Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:45 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > Why not try the sql-ledger mailing list. No doubt there are people there who > know their way around their software. I was automatically subscribe when I didn't pay my yearly support. So I'm not going back. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] what's up with kernelnewbies?

2005-12-05 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi Maxim, On 12/5/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I posted about my kernel panic problem to > kernelnewbies(they seem a competent crew), w/ subject > line: kernel panic fix sought. > > My post was ignored. Three days later somebody posted > to the list under the subject line: KERNEL

Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting

2005-12-05 Thread doug . marshall
> About a week later, I booted it and it wouldn't boot. It got stuck at > "configuring system to use udev" and never gets okay. I just sits there > for ever. My system hangs at this point quite often. I have no idea why - it seems to be quite random but if I try again I usually get it to boot.

Re: [gentoo-user] what's up with kernelnewbies?

2005-12-05 Thread kashani
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I posted about my kernel panic problem to kernelnewbies(they seem a competent crew), w/ subject line: kernel panic fix sought. My post was ignored. Three days later somebody posted to the list under the subject line: KERNEL PANIC FIX SOUGHT. He(Kumar is a ma

[gentoo-user] Re: New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application

2005-12-05 Thread James
Timothy A. Holmes mcaschool.net> writes: > > Good Morning Everyone: > > I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- > I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it > as a digital recording deck on our church sound system. There are many in

Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] Not able to log into KDE via KDM after improper shutdown!

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > >Thanks for the reply Dale. > >It turns out, that I had added an invalid line to my >~/home//.bashrc "savehist=100" and it was for this reason KDM >was not letting me login. Wierd huh? Shouldn't it not fall back to >/etc/bashrc? > >Thanks, > >Hareesh > > > You would th

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-05 Thread kashani
Jarry wrote: You mean on linstallation cd? I have gentoo 2005.0 x86 install cd, but I can not find there any libstdc++. Where should it be? In portage snapshot or stage3-archive? Is there some other possibility to get precompiled libstdc++? http://badapple.net/libstdc++.so.5 Pulled from a se

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Well, I have been reading your frustration in this thread. May I ask something? Have you tried this as another user, even if you have to add one, which may work best? If it works as the new user, then it is something specific to that user and may be a config in the /home/ directory. If it does

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hm... I guess all I can say is that the log file indicated that everything patched correctly--that is, it listed the file names it was patching and there were no errors. When I tried to reapply the patch, it recognized that it had already been

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:45 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > Why not try the sql-ledger mailing list. No doubt there are people there who > know their way around their software. > > > On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:01:13 -0700 > Joseph wrote: SOLVED, SOLVED! Believe me or not, I'm not sure what I did. The la

Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] Not able to log into KDE via KDM after improper shutdown!

2005-12-05 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On 12/5/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > >It turns out, that I had added an invalid line to my > >~/home//.bashrc "savehist=100" and it was for this reason KDM > >was not letting me login. Wierd huh? Shouldn't it not fall back to > >/etc/bashrc? [ ... ] > > > You wou

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Joseph schreef: > > SOLVED, SOLVED! Believe me or not, I'm not sure what I did. Don't care (since I don't know anything about this anyway) ;-) ; I'm just happy for you. Congratulations Persistence pays (as does restarting a server or two, apparently). :-D Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 14:43 -0700, Joseph wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:45 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > Why not try the sql-ledger mailing list. No doubt there are people there > > who know their way around their software. > > > > > > On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:01:13 -0700 > > Joseph wrote: > >

Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] Not able to log into KDE via KDM after improper shutdown!

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > >>You would think it would pop up and say, "hey idiot, you screwed up one >>of my files. Put it back or I will not let you in." Something to that >>effect anyway. Mine may call me a lot worse than a idiot though. :) >> >> > >Dude, why should my .bashrc affect KDM

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Joseph wrote: > > >I forgot to add, big THANK YOU to everybody for your support. >It is good to know that there are still Gentoo folks willing to help. > > > Even one that was willing to install all that stuff and share his config files. I'm just glad you got it to work. Now make back-ups of

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 15:23 -0600, Dale wrote: > Well, I have been reading your frustration in this thread. May I ask > something? Have you tried this as another user, even if you have to add > one, which may work best? If it works as the new user, then it is > something specific to that user an

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
> Even one that was willing to install all that stuff and share his config > files. > > I'm just glad you got it to work. Now make back-ups of those config > files. Just something to think about here. If I do etc-update and see > there are a few of them, I do a cp -av /etc /etc.old. That way I

[gentoo-user] out of memory during emerge: possible relationship with "TCP:Treason uncloaked"?

2005-12-05 Thread b.n.
Hi, It's a couple of times I see my system horribly die while I'm re-emerging xmame (because of having added the +joystick USE flag). The system becomes rapidly (but not all of a sudden) extremly unresponsive: first XMMS begins to skip, then mouse begins to seriously lag... until all grinds t

[gentoo-user] error building pdflib during gcc-3.4 upgrade

2005-12-05 Thread John Blinka
Hi, I'm in the "emerge -e world" step of the gcc-3.4 upgrade as documented on http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/x86/gcc-upgrading-guide.xml. Unfortunately, after compiling for a day or two, the upgrade has terminated during the rebuild of pdflib. The following error messages occur in the log:

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Joseph wrote: >> >> > >dispach-config (replaces etc-update) and will take care of your /etc >file. It will make a backup of the /etc files that is changing >to /etc/config-archive/ >The only problem is sometimes are the configuration file that are not >in /etc file: like Tetex, Hylafax etc. >

Re: [gentoo-user] out of memory during emerge: possible relationship with "TCP:Treason uncloaked"?

2005-12-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/5/05, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can't guess what else it can be, apart from the xmame compile horribly > memory leaking, but why should it? Compiles don't 'leak' memory, because they run as separate programs and the system reclaims the memory after each program exits. However, don't

Re: [gentoo-user] out of memory during emerge: possible relationship with "TCP:Treason uncloaked"?

2005-12-05 Thread b.n.
However, don't underestimate the amount of memory that compiling can take. Some of those xmame modules required >200MB of memory to build on my system with 2G of RAM, and that was with -Os and MAKEOPTS=-j1. Heaven help you if you use -O3/-j3 (In fact, for a system with only 512M of RAM, -j1 *wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Optical mouse lights off on kernel 2.6.14 but works on kernel 2.4.30

2005-12-05 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
The problem isn't in X, it is in the kernel, and when I googled for a solution, I saw a few messages that pointed to the same problem. I think it is related to udev. 2005/12/5, Tamas Sarga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: > > Hi there, > > > >I got a new VCOM

[gentoo-user] fbsplash and console issues after udev

2005-12-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
I have updated to udev and got most things kinda working (as is the case of any linux system where it's never 100%)... The loading screen with the progress bar works fine. If I hit F2 to see the stuff going on, here's where it has issues.. There is no background image (as there used to be prior t

RE: [gentoo-user] Optical mouse lights off on kernel 2.6.14 but works on kernel 2.4.30

2005-12-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
I had this same issue after updating to udev... Turned out I had to: make modules modules_install As I wasn't compiling and installing the UHCI (usb) stuff and installing the modules. I would have thought that modules_install would compile the modules first! Ugh. Hope this helps. "You had me a

[gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge?

2005-12-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
I was in the middle of emerging KDE 3.5 and it's 8 million dependencies, and read the post about needing to unmerge superkaramba. So, in another shell I did just that. Life was fine. I needed to reboot my notebook for another reason, and when I started the emerge again, it complains that superkaram

[gentoo-user] Disappearing keystrokes....

2005-12-05 Thread David Corbin
Certain key combinations that used to work in my IDE (eclipse) no longer do. It appears to be something in the OS/X/window manager. I'm running KDE. I've looked through the Control Center and not found them assigned to anything. The two I know about are: CTRL+SPACE and CTRL+SHIFT+UpArrow.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with portage

2005-12-05 Thread Cláudio Henrique
regenworld solved my problem. On 12/5/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/4/05, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and how do I compile all the packages, since these does not exist in world > > file? > > Well, if you don't want to add them to world, "the hard way": >

[gentoo-user] kdebase-kioslaves-3.4.1-r1 does not emerge

2005-12-05 Thread Cláudio Henrique
Does anyone know how to solve this? i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I./../.. -I./.. -I/usr/kde/3.4/include -I/usr/qt/3/include -I. -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge?

2005-12-05 Thread Cláudio Henrique
try regenworld or emerge --depclean --pretend On 12/5/05, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was in the middle of emerging KDE 3.5 and it's 8 million dependencies, and > read the post about needing to unmerge superkaramba. So, in another shell I > did just that. Life was fine. I needed

Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] Not able to log into KDE via KDM after improper shutdown!

2005-12-05 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On 12/5/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > > > > >>You would think it would pop up and say, "hey idiot, you screwed up one > >>of my files. Put it back or I will not let you in." Something to that > >>effect anyway. Mine may call me a lot worse than a idiot though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Optical mouse lights off on kernel 2.6.14 but works on kernel 2.4.30

2005-12-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/5/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem isn't in X, it is in the kernel, and when I googled for a > solution, I saw a few messages that pointed to the same problem. > I think it is related to udev. No, udev only creates device nodes. It does not

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge?

2005-12-05 Thread Zac Medico
Daevid Vincent wrote: I was in the middle of emerging KDE 3.5 and it's 8 million dependencies, and read the post about needing to unmerge superkaramba. So, in another shell I did just that. Life was fine. I needed to reboot my notebook for another reason, and when I started the emerge again, it c

Re: [gentoo-user] [Not specifically Gentoo] Forcing a new IP address with DHCP

2005-12-05 Thread Ryan Tandy
John J. Foster wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:07:22PM -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: I have a Linksys WRT54GS router running openWRT firmware that gets its IP via DHCP from my ISP. That's all working fine. I also have an account with dyndns.org that is supposed to get updated when my IP changes

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
[snip] > Funny you mention that. I used dispatch-conf for a while. It never > backed up anything for me. I made the directory and everything. Since > I could not see it working right, I went back to etc-update. > > It's not that hard to type in the command anyway plus I have them all, > not j

Re: [gentoo-user] error building pdflib during gcc-3.4 upgrade

2005-12-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:10:02 -0500 John Blinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the "emerge -e world" step of the gcc-3.4 upgrade as documented > on http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/x86/gcc-upgrading-guide.xml. > > Unfortunately, after compiling for a day or two, the upgrade has ter

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge?

2005-12-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
Neither of those worked... :( I'm just trying to re-emerge it, then I'll unmerge. Lame. Where is that list of stuff stored? Why can't I just go manually edit some file and delete it from there? > -Original Message- > From: Cláudio Henrique [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > try regenworld or

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge?

2005-12-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
Um... Okay. That "master plan" of mine didn't work. Now what do I do?! > -Original Message- > From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Neither of those worked... :( > > I'm just trying to re-emerge it, then I'll unmerge. > Lame. > > Where is that list of stuff stored? Why can

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge?

2005-12-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/5/05, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um... Okay. That "master plan" of mine didn't work. Now what do I do?! As Zac said, give us something to go on: the output of "emerge --tree kde" would be a good start. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] out of memory during emerge: possible relationship with "TCP:Treason uncloaked"?

2005-12-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/5/05, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact, I have -O3 and -j2 ...And I didn't imagine that compiling xmame > could take so much memory. But I already compiled xmame in the past, and > I had no serious problems. Do you think that adding the "joystick" USE > flag made it all growing just

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge? [SOLVED]

2005-12-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
Well, it doesn't actually 'solve' the original question, but I did figure out why superkaramba kept showing up. "emerge -Davut world" revealed several plugins related to karamba. So unmerging ALL of them, finally made the block go away. The obnoxious part was that NOT ALL OF THEM showed up in the

Re: [gentoo-user] kdebase-kioslaves-3.4.1-r1 does not emerge

2005-12-05 Thread Phillip Stewart
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:23, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > Does anyone know how to solve this? > [snip emerge output] Are you using distcc? I had problems emerging kioslaves a couple of weeks ago too. My issues went away when I commented out FEATURES="distcc" from /etc/make.conf and cranked MAKEOPTS

Re: [gentoo-user] Xine-lib and arts-3.5.. Doesn't get compiled

2005-12-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/5/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I upgraded to KDE 3.5 and removed the slotted KDE 3.4. xine-lib was compiled > with +arts back in the KDE 3.4 days. Yesterday, I installed imagemagick and > now wanted to compile xine-lib with +imagemagick which was - previously. >

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge? [SOLVED]

2005-12-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/5/05, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The obnoxious part was that NOT ALL OF THEM showed up in the list each time. > I had to keep issuing that command, unmerge the one or two that showed up, equery depends -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] how to regain control of mouse

2005-12-05 Thread Willie Wong
Just ran into a weird thing. I was viewing a slide show from 'qiv', and it suddenly aborted leaving me with no mouse or keyboard. The Window Manager still runs, nothing died except for 'qiv', but the WM (enlightenment) was not getting focus from the mouse or keyboard. But I could CTRL-ALT-F1 to swi

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem: wxGTK-2.4.2-r4 doesn't compile

2005-12-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/5/05, Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alle 08:48, lunedì 05 dicembre 2005, Richard Fish ha scritto: > > > Looks like you need to run opengl-select to make links to your chosen > > GL implementation (I'm guessing you'll want the ATI implementation) > > in /usr/lib. > > > > -Richard >

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-05 Thread Jarry
kashani wrote: > http://badapple.net/libstdc++.so.5 > Pulled from a server with pentium4 and -O2 -pipe Thank you. I'm not sure my athlon-xp will swallow it, but I'll give it a try... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] inkjet printer cartridge alignment under CUPS?

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, A topic I'm not sure I've seen covered and my first Google searches haven't yielded much. Under Windows, after putting a new cartridge into a inklet printer (in our case an Epson) there is an application that comes with the printer for aligning the cartridge. This thing makes sure that b

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-05 Thread gentoo
On 05:40 Tue 06 Dec , Jarry wrote: > kashani wrote: > > > http://badapple.net/libstdc++.so.5 > > Pulled from a server with pentium4 and -O2 -pipe > > Thank you. I'm not sure my athlon-xp will swallow it, > but I'll give it a try... > > Jarry > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to regain control of mouse

2005-12-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:45:01PM -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: > Willie Wong wrote: > > Or is there some way of getting the > >mouse back in a situation like this? > > This should work as root: > > /etc/conf.d/gpm restart' > uh... shouldn't that be /etc/init.d/? and gpm is the console mouse mana

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache mod_access FDQ problem

2005-12-05 Thread Michael Stewart (vericgar)
Ross Anderson wrote: > I've tried setting up access restrictions based on name resolution. From > what I've read in the apache.org docs all is configured correctly. If I > use an ip address in the allow statement it works as expected. However > if I use a FQDN apache forbids access. The logs show t

Re: [gentoo-user] Xine-lib and arts-3.5.. Doesn't get compiled

2005-12-05 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 09:27, Richard Fish wrote: > The first is to figure out which .la files and packages still > reference kde 3.4 stuff: > > find / -name *.la -exec grep --with-filename -l kde/3.4 {} \; 2>/dev/null | > while read x; do equery belongs $x ; done > > The output of the abo

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 100K#of users vs. others

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph
According to recent Gentoo news we crossed 100K registered users. Does anybody have any reliable numbers how we compare to other distros? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to regain control of mouse

2005-12-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/5/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to restart the X server without affecting the WM and > programs running on top of it? Or is there some way of getting the > mouse back in a situation like this? If you are using /dev/input/mice for the mouse device, and compiled y

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-05 Thread jarry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i also could put the whole binary of libstdc++-v3-3.3.6.tbz2 on > my ftp server. > It's for athlon-xp (march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer) > quite safe. It has no USE-flags so no problems. Haven't checked > what's inside though. The ftp address is: ftp://ftp.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Joseph wrote: >[snip] > > >>Funny you mention that. I used dispatch-conf for a while. It never >>backed up anything for me. I made the directory and everything. Since >>I could not see it working right, I went back to etc-update. >> >>It's not that hard to type in the command anyway plus I

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-05 Thread Rumen Yotov
On 07:31 Tue 06 Dec , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > i also could put the whole binary of libstdc++-v3-3.3.6.tbz2 on > > my ftp server. > > It's for athlon-xp (march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer) > > quite safe. It has no USE-flags so no problems. Haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>i also could put the whole binary of libstdc++-v3-3.3.6.tbz2 on >>my ftp server. >>It's for athlon-xp (march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer) >>quite safe. It has no USE-flags so no problems. Haven't checked >>what's inside thou

Re: [gentoo-user] out of memory during emerge: possible relationship with "TCP:Treason uncloaked"?

2005-12-05 Thread b.n.
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/5/05, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In fact, I have -O3 and -j2 ...And I didn't imagine that compiling xmame could take so much memory. But I already compiled xmame in the past, and I had no serious problems. Do you think that adding the "joystick" USE flag made it a

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