Re: [gentoo-user] another mistakenly deleted partition to recover :(

2006-09-28 Thread Robert Persson
On Thu, 2006-28-09 at 11:14 +0200, Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote: > Hi, > > Have a look at sys-block/gpart, it can probably help you. Yes, I discovered gpart last night. It can be a useful tool for partition problems, although in this case it has turned out that testdisk was what I needed. gpart doesn

[gentoo-user] another mistakenly deleted partition to recover :(

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Persson
In the aftermath of my recent disaster in which I accidentally reformatted my root partition I have been trying to install a new system. Unfortunately this has led to some more partitions being accidentally deleted and one of them had important data on it I need to recover. Unlike last time, this

Re: [gentoo-user] I have 146,000 files in lost+found. How do I sort them?

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Persson
his is the first time I have felt I have half an idea how to use it. Robert On Tue, 2006-26-09 at 08:20 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 25 September 2006 22:55, Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote about '[gentoo-user] I have 146,000 files in lost+f

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Persson
On Tue, 2006-26-09 at 14:09 +0200, Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote: > try running reiserfsck, with --rebuild-sb and/or --rebuild-tree, as needed. > But keep a copy of the partition around (as mentioned in the other posting), > just in case you find a better way to rescue your files Good suggestion, Wolf

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Persson
On Mon, 2006-25-09 at 10:44 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > so long as it created the partition without mkfs-ing it! To paraphrase the immortal Captain Haddock, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@!!! ;-) Robert -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

2006-09-24 Thread Robert Persson
I have, much to my intense surprise, managed to reformat my root partition unintentionally. It was an EVMS native reiserfs volume, but now it is a normal xfs partition. I haven't, as far as I am aware, written any files to it since the unfortunate accident. The tool I used to create the xfs partit

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

2006-09-24 Thread Robert Persson
On Sun, 2006-24-09 at 14:18 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since > some forms I might want to keep. There's a firefox extension for doing just that - saving half-edited forms and whatnot. Can't remember what it's called off the top of

Re: [gentoo-user] custom ebuilds

2006-09-23 Thread Robert Persson
On Sat, 2006-16-09 at 11:42 -0400, David Relson wrote: > What's the best way to create a personalized ebuild to include this fix > when I build? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf do all the Layout Options mean in gnome keyboard preferences?

2006-07-16 Thread Robert Persson
about keyboard layouts as such. Many thanks, Robert Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Monday 26 June 2006 01:36, Robert Persson wrote: > >> The problem is that I don't know how to get it so that when I >> press either the alt or the win key I get all those extra characters. &

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf do all the Layout Options mean in gnome keyboard preferences?

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 13:27, Robert Persson wrote: I want to be able to use an international keyboard layout in X. Something like the Apple U.S. layout would be really nice, but the U.S. English Alternative International would do me fine for the moment. I

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner hotplug permissions torture

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_a_USB_scanner), which is very confusing and misleading, I'm sure there will be good few people out there who will be very grateful to you. (And not just Gentoo users -- there is a real lack of up-to-date usb scanner documentation out there.) Robert Robert Persson wrote: >

[gentoo-user] scanner hotplug permissions torture

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
I have just acquired an Epson 1660 Photo scanner and I am having real trouble setting the permissions. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a howto that explains clearly how you are supposed to get permissions sorted out using hotplug with more recent 2.6 kernels. There's something about a sc

[gentoo-user] wtf do all the Layout Options mean in gnome keyboard preferences?

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
I want to be able to use an international keyboard layout in X. Something like the Apple U.S. layout would be really nice, but the U.S. English Alternative International would do me fine for the moment. The trouble is that I don't know how to get at all those extra characters and diacritics. The G

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-authlib libpam undefined symbol problem

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 06:54:47 +0100 (BST), Robert Persson wrote: Jun 23 22:16:53 zebedee authdaemond: /lib/libpam.so.0: undefined symbol: courier_pam_init I have tried re-emerging courier-authlib and pam, but this has not worked. What else should I do? Have you

Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Persson
Robert Persson wrote: I'm not panicked about this any more because I have decided to use the relatively painless webmin to configure the ~/.fetchmailrc's and schedule cron jobs. even though it isn't exactly what I wanted. That said, if anyone knows what I should have done to ge

Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-24 Thread Robert Persson
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 21 juin à 00:42:33 Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | I want to run fetchmail as a service and I am confused about how this works. I | simply want to have something that will quietly fetch and deliver mail to | maildirs to users

[gentoo-user] courier-authlib libpam undefined symbol problem

2006-06-23 Thread Robert Persson
I got a home imap server running the other day using courier-imap. Today, after a reboot, I couldn't log in any more. I tried two clients and got "connection refused" messages. I tried restarting courier-authlib and courier-imap-ssl several times, but this didn't work. However the following showed

Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-20 Thread Robert Persson
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 22:49 Jean Magnan de Bornier was like: > Yes Thanks! That's what I needed to know. -- Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-20 Thread Robert Persson
ssume that fetchmail will first look at /etc/fetchmailrc. Will it then look at each user's $HOME/.fetchmailrc? If so, can I assume that it will deal with each user's .procmailrc suid that user? If not, what do I need to do instead? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson That'

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get xorg tdfx driver to work any more

2006-06-19 Thread Robert Persson
FYI, I have a workaround. Set the primary video device to PCI in the bios. I don't know why this works, but it's enough to get by with at least. Robert On Monday 19 June 2006 20:37 Robert Persson was like: > On Monday 19 June 2006 13:25 Robert Persson was like: > > A while ag

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get xorg tdfx driver to work any more

2006-06-19 Thread Robert Persson
quot; refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. Robert On Monday 19 June 2006 13:25 Robert Persson was like: > A while ago I had a working 2-head setup which I stopped using because I > needed to use the proprietary ati driver. Now I need to revert to using the > twin-head setup, but I can't get

[gentoo-user] can't get xorg tdfx driver to work any more

2006-06-19 Thread Robert Persson
mance shortfall between the radeon driver and fglrx? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LDPATH not set

2006-06-10 Thread Robert Persson
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 22:53 fei huang was like: > On 6/7/06, Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in /etc/env.d/00basic I have the line > > LDPATH="/usr/local/lib" > > yet when I enter "echo $LDPATH" I get nothing and I have to set it &

[gentoo-user] LDPATH not set

2006-06-06 Thread Robert Persson
in /etc/env.d/00basic I have the line LDPATH="/usr/local/lib" yet when I enter "echo $LDPATH" I get nothing and I have to set it manually to get programs using libraries installed in /usr/local/lib to work. What have I done wrong? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson That&

[gentoo-user] choosing different xservers (xorg.confs) as needed?

2006-05-12 Thread Robert Persson
for later models. Is the performance of the radeon driver for this card likely to catch up with that of fglrx in the relatively near future and make my question obsolete? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Persson
access, but I find the windows permissions don't work under linux, as far as I can tell.) I'll get around to trying out crossmeta for xfs read/write at some point soon and let you all know how it goes. Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspir

Re: [gentoo-user] can't configure java

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Persson
On Sunday 07 May 2006 22:14 Robert Persson was like: > When I try to use java-config, the following happens: > > > THIS SYSTEM VM IS NOT SUFFICIENT, REQUIRED BINARIES WERE NOT FOUND > System Virtual Machine set > You may want to update your enviroment by running: >

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
today, which is worrying; and it is still far short of the no-brain no-stress update automation you get with apt or yast. -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] can't configure java

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
java working properly? Thanks in advance Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
ocumentation (particularly the howtos), a very down-to-earth and helpful user community, and the ability to install all kinds of bleeding edge or obscure packages if I really need them (which often I do). Hmm. Decisions decisions. Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
cided that they are not going to reinstate 1.0.2-r3, not even hard masked, which means that, unless 1.0.2-r4 decides to work for me second time round, I'm stuffed. If anybody can tell me how to downgrade painlessly to xorg-6.8.2 I would be very grateful. :-s Robert Persson "I will sh

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
In my recent experience the frequent changes to the xorg7 versions in portage are getting pretty hairy. I have been constantly adding things to package.keywords and package.unmask every time I do a world upgrade. And then it got 1000 times worse... Yesterday I did an emerge -u world which upgraded

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-20 Thread Robert Persson
or reading very large files -- slow enough to bog down the other one if a volume was striped across them? Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-19 Thread Robert Persson
nd would that make a serious enough difference to read/write performance to be worth doing? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] trouble running X clients as root

2006-04-02 Thread Robert Persson
" I get the same answer-- :0.0 This has got me quite confused. I used not to get these messages when I ran X clients as root. Anyone know what is going on here? Thanks in advance Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] no video/audio from dv camcorder

2006-03-26 Thread Robert Persson
On Sunday 26 March 2006 01:49 Robert Persson was like: > I am having trouble capturing from a camcorder via firewire. I can control > the camera transport from each of the capturing applications (kino, > cinelerra and mainactor), but I get no video or audio. Nor do I get video > when

[gentoo-user] no video/audio from dv camcorder

2006-03-26 Thread Robert Persson
ed through portage, and a 2.6.15 gentoo kernel with reiser4 and suspend2 patches. Where am I going wrong? Many thanks in advance Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] unformat a partition

2006-03-16 Thread Robert Persson
(I was able to do that with a linux partition once—can't remember if it was reiserfs or ext3), but I would copy all the files somewhere safe in any case because even very minor corruption could come back to haunt you later (as many theologians never tire of reminding us). -- Robert Persso

[gentoo-user] trouble with perl path in twiki

2006-03-16 Thread Robert Persson
do get picked up properly. Have I made a simple error, or is there something metaphysical going on here? Once again, thanks in advance Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] modest mail server for home network

2006-03-07 Thread Robert Persson
st be easy to set up and easy to move to another machine when the time comes. smtp is not important at the moment because the isp smtp service usually works. Any advice very much appreciated. Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears

Re: [gentoo-user] No xorg.conf but GNOME works great?

2006-03-06 Thread Robert Persson
--- Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the screen > resolution is off > and there is no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 to edit. Is there an /etc/X11/XF86Config? x.org will use that if there is no xorg.conf. robert __

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-06 Thread Robert Persson
I restart X/reboot. Please let me know if you find a > fix..! I've simply disabled kdm and am now using startx. Haven't had any problems since. Not an elegant solution, but will do till I can get hold of a mac and devote the linux box to more specialised work. -- Robert Persson Cons

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-04 Thread Robert Persson
On Saturday 04 March 2006 02:33 Willie Wong was like: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:24:07AM -0800, Penguin Lover Robert Persson squawked: > > I have just upgraded to xorg-7 and found that I can no longer use > > ctrl-alt-Fn to switch out of the x server. I am using the same versi

[gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-04 Thread Robert Persson
creen at about the height the login window ought to be. I am still using kdm as my session manager, if that makes any difference (it didn't in the past). Any ideas what could be happening with my gnome sessions? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there we

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-03 Thread Robert Persson
ng drawn very slowly indeed. As Apple X11 is based on an earlier version of XFree86, this suggests that the slow screen rendering problem was with the version of XFree/X.org used, rather than with fglrx as such. Any many thanks, Holly, for showing me the way. Robert -- Robert Persson Conspir

[gentoo-user] nfs sharing: same user name, but different user id.

2006-03-03 Thread Robert Persson
a big mess? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] login error message

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Persson
export -p -bash: export: -m: invalid option export: usage: export [-nf] [name[=value] ...] or export -p How do I stop this? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Persson
the time. The x.org driver may be slow and hopeless at 3D, but it is reliable in other ways. I may try messing about with my x.org versions again. It worked before when another wine application was playing up in a similar way. That was what prompted me to upgrade to my current version. Robe

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Persson
about how to lay out the xorg.conf because the radeon 9200se is itself a multi-head card (i.e. vga and tv out). Anyway, many thanks, Holly, for a very useful and informative reply. Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Persson
around 960 fps, whereas afterwards it will only clock up 750 fps or so. I am using the following versions of things: x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.15-r4 app-emulation/wine-0.9.8-r1 x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.22.5 Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMessenger:ireneshusband

Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Persson
e printer continued spewing. Also, when I rebooted, the printing didn't start up again. I don't understand how this could be a cups problem in that case. :-) robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Persson
uot; and try to find everything > remotely related to printing and converting. Kill all those processes - > there will be several. Thanks! That worked. -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Persson
g the stop and reset buttons on the printer many times. Nothing doing. The only thing that stops the flow is disconnecting the parallel cable. I'm about to reboot, hoping that that will do the trick. But surely there's a way to stop the diarrhoea without rebooting, isn't there

[gentoo-user] trouble getting plustek parallel port scanner recognised

2006-02-01 Thread Robert Persson
plustek scanners to work. Unfortunately most of them had their problems in various central European languages, so I am still in the dark. What should I do to get linux to recognise my scanner? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy

Re: [gentoo-user] sound card stopped working after kernel rebuild

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Persson
bios setting or something during one of those freezes? Could something like that account for emu10k1 not behaving the same way with the same kernel? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMessenger:ireneshusband Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspira

[gentoo-user] sound card stopped working after kernel rebuild

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Persson
rt (rev 04) 02:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04) 02:0b.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem (rev 02) 02:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo Banshee (rev 03) Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Persson
ommand/here > Remember to edit the file with visudo, which will warn you in case you > make a syntax error. Thanks! That works. -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Robert Persson
to "sudo echo -n mem > /sys/power/status" and then to enter a password. What am I doing wrong? thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-27 Thread Robert Persson
ript I was wrestling with. So still not sure whether bash test is being weird as well. -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Persson
"test --help". Nor "test --version". The version I am using is from sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r6 . It's very hard to do a google search for anything to do with troubleshooting a program called "test". Anyone know what is going on here? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persso

[gentoo-user] no trouble getting to sleep, but would rather die than wake up

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
k during the brief reawakening. If the sleep state is initiated from the X server then I get some kind of funny pattern on the screen of the kind that says that the video card is confused. This last one is the sleep state I most want to use, so any help getting it to work properly would be mu

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
n turn depends on HOTPLUG_CPU. Now to see if it works... -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
t to the extent that the machine will halt when the power button is pressed. If I could ditch acpi and get by with apm then I would, however I am not optimistic about this because apm is supposed not to like multiple processors and I have a hyperthreading P4. How am I to get power saving (well,

Re: [gentoo-user] composing fancy html in kmail

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Persson
ail/kontact vs. evolution in general? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] composing fancy html in kmail

2006-01-24 Thread Robert Persson
-- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] "emerge --buildpkgonly world" won't go: kde metapackage problem?

2006-01-22 Thread Robert Persson
e the very source of the problem? Is emerge getting confused by the split kde metafiles again? Or does the problem lie somewhere else? Thanks people! Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] either emerge or portage is completely broken

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Persson
mpeg4ip" in /etc/portage/package.mask Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] either emerge or portage is completely broken

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Persson
error messages when I try to emerge anything, including portage. In other words portage is completely broken. What should I do? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Persson
On December 3, 2005 10:09 am Robert Persson was like: > On December 3, 2005 05:40 am Martins Steinbergs was like: > > if there isn't any files or folders under /websites then it isn't problem > > with httrack. if mirroring goes wrong, then there at least should be > >

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-03 Thread Robert Persson
ose directories with anything in it (aside from subdirectories and sub-subdirectories), and index.html is an empty file. What there is in hts-cache is a file called new.dat which contains a lot of the html that ought to have been put into the folders, all rolled into one huge file. -- Robert

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Persson
le of dozen directories or so (e.g. ~/websites/politics/www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/), but it didn't actually store any html or other site content, despite the fact that it was taking a very long time to do this and was claiming to have downloaded hundreds of files. -- Robert Per

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Persson
On December 2, 2005 07:42 am Billy Holmes was like: > Robert Persson wrote: > > I have been trying all afternoon to make local copies of web pages from a > > netscape bookmark file. I have been wrestling with httrack (through > > wget -r http://$site/ > > have you tried

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Persson
bsites, but no other files, despite the fact that it claims to be downloading bucketloads of them. -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Persson
On December 2, 2005 01:05 am Neil Bothwick was like: > wget will accept most files containing URLs, it doesn't have to be a > straight list. Try feeding it your bookmark file as is. Tried that. It borked. :-( -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot f

[gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-01 Thread Robert Persson
option would be to feed wget a list of urls. The trouble is I don't know how to turn an html bookmark file into a simple list of urls. I imagine I could do it in sed if I spent enough time to learn sed, but my afternoon has gone now and I don't have the time. Many thanks Robert -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Persson
the kde date and time setting utility. Thanks once again to everybody for their help. Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-18 Thread Robert Persson
d[9948]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 Note that there is no entry in the log for today (18 nov) even though I have attempted today (18 nov according to both me and the computer) to disable and reenable synchronisation through the (Gnome?) control panel. Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson &quo

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 segfaults

2005-11-13 Thread Robert Persson
On November 7, 2005 03:50 pm Robert Persson was like: > I have just emerged xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 and have been finding that it crashes > suddenly when I do certain things, such as click on the "advanced" burn > option tab in k3b.  Is anyone else having this problem?  Sometimes thi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is a wiki what I'm after?

2005-11-12 Thread Robert Persson
tch the ones that don't. Find what works for you. Then, if you still need to, set up an electronic database that thinks the way you like to. Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 segfaults

2005-11-11 Thread Robert Persson
table AND render widgets in wine properly? Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mainactor - which build is likely to work best?

2005-11-11 Thread Robert Persson
On November 11, 2005 01:57 am Nick Rout was like: > OK well mu comments below: > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:20:34 -0800 > > Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On November 9, 2005 02:17 pm Nick Rout was like: > > > what are you looking to do that main

Re: [gentoo-user] mainactor - which build is likely to work best?

2005-11-10 Thread Robert Persson
her and back again so that you can do lots of fast cuts without getting confused by lots of tiny clips. 3. Be able to do lot more with sound (e.g. mixing). -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997

Re: [gentoo-user] mainactor - which build is likely to work best?

2005-11-09 Thread Robert Persson
;m trying out various windows apps under wine. I'll post if I get something to work reasonably well. Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mainactor - which build is likely to work best?

2005-11-06 Thread Robert Persson
shot as well. I'll let you know how I get on. Best Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Persson
On November 2, 2005 10:49 am Robert Persson was like: > Clamav it is then. Just installed clamav and the klamav front end. Utterly painless and easy to set up for a single-user desktop system like mine. -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults.&q

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Persson
lance is the recent announcement by AVG that Linux is about to be brought to its knees by a devastating plague of viruses. This sounds like FUD to me and I don't like it. Clamav it is then. Best Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults."

[gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Persson
Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in portage would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use would be to screen windows programs before installing them in wine. Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to tr

[gentoo-user] should /dev/dv1394 be a device or a directory?

2005-10-30 Thread Robert Persson
either of them? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

2005-10-30 Thread Robert Persson
y, Im afraid. I just did nano -w /etc/env.d/02locale Mine reads: LC_ALL=en_CA.UTF-8 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 Theres a page on gentoo.org with instructions. There's another line you need if you live in Euroland. Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot fault

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

2005-10-29 Thread Robert Persson
On October 28, 2005 10:50 pm Peter Gordon was like: > On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 20:03 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > > For some reason (probably a careless etc-update) ncurses based apps (e.g. > > mc and kernel make menuconfig) have started looking really ugly > > I've had t

[gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

2005-10-28 Thread Robert Persson
pears when I hit backspace, and so on, to the point of making the applications unusable. Any ideas? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge =cinelerra-cvs-20051005 fails with undefined references

2005-10-25 Thread Robert Persson
cktimehv.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/cinelerra-cvs-20051005/wo 51005/quicktime' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/cinelerra-cvs-20051005/wo 51005/quicktime' make[1]: *** [all-recursive]

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
nyway, many thanks, Richard and others, for helping me (fingers crossed!) solve this problem. Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
/usr/lib > and /usr/local/lib. Nope. Nothing like that. Only stuff to do with audio processing and a couple of other obscure things. But both you and Richard agree that multiple installed library versions may be the problem. That certainly sounds plausible to me. Many thanks Robert --

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/libstdc++.so.6.0.3 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1798478 Sep 10 20:22 > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/libstdc++_pic.a All of the above are where they should be on my system. > -Richard Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weap

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
Now that I have done so emerge -u world seems to be catching the kde updates the way it should. -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
Now that I have done so emerge -u world seems to be catching the kde updates the way it should. -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
e the metapackages (e.g. kdeedu instead of kdeedu-meta). I think I'd been unmerging them one at a time and didn't get around to finishing the job. Now that I have done so emerge -u world seems to be catching the kde updates the way it should. -- Robert Persson "Don'

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Persson
recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/abiword-2.4.1/work/abiword-2.4.1/abi/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: app-office/abiword-2.4.1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 60, Exitcode 2 -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Persson
etime. So between then and now something has changed on my system to prevent it compiling properly. If gcc hasn't changed then what on earth could it be? Robert On October 22, 2005 02:00 pm Richard Fish was like: > Robert Persson wrote: > >I just did CC=g++ and I now get a di

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