[gentoo-user] Move eth1 back to eth0

Hello folks, I have a gentoo installation as a guest oks running inside sun virtualbox. After doing a proper clone, everything seems to work fine, except the network interface. I noticed that, after cloning, the eth0 interface has been renamed to ...

Message posted on the June 8th, 2010 - 1:20 PM ET

[gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

hi, after playing a lot with desktop environment first I've decided to move from kde to gnome because kde is too "shine" and eat too much and contains a lot of feature which I don't really need.. gnome is good but still too fat so finally ...

Message posted on the August 19th, 2011 - 8:10 AM ET

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

Whoops, sorry for the other posting. Suddenly this mail got sent, and some empty kmail windows opened. Probably due to this effect I sometimes experience: The last keypress gets repeated all over the time, and when I move the mouse over other ...

Message posted on the June 19th, 2010 - 5:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] The story of a successful move from ~x86 back to x86.

Hey all, remember me? I'm the guy with the old desktop from this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg96277.html That post tells the beginning of the story pretty nicely. To pick up where I left off 11 months ago, I ...

Message posted on the December 5th, 2010 - 6:20 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

Creating a new thread for this questions since mine got lost in all of the follow-ups... I would really appreciate a meaningful response to this question (maybe I should go ask this on -dev?) - this has the potential to lose me forever as a gentoo ...

Message posted on the March 18th, 2012 - 12:50 PM ET

[gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

Does anyone of you use davical with thunderbird? Especially the carddav part with those sogo-connector/integrator addons? I try to move around 600 adresses in there and it always somehow stalls or shows incorrect numbers. I read the wikipage at ...

Message posted on the November 6th, 2012 - 5:20 PM ET

[gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

Hi, I don't think this is likely to be a Gentoo issue but I figured I'd ask here first before going elsewhere. (LKML, linux-raid, elsewhere) Additionally it's not a critical problem at all but rather something I'd like to try and understand and then ...

Message posted on the December 31st, 2012 - 12:40 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Problem with printing

Hi List, I have got a problem with printing. Cups logs are showing "Create-Job successful-ok" and "Send-Document successful-ok" if I print as root and "Create-Job client-error-not-authorized" if I print as a regular ...

Message posted on the March 24th, 2012 - 4:00 PM ET

[gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my home directory across multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which makes daily incremental backups of my files to a ...

Message posted on the December 2nd, 2012 - 12:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

Howdy, Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while booted from a USB stick do hicky. ...

Message posted on the April 12th, 2012 - 4:00 PM ET

[gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

I have a shiny new System76 laptop with a "3rd Generation Intel Core i7-3720QM Processor (2.60GHz 6MB L3 Cache - 4 Cores plus Hyperthreading)". It comes with Ubuntu, so naturally my first move was to split the Ubuntu partition in half and ...

Message posted on the September 14th, 2012 - 7:40 PM ET

[gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

All, I'm in desperate need of some help recovering a reiserfs partition that went awry for some unknown reason. A quick list of events: - purchased brand new WD "My Passport" drive -- 320GB, 2.5GB - cleared partition table with a ...

Message posted on the August 24th, 2010 - 1:00 AM ET

[gentoo-user] {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo desktop attaches to my TV. I'm using a small wireless router to send the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. I don't like using a non-Gentoo ...

Message posted on the May 31st, 2010 - 7:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

greets ... today (at least in my timezone ;-) ) I saw gnome-3.6-related ebuilds coming up on my ~amd64 box ... I ran a backup (yes, experience ...) and emerged stuff ... so far it runs OK. There are changes and new features and I am still ...

Message posted on the December 27th, 2012 - 4:50 PM ET

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