Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked?

2006-11-19 Thread Philip Webb
061119 Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/18/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I assume gnome-libs-1.4.2 is going to be removed in one month, >> but lots of packages directly depend on gnome-libs: >> app-misc/gfontview-0.5.0-r6 > Just recompile this without the gnome USE flag. That

[gentoo-user] LVM (was: Resize /)

2006-11-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> >> >> Impossible to do. Nothing at all can be done without knowledge. >> >> IMO a better question is: How hard is it, to get proper >> knowledge? >> >> Answer: Easy, thanks to the excellent LVM howto. See >> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM

2006-11-19 Thread Dale
Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> >> >> I'm not sure about that "easy" part just yet. >> > > Okay. Ask your questions. > Uh oh. You opened a can of worms now. ;-) > >> It takes me a while to >> get my light bulb to come on and at least glow a bit.

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem. (Partly SOLVED)

2006-11-19 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/18/06, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> VFS: Cannot open root device "813" or unknown-block(8,19) > > This means the kernel found your root drive/partition, but couldn't > mount it. Most likely you forgot to c

Re: [gentoo-user] Boa server depends on net.eth0?

2006-11-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:02:58PM +, Mick wrote > Hi All, > > I am trying to start boa while connected to dial-up (ppp0) and what I am > getting is this network related error: > > rc-scripts: WARNING: boa is scheduled to start

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 masked?

2006-11-19 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 00:36 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Do you actually use them? If not, why do you care? No and maybe. I don't use gtkdiff, so I obviously don't care, but a lot of the packages contain libraries. I don't know if I use them or not. Is there an automated way of dealing with the p

[gentoo-user] Re: LVM

2006-11-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> · Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Yep; snapshot to be exact. >> > > Then I'll try to match up with that, though I may not use the feature. Well, if you don't use it and don't plan to use it, then I'd suggest to not compile it in (not even

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem. (Partly SOLVED)

2006-11-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/19/06, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If anyone has been able to boot from a USB 2.0 drive, I would appreciate some pointers on how to get this installation working. Yes. The fact that you made it to the "VFS: Cannot open root device" message means that you successfully "booted

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems getting started with vmware

2006-11-19 Thread reader
"Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's what turned me off, and I didn't bother. I had wanted to make > a post just like yours, but I figured that I was coming out of this > thread looking like a professional ranter, so I decided to keep quiet. Guess I wasn't as smart hehe. --

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 masked?

2006-11-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/19/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No and maybe. I don't use gtkdiff, so I obviously don't care, but a lot of the packages contain libraries. I don't know if I use them or not. Are these listed in your world (/var/lib/portage/world) file? If so, remove them, do an "em

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked?

2006-11-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/19/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 061119 Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/18/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I assume gnome-libs-1.4.2 is going to be removed in one month, >> but lots of packages directly depend on gnome-libs: >> app-misc/gfontview-0.5.0-r6 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Boa server depends on net.eth0?

2006-11-19 Thread Mick
On Sunday 19 November 2006 17:45, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:02:58PM +, Mick wrote > > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to start boa while connected to dial-up (ppp0) and what I am > > getting is this network related error: > > =

[gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades

2006-11-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I converted to KDE modular some time ago with considerable trepidation. Now I'm faced with the updates that came out this week, and I'd like to take advantage of the opportunity this offers to dispense with (that is, unmerge) the many parts of KDE I will never use. The problem is obvious and unav

Re: [gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades

2006-11-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 19 November 2006 12:52, "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades': > I converted to KDE modular some time ago with considerable trepidation. > Now I'm faced with the updates that came out this week, and I'd like to > take advantage of the o

Re: [gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades

2006-11-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/19/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The way I'm slimming things down, I removed kde-meta from world, and then did emerge -p --depclean. I look over the (*LONG*) list and when I see an application I use, I add it to my world file with emerge -n. After I'm fairly sure I

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP + Samba as PDC

2006-11-19 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Sorry for taking this long, rough week. I didn't understand your answer. The Linux box you're talking about is the Samba server? Yes, the Samba server What is Winbind? Or nss_ldap? How did you setup a PDC without using either nss_ldap or winbind? nss_ldap: * requires modification to /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP + Samba as PDC

2006-11-19 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LDAP_SAMBA_PDC_Basic_Setup#Configure_NSS_LDAP Did you see this wiki on this? Have you read these sections? Sincerely, Joshua -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-19 Thread Trenton Adams
Your slowness could be due to not telling vmware to allocate all memory into physical memory, and not using a full sized disk image. It seems like vmware accesses the blocks directly, when you pre-allocate. And if the image gets fragmented, vmware warns you about it, so that you can ask it to