thanks, I had the same problem yesterday .. forgot to mount /proc to my chroot environment where I did the update!

though I'm using gentoo now for a decade, still making my mistakes ...

okay, what I did was that way I got a new python, could unmerge the old one and update the rest of the system afterwards.
maybe I will have to revdep-rebuild (didn't check last night), but on the first look everything seems to work

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But that'S exactly my problem: I cannot update python:
www ~ # emerge -pv =dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r5

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] <dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.2)

[ebuild NS ] dev-lang/python ...

I have a similar problem (on a system not touched for over 2 years), exept that I only have 2.3.5 installed:
www ~ # emerge -pC python

>>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:

!!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'dev-lang/python'
!!! This could be damaging to your system ...

1.3.0.53_API has serious problems, sometimes it consumes all cpu available, sometimes it makes X do so.
maybe it's a problem with certain x11 drivers, I just wanted to warn you about that

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I'm also stuck with the impossible emerge of postgresql-8.0.9-r1 ... this is NOT funny, I'm running into serious problems on this machine (luckily I tried on a devel-machine first ... )

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Hi!

I set up a new Xen machine yesterday with xen-3.0.1-8885 and the 2.6.16_rc3-r1 sources, using glibc-2.3.5-r2. everything works fine EXEPT for the nptl/tls.

When booting either dom0 or domU, I get the info to remove /lib/tls, which I don't have. I tried to compile glibc without nptl, with "nptl ...

I had the same problem, but it was simple to resolve: remove SCSI support from domU if you don't need it.
the domU tries to access a scsi device (eg root=/dev/sda1) when scsi support is in the kernel. since I never needed it (eg for usb-sticks, etc), I don't know how to solve that case ...

I found one of my machines is still running on gcc 2.95!! I need to install some new packages, but there seems to be a lot of inconsistency in portage - actually only on this system. Since it would be fine to upgrade to gcc3* anyway, I tried to, but .. failed. no matter which profile I tried, emerge ...

Hi!

I have several machines with xen 2.0.6/7 running, no problems so far. I wanted to set up a new server today and found some funny things:

1. xen2 is no longer in portage. interesting, as this is the "stable" version. why not? there are multiple versions of eg gentoo-sources, vmware, .. etc.

2 ...

I tried to boot domU with the guest kernel compiled with xen-3.0.0-pre20051122 and it booted without problem.

Are different versions of (xen-patched) kernels going together with those of xen? or how do I find out with one go together?

I installed 3.0.0_pre20051128 with kernel 2.6.12.5-r4 - domUs ...

Everything concerning raid/lvm/dm is compiled into the kernel, no modules. kernel is a 2.6.12.5 with xen patches - since this is a xen-dom0 I cannot use the gentoo-sources or genkernel. I also only want to install a data volume on evms, boot/root are running on raid1 without problems.

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lol sry to make you mad, but i forgot the say i tried xterm and it wouldn't load

hmm .. strange .. never saw something like that happen. either you have messed up or broke something, but I don't know how this could just happen.

you can add a "/usr/bin/xterm &" before the fluxbox line in your ...

well, i tried that but it just didn't do anything
you tried WHAT? opening an xterm? starting anything from the menu? emerging fluxconf? editing the menu? running fbrun? .

sorry, but you have to be much more exact in your posts, this way it will take years to figure out just what your problem ...

you should have "xterm" anywhere in the menu. take this, then you can continue
you may want to emerge fluxconf. run fluxmenu then, edit your menues and add a "run.." entry pointing to "fbrun" in the menu at a point of your choice

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Version 1, after booting I get a xdm/gdm/kdm login screen i think i get xdm

Okay, fine. If it was gdm or kdm, you would have a choice about the kind of session you want to use:)
DO NOT LOGIN here in X. press CTRL+ALT+F1 - you should be at a console now.
you can log in here and edit your ...

sorry, I don't get it:

Version 1: after booting, do you get a text-console or a xdm/gdm/kdm login screen?

Version 2: If text-console: you enter login, password and without any further question it starts X? and if so, happens this with every user on the system, including root?

What exactly ...

You can at least delete (and recreate) any primary partitions, that will have no effekt on the logical ones. the numbering within the logical ones will change, so when you delete sda5 your home will be on sda7, but the data on it will be untouched. if you create new partitions using the space of the ...

questions:
* I'd like to manage dom0 using my monitor instead ttys0. is this possible ?


Sorry, never tried using the serial, but I always used the monitor and keyboard, since dom0 just uses it if it's present.


* can I run my current setup as a domU ?


not quite, at least you have to make ...

fluxbox-syntax is just for highlighting in vi, to use fluxbox you have to emerge fluxbox.
After that you either should have a selectable option with your favorite *dm (which was actually missing in older versions, don't know if this was fixed in between - I've done manually, but cannot remember how ...

Yes, it's rather simple, here''s how I've done it with gdm:

in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf in section [servers]
# These are the standard servers. You can add as many you want here
# and they will always be started. Each line must start with a unique
# number and that will be the display number of that ...

I wanted to extend a system with RAID/LVM2 using EVMS. I compiled everything in the kernel, installed the packages sys-fs/device-mapper, sys-fs/evms, sys-fs/lvm2, sys-fs/raidtools, ...
I've got the current system running on software RAID1, and I've got plenty of (unpartitioned) diskspace left. The ...

Okay, I got it. I had to edit /etc/security/console.perms and set <console> 0660 <sound> 0660 root.audio
I don't know why. Usually when a user logs in in X all permissions are set correctly. I checked on other systems I have, everywhere else permissions on /dev/sound/ are set to 660 correctly ...

After every reboot the permissions in /dev/sound/ are 600 ! Users are in audio group, sound itself works fine, just the permissions are set way too restricted after every reboot!
I also tried RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" in /etc/conf.d/rc - but still permissions keep changing! :x
Also all audio devices ...

CONFIG_IDE and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE vs CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEGENERIC was a little .. disturbing - since I tried to keep the kernel small and removed everything unnecessary (and a little more as we found out )

Thanks again for the help, xen runs fine now

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