Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem

2008-07-20 Thread Wolf Canis
Mick wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: >> Mick wrote: >>> On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: >>>> Oh sorry, >>>> >>>> _very_ _important_ : >>>> >>>> Mount your boot partition _before_ you eme

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem

2008-07-20 Thread Wolf Canis
Mick wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: >> Oh sorry, >> >> _very_ _important_ : >> >> Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub. > > I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your grub.conf > and > carries

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem

2008-07-20 Thread Wolf Canis
Oh sorry, _very_ _important_ : Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub. W. Canis signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem

2008-07-20 Thread Wolf Canis
Ivan Alden wrote: > Hi, > > My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it > seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't > see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into > my kernel. As the computer is booting the output

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot problem

2008-05-31 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolf Canis wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > [...] >> # cd /mnt/rescue >> # mount -tproc proc proc >> # mount -obind /dev dev > > I mean that the mount commands should be: > > # mount -tproc proc /mnt/rescue/proc &

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot problem

2008-05-31 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Humphrey wrote: [...] > # cd /mnt/rescue > # mount -tproc proc proc > # mount -obind /dev dev I mean that the mount commands should be: # mount -tproc proc /mnt/rescue/proc # mount -obind /dev /mnt/rescue/dev I just build a mini chroot environ

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-30 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: > Unfortunately many times one cannot control the reverse records, > because the IP address pool belongs to the ISP. Nevertheless the SMTP > server logs the IP address which the message came from. It doesn't > matter if the message

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-30 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: > Come ooon! :) > The whole bet thing was of course a joke. > What I had in mind is that you'd have to hack Gmail which I believe > won't classify as "relatively easy". Not to mention that even just > for "proof of concept" this wou

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot problem

2008-05-29 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Humphrey wrote: > I have no problem chrooting into a system on the hard disk if I've booted > from an installation CD, but every time I try it after booting from another > HD partition I get e.g. this: > > # chroot /mnt/rescue /bin/bash > chro

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-29 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: [...] > Absolutely. I just wonder how many people will choose not to use such > kind of list in order not to sacrifice their anonymity. Exactly. [...] > It also might be the same person signing with different keys or > sometimes s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-29 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 »Q« wrote: > Wolf Canis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Would know a message reach the ML with my Name but no signature or a >> different signature, could one relatively be sure about the fact that >> this particular me

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-25 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > This is a nice list with helpful people. No doubt about that. :-) > There are other lists however, when > it is not that rare for malicious (or unhinged) individuals to impersonate > someone else and hijack their email address to publ

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-25 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norberto Bensa wrote: > Signed messages doesn't make any sense on a mailing list. I may ask you for a explanation, please? I think they make a lot of sense, because you or the mailing system are able to verify the message or rather the origin, if imp

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-24 Thread Wolf Canis
The signature is valid, but the key's validity is unknown. > > > and the second message: > ==== > Message was signed by Wolf Canis (Common) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-24 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, it seems that sometimes mails of mine doesn't go to the list. :-( I had this problem just a couple of hours ago. I send a reply to the thread "Need help with a regex" but the mail doesn't reach the list. I looked in the archive and it does

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

2008-05-24 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin Atwood wrote: >grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d > > but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong? You have to use back slashed versions of meta characters. Following how would do that: $ grep -e '^[[:space:]]\+provide[[

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

2008-05-24 Thread Wolf Canis
Robin Atwood wrote: >grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d > > but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong? You have to use back slashed versions of metacharacters. Following how would do that: $ grep -e '^[[:space:]]\+provide[[:space:]]\+[a-z]\+' /etc/init.d/* /etc/init.d/sy

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-17 Thread Wolf Canis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just started to use layman tools and wondered if setting such > things as /etc/portage/package.use would still be done in that same > place and same way? I think yes. > > I want to install an overlay of emacs-cvs but with different use flags I would say there is

[gentoo-user] Re: Only a "-" in "top" column WCHAN since downgrade to gcc 4.1.2

2008-05-15 Thread Wolf Canis
Wolf Canis wrote: > Hello, > since I gcc downgraded to version 4.1.2 I have in the "top" > column "WCHAN" only a "-". This applies to all processes. > The System.map is available in /usr/src/linux. > It works after installation, that was late 2007, wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error

2008-05-10 Thread Wolf Canis
Ian Hilt wrote: > On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 5:53pm +0200, Wolf Canis wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I just experienced the same problem. Could you solve your problem? >> If so could you post the solution? >> >> Some data of mine: >> I'm in the groups:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error

2008-05-09 Thread Wolf Canis
Hello, I just experienced the same problem. Could you solve your problem? If so could you post the solution? Some data of mine: I'm in the groups: groups=10(wheel),11(floppy),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),85(usb),100(users),250(portage),443(plugdev),1000(rh),1001(wireshark) CD/DVD de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

2008-05-06 Thread Wolf Canis
Sven Köhler wrote: >> When you emerged grub-0.97-r5, this was displayed on your console: >> WARN: postinst >> *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install >> the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, >> stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but >> later stages will be the

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Wolf Canis
Zdenek Travnicek wrote: >> I don't know a machine with the name thunderbird :-[ . But I started >> with Gentoo >> on a Toshiba Tecra 8100, that's a PIII Copermine 800MHz and 512 MB RAM. >> In this >> respect, I can say: Yes, I did. :-) An emerge -e world lasted 11 >> hours, without OOO, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Wolf Canis
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >>> On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: >>> >>>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>>> >>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Wolf Canis
Mick wrote: > You people don't know what pain means! :-)) > -- > [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-bin-2.4.0 > > Estimated update time: 5 minutes. > -- > [ebuild N] app-office/openoffice-2.4.0 > > Estimated update time: 23

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Wolf Canis
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >>> extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for >>> a year so that the saved startup time equal

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Wolf Canis
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a > year so that the saved startup time equalizes the time spent compiling it. > I have to disagree. On my laptop Dell Inspiron 6400, Dual Core Pentium (T2130) 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. T

[gentoo-user] Only a "-" in "top" column WCHAN since downgrade to gcc 4.1.2

2008-05-04 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, since I gcc downgraded to version 4.1.2 I have in the "top" column "WCHAN" only a "-". This applies to all processes. The System.map is available in /usr/src/linux. It works after installation, that was late 2007, with gcc 4.1.2 and it works wit

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread Wolf Canis
Brandon Mintern wrote: ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the "checking for" lines (the configuration step). Yes, you are right, but I thought that ccache cached parts of the configuration too. That's what

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread Wolf Canis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all those answers somewhere so whatev

Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED

2008-05-02 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I searched for NROFF in /etc/man-conf and found a note saying to add | "-c" if something had a specific version. I tried that and it works | now. There may be otehr fixesm but that works for me. Just edit it | and look fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -fomit-frame-pointer switch

2008-05-01 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: | | But in order to avoid recompiling all of those packages (for now) | I can just add it to my CFlags and wait a few months, as another option? Yes, there shouldn't any problems appear. | | Or is there real peril with this approach to sl

Re: [gentoo-user] -fomit-frame-pointer switch

2008-05-01 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: | Hello, | | On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's | CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the | executables will be recompile (willing to wait) | or do I have to rebuild system (all packages)

Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED

2008-05-01 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael George wrote: | | It was /etc/man-conf. A change in the NROFF definition caused the | problem. Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change, | so I ran etc-update this time and found it. | | Hopefully this will be helpful for