[gentoo-user] kernel upgrade error

Hello list. For installing vmware My kernel version is 2.6.24-gentoo-r5. But I have no source files. So I downloaded source files. But that’s version 2.6.27-gentoo-r8. When I installed vmware, it told me kernel version and kernel source files’ version no match. I have to kernel upgra

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome-terminal & GNU screen

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 12:28:16PM +0200, Ward Poelmans wrote: > I can see nothing about ^A? Any idea how i can find who is eating ^A? Maybe a gtk keybinding. You should check the keybindings everywhere in the menu bar of gnome-terminal. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:31:35 +0200 Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Alan McKinnon (alan.mckin...@gmail.com) [04.04.09 09:57]: > > > > emerge --lock > > > I find this suggestion very good, and would like to ask the more > experienced participants, if such thing was thought of before. > > I'm think

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC-4.3.2

Jarry wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Why should I use "native" if I know that my CPU is "athlon64" :P Are you sure your cpu is not "athlon64-sse3"? That was just an example. For my CPU I use "-march=core2" :)

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

On 04/06/09 22:00, Jorge Morais wrote: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 00:02:21 -0600 I just notice that there is a problem with CFLAGS -march=native on AMD64 I recompile my system using this new flag and have a lot of problems. an examples new xorg-server-1.5... would not compile, I switch back to my prev

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 00:02:21 -0600 Joseph wrote: > On 04/03/09 10:34, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > >Has one of you guys already switched from gcc-4.1.2 to gcc-4.3.2 and > >performed "emerge system" ? > >What gives ? Any problem ? Is it worth it right now ? Please tell... > > > >-- > > ~adj~

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild quits at 21%

On 04/06/09 21:20, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 06 April 2009 04:13:07 Joseph wrote: I upgraded to gcc-4.3.2-r3 rebuild system, world. The only package that did not compile was g-wrap. However, when I run "revdep-rebuild" it quits at 21% Does anybody know how to fix it? I tried recompiling g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC-4.3.2

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:28:40 -0600, Joseph wrote: > If you have look for it more carefully you would have found similar > recommendation on the official gentoo pages: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml I think the above page qualify > as an official doc. isn't it? Yes. > "...-march=native

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: profile 2009?

James schrieb: > 3. I have a very smart teenager who is willing > to learn and struggle with Gentoo. I think > he should use the systemRescue path to gentoo. > Where are the instructions related to installing > off of a SystemRescue media (usb/cdrom)? > Where will he read about which weekly release

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC-4.3.2

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 04/06/09 21:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:35:56 -0600, Joseph wrote: >> >>> Well, according to gentoo recommendations it is not so: >>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags >> >> Information on gentoo-wiki.com is not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC-4.3.2

On 04/06/09 21:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:35:56 -0600, Joseph wrote: Well, according to gentoo recommendations it is not so: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags Information on gentoo-wiki.com is not a Gentoo recomendation. Look at docs.gentoo.org for those. -- Nei

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: profile 2009?

James wrote: > > > > 1. Where is the official discussion/instruction on rolling > my own profile, since 'profile' as a gentoo supported > file is deprecated? > I'll bite this one. Who said it was "depreciated"? If you want to see how important that link is, even tho it is a 2008 profile, dele

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC-4.3.2

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:35:56 -0600, Joseph wrote: > Well, according to gentoo recommendations it is not so: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags Information on gentoo-wiki.com is not a Gentoo recomendation. Look at docs.gentoo.org for those. -- Neil Bothwick Anything worth fighting fo

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:55:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Perhaps engineering should name the profile updates sequentially then. > Start with "1" and increment every time something happens that warrants > a new profile. As it is, the date-based numbering scheme leads people > to believe there is s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: profile 2009?

On Monday 06 April 2009 21:16:08 James wrote: > Momesso Andrea gmail.com> writes: > > Here is an intersting article by a gentoo dev (darkside): > > http://blog.jolexa.net/2009/02/25/gentoo-yearly-releases-help-or-hurt-gen > >too/ > > OK, > > I'll bite on these postings (Although my question > was

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Monday 06 April 2009, Xav' wrote: > On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:16:11 +0200, Justin wrote: > > Xav' schrieb: > >> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:07:19 +0100, AllenJB > >> > >> wrote: > >>> To my knowledge there are currently no plans to release a 2009.x > >>> profile. > >>> > >>> Profile updates are genera

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild quits at 21%

On Monday 06 April 2009 04:13:07 Joseph wrote: > I upgraded to gcc-4.3.2-r3 rebuild system, world. The only package that > did not compile was g-wrap. However, when I run "revdep-rebuild" it quits > at 21% > Does anybody know how to fix it? > > I tried recompiling gentoolkit; did not help. Error

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

On Monday 06 April 2009 14:30:55 Justin wrote: > Mick schrieb: > > Hi All, > > > > I have an rpm binary which looks like this on a RH > > machine: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm > > > > How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be > > maintained by portag

Re: [gentoo-user] simple firewall

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:24 AM, gigli wrote: > kmyfirewall and others, didn't really like them. Something like ufw > would be nice. > The other day I filed a bug report for gufw [1], but there's no ebuild sofar. Liviu [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264912 -- Do you know how to re

[gentoo-user] Re: profile 2009?

Momesso Andrea gmail.com> writes: > Here is an intersting article by a gentoo dev (darkside): > http://blog.jolexa.net/2009/02/25/gentoo-yearly-releases-help-or-hurt-gentoo/ OK, I'll bite on these postings (Although my question was really about the profile...) 1. Where is the official discu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

On Monday 06 April 2009 19:53:51 Francesco Talamona wrote: > Why in some circumstances emerge is perfectly able to spot user omission > and fill-in it automatically, while with other options it just > complains? > > The inability to add missing "=" and the inconsistence annoy me. IMHO > emerge shou

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

Xav' wrote: To get back with releases, I'm waiting for releases a full well tested version of stage releases, as i don't agree with those saying that weekly stage build are good enough to have "updated" stage. The autobuild stages are exactly what you would get if you installed a "traditional

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

* Xav' (x...@linuxant.fr) [06.04.09 20:28]: > To get back with releases, I'm waiting for releases a full well tested > version of stage releases, as i don't agree with those saying that > weekly stage build are good enough to have "updated" stage. > A stable stage tarbar is not well tested? How

[gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

On Friday 03 April 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: > Greets, > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things > that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. > Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show > one mask at a time. So I was cur

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

Momesso Andrea a écrit : On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:55:39PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Monday 06 April 2009 19:50:02 Xav' wrote: What i'm expecting from a new release is a new stage[1,2,3] tarballs with updated software. Actually, when i install Gentoo from a 2008.0 stage 3, there is many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC-4.3.2

On 04/06/09 18:53, Jarry wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Why should I use "native" if I know that my CPU is "athlon64" :P Are you sure your cpu is not "athlon64-sse3"? Look for pni in cat /proc/cpuinfo :-) Jarry Here is my cpuinfo; cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

Xav' wrote: What i'm expecting from a new release is a new stage[1,2,3] tarballs with updated software. Actually, when i install Gentoo from a 2008.0 stage 3, there is many updates to deal with, and many more when going under unstable tree... A new release mean for me that the postinstall process

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Momesso Andrea wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:55:39PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: >> On Monday 06 April 2009 19:50:02 Xav' wrote: >> > What i'm expecting from a new release is a new stage[1,2,3] tarballs with >> > updated software. >> > Actually, when i inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC-4.3.2

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Why should I use "native" if I know that my CPU is "athlon64" :P Are you sure your cpu is not "athlon64-sse3"? Look for pni in cat /proc/cpuinfo :-) Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from sel

[gentoo-user] OFS on Gentoo

Is there someone out there in Gentoo-land that is using OFS (http://offlinefs.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php). If yes did find a ebuild for it in some overlay or did you just download the src and compile? Regards, -- Dan Johansson,

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:55:39PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009 19:50:02 Xav' wrote: > > What i'm expecting from a new release is a new stage[1,2,3] tarballs with > > updated software. > > Actually, when i install Gentoo from a 2008.0 stage 3, there is many > > updates to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC-4.3.2

On 04/06/09 11:56, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] ~adj~ I just notice that there is a problem with CFLAGS -march=native on AMD64 I recompile my system using this new flag and have a lot of problems. an examples new xorg-server-1.5... would not compile, I switch back to my previous settings:

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:55:16PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009 18:10:07 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > You shouldn't mind about that. A new profile is not what a new release > > is for other distros, but just a symlink to a profile. > > > > As long as there is no need for a new

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

Andrew Gaydenko schrieb: > On Monday 06 April 2009 19:50:02 Xav' wrote: > >> What i'm expecting from a new release is a new stage[1,2,3] tarballs with >> updated software. >> Actually, when i install Gentoo from a 2008.0 stage 3, there is many >> updates to deal with, and many more when going un

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Monday 06 April 2009 18:10:07 Momesso Andrea wrote: > You shouldn't mind about that. A new profile is not what a new release > is for other distros, but just a symlink to a profile. > > As long as there is no need for a new one, 2009.0 will not be released. Perhaps engineering should name the

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Monday 06 April 2009 19:50:02 Xav' wrote: > What i'm expecting from a new release is a new stage[1,2,3] tarballs with > updated software. > Actually, when i install Gentoo from a 2008.0 stage 3, there is many > updates to deal with, and many more when going under unstable tree... > A new release

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:16:11 +0200, Justin wrote: > Xav' schrieb: >> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:07:19 +0100, AllenJB >> wrote: >>> To my knowledge there are currently no plans to release a 2009.x >>> profile. >>> >>> Profile updates are generally little more than changes to the default >>> use flags

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

Paul Hartman schrieb: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Xav' wrote: > >> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:07:19 +0100, AllenJB >> wrote: >> >>> To my knowledge there are currently no plans to release a 2009.x profile. >>> >>> Profile updates are generally little more than changes to the default >>

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Xav' wrote: > On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:07:19 +0100, AllenJB > wrote: >> To my knowledge there are currently no plans to release a 2009.x profile. >> >> Profile updates are generally little more than changes to the default >> use flags. Partly due to new features in

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

Xav' schrieb: > On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:07:19 +0100, AllenJB > wrote: >> To my knowledge there are currently no plans to release a 2009.x profile. >> >> Profile updates are generally little more than changes to the default >> use flags. Partly due to new features in recent versions of portage and

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:52:28PM +, James wrote: > hello, > > > When I type 'eselect profile list' > I only see 2008 options. Is there > no 2009 profile yet, or am I remiss > in my admin details? > > If it is late, then any ideas on when > the 2009 profiles might appear? > > James > You

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:07:19 +0100, AllenJB wrote: > To my knowledge there are currently no plans to release a 2009.x profile. > > Profile updates are generally little more than changes to the default > use flags. Partly due to new features in recent versions of portage and > partly due to chan

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

To my knowledge there are currently no plans to release a 2009.x profile. Profile updates are generally little more than changes to the default use flags. Partly due to new features in recent versions of portage and partly due to changes in the release engineering side of Gentoo (automated bui

[gentoo-user] profile 2009?

hello, When I type 'eselect profile list' I only see 2008 options. Is there no 2009 profile yet, or am I remiss in my admin details? If it is late, then any ideas on when the 2009 profiles might appear? James

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE4 session saving

On Monday 06 April 2009 18:11:13 YoYo siska wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:31:57PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > I have found it is possible to select a restoring of a manually saved > > KDE4 session. But have not found how to save :-) Help! > > It just needs a relogin to show the option i

Re: [gentoo-user] simple firewall

Hi, gigli wrote: > Hi > > I wonder if there is any easy firewall for gentoo. I tried ubuntu for a > while and used their ufw, which was very simple. > > My needs: > > Block incoming traffic except for sshd and https (and sometimes > bittorrent) and allow my lan to connect to my samba share, myt

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE4 session saving

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:31:57PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > I have found it is possible to select a restoring of a manually saved KDE4 > session. But have not found how to save :-) Help! It just needs a relogin to show the option in the logout dialog, last time I tried it, it worked this

[gentoo-user] Re: hal requires cryptsetup!? will hal work with loop-aes?

ABCD wrote: I'm not sure if you will need sys-fs/cryptsetup for your setup, but I think you may have gotten confused over the difference between USE and IUSE. IUSE is a variable set by an ebuild to tell portage (or your PM of choice) that this package supports certain USE flags. See ebuild(5)

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

Mick schrieb: > Hi All, > > I have an rpm binary which looks like this on a RH > machine: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm > > How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be > maintained by portage). Just emerge yum. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009/4/6 Neil Bothwick : > On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:41:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> If you're familiar with ebuilds, you can write one that does all this >> so you can do "emerge packageXXX" to install it. > > And there's an rpm.eclass to do some of the work for you. If you also have acce

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:52:05 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I just thought of this one. Sometimes devs love to change ebuilds > without bumping them. That's annoying; a bug gets fixed and you don't > know about it because "emerge -u" doesn't find any newer version or > revision. That's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:41:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Thanks Neil, is that the equivalent of running: > > > > yum install /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm > No. It is equivalent to running rpm2targz on RH and them extracting > the tarball to / :P It is equivalent to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

Momesso Andrea wrote: > > I'm kinda bored of the "please no top posting" replies... Couldn't we > ask the infra staff (or whoever runs this mailing list) to periodically > send a "guidelines" message to all the subscribers, like it happens in > other mailing lists. > > This way we could soimply ask

[gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time. So I was curious...what have people that ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:16:37AM +0600, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:43:21 -0500 > Dale wrote: > > > > KH konstantinhansen.de> writes: > > > > > >> Q: Why is top-posting evil? > > >> A: .backwards read don't humans because > > > > OK. Everyone that hates top posting plea

[gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

Mick wrote: 2009/4/6 Neil Bothwick : On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your root filesystem (after first checking the content

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal & GNU screen

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:20, Steffen Loos wrote: > Steffen Loos schrieb: >> I would assume gnome-terminal is eating your ctrl-a ;-) > > you can have a look on your settings with: > "ssty -a" > > if ^A is set up to an action. Using ^Tt as the default works, so ^Aa is getting eating by somebody b

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal & GNU screen

Steffen Loos schrieb: > Ward Poelmans schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> I've got a problem running screen in a gnome-terminal: all the usual >> keystroks (for example: ^a c) don't work. When i press ctrl+a d, i >> just get a d on the terminal. Screen works perfectly when i start it >> in a xterm. >> I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

On Sunday 05 April 2009 21:45:16 Daniel Troeder wrote: > When updates hit the portage tree, that are known to cause problems to > lots of people - why not tell that directly after the "--sync"? Unfortunate timing here - within 24 hours the X11 upgrade included exactly this feature by way of esel

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE4 session saving

On Monday 06 April 2009 14:03:43 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > On Monday 06 April 2009 13:44:03 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Monday 06 April 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > > I have found it is possible to select a restoring of a manual

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE4 session saving

On Monday 06 April 2009 13:52:34 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009 13:44:03 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Monday 06 April 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > I have found it is possible to select a restoring of a manually saved > > > KDE4 session. But have not found how to save :

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009/4/6 Neil Bothwick : > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: > >> How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be >> maintained by portage). > > Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your > root filesystem (after first checking the contents)

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal & GNU screen

Ward Poelmans schrieb: > Hi, > > I've got a problem running screen in a gnome-terminal: all the usual > keystroks (for example: ^a c) don't work. When i press ctrl+a d, i > just get a d on the terminal. Screen works perfectly when i start it > in a xterm. > I haven't got a clue where to search for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE4 session saving

On Monday 06 April 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009 13:44:03 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Monday 06 April 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > I have found it is possible to select a restoring of a manually saved > > > KDE4 session. But have not found how to save :-) Help!

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE4 session saving

On Monday 06 April 2009 13:44:03 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > I have found it is possible to select a restoring of a manually saved > > KDE4 session. But have not found how to save :-) Help! > > ??? it is a big fat point in the kmenu on the 'leav

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE4 session saving

On Monday 06 April 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > I have found it is possible to select a restoring of a manually saved KDE4 > session. But have not found how to save :-) Help! ??? it is a big fat point in the kmenu on the 'leave' page between 'Lock' and 'Switch user'

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal & GNU screen

Ward Poelmans writes: > I've got a problem running screen in a gnome-terminal: all the usual > keystroks (for example: ^a c) don't work. When i press ctrl+a d, i > just get a d on the terminal. Screen works perfectly when i start it > in a xterm. > I haven't got a clue where to search for the pro

[gentoo-user] [OT] KDE4 session saving

I have found it is possible to select a restoring of a manually saved KDE4 session. But have not found how to save :-) Help!

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC-4.3.2

Joseph wrote: On 04/03/09 10:34, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Has one of you guys already switched from gcc-4.1.2 to gcc-4.3.2 and performed "emerge system" ? What gives ? Any problem ? Is it worth it right now ? Please tell... -- ~adj~ I just notice that there is a problem with CFLAGS -m

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: > How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be > maintained by portage). Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your root filesystem (after first checking the contents). -- Neil Bothwick I am neithe