[Sussex] Re: Gentoo problems.

[Alan F]

If you're using metalog as your syslog daemon, /var/log/everything/current 
is a good place to start :-)

Alan

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, John D. wrote:

> OK, I think that I've got my network sorted out (not sure whether it was because of yesterday's etc update or forgetting to make sure that the routers IP, where correctly - either way, I seem to be able to access the net).
> 
> I have also found that when I did the etc-update yesterday, I must have removed my user account from the wheel group (which according to the gentoo forum's is one of the things that can happen during etc-update) - so that's that remedied.
> 
> But, which log file hold's any error's or problems that arise during boot i.e that show the boot dialogue? so I can post the error's for assistance ?
> 
> Many thanks for any suggestions you may have.
> 
> regards
> 
> John D.
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: John 
>   To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk 
>   Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 7:57 AM
>   Subject: Gentoo problems.
> 
> 
>   Morning list,
> 
>   The problems I seem to be having are:
> 
>   1.Curious cryptic messages during bootup
>   2.Not being able to access net/e-mail
>   3.Not being able to su from a user account.
> 
>   It's a bit of a saga, but: yesterday, I was just finishing a re-install, and did etc-update, which I'm presuming updated the config files. When I found that I couldn't "SU" I looked at the gentoo forums and found a couple of solutions - none of which worked. So in panic i.e. AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH I've killed my install again NOOOOOOOOOO! etc etc, then proceeded to re-install (including the emerge kde that finished this morning).
> 
>   The result of this is the same snags mentioned above (though I didn't do the etc-update, just in case it screwed things up, though it didn't matter, things are still screwed up!).
> 
>   If I do ifconfig, it still shows that my connection is running, but I can't ping my ISP. So I'm presuming that that's the first thing that needs repairing, so could someone give me some pointers ??
> 
>   regards
> 
>   John D
> 
>   p.s. this is posted from XP, as that's the only way I've got to post (yes I could probably do it with knoppix, but I don't know how to get that to work so I can use it to "do some repairs"??)