Please post /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

net-proxy/http-replicator can share both binary and source files from one machine to others. I use it at work so I don't have to download/build packages on multiple systems. You may need to set up more than one if your architectures or CFLAGS differ from one system to another. Or use multiple build ...

The manual says to press <Alt>-<F2> during POST.

Manual here: http://www.fixya.com/support/p362922-as ... nual-11143.

Ok, so I don't know how to do it with one command, but you can use bash to do it in one line. I hope that follows the spirit of your request, if not the letter.

Try downloading the System Rescue CD and installing gentoo from that. It provides a more full featured environment, and better device auto detection and configuration. The system rescue CD is based on gentoo.

Amanda has a native Windows client. I have done restores before, on work machines (knock on wood, never had a problem with my home boxes), and its very straightforward. I used the text-based restore interface, select the host (I was backing up multiple clients), the date to restore from, and you can ...

I've been using amanda at home and work for years. Works great. My OS install is on its own SATA drive, data is on a RAID-1 array, and backups of both go to an external SATA drive connected via firewire.

/etc/skel is the template directory for newly created users. Add the directories you would like each user to have to this directory.

Hi, folks. I'm not yet on zen-sources, but I wanted to check out BFS since I've been having _serious_ latency issues on my desktop/server at home (running gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r5). I found this thread while searching for info on Gentoo w/BFS, and will be looking into zen-sources for my home box ...

My usb drivers are in kernel.
and hal isn't installed, is it useful for my problem?
I'm not sure. I have an external firewire drive that is mounted at boot-time with no problems. I have the drivers built into the kernel, a line in /etc/fstab, and I do use hal. But I think the hal daemon is started ...

Depending on where they are, sure. All of the *.ph files on my machine are under /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl, and are filtered by excluding that directory. In contrast, I have *.pyc files under /usr/lib/portage and elsewhere, which is why I have a separate filter for those as well as filtering /usr/lib ...

Are your USB drivers compiled as modules or into the kernel ? If they are modules, they may not be loaded when the boot process tries to mount the filesystems listed in /etc/fstab. Try building them directly into the kernel.

Bizarro. Two other things I thought of.

1) Is menu.lst a symlink pointing to grub.conf (the way it should be), or are they two separate files ? Maybe its not reading the grub.conf you think it is.

ll /boot/grub/menu.lst
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-11-07 08:49 /boot/grub/menu.lst -> grub.conf ...

Please don't pastebin such scripts, as they may get lost over time.

Thanks, I'll post any scripts directly into the thread from now on. Didn't really think about the pastebin expiration when I posted.


By they way, you could use mktemp to avoid overwriting files in /tmp by accident, even if ...

You don't happen to also have LILO installed, do you ? I can't think of any reason why your grub config would not be honored, unless it is not grub that is booting your system.

V-Li is spot on, but I check my box periodically for orphans, and wrote a little script to help me out. You can check it out here: http://pastebin.com/m22712455.

The excludes and search variables control what is looked at and what is not. Very handy for running from cron once a month or so.

Can you do an "emerge --sync" and then an "emerge -evp world" to verify you don't have the same problem?
I do emerge syncs fairly often, so I can affirm I do not have this problem.

-> genlop -r
rsync'ed at >>> Tue Aug 11 04:37:51 2009
rsync'ed at >>> Tue Aug 11 16:18:48 2009
rsync'ed at ...

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-apps/util-linux" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:

- sys-apps/util-linux-2.14.2 (masked by: )
- app-arch/gzip-1.3.12-r1 (masked by: )
- sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3-r1 (masked by: )
- sys-fs/lvm2-2.02 ...

The majority of your config is identical to mine, with the major difference being that I am not using ccache. Have you tried building the new system without it ? I've never used it, so don't have any experience on what problems it may cause.

Ok, I do have one other major difference, after ...

Can you post your make.conf file? And any package files you have in /etc/portage?


make.conf: http://pastebin.com/d61dfc946
package.keywords: http://pastebin.com/m3d31ff8c

package.mask:

# 2009-02-25 cannot use vmware-modules > 1.0.0.16
>=app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16

# 2008-10-27 ...

DingbatCA wrote:

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title Gentoo 2.6.30-gentoo-r1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/md3 vga=0x318 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400 mem=1536M max_cpus=2

What else is in your grub config ? Can you post the whole file ?

title Gentoo 2.6.30-gentoo-r1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/md3 vga=0x318 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400 mem=1536M max_cpus=2

The kernel line in your grub config should work fine. I've used the "mem=" option on a couple of machines to test low-memory conditions. I ...

Is -e world just broken? Can anybody else run this successfully on amd64 stable branch?

Yes, I have installed two amd64 machines in August, and emerge -evp world produces no errors...just a very long listing of packages to rebuild. FWIW, I had no problems installing on either machine.


So let ...

Please post your xorg.conf.

Good luck with your re-install. I've done that myself for varying reasons, sometimes just for fun ! Therein lies the beauty of a distinct root partition. I actually created a setup using two disks, with the first partition of each disk set aside for the root partition. Then I could easily install a ...