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From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:39:11
Message-Id: 2527149.KYXmFa2tUb@pc
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng by Joost Roeleveld
1 On Thursday, 15. September 2011 11:25:56 Joost Roeleveld wrote:
2 > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 01:58:59 AM Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
3 > > On Thursday, 15. September 2011 01:16:12 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote:
4 > <snipped undecypherable part>
5 >
6 > > ----
7 > > Dear Michael
8 > >
9 > > Thank you for your help!
10 > >
11 > > I didn't reboot my machine as the installation is not complete yet. How
12 > > can I reboot when the installation isn't finish, if things that should
13 > > work don't work in the first place?
14 >
15 > I could not find the currently running kernel you are using in this thread.
16
17 It's 2.6.19-something.
18 He hit's a problem with new coreutils running on kernels older than 2.6.22
19 Something related to futimesat, that was introduced with this kernel.
20
21 > Possibly, you are hitting an issue caused by a feature lacking in that
22 > kernel. What did you boot your machine with prior to starting the
23 > installation? Please also include the version and URL where you downloaded
24 > this from.
25 > > I didn't try your advices as I don't now how to try them. How do I
26 > > deactivate sandbox?
27 >
28 > Michael "grimlog" Schreckenbauer actually already told you how to do this:
29 > **
30 > If you cannot upgrade your kernel right now, you can disable the sandbox
31 > FEATURES="-sandbox" in /etc/make.conf
32 > (I do not recommend this)
33 > **
34 >
35 > The "sandbox" is a security feature. If you disable it to get the install
36 > working and a newer kernel-version. Please undo this change after the first
37 > boot into the new kernel.
38
39 Ack.
40
41 > > > I tried to search for
42 > >
43 > > "touch: setting times of" gentoo
44 > > but I don't understand how this is related to my problem.
45 > >
46 > > Yahoo reply broken? I don't know what to say about that... gmail works
47 > > in
48 > > the same way, outlook in the same way, thunderbird in the same way.
49 >
50 > In other words, they're all broken.
51 > A good Email client will allow you to send non-HTML email. Puts "quote"
52 > marks in front of the lines and add a "bladibla wrote this" or similar
53 > line. It should also allow you to easily put your reply at the bottom of
54 > the email.
55 >
56 > GMail has been mentioned a few times as doing things wrongly. I won't even
57 > mention the many ways in which MS Outlook does things badly and Thunderbird
58 > wants to be a copy of MS Outlook.
59
60 Afaict, there are quite a few people here using thunderbird. Most replies are
61 wellformed. Outlook, well... it's not a mail-client after all.
62
63 Best,
64 Michael

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Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>