[Sussex] Gentoo - Boot dialogue errors.

[Stephen Williams]

I was going to suggest forums.gentoo.org, but I see you've already 
been fishing there John.

No better place for the answers to your gentoo problems.

Steve W.

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 22:47 +0000, John D. wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> well further to my previous questions about boot dialogue errors and
> things that don't look right, I've had to write them down long hand, and
> dispite googling for something, I have no idea what the google hits
> meant.
> 
> The errors are as follows, and I appreciate if someone could tell me
> what I actually need to be looking at:-
> 
> error calling: "unlink" in "GLOBAL"
> -----------------------------------
> * Setting user font...
> action_compat: error unlinking "vcs3" No such file or directory
> 
> <additional to error> it said the same line except for vcsa3, vcs5 and
> vcsa5
> -------------------------------------
> chown: 'root:scanner': invalid group
> chmod: cannot access '/proc/bus/usb/001/002' : No such file or directory
> -------------------------------------
> * You need to setup MOUSEDEV and MOUSE in /etc/conf.d/gpm first
> -------------------------------------
> * Starting slurpd...
> No replicas in slapd.conf file "/etc/openldap/slapd.conf"!
> Error: : directory specified in "replogfile" slapd.conf directory does n
> -------------------------------------
> *Starting spamd...
> start-stop-daemon: Unable to start /usr/bin/spamd: No such file or
> directory
> *Failed to start spamd
> 
> And that's the end of the errors (well there was also one about not
> having mysql installed and that I should run /usr/bin/mysql_install_db
> so I just typed that into a root shell and got some stuff about mysql
> that I don't understand, so I'll leave that for the moment).
> 
> As I say, google just did the whooshing noise as the answers to some
> went over my head, so I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the
> right direction
> 
> regards
> 
> John D.
> 
> p.s. I also have some shutting down errors, but suspect that they may be
> connected to the ones listed above ???
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