Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Freitag 08 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > The backend is still set to Xine. As devices I have "HDA ATI SB (HDA > > Generic)", "HDA ATI HDMI, ATI HDMI (HDMI Audio Output)", "Jack Audio > > Connection Kit" an

Re: [gentoo-user] persistent desktop (kde 4)

James writes: > Well after using kde4 for a month or so on a desktop (amd64) > today when I booted up the system, all the konsoles > were gone. I had similar problems with KDE 3.x a couple of times. I think the konsoles still started, but all on the first desktop, and many settings were lost. So

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Freitag 08 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > But still, /dev/dsp is busy with amarok running. > hmm, I have to admit, I have no idea. Me too. Well, thanks anyway for your support. I will live with that for a while, there are worse things I will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: persistent desktop (kde 4)

James writes: > Alex Schuster wonkology.org> writes: > > I think it's the ~/.kde4.2/share/config/session directory. Good luck, I > > hope you find your settings there. But I doubt it :( > > This dir is all I have: > ~/.kde4/shar

[gentoo-user] One of my cores sometimes sleeps

Hi there! Now this is _really_ annoying. My new PC has a AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e CPU, but sometimes one of the cores stops to do things for a while. I think. It happens many times per day, sometimes every minute, sometimes I do not notice it four hours. It seems that only new t

Re: [gentoo-user] One of my cores sometimes sleeps

Roy Wright writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: [temporary freezes] > I replaced my media lan's router the other day with a > gentoo+dnsmasq+shorewall homebrew and hit this behavior. My observation > is that they freeze when you loose internet connection. Two quick > tests:

-march=auto (was: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]eee 900a intel atom is what processor family?)

Paul Hartman writes: > Could also perhaps try -march=auto if you're using a version of GCC > that supports it. BTW, is there a possibility to let gcc tell what flags it will actually use with -march=auto? Oh, and is your gcc man page empty, too? 'info gcc' works, though. But I did not find what

[gentoo-user] Re: -march=auto

I just wrote: > > Could also perhaps try -march=auto if you're using a version of GCC > > that supports it. Oh, it's -march=native. > BTW, is there a possibility to let gcc tell what flags it will actually > use with -march=auto? Paul Hartman just posted a link to a script that seems to do what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -march=auto

Peter Humphrey writes: > On Thursday 21 May 2009 20:30:19 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Paul Hartman just posted a link to a script that seems to do what I was > > looking for in the "[OT]eee 900a intel atom is what processor family?" > > thread: <http://www.pixelbe

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Freitag 22 Mai 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 won't compile due to a file conflict, > > but portageq does not see it. Probably because the ati-drivers you already have installed do not have this file, either because they are an

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

Kevin O'Gorman writes: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I thank you for the expert advice. I'm doing the emerge now, but even > > if it succeeds, I'm worried that the xorg-server will still own this > > file, since portageq seems to see that it does. This seems inh

[gentoo-user] Re: -march=auto

Daniel Iliev writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > BTW, is there a possibility to let gcc tell what flags it will > > actually use with -march=auto? > > gcc -Q --help=target -march=native Cool, thanks! Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -march=auto

maxim wexler writes: > --- On Thu, 5/21/09, Alex Schuster wrote: > > But it suggests using -march=k8 - isn't that a 64-bit-only > > thing? I'm not > > For an 900A w/intel Atom? No, I have an AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e. > This is what I get: &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -march=auto

maxim wexler writes: > > If so, Daniel's tip about 'gcc -Q --help=target -march=native' will give > > you the exact options to use. > See attachment please. Some stuff is enabled, some disabled, some blank. Try this: gcc -Q --help=target -march=native > /tmp/gccoptions.native gcc -Q --help=targe

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 halts - how to catch a reason?

Andrew Gaydenko writes: > Last week or two (I mostly use Gnome and can not say more precisely) > after KDE4 starting session apps starts also, as well as bg and panels. > But then I get black screen (during this KDE4 start process), and > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does nothing. The only way I have in han

[gentoo-user] Umlaut trouble in filenames

Hi there! I have a problem with umlauts in file names. They are working fine when I create a file, but I have lots of files I moved from my former system that show umlauts just as a question mark. I think I transferred them via NFS. I have lang=de_de.u...@euro set now, before it was unset. Thos

Re: [gentoo-user] Umlaut trouble in filenames

Renat Golubchyk writes: > schrieb Alex Schuster : > > I have a problem with umlauts in file names. They are working fine > > when I create a file, but I have lots of files I moved from my former > > system that show umlauts just as a question mark. I think I > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Umlaut trouble in filenames

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Donnerstag 18 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I have lang=de_de.u...@euro set now, before it was unset. Those umlaut > > btw > use either de...@euro or de_DE.UTF8 Oh, thanks. I got this setting from the gentoo localization guide (the g

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Use of sed

Peter Humphrey writes: > I'm reduced to asking a newcomer's question: how can I make sed recurse > down a directory tree? find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' '{}' \; > And while I'm at it, how do I change the field > separator from / to enable me to search on that character? Well, just ch

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Use of sed

Peter Humphrey writes: > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 12:28:05 Alex Schuster wrote: > > man sed answers your second question :) > > s/regexp/replacement/ > Attempt to match regexp against the pattern space. If successful, > replace that portion matched with replace

Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

Roger Mason writes: > I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I > can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful > catastrophe. This is the output of emerge on the machine in question: [...] > Can someone confirm that I'll be able to use gcc 4.3 for t

Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: Or keep 4.3 as default, I don't think you could run into problems. he will over time. If you switch default compiler emerge -s world has to be done. According to Alan McKinnon's (and my own experience), t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions

Roger Mason writes: > Now gcc-config says: > > garnet ~ $ gcc-config -l > [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1 > [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 * > > Whereas gcc -v says: > > > gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3 p1.10) > > If there is something else that I need to do then I did not see it in > the upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions

Roger Mason writes: > Alex Schuster writes: > > What is your $PATH? (echo $PATH) > > > > I have /usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2 in there (just before > > /usr/i686- pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2), don't know where this comes > > from. The directory usr/i4

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: > emerge --update --deep world > > but I get the following error: > > [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase ("kde-base/kdebase" is blocking > kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6) > > I'm not very expert about emerge, have you any idea about this error? > > Can I solve it in some wa

[gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

Hi there! The last two PCs (A and B) I installed are fully encrypted. I used different methods. I used genkernel --luks --lvm --install all to create kernel and initramfs. I like to have everything as kernel modules, but the crypto stuff has to be directly in the kernel, unless I put these modu

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

I wrote: > B: LUKS -> LVM > A simpler approach. sda1 is a small boot partition, sda2 (the rest of the > drive) is a LUKS-formatted LVM physical volume with volume group > 'pvcrypt' on it. This does not work yet, the initramfs does not find the > LVM. > > I looked into the init script. I wants to d

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

Dirk Heinrichs writes: > Am Mittwoch 01 Juli 2009 12:40:20 schrieb Alex Schuster: > > The last two PCs (A and B) I installed are fully encrypted. I used > > different methods. I used genkernel --luks --lvm --install all to > > create kernel and initramfs. > > F

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

Dirk Heinrichs writes: > Am Samstag 04 Juli 2009 14:51:54 schrieb Alex Schuster: > > Dirk Heinrichs writes: > > > having said that, you can even do w/o > > > initramfs, just put everything into /boot (which should be a separate > > > partition, then). Again, s

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

Dirk Heinrichs writes: > Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 16:28:22 schrieb Alex Schuster: > > Dirk Heinrichs writes: > > > And how do you protect the key on the stick? What if you loose it? > > > > It's a long sentence from The Hichhiker's Guide To The Galaxy I

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

Dirk Heinrichs writes: > Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 19:53:20 schrieb Alex Schuster: > > Right :) I didn't want my LUKS key to be in clear-text > > The LUKS key isn't stored as cleartext, it's encrypted. Um, I mean the passphrase I specify with --key-file to cryptsetu

Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for /

Alan E. Davis writes: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: > >> In grub, it is located first as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as > >> /dev/sda5. That is where I want it to be. > > > > Those are two different things. th

Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for /

Uh. I wrote: > Is there a reason why yo keep having grub on #2? If not, I'd just run > grub, enter > root (hd0,0) This should be (hd1,0), using the same /boot partition as before. > setup (hd0) But the master boot record is on the first drive now. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

Keith Dart writes: > === On Sat, 07/11, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === > > > How to say portage to "keep this as is"? > I always just use /etc/portage/package.mask > > e.g.: > >media-libs/mesa-7.3-r1 > > masks anything greater than that version. That's what Andrew already did. But now the specific v

Re: [gentoo-user] missing dependency for gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.26.3

Maximilian Bräutigam writes: > i don't know if it is a bug oder a missing dependency for > gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.26.3, that i recently tried to > install. the error i got was like > /bin/sh: line 1: gtkdoc-rebase: command not found > so i "emerge -av1 dev-util/gtk-doc" and everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Icelandic issues

Robin Atwood writes: > No I did not have my money in a dodgy bank but I can no longer play Sigur > Ros albums. When the CD is ripped onto the HD the file names contain > accented characters and Amarok 2 says the directory/file does not exist. > Formerly this was possible, so I am guessing converti

[gentoo-user] Multiple instances of PyQt4

Hi there! My @world update shows this problem: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: dev-python/PyQt4:0 ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r5', 'merge') pulled in by >=dev-python/PyQt4

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple instances of PyQt4

Alan McKinnon writes: > On Tuesday 21 July 2009 17:11:33 Alex Schuster wrote: > > My @world update shows this problem: > > > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been > > pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:

Re: [gentoo-user] Umlaut trouble in filenames

Again, I have some problem with umlauts, this time with remote files I want to download via FTP. In KDE4, Dolphin and konqueror are unable to read the file. I can get it manually via command line ftp, but then again dolphin or ark are unable to do anything with it. No big problem, I can rename t

Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

Alan McKinnon writes: > Golden rule with nfs: > > It was designed for the case of a diskless client mounts it's home or > root directories over the network, while exporting passwd and shadow > files over NIS. That is evident in it's design and there is no facility > to change uids and gids on the

Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

Alan McKinnon writes: > On Tuesday 28 July 2009 09:39:40 Alex Schuster wrote: > > man 5 exports (at least my localized german version) lists the > > map_daemon option, which allows mapping of UIDs / GIDs between server > > and client. This needs the rpc.ugidd to be running

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

Grant writes: > From what I understand of how Linux handles memory, it > will fill it up as quickly as possible, and then free it as necessary. > This makes it difficult to determine how much RAM is necessary from > watching top. > > I read on this list that the kernel needs *some* swap, even jus

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

Grant writes: > Sounds good. Will commenting the swap line out of /etc/fstab and > rebooting disable swap? Yes. Or, temporarily, the 'swapoff' command. > In order to resize the root partition to > include the swap paritition, I'll have to boot to LiveCD right? I think it might work without. I

Re: [gentoo-user] copying the / partition

Xavier Parizet writes: > On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:33:22 +1000, "Alan E. Davis" > wrote: > > I wish to move the / partition, and separate /usr into a separate > > partition. One reason is to take advantage of a faster 10,000 RPM > > drive for system files. > > > > I am stuck on one issue (at least):

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails

Shawn Haggett writes: > Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of > course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following > happens: > > sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv [...] > /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/temp/environment: line > 3924: cd:

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

pk writes: > x ~ # emerge --with-bdeps y -DupN world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 VIDEO_CARDS="(-fglrx%*)" > [ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.19 USE="(-midi%*)" > [ebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

pk writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Oh, I just see that on my desktop machine xorg-server already got re- > > compiled without fglrx. I see no adverse effects yet, but then OpenGL > > never worked really well here. > > As I understand it the VIDEO_CARDS parameters

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

pk writes: > So why does it prune files with bigger size than about 4Gb? The only > thing I can think of is that my machine is 32bit... But why would > slocate use file size as a factor? I can confirm the problem on my 32bit machine with default updatedb.conf. I had to emerge slocate first for t

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

pk writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > I have a Radeon HD 3200 and I am using ati-drivers-8.552-r2. Higher > > versions did not compile. My kernel is 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3, and with > > newer kernels I was not able to build any ati-drivers at all. That was > > a while ago

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

Grant writes: > >> > Oh, and you're utilizing SMART, right? > >> > >> Should I be doing more than running this test: > >> > >> smartctl -t long /dev/sda [...] > Does this indicate everything is OK as far as SMART can tell? > > Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining > LifeTime(h

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

pk writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > So what modules does get loaded? All from your modules section (except for type1), an in total these: glx, extmod, dri, dbe, record, fglrx, kbd, mouse, vgahw, int10, vbe, fglrxdrm, ddc, fb, ramdac, xaa, fglrxdrm, glesx, amdxmm > > I know this

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash script inquiry

Richard Marza writes: > FILE=`cat filename.txt` > TICK=`cat filename.txt | wc -l' > TOCK="0" > > while [ $TICK != $TOCK ] ; do > let $TOCK=$TOCK+1 Or, simpler, as we are using bash: (( TOCK++ )) > Var1= `cat FirstWordOfFirstColumnOfFirstLine` (This I > actually achieved w

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: dependencies problem...

Jarry writes: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more > >> * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the > >> * packages that pulled them in. > >> * > >> * dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r3 pulled in by: > >> * sys-a

Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages

On 2007-06-15, Dale wrote: > Peter Ruskin wrote: > > With big hard discs cheap and with ADSL > > connection, the advantages of the meta packages are diminished. > > If I understand your meaning correctly, not everyone can get broadband. > I'm on dial-up and it is all that is available here where I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails... again

I wrote: > Shawn Haggett writes: > > Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of > > course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following > > happens: > > > > sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv > > [...] > > > /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/temp/

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

Roy Wright writes: > kde-4.3 is now unmasked for ~x86. Whop! I'm also happy, and I want to upgrade soon. I hope many of those little annoyances I experience will be fixed. > But it is looking like a non-trivial upgrade. :( Yeah. > When I installed kde-4.2, I followed the advice of unmas

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

John H. Moe writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Roy Wright writes: > >> 4) recustomize kde as the ~/.kde will not be migrated > > > > I really hope I can just copy .kde4.2 to .kde4 and all (okay, most) > > settings will be kept. I think it just _should_ work.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set udev rule?

David Relson writes: > Don't know if the following will help, but it's a rule that I > successfully use to mount a USB memory stick: > > BUS=="usb", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="STECH", SYMLINK+="STECH", > run+="/bin/mount -a" I have to change the bus from usb to scsi, then it works. But what about un

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set udev rule?

Jesús Guerrero writes: > On Sun, August 30, 2009 21:38, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Sonntag 30 August 2009 19:29:39 schrieb Alex Schuster: > >> I have to change the bus from usb to scsi, then it works. But what > >> about unmounting? Is is possible to have it

Re: [gentoo-user] xcfe4 -- can't return to X after ctrl+alt+(f1-f6,f12)

Maxim Wexler writes: > If, after running startx, I move to another terminal using > ctr+alt+(f1-f6,f12), when I return to the X window, ctrl+alt+f7, I see > nothing but a blank terminal, not even a cursor. I have to navigate to > wherever I started X, hit ctrl-c and run startx again. This may be

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

Grant wrote: > >>> >> If it doesn't start I'm locked out of the remote system. > >>> > > >>> > You may be interested in : > >>> > /etc/init.d/sshd reload > >>> > >>> I get: > >>> > >>> # /etc/init.d/sshd reload > >>> * Reloading sshd ... > >>> No /usr/sbin/sshd found running; none killed. [ ok ]

Re: [gentoo-user] if I unmerge XYZ...

Andrew Gaydenko writes: > Is there a way to predict which dependecies will be unsatisfied at case > of unmerging some package without real unmerging? emerge --depclean -pv XYZ Wonko

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Speaking of md5sum/shasum, do you know some tool that adds data > redundancy? I heard dvddistaster does this, but I guess it is limited > to DVDs. No, it is not. > It would be great fo find a general data redundancy tool. emerge dvdisaster and see if it sui

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

Paul Hartman writes: > I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, > not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I > apologize if it is a duplicate). I don't think so. > If anyone has any ideas at all about how to go about fixing/mounting > this, I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:47:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > for I in $(seq 1 15) ; do > > If you're using bash or zsh,you can speed this up with > > for I in {1..15}; do You can even use C style: for (( i=1; i <= 15; i++ )); do Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] problems running doxygen from cron

Dirk Uys wrote: > I have a problem when running doxygen from a cron job. It seems like > doxygen is simply aborting at an arbitrary point during execution. I > tried to search on the internet, but could not find anything similar > reported. [...] > My cron entry is > 45 * * * * /home/user/script.s

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs blocking question

Geralt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Neil Bothwick > wrote: > > You don't need to remove anything, just let portage handle the block > > for you. Blocks marked with a b (instead of a B) can be handled by > > recent portage releases. > are you sure that his works in this case? This

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

Grant wrote: > I'd like to install the latest miro from their nightlies and that > means installing manually without an ebuild. I've always avoided this > because I don't want files spread across my system without an easy way > to remove them. I've also always wanted to set up a good cruft > rem

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage curruptness problem

Zac Medico writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > >>>> Unmerging app-misc/mc-4.5.55-r5... > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5547, in ? > > retval = emerge_main() > > File "/usr

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

ssary. Good luck, Alex Re: Radeon trouble Von: Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alex Schuster schrieb: > Hi Justin! > >   >> Just saw your thread. Did get your card working? I have a 9000 with I >> think a similar pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail issues/questions

Peter Ruskin writes: > This is a very long-standing KDE bug: > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4151 Typo? It says "Bug #4151 does not exist." Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

Mick writes: > Thanks Alex, I was trying your script, but just like Etaoin's script it > does not go beyond level 1 in the directory. All the subdirectories and > files within them stay in Capital Case. > > How can I change it to recursively look into the directory? That's strange. I tried that

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crash

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am a newbie to gentoo. These days I met a serious problem for me. > When I using firefox to browse youtube.com, it always crashed. Even > worse, the system will crash, not just the X, because I cannot login > again after use "ctr+alt+backspace". And I cannot get any e

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

Daniel da Veiga writes: > I just got a new box for use at work, its an Intel Core Duo 1.8, 1GB > RAM, with an Intel graphic card, its a IBM Lenovo machine. My old one > is an Itautec Athlon XP 1.1GHz with 512MB RAM and an Nvidia AGP > graphic card. > > My make.conf (intersting part): > CFLAGS="-mn

Re: [gentoo-user] enable hal in kde

Stefán István writes: > I've made the mistake that I compiled kde without the hal use flag. > How can I find out which kde packages should be recompiled in order to > be able to use hal in kde? Use the --newuse (-N) option to emerge: emerge --newuse --deep kde Looks to me like kdebase would be

Re: [gentoo-user] enable musicbrainz on amarok?

b.n. writes: > I recently recompiled amarok with the musicbrainz USE flag enabled, to > allow tagging of mp3 files with musicbrainz. > However, when I try to "Edit tag information..." the "Fill-in tags > using MusicBrainz" button is always disabled. It tells me to install > Musicbrainz, but it's i

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

Hi there! Any idea why emerge --depclean wants to remove app-shells/bash-completion-config? It it needed by some installed packages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ --> equery depends app-shells/bash-completion-config [ Searching for packages depending on app-shells/bash-completion-config... ] app-editors/v

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

Greg Lindstrom writes: > I am programming Python (2.4.1) scripts to run on our Gentoo boxes and > am having a bit of trouble I was hoping you could help me with. My > file, hello.py looks like this: > > #!/usr/bin/python > print 'hello, python' > > I add execute permission to the file and try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

Uwe Thiem writes: > I am out of ideas - and still a bit puzzled how /usr/bin/env got > involved (see original post). According to the od output, the first line is not "#!/usr/bin/python", but "#!/usr/bin/env python". But that seems to work well for me, too. I'd try to put the script onto seve

stow (was: Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF)

Thufir writes: > On 7/29/07, Roger Luethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No ebuild, though. > you compiled on your own? ok. what happens if you want to uninstall > it, though? There usually is a "make uninstall", too. But I suggest to use stow, or better, xstow, to install software. It goes

Hello? (was: Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB error)

I'm glad the problem is solved now, but I wonder why my response to the thread (about 1:30 hours after it started) does not appear on the list. It's also not on , so the problem is not that I do not receive all postings. Any idea why my mail did no

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB error

cscscscscs cscscscscs (?) writes: > I become a little bit upset sucking installing Gentoo Linux throughout 3 > days. There was several errors during the install process (networkless, > installer-dialog), so I was beginning to be afraid of memory-module > errors, motherboard failure etc. I ran memo

[gentoo-user] Re: Hello?

Mick writes: > > Let's see if this one gets through... > > Reading you loud and clear! I got your previous message just now, it > seems with some delay. Yes. According to the headers my mail was received by my provider in normal time, but was delayed for half a day before it went out to robin.

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

Mick writes: > After some tests and minor changes that Alex introduced, I have had > success with Alex's script as follows: [snip] You can also get it from here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/utils/lowercase.sh Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab question

Colleen Beamer writes: > I have a usb external hard drive attached to my computer. It's an > Iomega and has a power switch. In fstab it is /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2 > because I've configured it to have two ext3 partitions. If the drive > is not powered on when I boot and then, I turn it on, I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] illegal instruction ... in modf?

Graham Murray writes: > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm compiling a program blah.cpp with g++ 4.1.2. I've rebuilt lots > > of my system with 4.1.2. I'm copying the binary onto another gentoo > > system which has gcc 4.1.1 as the default compiler. When I run the > > binary on t

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Today after an emerge update the system wants to update to kde 3.5.7 > However I've run into a major problem, kdelibs wont compile > It keeps stopping at the following point: > > checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (library > qt-mt) not found.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

»Q« writes: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:10:30 +0200 > > Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 19 August 2007 04:00:45 »Q« wrote: > > > It works as it is, but I'm interested in learning about any newbie > > > traps into which I might be falling or about any better practices I > >

[gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

Hi there! The last expat update was an example of something that annoys me about gentoo. I usually do world updates every few days, mostly without trouble. I only tend to forget to restart services, but even for this there is an automatic solution now (see the recent "Rolling upgrades" thread)

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

Mick writes: > On Friday 24 August 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: > > But then, there are things like the expat update. This happens > > seldomly, but if it does, it's rather annoying. Maybe I have become > > too comfortable with updating along the way, while working with t

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up sftp and user permissions

Mick writes: > I understand that there are many ways to skin a cat - in this case to > contain somewhat what a plain user can and cannot do when they log in > via sftp. Some ideas that I have across are to use a limited shell > like rssh, use an ssh chroot, modify the umask for user directories.

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

Ralf Stephan writes: > I might be a bit too naive or hands-on -- I think portage > or paludis should be able to tell you which upgrades that > expat one will draw behind it. I don't know what would be > required for implementation, though. > > In other words, even the existence of a separate revde

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

Grant writes: > I need to periodically upload a file to an ftp server, but the > password they've issued me has a '!' and a '&' character in it. I > tried escaping those characters like this: > > wput -A file.txt ftp://username:abc\!123\&@ftp.example.com/file.txt > > but then it tells me the pass

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

Grant writes: > > > wput -A file.txt ftp://username:abc\!123\&@ftp.example.com/file.txt > > > > Did you try using ' around the whole argument? Like > > > > wput -A ... 'ftp://txt'? > > That did it. Thanks everyone! Hmm... there really should be no difference whether you put the whole string

Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd

Robert Walter writes: > i've added myself to the vboxusers group with "gpasswd -a robert > vboxusers". when i do a "id robert" with root i see the added group but > when i start a new xterm with user robert i'm still not added to the new > group. how do i make the changes take effekt without logou

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

Grant writes: > I just upgraded ssh and when I try to restart I get: > > * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ] > > I don't see anything about it in '/var/log/sshd/current'. How can I > figure out what is wrong? I'm a little nervous because I don't want > to shut myself out of this remote server. Uh-oh! I

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

t be *sure* that you're killing the > /usr/sbin/sshd process and not one of your sshd login forks at the same > time. > > Alex Schuster wrote: > > If you think the upgrade is necessary and don't want to wait until you > > or s.o. else has physical access in case s

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

John Blinka writes: > Not a stupid question - I've been known to overlook the obvious. But > I've been running the same kernel for quite some time, and nfs has worked > before on that kernel. However, on tobey: I had a similar problem recently after an update. Some of the shares did still work

[gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer

Hi there! For a little while now I have a problem on one of my hosts, X11 forwarding stopped working. I do not know where to look, but I thought maybe someone here has an idea? I have a .Xauthority file dated from Sept 19, this might be around the last time forwarding was working. Here is my /

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer

Iain Buchanan writes: > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 20:13 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > For a little while now I have a problem on one of my hosts, X11 > > forwarding stopped working. > > how are you ssh-ing in? -X? -Y? Yes. Well, I usually have forwarding enabled autom

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