Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:03:46AM -0800, John Lowell wrote > > The setup here is almost trite: Three workstations with dynamic > addresses behind an ADSL router/switch which doubles as a dhcp > server, and the webserver mentioned earlier with a static address > outside the range authorized for dy

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't complete the install!

2005-04-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:05:08AM -0500, Robert G. Hays wrote > Nick, > > IPv6, huh? Hmmm Any way to tell it v4? Delay the "mirrorselect" command until just after the "chroot" command. The chrooted environment doesn't see ipv6, so you'll only get ipv4 mirrors. If all else fails, re

Re: [gentoo-user] Building packages only when doing emerge world

2005-04-01 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > I think the problem is that if you build a whole lot of packages only, > without installing them, then (because each package is not actually > installed on a live filesystem) any package that depends on an earlier > one will fail. > > I know what I'm saying,

Re: [gentoo-user] Building packages only when doing emerge world

2005-04-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 23:45 -0500, A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: > > > So what do I do if something fails when I emerge all this stuff? Is my > > server going to go down? I am just wondering if there is anything I can > > do to protect myself from downtime and errors

Re: [gentoo-user] Building packages only when doing emerge world

2005-04-01 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: > So what do I do if something fails when I emerge all this stuff? Is my > server going to go down? I am just wondering if there is anything I can > do to protect myself from downtime and errors. Im sorry but the previous post already answered the question

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't complete the install!

2005-04-01 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Bradley Krumme wrote: > After you have the new system up and running, make your changes to > make.conf for your own personal customizations (gotta love > flexibility), then do 'emerge -e world' to rebuild everything with the > new customizations. Are you so god-awful lazy that

Re: [gentoo-user] Building packages only when doing emerge world

2005-04-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 22:59 -0500, Mike Turcotte wrote: > So what do I do if something fails when I emerge all this stuff? Is my > server going to go down? I am just wondering if there is anything I can > do to protect myself from downtime and errors. I did a pretend emerge > and there are a TON

Re: [gentoo-user] Building packages only when doing emerge world

2005-04-01 Thread Mike Turcotte
So what do I do if something fails when I emerge all this stuff? Is my server going to go down? I am just wondering if there is anything I can do to protect myself from downtime and errors. I did a pretend emerge and there are a TON of dependencies Nick Rout wrote: man emerge --buildpkgonly (-B

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 11:15 -0800, John Lowell wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Kashani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 7:58 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost! > > > > John Lowell wrote: > > > Thanks for writing. > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Building packages only when doing emerge world

2005-04-01 Thread Nick Rout
man emerge --buildpkgonly (-B) Creates binary packages for all ebuilds processed without actually merging the packages. This comes with the caveat that all build-time dependencies must already be emerged on the system. On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 20:51 -0500, Mike Turcotte wrote: > Hel

[gentoo-user] Vmware: Eject CD crashes VM

2005-04-01 Thread Kurt Guenther
Has anybody else noticed this? It just gives an "11 exception" and dies with a core. I checked the log and it gives a register dump, etc. --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Derek Hansen wrote: > I have to admit, it had me going for just a little while... Not me. I first saw it on /. Today, a *real* news story was the exception on /. For more april fools fun, Strongbad fans can check out: http://www.homestarrunner.com -- G a b r i e l M

[gentoo-user] Building packages only when doing emerge world

2005-04-01 Thread Mike Turcotte
Hello I am updating a server I built some time ago using a GRP install. I want to do an emerge -uD world, but I want to know for sure this is going to work before doing this. Can I tell it somehow to compile all the packages but not install them? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Service named already provided by dns!

2005-04-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 10:07 -0700, Kiawud wrote: > Out of curiosity, what would happen if you modified the > '/etc/init.d/named' file and commented out the line: > > provide dns > > Would that prevent Gentoo from thinking the '/etc/init.d/named' > provided the 'dns' service? The best way to find

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 10:23 -0800, John Lowell wrote: > Uwe, > > Thanks for writing. > > Broadcast with 0 is default in /etc/conf.d/net. I've tried it both > ways with > no difference being made. > > Regards. > > jlowell John, how about giving us the output of ifconfig and route -n on the offe

[gentoo-user] ACPI events config file

2005-04-01 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi I am setting up my ACPI on my notebook and have come across a small problem. I am setting the events in the /etc/acpi/events/default config file. Now I have got the ac_adapter event working nicely with speedfreq. Now I want to setup my power button and sleep button. This is from the acpid log

Re: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 1, 2005 3:34 PM, David Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 2, 2005 12:19 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:41:05 -0800 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > | And since it's GMail I cannot control any of this. > > > > You are free to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread David Morgan
On Apr 2, 2005 12:19 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:41:05 -0800 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | And since it's GMail I cannot control any of this. > > You are free to use a different email provider if you wish. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:41:05 -0800 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | And since it's GMail I cannot control any of this. You are free to use a different email provider if you wish. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread David Busby
Stroller wrote: I'm not sure of the details, and whether the project is completed or under development, but Microsoft do indeed intend that one should be able to run Linux apps on their XP server products. I _think_ this is via system calls rather than a virtual machine, but I don't really know

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11: truetype-fonts vs. type1-fonts

2005-04-01 Thread Grant
> Depends on if you need some font(s) that are only in the M$ list. > > & quality depends mostly on size & capabilities of the intended output > device... > > rgh Has anyone compared truetype and type1 fonts rendered on something comparable to a 15" LCD? - Grant > >>Nope, Type1 are high qualit

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Robert G. Hays
Bradley: I hope you're not making fun of the makarena, I happen to like it! < with grin underneath!> Chris: & whyinhell would you want the NT kernel on your computer in the first place?; worst of both worlds!:: Windoze crash/kernel & Linux crash/GUI? Get Win4Lin & do it right: Linux bulletpro

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Gentoo firewall appliances?

2005-04-01 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, James wrote: > Hardware choices are another issue. Since the connection will be > light to moderate on bandwidth, any of the 300MHz+ little embedded > firewall-box-appliance type of devices should suffice. The question > is which one (3+ etherports) as if it is opensource and

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?

2005-04-01 Thread Robert G. Hays
"With the Power comes the Gory." rgh. Robert Persson wrote: On April 1, 2005 09:43 am, quoth Jeff Smelser: On Thursday 31 March 2005 04:29 pm, Robert Persson wrote: When I left-click on a link a new tab opens in akgregator, but the page doesn't load there and the page-loading progress bar h

Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-04-01 Thread Robert G. Hays
So make a deal with the employer(s) of one or more friends & family to get them few dollars/whatever for computers they don't really use anymore, and take one computer (free?!) as your commission for the deal! lol & best! rgh John Shawger wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 1:15 AM, Rod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get Parallel Port to work

2005-04-01 Thread A. R.
Hi, 1. Have you check what the command "dmesg" shows? 2. Are you running on udev? 3. Can you see the device under /dev for your printer (like lp0)? If you see the device, then it is just a matter of the cups configuration AFAIK. Try finding the parallel port in the dropdown that allows you to s

Re: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 1, 2005 12:19 PM, Bryan Oestergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, not receiving duplicates due to filtering is certainly not what I > meant by fixing your clients. I was actually hinting at clients (and > users) behaving sensible and stop sending duplicates. > > btw, I have no idea wheth

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't complete the install!

2005-04-01 Thread Bradley Krumme
On Apr 1, 2005 11:05 AM, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick, > > IPv6, huh? Hmmm Any way to tell it v4? > > Local servers -- I did that, right under the 'stage 3' banner, and > several are known to me as v4 capable; used themseveral times. > > emerge-webrsync when it fini

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Stroller
On Apr 1, 2005, at 5:59 pm, Leo wrote: Is the part about MS buying the posix interface it true? I can't believe I fell for this even if just for the 5 minutes I though about how useless running linux on the NT kernel would be. I'd like to have that second sentence framed & hung on the wall of e

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get Parallel Port to work *RESOLVED*

2005-04-01 Thread Jamie Dobbs
After emerging kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 and compiling the parallel port now works and I can print successfully. Still having some issues getting some things I had working under the old kernel working under the new one (lmsensors), but I should get that sorted out shortly. Jamie Dobbs wrote: >I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Bryan Oestergaard
No, not receiving duplicates due to filtering is certainly not what I meant by fixing your clients. I was actually hinting at clients (and users) behaving sensible and stop sending duplicates. btw, I have no idea whether gmail sends duplicates or not. Regards, Bryan Ãstergaard > > OK by me. GMa

Re: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 1, 2005 9:34 AM, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > Obviously. That's why you're still posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Why not make that email address bounce back to the sender? Im sure it will > sink in faster :-) > OK by me. GMail r

[gentoo-user] OT Gentoo firewall appliances?

2005-04-01 Thread James
Hello all, Being asked to build a new firewall, no doubt Gentoo is the distro. Hardware choices are another issue. Since the connection will be light to moderate on bandwidth, any of the 300MHz+ little embedded firewall-box-appliance type of devices should suffice. The question is which one (3+ e

[gentoo-user] Re: Listing injected files

2005-04-01 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 25 March 2005 19:08, PK wrote: > I have found thats its easier to emerge -i file/name when co,ing > across a bad package or something then waiting for an update to > portage or a new package then re emerging the lot > > is there a command that lists all injected packages? > > -- No one an

[gentoo-user] SSH/SFTP oddities

2005-04-01 Thread David Busby
List, I've got a box that my SFTP is not working properly one, or at least I think it's not. I can SSH to the box fine with root or any another user, no problems. I can SFTP to the box from a console on a different machine. When I use jEdit to connect via SFTP it says that I have not authe

Re: [gentoo-user] Arts don't work

2005-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, On Friday 01 April 2005 15:24, Nuno Alexandre Neves Raimundo wrote: > I have a problem with arts, i doesn't work!!! > > In the sound system module of the control center i can't enable the sound > system. The progress bar go to 90% and then go to 0%, over an over. > > In the console, fi i execu

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-04-01 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Robert Persson wrote: > Thanks everybody! > > Got it now. (I was confused by a number of other errors happening at the same > time). > > ssh -v zebedee showed that "zebedee" was being translated as 127.0.0.1, > despite what it says in /etc/hosts. Adding "ListenAddress 127.0.0

RE: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Obviously. That's why you're still posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why not make that email address bounce back to the sender? Im sure it will sink in faster :-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] apache-1.3.33 with mod_perl and mod_php

2005-04-01 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: > so, I write this, because, I found a solution to my problem. And there > is how I solved it: > > #ebuild /path/of/mod_php.ebuild fetch > #ebuild /path/of/mod_perl.ebuild fetch > #ebuild /path/of/apache-1.3.33.ebuild fetch > > #ebuild /path/

RE: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> The other problem that was confusing everything is still a problem though. > When I start the machine the /etc/init.d/sshd script doesn't start > sshd, /etc/init.d/sshd restart doesn't work and /etc/init.d/sshd status > tells me that sshd is running when it isn't . I have to /usr/sbin/sshd > ma

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?

2005-04-01 Thread Robert Persson
On April 1, 2005 09:43 am, quoth Jeff Smelser: > On Thursday 31 March 2005 04:29 pm, Robert Persson wrote: > > When I left-click on a link a new tab opens in akgregator, but the page > > doesn't load there and the page-loading progress bar hangs at 0%. > > Meanwhile the page loads in the external b

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-04-01 Thread Robert Persson
Thanks everybody! Got it now. (I was confused by a number of other errors happening at the same time). ssh -v zebedee showed that "zebedee" was being translated as 127.0.0.1, despite what it says in /etc/hosts. Adding "ListenAddress 127.0.0.1" to sshd_config did the trick. The other proble

Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-04-01 Thread John Shawger
On Apr 1, 2005 1:15 AM, Rod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried looking into the company you work for? lol. I am a student. That's why I don't have much money to spend. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?

2005-04-01 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Thursday 31 March 2005 04:29 pm, Robert Persson wrote: > When I left-click on a link a new tab opens in akgregator, but the page > doesn't load there and the page-loading progress bar hangs at 0%. > Meanwhile the page loads in the external browser as it would if I had > middle-clicked the link

RE: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder! > > On Apr 1, 2005 8:39 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:10:00 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | I say again, no other list I am on exhibits

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Bradley Krumme
On Apr 1, 2005 11:59 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >It's got to be an april fool's joke... > > > Has to be. Why else would it use "NT" and "comercial-grade" in the same > > paragraph? > > Not really. Don't you know that > > GENTOO == Gee Everyone NT's Object Oriented? > > I'm n

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Covington, Chris
It's a good joke: # wget http://www.gentooexperimental.org/nt/distfiles/stages/stage1-latest.tar. bz2 --12:12:35-- http://www.gentooexperimental.org/nt/distfiles/stages/stage1-latest.tar. bz2 => `stage1-latest.tar.bz2' Resolving www.gentooexperimental.org... 213.131.245.105 Connecting t

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Leo
Dave Nebinger wrote: But before I begin, if something unexpected and interesting happens I won't lose my system will I? Possible, but that's why I preceded the previous message with the NOTE at the top. Still it would be recoverable (might need to work from the live cd). But again you'll hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Adi
Vineri 01 Aprilie 2005 18:03, A. R. a scris: > http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/ nice one -- Adi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Leo
Mark Knecht wrote: It's got to be an april fool's joke... Has to be. Why else would it use "NT" and "comercial-grade" in the same paragraph? I understand porting as the process of adapting a piece of useful code so it works in a system it was not initially designed for. OO cod

Re: [gentoo-user] Service named already provided by dns!

2005-04-01 Thread Kiawud
Out of curiosity, what would happen if you modified the '/etc/init.d/named' file and commented out the line: provide dns Would that prevent Gentoo from thinking the '/etc/init.d/named' provided the 'dns' service? Just a thought. -Hani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> OK. > > What does CHOST do? It's the basis for the hosting architecture. By defining it as 686 it (plus the right CFLAGS) is supposed to optimize compiles for your platform. > OK. What does -pipe do? > Gcc will build intermediary files to pass between the internal components (i.e. the prep

Re: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 1, 2005 8:39 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:10:00 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I say again, no other list I am on exhibits this problem, just bloody > | change it back the the way it used to be, right, wrong or debateable > | in tech

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-base/arts doesn't see qt

2005-04-01 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le vendredi 01 avril 2005 à 12:21 +0100, Stuart Howard a écrit : > I recently removed arts and then found that mplayer no longer worked > though I am a gnome user. You might hve compiled mplayer with the +arts USE flag. After I added -arts to my use flags, emerge -vauD --newuse world recompiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Mark Knecht
> >It's got to be an april fool's joke... > Has to be. Why else would it use "NT" and "comercial-grade" in the same > paragraph? Not really. Don't you know that GENTOO == Gee Everyone NT's Object Oriented? I'm not a programmer but I hear that Object Oriented programming makes it trivial to por

Re: [gentoo-user] "SOLVED": ALSA 1.0.9-rc2 Kernel oops

2005-04-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:29:06AM -0600, Paul Varner wrote: > > Any inputs? If I didn't do anything stupid, I will go ahead a file a > > bug on bugzilla. > > Your diagnosis is basically correct and you didn't do anything stupid. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87385 > > Regards, > P

RE: [gentoo-user] apache-1.3.33 with mod_perl and mod_php

2005-04-01 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
Why do I need mod_perl and mod_phop as static modules ? because there are some modules that required as it. For example for mod_perl, I need the HTML-Mason and at a paragraph in the readme file says: "Using Mason with a mod_perl DSO may cause your Apache server to crash silently at startup, or fai

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Leo
Dave Nebinger wrote: NOTE: Making the changes I suggest below may impact your system (especially by changing the CHOST). If you choose to make them be sure to "emerge --emptytree system" at least and probably the world as well. My make.conf has CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" use CHOST="i686-pc-

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread Kashani
John Lowell wrote: > I certainly can post ifconfig and will but the netstat -rn is a problem. The command is not available to me with just the basic packages installed. This was a fresh stage1. I'll need to reconfigure /etc/conf.d/net for dhcp service to get the appropriate e-builld. Before I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:10:00 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I say again, no other list I am on exhibits this problem, just bloody | change it back the the way it used to be, right, wrong or debateable | in technical terms. what is easiest and most convenient for the | majority of user

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Ted Ozolins
Dave Nebinger wrote: http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/ Nah! It's got to be an april fool's joke... Has to be. Why else would it use "NT" and "comercial-grade" in the same paragraph? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-04-01 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Rod wrote: > Have you tried looking into the company you work for? Connected with T-Mobile -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA 1.0.9-rc2 Kernel oops

2005-04-01 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 11:13 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > Last night before going to sleep, I ran an emerge update, which > brought in > alsa-header-1.0.9_rc2 > alsa-lib-1.0.9_rc2 > to replace the respective 1.0.8 versions. > > After downgrading to the 1.0.8 versions, festival no longer cause

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread John Lowell
- Original Message - From: "Kashani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 7:58 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost! > John Lowell wrote: > > Thanks for writing. > > > > Broadcast with 0 is default in /etc/conf.d/net. I've tried it both ways w

[gentoo-user] ALSA 1.0.9-rc2 Kernel oops

2005-04-01 Thread Willie Wong
Okay, to begin, I am not quite sure if ALSA is the problem. I just guessed that it is. I woke up this morning and my computer failed to greet me (festival + xscreensaver-command). roottail shows: :/var/log/critical/current Apr 1 02:06:32 [kernel] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11: truetype-fonts vs. type1-fonts

2005-04-01 Thread Robert G. Hays
Depends on if you need some font(s) that are only in the M$ list. & quality depends mostly on size & capabilities of the intended output device... rgh Grant wrote: Nope, Type1 are high quality fonts from Adobe. Truetype are fonts introduced by M$. They are of lower quality. Frank Is it benef

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't complete the install!

2005-04-01 Thread Robert G. Hays
Nick, IPv6, huh? Hmmm Any way to tell it v4? Local servers -- I did that, right under the 'stage 3' banner, and several are known to me as v4 capable; used themseveral times. emerge-webrsync when it finishes says to now proceed with emerge --sync. Given that I really, really wanted to d

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:04:34 -0800, John Lowell wrote: > Terribly sorry, Neil. I'll make absolutely sure next time to check with > you first before reinstalling, I promise. What's your problem? I only asked a question. There's no reason to get sarcy, even less reason to do it twice. -- Neil Bot

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread Kashani
John Lowell wrote: > Thanks for writing. Broadcast with 0 is default in /etc/conf.d/net. I've tried it both ways with no difference being made. Why don't we clear this up and have you post your ifconfig and netstat -rn kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap question (non-ssl => ssl)

2005-04-01 Thread Travis Osterman
> There is the file in /etc/conf.d/slapd. > # conf.d file for the openldap-2.1 series > # > # To enable both the standard unciphered server and the ssl encrypted > # one uncomment this line or set any other server starting options > # you may desire. > # > # OPTS="-h 'ldaps:// ldap:// ldapi://%2fva

Re: [gentoo-user] Service named already provided by dns!

2005-04-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:45:16 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > I see, I can remove/backup this file. The problem is I don't understand > why the /etc/init.d/named file (more strictly, the fact, this service > provides 'dns') is taken into account when the service is _not_ added to > one of runlevel

Re: [gentoo-user] E-Builds for DVD Software

2005-04-01 Thread Kiawud
On Mar 31, 2005 4:22 AM, Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > > Hi, can you make backup copies of copy protected DVDs with dvdrip? > > Of course, including menu and resizing to a single layer DVD, as some >

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11: truetype-fonts vs. type1-fonts

2005-04-01 Thread Grant
> Nope, Type1 are high quality fonts from Adobe. Truetype are fonts > introduced by M$. They are of lower quality. > > Frank Is it beneficial to build both of them into an xorg installation or is that a waste? - Grant > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 13:32 -0800, Grant wrote: > > Are the USE flags 'true

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Derek Hansen
I have to admit, it had me going for just a little while... On Apr 1, 2005 8:05 AM, Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A. R. wrote: > > > http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/ > > > > > > > >Nah! > >-- > > > > > > > ditto! > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/ > > Nah! It's got to be an april fool's joke... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
NOTE: Making the changes I suggest below may impact your system (especially by changing the CHOST). If you choose to make them be sure to "emerge --emptytree system" at least and probably the world as well. > My make.conf has > CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" use CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CFLAGS="-

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread John Lowell
Uwe Thiem wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2005 13:03, John Lowell wrote: >> I just completed a stage1 install from the minimal 2005.0 livecd on >> a box that will be used as a web server. I boot without incident, >> run ifconfig and get a perfectly suitable response, can ping my >> router successfully

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread John Lowell
Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2005 20:03, John Lowell wrote: >> I just completed a stage1 install from the minimal 2005.0 livecd on >> a box that will be used as a web server. I boot without incident, >> run ifconfig and get a perfectly suitable response, can ping my >> router successful

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Leo
A. R. wrote: http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/ Nah! -- ditto! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Leo
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 22:49, Leo wrote: Hi. I'm getting an error with sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1: loadmsgcat.c: In function `_nl_init_domain_conv': ../sysdeps/i386/bits/string.h:655: error: can't find a register in class `GENERAL_REGS' while reloading `asm' make[2]: *

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Leo
Dave Nebinger wrote: I'm getting an error with sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1: [snipped] You should not do either of these things. First you should fix your CFLAGS to remove the -mcpu flag and replace with the appropriate -march value. OK what do you suggest as an appropriate -mach value? S

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread John Lowell
Nick Rout wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 03:03 -0800, John Lowell wrote: >> I just completed a stage1 install from the minimal 2005.0 livecd on a >> box that will be used as a web server. I boot without incident, run >> ifconfig and get a perfectly suitable response, can ping my router >> successfu

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread John Lowell
Neil, Terribly sorry, Neil. I'll make absolutely sure next time to check with you first before reinstalling, I promise. jlowell - Original Message - From: "Neil Bothwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 2:43 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Sch

[gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread A. R.
http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/ Nah! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Won't emerge -uDvp world

2005-04-01 Thread Mike Turcotte
Thanks everyone for the info! Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca > -Original Message- > From: Jason Stubbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 01, 200

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-dev-sources being moved into gentoo-sources has occurred

2005-04-01 Thread Daniel Drake
William Kenworthy wrote: Just did an emerge sync and see the long awaited change of gentoo-dev-sources being moved into gentoo-sources has occurred. However, kernel.org shows 2.6.12-rc1 is out and no ~x86 version of this is evident. Does the next gentoo-sources kernel get worked on in another cate

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 01 April 2005 22:49, Leo wrote: > Hi. > > I'm getting an error with sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1: > > loadmsgcat.c: In function `_nl_init_domain_conv': > ../sysdeps/i386/bits/string.h:655: error: can't find a register in class > `GENERAL_REGS' while reloading `asm' > make[2]: *** > [/

Re: [gentoo-user] Won't emerge -uDvp world

2005-04-01 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 01 April 2005 23:02, Mike Turcotte wrote: > Hello I am trying to upgrade my file server that was built a half to three > quarters of a year ago using Gentoo 2004.2 GRP. I know this is really old > and probably insecure, but it is used mainly for file sharing internally on > my network. An

RE: [gentoo-user] Won't emerge -uDvp world

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Anyways, I emerge synced, which went fine, but when I try > to pretend to emerge -uDvp world to see what it's going to install, I get > the error about missing /etc/make.profile and check symlink. What does > this mean and what can I do about it? Are those the emerge options I > should be using f

RE: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'm getting an error with sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1: > > #ifdef ERROR_MESS > > i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc localealias.c -c -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Winline > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -mcpu=i686 > -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fPIC -g0 -O99 -fomit-frame-pointer > -D__USE_STRING_INLINES

Re: [gentoo-user] Won't emerge -uDvp world

2005-04-01 Thread Bradley Krumme
On Apr 1, 2005 9:02 AM, Mike Turcotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello I am trying to upgrade my file server that was built a half to three > quarters of a year ago using Gentoo 2004.2 GRP. I know this is really old and > probably insecure, but it is used mainly for file sharing internally on m

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cron and top

2005-04-01 Thread Matthew Cline
On Apr 1, 2005 3:15 AM, Frank Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > if I remember right the ``-n 1'' means, that top should do one snapshot > and exit. Due to my experiences, the first snapshots are "liars", thus > this solution donesn't deliver much useable results. For machines where > th

[gentoo-user] Won't emerge -uDvp world

2005-04-01 Thread Mike Turcotte
Hello I am trying to upgrade my file server that was built a half to three quarters of a year ago using Gentoo 2004.2 GRP. I know this is really old and probably insecure, but it is used mainly for file sharing internally on my network. Anyways, I emerge synced, which went fine, but when I try t

[gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Leo
Hi. I'm getting an error with sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1: #ifdef ERROR_MESS i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc localealias.c -c -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -mcpu=i686 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fPIC -g0 -O99 -fomit-frame-pointer -D__USE_STRING_INLINES -I../inclu

[gentoo-user] Re: Raid 1 howto

2005-04-01 Thread Remy Blank
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > To protect my home server i'm thinking to create a raid1, because this is > the first time for me i have looked around for some howto's. > There are quite a lot howto's(1), but its always from scratch, does anyone > know a howto for changing a working system into a rai

[gentoo-user] Raid 1 howto

2005-04-01 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, To protect my home server i'm thinking to create a raid1, because this is the first time for me i have looked around for some howto's. There are quite a lot howto's(1), but its always from scratch, does anyone know a howto for changing a working system into a raid1 without formating disks? (1)

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-04-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:53:17 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > CF cards have a finite writing life - I imagine /var on a CF would > > wear out the card pretty quickly :-) > > > I am aware of the problem, but have found it hard to get concrete > figures. That was why I was thinking of a journal cache

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling showimg

2005-04-01 Thread Nuno Alexandre Neves Raimundo
I have solve the problem by emerge again the packages that showimg depends. Some of that package gave me the same error, so i just emerge their dependecys. After 5 or 6 packages, i dont have any errors and i just emerge showimg without any errors. thanks for your help. On Thursday 31 March 2005

[gentoo-user] Arts don't work

2005-04-01 Thread Nuno Alexandre Neves Raimundo
I have a problem with arts, i doesn't work!!! In the sound system module of the control center i can't enable the sound system. The progress bar go to 90% and then go to 0%, over an over. In the console, fi i execute artsd, the fowling error apears: unix_connect: can't connect to server (unix:/

RE: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I don't think 'fixing' is likely to happen as this discussion happens > frequently. It mostly boils down to the list handling being correct but > some clients seems to behave incorrectly. > > Personally, I'd prefer if the clients handle lists properly. As would we all. But the truth of the mat

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