[gentoo-user] media-sound/sweep and ALSA

2008-08-17 Thread »Q«
I've got media-sound/sweep-0.9.3 with useflags "alsa mp3 vorbis -ladspa -libsamplerate". I only want to edit files, not record. But I can't get sweep to see an ALSA output device. It's got a box to enter the sound device. I've tried various things I found by googling, including "/dev/snd/pcmC

[gentoo-user] Re: df and du difference

2008-08-17 Thread Platoali
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 17 August 2008 01:18:21 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > Actually, there is one more way to hide a file from du > > > > If there is a file in the /var directory *BEFORE* the > > /var partition is > > > mounted onto the directory, then du won't find it, but > > df will kno

[gentoo-user] Roland Puntaier ist außer Haus.

2008-08-17 Thread Roland Puntaier
Ich werde ab 18.08.2008 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 30.08.2008.

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Does anyone else have this problem? Yes, everyone using TCP :) You can read Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control for more info (http://lartc.org/). Snappy answer... but I'm pretty sure I've never seen this before - on a wide range of OS and network

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sunday 17 August 2008 16:32:11 Steve wrote: > Norberto Bensa wrote: > >> Is there a straightforward way to make my Gentoo box 'play fair' and > >> not hog 100% of the bandwidth? > > > > If your router doesn't give you bandwidth and/or traffic shaping > > control, you can drop some packets. For e

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread Steve
Norberto Bensa wrote: Is there a straightforward way to make my Gentoo box 'play fair' and not hog 100% of the bandwidth? If your router doesn't give you bandwidth and/or traffic shaping control, you can drop some packets. For example, the following rule will accept up to 50 packets per second

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a straightforward way to make my Gentoo box 'play fair' and not hog 100% of the bandwidth? If your router doesn't give you bandwidth and/or traffic shaping control, you can drop some packets. For example, the following rule will accept up to 50 packets

[gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread gentoo_steve
I've a Netgear DG834G router - and I connect two machines to it using Ethernet... one Gentoo; one Windows... it works reasonably well... I hit a snag when downloading a large file from Gentoo - for example a multi-meg portage archive. At such times, the Windows PC seems to be given a rather u

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 17 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:00 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > It doesn't handle filenames with spaces, I tried with > > > > find /etc -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} \; > > > > that works with spaces, but has awful performances, so that's > > com

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 11:09 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Isn't there also the option of leaving the existing package installed > until > the bug is fixed? If the package is currently working for him (the > bug may > be in some section of the program he seldom uses or it may only rear > its hea

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sunday 17 August 2008 08:29:29 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 14:20 +0200, econti wrote: > > So I went to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214265 to fix but > > I > > understood absolutely nothing. :-( > > > > Could anyone explain to me in which manner I should use the bug p

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Paul Colquhoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 07:50, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the difference between du and df is about 640 - 188 = 452 MB. > and "df" is showing that my root is full 2.4 times more than "du". Normal...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:00 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: > It doesn't handle filenames with spaces, I tried with > > find /etc -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} \; > > that works with spaces, but has awful performances, so that's > completely > unusable on /usr. > > BTW I also tried to remov

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 14:20 +0200, econti wrote: > So I went to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214265 to fix but > I > understood absolutely nothing. :-( > > Could anyone explain to me in which manner I should use the bug page > of > gentoo? I really don't understand your question, but

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:07 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: > The best way to resolve this, I've found is to put the following into > your > /etc/portage/package.mask file. > > =sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.0 > =sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.0 > > I masked them because some things depend on com_err, and that

[gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread econti
Hi all, even if I have been using gentoo for 2 years surely I know to be a newbie again. ;-( Yesterday, upgrading the portage and after an "emerge -NDpvu world" I received the following massage: Calculating world dependencies / !!! The following installed packages are masked: - app-admin/gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > After last syncing 'emerge -pvDuN world' ends with messages > shown below. How to resolve this conflict *safely*? I don't > want to experiment with fs-related packages :-) > > > Andrew > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate ca certs

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 10:39 +0100, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I am getting mixed up with update-ca-certificates. It reports that I have > duplicates: > = > # update-ca-certificates > Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certsWARNING: SPI_CA_2006-c

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Graham Murray
Heiko Wundram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I cannot reproduce this here: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % ldd /usr/bin/wget > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb8088000) > libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0xb8025000) > libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0xb7ee600

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Sonntag, 17. August 2008 10:40:38 schrieb Graham Murray: > Heiko Wundram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What worked fine for me: > > > > emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err sys-fs/e2fsprogs > > emerge --oneshot -v sys-fs/e2fsprogs > > Be *very* careful about doing that. wget (amongst

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 17 August 2008 06:55:42 Dale wrote: > Even if this script said something belonged to nothing installed, I > would still check to make sure it was safe to delete.  I also keep > backups of not only my whole system but also a separate backup of /etc, > just in case I edit something badly.

[gentoo-user] Duplicate ca certs

2008-08-17 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am getting mixed up with update-ca-certificates. It reports that I have duplicates: = # update-ca-certificates Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certsWARNING: SPI_CA_2006-cacert.pem does not contain a certificate or CRL: skipping WA

Re: [gentoo-user] mov to dvd

2008-08-17 Thread Mick
On Saturday 16 August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:38:31 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Is there a way to convert a .mov file to be playable by a dvd player? > > media-video/tovid Thanks Neil! :) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Sunday 17 August 2008, Graham Murray wrote: === > Heiko Wundram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What worked fine for me: > > > > emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err sys-fs/e2fsprogs > > emerge --oneshot -v sys-fs/e2fsprogs > > Be *very* careful about doing that. wget (among

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Sunday 17 August 2008, Heiko Wundram wrote: === ... > > Why 'oneshot' option is used? > > So that you don't record sys-fs/e2fsprogs in the world set. > > It's pulled in as a dependency from the system set anyway (that's why > the --unmerge will tell you that you're unmerging a system

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Graham Murray
Heiko Wundram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What worked fine for me: > > emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err sys-fs/e2fsprogs > emerge --oneshot -v sys-fs/e2fsprogs Be *very* careful about doing that. wget (amongst other packages) uses libcom_err, so you will not be able to fetch any pa

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Sonntag, 17. August 2008 10:08:46 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: > === On Sunday 17 August 2008, Heiko Wundram wrote: === > > > Am Sonntag, 17. August 2008 09:52:57 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: > > > After last syncing 'emerge -pvDuN world' ends with messages > > > shown below. How to resolve this

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Sunday 17 August 2008, Heiko Wundram wrote: === > Am Sonntag, 17. August 2008 09:52:57 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: > > After last syncing 'emerge -pvDuN world' ends with messages > > shown below. How to resolve this conflict *safely*? I don't > > want to experiment with fs-related packa

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:55:42 -0500, Dale wrote: Even if this script said something belonged to nothing installed, I would still check to make sure it was safe to delete. That is what the script does, qfile -o only outputs anything if file does not belong to a pa

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Sonntag, 17. August 2008 09:52:57 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: > After last syncing 'emerge -pvDuN world' ends with messages > shown below. How to resolve this conflict *safely*? I don't > want to experiment with fs-related packages :-) What worked fine for me: emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-lib

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:20:49 +0430, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the difference between du and df is about 640 - 188 = 452 MB. and "df" > is showing that my root is full 2.4 times more than "du". There is another possibility that no one seems t have mentioned. You may have files hidden inside a m

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:55:42 -0500, Dale wrote: > Even if this script said something belonged to nothing installed, I > would still check to make sure it was safe to delete. That is what the script does, qfile -o only outputs anything if file does not belong to a package. -- Neil Bothwick

[gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! After last syncing 'emerge -pvDuN world' ends with messages shown below. How to resolve this conflict *safely*? I don't want to experiment with fs-related packages :-) Andrew = [ebuild N] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.0 USE="nls" 476 kB [ebuild U ] sys-fs/e