[gentoo-user] Problems syncing.

Hi folks, I run into this on occasion. I have tried several things but when it happens I can not sync for a couple days. Here is what I get as far as the error: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge --sync > >>> Starting rsync with rsync://64.62.252.147/gentoo-portage... > >>> Checking server timestam

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Manager Message (a little OT)

Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:49:14 +0100 Norman Rieß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Guys guess what. As i have updated my Gnome to 2.16 now, the new shiny Power Manager tells me, that my laptop runs on battery after i pull the plug... Can you believe that?? If i pull the pl

Re: [gentoo-user] latest emerge world recked gnome

On Friday 15 December 2006 04:47, Morris Walton wrote: > jade: error while loading shared libraries: libosp.so.4: cannot open shared # emerge --oneshot openjade http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62789 -- Bo Andresen pgpCbzauVrlx5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:08:35 -0600 Dale wrote: > Grant wrote: > > > > My server is mainly used for apache2 with mod_perl. I would think > > that cache comes in handy. Will a web server pretty much always > > find something more to cache, or can you add memory to the point > > where everything th

Re: [gentoo-user] latest emerge world recked gnome

On Thursday 14 December 2006 22:47, Morris Walton wrote: > /usr/lib64/libgtkhtml-3.8.so: undefined reference to > `gail_text_util_buffer_setup' > /usr/lib64/libgtkhtml-3.8.so: undefined reference to > `gail_text_util_text_setup' > /usr/lib64/libgtkhtml-3.8.so: undefined reference to `gail_text_util

[gentoo-user] clamd / amavisd email virus scanning problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I've got amavisd setup with postfix for spam/virus filtering. However I'm noticing in my logs an error: Dec 15 14:20:27 [amavis] (28224-17) ClamAV-clamd: Can't send to socket /var/amavis/clamd: Transport endpoint is not connected, retrying (1) No

[gentoo-user] latest emerge world recked gnome

Hi, I've only been using gentoo since the summer, so please bear with me. I recently emerge --sync, and discovered I had more than 100 packages to update "the world". I haven't been able to get through the emerge: at least one of the packages, libusb, fails with this: jade -t sgml -d ./websit

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

Grant wrote: > > The thing is, it's memory in a hosted machine and I think I'm paying > like $35/month for the extra gigabyte. I should probably do some > testing or just have them remove the memory for a month and see how I > like it. > > - Grant That does change things. In my opinion, I would

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

> My server is mainly used for apache2 with mod_perl. I would think > that cache comes in handy. Will a web server pretty much always find > something more to cache, or can you add memory to the point where > everything that can be cached is cached? > > - Grant I have read a few articles on how

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

Grant wrote: >> > The "Swap: 24k" then remains. Is that normal? >> >> If the question is whether it is normal that the swap space is not freed >> even when it's not being used anymore, the answer would be "yes". > > I'm wondering if it's normal for the system to use a small amount of > swap before

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

Grant wrote: > > My server is mainly used for apache2 with mod_perl. I would think > that cache comes in handy. Will a web server pretty much always find > something more to cache, or can you add memory to the point where > everything that can be cached is cached? > > - Grant I have read a few a

Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth service starts without asking!

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 00:39 +, Bruno Santos wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have an internal bluetooth (usb-based) "thing" which I use with linux. > > It also works with vmware, but only when the hci-usb module is unloaded > > from linux first. > > > > The problem is, I h

Re: [gentoo-user] freeradius eap tls issue

In order to close this issue, the freeradius rlm_eap issue was fixed in net-dialup/freeradius-1.1.3-r2 thanks to mr Nastac (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158062) Regards Yiannis Yiannis Kontekakis wrote: > Hello again, > > dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8d is currently installed on my system.Also

[gentoo-user] Chroot to new environment complains about kernel

Hi, I try to chroot to a brand new environment, freshly unpacked from stage 3: kyle # chroot /mnt/hdb/ /bin/bash FATAL: kernel too old kyle # uname -a Linux kyle 2.6.8-3-686 #1 Tue Dec 5 21:26:38 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux After that, I unpacked stage 1. The boostrap worked fine until durin

Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth service starts without asking!

Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I have an internal bluetooth (usb-based) "thing" which I use with linux. It also works with vmware, but only when the hci-usb module is unloaded from linux first. The problem is, I have to disable wireless (with the hotkey) on my laptop to unload the module, bu

[gentoo-user] bluetooth service starts without asking!

Hi all, I have an internal bluetooth (usb-based) "thing" which I use with linux. It also works with vmware, but only when the hci-usb module is unloaded from linux first. The problem is, I have to disable wireless (with the hotkey) on my laptop to unload the module, but when I re-enable wireless,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Manager Message (a little OT)

At Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:49:14 +0100 Norman Rieß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys guess what. As i have updated my Gnome to 2.16 now, the new > shiny Power Manager tells me, that my laptop runs on battery after i > pull the plug... > Can you believe that?? If i pull the plug on my computer... i

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

> The "Swap: 24k" then remains. Is that normal? If the question is whether it is normal that the swap space is not freed even when it's not being used anymore, the answer would be "yes". I'm wondering if it's normal for the system to use a small amount of swap before it frees memory for the fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

On 09:48 Thu 14 Dec , Grant wrote: [snip] > The "Swap: 24k" then remains. Is that normal? If the question is whether it is normal that the swap space is not freed even when it's not being used anymore, the answer would be "yes". Writing to disk is too expensive, so I think the kernel does fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting the priority of the compiler

On Friday 08 December 2006 16:14, Dale wrote: > Refer 'man 5 make.conf' > > alan ## > That has worked for me for a long time now. KDE and most everything > else is set to 0 anyway. Folding is the only thing with a lower priority. > > Give that a try. > > Dale #

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

>> > From what I understand, Linux memory isn't freed up until it is full. >> > Is there a way to find out how much memory is actively in use? >> >> The free command. >> >> $ free >> total used free sharedbuffers >> cached >> Mem: 1028164 928764 9940

[gentoo-user] Gnome Power Manager Message (a little OT)

Guys guess what. As i have updated my Gnome to 2.16 now, the new shiny Power Manager tells me, that my laptop runs on battery after i pull the plug... Can you believe that?? If i pull the plug on my computer... it runs on battery. incredible!! And it tells me EVERY time i pull the plug,

RE: [gentoo-user] Protecting a package in package.keywords?

> -Original Message- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:46 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting a package in package.keywords? > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:55:52 -0800, Jason Ausmus wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:49:34 -0800, Grant wrote: > > >>> $ free >>> total used free sharedbuffers >>> cached Mem: 1028164 928764 99400 0 >>> 28228 468768 -/+ buffers/cache: 431768 596396 >>> Swap: 15

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge cinelerra-cvs fails with itnernal compiler error

On 2006-12-14, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to emerge cinelerra-cvs, but the compile fails with > an internal compiler error. Anybody have any idea what the fix > might be? It seems to build OK with gcc-4.1.1, but not with gcc-3.4.6 (which generated the error below). > -

Re: [gentoo-user] should my computer really be able to speak russian?

Ryan Sims wrote: > On 12/13/06, *Dale* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Ryan Sims wrote: >> I noticed while updating to Gnome 2.16 today that gnome2-user-docs >> took a long time (38 min +), and most of that time was spend on >> versions of the documents i

[gentoo-user] emerge cinelerra-cvs fails with itnernal compiler error

I'm trying to emerge cinelerra-cvs, but the compile fails with an internal compiler error. Anybody have any idea what the fix might be? -- i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../quicktime -D_LARGEFILE_S

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:49:34 -0800, Grant wrote: > > $ free > > total used free sharedbuffers > > cached Mem: 1028164 928764 99400 0 > > 28228 468768 -/+ buffers/cache: 431768 596396 > > Swap: 1556168 2104761345692

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

Grant wrote: >> > From what I understand, Linux memory isn't freed up until it is full. >> > Is there a way to find out how much memory is actively in use? >> >> The free command. >> >> $ free >> total used free sharedbuffers >> cached >> Mem: 1028164

Re: [gentoo-user] No update-eix-remote

Neil Bothwick wrote: It's in man portage Format: - comments begin with # - one DEPEND atom per line followed by additional KEYWORDS - lines without any KEYWORDS imply unstable host arch Thanks for the clarification. *fires up sed* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Something's killing my xfce panel/decorations

Steve wrote > Ralf Stephan wrote: > >Hello, > >I have a stable (+unstable gtk) i86/xorg soundless installation > >with a bare bones xfce4 desktop. My only problem is that, after > >one two weeks, the xfce-panel disappears and newly started apps > >are missing the window decorations. They keep mis

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

> From what I understand, Linux memory isn't freed up until it is full. > Is there a way to find out how much memory is actively in use? The free command. $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 1028164 928764 99400 0 282

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:48:25 -0800, Grant wrote: > From what I understand, Linux memory isn't freed up until it is full. > Is there a way to find out how much memory is actively in use? The free command. $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:10:55 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me > > > how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and > > > strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...) > > > > Read it in Konqueror :)

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

On 14 December 2006 18:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:41:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me > > how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and > > strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas

[gentoo-user] Memory Usage

From what I understand, Linux memory isn't freed up until it is full. Is there a way to find out how much memory is actively in use? It would also be useful to know the maximum amount of memory that was actively in use over a given period of time. Also, I've noticed in top that when my server's

Re: [gentoo-user] BloGTK & gtkhtml2

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:06:05 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 18:47, Arnau Bria wrote: [...] > > Thanks for opening my eyes! and sorry for asking so before looking > > deep in the problem... > > No problem, we all do it sometimes :-) > > If it makes you feel better, I co

[gentoo-user] USE flag mpm-prefork in apache

Apparently apache2 is built with mpm-prefork if no other mpm USE flag is enabled, even if USE="-mpm-prefork" is specified. Wouldn't it be better to either have the emerge fail and instruct the user to enable an mpm or remove the mpm-prefork USE flag entirely? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

On Thursday 14 December 2006 18:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:41:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to > > me how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and > > strangling me in protest (apologies t

Re: [gentoo-user] BloGTK & gtkhtml2

On Thursday 14 December 2006 18:47, Arnau Bria wrote: > you're right > I did not see that USE... it's my fault! >   > > > alan > > Thanks for opening my eyes! and sorry for asking so before looking > deep in the problem... No problem, we all do it sometimes :-) If it makes you feel better, I

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:41:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me > how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and > strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...) Read it in Konqueror :) -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] BloGTK & gtkhtml2

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:36:43 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 18:02, Arnau Bria wrote: [...] > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > [ebuild N] dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.14.0-r1 USE="X > > firefox -debug -doc -seamonkey" 0 kB [ebuild N] > ^^^ >

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

On Thursday 14 December 2006 17:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:28:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the > > info is there, full and complete :-) > > man mplayer is an example of why we need info pages; far too much > in

Re: [gentoo-user] BloGTK & gtkhtml2

On Thursday 14 December 2006 18:02, Arnau Bria wrote: > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N] dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.14.0-r1 USE="X > firefox -debug -doc -seamonkey" 0 kB [ebuild N] ^^^ See th

Re: [gentoo-user] BloGTK & gtkhtml2

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:42:25 +0100 Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi, > import gtkhtml2 > ImportError: No module named gtkhtml2 > > Looking into google found that I need libgtkhtml, but I do not find > any package with taht or similar name... Ok, I found I need next: # emerge -pvtD gnome-python-extras

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:28:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the info is > there, full and complete :-) man mplayer is an example of why we need info pages; far too much information for one page. At the very least, the mencoder-only optio

[gentoo-user] BloGTK & gtkhtml2

Hi, after installing BloGTK I recieve this error: $ BloGTK Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/BloGTK", line 14, in ? import gtkhtml2 ImportError: No module named gtkhtml2 Looking into google found that I need libgtkhtml, but I do not find any package with taht or similar nam

[gentoo-user] Can't start Coccinella-0.95-10

Hi I've recently installed Coccinella using the Gentoo package (marked with ~x86 keyword). However I can't make it start since when I launch /opt/coccinella/coccinella I get the following error message: X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

On 14 December 2006 11:28, Alan McKinnon wrote: > man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the info is > there, full and complete :-) Well, well, well ... that the POV of a masochist. ;-) Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysE

Re: [gentoo-user] should my computer really be able to speak russian?

On 12/13/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ryan Sims wrote: I noticed while updating to Gnome 2.16 today that gnome2-user-docs took a long time (38 min +), and most of that time was spend on versions of the documents in languages I don't speak. After trying a few things, I found that disabl

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 22:33, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Not the same. That HTML version had a lot of internal links. ;-) /usr/share/doc/mplayer-1.0_rc1/DOCS/HTML/ alan p.s. man mplayer is an example of what a man page should be. All the info is there, full and complete :-) -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] [O.T] photomosaic

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:30:17 + Redouane Boumghar wrote: > Hello Arnau Hi, > I'm sorry I didn't understand what you were looking for. It's ok, I must improve my English! > I proposed Image Magick and it sure can do it but with a little > head-scratch. > > So if i may resume u need : > - A

Re: [gentoo-user] [O.T] Kernel and general Linux Benchmarking

On 14 December 2006 15:03, Bruno Santos wrote: > Hello all. > > I need to perform some benchmarks with the Kernel and with the distro > itself but i cannot find any satisfactory app for that. ... and you probably won't. The question is: How do you benchmark a whole system? If you have some some

Re: [gentoo-user] [O.T] Kernel and general Linux Benchmarking

Hi, On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:03:27 + Bruno Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to perform some benchmarks with the Kernel and with the distro > itself but i cannot find any satisfactory app for that. /usr/portage/benchmark/* ...but it absolutely depends on *what* you want to benchmark

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting a package in package.keywords?

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:13:31 +, Mick wrote: > I guess that's a bit like the infamous "cake-walk" phrase in reference > to the TV announcements made at the time of the recent Iraq invasion? > It left me wondering whether they intended to say "piece of cake" or "a > walk in the park". I guess t

Re: [gentoo-user] [O.T] photomosaic

Hello Arnau I'm sorry I didn't understand what you were looking for. I proposed Image Magick and it sure can do it but with a little head-scratch. So if i may resume u need : - A parent picture - A list of other pictures to fill the mosaic With Image Magick you can extract a portion (according

Re: [gentoo-user] should my computer really be able to speak russian?

On Thursday 14 December 2006 06:53, Dale wrote: > Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:29:34 +0300, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ryan Sims wrote: > > > > ) > > > >> That paste looks HTML. Can someone confirm that it is sending as text > >> only? I have Seamonkey set up to

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting a package in package.keywords?

On Thursday 14 December 2006 00:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:55:52 -0800, Jason Ausmus wrote: > > > the latest ivtv branch (irregardless of whether its marked > > > stable). > > > > > > > > Sorry, but "irregardless" != English word > > > > I'm not trying to deputize myself as

[gentoo-user] [O.T] Kernel and general Linux Benchmarking

Hello all. I need to perform some benchmarks with the Kernel and with the distro itself but i cannot find any satisfactory app for that. Does anyone knows some good ones? Or something i can make with the distro itself (any command or procedure) to see such data ?? Thanks Bruno --

Re: [gentoo-user] [O.T] photomosaic

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:07:06 + Redouane Boumghar wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi, > One can use Image Magick for building multi-images mosaics > with command-line tools (minimum CPU load). > > Get Image Magick : > http://www.imagemagick.org/ > > How to use it for building mosaics : > http://www.c

Re: [gentoo-user] [O.T] photomosaic

Hi everyone, One can use Image Magick for building multi-images mosaics with command-line tools (minimum CPU load). Get Image Magick : http://www.imagemagick.org/ How to use it for building mosaics : http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/mosaics/ Hope it helps, R. Boumghar. Arna

[gentoo-user] [O.T] photomosaic

Hi, does anyone know any application for generating photomosaics? something like metapixel: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/metapixel/ Thanks in advance, -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Wiggum: Dispara a las ruedas Lou. Lou: eee, es un tanque jefe. Wiggum: Me tienes hartito co

Re: [gentoo-user] No update-eix-remote

On Thursday 14 December 2006 09:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I'm not really sure where it's documented but if the keyword is missing > > in /etc/portage/package.keywords portage assumes you want ~arch for > > your arch. So no, he's not missing that. > > It's in man portage > > Format: > - comments

[gentoo-user] Problems with bluetooth dongle and bnep

Hi, I'm trying to setup BNEP network with a gentoo box as as master in NAP mode. The client (dell laptop) connects using internal bluetooth module. Everything looks nice and happy. Laptop connects to my gentoo box, I set up bridge between eth0 and bnep0, dhcp allocates the IP and laptop becomes c

Re: [gentoo-user] No update-eix-remote

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:03:48 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > 1. iDeq ~# echo app-portage/eix >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > > > > I think you're missing an atom in there. The correct command, unless > > I've mistaken your intent, is: The atom is there, the keyword is missing. > I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [FIXED] Protecting a package in package.keywords?

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:32:35 -0500, Travis Osterman wrote: > # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep ivtv > media-tv/ivtv > # cat /etc/portage/package.mask | grep ivtv > ~media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0 > # emerge -pv ivtv > [ebuild N] media-tv/ivtv-0.9.1 Here you are unkeyword-masking all versions a

[gentoo-user] Re: DPMS Not Working on i810

Randy Barlow wrote: > Well, just wanted to write back and say that this sort of seemed to have > worked. I'll give it the test of time, but the screen did in fact just turn > off on its own! Thanks Remy! Always glad to (sometimes be able to) help. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in rep

Re: [gentoo-user] No update-eix-remote

On Thursday 14 December 2006 08:58, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Douglas Linford wrote: > > 1. iDeq ~# echo app-portage/eix >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > > I think you're missing an atom in there. The correct command, unless > I've mistaken your intent, is: > > # echo 'app-portage/eix ~x86' >> /etc/po

Re: [gentoo-user] No update-eix-remote

Douglas Linford wrote: 1. iDeq ~# echo app-portage/eix >> /etc/portage/package.keywords I think you're missing an atom in there. The correct command, unless I've mistaken your intent, is: # echo 'app-portage/eix ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords (that is, assuming your arch is x86; su