Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems

Hi Wes What do you make of this? Do I need to run fsck? I don't know whats wrong with your portage-tree, but you can try to get a new one. Just move the olde tree away and sync: # mv /usr/portage /usr/portage.old # mkdir /usr/portage # emerge sync Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from "single-disk" to RAID-1 configuration

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:01, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > DEVICE partitions > > ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=8ef83d67:79b230ba:6cc967c3:208b9224 > > AFAIK fd partition type is mandatory. Anyway is good to know that I can > avoid explicit node names in config files. I'm not sure it's mandatory, but th

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:10:56 +1300 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure if font embedding is possible in a .ps document. Of course it is. I think people using laser printers would have complained a lot otherwise... -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

Whenever I boot up my machine, I get a message to the effect "The Gentoo system initialization scripts have detected that your system does not support DEVFS or UDEV..." I have included all of the appropriate kernel options and emerged UDEV, hotplug, etc. per the Handbook. Anyone have some hints as

[gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

i am install qemu and active kqemu using ./configure --enable-kqemu to configure and make&& make install than i use a win98.img to start qemu(using NAT ) qemu -hda win98. img -m 256 -localtime -enable-audio -user -net but in win98 can;t connect internet did i qemu need some driver to support thi

[gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I wish to play and experiment. Users, mainly jus

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:31:50PM +0800, wrote: > i am install qemu and active kqemu > using ./configure --enable-kqemu to configure and make&& make install > than i use a win98.img to start qemu(using NAT ) > > qemu -hda win98.img -m 256 -localtime -enable-audio -user-net > > but in win98

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 04:44, sean wrote: > I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am > looking for some input. > > My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for > outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some > games, whatev

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

now,i use qemu to emulate arch linux,and set arch to use dhcp but always can;t connect to internet my host system was on net,can connect to internet,thx did qemu have some configure argument to enable or disable net? thx2005/10/25, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:31:50P

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

I would strongly recomend putting the home directory on its own partition. It then doesn't matter too much where you decide to mount it, although some broken applications may assume the Linux convention of using /home, so it is probably safest to preserve this and use a sym link if you want to be a

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 386 (24478-24527)

On 10/22/05, karlos < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> hi,>>  I have posted this a few days ago and I know its quite newbie, but I would> like to use XChat and emerge .. :)>  One of the symptoms is that I can't ping the gentoo servers ( heanet.ie for> example) or connect to XChat servers.>  I have tried

[gentoo-user] Mobile phone

hi, i wonder how to get the pictures from my phone ? i have it to work with irda via gammu/wammu but this software seems to be able only to get numbers phone and sms from the phone... anyone have done this ? thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re:

Karsten Gebbert wrote: > the connection to the internet is fine I think, at least for > browsing and such. > [...] > I can NOT ping the gentoo servers at all, no xchat servers etc. > When I try to emerge, the address show in the terminal is always > 1.0.0.0. Same with Xchat servers.

RE: [gentoo-user] Mobile phone

Hi, not shure but maybe you can use the OBEX-Push Service of the Bluez Bluetooth Package... if your phone can handle BT. Cheerz NIC > -Original Message- > From: Keats [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:39 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [ge

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:24:13 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > emerge --newuse world -p will catch all of it. Check the Gentoo docs. No it won't. You need to add --deep and --update to catch everything: emerge --deep --update --newuse --verbose --ask world -- Neil Bothwick My Go this

[gentoo-user] udev does not create /dev/hdb

hi; I upgraded to udev-070 recently (and now to udev-070-rc1). Since then, I can't mount /mnt/cdrom properly. Before, my /dev directory had a /dev/hdb, as well as /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2 . Now, it only has /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2, but /dev/hdb is no longer there. I still don't understand how u

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobile phone

Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:38:34 +0200 Keats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i wonder how to get the pictures from my phone ? > i have it to work with irda via gammu/wammu but this software seems to > be able only to get numbers phone and sms from the phone... What phone brand? Most phones support

[gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports

I’m trying to use “mii-tool” to configure the NIC speed and duplex on a Dell 2850 server (currently auto negotiates and has negotiated 100/half). The switch port is configured for 100/full. The Dell 2850 server uses the Broadcom chipset for the NIC and is a 10/100/1000 port. Every time I tr

Re: [gentoo-user] apache log analyzer

On 10/24/05, Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I'm pretty new to log analyzers. Besides webalizer which got alittle bit old (still usefull nonetheless) i have no other experience.I've googled and found awstats and analog.If you would care to comment on this issue I wou

[gentoo-user] Xorg font sizes and resolution

Hello, I'm trying and googling and manpaging since weeks without success. I'm having trouble with a custom application that requests the font "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-128-100-100-p-*-io8859-1". 128 is not present in /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/fonts.dir. By tweaking the DisplaySize param

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

sean wrote: I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I wish to play and experiment. Use

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

Budd, Tracy wrote: Whenever I boot up my machine, I get a message to the effect "The Gentoo system initialization scripts have detected that your system does not support DEVFS or UDEV..." I have included all of the appropriate kernel options and emerged UDEV, hotplug, etc. per the Handbook. Anyo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from "single-disk" to RAID-1 configuration

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 12.27, Mike Williams wrote: > On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:01, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > > DEVICE partitions > > > ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=8ef83d67:79b230ba:6cc967c3:208b9224 > > > > AFAIK fd partition type is mandatory. Anyway is good to know that I can > > avoid explic

Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I’m trying to use “mii-tool” to configure the NIC speed and duplex on a Dell 2850 server (currently auto negotiates and has negotiated 100/half). The switch port is configured for 100/full. The Dell 2850 server uses the Broadcom chipset for the NIC and is a 10/100/100

[gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions

Hello, I'm upgrading my server from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 by following the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml I noticed this piece of instruction: emerge --config =mysql-4.1. What does that do? From what I remember, I need to password the grant table and create a ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from "single-disk" to RAID-1 configuration

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 18:02, Dan Johansson wrote: > Thanks for your input. Just one Question about setting the partition type > to 'FD' - should I do this for all Partitions or ? Which ever partitions you are going to create raid arrays from, but I don't imagine it would do any real harm to

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown, restart problem

when xserver closes there is mess on screen and i loose any control over - just power button. Any ideas where to look? I dont keep track but possibly this is after baselayout and udev upgrade. Hmm. It seems X f***s up your video memory, or something of this kind. What video card and correspondi

[gentoo-user] Re: MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions

> Hello, I'm upgrading my server from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 by following the > instructions here: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml > > I noticed this piece of instruction: > > emerge --config =mysql-4.1. > > What does that do? From what I remember, I need to password the grant > tab

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

I have just tried to emerge cinelerra-cvs-20051005, but this fails. I have pasted the error messages a little ways down below. I believe that all the undefined references are to do with xfree86. I have xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 installed. This shouldn't make any difference should it? I have been hav

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:10:40PM +0800, wrote: > now,i use qemu to emulate arch linux,and set arch to use dhcp > but always can;t connect to internet > my host system was on net,can connect to internet,thx > > did qemu have some configure argument to enable or disable net? > thx > Shouldn'

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions

Alle 19:39, martedì 25 ottobre 2005, Grant ha scritto: > Hello, I'm upgrading my server from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 by following the > instructions here: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml > > I noticed this piece of instruction: > > emerge --config =mysql-4.1. > > What does that do? F

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

Roy, Thank you for your quick response. I am sure that #5 applies (as I have seen another message to that effect). I am not sitting at the machine now, but I will give this a try tonight. I love this forum! Thanks again. -Tracy -Original Message- From: Roy Wright Sent: Tuesday, October 2

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

I was going to pipe in about that Neil, but ya beat me to it.  I like to shorten it and just type emerge -DNavu world  , though.On 10/25/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:24:13 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote:> emerge --newuse world -p will catch all of it.  Ch

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

In windows did you enable the network functions? check the IP address with start|run|winipcfg (thats in windows) On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:31:50 +0800 ÕÔ¹â wrote: > i am install qemu and active kqemu > using ./configure --enable-kqemu to configure and make&& make install > than i use a win98.img

[gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. Thanks, Allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a Linux workstation to a Windoze server

On 14:07 Sun 23 Oct , Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I have the situation where I work that it is a total M$ setup. Our > workstations use DHCP to grab IP addresses from the Win2003 server. For > various reasons I want to place a Gentoo box on the network. For some > reason when I try

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown, restart problem

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 23:25, b.n. wrote: > >>>when xserver closes there is mess on screen and i > >>>loose any control over - just power button. Any ideas where to look? I > >>>dont keep track but possibly this is after baselayout and udev upgrade. > > Hmm. > It seems X f***s up your video mem

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:12:30 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got > stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size > and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default > syslog-ng config that was

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

Hello, On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:12:30PM -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked > I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can > reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng > co

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:55:56 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > I was going to pipe in about that Neil, but ya beat me to it. I like to > shorten it and just type emerge -DNavu world , though. The short options make for easier typing, the long ones for easier understanding. So I use the short options a

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:57:31 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:10:56 +1300 > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am not sure if font embedding is possible in a .ps document. > > Of course it is. I think people using laser printers would have > complained

[gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

Hey guys, I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail whenever I feel like it. This laptop is only occasionally connected to the internet, and ha

Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports

Frank,   You are not supposed to statically configure hubs and switches. I don't know what the problem is - however, please be sure that the hub/switch is set to auto-sense.  If you cannot get a connection established that way, please try the cable etc.   I would also recommend following the other

Re: [gentoo-user] unattended installation

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:53:30 -0500 Chris Cox wrote: > On Monday 24 October 2005 15:13, Eric Waguespack wrote: > > apologies if this isn't the best mailer to send this under, but I was > > curious, is there an "unattended installation" project for Gentoo? It > > would help with mass deployments...

[gentoo-user] Libxdiff ebuild

Does anyone happen to have an ebuild for libxdiff (so I can build the xdiff extension for php)? I can write one if need be but wanted to check here first. There isn't one in either portage or bugzilla as far as I can tell. Thanks! -MIke-- Michael E. CruteSoftware De

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:12 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked > I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can > reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng > config that was e

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

Sounds to me like you don't have logrotate installed or the install is corrupt.  If emerge --search ^logrotate$ shows it's installed, I would re-emerge it.On 10/25/05, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stuckedI was wond

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

Hi Allan, use logrotate example - http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_use_cron#Logrotate Tomas 2005/10/25, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked > I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can > red

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

On 10/23/05, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking for anyone that can offer advice on connecting a Motorola C380 > mobile phone to my gentoo Linux system via the USB interface. I'd suggest trying moto4lin -- it's pretty slick. Not too sure about the error messages you're getting, thou