[gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server

> Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID > module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied together > beforehand? > md: looking for a shared spare drive > md100: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degraded > mode > md: recovery thread finished

[gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server

On Saturday 20 February 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 10:46 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > > Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID > > > module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > > I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post > > correctly first time, not even on the archives. > > > > Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out

[gentoo-user] Re: Jinja2 & sphinx deadly embrace

On Saturday 26 September 2009, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > Any attempt of updating my system is locked by this problem: > > [ebuild N]dev-python/jinja2-2.1.1 USE="doc examples > -i18n -test" [ebuild N] dev-python/sphinx-0.6.1-r1 > USE="doc -test" > > * Error: circ

[gentoo-user] Re: How to hotplug IDE hard drive?

On Saturday 26 September 2009, KostyaSha wrote: > How to hotplug IDE hard drive? > I connect the cable, turning on power and then kernel must rescan > IDE cable. How tell kernel to rescan ? No hot-plug with IDE, it simply isn't supported. Maybe you need /usr/sbin/partprobe (from parted) Ciao

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone use squid?

On Sunday 27 September 2009, David Juhl wrote: > I want to block as many dating sites as possible, but I am having to > luck. The url_regex can't catch a lot. Either I need to find a > regular expression in the url or find something that will look at the > sites web page... Not all urls use date

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone use squid?

On Sunday 27 September 2009, Stroller wrote: > The dansguardian website states that it does not include blacklists > and instead links to > . That has a category for > dating, and can surely be referenced directly by

[gentoo-user] Re: @preserved-rebuild

On Sunday 27 September 2009, James wrote: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > >>> Portage deletes these > >>> > > > > after emerge @preserved-rebuild has successfully re-emerged > > > > packages depending on it. > > > > > > OK, so now I just have to root it out manually.? > > > > qfile -

[gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history

I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? Anyone before felt the need to fulfil this curiosity? Ciao Francesco -- Linux

[gentoo-user] Re: Uninstalled programs history

On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 schrieb Francesco Talamona: > > I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but > > sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. > > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: strange dmesg output

On Monday 26 October 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Did I leave something out of the kernel? I can't think what. > Maybe you pulled in too much :-) It could be some debug flag switched on in the USB storage subsystem. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEM

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost > their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix > this? Maybe kwin crashed. what happens if you open a terminal and launch kwin? Ciao Francesco -- L

[gentoo-user] Services order/hierarchy

Is it there a tool or command in gentoo to see "a la emerge --tree" the inter-dependencies and boot order of services? I know about cinit [1] but I never used it, because I'm looking for a way to see at a glance without rebooting. Imagine a tool for confronting two different servers without dow

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 06 January 2010 12:35:36 Francesco Talamona wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > > > hi, > > > > > > when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows > >

[gentoo-user] Re: / is full

On Saturday 14 May 2005 15:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005 13:04:53 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > another note: your kcore is very big (five times mine) ypu may want > > to optimize what is compiled in modifying the kernelconfig before > > to build it (and for this google i

[gentoo-user] Re: Share serial port over network

On Sunday 15 May 2005 12:15, Robert G. Siebeck wrote: > Hi, > > 2005/5/15, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Have you tried sharing it over NFS? > > I've tried using a samba-share, but it didn't work. Do you think NFS > would make a difference? IMHO you aren't providi

[gentoo-user] Re: Apache2 things vhost directories are not directories?

On Sunday 15 May 2005 19:04, Calvin Spealman wrote: > With the following vhost.conf, I'm getting an error "DocumentRoot > must be a directory", and the two document roots I'm using do, in > fact, exist. Does anyone know why Apache2 would think they are not > directories? > > NameVirtualHost * > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Error compiling vanilla-sources 2.6.12-rc3

On Sunday 15 May 2005 19:26, Michael Haan wrote: > I get the following: > > drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x7f23d): In function `i2c_writebytes': > : undefined reference to `i2c_transfer' > > drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x7f29d): In function `i2c_readbytes': > : undefined reference to `i2c_transfer' > > ma

[gentoo-user] Re: Browsing Network

On Monday 23 May 2005 16:12, Emmanuel Durin wrote: > You can use smb:/// to view all the network on konqueror and > nautilus. You can also use the nmblookup command, but it usually > returns IP addresses instead of names. Finally you can use smbtree to > display recursively workgroups, servers and

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of netkit-rsh

On Saturday 11 June 2005 04:46, Digby Tarvin wrote: > When I emerge netkit-rsh (because I want to share a tape via rmt) I > get several warning such as: > QA Notice: /usr/bin/rlogin is setXid, dynamically linked and using > lazy bindings. This combination is generally discouraged. Try: > CFLAGS='-

[gentoo-user] Re: Failed Disk Recovery

On Sunday 26 June 2005 20:23, David Busby wrote: > List, >I've got a HDD that's failed, seems to have lost partition table. > When I say sfdisk -l or -d it can't read and I see IO errors in dmesg > output, can't read sector XX. I can't get dd to dump from that drive > to file on a working dri

[gentoo-user] Re: New MySQL doc

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 06:38, Chris White wrote: > Here's the initial devspace draft of the new MySQL draft I've been > working on: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html > > Comments, etc are welcome. SQL Structured Query Language ^^ "S" doesn't stand for "standard". Good

[gentoo-user] Re: MySQL doc [updated]

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 18:22, Chris White wrote: > I've updated the MySQL doc here: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html > > It contains the fixes that have been suggested to me, as well as a > note on the SELECT field FROM table form of the SELECT statement. > Thanks for the input re

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto speed up compilations

On Monday 18 July 2005 19:07, John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon all, > > A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly > decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was > particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The > general jist of it was to cr

[gentoo-user] Re: [New Development] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

On Saturday 23 July 2005 03:56, Joseph wrote: > I went back to Sata Drive and started from scratch and when I tried > to do "emerge --sync" I got this error: > > "Uhhuh. HMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue > You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips > NMI: IOCK

[gentoo-user] Re: [New Development] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

On Saturday 23 July 2005 18:58, Joseph wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 10:16 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > > Joseph wrote: [...] > -bash: ./memtest.sh: /bin/bash2: bad interpreter: No such file or > directory > > On both boxes the I have bash-3.0 so what is it looking for? Correct the first line of

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

On Friday 28 March 2008, Stroller wrote: > I deal with h0sed Windows installations for my customers all the   > time. I regularly boot a Knoppix CD and copy the whole C: drive to a >   portable disk so that I have a complete backup. I find it > reassuring to use Linux for this purpose because I fee

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

On Saturday 29 March 2008, Stroller wrote: > Thanks! I'll look into PING. The documentation on PING's homepage   > seems a little scanty, but I'm sure a Google will be a bit more   > forthcoming. It's very easy to use, I found a pdf somewhere that described it in few pages. > There are a couple

[gentoo-user] Re: installing vmware?

On Friday 04 April 2008, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > The problem I've run into with VirtualBox is that network only uses > NAT, while VMWare uses bridging. Probably only a question of > understanding how to set up NAT - seems easy if you're using DHCP but > I use fixed IP's VirtualBox can be config

[gentoo-user] Re: ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel

On Thursday 17 April 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > I noted also a broken runlevel with regard to net.eth0 > which I deleted. > > Hopefully that's the fix. Should know next boot. But > doesn't explain(at least to me) why eth0 is now > defunct. If all I have is one ethernet port, doesn't > that default

[gentoo-user] Re: Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1 [6.9-r1] USE="acl nls > (-selinux) -static -vanilla% -xattr" 3,670 kB > [blocks B     ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking > sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) [blocks B     ] >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 > (is blocking sys-

[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Gyuszk wrote: > I can unmount my /boot and /home partitions but I just can't > remount my root device to be readonly. (Linux says it is busy.) What > should I do with this? > > 1.) Should I edit my Grub menu.lst to make a new entry with "single > ro" kernel parameteres? >

[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > Thanks a lot! I'll give a deep look at the mentioned files. > Anyway I think I'll set my fstab. Now all my partitions are set to > "never fsck" at boot time. :) Supposing it's a ext2/3 partition you may also want to use tune2fs to set the check *

[gentoo-user] Re: Raid5 not assembled after boot

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Roy Wright wrote: > Looking thru dmesg and /var/log/messages, it looks like there are no > attempts to start the array until I manually try. > > Any hints on what I'm missing? Personal experience: 1) don't mix raidtools stuff with mdadm, use only the latter (I'm not sa

[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

On Sunday 20 April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Never do this unless you're using xfs. > > > > Why? "never fsck at boot time" -> > > Because bad things can happen if you don't fsck at boot time. The > only exception to this is xfs, which you are not using, as I see > below. You stated this (x

[gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev

On Sunday 27 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:33:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This morning, out of curiosity, I ran rkhunter: it gave me a > > warning about GasKit. > > > > It's because there's a /dev/dev folder > > Have you run rkhunter --update? I used to see th

[gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev

On Sunday 27 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Why do I have duplicated md devices? > > It sounds like a udev rule may be causing this, possibly an > incorrectly written one, because the /dev part of node names is > implicit in udev, so if you set a name or symlink to dev/foo, you'll > get /dev/

[gentoo-user] Re: Which openoffice

> > 2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin > > on a PC with 2 GB Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor? > > On my 2003 machine (AMD 2500+) 5 hours ; > on my 2007 machine (Intel Core-2 Duo 6700) 2 hours . Those are the timings of openoffice, openoffice-bin doesn't get compiled, i

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about gstreamer

On Thursday 08 May 2008, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > Here is the relavent output from eix gstreamer: > > [UD] media-libs/gstreamer >      Available versions:  (0.10)  0.10.14 (~)0.10.17 (~)0.10.19 > {debug nls test} >      Installed versions:  0.8.11(0.8)(18:40:46 04/24/07)(-debug -doc) >  

[gentoo-user] Re: Home page slowness

On Saturday 10 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. Why? What features are you expecting? > The comment is, Gentoo > home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo > is "alive" becomes tricky because the final is months

[gentoo-user] Re: conflict in update

On Sunday 26 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> It should be easy enough to write a program that examines world > >> and displays all packages it finds that are dependencies of > >> something else in world, but I haven't fou

[gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

On Friday 01 May 2009, Grant wrote: > $ ssh -Y 192.168.10.1 > The authenticity of host '192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1)' can't be > established. RSA key fingerprint is. > Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes > Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts > (/home/grant/.ssh/k

Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)

On Saturday 09 May 2009, Dale wrote: > I was talking about with just a plain file system.  I read in a > install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having > /boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good > security practice.  That way no one could alter the kerne

[gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

On Sunday 10 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Once you sort that out, there's a whole host of other stuff to fix as > well - expat, latest xorg and many more - all stuff that everyone > else fixed a while ago and since forgot. Yes, beware of mktemp/coreutils too. I don't remember of other dangers,

[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

On Saturday 13 June 2009, AG wrote: > Hello list > > I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the > feasibility of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am > experiencing with a new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW > TS-H653Z which refuses to play audio CDs and pr

[gentoo-user] [off-topic] diary/blog desktop software advice

I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary, it doesn't run, then I found www-apps/nanoblogger and www-apps/polarblog, but are both in the "needloving" [1], don't know if it worth trying. I need something

[gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] diary/blog desktop software advice

On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:18:25 +0200 > > Francesco Talamona wrote: > > I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I > > can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary, > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Decreasing volume of an mp3 audio

On Monday 24 August 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 24 August 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there an application, which is able to physically decrease > > the volume level of an mp3 with as less as possible loss of > > sound quality. > > (Background: I am mer

[gentoo-user] Re: Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 20:21:27 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > > On 08/26/2009 09:04 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate > > > entries in KDE's (4.3.0) K menu. Any id

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management?

On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote: > Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed me :-) I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly, sometimes is eth0, other times is eth1. eth0 and ath0 are connected to the sa

[gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?

On Sunday 08 February 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote: [...] > I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28.  My el-cheapo webcam > (lsusb: 0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the > media-video/gspcav1 driver, but that no longer compiles: > > /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/w

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management?

On Sunday 08 February 2009, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote: > > Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? > > Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed > me :-) > > I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wi

[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 14:13 -0700, BRM wrote: > > With all the words of LVM2 going on, I feel it is only appropriate > > to also mention the risk. > > > > On a desktop I had installed LVM2 considering that I did need to > > upgrade partitions every n

[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

On Saturday 21 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's correct, and it also highlights just what a PITA it is to > manipulate traditional disk partitions. With lvm, this becomes a > breeze. With ZFS (we might see it one day) this becomes invisible. I thought it was already there: sys-fs/zfs-fuse

[gentoo-user] Re: Time to move on?

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Mike Diehl wrote: > Now I'm doing an emerge -u world. > > But before I could do that, I had to upgrade portage, with made > sense. > > When I go to emerge -u portage, I'm told: > > sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-7.1) > > So I do: > emerge -C mktemp > > Now

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] splitting and printing big image

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > I have a PDF document. One of documet's page is a (scalable) > schematics. Printing the page via my A4 Kyocera isn't suitable - I > can see a schematics with a lens only :-) Is there a way to split the > page (into 2 or 4 parts) and ptint pa

[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > [...] > > > The point is that LVM adds an extra layer of complexity. > > > > I used LVM paired with soft RAID, and when I needed to boot from a > > liveCD I discovered that I had to rebuild the setup by hand. > > You mean the 1 extra command that's n

[gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

On Friday 03 April 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: > Greets, > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things > that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. > Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show > one mask at a time. So I was cur

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem compiling ati-drivers-8.35.5

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Herbert Laubner wrote: > Running revdep-rebuild, I got an error building fgl_glxgears. > > Here the section of the build.log > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux- > gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > !

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't emerge X11

On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Dennis Taylor wrote: > Fails while building sis_dri.c. I have tracked it to a #define > problem while compiling. Sis_dri.c includes dri.h which includes > sis_dri.h. The issue is that XFree86Server is not defined at compile > time. I have looked around, but not yet f

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't emerge X11

On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Dennis Taylor wrote: > Francesco Talamona wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Dennis Taylor wrote: > >> Fails while building sis_dri.c. I have tracked it to a #define > >> problem while compiling. Sis_dri.c includes dri.h which i

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound doesn't work in Flash

On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Daniel wrote: > Interestingly enough, running "aos firefox" results in a "command not > found" It's aoss (/usr/bin/aoss), and belongs to media-libs/alsa-oss HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.22-gentoo-r4, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Mon Aug 20 08:34:23 CEST 200

[gentoo-user] Re: Qemu compilation fails

On Thursday 06 September 2007, Marco Antônio da Veiga wrote: > CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" I could install qemu and qemu-softmmu 0.9.0 with gcc 3.4.6 and CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.22-gentoo-r6, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Wed

[gentoo-user] Re: No ogg sounds

On Thursday 20 September 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > USE="64bit widescreen -gnome offensive slang unicode mozdevelop kde \ >      kdecards xinerama opengl qt3 X arts avi live matroska mpeg \ >      oggvorbis real theora xanim X aac opengl sdl xv dvd dvdnav > dvdread \ 3dnow 3dnow2 mmx mmx2 mmxext

[gentoo-user] Re: Backups

On Monday 01 October 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > P.s : Actually rebuilding from these saved dumps requires a little > thought - I'll post the steps if anyone new to dumps is interested in > using this method  for themselves. Yes, please. I'm not completely new to dump, but I'd like to read about

[gentoo-user] Re: Lilo & ReiserFS on 64 bits

On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > I've just done a diff on the 'x86' & 'amd64' versions of the > Handbook. The latter warns against using ReiserFS or Lilo on a 64-bit > system, both of which are my longstanding preferences. > I plan to install the 64-bit version of Gentoo on my new b

[gentoo-user] Re: Backups

On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > $ mkfs.xfs  /dev/sda9 > $ mkdir /xfsrestore > $ mount /dev/sda9 /xfsrestore > $ cd /xfsrestore > $ tar -jxvf  xfsdump-2.2.45.tbz2 > $ cd usr/bin > $ rm xfsdump xfsrestore > $ ln -s /xfsrestore/sbin/xfsdump xfsdump > $ ln -s /xfsrestore/sbin/xfsrest

[gentoo-user] Re: Backups

> P.s: You are quite correct that xfs is overkill for /boot. However I > just found it easier to xfs everything (otherwise I'd have to use > different dump programs depending on what I was backing up etc... ). > To me this is more important than the fact that it wastes disk space > a bit (my /boot

[gentoo-user] Re: Lilo & ReiserFS on 64 bits

On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Neil Walker wrote: > Francesco Talamona wrote: > > IIRC you have to use special mount option to use ReiserFS for /boot > > partition. > > Using reiserfs on a /boot partition is just plain silly. ;) > Furthermore, in this day and age, why wou

[gentoo-user] Re: manually executing an ebuild file (emerge fails)

On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Thufir wrote: > I would like to "manually" execute an ebuild file from a website to > install a package because it can't be emerged normally. > > The downloads section of leads to > > which interests me because of how mondo fails to emerg

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano

On Saturday 17 May 2008, Bob Young wrote: > Can anybody explain what's going on here, and tell me how I can fix > it? > >   > > BTW, if I edit with vi.everything works fine, and of course typing at > the console works okay as well. Just a guess... Did you run etc-update? Ciao Francesco -

[gentoo-user] Re: pear hangs no FUTEX_WAIT

On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Frank Gruellich wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20. May 08: > > Even the simple "pear" command from the command line hangs, strace > > show that it hangs at > > > > futex(0x2ac88d5093a0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL > > I had this problem with rpm waiting for a loc

[gentoo-user] Re: Detecting printers at a remote site

> I don't have nc and so far cannot find what package might contain it. nc is in net-analyzer/netcat Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r4, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun May 18 08:04:58 CEST 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.92 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gento

[gentoo-user] Re: DMRAID and complex setups

On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > - Could I disable the kernel auto-detection and instead add a custom > init-script prior to checkfs and localmount? It's impractical, check carefully all partitions with mdadm -E If it's not automatically assembled but you can do it manually, i

[gentoo-user] Re: problems building php

On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Michael George wrote: > Has anyone else had this problem? Can you compile without the imap flag? Maybe some underlying lib is missing... Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r6, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 5 18:06:28 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't complete emerge world.

On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Mike Diehl wrote: > What do I need to do to get past this? > > TIA, > -- > Mike Diehl Try this command, what gives you? emerge -av =sys-libs/ss-1.40.9 =sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.9 =sys-libs/com_err-1.40.9 Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo, Compiled #1

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] updatedb/locate - reasons to use

On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Alex Schuster wrote: > emerge -C slocate && emerge mlocate && time updatedb && time updatedb > > mlocate is supposed to be compatible with slocate, but the updatedb > command runs much faster. Your test doesn't proof anything!! Many information are cached and available

[gentoo-user] Re: unicode losting

On Thursday 14 August 2008, Rev. Ferris wrote: > Hi, > I update last month to new profile (using eselect) and since that > time I nitice that my unicode doesn't work properly. > I configured my gentoo-box using unicode wiki on gentoo website, but > it seems that new profile disactives my unicode se

[gentoo-user] Re: df and du difference

On Saturday 16 August 2008, Dale wrote: > Sebastian may have more and better ideas but if a reboot gave you > some space back, then you should check the tmp directories that are > usually cleared when rebooting.  I notice that in your list /tmp > takes up 3.8Gb which is a good bit. May want to see

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

On Friday 15 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 08:38 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Friday 15 August 2008 14:36:58 Dale wrote: > > >> Somewhat still on the same subject since I am still cleaning. > > >> Anyway to clean out unneeded files in /etc? I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

On Sunday 17 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:00 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > It doesn't handle filenames with spaces, I tried with > > > > find /etc -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} \; > > > > that works with spaces,

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[gentoo-user] Re: problem with a slow rsync server

On Thursday 11 September 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 180 seconds is 5 minutes ??? 60*3 = 180 5 minutes are 300 seconds :-) Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo-r1, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Fri Aug 15 09:40:53 CEST 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.87 Bogom

[gentoo-user] Re: A huge list

On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: > Hi all, > running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking (see > the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output). > At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo. > After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list an

[gentoo-user] Re: A huge list

On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: > Francesco Talamona ha scritto: > > On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking > >> (see the attached gzipped file of the revdep-reb

[gentoo-user] Re: lsof-4.81 working for anybody?

On Sunday 26 October 2008, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > I just tried the latest lsof-4.81 in ~x86 an dit doesn't seem to do > anything - no output, it just silently returns. 4.80-r1 works just > fine and always has. Does anybody else see this behaviour? > Just making sure it's not something on my en

[gentoo-user] Re: Heliodor?

> echo 'x11-wm/heliodor' > /etc/portage/package.keywords > emerge -av heliodor Do the following, instead :) echo 'x11-wm/heliodor ~amd64' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords Bye Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.20-gentoo-r4, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun Mar 25 09:20:13 CEST 2007 One 1GHz AMD At

[gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

On Thursday 05 April 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: > I used rxvt for many years until cut/paste stopped working for > me a couple years back. Me too!! I was in love with rxvt... So I switched to (urxvt) x11-terms/rxvt-unicode, it is basically the same but fully functional. Ciao Francesco -

[gentoo-user] Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Saturday 07 April 2007, William Kenworthy wrote: > I have one quite old machine that was an early upgrade to gcc 4.1. > As a consequence, I have an error that was apparently due to some > bugs in the upgrade process that for me appears (only) in > net-print/gnome-cups-manager-0.31-r2. > > ../li

[gentoo-user] Re: NFS vs. jumbo frames

On Monday 23 April 2007, kashani wrote: > Tony Stohne wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Uwe Thiem said the following on 2007-04-23 17:53: > >> Just curious: What kind of network (layer 2) is this that allows > >> an MTU of 9000? > >> > >> Uwe > > > > It sounds lik

[gentoo-user] Re: Backing up my box

On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Mark Somerville wrote: > I've got an 8Gb Gentoo virtual machine that I'm working out a backup > plan for. Since the disk space is pretty small, I'm thinking about > just taking a full image of the disk for backups, rather than > cherry-picking DBs, mail, etc. > > I'd like

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Matthias Guede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may not be exactly what you are looking for. But with > > "ksynaptics" (kde-misc/ksynaptics) tapping can be disabled - and it > > works, at least for me. > > With gsynaptics, tapping can be disable

[gentoo-user] [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

After xmms was phased out, I chose to use Amarok. Now that I have listened and rated some thousands of mp3 I would like to be able to rename/move files without loosing rating and scoring information. I'm under the impression that once I did it inside Amarok, but now I can't find anything useful

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2007 19:08:54 Francesco Talamona wrote: > > After xmms was phased out, I chose to use Amarok. Now that I have > > listened and rated some thousands of mp3 I would like to be able to > > rename/move

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:02, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > Thanks, man we are getting closer! > > > > I hadn't that option because I never defined a collection, having > > added files from time to time. > >

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:02, Francesco Talamona wrote: > If it's the only way, I'll be more flexible than the program, but I > wished I had more control over

[gentoo-user] Re: slocate's index

On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Graham Murray wrote: > > Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > /etc is in CONFIG_PROTECT by default. The point is, when a > > > file doesn't exist yet, Portage will simply install it. The > > > config protection mechanism works only

[gentoo-user] Re: slocate's index

On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Anno v. Heimburg wrote: > Francesco Talamona wrote: > > I would add in a comment to the bug a pointer to the mailing list > > archive, but i can't find one > > I added a link to this discussion. > > Anno. Well done, thanks. Franc

[gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt USB pen drive

On Thursday 17 May 2007, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought > it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help > with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it > seems that Linux is also struggli

[gentoo-user] Re: smbd starts slow.

On Sunday 24 June 2007, David Harel wrote: > /etc/init.d/smbd (Version 3.0.24) starts slow. Any idea? Very high log level? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.21-gentoo-r2, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Fri May 25 07:28:01 CEST 2007 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.01 Bogomips Tota

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