Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problem with disk: cannot mount as ext3 but yes as ext2 ???

2006-10-12 Thread Gregory SACRE
On 10/13/06, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:29:40AM +0200, Gregory SACRE wrote > Is there anything wrong with my hardware? Is it a super-block problem? > Is there a way to solve it? > > Thank you in advance! This is not intended as an insult, but let's start

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-12 Thread Grant
> > Could it be using this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARccOS > > Would it then make sense that vobcopy can rip a decrypted backup from > the disc but not from a disc image? Possibly, because dd would trip up on the deliberate errors. I'm tweaking that script you wrote. Here's what I have:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about conditionals and bash scripting

2006-10-12 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > #!/bin/bash > > while read LINE > do >whois $LINE | grep 'abuse' &> /dev/null >if [$? -ne 0]; then > echo "$LINE" >> noabuse.txt >fi > done < iplist > > Here's the output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.maildir/.SPAM/cur $ ./process.sh > .

[gentoo-user] pam eventually disconnect from ldap server

2006-10-12 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi, I configured my clients to auth against a LDAP server. Everything works fine, but sometime nss_ldap disconnect and I can't connect anymore. What it is happening? When this occurs I can't connect/auth through ssh server, after type password I got a "connection reset by remote peer" message.

[gentoo-user] change beagle html viewer

2006-10-12 Thread Shaochun Wang
I use beagle in gnome. When I double click a html search result, beagle will start epihpany as the viewer. Does anyone know how to set firefox as the default viewer? -- Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Fingerprint: 70C2 6945 0E46 E08B 419A 007C AC5C F21F 358A 0833 You can get my publickey

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problem with disk: cannot mount as ext3 but yes as ext2 ???

2006-10-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:29:40AM +0200, Gregory SACRE wrote > Is there anything wrong with my hardware? Is it a super-block problem? > Is there a way to solve it? > > Thank you in advance! This is not intended as an insult, but let's start at square 1. In "make menuconfig", have you enabled

[gentoo-user] Xorg 7.1 and Legacy Nvidia Drivers

2006-10-12 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
I say in the newsletter that the stabilization of Xorg 7.1 was being held up until there where updated drivers for Nvidia that added support for this version. So does this mean that you MUST use the latest Nvidia driver to use Xorg 7.1? I know that I had an issue with the libraries not getting s

Re: [gentoo-user] colplug deprecated?

2006-10-12 Thread Grant
> I noticed this: > > "sys-fs/udev-089 and later takes over the responsibility of > coldplugging. Therefore sys-apps/coldplug is no longer needed." > > here: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_USB_Scanner > > Is udev-089 a replacement for coldplug in all cases? Yes. Well, that's the the

[gentoo-user] mediawiki package stability

2006-10-12 Thread Trenton Adams
Anyone know the stability of the 1.7.1 package? FYI, I'm running amd64, which probably does not matter. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gentoo mirro rsync policy

2006-10-12 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi Guys, Is there a policy for the syncing of the mirrors, that would prevent inconsistencies? I'm not talking about inconsistencies with the master server(s), as that would be kind of difficult to have atomic syncing between all servers involved. What I'm referring to is inconsistencies in ter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libstdc++.la broken link problem SOLVED

2006-10-12 Thread Roy Wright
Harm Geerts wrote: > Personally I'd remove the files and run revdep-rebuild to restore the libs I > broke by deleting them :) > Deleting the files solved the issue. revdep-rebuild completed normally afterwards. Thank you, Roy -- ruby -e 'puts "qnxv?bhrbn-bnl".tr(" -}","!-~")' -- gentoo-us

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-12 Thread Lord Sauron
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 23:04, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:39, Lord Sauron wrote: > > > $ zgrep IPW2100\\\|IEEE80211 /proc/config.gz > > > CONFIG_IEEE80211=m > > > # CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG is not set > > > CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=m > > > CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need /etc/conf.d/net setup help

2006-10-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 01:15 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 12 October 2006 23:04, Michael Sullivan wrote: > [SNIP] > > camille conf.d # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart > > * Caching service dependencies ... > > [ ok ] * ERROR: not enough args. > > > > * Usage: net.eth0 { start|stop|r

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing Konqueror Timeouts

2006-10-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 13 October 2006 00:24, Neil Hodges wrote: > Hello, > > I've been having issues with timeouts in Konqueror, particularly DNS > timeouts. How can I change the values for these? kcontrol (the control center) --> interne & network --> Connection preferences ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mai

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.18

2006-10-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:55:21 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > Over here, a number of old favorites, like sysklogd, fail to compile... > I am seeing a slew of missing includes and a few "syntax errors" with > various packages. $ grep KEY /usr/portage/sys-kernel/linux-headers/linux-headers-2.6.18.ebu

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need /etc/conf.d/net setup help

2006-10-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 October 2006 23:04, Michael Sullivan wrote: [SNIP] > camille conf.d # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart > * Caching service dependencies ... > [ ok ] * ERROR: not enough args. > > * Usage: net.eth0 { start|stop|restart } > *net.eth0 without arguments for full help > > What exac

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need /etc/conf.d/net setup help

2006-10-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 15:38 -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > >I have SBC DSL with static WAN IPs. I use the 2Wire OfficePortal as my > >DSL modem/router. SBC told me that in order to map my WAN addresses to > >my individual PCs, I have to use DHCP. The problem is that usi

[gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.18

2006-10-12 Thread Jerry McBride
I anyone else having problems compiling anything after emerging linux-headers-2.6.18? Over here, a number of old favorites, like sysklogd, fail to compile... I am seeing a slew of missing includes and a few "syntax errors" with various packages. I thought I'd ask before posting a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need /etc/conf.d/net setup help

2006-10-12 Thread Ted Ozolins
Michael Sullivan wrote: >I have SBC DSL with static WAN IPs. I use the 2Wire OfficePortal as my >DSL modem/router. SBC told me that in order to map my WAN addresses to >my individual PCs, I have to use DHCP. The problem is that using the >default DHCP configuration (no /etc/conf.d/net), my /etc

[gentoo-user] Changing Konqueror Timeouts

2006-10-12 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, I've been having issues with timeouts in Konqueror, particularly DNS timeouts. How can I change the values for these? - Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] libstdc++.la broken link problem

2006-10-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:29:37 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: > Checking dynamic linking consistency... > broken /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/kcal_blogging.la (requires > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.la) > broken /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkcal_blogging.la (requires > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gn

[gentoo-user] Re: libstdc++.la broken link problem

2006-10-12 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 12 October 2006 23:29, Roy Wright wrote: > Howdy, > > The past couple of nights my revdep-rebuild cron job has been > reporting the following: > > - > royw-gentoo royw # revdep-rebuild -pv > Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild > > Checking reverse depen

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about conditionals and bash scripting

2006-10-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 October 2006 23:08, Michael Sullivan wrote: [SNIP] > OK. Here's my new code: [SNIP] Maybe you should have a look at: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/tools-reference/bash/index.html -- Bo Andresen pgpxpDTTnsL1r.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flac - emerge error

2006-10-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 October 2006 22:10, Mick wrote: [SNIP] > > What now? > > BTW, this is the revdep-rebuild output that started it all: > === > Checking dynamic linking consistency... > broken /usr/bin/imlib_config (requires libgdk-1.2.so.0 libgtk-1.2.so.0

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about conditionals and bash scripting

2006-10-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Surround the [ and ] with spaces. On Thursday October 12 2006 17:08, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 13:49 -0700, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: > > > I have a short script: > > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > > > while read LINE > > > do > > >whois $LINE | grep 'abuse' &> /dev/null >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about conditionals and bash scripting

2006-10-12 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> OK. Here's my new code: > > #!/bin/bash > > while read LINE > do >whois $LINE | grep 'abuse' &> /dev/null >if [$? -ne 0]; then > echo "$LINE" >> noabuse.txt >fi > done < iplist > > Here's the output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.maildir/.SPAM/cur $ ./process.sh > ./process.sh:

[gentoo-user] Re: Flac - emerge error

2006-10-12 Thread Mick
On Thursday 12 October 2006 19:46, Mick wrote: > A revdep-rebuid caused a multitude of remerging (karamba, xmms et al, > including flac). Flac fails as follows: > > > ../../libtool-disable-static --tag=CC --mode=compile > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAV

[gentoo-user] libstdc++.la broken link problem

2006-10-12 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, The past couple of nights my revdep-rebuild cron job has been reporting the following: - royw-gentoo royw # revdep-rebuild -pv Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a pac

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about conditionals and bash scripting

2006-10-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:41:12 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > while read LINE > do >whois $LINE | grep 'abuse' &> /dev/null >if $? != 0; then > echo "$LINE" >> noabuse.txt >fi > done < iplist > > I'm getting "command not found" on the if line. The if line should be "if [ $? -ne

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about conditionals and bash scripting

2006-10-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 13:49 -0700, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: > > I have a short script: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > while read LINE > > do > >whois $LINE | grep 'abuse' &> /dev/null > >if $? != 0; then > > echo "$LINE" >> noabuse.txt > >fi > > done < iplist > > > > I'm getting

[gentoo-user] OT - Need /etc/conf.d/net setup help

2006-10-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have SBC DSL with static WAN IPs. I use the 2Wire OfficePortal as my DSL modem/router. SBC told me that in order to map my WAN addresses to my individual PCs, I have to use DHCP. The problem is that using the default DHCP configuration (no /etc/conf.d/net), my /etc/resolv.conf file gets overwr

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx sse sse2 use flags

2006-10-12 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Matthew R. Lee: > I need a bit of advice. I have these use flags enabled for mplayer (mmx, > sse, sse2) But I've also seen them as possible use flags for a number of > other programs, I'm about to install some kind of dvdripper. So the > question is should I enable these flags on a cas

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about conditionals and bash scripting

2006-10-12 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> I have a short script: > > #!/bin/bash > > while read LINE > do >whois $LINE | grep 'abuse' &> /dev/null >if $? != 0; then > echo "$LINE" >> noabuse.txt >fi > done < iplist > > I'm getting "command not found" on the if line. Have I not formatted it > correctly? The script i

[gentoo-user] OT - Question about conditionals and bash scripting

2006-10-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have a short script: #!/bin/bash while read LINE do whois $LINE | grep 'abuse' &> /dev/null if $? != 0; then echo "$LINE" >> noabuse.txt fi done < iplist I'm getting "command not found" on the if line. Have I not formatted it correctly? The script is supposed to append $LINE t

Re: [gentoo-user] Can smbmount handle long passwords?

2006-10-12 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia czwartek, 12 października 2006 21:13, Maxim Eremeev napisał: > Due to a little bit of paranoia I have found an interesting, though rather > annoying, bug in smbmount. If a samba user's password is longer than 23 > chars, smbmount just cannot deal with it, producing the following error: Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx sse sse2 use flags

2006-10-12 Thread Kevin Fullerton
On 19:13 Thu 12 Oct , Matthew R. Lee wrote: > I need a bit of advice. I have these use flags enabled for mplayer (mmx, > sse, > sse2) But I've also seen them as possible use flags for a number of other > programs, I'm about to install some kind of dvdripper. So the question is > should I

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread Geistteufel
A solution for this old computer to install it quickly is to use anothoer computer for compiling it after just use the binary package results ! On another gentoo or any other system else, create a directory, decompress stage 1 and start an install like you will do on old machine After, just ins

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Extracting IP addresses with grep

2006-10-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:51:05PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.maildir/.SPAM/cur $ cat * | grep -P m/\d+\.\d+\.\d > +\.\d+/ You might want the expression in quotes to prevent bash from intercepting those backslashes. grep -P '\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+' HTH, W -- Willie W

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx sse sse2 use flags

2006-10-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 12 October 2006 20:13, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > I need a bit of advice. I have these use flags enabled for mplayer (mmx, > sse, sse2) But I've also seen them as possible use flags for a number of > other programs, I'm about to install some kind of dvdripper. So the > question is shoul

[gentoo-user] Can smbmount handle long passwords?

2006-10-12 Thread Maxim Eremeev
Due to a little bit of paranoia I have found an interesting, though rather annoying, bug in smbmount. If a samba user's password is longer than 23 chars, smbmount just cannot deal with it, producing the following error: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) SMB connection f

[gentoo-user] OT - Extracting IP addresses with grep

2006-10-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have a mail directory with several hundred spammish emails that have been collecting over the past month. I haven't gotten around to processing them yet ([EMAIL PROTECTED] if available, blocked if not) I would like to write a script that would extract the IP addresses from all these emails, but

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect could not source blas.eselect

2006-10-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 October 2006 18:51, Trenton Adams wrote: > Ahah, looks like you just found a bug Bo. [SNIP] To be honest I don't have a clue about what I just found. I am not seeing this behaviour on any of my systems. But I guess it is time to go file a bug and include that info (and the info fr

[gentoo-user] Flac - emerge error

2006-10-12 Thread Mick
A revdep-rebuid caused a multitude of remerging (karamba, xmms et al, including flac). Flac fails as follows: ../../libtool-disable-static --tag=CC --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAV E_

Re: [gentoo-user] Segmentation fault on Emerge -S

2006-10-12 Thread Wagner Vaz
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:58:18 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It really would help if we knew what version you were running. Try > this: > > # emerge -u portage owl ~ # emerge -pu portage These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... don

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC server / windows viewer

2006-10-12 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 14:14 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > On a related note, I'm looking for something similar, but I want a > user to be presented with an xdm (or gdm) login. Just one remote > connection, one resolution. Short answer. 1. Emerge xinetd, if not already installed 2. add a vnc file

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling gentoo on P4 for a PII

2006-10-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 12 October 2006 12:34, "Selso DaSilva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] compiling gentoo on P4 for a PII': > Is their a way to have gentoo > installed on a P4 but compiling for the PII/PIII? The -march= value in your CFLAGS (on the machine building the image / packages

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC server / windows viewer

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Shields
On 10/12/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good morning all:For a couple days now I have been looking for a good simple setup thatwill allow me to run vnc on one of my gentoo workstations at home andconnect to it from my windows box in another area of the house.  I am not going acros

[gentoo-user] mmx sse sse2 use flags

2006-10-12 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I need a bit of advice. I have these use flags enabled for mplayer (mmx, sse, sse2) But I've also seen them as possible use flags for a number of other programs, I'm about to install some kind of dvdripper. So the question is should I enable these flags on a case by case basis or stick them i

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:26:58 -0700, Grant wrote: > > Could it be using this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARccOS > > Would it then make sense that vobcopy can rip a decrypted backup from > the disc but not from a disc image? Possibly, because dd would trip up on the deliberate errors. -- Ne

Re: [gentoo-user] xsm and dependency...

2006-10-12 Thread pk
Neil Bothwick wrote: > emerge --update --deep --tree world will tell you why. I thought I did that, but I must have missed the xinit dependency and it's related minimal USE flag. Guess I was too tired... Thanks for the input! Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] compiling gentoo on P4 for a PII

2006-10-12 Thread Selso DaSilva
Hi I m with a non-profit organization call Community Free Software Group, Inc. (CFSG) http://cfsg.org . Debian is currently our distro of choice. I was playing around with installing gentoo, when I started to ponder. Our organization get a lot of PII and some PIII donated to us. Is their a way t

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 October 2006 16:44, maxim wexler wrote: > > What baselayout and udev version are you using? > > Thanks Alan, > > I added the commands to local.start and that seems to > have done the trick. Ah, the old local.start hack Apparently we should never use it for things like this. But we

Re: [gentoo-user] colplug deprecated?

2006-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 October 2006 17:20, Grant wrote: > I noticed this: > > "sys-fs/udev-089 and later takes over the responsibility of > coldplugging. Therefore sys-apps/coldplug is no longer needed." > > here: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_USB_Scanner > > Is udev-089 a replacement for col

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect could not source blas.eselect

2006-10-12 Thread Trenton Adams
Ahah, looks like you just found a bug Bo. echo $(ESELECT_CORE_PATH=/usr/share/eselect/libs ; source ${ESELECT_CORE_PATH}/core.bash ; source ${ESELECT_CORE_PATH}/manip.bash ; set -x ; source /usr/share/eselect/modules/blas.eselect) ++ source /usr/share/eselect/module

[gentoo-user] Re: Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread James
michaelshiloh.com> writes: > > If there was a Gen_bunto CD for older p2 and p1 machines, all of the > > kids in my hood would be using gentoo > ROTFL - thanks for the laugh James. Gen-bunto - what a concept. My two > favorite distros right now are Gentoo and Ubuntu, and I wonder about

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP with no privileged login

2006-10-12 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia czwartek, 12 października 2006 17:50, Leandro Melo de Sales napisał: > I'm configured a LDAP server to be used as a users database. Now, I > want to setup linux box clients to auth against LDAP server. I > installed ldap-pam and ldap-nss. In /etc/ldap.conf file I have to > inform rootdn pas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread michael
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, James wrote: [...] If there was a Gen_bunto CD for older p2 and p1 machines, all of the kids in my hood would be using gentoo hth, James ROTFL - thanks for the laugh James. Gen-bunto - what a concept. My two favorite distros right now are Gentoo and Ubuntu, an

[gentoo-user] LDAP with no privileged login

2006-10-12 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi list, I'm configured a LDAP server to be used as a users database. Now, I want to setup linux box clients to auth against LDAP server. I installed ldap-pam and ldap-nss. In /etc/ldap.conf file I have to inform rootdn password. What is the best way to do this since the configuration file has t

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread michael
i use xubuntu on an old laptop, and it's quite snappy. although i'm sure you could get snappier results with gentoo On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Karl Huysmans wrote: Hi All, A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell laptop he got for free. The laptop has a pentium 2 400 M

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC server / windows viewer

2006-10-12 Thread Roy Wright
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > I'd try using one of the available vnc servers in portage (like for > example x11vnc or tightvnc) and see how it goes. > Linux Format (Oct 2006) magazine recommends x11vnc for the server. HTH, Roy -- echo "spzxAdjtdp/dpn" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' -- gento

[gentoo-user] Re: Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread James
Karl Huysmans gmail.com> writes: > > Hi All,A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell laptop he got for free. The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be used by his young children. > Anyone with any experience building such a system under Ge

[gentoo-user] colplug deprecated?

2006-10-12 Thread Grant
I noticed this: "sys-fs/udev-089 and later takes over the responsibility of coldplugging. Therefore sys-apps/coldplug is no longer needed." here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_USB_Scanner Is udev-089 a replacement for coldplug in all cases? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package

2006-10-12 Thread Trenton Adams
I did not know about python-updater. Should I re-install the old version of python again, and then run python-updater? Right now it complains about there not being an old version of python. Gotta run to work for now though. :( On 10/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thur

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect could not source blas.eselect

2006-10-12 Thread Trenton Adams
All the directories all the way down the tree have r-x, and the files are world readable. On 10/11/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:41, Trenton Adams wrote: [SNIP] > [22:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] trenta]# eselect [SNIP] > Extra modules: > bashcomp

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-12 Thread maxim wexler
> What baselayout and udev version are you using? > Thanks Alan, I added the commands to local.start and that seems to have done the trick. But here's the baselayout and udev info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv baselayout These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread Brian Davis
I've also used -O2 on my Pentium 2 Celeron system without any problems. I used to run -Os back on my Pentium 200Mhz days, and that works fine too ;). Honestly, however I never did any benchmarking between the different -O settings on any of these machines, so I'm not sure they were the best

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-12 Thread Grant
> I tried using vobcopy to decrypt my "The Life of Mammals" dd images > and, strangely, it's not working. vobcopy outputs the same error that > dvdbackup did, something about an error cracking the CSS keys, which > comes from libdvdcss. Could it be using this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARccOS

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC server / windows viewer

2006-10-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 12 October 2006 14:47, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > elsewhere in the house. So far all the VNC HOW-Tos etc that I have > read involve what appears to me to be very overly complex tunneling > over ssh etc (a good thing if I was going over the internet, but for > what im doing, totally un

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread Chris Frederick
Karl Huysmans wrote: Hi All, A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell laptop he got for free. The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be used by his young children. I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lot of very u

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Shields
On 10/12/06, Karl Huysmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All,A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell laptop he got for free. The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be used by his young children. I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread Jerônimo Backes
So I was thinking Gentoo, optimized for PII, I guess -Os would be a good option for this little machine. Any thoughts anyone? What about the desktop? I guess Gnome or KDE is not really the best choice. But what else could I use? Of course, it's for kids, so I have to be able to make it look

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 October 2006 12:21, Karl Huysmans wrote: > Hi All, > > A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell laptop > he got for free. > > The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be > used by his young children. > > I have tried to install Edubuntu o

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT overheat] How to cause shutdown on overheat

2006-10-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Sunday 01 October 2006 17:31, Michael Gisbers wrote: > > Just have a look to your trip_point: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/trip_points > critical (S5): 95 C > passive: 87 C: tc1=1 tc2=5 tsp=10 devices=0xdff72dc4 > > When reaching 95° my com

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Karl Huysmans wrote: > Hi All, > > A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell > laptop he got for free. > > The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will > be used by his young children. > > I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lo

[gentoo-user] VNC server / windows viewer

2006-10-12 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Good morning all: For a couple days now I have been looking for a good simple setup that will allow me to run vnc on one of my gentoo workstations at home and connect to it from my windows box in another area of the house. I am not going across the internet, or anything wild like that, just tryin

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 12 October 2006 01:42, PaulNM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question': > Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > It would of course solve the issue. *Nothing* short of a kernel > > upgrade requires a reboot though. And I mean that literally. So > > usually not. > > Just

Re: [gentoo-user] xsm and dependency...

2006-10-12 Thread Mick
On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:55, darren kirby wrote: > quoth the Daniel Barkalow: > > > What's up with this? I really don't want netkit-rsh installed > > > either...xsm changelog says nothing... > > > > You want to be looking at xinit's info; turns out you want the "minimal" > > USE flag if you d

[gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread Karl Huysmans
Hi All,A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell laptop he got for free. The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be used by his young children. I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lot of very usefull stuff for kids, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-12 Thread Paul Stear
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 19:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:24:48 -0700, Grant wrote: > > I tried using vobcopy to decrypt my "The Life of Mammals" dd images > > and, strangely, it's not working. vobcopy outputs the same error that > > dvdbackup did, something about an error

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Moshe Kamensky wrote: > The -s option of formail allows you to specify an argument, which is a > program name. This program will be run for each message, with the > message on the stdin. So if you have such a program that delivers to a > maildir, you can use it. procmail itself is one such progr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Circular Block? kde-env / kdelibs

2006-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 23:35, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > [nomerge      ] media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.1 > > [ebuild  N    ]   kde-base/kde-env-3-r4 > > > > This looks for me like font-alias wants to bring in kde-env ... but > > might be a misinterpretation from my side as well since after th

[gentoo-user] Re: Circular Block? kde-env / kdelibs -- RESOLVED

2006-10-12 Thread Stefan Wimmer
* Bo �rsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-11 21:35] : > No, this is not spam. It is necessary info to explain what's going on. Ok - next time you'll get it without asking ;-) > ~khelpcenter-3.5.2 pulls in ~kdelibs-3.5.2 which pulls in kde-env. > ~kdelibs-3.5.4 on the other hand blocks

Re: [gentoo-user] Segmentation fault on Emerge -S

2006-10-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 October 2006 09:59, Wagner Vaz wrote: > It's a bit funny if not sad. Just look: > > #emerge -S netrw > Searching... |Segmentation fault > > What is these? It really would help if we knew what version you were running. Try this: # emerge -u portage # emerge -u python # python-upda

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Alan McKinnon wrote: But wouldn't it add to entropy, next time I do a "emerge -NDu world"? No, if you look inside the xorg-x11 ebuild, you'll it depends on xorg-server (the actual X server itself), a bunch of common apps (xauth, xhost, xrandr, etc), 10 or so libs and 4 font

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 October 2006 10:18, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 10/11/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I did "emerge -p --depclean" and it would remove > >> x11-base/xorg-x11 (version 7.0-r1). > >> Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 October 2006 10:28, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > On Thursday 12 October 2006 00:56, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> I did "emerge -p --depclean" and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11 > >> (version 7.0-r1). > >> Now, how can this be? (No, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Segmentation fault on Emerge -S

2006-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 October 2006 09:59, Wagner Vaz wrote: > It's a bit funny if not sad. Just look: > > #emerge -S netrw > Searching... |Segmentation fault > > What is these? Doesn't matter, it's not in the tree (synced 3 minutes ago): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -S netrw Searching... [ Results for

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 12 October 2006 00:56, Jorge Almeida wrote: I did "emerge -p --depclean" and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11 (version 7.0-r1). Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!) I know --depclean is not to be blindly trust

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem getting UTF-8 locale

2006-10-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 09 October 2006 15:03, Liviu Andronic wrote: {SNIP] > Are you saying that it lacks a maintainer for keeping emelFM2 up-to-date in > portage? Yes. [SNIP] > Is there any way to ask portage devels to update regularly > emelFM2 ebuilds? (As it can be seen in [1], there are people providing

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 10/11/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did "emerge -p --depclean" and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11 (version 7.0-r1). Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!) I know --depclean is not to be blindly trusted,

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:24:37 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Liu wrote: > Sorry, previously I made a mistake running; > # mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk > > It should be > # mount /dev/sda1 /media/ Use a custom udev rule to give the device a persistent name. See http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php for

[gentoo-user] Segmentation fault on Emerge -S

2006-10-12 Thread Wagner Vaz
It's a bit funny if not sad. Just look: #emerge -S netrw Searching... |Segmentation fault What is these? Thanks! -- Wagner Vaz Blog: http://wagnervaz.wordpress.com Linux User: #372744 GPG Key: B4D1B312 | Keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

2006-10-12 Thread Charles Trois
Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:53:42 +0200, Charles Trois wrote: How could one make the system aware of French? It sounds like you don't have kde-i18n installed. Set LINGUAS in make.conf before you emerge it. That was it: I did as you advised and that fixed everything. Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:42, PaulNM wrote: > Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > It would of course solve the issue. *Nothing* short of a kernel > > upgrade requires a reboot though. And I mean that literally. So > > usually not. > > Just being a bit pedantic here, but what about init? Even switchi

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 19:43, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Wow, files can exist without file names.  I think I found a topic for > discussion in philosophy class... Nope. A file is an inode and that either eists or doesn't. A filename is just a dentry in a directory, it is not the file itself

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:00, Lord Sauron wrote: > They're going to install wireless in my school so I guess I better > get this working sometime soon : ) Several people responded to your request so far, and maybe that has solved your problem. But no-one fully answered your original question

[gentoo-user] pgadmin3 doesn't work (resolved)

2006-10-12 Thread Noack, Sebastian
Hi again, I figured the out at least, why dev-db/pgadmin3-1.4.3 didn't start. I filed the corresponding bug under http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150547. It hadt to do with the -fvisibility-inlines-hidden CXXFLAG. Regards Sebastian Noack > Hi, > > both verions in portage of dev-db/pgadm

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package

2006-10-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:30, PaulNM wrote: > It looks like an old version of python is still on your system from > when there was an ebuild for it. I'd suggest "emerge -p --depclean" to > see if it would remove it. emerge --depclean doesn't clean old slots. It will keep all installed versio

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-12 Thread PaulNM
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > It would of course solve the issue. *Nothing* short of a kernel upgrade > requires a reboot though. And I mean that literally. So usually not. > Just being a bit pedantic here, but what about init? Even switching to runlevel 1 would leave it running. Is it possible