Hi,
just to warn everyone of you readers, who use ~ARCH:
firefox 4.0 arrived with a dep to gconf.
A big show stopper for the all who do not want to have any gnome
dependencies, but want to have the new Firefox.
You have been warned
Sebastian
--
" Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " | _
Am Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:29:53 +0200
schrieb Marco :
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Neil Bothwick
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:57:41 +0200, Marco wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > It looks like you installed a new microcode package two days ago,
> > that may be incompatible with your card. Have y
Am Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:30:58 +0200
schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de:
> Hi,
>
> after removing tetex and installing texlive-2008 by following
> his guide
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml
> I run into a mysterious problem:
> All my *.tex-files are handled as they would be
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:15:02 +0200 (CEST)
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was quite surprised when I tried to emerge media-libs/tiff
> (3.8.2-r6) today. I got the error messages
>
> !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - sys-devel/gcc-4.4.0 (Change USE:
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [14.06.09 19:46]:
> Sebastian Günther writes:
>
> > * Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 16:41]:
> >>
> >> There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard
> >> emerge on a package that is out
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 16:41]:
>
> There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard
> emerge on a package that is outside the `~' daredevil stage and is not
> masked, it should `just work' [tm].
>
>
When I read the bug rightfully, procmail did not build w
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 18:15]:
>
> I can sync fine... just didn't want to do an update world just now as
> my sources are quite new, but still didn't want to get sources too far
> ahead of installed packages.
>
I think, you did not understand, what a sync does. It updates
* Laurent Lejeune (olo...@gmail.com) [10.06.09 11:49]:
> This is a pity since slim suits my needs perfectly except from that.
> Anyway, I'm falling back to xdm, which does the job fine but lacks the
> eye-candy...
Same with me, but this helped me to a nicer XDM:
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/XDM/C
* Laurent Lejeune (olo...@gmail.com) [08.06.09 19:19]:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having some issues with the slim login manager, which suits my very
> basic needs very well, except from those two things:
>
> * When starting, the keyboard doesn't respond quite well. The
> characters don't show o
* Maxim Wexler (maxim.wex...@gmail.com) [02.06.09 21:41]:
> Hi group,
>
> I note that ctrl-alt-del no longer shuts off my netbook. It gets to
> 'remounting file sytems read only' then stops. I have to hold the
> power button for about 5 secs to get the thing to shut down.
>
> Is there a new, appr
* John covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]:
> Hi. I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, however when I
> shutdown my system with something like shutdown -r now -- it gets into
> a state where it says
> init: no more processes in this run level, but it never will restart
> or sh
* Maxim Wexler (maxim.wex...@gmail.com) [02.06.09 21:37]:
> Ok, I see it /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/battery and bind, uevent and
> something in pink beneath that but I can't read them "permission
> denied. But I'm logged in as root
>
Well this is the kernle module, drivers are always the wrong choice
* Mike Kazantsev (mk.frag...@gmail.com) [02.06.09 17:22]:
> Answer in a neighbor thread reminded me of a question that puzzled me
> from the start: what's the rationale behind moving layman tree
> from /usr/portage/local to /usr/local/portage?
>
> I can see why all ebuilds belong in the same /usr/
* Maxim Wexler (maxim.wex...@gmail.com) [02.06.09 04:43]:
> Hi group,
>
> Just booted into the latest iso on my netbook and first I wanted to
> check the battery state:
>
> #cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state.
>
> No such file. Looked all over /proc/acpi/. Nothing in /var/log/messages.
>
Search
* Yasin (yasin5...@yahoo.com) [01.06.09 05:52]:
> i just want to upgrade my gentoo gnome from 2.24 to 2.26 how to and what must
> i do ???
>
read the handbook about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3
Sebastian
--
" Religion ist das Opium des
* Nitin Kanaskar (nitinv...@gmail.com) [02.05.09 19:15]:
> Ok - I am not clear about the terminology -
> packages, versions...
> But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this
> is right. I am a graduate student doing research on
> vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking
> for older
* Joerg Schilling (joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de) [30.04.09 12:31]:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> > BackupPC should cope with this. It uses rsync over SSH, so only needs to
> > transfer new/changed files, and will restart where it left off if the
> > connection fails (this happens to me someti
* Alan McKinnon (alan.mckin...@gmail.com) [26.04.09 18:49]:
>
> It should be easy enough to write a program that examines world and displays
> all packages it finds that are dependencies of something else in world, but I
> haven't found one, and prefer the manual approach above.
>
#!/bin/bash
* Michael P. Soulier (msoul...@digitaltorque.ca) [25.04.09 20:59]:
> So, is grep the best approach to answer, "what the heck is that?" :)
>
No, eix is:
emerge eix
man eix
> Mike
HTH
Sebastian
--
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* Valmor de Almeida (val.gen...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 23:23]:
>
> since the mode option under intelfb is useless. I could also drop the
> video parameter altogether since I only have the intelfb driver compiled
> into the kernel.
Only if you don't want to use it: this parameter is necessary to
* Valmor de Almeida (val.gen...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 22:29]:
> Sebastian Günther wrote:
>
> >
> > This is the hint: intelfb can't change the video mode. But intelfb can
> > be used if you /also/ add a vga to the kernel command line. I will post
> > mine a
* Valmor de Almeida (val.gen...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 20:48]:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been trying the following grub.conf boot
>
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 video=intelfb,mode=1280x768...@60
>
> but no luck (that is I get the 80x25 console). The only working format
> appears to be
>
> ke
* Alan McKinnon (alan.mckin...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 01:21]:
> On Monday 20 April 2009 01:03:59 Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I have a (nasty) issue with the system start-up, and probably with
> > corrupted file-system. On start-up, I get several error messages (see
> > below). I suspect
* Momesso Andrea (momesso.and...@gmail.com) [10.04.09 16:13]:
>
>
> How should I handle that?
>
First look in the bugzilla, I found the bug immediately...
Sebastian
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Karl Marx | ( ) aga
* Jacques Montier (jacques.mont...@numericable.fr) [08.04.09 13:59]:
>
> Next step, i try to emerge ati-drivers...
> Thanks a lot for your help !
Don't forget to build a new kernel also...
>
>
BTW: no html please...
Sebastian
--
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* Jacques Montier (jacques.mont...@numericable.fr) [08.04.09 12:46]:
> CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI=y should also be there, for this an internal
> check if your platform has the possibility to use MSI.
>
> #CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI is not set, and i don't see the line in make
> menuconfig.
> I suppo
* Jacques Montier (jacques.mont...@numericable.fr) [08.04.09 11:27]:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two major problems with my 9600 ATI (RV350) graphic card
>
> - With the free radeon driver (x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.1-r1) :
> After few minutes, while emerging or working with some software (Gimp),
>
* Mick (michaelkintz...@gmail.com) [07.04.09 18:46]:
>
> However, I have failed to:
>
> 3. Effect a left click when I tap on the synaptics pad.
> 4. Double click on the synaptics pad.
Just a double check: you did recompile the synaptics driver from xorg?
Sebastian
--
" Religion ist das Opium
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [07.04.09 15:58]:
>
> This is not working for me either. Is this a option that I have to
> enable in make.conf or something? I did my sync last Saturday so it may
> be that the news was after I sync'ed and I missed it.
>
read the whole thread, dale:
These news ar
* 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
* 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 thinking about some options to freeze a system totally, servers
would like this,
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [04.04.09 03:55]:
>
> I thought about it and I would still like an installer. People asked me
> "I want that too" after they see what Gentoo can do and is about. I
> could help them learn to keep their Gentoo healthy and running, but I am
> not willing to
* Wyatt Epp (wyatt@gmail.com) [03.04.09 20:00]:
> 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
* maxim wexler (bliss...@yahoo.com) [02.04.09 01:04]:
>
> > >
> > > Can anybody help? I hate Xandros, it reminds me of
> > Win98!
> >
> > Well: use Xandros to install gentoo.
>
> Xandros has already used up *all* of the HD on one partition. I can't
> format the drive without destroying the OS
* maxim wexler (bliss...@yahoo.com) [01.04.09 23:44]:
>
> Hi group,
>
>
> Can anybody help? I hate Xandros, it reminds me of Win98!
Well: use Xandros to install gentoo.
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p
* Mick (michaelkintz...@gmail.com) [25.03.09 21:04]:
> On Friday 20 March 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM, fei huang
> wrote:
> > > I don't have any "xdm", "gdm" stuff but would like to start my windows
> > > manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [24.03.09 22:54]:
>
> r...@smoker / # equery list openrc
> [ Searching for package 'openrc' in all categories among: ]
> * installed packages
> r...@smoker / # equery list baselayout
> [ Searching for package 'baselayout' in all categories among: ]
> * installed pac
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [24.03.09 19:54]:
> Mick wrote:
> >
> > $ mount | grep sysfs
> > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec)
> >
> > However, I do not have sysfs in /etc/init.d/sysfs.
> >
>
> Same here. Both the confused part and the not have the init script
> sysfs. I was
* Steve (gentoo_...@shic.co.uk) [23.03.09 20:27]:
> Steve wrote:
> >> destination sshguardproc {
> >> program("/usr/local/sbin/sshguard"
> >> template("$DATE $FULLHOST $MESSAGE\n"));
> >> };
> >>
program() only takes 1 argument: the programname.
Any thing you want to pass, you hav
* fei huang (daniel.huang...@gmail.com) [20.03.09 16:12]:
> su - myname -c startx&
>
> any ideas?
RTFM:
-, -l, --login
Provide an environment similar to what the user would expect had the
user
logged in directly.
!>> When - is used, it must be specified as the la
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [20.03.09 17:18]:
> fei huang wrote:
> > I don't have any "xdm", "gdm" stuff but would like to start my windows
> > manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it.
>
> Install it anyway and use the "autologin" feature. I know that KDM
> sup
* Florian Philipp (li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net) [20.03.09 19:09]:
> fei huang schrieb:
> > I don't have any "xdm", "gdm" stuff but would like to start my windows
> > manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it.
> >
> You know that this is a possible security thread? Anyone wh
* Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk) [12.03.09 10:49]:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > The atom syntax you want is ~ which means any -rN version
> > (including -r0) of the base version.
>
> I've only even seen the ~ used at the start of an atom, I didn't know it
>
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [16.03.09 02:43]:
> Grant wrote:
> > When I plug my USB cell phone into my laptop I get an icon on my xfce4
> > desktop which mounts the volume if I double-click it. The icon
> > doesn't appear on another Gentoo laptop and I can't figure out why. I
> > though
* Saphirus Sage (saphirus...@gmail.com) [12.03.09 00:53]:
> I've been trying to setup my laptop to enter ACPI S3 (suspend to ram)
> when I close the lid. I currently have the scripts setup as such:
> /etc/acpi/events/lid
> event=button[ /]lid.*
> action=/etc/acpi/actions/lid.sh
Looks norma
* Florian v. Savigny (lor...@fsavigny.de) [28.02.09 18:39]:
>
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> > > But Emacs displays the lower-case umlauts followed by a space
> > > etc. etc. ...
>
> > what does file say about the offending files?
>
> I was not actually talking about files when I mentioned Emacs, bu
* Florian v. Savigny (lor...@fsavigny.de) [28.02.09 11:35]:
>
>
> Dear Sebastian,
>
>
> > there still is /etc/conf.d/consolefont that could mess up things
>
> The only variable that's set there is CONSOLEFONT="cp1250". I would
> not understand how the font could have an influence on the charac
* Florian v. Savigny (lor...@fsavigny.de) [27.02.09 18:30]:
>
> Dear listmates,
>
> (I did try to use a more specific mailing list, and tried
> gentoo-admin, but it seems there's nobody around.)
>
> I recently updated my kernel from 2.6.17 to 2.6.27, and it seems that
> the new kernel causes the
* Weifeng Liu (weifeng...@gmail.com) [27.02.09 09:02]:
> Thanks Morten, but that AIX server only provides telnet access. :(
>
No FTP, but telnet?
Who on this shiny planet is administring this nightmare?
If I were you I woud refuse to work with such a setup.
Sorry had to rant...
Sebastian
--
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [24.02.09 07:53]:
>
> It's not IF you remember it. I was thinking genlop at first then eix
> but "q" never even crossed my mind.
>
Well, as a Trekkie, Q comes automatically in my mind when thinking about
omnipotent...
Sebastian
--
" Religion ist das Opium des
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [24.02.09 05:56]:
> Hi,
>
> I read and even used this command several times but I can't remember
> what it is now. I searched the forums and even searched through the
> 30,000 emails from this list and can't find it. I did search through
> the emails, not read them
* Damian (damian.o...@gmail.com) [23.02.09 19:21]:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Sebastian Günther
> wrote:
> > * Damian (damian.o...@gmail.com) [23.02.09 10:19]:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I cannot find the way to dim the brightness of the display on my
>
* Damian (damian.o...@gmail.com) [23.02.09 10:19]:
> Hi,
>
> I cannot find the way to dim the brightness of the display on my
> laptop. It doesn't seem to be nothing useful in /proc/acpi neither I
> can find anything in google.
>
Did you enable the apropiate acpi drivers in the kernel? They depen
* Helmut Jarausch (jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de) [21.02.09 10:55]:
> Hi,
>
> I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver
> to a machine with onboard radeonhd device.
>
> Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl
> it always tries to find Nvidia's ope
* Stroller (strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk) [16.02.09 02:10]:
>
> On 15 Feb 2009, at 21:51, Sebastian Günther wrote:
>> * Stroller (strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk) [14.02.09 08:29]:
>>>
>>> On 4 Feb 2009, at 13:40, Justin wrote:
>>>
>>> Except t
* Mike Williams (m...@gaima.co.uk) [16.02.09 00:50]:
> On Sunday 15 February 2009 22:57:24 Sebastian Günther wrote:
> > Which useflag magic do I have to use to achieve that goal?
>
> -mysql
>
> Seems ebuilds have the ability to turn on use flags for themselves that the
* Volker Armin Hemmann (volkerar...@googlemail.com) [15.02.09 23:31]:
> On Sonntag 15 Februar 2009, Sebastian Günther wrote:
> > * Volker Armin Hemmann (volkerar...@googlemail.com) [15.02.09 15:45]:
> > > of course konqueror can block ads and scripts without 'extensions&#x
* Volker Armin Hemmann (volkerar...@googlemail.com) [15.02.09 15:45]:
>
> of course konqueror can block ads and scripts without 'extensions'
>
Well, since you have to install most of the kde stuff *and* mysql:
definetly a no go...
Sebastian
--
" Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. "
* Stroller (strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk) [14.02.09 08:29]:
>
> On 4 Feb 2009, at 13:40, Justin wrote:
>
> Except that here, ntp-client seems to start *before* the network, so fails
> to find the ntp-server.
>
> I'll investigate this more later.
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>
If you have baselayout2 and op
* Chuanwen Wu (wcw8...@gmail.com) [12.02.09 05:41]:
> Hi,
> My gentoo worked very well in the past two years. But today I found
> that I can't login it from the terminal, but ssh login is OK.
>
> Have anybody ever encountered this problem?
> Any help will be appreciate!
>
man securetty
HTH
Seba
* Naga (nagat...@gmail.com) [09.02.09 19:35]:
>
> In the 2.6.28 kernel alsa is broken for hda-intel. Either use 2.6.27 series
> kernel or use a live alsa ebuild.
>
Why can I listen to music and watch DVD with my hda-intel, if it's
broken?
> /Regards
> Naga
>
Curious
Sebastian
--
" Religio
* Johan Blåbäck (johan.bluecr...@gmail.com) [09.02.09 09:40]:
> hi,
>
> I'm setting up this old computer of mine and why not encrypt it. I have
> done this on several computers before, but never have I gotten these
> kind of errors.
>
> the other programs in the init seems to run as they should;
* Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk) [07.02.09 22:42]:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:43:04 +0100, Sebastian Günther wrote:
>
> > If i have to do *multiple* installs for several copumters, which I do
> > not use myself, I choose debian, because fai rocks.
> >
> > Sho
* James Homuth (ja...@the-jdh.com) [07.02.09 18:29]:
> if Gentoo needs anything, it's a more accessible method of installing for
> those users who can't actually see the screen. Don't get me wrong, I love
> the distro for several reasons, but if I were to install linux locally on
> any of my deskt
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [07.02.09 18:25]:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:53:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> I'm not gonna duplicate what I wrote. Read it again :P
>> Repeating something does not increase its validity.
>
> That's why I didn't repeat it in the
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [06.02.09 23:56]:
>
> This was one thing I liked about Mandrake, now Mandriva. Put in the CD,
> boot up, set up drives, select ALL the software you can stand, let it
> install and then reboot. What really made it good, when you reboot, ALL
> your software is already
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [05.02.09 09:12]:
>
> Than I'll rephrase my statement: Gentoo would need a non-bugged GUI
> installer ;)
>
No, Gentoo needs no GUI or CLI installer. It is very good, that if you
install Gentoo for the first time, you must actually read the
documentation, bec
* Frank Schwidom (schwi...@gmx.net) [06.02.09 19:43]:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:25:11PM +, AllenJB wrote:
>
> I want to handle html-files like UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 files.
>
???
Where, why, whatfor?
I still not get it.
-vv
More context: Any specific app, any special purpose and what's no
* Arttu V. (arttu...@gmail.com) [06.02.09 13:37]:
> Hello,
>
>
> For example, KOrganizer edit menus still show shortcuts for copy,
> paste, etc as ctrl+something (ctrl+c for copy). However, when I'm
> adding a new event or todo and press ctrl+c to copy some text around
> -- boom, X closes itself
* Stroller (strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk) [01.02.09 00:23]:
>
> On 31 Jan 2009, at 22:54, Grant wrote:
>
Oh I get it, the computer doesn't want me to see the Obama video. Yes
that's funny.
>>>
>>> Oh, what an intelligent machine you've got ;-p
>>> Did it already point you to Tarpley's
* Miernik (pub...@public.miernik.name) [29.01.09 11:09]:
>
> Well, it could take days, weeks, or more before the bug report is taken
> care of, and I don't want to wait with my upgrade of the rest of the
> system.
>
doesn't
emerge --skipfirst
ring any bell?
HTH
Sebastian
--
" Religion ist d
* Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05.12.08 20:56]:
> How can I tell which modules of those listed by `lsmod' are actually
> being used?
>
The third column of lsmod is headed with Used by and consists of a
number and a list of modules which use it.
Everything with a 0 is not used.
HTH
Sebastia
* Dirk Heinrichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18.11.08 07:53]:
> Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 07:14:02 schrieb ext Harry Putnam:
>
> > I've decided to stop using KDE after yrs of use... given that gentoo
> > compiles everything from scratch, its just getting to much time lost
> > jacking around with kde d
* Florian Philipp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16.11.08 12:03]:
>
> Can anyone say: "Yeah, I use the iwl3945 driver with 2.6.26 and it works
> flawlessly for me." If so, could you please post your exact kernel
> version (for example gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2) and your kernel config?
>
Well, I use the iwl
* Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16.10.08 01:26]:
> One of my Gentoo systems is located in a separate building from the
> router. The wireless connection always seems to be strong, but
> periodically the services that depend on net.ath0 stop because it
> loses the connection. Issuing 'rc' always brin
* Andrey Vul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26.09.08 04:45]:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Joerg Schilling
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Also, AFAIK UDF doesn't support embedded control characters in files
> >> (i.e. Icon\r).
> >
> > This claim is of c
* Michael Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22.09.08 13:39]:
>
> Can you tell me where it is? Control Panel? Somewhere else?
>
>
Not for sure, I have no Windows at hand at the moment.
I think it was Start > Settings > Network Something
Sebastian
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* Michael Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22.09.08 01:16]:
>
> In the VirtualBox user manual, the section that talks about bridging, it
> says in one part:
>
> If your host is running Windows XP or newer, you can also use the built-in
> bridging
> feature to connect your host interfaces to your phy
* Michael Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21.09.08 21:59]:
> Im trying to set up Gentoo in a Virtualbox on my laptop (running Windows
> Vista). Im using the 2007 liveCD image, although Ive had this same
> problem with the 2008 liveCD image. The problem is that I can access web
> pages with links
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.09.08 18:42]:
>
> It seems that you missunderstand things. The people behind cdrkit are on a
> crusade against free software.
>
>
> The fact that many people by default use the Debian fork that is outdated,
> buggy, violates GPL and Copyright makes it
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.09.08 12:02]:
>
> Get a recent cdrtools from:
>
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
>
No need for that:
# emerge cdrtools
should be sufficient...
>
> Jörg
>
Jörg, we know you are on the crusade against cdrkit, but please remember
that cd
* Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [02.09.08 15:40]:
> On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I
> > couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for
> > a df listing in the console,
* Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01.09.08 23:14]:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:49:36 +0100, Mick wrote:
>
>
> > It tells me to remove dev-python/pycrypto, when portage seems to depend
> > on it:
> >
> > # equery depends dev-python/pycrypto
> > [ Searching for packages depending on dev-pytho
* Mick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01.09.08 20:22]:
>
> Where should I look?
>
An emerge --info is a start..
> >
> > with emerge -n hdparm you can add it.
>
> Sure, but I had emerged (many years ago) so it should be in there, right?
>
Not necessarily, maybe you unmerged the package which required i
* Mick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01.09.08 19:35]:
> On Sunday 31 August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:04:03 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > > $ eix -Iu --only-names
> > > app-arch/lzma-utils
> > > dev-libs/libsigc++
> > > media-plugins/gst-plugins-x
> > > media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo
* Platoali ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16.08.08 13:13]:
> Sebastian Günther wrote:
> > OK here is a diference to big to be normal between df and du.
> >
> > 14GB against 5.5GB
> >
> > We are definetly missing something...
> >
>
> Yes, that is the strange thi
* Platoali ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16.08.08 11:14]:
> Sebastian Günther wrote:
> > That is what the 5% are for, as you saw there where stated as not
> > available but they are for the superuser for such things.
>
> So there is no way to free some space from journals.
>
>
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16.08.08 10:08]:
>
> I've another question. On my server root is 80% full and last weed it was 98%
> full. if it get to 100% , How can I delete or flush Journals to free some
> space?
>
That is what the 5% are for, as you saw there where stated as not
a
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16.08.08 07:51]:
> Hi,
>
> I've a strange problem with my root partion:
>
> the difference between du and df is about 640 - 188 = 452 MB. and "df" is
> showing that my root is full 2.4 times more than "du".
>
> which one is the correct one? I've anot
* Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13.08.08 03:31]:
>
> Man, rsync is easy to use. I imagined something else.
Try Bakula with a robotarm tape changer to keep the two things in
sync... ;-)
> Would rsnapshot be useful in this case?
Defacto rsnapshot is just an elaborate wrapper around rsync...
> Wh
* Benoit St-Pierre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05.08.08 04:58]:
> When my battery gets below 10% my laptop has a very loud system beep. I
> thought I disabled the PC speaker in the kernel.
>
> Any one have a clue as to what could be causing this?
Maybe this is set in your BIOS?
HTH
Sebastian
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" Re
Hi,
since Google does not spit out anything useful, nor any useful
documentation is installed with splashutils, I hope someone here has
deeper knowledge of fbcondecor_helper.
I build my own initrd, based on this
http://gentoo-wiki.com/SECURITY_System_Encryption_DM-Crypt_with_LUKS
I stripped do
* Platoali ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [30.07.08 10:57]:
> Hi,
>
> My old laptop is dying. I'm going to move my gentoo installation to a new
> one. The old one was an old Pentium-M and the new one is core due. I want to
> to tar the root and boot and .. files from the old one to untar it to the
> ne
* Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [25.07.08 21:23]:
> >
> > Maybe it is just a buildtime dependency, if you only have the doc
> > USE-flag and not the xsl USE-flag enabled, this is very likely the
> > cause.
>
> I actually don't have doc or xsl USE explicitly enabled. depclean
> wants to remove libxslt
* Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [25.07.08 20:36]:
> >> But there is:
> >>
> >> # emerge -pv libxslt
> >>
> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >>
> >> Calculating dependencies... done!
> >> [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.24 [1.1.20] USE="crypt python
> >> -debug -examples%
* Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [25.07.08 17:24]:
>
> But there is:
>
> # emerge -pv libxslt
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.24 [1.1.20] USE="crypt python
> -debug -examples%" 3,286 kB
>
> That'
* Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [25.07.08 00:46]:
> I'm synced up and emerge world doesn't want to emerge anything, but
> python-updater wants to re-emerge an old version of libxslt which is
> currently installed, which looks like it should have been updated via
> emerge world:
>
> # equery depends li
* Alan Mackenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24.07.08 23:02]:
> Hi, Sebastian,
>
I don't know where it is explained, but I try to explain what I know
until now about this.
> I'm still very confused by profiles, though I obviously need to get to
> grips with them. What is a profile, _EXACTLY_? Where
* Alan Mackenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24.07.08 11:42]:
> Hi, excellent people!
>
> Having got X11 installed and "working", I need a window manager. Why
> not XFCE, as supplied on the installation disk?
>
> # emerge xfce didn't work - "Portage: Don't know what xfce is".
> Scrabbled aroud /usr/por
* Mick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22.07.08 20:08]:
> Hi All,
>
> I suspect that something changed recently on the way that USB devices are
> mounted. I noticed that mounting a USB flash drive has stopped working as
> follows:
No, I think pmount behavior changed:
it now honors entries in the fstab.
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