[gentoo-user] Upgrade using binary packages

2007-04-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I have an underpowered system which runs mythtv. On this there are two partitions one the active and the other spare. Both can boot into mythtv . As this system is running a 2005.October snapshot, i want to do an upgrade using almost all binary packages. My approach was something like thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-24 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 24 Apr 2007 6:04:19 am James wrote: > Abhay Kedia gmail.com> writes: > > > What did I miss? > > > > Do you have flash plugin mentioned under "about:plugins" page? > > NO, > That is your real problem. You need to make sure that seamonkey knows about your flash plugin. Try to make soft l

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about java, Seamonkey and random hangs.

2007-04-24 Thread Dale
Randy Barlow wrote: > Dale wrote: > > I know I had to download it from Sun's website but other than that, I > > just installed what it said I needed. > > It sounds like perhaps you don't have the JRE setup for Mozilla. I > would recommend using the sun-jre ebuild rather than the installer from > t

Re: [gentoo-user] Any *usable* CRM/ERP package in portage ?

2007-04-24 Thread Pongracz Istvan
I can recommend egroupware from http://www.egroupware.org I use it for years. Working well with gentoo. Regards, István -- IT szolgáltatások, alkalmazásszolgáltatás http://www.osbusiness.hu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up my box

2007-04-24 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On 4/24/07, Mark Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got an 8Gb Gentoo virtual machine that I'm working out a backup plan for. Since the disk space is pretty small, I'm thinking about just taking a full image of the disk for backups, rather than cherry-picking DBs, mail, etc. I'd like to

Re: [gentoo-user] Any *usable* CRM/ERP package in portage ?

2007-04-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > sugarcrm > http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/download/sugar-suite.html * proprietary * wants mysql / no postgresql support --> unusable for me. but I now found vtiger - seems much, much better ... I'll have a try w/ it. cu -- ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Any *usable* CRM/ERP package in portage ?

2007-04-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Nelson, David J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Define 'broken'? If you post any error messages here we may > be able to help you get it going. Well, for example, tinyerp-client breaks at runtime: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./tinyerp-client.py", line 64, in ? import gtk File "/usr/

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

2007-04-24 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Matthias Guede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may not be exactly what you are looking for. But with > > "ksynaptics" (kde-misc/ksynaptics) tapping can be disabled - and it > > works, at least for me. > > With gsynaptics, tapping can be disable

[gentoo-user] Re: Backing up my box

2007-04-24 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Mark Somerville wrote: > I've got an 8Gb Gentoo virtual machine that I'm working out a backup > plan for. Since the disk space is pretty small, I'm thinking about > just taking a full image of the disk for backups, rather than > cherry-picking DBs, mail, etc. > > I'd like

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk

2007-04-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:07:38 +0200 Iván Pérez Domínguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm having another problem, this time it's a kernel related problem. > I'm currently using kernel 2.6.13, and most things work fine. However, > when I try to update to a newer kernel (say 2.6.17 or 2.6.20)

Re: [gentoo-user] Any *usable* CRM/ERP package in portage ?

2007-04-24 Thread kashani
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm now trying to find an (small/simple) production-ready CRM/ERP in portage ? Evrything I've found (ie tinyerp, openbravo, ...) is totally broken :( Any tips ? sugarcrm http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/download/sugar-suite.html Not in portage, but I ran it

RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk

2007-04-24 Thread Nelson, David J
> -Original Message- > From: Iván Pérez Domínguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 April 2007 20:08 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk > > > Hi again, > >I'm having another problem, this time it's a kernel > rel

RE: [gentoo-user] Any *usable* CRM/ERP package in portage ?

2007-04-24 Thread Nelson, David J
> -Original Message- > From: Enrico Weigelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 April 2007 18:02 > To: gentoo-user > Subject: [gentoo-user] Any *usable* CRM/ERP package in portage ? > > > > Hi folks, > > > I'm now trying to find an (small/simple) production-ready CRM/ERP > in portag

[gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk

2007-04-24 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Hi again, I'm having another problem, this time it's a kernel related problem. I'm currently using kernel 2.6.13, and most things work fine. However, when I try to update to a newer kernel (say 2.6.17 or 2.6.20), my laptop hangs after detecting the hard disk. If I don't use initrd, it stops whe

[gentoo-user] Any *usable* CRM/ERP package in portage ?

2007-04-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm now trying to find an (small/simple) production-ready CRM/ERP in portage ? Evrything I've found (ie tinyerp, openbravo, ...) is totally broken :( Any tips ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT servic

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

2007-04-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:45:36 -0500, Fabio A Correa wrote: > What I do in such cases is to unmerge the entire KDE installation > before emerging the new one. I prefer "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda". If I'm going to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut, I may as well use the largest one available. -

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

2007-04-24 Thread Fabio A Correa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What I do in such cases is to unmerge the entire KDE installation before emerging the new one. - -- Fabio A. Correa D. Physics Dept, Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] My webpage and

RE: [gentoo-user] Dell Poweredge 6450

2007-04-24 Thread Nelson, David J
> -Original Message- > From: Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 April 2007 14:49 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Dell Poweredge 6450 > > Hi guys! I customer in the USA (I'm in .ar) bought this server: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayI

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help fixing my evolution-2.8

2007-04-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
Last night I was trying to expunge deleted messages in evolution-2.8 when my keyboard fell off the desk. When I put it back on the desk, every message I select to view gets scrolled down to the bottom of the message. This is very annoying as many of the messages I get are quite long. I have to p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NFS vs. jumbo frames

2007-04-24 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Francesco, on Monday, 2007-04-23 at 21:58:18, you wrote: > Based on my experience I would add to verify also the upper MTU value > really supported. According to Documentation/networking/e1000.txt, the adapters should all support 16K frames. The limiting factor would be the switch's 9K limit,

[gentoo-user] Dell Poweredge 6450

2007-04-24 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi guys! I customer in the USA (I'm in .ar) bought this server: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130099427566&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D130099427566%2B%26category0%3D%26fvi%

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

2007-04-24 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi kashani, on Monday, 2007-04-23 at 11:11:40, you wrote: > >It sounds like Gigabit Ethernet to me. Yes, that's it. > Keep in mind that not all fastE or gigE switches support jumbo frames. > Additionally not all cards support jumbo frames either though you can > certainly set them to an MTU of

RE: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

2007-04-24 Thread Nelson, David J
> > But Xeon is Itanium's substitute... isn't? > Nope. Itanium and Xeon are developed in parallel. Where Xeon is based off of desktop CPU architecture (x86, AMD64, et al) the Itanium (aka Itanic due to slow uptake) is a 64bit CPU completely from scratch. -- djn I do not represent anyone els

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd is too noisy in syslog

2007-04-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 08:03 -0500, Fabio A Correa wrote: > You can also try to add the following to your /etc/conf.d/net: > > dhcpcd_eth0=( "-l 3600" ) > didnt work :( Its an old dlink DSL-300 that has been running for years without problems. I suspect its always been giving out 60 second lease

Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

2007-04-24 Thread Davi
Em Terça 24 Abril 2007 08:07, Bo Ørsted Andresen escreveu: > On Tuesday 24 April 2007 13:02:57 Davi wrote: > > > > I know that Intel Xeon processors have EM64T support, which > > > > means normally full compatibility to AMD64? > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64 > > > > > > IA64 is Itaniu

Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

2007-04-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 13:02:57 Davi wrote: > > > I know that Intel Xeon processors have EM64T support, which > > > means normally full compatibility to AMD64? > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64 > > > > IA64 is Itanium CPUs I think - you should go with amd64. > > But Xeon is Itanium's subs

Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

2007-04-24 Thread Davi
Em Terça 24 Abril 2007 06:49, Nelson, David J escreveu: > > -Original Message- > > From: qfpvajdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 24 April 2007 10:42 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or > > AMD64) ? > > > > I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

2007-04-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 08:50:52 Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello. > > I'm having a hell of a time configuring my Synaptics Touchpad. Basically, > I'd like to disable the annoying "tapping" feature; with tapping, they > mean, that the user shortly "hits" (taps) the touchpad and this is then > interp

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kde-env Block kdelibs-SOLVED

2007-04-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 11:07:35 AIT Gentoo User wrote: > i removed kdelibs but not workd.finaly i removed > /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kde-env<> folder. & tried. it worked. *shrug* You should *never* touch anything in /var/db/pkg manually. Why you assume that an installed package cannot be unmer

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

2007-04-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Alexander Skwar wrote: > I'm having a hell of a time configuring my Synaptics Touchpad. > Basically, I'd like to disable the annoying "tapping" feature; Option "TapButton0" "0" Option "TapButton1" "0" Option "TapButton2" "0" And restart X. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kde-env Block kdelibs-SOLVED

2007-04-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:24:52 +0530 (IST), AIT Gentoo User wrote: Because it makes posts harder to follow. Why? Please don't top-post. > i sync it for the latest portage. kde-base/kde-envebuild not in that > portage.so how to unmerge it? Did you delete the folder from /var/db or move it? If t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world

2007-04-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:30:43 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > From time to time an emerge world fails to update every possible > > package because of a failure with one that causes the whole process > > to fail. I remember reading about a tool which would continue to > > upgrade/install pa

[gentoo-user] Backing up my box

2007-04-24 Thread Mark Somerville
I've got an 8Gb Gentoo virtual machine that I'm working out a backup plan for. Since the disk space is pretty small, I'm thinking about just taking a full image of the disk for backups, rather than cherry-picking DBs, mail, etc. I'd like to take a full image every day (but only transfer the diffe

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kde-env Block kdelibs-SOLVED

2007-04-24 Thread AIT Gentoo User
i sync it for the latest portage. kde-base/kde-envebuild not in that portage.so how to unmerge it? > On Tue, 24 Apr:37:35 +0530 (IST), AIT Gentoo User wrote: > >> i removed kdelibs but not workd.finaly i removed >> /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kde-env<> folder. & tried. it worked. > > That only re

RE: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

2007-04-24 Thread Nelson, David J
> -Original Message- > From: qfpvajdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 April 2007 10:42 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or > AMD64) ? > > I'm a little confused. > I just bought a Intel Xeon 64 Bits processors and n

[gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

2007-04-24 Thread qfpvajdy
Hello, I'm a little confused. I just bought a Intel Xeon 64 Bits processors and now I'm confused what to install? Should I install the Gentoo IA64 or AMD64 version? I know that Intel Xeon processors have EM64T support, which means normally full compatibility to AMD64? Does somebody knows

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kde-env Block kdelibs-SOLVED

2007-04-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:37:35 +0530 (IST), AIT Gentoo User wrote: > i removed kdelibs but not workd.finaly i removed > /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kde-env<> folder. & tried. it worked. That only removed the database entry for kde-env, not kde-env itself. The correct solution was to emerge --unmerge k

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission denied during emerge...

2007-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 22 April 2007 19:37:58 David Corbin wrote: > > David Corbin wrote: > > > I've started getting this: "Permission denied: access('/', W_OK)" > > > on my emerges. > > Somehow, my > root system was *acting* as if it were mounted ReadOnly. mount said > otherwise. Rebooting (wince) corrected

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge world

2007-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Richard Marz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From time to time an emerge world fails to update every possible package > because of a failure with one that causes the whole process to fail. I > remember reading about a tool which would continue to upgrade/install > packages whether some failed or not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

2007-04-24 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 schrieb Alexander Skwar: > Hello. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ synclient -m 20 > Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled? > I'm using on ~x86: are you shure, your server uses the "right" input section to drive your pad? Also verify, x11-drivers/synaptics is inst

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kde-env Block kdelibs-SOLVED

2007-04-24 Thread AIT Gentoo User
Thanks Rumen, i removed kdelibs but not workd.finaly i removed /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kde-env<> folder. & tried. it worked. THANKS ALL, > AIT Gentoo User написа: >> Dear list friends, >> >> i tried to update one of my gentoo box.it gave me following notice. it >> tried to unmerge kde-env

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

2007-04-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Matthias Guede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may not be exactly what you are looking for. But with > "ksynaptics" (kde-misc/ksynaptics) tapping can be disabled - and it > works, at least for me. With gsynaptics, tapping can be disabled as well. But how do I use ksynaptics with XFCE? Alexande

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

2007-04-24 Thread Matthias Guede
2007/4/24, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello. I'm having a hell of a time configuring my Synaptics Touchpad. Basically, I'd like to disable the annoying "tapping" feature; with tapping, they mean, that the user shortly "hits" (taps) the touchpad and this is then interpreted as a click.

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

2007-04-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 08:16:10 Rumen Yotov wrote: > > i tried to update one of my gentoo box.it gave me following notice. it > > tried to unmerge kde-env but there is no like ebuild in de portage. so > > what will be the problem. please help me resolve this. > > > > NOTICE > > -- > > [ebuild