Quite correct! Although to use your analogy I am using an appliance which has the "fuse-blowing" feature disabled.

However as a bug has been filed, I imagine that the in the next release of miniperl, those who know more than I will have fixed it.

Meanwhile I have a fully functional system with one ...

OK thanks

added -fno-stack-protector to CFLAGS.

perl compiled OK, removed -fno-stack-protector and completed emerge -u world.

(Note to self: search http://bugs.gentoo.org/ as well as forums!)

I'm getting the following error when emerging perl (doing emerge -u system).

Can someone suggest why this may be happening (and what to do to fix)?

I have tried emerging libperl no problems there but still unable to emerge perl.



......
`sh cflags "optimize='-march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame ...

I wonder if esound can somehow be used? I can play an mp3 using 'mpg321 -o esd -a localhost <trackname>' while xmms is already playing a different track (using the esound output plugin). Trouble is, Skype only seems to know how to output to /dev/dsp*. As for as I can see as soon as a process is ...

I have managed to reproduce the problem by enabling VIDEO_SELECT (Video mode selection support) under Graphics support. I would be curious to know why this is a problem with 2.6 but not 2.4.

I have a Matrox g200 video card if that helps anybody.

OK - solved speed problem. Don't know which fixed it but I enabled APIC and I2o. Nice and fast now!

Hmm, I've tried recompiling with APIC, ACPI and a few other things - haven't had any problems.

I did try (just to test the theory) using the old 2.4 config and doing make oldconfig. That definitely breaks it (maybe something unnecessarily enabled in the old config that didn't break anything with 2 ...

OK!
Got it to boot!
I used development-sources-2.6.6_rc2 though (already using ~x86).
then incrementally added stuff and recompiled to get devfs, network, sound. I did actually add a few more things and managed to reproduce the problem (If you like I can be a bit more diligent in testing each ...

OK. done that - same symptoms. I'd be happy try a minimal .config - which sources are the best to use & where do I enable "early printk"?
(I'm guessing "early printk" will write stuff to screen?)

HydroSan - not stupid to ask but yes to "DEVFS support and enable 'Mount At Boot'" (I had to double check). Although I think this would show up a little later in the boot process?

dsd -
Before heading too far down this path, I have been unable to boot an install disk with a 2.6 kernel (have tried a ...

OK. all that comes up is:

Booting 'Gentoo (vmlinuz-2.6.6-rc2) - hda9
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-rc2 ro root=/dev/hda9
[Linux - bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x152261]

this is with "Use old disk-only driver on primary interface" (same result ...

it appears to start booting. Says something about finding a kernel and on the next line shows what appears a hex code for (?) the disc address.
I don't think its getting far enough to be frame buffer thing.

Haven't tried enabling "early printk". will try that next.

I'm trying the old IDE driver ...

I'm sure I've seen something about this before but searching on 'Athlon boot 2.6' etc. gives a huge number of (unrelated) results!

All that happens is grub seems to find the kernel but then hangs before starting to boot (it won't boot a 2.6.x install disk either).

I have an Athlon XP2000 ...

you could do As far as I can tell this makes portage think mozilla-firebird has be emerged already so it skips over it.

I'm getting a different error but still failing:
/var/tmp/portage/php-4.3.4-r2/work/php-4.3.4/ext/odbc/php_odbc.c:3628: warning: passing arg 2 of `zend_register_resource' makes pointer from integer without a cast
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:520: Error: symbol `rc' is ...

Well I recompiled my kernel with ipv6 as a module (I'm not using it anyway) and everything seems OK now!

I wonder If I could have compiled apache with ipv6 support and got the same result?

Anyhow, seems kind of arse about, but now - it aint broke ...

Thanks for your help.

Just tried that still the same error - thanks for your reply though.
I'm wondering whether I broke something when I recompiled the kernel to get my cd burner working - config looks OK though (ipv4 and ipv6 enabled).

I might try recompiling without ipv6 support...

Has anyone seen this?
Can anyone tell me how to fix it?

root # /etc/init.d/apache2 start
* Starting apache2...
[Mon Nov 03 12:29:59 2003] [crit] (92)Protocol not available: make_sock: for address [::]:80, apr_socket_opt_set: (IPV6_V6ONLY)
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to ...

No idea why, but this worked for me:

USE="-java" emerge php

I found the advice at a thread about the same problem with mod-php:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=79047&highlight=libjpeg

good luck

I don't know if this is the right place to post this but ...

I have set up cups and, as an unprivileged user, am not able to print directly from applications and if I try:
echo "test string" | lp
I get the following message:
lp: unable to create temporary file.

I am able to print using this ...

excellent! ldconfig seems to have rectified most of the problems (thank you!), however it generated the following errors when I ran it.

gentoo root # ldconfig
ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgconf-1.so.1.0.3 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong
magic bytes at the start.

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgconf-1.so is ...

I had a power outage while installing a package and now when I run emerge sync (or emerge with any argument) I get this error.

/usr/bin/python2.2: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I get similar errors with startx and ...