Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge --usepkg kde' question

2005-06-10 Thread askar ...
> Not really OK if you just want to install binaries. > Are you using the 2005.0 portage snapshot? You can > prevent anything from being compiled with the emerge > --usepkgonly option. > > Zac Thank you Zac. I'm using 2005.0 portage. Seems --usepkgonly option is what I need. askar -- gentoo-us

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge --usepkg kde' question

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- "askar ..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I have a package cd of gentoo 2005.0. > Mounted and #export PKGDIR="/mnt/cdrom" > > After that I did command: > #emerge --usepkg kde > As I understand it installed binary tbz2 packages > from cd, but instead I had: > > Calculating depend

[gentoo-user] 'emerge --usepkg kde' question

2005-06-10 Thread askar ...
Hello! I have a package cd of gentoo 2005.0. Mounted and #export PKGDIR="/mnt/cdrom" After that I did command: #emerge --usepkg kde As I understand it installed binary tbz2 packages from cd, but instead I had: Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 43) kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r2 to /

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of netkit-rsh

2005-06-10 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 11 June 2005 04:46, Digby Tarvin wrote: > When I emerge netkit-rsh (because I want to share a tape via rmt) I > get several warning such as: > QA Notice: /usr/bin/rlogin is setXid, dynamically linked and using > lazy bindings. This combination is generally discouraged. Try: > CFLAGS='-

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that I've been thinking about it for a while, if > OpenSSH needs Perl, > shouldn't Perl be built before OpenSSH? This seems > like an ebuild bug > to me. > openssh depends on autoconf which depends on perl. Apparently you have autoconf but not per

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Colin
Zac Medico wrote: --- Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm compiling my system (emerge -env system), but when it gets down to building OpenSSH, it fails, saying "You need Perl 5." Pretending and checking the tree shows that Perl 5 will be emerged later on during the install. Attempting to

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colin wrote: > > > I'm compiling my system (emerge -env system), but > when it gets down to > > building OpenSSH, it fails, saying "You need Perl > 5." Pretending and > > checking the tree shows that Perl 5 will be > emerged later on during > > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Ted Ozolins
Colin wrote: > I'm compiling my system (emerge -env system), but when it gets down to > building OpenSSH, it fails, saying "You need Perl 5." Pretending and > checking the tree shows that Perl 5 will be emerged later on during > the install. Attempting to "emerge -v perl" attempts to emerge > sv

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm compiling my system (emerge -env system), but > when it gets down to > building OpenSSH, it fails, saying "You need Perl > 5." Pretending and > checking the tree shows that Perl 5 will be emerged > later on during the > install. Attempting to "emer

[gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Colin
I'm compiling my system (emerge -env system), but when it gets down to building OpenSSH, it fails, saying "You need Perl 5." Pretending and checking the tree shows that Perl 5 will be emerged later on during the install. Attempting to "emerge -v perl" attempts to emerge svgalib as well (since

[gentoo-user] Re: docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14 [0.6.12]

2005-06-10 Thread James
Tim Igoe igoe.me.uk> writes: > emerge openjade > > then continue the emerge -uD world Thanks everyone for the answers. these 2 commands seem to have clean up the email of the sgml-utils problem. Thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge of netkit-rsh

2005-06-10 Thread Digby Tarvin
When I emerge netkit-rsh (because I want to share a tape via rmt) I get several warning such as: QA Notice: /usr/bin/rlogin is setXid, dynamically linked and using lazy bindings. This combination is generally discouraged. Try: CFLAGS='-Wl,-z,now' emerge netkit-rsh Which seems pretty reasonable

Re: [gentoo-user] Routing problem

2005-06-10 Thread James R Campbell
... > duplicate entries for the 10.32.16.0/32 are causing you grief here.  It > also looks like you have a typo in your second entry (if your above > statement was correct) in the third quad of your gateway in this entry: > 10.32.16.0/32 --> 10.32.100.2. ... I'm sorry, both of those should read 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Routing problem

2005-06-10 Thread James R Campbell
On Friday 10 June 2005 09:19, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a bit trouble to get one computer force to use another route. > > this are the commands i'm using to create routes > route add -net 10.32.16.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.32.101.4 dev > tun1 route add -host 10.32.16

[gentoo-user] intel gma900 and linux

2005-06-10 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, what about buying a notebook with intel's 915 chipset which doesn't use any ati or nvidia-card but the integrated intel-thing called GMA900. I can't find any ebuild in portage, but there are drivers for linux on intel's support page. They seem to be at least for linux 2.4 - and perhaps for 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-10 Thread Kyle England
Ramón Gutiérrez wrote: > go to */ect/make.conf* and add *ACCEPTS_KEYWORDS="~x86" * > case sensitive Rarely, if ever, will the above be a good solution to any problem like this. To the original poster: You're problem is because you're trying to install a hard masked version of proftpd, which requ

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-10 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: >> possible level, and may be more reliably. But maybe >> your burner is >> broken (?) > > > No, it's fine. Still under warranty. Works fine under > WinXP. If you have a FAT partition for sharing files between Linux and XP, you could copy the ISO to there and burn it under X

[gentoo-user] /dev=ATAPI versus /dev=ATA

2005-06-10 Thread Walter Dnes
Going off on a bit of a tangent here, and re-naming the subject. If I execute "cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI", the system spins its wheels for several seconds, and I get... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built

Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?

2005-06-10 Thread Walter Dnes
"cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI" gives me the following... scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'HITACHI ' 'DVD-ROM GD-5000 ' '0110' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'SONY' 'CD-RW CRX100E ' '1.0m' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:17:06PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote > PAM is an *optional* dependency; you can compile the program "-pam" and PAM is an *OPTIONAL PROGRAM*; build your system with... [m450][root][~]cat /etc/portage/package.mask sys-libs/pam in addition to "-pam" in use, and you will

Re: [gentoo-user] freenx-nxserver fun continued: nxproxy port

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay so I got this nxserver stuff going fine. I can > connect to the > server machine over its ssh port. But then it seems > that something > called nxproxy is trying to connect from the client, > to the server, on > TCP port 5000. > > I've looked for

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-10 Thread maxim wexler
> possible level, and may be more reliably. But maybe > your burner is > broken (?) No, it's fine. Still under warranty. Works fine under WinXP. The reason I mentioned broadband is because big files(like install isos and pkg cds) can be downloaded in minutes instead of days. I can certainly down

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware problem

2005-06-10 Thread Bill Six
Thanks for the help everyone. The RAM was the problem, even though it didn't appear to be in incorrectly, after I pushed them in a little harder, the computer booted up all right. The cables are right next to the RAM, it must have gotten a little dislodged. Thanks again Bill

Re: [gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14 [0.6.12]

2005-06-10 Thread Tim Igoe
James wrote: > Hello, > > This docbook ebuild seems to fail Ideas on fixes > are welcome. I already unmerged then emerge and that > did not seem to work around the problem. Maybe some other > missing/corrupt package? bugzilla was not any help > either > > emerge -uD world > > make[2]: Nothi

[gentoo-user] freenx-nxserver fun continued: nxproxy port

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
Okay so I got this nxserver stuff going fine. I can connect to the server machine over its ssh port. But then it seems that something called nxproxy is trying to connect from the client, to the server, on TCP port 5000. I've looked for documents or a config file for nxproxy, because I can't use th

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-10 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: > COASTER! Well, you could try again adding "speed=0" to the command, before the name of the ISO. That will drop the burning speed to the lowest possible level, and may be more reliably. But maybe your burner is broken (?) So, this friend of yours with the broadband and th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-10 Thread Richard Fish
Alec Shaner wrote: >Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x7 >Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector >47188047 >Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical >block 47187984 >Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel:

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with pppconfig

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- Jerry Turba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used the Gentoo install CD and installed the stage > 3 tarball. The > reboot went fine and I can log in purely console > mode. I have only a > dialup internet connection but I cannot connect to > the internet via the > dialup > on Gentoo. I did eme

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-10 Thread Richard Fish
Neil Bothwick wrote: >You can put a lot of this into /etc/defaults/cdrecord, to save (mis) >typing it every time. > > > Cool, thanks. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [WOT] Commercial software

2005-06-10 Thread Richard Fish
Ralph Slooten wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Richard Fish wrote: > >> So, from what you just said and the previous comments on this thread, I >> can assume that Skype only supports the obsolete OSS API for sound? >> Sorry, an 'awesome' product that truly wanted to sup

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx ; documentation?

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:52 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > --- fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just installed nxserver-freenx, however it doesn't > > appear any > > documents were installed with it. Meaning I have no > > idea how to even set > > it up. > > > > Any pointers? > > > >

[gentoo-user] portage behaviour

2005-06-10 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Seems that portage is getting more and more clever ;) For some time after emerging or unmerging a package, had to rebuild some packages which had a dependency (USE-flag) on that package. Ex. added 'postgresql' and had to rebuild some packages which have such flag. Yesterday replaced 'fam' with

Re: [gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14 [0.6.12]

2005-06-10 Thread Rumen Yotov
James wrote: >Hello, > >This docbook ebuild seems to fail Ideas on fixes >are welcome. I already unmerged then emerge and that >did not seem to work around the problem. Maybe some other >missing/corrupt package? bugzilla was not any help >either > >emerge -uD world > >make[2]: Nothing to be do

Re: [gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14 [0.6.12]

2005-06-10 Thread michael higgins
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:36:38 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This docbook ebuild seems to fail Ideas on fixes > are welcome. I already unmerged then emerge and that > did not seem to work around the problem. Maybe some other > missing/corrupt package? bugzilla was not an

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Zac, >Thanks. Shall I contact you offline? I tried PXE > awhile ago but > couldn't get it to work. I'm not sure the old Dell I > used as a test > box was truly PXE compliant so I was thinking I > swhould check out what > low cost, Linux-compati

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-10 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, You have to be in 'wheel' group to "su -" to root, or was this for sudo. check. Could also use 'gpasswd' to add a user to a group, run "man gpasswd". HTH. Rumen Rafael Dantas de Castro wrote: >to check in what groups your user is in you can just type >$ groups > >to change the groups, you have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Commercial software (was: Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?)

2005-06-10 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > Sorry, an 'awesome' product > that truly wanted to support linux would support alsa, esd, > and arts sound APIs at a minimum. Yes, that's right. Or at least being an ALSA instead of an OSS client so one has the chance to use DMIX for software mixing. They have choosen OSS because it was

[gentoo-user] Re: How to make updates take effect?

2005-06-10 Thread James
Grant gmail.com> writes: > I'm realizing that some updates (emerges and etc-updates) won't take > effect until a certain daemon is restarted, or perhaps until the > system is rebooted. How can I be sure that I do what is necessary for > updates to take effect? Is it just a matter of understand

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-10 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, I'm sorry for the noise I caused, but I want to clarify some things: > Skype *is* awesome in terms of any Linux product. It works > on almost all major distros out-of-the-box without any > configuration needed (firewall included). This cannot be > said for apps like gnomemeeting etc... They

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/10/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Great call Zac! rootdelay=10 allowed me to boot from > > the flash drive > > Excellent! That's good to know. If you need any help > with the PXE I might be able to help with that too > sinc

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx ; documentation?

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed nxserver-freenx, however it doesn't > appear any > documents were installed with it. Meaning I have no > idea how to even set > it up. > > Any pointers? > You need to run the "nxsetup --install" and nxkeygen then copy the the generat

[gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14 [0.6.12]

2005-06-10 Thread James
Hello, This docbook ebuild seems to fail Ideas on fixes are welcome. I already unmerged then emerge and that did not seem to work around the problem. Maybe some other missing/corrupt package? bugzilla was not any help either emerge -uD world make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Le

[gentoo-user] How to make updates take effect?

2005-06-10 Thread Grant
I'm realizing that some updates (emerges and etc-updates) won't take effect until a certain daemon is restarted, or perhaps until the system is rebooted. How can I be sure that I do what is necessary for updates to take effect? Is it just a matter of understanding what is being updated so I can r

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great call Zac! rootdelay=10 allowed me to boot from > the flash drive Excellent! That's good to know. If you need any help with the PXE I might be able to help with that too since I use pxelinux to boot my diskless node. Zac __

[gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx ; documentation?

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
I just installed nxserver-freenx, however it doesn't appear any documents were installed with it. Meaning I have no idea how to even set it up. Any pointers? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx - Is there a client?

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps I'm confused here, but I'm looking int > freenx. Using esearch > freenx, this was the only item I found: > > net-misc/nxserver-freenx > > Now the name of it implies it's just a server, is > the client in there > too, or is this seperate? > I

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/9/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You say the kernel messages indicate that the flash > disk was recognized as sda so I'm not sure why it's > not mounting for you. I looked through > linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and saw a > "rootdelay" parameter. With the modules I n

[gentoo-user] Simscan problem.

2005-06-10 Thread posix
Hi all! Does anyone here work with simscan ? (http://www.inter7.com/simscan) According to README file, the order of processing is: email address (overrides all) domain (overrides default) default (only used if not overridden by domain or email address. The problem is that i can't get it workin

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 03:59:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > CF cards aren't lockable, but some CD-IDE adaptors have a write > > > protect jumper. Of course, you'll have problems sa

[gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx - Is there a client?

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
Perhaps I'm confused here, but I'm looking int freenx. Using esearch freenx, this was the only item I found: net-misc/nxserver-freenx Now the name of it implies it's just a server, is the client in there too, or is this seperate? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Help with pppconfig

2005-06-10 Thread Jerry Turba
I used the Gentoo install CD and installed the stage 3 tarball. The reboot went fine and I can log in purely console mode. I have only a dialup internet connection but I cannot connect to the internet via the dialup on Gentoo. I did emerge 2 files (that emerge -s pppconfig suggested); pppconfig-

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-10 Thread Alec Shaner
Zac Medico wrote: [snip] >>> >> >>Once the buffer fills up would you expect it to work >>fine at 1.2MB/s? I >>wish I had kept the logs, but it was extremely slow >>(much slower than >>1.2). I was copying a series of ~70MB files over and >>it would work fine >>on about the first 5 or so files befo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-10 Thread Alec Shaner
Richard Fish wrote: > Alec Shaner wrote: > > >>Once the buffer fills up would you expect it to work fine at 1.2MB/s? I >>wish I had kept the logs, but it was extremely slow (much slower than >>1.2). I was copying a series of ~70MB files over and it would work fine >>on about the first 5 or so fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-10 Thread Rafael Dantas de Castro
to check in what groups your user is in you can just type $ groups to change the groups, you have to do, as root, % usermod -G [groups] user you have to include all groups in a comma separated list (for example: users,wheel ), I don´t think you can simply add a group... don´t have any ideas as t

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-10 Thread maxim wexler
--- Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The correction was to replace "dev=/dev/cdrom" with > "dev=/dev/hdc". COASTER! Tried booting with the reader drive(Creative 24x DVD) -- it went clunk, clunk, clunk...nothing appeared on the screen but a blinking cursor. Tried booting with the wri

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-10 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Grant, Grant wrote: > Very interesting. It's starting to sound like Skype isn't the devil > after all. Is there any other software that will let me make calls to > regular phone lines from my Linux computer? Free would be better, but > I don't m

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Commercial software (was: Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?)

2005-06-10 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Taken from the Skype End User License Agreement (http://www.skype.com/company/legal/eula/) --- QUOTE --- Article 4. Permission to Utilize 4.1 Permission to utilize Your computer. In order to receive the benefits provided by the Skype Software, You hereby grant permission for the Skype So

[gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
My network updates its software every night at midnight. There was a problem with a couple of blocking packages night before last, so I unmerged the two blocking packages and did the emerge -avuD world in a screen. Now they're done and I can no longer su - to root from my personal account. I hav

[gentoo-user] Routing problem

2005-06-10 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm having a bit trouble to get one computer force to use another route. this are the commands i'm using to create routes route add -net 10.32.16.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.32.101.4 dev tun1 route add -host 10.32.16.160 gateway 10.32.101.2 dev tun0 The routes on my gentoo router are

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-10 Thread Grant
> > Skype searches for sound daemons, but I notice it never uses them, OSS > > always (or the emulated OSS under ALSA), maybe will come handy in the > > future of development. > > Skype does not search for demons at all, the gentoo sound-wrapper script > does. > > > I wouldn't worry about the Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation problem: gcc

2005-06-10 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 10 juin à 13:22:32 Edward Catmur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 12:44 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: >> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory > > run binutils-config Thank you Edward, looks like "binutil-config -d .." did th

[gentoo-user] Error emerging gnome2-print

2005-06-10 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, I got the following error while doing "emerge gnome2-print": ## omc-1 ~ # emerge --resume *** Resuming merge... >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-perl/gnome2-print-0.61 to / >>> md5 files ;-) gnome2-print-0.94.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) gnome2-print-0.61.ebuild >>> md5 files

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell Script runs fine directly, fails in crontab

2005-06-10 Thread Alin Dobre
On 6/2/05, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 14:54 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Sometimes there are environmental differences that are not immediately > > obvious between executing a command at the shell vs. within a cron task. > > > > A great hint I saw was to use the

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling the whole system

2005-06-10 Thread Matt Place
Good question. Unfortunately I haven't used that feature yet. Your best bet will probably be to post to emwrap's support thread. hielvc is the one who created emwrap, he'll be best at helping figure out your particular situation. You may want to check before you post because chances are good tha

Re: [gentoo-user] I have problem in the emerge of efutils

2005-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:06:47 -0300, Gabriel Fernández wrote: > checking for i386-pc-linux-gnu-strip... i386-pc-linux-gnu-strip > checking build system type... Invalid configuration `i686-pc-linux-': > machine `i686-pc-linux' not recognized > configure: error: /bin/sh config/config.sub i686-pc-linu

[gentoo-user] I have problem in the emerge of efutils

2005-06-10 Thread Gabriel Fernández
I have problem in the emerge of efutils after update gcc checking for i386-pc-linux-gnu-strip... i386-pc-linux-gnu-strip checking build system type... Invalid configuration `i686-pc-linux-': machine `i686-pc-linux' not recognized configure: error: /bin/sh config/config.sub i686-pc-linux- failed

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 03:59:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CF cards aren't lockable, but some CD-IDE adaptors have a write > > protect jumper. Of course, you'll have problems saving any settings > > with a write- protected /etc, so JFFS2 may

Re: [gentoo-user] is there anybody succeded with ./CA.pl -newca in Gentoo 2005.0?

2005-06-10 Thread askar ...
> > I was using universal live cd, with its stage and portage files not > > using emerge --sync. > > Maybe that's your problem. Yes, I found out - that was a problem on my side. Thanks. askar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking ebuilds

2005-06-10 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zac Medico wrote: > I would check the ebuild changelogs and > bugs.gentoo.org. There's also program called herdstat > that you can use to query information about package > maintainers (I merged it but haven't tried it yet). herdstat's lame :) To an

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation problem: gcc

2005-06-10 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 12:44 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory run binutils-config -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2: ERROR: pam_access have dependencies in /usr.

2005-06-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 12:39 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to compile sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 and get the > following error: > > /bin/install -c -m 755 pam_xauth.so > /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security > test -d /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//usr/share/man/man

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:28:40 -0400, Colin wrote: > > > >Probably. You can save space with a compressed > > >filesystem like jjfs or squashfs. You probably want > > >to mount it read only since flash has limited write > > >cycles. > > > Kind

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables blocks ssh

2005-06-10 Thread Antonio Coralles
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: > >> I've recently turned my workstation into a router for my laptop, using >> the great gentoo home router guide. Everthing is ok so far, with one >> exception: I can't connect to my ssh server anymore from outside

[gentoo-user] Compilation problem: gcc

2005-06-10 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Hello all, I have a strange error doing an 'emerge -uD world': >>> Source unpacked. ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib creating cache ./config.cache checking whether

[gentoo-user] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2: ERROR: pam_access have dependencies in /usr.

2005-06-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! I'm trying to compile sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 and get the following error: /bin/install -c -m 755 pam_xauth.so /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security test -d /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//usr/share/man/man8 || mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.7 2/image//usr/share/man/man8 /bin/i

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling the whole system

2005-06-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Matt Place wrote: > Check out emwrap in the forums: > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-282474-highlight-emwrap.html > > With emwrap you can rebuild your entire system, including the > toolchain, correctly. > Hope it helps, I think it's great. Hm. I just checked it out and have to agree - i

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-10 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel da Veiga wrote: > Skype searches for sound daemons, but I notice it never uses them, OSS > always (or the emulated OSS under ALSA), maybe will come handy in the > future of development. Skype does not search for demons at all, the gentoo sound-

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Commercial software

2005-06-10 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: > So, from what you just said and the previous comments on this thread, I > can assume that Skype only supports the obsolete OSS API for sound? > Sorry, an 'awesome' product that truly wanted to support linux would > support alsa

[gentoo-user] The One TRUE Hostname / Domainname Assignation Method

2005-06-10 Thread Aniruddha Shankar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just upgraded my baselayout and noticed the deprecation of /etc/dnsdomainname in favour of /etc/conf.d/domainname . Unless I follow the instructions [1] on Gentoo-wiki.com and in /etc/hosts point 127.0.0.1 to my FQDN first in apparent contravention o

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab entry

2005-06-10 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-06-09 22:08:52 + (Thu, Jun), Martins Steinbergs wrote: > what's wrong with these, users cant access partitions (Access denied to > /mnt/win_j.), only root can go there. > > fstab > > /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cntfsdefaults,ro,user0 0 > /dev/hdb8/mnt/win_jv

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-10 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/9/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Alternatively, you could setup syslog-ng to send the logs to another >>machine. > >I don't know about this. I seem to have gone backwards: > > 1) If I turn off syslog-ng then it seems that the drive never spinds > up, s

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:28:40 -0400, Colin wrote: > >Probably. You can save space with a compressed > >filesystem like jjfs or squashfs. You probably want > >to mount it read only since flash has limited write > >cycles. > Kind of off on a tangent, but there are other alternatives to a > write-

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error "Bad interpretor"

2005-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 23:43:16 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Sorry I didnt get that reply. Either way to answer that question, no - i > do not have the noexec option in my fstab (where the drive is > automounted). This is the line in my fstab: > > /dev/hda6 /mnt/storage reiserfs notail,exec,

Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?

2005-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:11:47 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > I don't myself use cdrecord directly all that often, but I did manage to > remember > >cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus > > which produced this output: > [snip] > scsibus0: > 0,0,0 0) '_NEC' 'DVD_RW ND-2510A ' '2.15' >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Commercial software (was: Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?)

2005-06-10 Thread Richard Fish
Ralph Slooten wrote: > The only real issues (sound) I have come across with users are mainly > Gentoo users who use the ebuilds, which in term uses a self-created > sound-wrapper file which unfortunately does not work with everyone. So, from what you just said and the previous comments on this t