Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver issue

sHadoW MaN wrote: I have Xscreensaver 4.22 installed and the thing I find strange is that when a regular user locked the screen and then I tried to unlock the screen with root password, it does not work, with the previous versions this worked. is There a way to fix this please? I use 4.22-r4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Courier-imap won't start after system & world rebuild

John J. Foster wrote: //garbanzo/root # start-stop-daemon --quiet --start \ --exec /usr/bin/env \ - /usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-imapd-ssl.rc produces no visible errors, but still can't connect to maildirs. Just run: /usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-imapd-ssl.rc

Re: [gentoo-user] Numptie revdep-rebuild question?

Stroller wrote: I have, of course, already re-emerging kdegraphics, but I still get the same thing. Can anyone offer any suggestions, please? There is still a library lying around with broken dependencies. Try: # emerge -C kde-base/kdegraphics # emerge kde-base/kdegraphics Christoph -- echo

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa driver problem

Arnau Bria Ramírez wrote: I compiled the driver into the kernel (not as module): SND_AC97_CODEC my lspci: :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40) Given your lspci output, I'd try CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX. Christoph -- echo m

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

Fernando Meira wrote: > On 11/1/05, *Christoph Gysin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > 赵光 wrote: > > !!! ERROR: x11-libs/ecore- failed. > > !!! Function cvs_fetch, Line 332, Exitcode 1 > > !!! cvs log

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirecting a script output to the mail command

Thiago Lüttig wrote: I need to redirect an script output to the mail command. how ?? i've tried the following: ./script.sh > mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] but the bash says [EMAIL PROTECTED] command not found. Use the pipe character '|': ./sc

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

赵光 wrote: !!! ERROR: x11-libs/ecore- failed. !!! Function cvs_fetch, Line 332, Exitcode 1 !!! cvs login command failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message look like the server refuse me Try again in a few hours. It is down for maintenance at the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

赵光 wrote: i want know how to emerge e17 i found some method on gentoo forum,but i can;t emerge it some package on cvs can't download who can tell me how to emerge it The anonymous cvs server from sourceforge is very busy. Perhaps you are luckier with the newly set up mirror from thinktux.net.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

Stroller wrote: Do you have any references on this, please? I'm obviously using different search terms from you, because I can't find anything about this bug on Google. search term: bug "lspci -F" ":" ... brings us to: http://www.google.ch/search?q=bug+%22lspci+-F%22+%22%3A%22+ ... w

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

Holly Bostick wrote: Why search Google and not b.g.o itself, or packages.gentoo.org? Either manually or-- if you use Firefox-- using the Firefox b.g.o search engine? Seems like a waste of effort to have to filter irrelevant hits from Google when one already knows that the status of the issue will

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

Christoph Gysin wrote: Nonetheless this seems like a bug and should be fixed. Could you file a bug and reference it here? Searching google turns out that it has already been fixed. Update to the latest pciutils will fix the issue. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

Stroller wrote: Can anyone explain to me how to use this, please? Try as I might I don't seem to be getting it right. Seems to be a bug in lspci. It works here like it should. I have tried this on a couple of machines. The output produced by `lspci -x` _looks_ reasonable - I've attached foo.t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

Jorge Almeida wrote: CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? Well, yes, the USB mass-storge driver emulates a SCSI disk. But this is not the same as the SCSI emulation used for IDE dr

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.3.5-r2 wont compile

Rodrigo Lazo wrote: !!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2 failed. !!! Function toolchain-glibc_src_test, Line 246, Exitcode 2 Search bugzilla, and file a bug if it doesn't exist already. As a workaround, you could remove "maketest" from FEATURES. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

Harry Putnam wrote: I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work with... Maybe you should take a look at the man page? There is a nice EXAMPLE section... Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed '

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a "Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U)", together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about drivers? Every USB (2.0) disk/stick is covered by the U

Re: [gentoo-user] esp ghostscript?

Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I am using cups and later I installed ghostscript-afpl. And later, I bought a new printer and found later it's not working. By other people's suggestion, it seems that's because I should be using ghostscript-esp but I don't find this package on gentoo! I don't know why

Re: [gentoo-user] Um...Who can fix this?

gentuxx wrote: I was emerging some packages to set up a postfix virtual mailer and got this: emerge (8 of 10) mail-client/sylpheed-claws-1.0.5 to / !!! Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest. !!! File: files/digest-sylpheed-claws-1.9.1 # emerge --sync -- or -- # cd

Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading ebuilds

Rafael Fernández López wrote: I filled it in, and it is uploaded. I'm gonna work with wxmaxima too, and create a new ebuild for it (http://wxmaxima.sf.net). I'd like to know if there is any posibility of becoming a Gentoo Dev, I'm offering as a developer, and I'd like to know what I've to know or

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems

Wes Gray wrote: What do you make of this? Do I need to run fsck? This would be the first thing I would try. Also check dmesg. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- gcc .o linking and undefined references

Dan wrote: The bit that makes me think I'm stupid is that it seems that neither gcc or I can find the source (.c) or compiled binaries (.o) which implement the structures and functions defined in ldap.h. What am I doing wrong? Where are the .c and .o files supposed to be on a regular linux sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading ebuilds

Rafael Fernández López wrote: I've created an ebuild for tkgate (http://www.tkgate.org). It is very frustrating because I cannot see how to upload it or whatever. I'm not a developer user in CVS so I cannot upload. If I fill in a bug for uploading ebuilds (is the right way) I've created a patch f

Re: [gentoo-user] Devices to stream music.

Steve [Gentoo] wrote: * Phillips Streamium [ http://en.streamium.com/products/sl50i/ ] * Netgear MP101 [ http://www.netgear.com/products/details/MP101.php ] I've seen vague hints that these devices might be supported by UPNP - for which there is a package in portage... but it seems as i

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version. The “lsb_release –ir” commands seems to provide what we are looking for and works under a number of p

Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264

Uwe Thiem wrote: Thanks! I'll have a look but guess "early development" isn't good enough yet. I'd still give it a shot. Most of the time the software is more stable than the developers would admit. I asked because we encoded a 1h45m movie with h264 on an mac with surprising results. The wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

John Jolet wrote: add -radius to your USE flags? How willl this help? $ grep IUSE /usr/portage/net-analyzer/ethereal/*.ebuild IUSE="adns gtk ipv6 snmp ssl kerberos" Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264

Uwe Thiem wrote: anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an *encoder*) for linux? http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html x264 is still in early development, but you might give it a try. You can use mencoder (from the mplayer package) to encode h264. Christoph -- echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Dmesg for Previous Boot?

Jerry McBride wrote: Yes that would be possible. But since the OP's kernel doesn't even boot up, it's not an option. He was asking how to see the previous dmesg output this would do it on future boot ups... He was trying to update the kernel. Since it didn't boot up, he was looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] Dmesg for Previous Boot?

Jerry McBride wrote: No. Once the kernel reboots, the dmesg data is lost. Unless ofcourse you put this in /etc/conf.d/local.start: #!/bin/bash # /etc/conf.d/local.start /bin/dmesg > /var/log/dmesg Then you will at the least have a log of the current dmesg, which could be rotated. Yes that w

Re: [gentoo-user] Dmesg for Previous Boot?

Ian Brandt wrote: Is it possible to get the dmesg for the boot prior to the current one? No it isn't. dmesg shows the ring buffer contents of the running kernel. I'm trying to remotely upgrade from the 2.4 to 2.6 kernel. I followed the migration guide, but I got something wrong because my se

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf [SOLVED]

Jorge Almeida wrote: Glad that worked for you, but please now remember to add nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx to /etc/portage/package.keywords as allowed to be ~x86, or else Portage will try to downgrade them the next time you do an emerge world-- ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on an emerge command line is only *t

Re: [gentoo-user] Somebody's cleaning /usr/portage/distfiles and I want it to stop! ;-)

Dave Nebinger wrote: On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:48 am, Justin Patrin wrote: Are you running http-accelerater and repcacheman on one? Oh, and both use /var/cache/http-replicator as the source dir, not /usr/portage/distfiles. AFAIK repcacheman *moves* the sourcefiles from /usr/portage/dis

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web

James Colby wrote: I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a way to get to a shell over the web using only port 80 or port 443. I would like to be able to open up a shell on my gentoo box from , but I am behind a firewall. I have searched sourcforge and freshmeat and have not had any

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: btw - some time ago I let glxgears run on several wm - and it was the fastest on kwin and integrity (both qt based) and slower on gtk-based wm... glxgears doesn't need/use/depend neither a WM nor GTK/QT, so I don't see how this test makes any sense. Christoph --

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

Mark Shields wrote: reports the speed as UDMA44 to the BIOS, when in fact there is no such standard and it should be UDMA66, but that's easily fixed with hdparm). Actually, there was a UDMA44 standard. It's defined in ATA-5 (Ansi NCITS 340-2000), tough I've never heard of hardware supporting o

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for eggs.

Christoph Gysin wrote: You also shouldn't have to copy the egg. Does it get modified during chicken-setup? If not, you can leave out the whole src_unpack(). Of course, you'll need to specify the path to the egg in chicken-setup. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for eggs.

Pupeno wrote: DEPEND="chicken mysql" should be: DEPEND="dev-scheme/chicken dev-db/mysql" RDEPEND="" Not sure, but I've often saw this: RDEPEND="${DEPEND}" src_unpack() { mkdir -p ${S} cp /usr/portage/distfiles/${A} ${S} } mkdir isn't nessessary IIRC. You also shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name

Joseph wrote: The (CN) of the certificate match out company name it doesn't match localhost I assume your apache is configured with hostname "localhost". What does your apache.conf look like? (snipped to the relevant parts, of course) Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr

Re: [gentoo-user] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name

Joseph wrote: How to get rid of this error: [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name Every time I start apache it generate this error in ssl_error_log My certificate is for my domain-name not my localhost, and I don't have any vhost configured with l

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing FF/TB plugins in Gentoo

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've just had a look at FireFox about:plugins and I'm both worried and confused. No surprise there; it happens a lot when I peek under the covers. :o) There are two versions of the Java plugin listed, with the same libjavaplugin_oji.so filename. The latest is Java 1.5.

Re: [gentoo-user] Central syslog server and then

Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I'm going to setup a central syslog server for Linux and windows machines, but whats the best program to examin these logs, and send out email alerts to users ? It seems that there are not so many opensource solutions. Which ones have you already checked out? Perha

[gentoo-user] Xorg and RANDR

I'm trying to use the RANDR extension from xorg. Here is what i get: $ grep RANDR /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR seems like RANDR is built-in, but: $ xrandr Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0". Any experts on xorg here? ;-) Christoph -- echo mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling DMA on SE7520BD2S

Jaroslaw Kapica wrote: Well I tried few diffrent combinations of drivers before, (I've even compiled all drivers in ;} ), but it didn't help too. There are too many posibilities to gues the right one, moreover I think that it maight be sth somewhere else? CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX should be your dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Xorg - internal compiler error: segmentation fault

Frank Schafer wrote: so I hit this bug too. :( Well, the log itself says it's a bug and (even worse) that nobody knows where it comes from. Somebody on b.g.o. suggests to try building with a vanilly kernel. Did someone here make the same experience and if yes, will it run then on a gentoo-kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] at, batch, atd

Frank Schafer wrote: does anyone know, in which packages are the commands ``at'', ``batch'', ``atq'', ``atrm'' and the ``atd'' daemon? Why not try the obvious? # emerge -avt at These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] sys-p

Re: [gentoo-user] Introducing RAID 1 into a running system

Mike Williams wrote: Quicker method :) create B1 and B2 umount /dev/A2 # mdadm --create /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/A2 /dev/B2 You CAN create a mirror of an existing partition, and NOT lose data. I know, I've done it. But how does it know which of the devices is the master? Does it simply copy the

Re: [gentoo-user] Introducing RAID 1 into a running system

Heinz Sporn wrote: Question: may I run mkraid /dev/md0 on the fly now or will that somehow destroy the partition table on the entire disk A ? This wont't work since only data written to md0 gets mirrored. You can't mirror an existing partition. An mkraid will probably destroy partition A2. Y

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

Neil Bothwick wrote: Correct, and /dev/hda5 is (hd0,4) despite all the conflicting advice you've been given. All my boxes have /boot on hda5 and all use hd0,4 (well, except the iBook which uses that horrible yaboot thing, anyone who wants to start a grub vs. lilo flame war should be made to use

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

Christoph Gysin wrote: (hd0,4) would be your / partition. But grub expects the partition containing the grub installation files, which are located on /boot so it should be (hd0,2) stupid me, of course it should be (hd0,1) as mentioned in my other post. If you're confused now, go with He

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

Mark Knecht wrote: The disk layout is like this (MBR) - Win XP /dev/hda1 - Win XP /dev/hda2 - extended partition /dev/hda5 - /boot /dev/hda6 - swap /dev/hda7 - / /dev/hda8 - /home Now, my question, where do I write grub? I believe it's into the MBR and not into partition 1, correct? If so

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

Glenn Enright wrote: On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:40, Mark Knecht wrote: The disk layout is like this (MBR) - Win XP /dev/hda1 - Win XP /dev/hda2 - extended partition /dev/hda5 - /boot /dev/hda6 - swap /dev/hda7 - / /dev/hda8 - /home grub> root (hd0,4) grub> setup (hd0) (Install GRUB in

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

Javier Uribe wrote: * emerge --sync * ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge gnomebaker N! The way to do it would be: # mkdir -p /etc/portage # echo "app-cdr/gnomebaker ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords # emerge -avt gnomebaker Don't use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line. This has been dis

Re: [gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install

Andrew Lowe wrote: I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of me I can't remember where it is. I've done som

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. So why should he do portscans in all hosts on the subnet?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is an

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with script

bshlists wrote: I've been trying run this script on my gentoo laptop, but for some reason it does not work. If you see what is wrong could you email me. Thanks. #!/bin/bash if [ "${ACTION}" = "add" ] && [ -f "${DEVICE}" ] then rmmod garmin_gps chmod 666 $DEVICE fi $ man te

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

Frank Schafer wrote: Nice reading ... 5.8. ... Mount /proc to your diskless directory and chroot into it to continue with the install. We are chrooting into /proc ??? ;) No, we are chrooting into our diskless directory. 6. ...untar the tarball that is mounted... We can mount tarballs ??? ;

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

Frank Schafer wrote: I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS installed on this server. It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet and WiFi). nice ;-) Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of this disk,

Re: [gentoo-user] very OT (was: why gentoo doesn't have long description?)

Daniel da Veiga wrote: You know bud, read some rules, be polite. "If you have nothing good to say, say NOTHING!". Do you really THINK before replying? Have you added something to the question? Care more about WHAT people write than WHERE is it written, you'll be more happy. Comments like yours

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ???

Michael Kintzios wrote: Could you please share any other benefits/disbenefits of the two formats? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/#theend Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSP

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ???

Jarry wrote: I'm using sendmail as my mail-server, and I noticed, that mail for users is stored in $HOME/.maildir, not in /var/spool/mail. And each mail is stored as separate file, not all in one file. WHY??? It's called the "maildir" mail storage format. I find it very useful, especially with

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

Matan Peled wrote: Christoph Gysin wrote: To get a chance of getting it included in the portage tree, you'll need to provide a package with everything needed to build the game from source. Some sort of build instruction would also be nice. But we can't... It requires a commer

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

Markus Döbele wrote: A few days ago we finally released the first final version of our game "Lost Labyrinth" for Linux. The newest version at the moment is 1.0.1. I also created a rpm version of the game. I have no idea yet what I have to do to make it easy to install for gentoo users. We nee

Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?

Mark Knecht wrote: It seems I've ended up with copies of Mozilla on the two machines I used to check out Unison. Apparently, at least the way I emerged it, the ebuild doesn't have any flags to effect this. Found out some more: You seem to have the 'gnome', 'mozilla' and 'gtk' or 'gtk2' usef

Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?

Mark Knecht wrote: It seems I've ended up with copies of Mozilla on the two machines I used to check out Unison. Apparently, at least the way I emerged it, the ebuild doesn't have any flags to effect this. I don't have mozilla installed: $ emerge -avt unison These are the packages that I w

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

Frank Schafer wrote: To unsubscribe send a mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... you got this with the "Welcome" message during subscribing. Not only that. In every mail you get from this list, there is a line in the header: List-Unsubscribe: Christoph -- echo mailto:

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

Fernando Meira wrote: I was told the following, which I don't agree, but in any case, I would like to hear from someone that knows :) - when having 2 different distro on 1 pc, do they have to use the same kernel? Even if they share the same swap partition and /boot is inside the root of one of

Re: [gentoo-user] F4L

Nick Rout wrote: try the ebuild that is on bugs.gentoo.org Be nice and provide a link: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82154 Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why?

Neil Bothwick wrote: The option you mean is 'user' not 'users'. But I can't imagine how this makes sense on / Actually, both user and users are valid mount options, with slightly different meanings. Neither is applicable here though, because / is mounted by root and both options only affect the

Re: [gentoo-user] external modem identificaton

Joseph wrote: How to identify external modem? I think it is by running command: ATI4 Though, how do I connect to a modem from a command line to get a response to ATI4? $ cat /dev/ttyS0 & $ echo ATI4 > /dev/ttyS0 $ kill %1 My modem also gives useful Information on ATI1, ATI3 and ATI9. For a

Re: [gentoo-user] Ktoon

Ian K wrote: Does anyone know how to get KToon working? http://ktoon.toonka.com/ No. Let's see what the problem is... I cannot compile it because when I run Qmake to compile the sources, it says qmake: command not found. You seem to be missing qmake, which turns out to be part of QT (by sea

Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why?

Daniel da Veiga wrote: Have you tried adding "users" to your fstab? Have you read the post before answering? The option you mean is 'user' not 'users'. But I can't imagine how this makes sense on / Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer iso ?

Christoph Gysin wrote: Nelis Lamprecht wrote: I can't seem to see these "two additional" images on any of the mirrors, could someone please point them out to me ? http:///experimental/x86/livecd/x86/livecd-x86-2005.1.iso Sorry, didn't read your whole post. The hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer iso ?

Nelis Lamprecht wrote: I can't seem to see these "two additional" images on any of the mirrors, could someone please point them out to me ? http:///experimental/x86/livecd/x86/livecd-x86-2005.1.iso Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] paths and rsync

Pupeno wrote: Anybody knows how to specify more than one path with rsync using the same first part (for the host) ? something like [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[/home|/var] You could use the bash for expansion of the paths: $ rsync [options] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:{/home,/var} $DEST Christoph -- echo mailto:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find file I need for an emerge!

Michael Sullivan wrote: Yesterday I got my external DVD-RW/CD-RW drive in. I added dvd use flags to /etc/make.conf and issued "emerge uDN world". The first package in the emerge is xcdroast, which is good because that's what I use to write CDs (and DVDs if I can get this to work.) emerge want

Re: [gentoo-user] why I cannot compile gsview? don't have idea what is this error message?

Zhang Weiwu wrote: bash-2.05b# emerge gsview Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) app-text/gsview-4.6 to / !!! Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest. !!! File: files/digest-gsview-4.5 try: # emerge --sync or # rm /usr/portage/app-text/gsview/files/di

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

Norberto Bensa wrote: Christoph Gysin wrote: What makes you believe this has something to do with /tmp? he's using a pipe (stdin | stdout) What have pipes to do with /tmp? A pipe is nothing more than a buffer (in memory) between two processes. If there's not enough memory,

Re: [gentoo-user] Web classes - can't pass their windows compatibility test

Mark Knecht wrote: OK, I pass the first step (Browser & Java) but it then goes on to check the network and all it does is go to a blank page after a message about popups. I've set Firefox to allow popups but that's not working. Can anyone get further? Not with firefox. The site uses Acti

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with this, fsck won't change anything to my partition at all? nope. and what about this line from the output of tune2fs? Filesystem state: clean with errors Is it like "critical" or like "informative"? only fsck can tell... Since e2fsck _will_ find errors,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try fsck? nope :-( I'm a bit too afraid to try it. It's a production server with only one partition and it's located about 6000 miles away. If something goes wrong, I'll be really in a bad situation. I think I'll have to do it anyway, but I'm checking for li

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

Norberto Bensa wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bzip2: No space left on device Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Check your temp partitio

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aug 8 03:17:00 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_block: block(14366126) >= blocks count(14366126) - block_group = 438, es == c2510400 [...] Aug 8 08:46:52 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_block: block(14372149) >= blocks coun

Re: [gentoo-user] 16 colours xpm

Uwe Thiem wrote: Anybody in the know how to generate an xpm image with 16 colours and 1 character per pixel? I mean other than using vi. ;-) Alternatively, converting an image to that format would do for me. imagemagick is your friend :-) # emerge -avt imagemagick The following isn't tested,

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

Fernando Meira wrote: which I understand because it is trying to use *vi* and I don't have it. If I'm not wrong, vi is not even in portage. So, is there a way to work around this, maybe using another editor to edit it? It's probably hardcoded in the code. Workaround: $ sudo ln -s nano /usr/b

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Essential : * Must be secure against remote attacks. * Must support username-and-password based authentication. Desirable : * Support to host multiple domains on a single public IP address (NAT'd to a single static IP address for my server) * As lightweight as

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

Fernando Meira wrote: Also found other scripts to compile directly from cvs, without using portage. Can anyone tell me what the advantage of doing so? I'd suggest using portage since it allows you to uninstall, query information and doing other nice package managment stuff. Christoph, is the

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

Fernando Meira wrote: And in the E docs, there is this sentence: "Note that you should not mix -* and ~x86 ebuilds." So is it enough that I just change everything to -* and all packages will be upgraded, or will I need to unmerge every package before? Just keyword all packages -* and update

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

Fernando Meira wrote: Christoph, I can't find the screenshot I saw and made me think about moving to E, but this one is also good and has the panel (right under the IM app) I was talking about: http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~uriel/images/screen.jpg In the browser window you can see

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

Luke Albers wrote: I run this every day to recompile from CVS. Somtimes it compiles, sometimes it doesnt, but I dont really care. I don't think it is difficult to use at all, you will rarely need to change much from the command line. The only thing that can be a bitch is making all the eapp fi

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

Fernando Meira wrote: I have recently emerged e16 for trial (I always used KDE) and I haven't explored it too much yet, but I'm quite happy with it. I'll be looking for a pretty desktop theme (which I haven't found yet) and arrange it to my way. Welcome to enlightenment! However, I been read

Re: [gentoo-user] Matlab under gentoo

Yuan MEI wrote: however, I cannot execute matlab with 'LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 matlab', which causes: /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Does libdl.so.2 exist on your system? I'm running ~x86: $ equery b /lib/l

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] confusing RE doesn't work in diff

Zhang Weiwu wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ diff -I "^[[:space:]]*/[*].*[*]/[[:space:]]*$" header.inc.php empty 1,2d0 < in man it's being said, -I RE --ignore-matching-lines=RE Ignore changes whose lines all match RE. I read man grep and it seems there are two sets of RE,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] confusing RE doesn't work in diff

Zhang Weiwu wrote: This works: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ egrep "\b*\/[*].*[*]\/\b*" Calendar.php /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.1.1.1 2005/03/18 09:17:36 dawnlinux Exp $ */ /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.11 2004/05/23 14:51:27 ralfbecker Exp $ */ This doesn't work: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc (was: howto install gentoo without a cd-rom)

John Blinka wrote: > I've almost got this laptop functioning under gentoo, but the compile > times are horrendously long. Hence this question: Can I use distcc > to speed it up? I have 3 other machines already using distcc, but they > are more modern; their /etc/make.conf contains: > > CFLAGS="

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment WM -- setup

Fernando Meira wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've seen a few screenshots of the Enlightenment Window Manager and I > wanted to try it. > I've emerged *enlightenment *and (as the howto says) I should be able to > load Enlightenment after restarting X, however I don't get that option. > I only have "def

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody know where to ftp genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2?

Dave Nebinger wrote: > I did a sync last night and gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 wants to be emerged. > Got the kernel ok, but it needs genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2. > > I've searched a number of the mirrors and so far haven't found it. > > Anyone out there know where I can find it? Daniel Drake

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

Holly Bostick wrote: > Or is this not a valid proof that there are some limits left? Not, it's not. A simple "sudo bash" will give you a root shell. The problem in your example was the missing quotes: $ sudo bash -c "/etc/init.d/samba restart" Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's.

Re: [gentoo-user] which package is kfm in?

Holly Bostick wrote: > Actually, none-- it's 'konqueror --profile filemanagement' now (this > just bit me the other day when I tried one of my rare uses of Konq and > went looking for kfm, which no longer exists). > > So just install konqueror. Thanks! Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'

[gentoo-user] which package is kfm in?

Could some KDE user out there run the following command for me: $ equery b $(which kfm) Thanks! Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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