Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Mattias Merilai
Alexander Skwar wrote: Oumar Ndiaye wrote: I need to recompile php-4 with the –with-mysql option and reinstall it. How do I do that with emerge or some other ways? You set appropriate USE flags. Alexander Skwar Yeah, forgot to say that. Thats basic RTFM @ http://www.gentoo.org/d

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:23, Dale wrote: > > I'm open to trying something here. I'm going to check my brothers ISP in a > few more hours. If it works, something fishy at my ISP. If not, I have a > problem here, and no clue what to do. > > Thanks for the help. Keep those ideas coming. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:00, Richard Fish wrote: >> find ~/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec grep "mail.smtpserver" {} \; > > > This is on my old install. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # find home/dale/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec grep > "mail.smtpserver" {} \; > user_pref("mail.sm

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:58:26 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > Don't use that file, that is for udev's own settings, so it will be > > updated when udev is. Use 10-udev.rules (create it if not present) > > which won't be affected by udev updates and takes precedence over the > > higher numbered file.

[gentoo-user] cant use portage since last nights sync

2006-01-18 Thread Jean Blignaut
Hi   This morning I’ve found that I’m unable to use the emerge command. Any thing I try gives me the following error:       Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)   .='update pass'  *=

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:17:29 -0600, Dale wrote: > " An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: > 5.7.1 Relaying denied. > Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail > preferences and try again." > To recap a bit. I have a problem sending email to anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] cant use portage since last nights sync

2006-01-18 Thread Marcel van der Heide
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:17, Jean Blignaut wrote: > Hi > > This morning I've found that I'm unable to use the emerge command. > > Any thing I try gives me the following error: > > Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006 ... I had the same problem. It seems there was

RE: [gentoo-user] cant use portage since last nights sync

2006-01-18 Thread Jean Blignaut
Thank you very much I'll try it right away! Regards Jean -Original Message- From: Marcel van der Heide [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:45 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cant use portage since last nights sync On Wednesday 18

Re: [gentoo-user] cant use portage since last nights sync

2006-01-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 10:17, Jean Blignaut wrote: > Hi > > > > This morning I've found that I'm unable to use the emerge command. > > Any thing I try gives me the following error: Short answer: delete /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006 and re-emerge sync; Long answer: search the forum

RE: [gentoo-user] cant use portage since last nights sync

2006-01-18 Thread Jean Blignaut
I have deleted /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006 and so far I am at least able to sync portage again. I am hopefull that every thing will be ok now -Original Message- From: Etaoin Shrdlu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:11 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help

2006-01-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
krgn wrote: >> mount -o loop [...] > RockHead doom # mount -t iso9660 Doom3cd1.iso01.iso /mnt/iso/cd1/ -o > loop=/dev/loop0 Compare this. Does it say "mount -o loop=/dev/loop0"? Alexander Skwar -- Men of quality are not afraid of women for equality. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Java and java.library.path

2006-01-18 Thread habutre .
Hi, Kirby Did I've the same problerm a any time ago with a thirty-part lib (*.so), I tried all but no success. I put in LD_LIBRARY var, in CLASS_PATH and nothing. The solucion for me was put the lib (*.so) in the $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386/ directory, I didn't test, but the parameter Djava.librar

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT probably] Firefox not painting

2006-01-18 Thread Stuart Howard
well I have always been using the default theme only however I installed a new one and tried that with no change. I also moved to .old my .mozilla to try fresh and again no change, my system is almost entirely x86 ie. not ~x86. Desktop is KDE though starting under fluxbox makes no change either. s

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 03:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:17:29 -0600, Dale wrote: > > " An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: > > 5.7.1 Relaying denied. > > Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail > > preferences and try aga

Re: [gentoo-user] Java and java.library.path

2006-01-18 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Trenton Adams: > on the "java" command line put "-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib" > > I don't know if gentoo has a config for this or not, I didn't know > ADDLDPATH existed. Who knows, perhaps editing the JRE version of that > file would help? I am really sorry, but I don't know what you m

Re: [gentoo-user] Java and java.library.path

2006-01-18 Thread darren kirby
quoth the habutre .: > Hi, Kirby > > Did I've the same problerm a any time ago with a thirty-part lib (*.so), I > tried all but no success. I put in LD_LIBRARY var, in CLASS_PATH and > nothing. > The solucion for me was put the lib (*.so) in the $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386/ > directory, I didn't test,

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 03:08, Holly Bostick wrote: > > About all I can ask at this point is: > > 1) what version of Mozilla are you using? What are your USE flags for > your installation? Have you checked b.g.o or mozillazine > (http://www.mozillazine.org/ ) to see if this is perhaps a known

Re: [gentoo-user] cant use portage since last nights sync

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 04:11, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 10:17, Jean Blignaut wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > > > This morning I've found that I'm unable to use the emerge command. > > > > Any thing I try gives me the following error: > > Short answer: delete /usr/portage/p

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 07:43, Dale wrote: > > Well, Mozilla won't even open now. Well, you can add the binary version of Mozilla to the "Do Not Open" list. It didn't work either. I wonder how much crap I can mess up if I try to start a new install with my eyes half closed? I have re

[gentoo-user] hpasm doesn't work

2006-01-18 Thread Stefan Istvan
Hello List! Has anyone tried to use the hpasm package on a HP Proliant server? I have tried it, but I have problems. When I execute this command: /etc/init.d/hpasm status I get this: /etc/init.d/hpasm: line 20: /etc/init.d/functions: No such file or directory Here are the modules / daemons exec

Re: [gentoo-user] Java and java.library.path

2006-01-18 Thread Holly Bostick
darren kirby schreef: > quoth the Trenton Adams: >> on the "java" command line put "-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib" >> >> I don't know if gentoo has a config for this or not, I didn't know >> ADDLDPATH existed. Who knows, perhaps editing the JRE version of >> that file would help? > > I am reall

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 07:43, Dale wrote: > >> Well, Mozilla won't even open now. > > > Well, you can add the binary version of Mozilla to the "Do Not Open" > list. It didn't work either. > Does anybody know if using the "ipv6" flag when you don't actually have ipv6 ava

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Eddie Mihalow Jr
Dale wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 03:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:17:29 -0600, Dale wrote: " An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 Relaying denied. Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try again

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/18/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you have something wrong in your dialup settings? Or maybe you > can compare with what mail server KMail really contacts with an > ethereal trace? Oh, and post the output of "traceroute -n mail.exceedtech.net". -Richard -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] hpasm doesn't work

2006-01-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 Jan 2006, at 14:00, Stefan Istvan wrote: Has anyone tried to use the hpasm package on a HP Proliant server? Yes, it's horrible. It seems to me that this package is originally made for RedHat, and that's why it doesn't run well under Gentoo. It seems that way to me, too. It's been s

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/17/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:00, Richard Fish wrote: > > find ~/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec grep "mail.smtpserver" {} \; > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # find /mnt/gentoo/home/dale/.mozilla -name prefs.js > -exec grep > "mail.smtpserver" {} \; > user_pref(

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/18/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:58:26 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > That only happens under certain circumstances. udev generally stops at > the first matching rule. := is the safest option though. This behavior changed at some point in the last 20 ve

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:21:42 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Your ISP's mail server thinks you are connecting from outside their > > network, so it only allows you to send mails to addresses within the > > network (that's the Relaying denied bit). There's nothing wrong with > > your network connections, be

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
Holly Bostick wrote: Dale schreef: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 07:43, Dale wrote: Well, Mozilla won't even open now. Well, you can add the binary version of Mozilla to the "Do Not Open" list. It didn't work either. Does anybody know if using the "ipv6" flag when you

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: I'm still awake here. I got Mozilla to work again in the OLD install. It's the binary version though. I'm going to try to send this with Mozilla mail. I noticed that ipv6 flag and I can only guess that it is in global USE or something. Should I unset it in make.conf and do

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:53:52 -0600, Dale wrote: > I noticed that ipv6 flag and I can only guess that it is in global USE > or something. Should I unset it in make.conf and do a emerge -e world, > again? There's no need to recompile *everything* for one changes USE flag, "emerge -uavDN world" w

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Let's see if this one works. Oh, My ISP opened a hour ago. Makes me wonder. < Dale says prayer that this works, again > Dale :-) OK, I sent one to a lady I recently broke up with. Yes, we still talk, a lot. LOL Anyway, she has a Yahoo account. It went through just f

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:53:52 -0600, Dale wrote: I noticed that ipv6 flag and I can only guess that it is in global USE or something. Should I unset it in make.conf and do a emerge -e world, again? There's no need to recompile *everything* for one changes USE fl

[gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome

2006-01-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
I've been trying to get rid of gnome. I have done # emerge -C gnome-icon-theme libgnomeui libbonoboui gconf after finding the first gnome packages wanted orbit, which I had already removed. Now: $ sudo emerge -uDatv world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculatin

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:20:09 -0600, Dale wrote: > Since something is really screwed up here, I was going to cover all my > bases. The problem with that approach is that you don't know what the problem was or how you fixed it, so what do you do if it happens again? It's like the Windows "if somet

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome

2006-01-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Ernie Schroder schreef: > I've been trying to get rid of gnome. > I have done > # emerge -C gnome-icon-theme libgnomeui libbonoboui gconf after finding the > first gnome packages wanted orbit, which I had already removed That's all very well and good (leaving aside other packages-- like firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome

2006-01-18 Thread Arnau Bria Ramírez
El Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:36:23 -0500 Ernie Schroder dijo: > I've been trying to get rid of gnome. Try this: qpkg -nc -q -I -v gnome | grep '^[a-z]' | sed 's/^/=/' | xargs emerge -p unmerge I found it in forums a long time ago and it cleaned gnome from my system perfectly. > I have done > # emer

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 00:05 -0600, Dale wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > Get the mail server (that you entered in you mail preferences), eg > > mail.isp.com and type `dig mail.isp.com`. (dig is part of For your ip > > address, I'm interested in your "real

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:45:22AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > I have the same setting I use for Kmail actually. server is > mail.exceedtech.net on port 25. It is set to use user name and password and > secure connection is set to no. I tried the others, it puked on me. > > Keep

[gentoo-user] emerge sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 build error

2006-01-18 Thread Ondra Zahradnik
Hello, please can help me with following error? Please just let me know what to look for. emerging sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1: ImportError: No module named Pyrex.Compiler.Main make[3]: [dbus_bindings.c] Error 1 (ignored) ... gcc: dbus_bindings.c: No such file or directory gcc: no input files make[3]

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 build error

2006-01-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/18/06, Ondra Zahradnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > please can help me with following error? Please just let me know what to look > for. > emerging sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1: > > ImportError: No module named Pyrex.Compiler.Main > make[3]: [dbus_bindings.c] Error 1 (ignored) Looks like

[gentoo-user] big problem with emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Manuel Pérez López
Hello everyone: Yesterday I did a portage sync, and now I can not emerge anything. Help me to correct this issue. See this lines: # emerge -pvuD world Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='up

[gentoo-user] Ebuild makin problem

2006-01-18 Thread Mike Yarmish
Guys! What reasons of a message ".ebuild does not exist" could be when I'm trying to emerge a custom created ebuild with emerging by path? Sry for silly question but I'm new to the world of ebuild making. Thank you in advance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] big problem with emerge

2006-01-18 Thread David Morgan
On 19:13 Wed 18 Jan , Manuel Pérez López wrote: > Hello everyone: > > Yesterday I did a portage sync, and now I can not emerge anything. Help me to > correct this issue. See this lines: > > # emerge -pvuD world > > > Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006 > (Could

Re: [gentoo-user] big problem with emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:13:08 +0100 Manuel Pérez López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Yesterday I did a portage sync, and now I can not emerge anything. | Help me to correct this issue. See this lines: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119352 -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all

Re: [gentoo-user] big problem with emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Nagatoro
Manuel Pérez López wrote: Hello everyone: Yesterday I did a portage sync, and now I can not emerge anything. Help me to correct this issue. See this lines: run emerge --sync and try again. It was a misstake by one developer. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] big problem with emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Manuel Pérez López
El Miércoles 18 Enero 2006 19:24, David Morgan escribió: Thanks David, but 'emerge sync' was not possible with the same error (a recursive problem). With the correct line into /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006, I can now do a portage sync. Thanks again Manuel > On 19:13 Wed 18 Jan ,

[gentoo-user] cruel & unusual?

2006-01-18 Thread James
Well, hopefully, we're all familiar with the status line of an 'emerge sync'>>> Updating Portage cache: 50% Right before that, every time I sync I get this message: speedup is 8.20 After months/years of 'speedup' it should run very fast in seconds, (or at least one would think). I

Re: [gentoo-user] cruel & unusual?

2006-01-18 Thread LostSon
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 18:36 +, James wrote: > > Well, hopefully, we're all familiar with the status line of an > 'emerge sync'>>> Updating Portage cache: 50% > > > Right before that, every time I sync I get this message: > speedup is 8.20 > > > After months/years of 'speedup' it sho

[gentoo-user] hotplug remove action problem

2006-01-18 Thread CapSel
I wanted to make automation script that would add correct line tu automount config file for usb devices. I made add script and remove script, but remove script is not started even after reinserting any usb storage device. I added the line: echo $REMOVER >>/var/log/udev-log to usb.agent just after

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome

2006-01-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:56, a tiny voice compelled Arnau Bria Ramírez to write: > El Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:36:23 -0500 > > Ernie Schroder dijo: > > I've been trying to get rid of gnome. > > Try this: > qpkg -nc -q -I -v gnome | grep '^[a-z]' | sed 's/^/=/' | xargs emerge -p > unmerge > > I f

[gentoo-user] DHCP Timeout Val not working

2006-01-18 Thread Kurt Guenther
I have Gentoo on my laptop and I'm frequently not connected to the network. I had the DHCP timeout set to decent number and it worked for quite a while. However, it seemed to quite working at some point. My /etc/conf.d/net has: config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) dhcpcd_eth0="-t 15" But, it seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Timeout Val not working

2006-01-18 Thread Andrew Frink
i belive the newest stable x86 baslayout is set to background the net.ethx scripts after 5 seconds of somesuch-CynyrOn 1/18/06, Kurt Guenther < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I have Gentoo on my laptop and I'm frequently not connected to the network.  I had the DHCP timeout set to decent number and it wo

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome

2006-01-18 Thread James Ausmus
On 1/18/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:56, a tiny voice compelled Arnau Bria Ramírez > to write: > > El Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:36:23 -0500 > > > > Ernie Schroder dijo: > > > I've been trying to get rid of gnome. > > > > Try this: > > qpkg -nc -q -I -v g

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome

2006-01-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:21:19 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.10.2 -accessibility -debug 0 > kB [ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.10.1 -

[gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-18 Thread Robin
On 1/17/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:07:23 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > > I haven't been brave enough to read all of this thread, but as we seem > > to have gotten onto the topic of spelling, has anyone noticed that the > > saviour linux website now consists

[gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-18 Thread Robin
What are you talking about ? I was brave enough to read the entire thread. And it is well worth it, just for the laugh :) On 1/17/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:07:23 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > > I haven't been brave enough to read all of this thread, but

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Timeout Val not working

2006-01-18 Thread Kurt Guenther
Andrew Frink wrote: i belive the newest stable x86 baslayout is set to background the net.ethx scripts after 5 seconds of somesuch -Cynyr Thanks for the response. I'm on ~x86. AFAIK, it doesn't fork until dhcpd gets an address or times out. --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Passing "./configure" options via emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Tom Smith
I installed app-emulation/bochs using the default USE flags. Afterwards, I tried to enable "rfb" but received a message that indicated it wasn't enabled. After some research, I discovered this is a "configure" option that isn't enabled in the bochs ebuild script. Is there a way to pass this sort

Re: [gentoo-user] Passing "./configure" options via emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:23:13 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: > Is there a way to pass this sort of information to emerge so that it > adds these options to "configure" or do I just need to modify the ebuild > script to include them? EXTRA_ECONF="--foo" emerge bar - works with most ebuilds. -- Neil Bot

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Timeout Val not working

2006-01-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/18/06, Kurt Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have Gentoo on my laptop and I'm frequently not connected to the > network. I had the DHCP timeout set to decent number and it worked for Not a direct answer to your question, but you should check out ifplugd. It will allow your system t

[gentoo-user] Re: cant use portage since last nights sync

2006-01-18 Thread Charles Marcus
Short answer: delete /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006 and re-emerge sync; Long answer: search the forums. Objection... Your long answer was shorter than your short answer... and vice versa... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to come back to Mac OS X?

2006-01-18 Thread Alessandro Di Rubbo
Hello to everyone, I've got an Apple iBook (Dual USB) with a Gentoo installation on it, but now I'm going to sell it and I would restore the original situation, installing Mac OS 9 and/or Mac OS X. When I installed Gentoo, I deleted every partion related to Mac OS because I didn't need them,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to come back to Mac OS X?

2006-01-18 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 18, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Alessandro Di Rubbo wrote: Hello to everyone, I've got an Apple iBook (Dual USB) with a Gentoo installation on it, but now I'm going to sell it and I would restore the original situation, installing Mac OS 9 and/or Mac OS X. When I installed Gentoo, I deleted

Re: [gentoo-user] cruel & unusual?

2006-01-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:36:26 + (UTC) James wrote: > Right before that, every time I sync I get this message: > speedup is 8.20 > > > After months/years of 'speedup' it should run very fast > in seconds, (or at least one would think). > > Is this 'cruel & unusual' of is this the devs e

[gentoo-user] emerge --sync vs emerge -sync

2006-01-18 Thread Charles Marcus
This may be the ultimate dumb question, but no amount of googling could satisfy my ignorance... Is there any difference? If not, why are the double hyphens almost always specified? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to come back to Mac OS X?

2006-01-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Alessandro Di Rubbo wrote: Hello to everyone, I've got an Apple iBook (Dual USB) with a Gentoo installation on it, but now I'm going to sell it and I would restore the original situation, installing Mac OS 9 and/or Mac OS X. When I installed Gentoo, I deleted every partion related to Mac OS

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome

2006-01-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:46, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:21:19 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: > > > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > [ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-theme

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync vs emerge -sync

2006-01-18 Thread Antoine
Charles Marcus wrote: This may be the ultimate dumb question, but no amount of googling could satisfy my ignorance... Is there any difference? If not, why are the double hyphens almost always specified? I have another for you, which is what I always use # emerge sync :-) Antoine -- gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild makin problem

2006-01-18 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Yarmish wrote: > Guys! What reasons of a message ".ebuild does not exist" could be > when I'm trying to emerge a custom created ebuild with emerging by path? > Sry for silly question but I'm new to the world of ebuild making. > Thank you in advanc

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync vs emerge -sync

2006-01-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/18/06, Charles Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may be the ultimate dumb question, but no amount of googling could > satisfy my ignorance... > > Is there any difference? If not, why are the double hyphens almost > always specified? -- is the GNU getopt syntax for long options. For no

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync vs emerge -sync

2006-01-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/18/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -opt is processed as 6 options ('o', 'p', and 't'). s/6/3/g -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Passing "./configure" options via emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Tom Smith
Well, I tried that and get the same error--">>PANIC<< bochsrc.txt: display library 'rfb' not available". So I tried to edit the ebuild file and add "--with-rfb" and get the emerge error: "!!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/app-emulation/bochs/bochs-2.2.1-r1.ebuild !!! Reason: Fil

[gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an HP Netserver LH6000 (hangs loading RAID modules)

2006-01-18 Thread Jesus Rivero
Hello everyone, I've got a problem installing Gentoo on an HP NetServer LH6000. It has an Adaptec RAID AIC78xx Controller. When i boot with a LiveCD and put doscsi to the kernel's command line at boot time, it tries to load 3 kernel modules: sym53c8xx, aic78xxx and scsi_transport_spi, but h

Re: [gentoo-user] Passing "./configure" options via emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Jesus Rivero
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello.. Now you have to re-digest/manifest your ebuild so it can reference new MD5 fingerprints. emerge checks for that before calculating dependencies. Inside the ebuild directory, run: $ ebuild digest ex. ebuild gpar

[gentoo-user] ivtv-0.4.2 update broke my MythTV server?

2006-01-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I tried updating the ivtv driver to the new 0.4.2 version this morning and seem to have broken my MythTV server. I now only get channel 4. Audio and picture are fine but the tuner/tuners won't change channels. I have two PVR cards (a 150 and a 250) which were working fine with the 0.4.0 driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Java and java.library.path [solved]

2006-01-18 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Holly Bostick: > > Well, I don't know much about java either, but 4 out of 5 java programs > I use are not started by "", but by "java (-jar) > ". This would be the "java" command-line, I imagine. > > Basically, the idea is that you have to invoke java so that java runs > the program. Bec

[gentoo-user] weird keyboard behaviour

2006-01-18 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi everyone, I've been using gentoo linux for several months now. Right from the very beginning I have noticed very odd behviour with it, in regards to keyboard input. I have not seen this behaviour on other linux distributions that use kernel 2.6. Has anyone else noticed that ctrl-C using the

[gentoo-user] Re: ivtv-0.4.2 update broke my MythTV server?

2006-01-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 1/18/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I tried updating the ivtv driver to the new 0.4.2 version this > morning and seem to have broken my MythTV server. I now only get > channel 4. Audio and picture are fine but the tuner/tuners won't > change channels. I have two PVR cards

Re: [gentoo-user] Passing "./configure" options via emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:52:26 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: > Well, I tried that and get the same error--">>PANIC<< bochsrc.txt: > display library 'rfb' not available". OK, so this isn't one of "most ebuilds" > So I tried to edit the ebuild file and add "--with-rfb" and get the > emerge error: > > "!!

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale Kirkley
> > If it works and then stops working without you making any changes, it > sounds like a fault at your ISP's end. > > -- > Neil Bothwick > Well, here is a update. I took me a nap. That helped me. When I got up, I can't even connect to the internet at all now. I called my ISP, they're dea

[gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-18 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi all I have a slight problem, my squid cache is full and hence I cant browse any websites through the proxy. How does one get squid to clean out old items? I would of thought squid would of removed older items. I would prefer not to just delete it and recreate it but rather clean it out. Anyway

Re: [gentoo-user] Passing "./configure" options via emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Tom Smith
Man, I tell you what... Bochs built correctly and the RFB stuff worked... Sort of. There seems to be an issue with both QEMU and Bochs when used via VNC. Both of them were fairly easy to setup and get running and they work fine when I'm sitting at the console. The problem is when I try to use them

[gentoo-user] Re: ivtv-0.4.2 update broke my MythTV server? [SOLVED]

2006-01-18 Thread Mark Knecht
SOLVED - I updated the kernel to 2.6.15-gentoo and now it works. I do not know if it was a problem where ivtv-0.4.2 doesn't work with 2.6.13 or whether I had something old still hanging around that was causing problems. Sorry for using the bandwidth. - Mark On 1/18/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 08:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > If it's a configuration issue, you replaced everything but the cause of > the problem. Excellant point. Things have turned around a lot now I think. My ISP was having some !problems! today. They were calling !me! to tell them the er

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 08:20, Richard Fish wrote: > > A "grep -i smtp" of the ethereal trace you sent me shows that you are > connecting to mail.exceedtech.net (65.116.46.23) from 4.253.131.84 > (dialup-4.253.131.84.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net). This doesn't look > right...if exceedtech.net i

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 08:22, Richard Fish wrote: > traceroute -n mail.exceedtech.net Usually traceroute does not work. They block it somewhere and I get a but ** stuff. Anyway, this one worked, for once. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # traceroute -n mail.exceedtech.net traceroute to mail.exce

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 09:58, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > dig belongs to bind-tools. It's in portage... We may need it before it is over. :/ Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 09:51, Holly Bostick wrote: > That's all very well and good (leaving aside other packages-- like > firefox, for example-- that might be dependent on the packages you > uninstalled), but how did you install gnome in the first place? >snipy > HTH, > Holly That's what b

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 19 January 2006 05:41, Willie Wong wrote: > Hum, is there a place in Mozilla to set your name/alias that goes in > the "From" field for an e-mail? Can you double check that to see if > you made a typo in the e-mail address or something? Sometimes ISPs > reject mails sent to be relayed b

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/18/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 08:22, Richard Fish wrote: > > traceroute -n mail.exceedtech.net > > Usually traceroute does not work. They block it somewhere and I get a but > ** stuff. Anyway, this one worked, for once. Tell them to cut that sh*t

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Timeout Val not working

2006-01-18 Thread Kurt Guenther
Richard Fish wrote: On 1/18/06, Kurt Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have Gentoo on my laptop and I'm frequently not connected to the network. I had the DHCP timeout set to decent number and it worked for Not a direct answer to your question, but you should check out ifplugd. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 22:10, Glenn Enright wrote: > > Some ISPs may also require your alias to be a specific thing, eg your real > name, or the same as your email address. Silly but true. > Can you tell me where this is? I read off to my ISP what I have in my settings and they said it w

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 22:04, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/18/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 08:22, Richard Fish wrote: > > > traceroute -n mail.exceedtech.net > > > > Usually traceroute does not work. They block it somewhere and I get a > > but ** stu

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi again, sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday - I took my hard drive out last night and replaced it with a new one (plus a fresh install) and I only got it back up this morning. I think the traceroute and ethereal are the two leads to follow here: 1. why are you dialling into exceedtech but

Re: [gentoo-user] cruel & unusual?

2006-01-18 Thread Kumar Golap
> > > I Always go out to have a smoke when it hits 50% : ) and speedup your death by 10 minutes :( Cheers, Kumar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cruel & unusual?

2006-01-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 January 2006 20:36, James wrote: > Well, hopefully, we're all familiar with the status line of an > 'emerge sync'>>> Updating Portage cache: 50% > > > Right before that, every time I sync I get this message: > speedup is 8.20 > > > After months/years of 'speedup' it should run very fas

Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry about the spam

2006-01-18 Thread Kumar Golap
Questions: 1) why should i contribute to your fund instead of directly contributing to the funds or companies that maintain the linux distribution that i use. 2) There is already a linux standard base www.linuxbase.org...why another one that nobody follows 3) how can your overhead be minimal or

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 23:33, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi again, > > sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday - I took my hard drive out last > night and replaced it with a new one (plus a fresh install) and I only > got it back up this morning. > > I think the traceroute and ethereal are the t

Re: [gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 January 2006 03:01, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Hi all > > I have a slight problem, my squid cache is full and hence I cant > browse any websites through the proxy. How does one get squid to clean > out old items? I would of thought squid would of removed older items. > I would prefer not to just d

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