Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:42, Glenn Enright wrote: > Try this... > > ls -l /usr/src/linux > uname -r > > these should give you the same version. If not you need to adjust the linux > symlink to reflect the kernel version you are running. Then > > cd /usr/src/linux > cp /boot/co

[gentoo-user] Re: Merging of config files in /etc

2005-10-06 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:43:34 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: > > >>On the first one, both /etc/init.d/alsasound and /etc/conf.d/alsasound >>were updated, so I was asked to run etc-update, I accepted the update, >>and that was it. >> >>On the second computer, no update to these fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Bogo Mipps
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:42, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:42, Glenn Enright wrote: > > Try this... > > > > ls -l /usr/src/linux > > uname -r > > > > these should give you the same version. rugosa / # ls -l /usr/src/linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 3 14:22 /usr/src/linu

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg and transparency

2005-10-06 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > Hi, > > > Also, I have experienced a few problems. Firefox window got fully > > transparent somehow and I couldn't get it back. If I try to log out, the > > dialog where it asks logout/restart/shutdown doesn't appear also. > > gnome-panel goes

[gentoo-user] gcc-config error / fix_libtool_files trouble

2005-10-06 Thread Christian Fischer
Hi all. I've some trouble with emerging dev-python/pyopengl. I get "gcc-config error: Could not run/locate "i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc" I've done the following: # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6 * [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardened [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednopie [4] i686-p

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Gentoo mirror

2005-10-06 Thread William Kenworthy
I'll also jump on board this - http-replicator works great. You build it from your existing distfile cache. You do not need the large mirror files as many, or rather most are unlikely ever to be accessed. Build it with what you already have, and just top it up as you go - if the file isnt alread

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread DmD (Spider) LJungmark
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 21:18 -0700, Wes Gray wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:46:55PM -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote: > > At the login screen, what have your chosen as the session type. Perhaps > > its still selecting your old KDE. Check that and select KDE-3.4 and see > > what happens. > > Yes, of co

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Roger Miliker
On Thursday 06 October 2005 04:46, Wes Gray wrote: > My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache. My > troubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4. The kde taskbar apps > wouldn't start. I tried unmerging kde-base and emerging kdebase-meta > to see if it was related to the kde s

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:04, Bogo Mipps wrote: > On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:42, Glenn Enright wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:42, Glenn Enright wrote: > > > Try this... > > > > > > ls -l /usr/src/linux > > > uname -r > > > > > > these should give you the same version. > > rugosa / # ls -l /usr/src/

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-config error / fix_libtool_files trouble

2005-10-06 Thread Frank Schafer
If your Python was built with i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc, try re-emerging Python. Python has the compiler it was built with hard coded as the compiler to use. Regards Frank On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 11:05 +0200, Christian Fischer wrote: > Hi all. > > I've some trouble with emerging dev-python/pyopengl.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg and transparency

2005-10-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 October 2005 10:29, Tamas Sarga wrote: > Without transparency I can change across virtual desktops from a second to > another, That slow? It's instantaneous here. With a shitty SiS card. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Wes Gray wrote: > My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache. My > troubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4. Upgrading from which version precisely? What is the full output of 'ls -l ~/.kde*' ? And of 'grep kde /var/lib/portage/world | sort' ? And of 'grep kde /etc/env.d/*

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Crute
On 10/5/05, Wes Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # emerge -p kde-metaThese are the packages that I would merge, in order:Calculating dependencies ...done![ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kde-meta-3.4.1I tried emerging kde-meta.  I then tried unmerging all the blockers it created and then emerging back kde,

[gentoo-user] portage bugs?

2005-10-06 Thread Erwin Lang
hi! During installation of a new system I recognised two things: 1) `emerge -e system' aborted two times. * The first time the command autoconf was missing so I manually installed the package autoconf. * The second time the command aclocal was missing so I manually installed the packag

[gentoo-user] vanilla-source-2.6.12.5 Xeon EM64T + SMP

2005-10-06 Thread Chris Ong
Hi Friends, I am having a machine with 2 x Xeon 2.8Ghz w/HT/EM64T. I am using the minimal-amd64 iso to boot up and install the machine and it's a sucess. But there's a doubt here.. During the installation stage, the kernel provided with the Minimal CD will actually

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-config error / fix_libtool_files trouble

2005-10-06 Thread Christian Fischer
Am Thursday 06 October 2005 11:35 schrieb Frank Schafer: > If your Python was built with i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc, try re-emerging > Python. > Python has the compiler it was built with hard coded as the compiler to > use. Well, that works, thanks for this hint. Christian -- pgpbgjb0OLEsz.pgp Descr

[gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread John Lange
I frequently need things installed from portage but the most recent version is not available. (digikam is a recent example). I'd be happy to grab the most recent stable source and make it work in Gentoo Portage and contribute it... Is there a How-To for this? My apologies, I know this must be s

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:04:54 +1300 Bogo Mipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:42, Glenn Enright wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:42, Glenn Enright wrote: > > > Try this... > > > > > > ls -l /usr/src/linux > > > uname -r > > > > > > these should give you the same version. >

Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

2005-10-06 Thread Eric Crossman
Thanks Holly. I understand it better now. On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 16:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Eric Crossman schreef: > > Ok, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about using > > portage beyond the most basic minimal commands. This seems to fall > > under the "used to work" cat

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Wes Gray
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:57:09PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Upgrading from which version precisely? 3.3 > What is the full output of 'ls -l ~/.kde*' ? I've played around with the ~/.kde* files a lot. I've tried removing them, as well as kde tmp files in /tmp and /var/tmp. I've also tr

Re: [gentoo-user] vanilla-source-2.6.12.5 Xeon EM64T + SMP

2005-10-06 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Ong wrote: > Hi Friends, > I am having a machine with 2 x Xeon 2.8Ghz w/HT/EM64T. > > I am using the minimal-amd64 iso to boot up and install the > machine and it's a sucess. > > But there's a doubt here.. > > During the installation stage, the

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Wes Gray
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:57:09PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Here is the rest of the requested info: > What does 'emerge -Dup world' say (after a > sync)? # emerge -Dup world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] medi

Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread brettholcomb
Check out the doc pages on Gentoo about creating ebuilds. You can use existing ones as models. > > From: John Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/10/06 Thu AM 11:15:32 EDT > To: Gentoo User > Subject: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage > > > I frequently need things installed from port

[gentoo-user] is harddrive kaput?

2005-10-06 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everbody, I was surfing the web when firefox suddenly closed and attempts at re-opening it failed with strange errors since forgotten. I decided to bail out of X and restart it; that failed with an I/O error on /dev/hdb4 where / resides. Couldn't do a shutdown; had to reset the box. Now I ge

Re: [gentoo-user] is harddrive kaput?

2005-10-06 Thread Yoandy Rodriguez
may your hard disk rest in peace On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 10:02 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everbody, > > I was surfing the web when firefox suddenly closed and > attempts at re-opening it failed with strange errors > since forgotten. I decided to bail out of X and > restart it; that failed wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread John Lange
The Gentoo documentation on ebuilds is "after-the-fact". "Contributing Ebuilds: This guide explains how to submit ebuild packages through the Bugzilla tracking system." I did finally find it. Its apparently not in the gentoo documentation but there is a Wiki. Once I figured out the appropriate s

Re: [gentoo-user] bad jack(?) performance

2005-10-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/20/05, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed jack (jack-audio-connection-kit), and configured it, as > far as I can tell, correctly. At least I can get multiple audio > streams multiplexed together. > > However, the performance leaves something to be desired: it is > *extreme

Re: [gentoo-user] Latex spacing problem

2005-10-06 Thread John Green
Joseph wrote: >Is there any Tetex/Latex guru on the list? > >I'm trying to modify the formation line in purchase_order.tex form. >I think this line is responsible how the entry items are formated: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]@{\extracolsep >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >However, the line above if the part number i

Re: [gentoo-user] is harddrive kaput?

2005-10-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, get one of the vendors test-tools, let them run, write down the error message and then bring it back - if you still have guarantee. You may can try a different cable, but when only one partition died so far, it is most probably not the cable. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] portage bugs?

2005-10-06 Thread Bob Young
FWIW, while bringinging up a new dual AMD64 box last night, I got the exact same abort on autoconf during an emerge system. I solved it the same way, by manualy emerging autoconf and restarting the emerge with the –newuse flag. I didn’t run into the aclocal problem, instead the emerge of sa

Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:15:32 -0500, John Lange wrote: > I frequently need things installed from portage but the most recent > version is not available. (digikam is a recent example). The latest Digikam, 0.8.0_beta2. is already in portage, you just need to unmask it. -- Neil Bothwick I have a

[gentoo-user] Re: Personal Gentoo mirror

2005-10-06 Thread James
William Kenworthy iinet.net.au> writes: > I'll also jump on board this - http-replicator works great. You build > it from your existing distfile cache. You do not need the large mirror > files as many, or rather most are unlikely ever to be accessed. Build > it with what you already have, and

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread brettholcomb
That's good to know. It's been a while since I looked but there used to be some docs on how to actually do an ebuild and what things in it meant. > > From: John Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/10/06 Thu PM 01:11:21 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Contr

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Wes Gray wrote: > # grep kde /var/lib/portage/world | sort > kde-base/arts > kde-base/kde-env > kde-base/kde-meta > kde-base/kdebase-meta > kde-base/kdelibs > kde-base/konqueror Hmm, if I'm not mistaken, if you've emerged kde-meta, none of the other kde things should be in your world file. You'v

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread Steven Mertens
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1On 10/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's good to know.  It's been a while since I looked but there used to be some docs on how to actually do an ebuild and what things in it meant.>> From: John Lange <[E

[gentoo-user] init.d script run order

2005-10-06 Thread Antoine
Hi, I have a server that I have just installed. Everything is just fine except that gshield (and hence my NAT) seems to be stopped after boot. My understanding was that having the need net would mean that it would wait for all the interface cards to come up - is this not the case? Bizarrely, dm

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Bogo Mipps
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:54, Glenn Enright wrote: > You still need to make sure the sources are 'bedded in' as it were, so > perform the stuff described in the second part of my post as well. Done, and there is an improvement in the error code at least: * Determining the location of the kernel sou

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:27, Bogo Mipps wrote: > *getfilevar > * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory. > * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux > sources. > * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so that >

[gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Matthias Langer
I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very appealing to me. As far as I know, one possibility would be to [with the boot-cd]

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
If you want to move directories, avoid wholesale symlinking like this as it always ends in tears ... Using a liveCD, create your partitions and directories, then copy everything over (rsync or tar is best to make sure its accurate), change your fstab then reboot. When you are happy its working, y

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Joe Menola
On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: > I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, > because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both > directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed > very appealing to me. As

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Matthias Langer
Joe Menola wrote: On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very ap

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 07 October 2005 03:52, Matthias Langer wrote: > Joe Menola wrote: > >On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: > >>I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, > >>because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both > >>directories we

[gentoo-user] two questions about gdm

2005-10-06 Thread Matthias Langer
I've two questions about gdm (I use version 2.8.0.3): 1.) Recently I recognized that I get the following error message when logging in via gdm: "The configuration file contains an invalid command line for the login dialog, so using the default command. Please fix your configuration." Because

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 06 October 2005 20:52, Matthias Langer wrote: > Joe Menola wrote: > >On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: > >>I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, > >>because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both > >>directories

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Wes Gray
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:17:20PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Delete all the other kde files from /etc/env.d/, keeping only the > 3.4 one. The older ones are not needed any more since you've > uninstalled those versions, no? This may solve some of your > problems by removing that KDEDIR

[gentoo-user] making my own router

2005-10-06 Thread Mark
I'd like to build a gentoo box to act as a single router between a hardware firewall (appliance) and two internal separate network segments. The goal is to allow both internal segments to access the Internet via the same firewall, but not allow them to see eachother. Here's my general idea - pleas

[gentoo-user] New kernel and udev

2005-10-06 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I went to do my routine "emerge -Duptv world" and it came back with devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether I'm using udev now or not. I remember compiling into the kernel last time I did a kernel compile. Naturally,

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel and udev

2005-10-06 Thread Rafael Alfaro
Read this article http://lwn.net/Articles/149479/ On 10/7/05, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I went to do my routine "emerge -Duptv world" and it came back with > devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether I

Re: [gentoo-user] making my own router

2005-10-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Unless its limiting you in some fashion, leave it there as an extra layer of protection - dedicated HW firewalls are often more secure than a general purpose machine, but lose out in the flexibility/functionality stakes. You can also get funky and use the gentoo box to detect suspect traffic, and

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel and udev

2005-10-06 Thread Rafael Alfaro
read this udev guide too: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml On 10/7/05, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I went to do my routine "emerge -Duptv world" and it came back with > devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel and udev

2005-10-06 Thread Richard Fish
gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I went to do my routine "emerge -Duptv world" and it came back with devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether I'm using udev now or not. I remember compiling into the kernel last time I did a kernel c

Re: [gentoo-user] init.d script run order

2005-10-06 Thread Richard Fish
Antoine wrote: Hi, I have a server that I have just installed. Everything is just fine except that gshield (and hence my NAT) seems to be stopped after boot. My understanding was that having the need net would mean that it would wait for all the interface cards to come up - is this not the ca

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel and udev

2005-10-06 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: > > > gentuxx wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi all, >> >> I went to do my routine "emerge -Duptv world" and it came back with >> devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether I'

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Richard Fish
kde-base/kdeaccessibility selected: 3.3.2 protected: none omitted: none This one tells me that you've got old versions of KDE merged alongside the current version. I suspect path and library problems are the result... My suggestion is to: ls -ld /var/db/pkg/kde-base/*-3[0-3]*

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg and transparency

2005-10-06 Thread Kumar Golap
Hi all, I tried it on mine...pretty slow with shadow...but with translucence on without shadowits bearablle...but its not instantaneous... I am using a SiS 5591/2 AGP card . Kumar  On 10/6/05, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 06 October 2005 10:29, Tamas Sarga wrote:> Without transpare

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Richard Fish
Richard Fish wrote: cat /var/lib/portage/world | while read pkg; do count=`equery depends "$pkg" | wc -l` test $count -eq 0 && echo "pkg" done Um, sorry, I'm a complete idiot sometimes. You want to remove from world packages that are included as a dependancy of somethin

[gentoo-user] Problems with font-color and fbsplash

2005-10-06 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi, I'm using fbsplash for cool booting. I'm working on my own themes, but I've noticed that it doesn't matter what I put on the variable fgcolor or bgcolor, because it will do nothing. Always console color will be GRAY, it doesn't matter if I set on my 1024x768.cfg (for example) fgcolor=

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Roy Wright
John Jolet wrote: On Thursday 06 October 2005 20:52, Matthias Langer wrote: Joe Menola wrote: On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be grea

[gentoo-user] install gentoo 2005.0

2005-10-06 Thread 张 勇顺
hi yestoday to today i am spend two days to install gentoo 2005.0 and see the hand man but when i am install it i am see what modules were load with lsmod but i can't see anyting is modules and i ues modprobe lsmod can't see somemodules i don't know how to do that if i must rc-update add

[gentoo-user] About ATI drivers in X.org 7

2005-10-06 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi, I've read something somewhere that have amazed me... Is X.org developing new ATI drivers, better far from ATI.com ? If that's affirmative... We will be able to use Damage extension (and Composite extension) with ati rendering ? And when is X.org going to be able on portage ?

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel and udev

2005-10-06 Thread Roy Wright
gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I went to do my routine "emerge -Duptv world" and it came back with devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether