -Original Message- >From: Ian Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Feb 10, 2008 1:04 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo > >Ian Le

[gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo? I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos, either with the embedded player or the standalone. Jeff -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sandisk mounting problems

2008-01-06 Thread Jeff Cranmer
> > >Try rmmod ehci-hcd, then modprobe ohci-hcd and see what happens. > >Also, include from /var/log/messages everything printed from when ohci-hcd is >modprobed to then end of actually plugging in the Sansa. And again when >trying ehci-hcd. > >-- ohci was not included in my kernel. I recompil

[gentoo-user] Sandisk mounting problems

2008-01-05 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have a new Sansa Sandisk MP3 player. When I plug it in, I get the following dmesg output usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 ehci_hcd :00:1d.7: port 1 reset error -110 hub 2-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) I have been able to successfully mount several

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
-Original Message- >From: Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 22, 2007 2:01 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup > >On Saturday 22 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: >> On Saturday 22 December 2007

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30:45 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > I think I'm getting closer now. > > I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper. > > I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used > > ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf to install it. > > > > Now, when

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Friday 21 December 2007 09:21:03 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:45:26 -0500 Jeff Cranmer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187. I wonder if this is > > > > part of the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-20 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Thursday 20 December 2007 02:00:36 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot really go into details, but maybe I'm competent enough to make > some notes on this: > > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:47:55 -0500 > > Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-20 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Thursday 20 December 2007 03:40:07 am Mick wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > I have checked, and ndiswrapper and the rtl8187 package were > > uninstalled. I think that the problem I have may be more basic. > > > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Final piece of info for the day. When I ran dhcpcd wlan0, I get Error, wlan0: timed out Error, wlan0: lease information file '/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-wlan0.info' does not exist Any assistance gratefully received Jeff On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:47:55 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
plicant', but at least now I have an interface showing up It appears that it cannot find an access point. The access point is active, as I can connect my work laptop to it, but so far, the laptop can't see it. Any further advice gratefully received. Jeff On Wednesday 19 Decemb

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
"dhcp" ) dhcp_wlan="-R -G" wpa_supplicant has been emerged. Jeff On Sunday 16 December 2007 12:14:42 pm Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > All I get for iwconfig is > > lo no wireless extensions > > eth0n

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
suggests that this may be the case: http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista/ Does anyone know how I can locate the equivalent code in the kernel and perhaps perform a similar modification? Thanks Jeff On Monday 17 December 2007 06:26:41 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: > I h

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
are net.lo and net.eth0 Jeff On Sunday 16 December 2007 05:50:49 am Florian Philipp wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 23:19 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:48:10 am Mick wrote: > > > On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:48:10 am Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > I believe that I have this enabled, however ieee80211 is still barfing > > out by asking for CONFIG_NET_RADIO. > > > > I'll check and confirm this toni

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer
-Original Message- >From: Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 14, 2007 8:27 AM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems > >On Friday 14 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: >> I am presently having problems co

[gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems

2007-12-13 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I am presently having problems compiling suspend2 kernel 2.6.22. It compiles with genkernel, but if I try to use make and customise a special kernel, it will not find my hard drive. The error message reports that the ide-cdrom on hda is the only drive present. The computer is a Toshiba L45-7409

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-11 Thread Jeff Cranmer
too.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup > > >On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 23:09 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: >> Can anyone point me to a resource for configuration of a realtek 8197 >> wireless >> card on a Toshiba laptop? >> >>

[gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Can anyone point me to a resource for configuration of a realtek 8197 wireless card on a Toshiba laptop? I am running the 2.6.22-suspend2-r2 kernel, and have installed ndiswrapper. Unfortunately, when I try to install ieee80211, I get an error because CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not configured in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Monday 19 November 2007 11:46:39 pm Billy Holmes wrote: > Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB > > drive at sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel > > still panics (probably due t

Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Monday 19 November 2007 12:35:14 am Billy Holmes wrote: > Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown block (0,0) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option. > > Here are the available partitions > > run "make men

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Jeff On Sunday 18 November 2007 05:00:12 pm »Q« wrote: > Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 18 November 2007 03:42:53 pm b.n. wrote: > > > Jeff Cranmer ha scritto: > > > > I have just tried to install the latest 2.6.22-r9 kernel > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 18 November 2007 03:42:53 pm b.n. wrote: > Jeff Cranmer ha scritto: > > I have just tried to install the latest 2.6.22-r9 kernel > > I copied the config file across from the present 2.6.17.r8 installed > > kernel, then recompiled. > > [...] > > > Can

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have just tried to install the latest 2.6.22-r9 kernel I copied the config file across from the present 2.6.17.r8 installed kernel, then recompiled. The grub line which works for the 2.6.17-r8 kernel is: # For booting GNU/Linux title Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 root (hd0,4) kernel /kernel-2.6.17-ge

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

2007-11-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Success. I updated hplip, which replaced the /etc/sane.d/dll/conf hpoj line with hpaio. Now all is working once more :-) Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Neil Jeff On Friday 16 November 2007 09:00:06 am Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Progress kind of :-/ > > I set SANE_BACKE

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

2007-11-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
0x Unfortunately, sane can no longer find my scanner, even after restarting hotplug. Any assistance gratefully received. Thanks Jeff On Friday 16 November 2007 08:33:14 am Jeff Cranmer wrote: > The scanner is an HP PSC-750xi > SANE_BACKENDS is set to hpaio in make.conf. > Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

2007-11-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
The scanner is an HP PSC-750xi SANE_BACKENDS is set to hpaio in make.conf. What should it be set to? Jeff > On Friday 16 November 2007 04:44:54 am Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:36:46 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > I do not seem to be able to update a lot of

[gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

2007-11-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Can anyone help me with an update issue? I do not seem to be able to update a lot of my system, because sane-backends fails to compile. This is the error I get make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r4/work/sane-backends-1.0.18/backend' make[1]: *** No rul

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