I cant remember where in preferences it was but there is an option to
change to "classic" update style, this works a treat and should solve
your problem without having to go to overlay's and the like.
stu
2008/10/29 Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2008 13:37:15 Helm
Bug seems a little harsh in the xmas season ;)
Quick google brings this webpage
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/KDE-GUI-Login-Configuration-HOWTO.html#s5
and on my Gentoo install this file looks likely though I have not
customised personally
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc line
A nice program for generating hosts list [amongst many other features]
is nast, try nast -m for a host list.
You could also look at Nessus which while being a vuln scanner it will
probably provide simpler information that you are after.
As for having it monitor and report times at which something n
As part of regular updates I have come across an error with gcc, the
system is ~x86.
The error has been occurring for a week or so and my usual wait till
it goes away approach does not seem to be working. Originally the
error was called against a file with reference to fortran so I changed
the use
Hi all
I am trying to setup dspam to work with postfix and have followed the
guide from the wiki
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Spam_Filtering_with_DSPAM_and_Postfix
[I have excluded the web interface for now as the web server is open
to the wild on 80 though may change mind]
Now the problem is th
TED]> wrote:
Stuart Howard gmail.com> writes:
> This link to the forum though I realise it is nvidia based it may give
> some further information the posts refer to a bug which further refers
> to another bug which is the ATI issue but the general point is there.
> http://forums.g
This link to the forum though I realise it is nvidia based it may give
some further information the posts refer to a bug which further refers
to another bug which is the ATI issue but the general point is there.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-556528-highlight-nvidia+block.html
On 07/05/07,
This is what you are looking for I would say
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gpm.xml
On 06/05/07, Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can anyone point me to a howto link so that I can enable my mouse for the
console?
Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
primary
partitions next time. Thanks all for trying.
stu
On 30/04/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 30 April 2007, Stuart Howard wrote:
> I have made an annoying error when setting up my new computer.
> I installed Gentoo then winXP and made it dual boot, all
I have made an annoying error when setting up my new computer.
I installed Gentoo then winXP and made it dual boot, all of which has
gone fine however when I did this I partitioned my disk as shown the
theory being that I would assign space as required after all
installation. Unfortunatly I made t
On 10/03/07, Andrew Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stuart Howard wrote:
> On 10/03/07, Bjarke Bondo Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi. When I try to update the world emerge tells me to rebuild gcc due
>> to the
>> "-d%" flag. When I try to
On 10/03/07, Bjarke Bondo Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi. When I try to update the world emerge tells me to rebuild gcc due to the
"-d%" flag. When I try to do so, it fails. Try to take a look at the output
here:
# emerge -uDNav world
These are the packages that would be merged, in orde
vim from work and a
gvim at home I am happy, thanks for the responses.
stu
On 26/02/07, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Stuart Howard wrote:
> My issue is more though why is portage trying and failing to install
> two versions of vim
On 26/02/07, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Stuart Howard wrote:
> !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been
> !!! pulled into the dependency graph:
>
> ('ebuild', '/', 'app-edito
Good morning all
I am getting this following message when attempting to update world,
since there has been no traffic on here I guess the issue is specific
to my setup.
I imagine that the solution would be to -aC gvim then re-emerge but I
would appreciate some guidance before I do that as to be w
You could try either the gentoo security list or irc channel. Failing
that try the securityfocus lists. Once you have linux program source
you can then install either with the source or make an ebuild.
Failing the above you could perhaps run pwdump under wine.
Not tried any of the above but seems
On 04/01/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
just went through /usr/portage/distfiles and deleted what I though was
outdated - a major PITA. There must be a better way!
Slight complication: My portage tree is used by different boxes with different
world files.
Uwe
--
A fast and
On 24/12/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First of all - where did my manners go!? ;-(
MARRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!
I wish you health, happiness and even more fun with our favorite Gentoo!
;-
On the subject: Yes, yesterday I woke up with a broken root FS after a
power failure.
On 24/12/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, guys!
#emerge --resume gives me:
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
!!! Error: The resume list contains packages that are no longer
!!!available to be emerged. Please restart/continue
!!!the merge oper
I have followed the same procedure as suggested by Ilya Hegai and my
result was the same as Gian.
It works fine now, many thanks for the help.
stu
On 17/11/06, Gian Domeni Calgeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am Freitag, 17. November 2006 22:35 schrieb Stuart Howard:
> Its nice to he
heive something different from just emerging amarok?]
stu
On 17/11/06, Ilya Hegai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
unmerge amarok
then remove all traces left like *.la files
reemerge amarok
2006/11/17, Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hey folks
>
> I have found today that I ca
Hey folks
I have found today that I cannot use the xine engine with amarok
anymore, I have recently updated kde and gcc [stable] while may/may
not be related however because I rarely reboot it could have been a
while since the offending package was merged.
The error message I recieve when trying
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149809
Have a look at this, should help
On 25/10/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:08:42 +0200, Régis Décamps wrote:
> So I'd say there is a problem in the ebuild. Maybe you should copy the
> ebuild in an overlay director
Thanks for the advice folks.
As it turned out I had enough of the lib left to keep some of the
system running and I managed to copy over sufficient to get a working
connection going then after much more thrashing of the head on desk it
turned out that my backup was sufficient to get portage workin
Hey folks,
In advance I admit I have done a dumb! thing [by accident] I have
managed to delete most of /usr/lib/ and my backup does not seem to be
wholesome .
Could someone suggest a method for rebuilding the libraries?
I was thinking about a liveCD plus chroot but I would like some advice
before
Hi folks
Does anyone know if Thunderbird can be configured to read /home/user/.maildir ?
I have a qmail setup that delivers directly to /home/user/.maildir and
is reliable etc. so I do not wish to change this.
Now mutt will read this fine which is what I use when away from home
but for home use
Hi
This may be unrelated here but when I used to run miau it would only
work when I compiled it with the USE flag -ipv6
hope it helps
stu
On 02/09/06, José Pedro Saraiva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings all!
I've had a working version of psybnc running for mounths with no problems.
But
The clients above are java based clients and as such I dont believe
will solve your issue.
Is it that you dont want to open 22 on your server or is it that
"work" or whereever is locking you out?
if its home then many people leave 22 open quite safely and you can
even move the port to something no
ps. Firefox has come on a long way since last I used it.
On 04/08/06, Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have discovered that if I emerge the previous package opera-8.54
then the fault goes away ie. all text is displayed normally but when I
return to opera 9 then the fault retu
anywhere of the "standard"
fonts that are used with linux distros? [ones that the opera people
would be using]
running from a term gives no clue as opera does not feedback errors to it.
stu
On 30/07/06, Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes I have re-emerged Opera and ru
July 2006 23:48, Stuart Howard wrote:
> I have misplaced some fonts or at least I think I have, I use Opera
> for a browser but since the xorg migration the transfers page has no
> text and the "progress bar" shows boxes instead of text.
> This I presume is a font issue and probab
Hi folks
I have misplaced some fonts or at least I think I have, I use Opera
for a browser but since the xorg migration the transfers page has no
text and the "progress bar" shows boxes instead of text.
This I presume is a font issue and probably happended during the upgrade
does anyone know whic
Hi
I have just changed some USE flag settings, and the resulting emerge -N
asks to rebuild glibc however when I run it, it simply stops and drops
back to the command line with no actual complaint. The output is as below
much is snipped for clarity, if anyone has a suggestion or something I can
ch
Have a look at this page it gives a method for having multiple
versions of JDK installed.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tiger-faq.xml
stu
On 05/02/06, Rafael Fernández López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've manually instaled the sun-jdk, but i wish i could add it to the
>
s if I am using this list for my rant, it was valid
untill this last post. It ends here
On 30/01/06, Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree in that I am using whichever tool is available to measure the
> speed eg. konqueror file transfer dialog or bmon to monitor rate
is over - 10/100/1000 ??
> Also what hardware and drivers?
>
> BillK
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:06 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a home LAN with a mix of dual boot, XP and Gentoo[<-- mine].
> > Now the basic problem is this :-
>
Hi
I have a home LAN with a mix of dual boot, XP and Gentoo[<-- mine].
Now the basic problem is this :-
Transfer of file [eg. 200Mb]
Dual boot on XP-- XP speed approx 50Mbps
Dual boot on linux-- XP speed <= 1Mbps
Now this applies regardless of transport ie. I have tried smb FTP NFS,
I
Couldnt resist adding my 2p
I prefer to spend my "configuring time" ie. admin on the Big picture
eg. setting up mail, apache, firewall, ...
For the little things eg. desktop background one click icons to start
daily apps and so on I am happy to let others give me a pleasent
default.
So what t
.
stu
On 17/01/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is almost _always_ theme related. Please change your gnome theme, and
> see what happens.
>
> Thanks,
> Joshua
>
>
>
> On 1/16/06, Stuart Howard < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
&g
Hi
Has anyone either experienced or solved this issue, essentially it
means that the find bar and then all toolbars stop painting ie. go
grey and invisible. Detail >>
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274823#add_comment
I have been watching that one for 6 months and tbh happily moved
Hi
Is it possible to increase the verbosity of the emerge.log,
specifically I am intersted in capturing any "messages" that occour
during an emerge world, for example if 10 packages get updated and one
of them was python then I would need to run python-updater But if that
occurred during a long li
I do not have a solution to your question, but in general there has
been some discussion in the press [UK] of late that covered this very
issue.
The link has some further links that may lead you to your answer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20051124.shtml
stu
On 25/12/05,
heheh
ice and scotch lovers normally leads to a minor riot, plus to those
Gentooists who do not live in the UK would not realise that it is
normally cold enough here to not need ice :]
An addition to your script Darren
###
cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth
###
^^ shamelessly stolen from a g
#!/bin/pub
${Merry_xmas} >> .
bah humbug was going to go for an appropriate bash script with pub and
Glenlivet involved, realised I cant wrote them so ..
Have a merry christmas all :]
stu
ps. New year resolution = bash, need a geekier greeting for next year
On 24/12/05, Tony Davison
I use kgpg which [I presume] is part of the kwallet system.
So on desktop you have handy gui access and remotely because it is
based on gnupg you can use text only access over shh for example :-
gpg --decrypt -o ./securepass.tar.gz.gpg ./foo.tar.gz
hope this helps
stu
ps. In extracting the file
Ideal
nethogs seems just right, thanks for the reply.
stu
On Friday 04 November 2005 23:41, Marc Christiansen wrote:
> Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am looking to find a tool that will allow me to monitor which
> > applications or services are utilising
Hi
I am looking to find a tool that will allow me to monitor which
applications or services are utilising my network and hence bandwidth.
Now I have found loads of useful tools that can offer me representations
of the interface but little that breaks it down on a time basis and per
program basis.
I had same block yesterday, below is what I did
worked a treat for me
-snip-
555 emerge -aDuv world {block showed up here}
556 emerge -aCv qmail
557 emerge -av qmail
-snip-
stu
On 23/10/05, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 23 October 2005 00:18, [EMAIL PRO
Hi people
I have been suffering from the bug at the link below for quite some
time, in fact I have given up on firefox and moved to Opera.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274823#add_comment
That said I hate to leave anything undone, so on the off chance that
anyone on this list has
dont have an answer but there was a long "argument " on the security
list entitled
[gentoo-security] org-x11 GLSA 200509-07. Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3?
(black icons)
Sounds up your street, the long and short of it was that reverting
back to r1 "may" fix it but the people involved did not have m
Hi
I cannot speak for the app you mentioned or for these but.
Kuroo -> is marked testing
kentoo ->
} Both marked as stable
guitoo ->
All are KDE frontends.
Now that said I personally prefer using
http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/
or
http://gentoo-portage.com/
to find t
with a 3.7Gb file and transfered without fault
Many thanks for the help people
stu
> On 9/13/05, Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > FYI
> > Will try this CIFS later on
> >
> > stu
> >
> >
> > -- Forwarded message --
to if nothing else help me to
understand next year when I have forgotten :) and with luck others
will get a tip here or there.
On 9/13/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:40:05PM +0200, Stuart Howard wrote:
> > Further reading further problem,
>
ge cache limits this to 8 Ti
on architectures with 32 bit int
"
ie. biG or at least I think so, I am afraid that this is somewhat out
of my league.
stu
On 9/12/05, Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Further reading further problem,
>
> I have been through the reiserfs FA
s a game where 13 men
stand in a field for 5 days and hurl a small leather ball at 3 sticks
in the ground with the aim of disturbing 2 smaller pieces of wood
from the top of the aforesaid 3 sticks :)
-- Forwarded message --
From: Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Se
Hi people
This question follows on from a post I made regarding a hard drive
death and backup problems, I made a little script that tar and gzip's
each of the root directories in order. At the point of /usr which is a
very large one I get the following error
/root/fullsysbackup.sh: line 30: 18
In case you missed it
On 9/7/05, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi waltdnes,
> on Tuesday, 2005-09-06 at 21:08:20, you wrote:
> > > Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well
> > > with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money
> > > o
Hi people
MANY thanks people for the advice, after some painful time I have got
my system back or at least everything seems fine so far [typing from
opera in X].
As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I
performed the following steps
1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to
Hi
Long story short
- power outage damages hard drive
- under liveCD data can still be read [phew]
- comp will not boot from damaged hdd
- man runs to shop and buys new hdd plus UPS
- installed new hdd | /dev/hda
- old damaged hdd is /dev/hdb [3 partitions, hdb1 = /boot ext3, hdb2 =
/swap, hdb3
rved me well for
the last few months.
Thanks for help on time issue, some reading to be done I think
stu
On 8/30/05, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 30 August 2005 15:17, Stuart Howard wrote:
> > thanks for the response
> >
> > So far as I can tell I have
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Stuart Howard wrote:
>
> > - I tried to install "chrony" to adjust the time, though it seems to
> > be working ie. from logs, though it does not update the sytstem time,
> > could there be a permissions issue somewhere or have I lost
&
Hi
I am losing up to 10 minites a day on my system clock ie. if it is
correct at boot then the following day, "date" will reply with a time
that has lost up to 10 minites.
Points that may be relavent,
- The system has "worked" correctly for many months prior to next point.
- This problem has oc
Do you have any other gfx board you can put in ?
Just to identify the source of the problem, ie. gfx board or mobo
Alternatively do you get the problem when booting under a liveCD of
some description
stu
On 8/28/05, Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>I've recently installed GeForc
ick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stuart Howard schreef:
> > thx for the response
> >
> > I think we missed each other with the point though, currently my sound
> > works just fine and I am happy with it as it is [ie. built in] I am
> > not sure where the alsa
Hi
I think I know why I have this error but I woul like another view
before I -aCv the package, the error from this mornings emerge -aDuv
world was :-
checking for built-in ALSA... "yes"
configure: error: You have built-in ALSA in your kernel.
!!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report
es for
> your sound-cards and let alsa-driver do the rest.
>
> On 7/18/05, Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I think I know why I have this error but I woul like another view
> > before I -aCv the package, the error from this morn
I use one called
aria [in portage]
which works just fine for me, more features than most would need for
day to day uses.
On 7/6/05, Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> simply change wrote:
> > hi! dear all,
> >
> > i need emerge a download manager appz. so can any one help me to find a
> > good 1?
Hi
I have a problem with getting samba to play nice with my XP boxs.
In short Samba has happily allowed me to see my XP shared directories
for a 3-4 months, however the other night I restarted my router
therefore disabling my LAN connections without first umounting my
samba shares [oops] I have
loving the barcode suggestion
Though I accept that simply someone taking the time to rewrite the
text is impossible to stop, I just want to make it harder than "click
forward" for them to get around. I was a little misleading with "web"
in the subject I was more refering to electronic transmissio
le to directly download background
> images (in the moment).
> 3. Invent your own crypted text format and develop a viewer for that.
>
> *SCNR* the irony. But it seems you want to solve a organisational
> problem with a technical approach. That never works IMHO.
>
> Regards
&g
Hi
I work in the engineering sector where we issue documents that detail
process methods on how to produce certain items of equipment. Recently
we have produced some documentation that we need to be able to publish
[in a form such as pdf] for use by our suppliers BUT we want to ensure
that this do
.html
Index #1: Found a Macronix 98715 PMAC adapter at 0xb000.
Port selection is 10mpbs-serial 100baseTx scrambler, full-duplex.
Transmit stopped, Receive stopped.
The Rx process state is 'Stopped'.
The Tx process state is 'Stopped'.
The transmit unit is set to store-and-f
ything prog on XP to
quantify this, except the analogue graph in task manager]
stu
thx for help btw
On 5/28/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 May 2005, Stuart Howard wrote:
>
> > yes it has a built in switch [Linksys WAG54G]
> > and unfortunaltl
llisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:100725067 (96.0 Mb) TX bytes:70854966 (67.5 Mb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb000
On 5/28/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 May 2005, Stuart Howard wrote:
>
> > I have a small LAN at home with 2 winXP an
Hi
I have a small LAN at home with 2 winXP and 1 Gentoo [genstu] machines
connected through a combined ADSLrouter etc.
I have a problem whereby, I seem to have very slow data transfer
speeds between my Gentoo machine and my XP machines as a guide here
are some figures
Transfer of a 66Mb file :-
X
Hi
I cannot answer your question directly but you could consider using
root-tail instead of using Eterms
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=root-tail
http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html
stu
On 5/18/05, Nagatoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a small but annoying is
I would imagine that this can be done via a laptop,
but I would suggest that you have a look into a PLC type system. There
are many companies out there who deal with this kind of logic control
that would also offer advice, plus you have the advantage of being
able to "fit and forget" the electroni
I have a machine with some critical data on it that I need to recover
from a winXP installation that has gone bad. Can someone suggest a
procedure I could use to acheive this using a Gentoo liveCD?
Machine to recover from :-
WinXP 1 partition NTFS with a network card [nb. SATA HDD]
Machine's I ne
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