[gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is /etc/portage/profile/package.provided the correct address for > this? > > In `man portage' I see reference to: > /etc/make.profile/package.provided Gack I see its a symlink ... but now I'm even more confused. The

[gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-06-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > Your /etc/portage/profile/package.provided file is correct. > Unfortunately, in this case, the dependency is on virtual/emacs. > > Add "virtual/emacs app-editors/emacs-cvs" > to /etc/portage/profile/virtuals and it will quit trying to install > e

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't see networked windows xp machine

2005-06-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > I use kde and when I try the lan Browse option in konqueror I get a message > box telling me that The Lisa daemon does not appear to be running. > This is after using the guided setup option in control panel and stopping and > starting lisa. > Has any

[gentoo-user] emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-07 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having a time getting ksh93 to install (build error at the end) USE='static' emerge -v ksh93 The only other use flag coming up was `nls' I wasn't real eager for `static' necessarily but without `static' had already failed and I saw it was a possible flag. Also it might be handy sometime in

[gentoo-user] KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Summary: What can I do to get my keyboard recognized (through a kvm switch) right at bootup. I mean like when the grub prompt comes up. Details: I've had this curious problem for some time now. Over at least several kernels but I think beginning with changing from one KVM to another a few mn

[gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
I've just completed first part of a fresh install. Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the highlights are: eix genkernel gentoolkit gentoolkit-dev gentoo-sources grub lynx ntp reiserfsprogs rsyslog vim v

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht writes: >> I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. > > You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does > this somehow imply that you are trying to boot from a Reiser partition > and could that be part of the problem? Yes, as advis

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy Wright writes: [...] >> I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install >> media. > > So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot > option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the > second part of the boot where the lines look

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev writes: >> Something finally allows the kvm pass through to be recognized but not >> until I've reached the login prompt. > > But linux kernel isn't loaded or used in any way when grub screen comes > up - grub is loading it as a last step of it's execution, so any kernel > configur

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht writes: >> And just incase its something related to the newest kernel I've >> downgraded to 2.6.29-r2 and building from an old .config of 2.6.28. >> (not genkernel on this one) > > I think he was hoping that you would find something in your > chroot/var/log/messages file or something

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev writes: [...] Harry wrote: >> So if I could identify what it is in the kernel that allowes it to >> work at the point where the kernel takes over (login prompt), then >> maybe I could enable that aspect somehow inside an initramfs, and be >> able to have the KVM recognized at the

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > If you can't access the BIOS using the KVM then the problem is > hardware, not with Linux software. You mean if my keyboard through kvm can't get to bios... yea I see your point. I'll try that shortly... currently compiling an older gcc

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev writes: > Okay, the syslog is probably not one of them, so /var/log shouldn't be > too populated, except for rc.log, which should be enabled specifically > in /etc/rc.conf (w/ baselayout-2) or /etc/conf.d/rc - look for > rc_logger line or something similar with older baselayout. [

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:50:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. >> >> It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the >> highlights are: > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:03:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has >> > genlop installed, you can get a list with >> > >> > genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emer

[gentoo-user] emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
setup: kernel-2.6.29-r2 gcc-4.3.2-r3 procmail is one tool that is absolutely robust and I expected no trouble whatever emerging it... however the emerge is failing like as shown below. I'm not sure what to do about getline. The only useflags that come up are one I set `mbox' and one other

[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
galiza.ce...@gmail.com (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila) writes: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270551 > > HTH Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. Or dink around with sed inside as another poster on the b

[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once >> had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. > > man ebuild > > HTH :) Doesn't any ma

[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once >> had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. > > man ebuild Just in case another intellectually c

[gentoo-user] How to veiw absolute latest on partage without syncing

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Is there a way to veiw the very latest packages on portage without syncing my OS?

[gentoo-user] About procmail and getline

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Trying to install procmail I hit a known bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270551 And from emerge: [...] In file included from formail.c:25: formisc.h:20: error: conflicting types for 'getline' /usr/include/stdio.h:651: error: previous declaration of 'getline' was here ma

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "make uninstall" with no rule

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant writes: > I'm just now learning how to compile and install manually. I > installed makemkv-1.4.1 manually and now I found an ebuild so I'd like > to install the latest version via the ebuild, but I get: > > # make uninstall > make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop. > > The mak

[gentoo-user] Re: How to veiw absolute latest on partage without syncing

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > It's not really clear why you're asking, or why you're unable to sync. > If the PC has no internet connection, for instance, security updates > are unimportant. Thanks for the tips... no it was something totally mundane. I wanted to see if anything had been done to mail-filte

[gentoo-user] Re: How to veiw absolute latest on partage without syncing

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale writes: > You could always sync then do a emerge -uv procmail. then it would only > upgrade procmail and any friends that need to be updated. That would > mostly likely miss most of the other updates that you are wanting to > skip for the moment. yeah... its a thought... but why emerge wor

[gentoo-user] Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm really sorry to keep beating on this portage stuff and I guess I must be something of a dimwit since I find just about anything to do with portage and emerge that is outside `emerge -flags whatever' to be really hard to catch on to, even though (and shouldn't admit this) I've been running gento

[gentoo-user] Re: Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > But if you consider it a hassle, just mask the buggy version of > procmail & forget about the problem. Thanks... I thought of something like that but then noticed there's only one version available in portage. At that point I downloaded the previous version *21* tar ball and

[gentoo-user] Re: Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev writes: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:59:53 -0500 > Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Isn't there a simple way to introduce the sed run in procmail sources >> during emerge? > > man 1 ebuild > ebuild /usr/portage/mail-filter/procmail configure > (do

[gentoo-user] Re: Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev writes: > man 1 ebuild > ebuild /usr/portage/mail-filter/procmail configure > (do-some-sed-in-/var/tmp) > ebuild /usr/portage/mail-filter/procmail merge Many thanks for the tips... and hugely usefull. But: Yikes I may have jumped the gun thinking I was good to go but at l

[gentoo-user] Re: How to veiw absolute latest on partage without syncing

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale writes: > I was thinking about NOT doing the emerge -u world part. That would > skip updating everything that has updates applied on your system. Doing > just a emerge -u procmail would only update procmail and the > dependencies if any are needed. > > Keep in mind, you can upgrade packag

[gentoo-user] Re: Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
"Arttu V." writes: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 16:22 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i486 -pipe -fno-inline-functions2 >> -march=i486 -pipe -fno-inline-functions _autotst.c -o _autotst >> -Wl,-O1 cc1: error: unrecognized command line

[gentoo-user] Re: Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-13 Thread Harry Putnam
"Arttu V." writes: > Is there a reason to use i486 stage3? I think an i686 one might have > been available and a better hit if your system is/was set up as an i686 > before this? Well, not that it counts now, gotta go with what you have > unpacked. Looking at those stages again... it is not appa

[gentoo-user] set local kenel version

2009-06-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Setting a version to local kernel builds has been discussed here so sorry to bang on it some more. I found information here from a previous thread and kept one of the answers but finding now that I don't really understand it. Or am doing the proceedure wrong. It was Neil B's post: From: Neil

[gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version

2009-06-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: >> So for linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r1 >> >> and in /usr/src/linux >> cat localverion1: >> _reader_ >> >> Cat .version: >> 1 >> And the symlink >> ls -l localversion2 >> lrwxrwxrwx [...] Jun 12 18:01 localversion2 -> .version >> I get this naming after a build: >> >> viml

[gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version

2009-06-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Saturday 13 June 2009 18:05:37 Harry Putnam wrote: >> > Is that a real mistake, or just a typo in your mail? >> >> Its a typo... I just checked to make sure though.. would have been nice if >> a real missnaming was the problem. >> &

[gentoo-user] apache dep apr no emerge

2009-06-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: pc 2.6.30-gentoo-r1_rdr_3 profile=default/linux/x86/2008.0 This a fresh install... just being built up now. Attempting to emerge apache, and breaking on the depenedency apr. Apparently something to do with not being able to determine `tagged configuration' Anyone recognize what

[gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Sebastian Günther writes: > * Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 16:41]: >> >> There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard >> emerge on a package that is outside the `~' daredevil stage and is not >> masked, it should `just work&#x

[gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Sebastian Günther writes: > * Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 16:41]: >> >> There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard >> emerge on a package that is outside the `~' daredevil stage and is not >> masked, it should `just work&#x

[gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Sebastian Günther writes: > First of all the bug is fixed, and a working patch was there 1 day after > the opening. I call this a fast response... > > For ~x86 this is a working solution, and if you use ~x86: b.g.o *is* the > users information system and applying patches should be no problem.

[gentoo-user] Whey two dangling symlinks /etc/init.d/ depscan.sh runscript.sh

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Putnam
This is a very new install but somehow I have two dangling symlinks in /etc/init.d. depscan.sh and runscript.sh Anyone know where these come from or if they are signs of a problem?

[gentoo-user] Installing apache with USE='-suexec'

2009-06-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Starting to emerge apache I see the default USE flags include -suexec. I'm not much of an apache buff but wondered if that would have a bad effect on allowing users to run cig scripts. I'm not even sure its related... but recall something dimly about using suexec to run such scripts.

[gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to understand all the info contained in its ouput. A quick search on `output' seems to miss it. Things like found in this output: eix ^apr$ * dev-libs/apr Available versions: (1) 1.2.11!t (~)1.2.12!t (~)1.3.0!t 1.3.2!t 1.3

[gentoo-user] Re: apache dep apr no emerge

2009-06-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > Setup: >pc >2.6.30-gentoo-r1_rdr_3 >profile=default/linux/x86/2008.0 > > This a fresh install... just being built up now. > Attempting to emerge apache, and breaking on the depenedency apr. > > Apparently something to do with

[gentoo-user] Re: Whey two dangling symlinks /etc/init.d/ depscan.sh runscript.sh

2009-06-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Montag 15 Juni 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: >> This is a very new install but somehow I have two dangling symlinks in >> /etc/init.d. >> >> depscan.sh and runscript.sh >> >> Anyone know where these come from or if th

[gentoo-user] Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Where do we list modules we want loaded at boot? When I run modprobe fuse WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/. /etc/modprobe.conf doesn't actually appear to have any modules listed but does list a herd of aliases for modules

[gentoo-user] Re: Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:31:23 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > >> > So if I want to load `fuse' at boot... where do it put it? > >> It's been the same as long as I've been using Gentoo the past 5 >> years: /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. This has always been in the >> hand

[gentoo-user] Re: Canonical place to list modules to load

2009-06-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Shields writes: > It's been the same as long as I've been using Gentoo the past 5 > years: /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. This has always been in the > handbook as long as I've been using Gentoo, too. Yeah... thats why I was confused. But as you see, things are different with baselay

[gentoo-user] Re: Sysloggers

2009-06-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick writes: > Perhaps rsyslog? > > http://www.rsyslog.com > > "Among others, it offers support for on-demand disk buffering, reliable > syslog over TCP, SSL, TLS and RELP, writing to databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, > Oracle, and many more), email alerti

[gentoo-user] need smbpasswd coaching

2009-06-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Its so seldom that I have to work on samba config I forget between times whatever steps are needed. This time I just copied an old config over to a new[ish] gentoo install. Now attempting to set smbpasswds. First I tried to give a windows client user name (but no such user on gentoo OS). Failed

[gentoo-user] Re: need smbpasswd coaching

2009-06-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > So next tried an actual Gentoo user name: > > smbpasswd reader > root # smbpasswd reader Gackkk I left out the all important -a Sorry for the line noise

[gentoo-user] gcc error compiling imagemagic

2009-06-24 Thread Harry Putnam
emerging imagemagick ... I hit this gcc error: [...] -L/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-6.5.2.9/work/ImageMagick-6.5.2-9/PerlMagick/../magick/.libs -lMagickCore -L/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-6.5.2.9/work/ImageMagick-6.5.2-9/PerlMagick/../wand/.libs -lMagickWand -lpe

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc error compiling imagemagic

2009-06-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > emerging imagemagick ... I hit this gcc error: > > [...] > > -L/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-6.5.2.9/work/ImageMagick-6.5.2-9/PerlMagick/../magick/.libs > -lMagickCore > -L/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-6.5.2.9/wor

[gentoo-user] Request for [OT] advice

2009-06-28 Thread Harry Putnam
How can I go about merging two bookmarks.html style files... and not lose any or duplicate any? I realize the de-duping part is probably not going to be all that thorough so maybe just at some level, remove dups. It seems with diff and patch I end up losing bookmarks. Also I'm not so sure I know

[gentoo-user] Still getting calls to gcc-i486

2009-07-14 Thread Harry Putnam
On a recent update world I get a failure on pycairo that appears to be the result of a call for gcc-i486. A month or more ago I went thru the process of changing /etc/make.conf from i486 to i686... deleting all instances of files with i486. I've lost track of where all the guff was located but

[gentoo-user] Re: Still getting calls to gcc-i486

2009-07-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: [...] >> i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: No such file or directory error: command >> 'i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 >> [...] > > did you run fix-libtool.sh? Doing so failed to help in any way. root # fix_libtool_files.sh `gcc -dumpversion` --oldarch i486

[gentoo-user] Re: Still getting calls to gcc-i486

2009-07-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: >> That went off without error, but then going back to update world fails >> at pycairo with same error message. > > you could grep for i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc I'm not sure what you had in mind there... or where to grep -r but a grep -r from `/' has run for several hou

[gentoo-user] Re: Still getting calls to gcc-i486

2009-07-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > Also ... anyone have another idea how to iron this out. I've done > everything suggested here in this thread but still cannot compile > pycairo successfully. How about it folks... anymore suggestions on this: emerge error: [...] building 'cairo._cairo&

[gentoo-user] Re: Still getting calls to gcc-i486

2009-07-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Heiko Wundram writes: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:13:01 -0500, Harry Putnam > wrote: >> >> So far I haven't found any instance of i486 files remaining on the >> system... what else might evoke that output? > > As I said: some Python makefile retains the refere

[gentoo-user] [OT] File merge tool

2009-07-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Summary: Any suggestions for a file merge tool? Details: I'd like to try just actually manually merging bookmarks.html files from different computers. Diff and Patch seem kind of hard or maybe impossible to use for this. If you have identical parts in different places they will just keep adding

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] File merge tool

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy Wright writes: > kdiff3 is my favorite graphical merge tool (hey, even have it running > on my macbook). > Thanks.. I'm pretty sure that would involve installing some part of kde which I'm not interested in doing. Just too much grind time when updating and not that much in return.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] File merge tool

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Justin writes: > > Along time I used tkdiff and it worked really fine, since yesterday I > swapped to the new package diffuse, which is actually the same in gtk. Now that does look usefull. Too bad I see no way to ignore differences in dates of the various entries. That seems to occur in many

[gentoo-user] Where to start with this kind of X problem

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
I've had X running and running xfce4 desktop for mnths. This is a single user machine on a home lan uptodate gentoo. Today I decided to create a new user and start an x session for that user. I moved to a virtual terminal Ctrl-alt-F2 Then copied the .xinitrc file I use to start xfce from my nor

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > How can I have all these module problems but have no trouble booting > as my regular user? > > It must be something else causing the error? I'm not understanding > why one user can startx but not another on the same hardware and same > .initrc file.

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > I'm backing up xorg-server to pre 1.6.1.902 to see it that does any > good but have a hunch it will involve more reinstalls than that. Seems to have cured the problem... now able to start multiple X sessions on different displays

[gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-26 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm not that familiar with nfs usage ... only used lightly a few times. I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). Also has the set-gid bit set. ls -ld /projects drwxr-sr-x 2 reader wheel 48 Jun 24 07:08 /projec

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

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > There is nothing much you can do about this except: > > Renumber your gid's locally to match the nfs server, > or renumber the nfs share gids to match your local machine Looking into that I noticed, as you thought the gid of the share on solaris is alphabetic wheel but nu

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

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > Further to A McK's reply, suggest use of `ls -ln`. > > Assuming the -n is supported on Slowaris all will become clear. > But after the changes mentioned in a reply to Alan M. it now shows the same on both the source /projects (on solaris) and the mounted nfs /projects on gent

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

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: [...] >> Logging my user out and back in I see the gid 15 now is wheel so the >> same as solaris. > > When you do this, you only change the username attached to the gid. Remember > that the filesystem does not know or care what username you use, it only > knows > about g

[gentoo-user] check for nfs systems offered for mounting

2009-07-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Is there anyway to check for nfs filesystems that are mountable? Something like smbclient can do for cifs/smb shares. equery tools nfs-utils doesn't show anything likely.

[gentoo-user] Re: How send mail when user login on ssh or local ?

2009-07-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Vagner Rodrigues writes: > Hi Folks ! > > > Somebody know how I to so send mail with IP and Date/time when same > user login on shell ( remote or local ) ? > > I work with another admin's and I never told me when they access and > for what my server to do something, I try log but this

[gentoo-user] Firefox - Couldn't Load XPCOM

2009-08-02 Thread Harry Putnam
This must be a known issue, but I don't see recent messages that appear to be about this problem with firefox. Over the last few updates I'm unable to run firefox at all. If called from cmdline I see: firefox Couldn't load XPCOM. I read somewhere it might have something to do with Xulrunner. B

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox - Couldn't Load XPCOM

2009-08-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > This must be a known issue, but I don't see recent messages that > appear to be about this problem with firefox. > > Over the last few updates I'm unable to run firefox at all. > > If called from cmdline I see: > firefox > Couldn

[gentoo-user] How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle quicktime videos. I understand I need mplayer to be installed but haven't been able to emerge it. I'm hoping someone will recognize what this problem is... I certainly do not. But I do see others having trouble related to multi-co

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > > I'm surprised you emerged mplayer with USE="-quicktime", since the > purpose of doing so is to play Quicktime videos. > :P emerge came up with those setting... I just didn't change it.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle >> quicktime videos. [...] Paul wrote: > Seems to possibly be related to win32codecs and/or quicktime USE flag. > Try en

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 08/29/2009 10:59 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Stroller writes: >> >>> >>> I'm surprised you emerged mplayer with USE="-quicktime", since the >>> purpose of doing so is to play Quicktime videos. >>>

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > Actually, I think there used to be an mplayer USE flag that behaved in > exactly this way - it was associated with RealPlayer &/or their > codecs. > > However I would assume this to be the exception rather than the rule, > and one would generally assume that USE="x y z" adds su

[gentoo-user] keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
How can I copy and paste with the keybard between application windows. I think I remember knowing how to do this at some time in the past but now just coming up blank as to how. I want to copy something in Emacs... ok .. no problem.. there are many ways with keyboard inside emacs. Now I want to p

[gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Frank Steinmetzger writes: > Am Sonntag, 30. August 2009 schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> Now I want to paste whats on the clipboard into an Xterm cmd line, >> without going to the mouse. >> >> I'm running recent Xfce4 desktop... but not finding a way to do this. >

[gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Jesús Guerrero writes: [...] >> will navigate to next and to previous link and I see >> they are selected... but I find no keyboard action that does whatever a >> mouse click does to hyperlinks...[/quote] > > That entirely depends on the browser you use. But usually it's enter > once you have

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > You have it wrong. A not unusual state of affairs for me, I'll admit. After several yrs on gentoo... I still don't understand fully the use of the USE flags. > "USE=" is supposed to add *support* for , not > necessarily *install* something called . Whatever > means in

[gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Jesús Guerrero writes: > On Sun, August 30, 2009 19:52, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Jesús Guerrero writes: >> >> >> [...] >> >> >>>> will navigate to next and to previous link and I >>>> see they are selected... but I find n

[gentoo-user] USE flags confusing on emerge gimp

2009-09-04 Thread Harry Putnam
After some resent discussion here of USE in thread: Subject: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox I'm a little confused by what I see when investigating the emerge of gimp (wrapped for mail). Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] media-libs/babl-0.0.22 USE="-mmx -

[gentoo-user] After yrs of silence... I need sound

2009-09-06 Thread Harry Putnam
I've gone literally for yrs with no sound on my desktop machines I rarely find a need for it. But now I'm trying to take some online courses and find trying to work on windows machine when coding and other sorts of editor intensive stuff is involved... I really feel much more adept on linux.

[gentoo-user] Re: After yrs of silence... I need sound

2009-09-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: [...] > Hoping some kind sole will take the time to provide a brief outline > off the top of there head... how to get started and cut right to the > chase in an hour or two. > [...] Thanks too: Arttu V., Dale, Mick, Joshua Murphy That alsaconf is way cool...

[gentoo-user] mplayer and sound in firefox during playback

2009-09-08 Thread Harry Putnam
I've installed mplayer and am able to play back online vidoes like quicktime. However, I get no sound. Playing the same file retrieved from browser cache, directly with mplayer, works with sound. What do I need to do with firefox to get the sound of videos? I have the gecko-media player inst

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer and sound in firefox during playback

2009-09-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 09/09/2009 10:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 01:49:15 Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I've installed mplayer and am able to play back online vidoes like >>> quicktime. However, I get no sound. >>>

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 07:14:02 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > >> I've decided to stop using KDE after yrs of use... given that gentoo >> compiles everything from scratch, its just getting to much time lost >> jack

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 09:06:20 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > >> You seem hell bent on picking a fight with me. But I'm not biting. > > Wow, calm down. I was just curious. Not buying Dirk. > Hmm, you already c

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But why attacking Dirk for his valid question? The OP has complained > in two threads about compiling. If you don't like compiling, gentoo > is not for you. If Dirk wants to ask a question about why people should not use gentoo if they don't like

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Harry Putnam
"Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It doesn't seem like a complain, if you read it like you would really answer > it. > > It wast just a comment to justify the question. I don't see a reason > to question his comment. Gentoo is about choice (not just compiling), > and this thread is

[gentoo-user] Re: Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:45:04PM +, Mick wrote: >> Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) >> >> What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? > > I like rdiff-backup, which gives

[gentoo-user] Re: tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 00:05:56 schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> I did try `cfg-update' but I thought it was really slow. > > Slow? For me it's blazingly fast. I opened this thread back up to eat a little crow. Now

[gentoo-user] Display all global Use flags in force

2008-11-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Is there a command that will display all global USE flags? I can see whats in /etc/make.conf and my 2008.0 profile at make.defaults and the profiles package.use. Are there more?

[gentoo-user] startx fails with config/hal error

2008-11-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having what appears to be a problem starting X, that produces no a single error clear at the end of Xorg.0.log: [...] (II) Mouse0: Setting mouse protocol to "ExplorerPS/2" (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null)) (II

[gentoo-user] Re: startx fails launching KDE 4

2008-11-21 Thread Harry Putnam
"Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Result of startx &> xlog; cat xlog : > hostname: Host name lookup failure I'm not sure how much this may help you problem. But have you made changes to your /etc/hosts file recently. You might post the first line of it here.

[gentoo-user] Re: startx fails launching KDE 4

2008-11-21 Thread Harry Putnam
"Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2008-11-21, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Result of startx &> xlog; cat xlog : >> > hostname: Host name look

[gentoo-user] Re: startx fails launching KDE 4

2008-11-21 Thread Harry Putnam
"Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Host lookup has nothing to do with this. > Last time I checked, kde doesn't do anything with dnsdomainname. > Also, I don't even have /etc/{init.d,conf.d}/domainname . It must have some amount to do with it: >>> hostname: Host name lookup failure Wa

[gentoo-user] Re: startx fails launching KDE 4

2008-11-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Host lookup has nothing to do with this. >> Last time I checked, kde doesn't do anything with dnsdomainname. >> Also, I don't even have /etc/{init.d

[gentoo-user] dual booting 2 gentoo installations

2008-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm just having second doubts about how to dual boot 2 gentoo installations. Can I just edit grub from the original install and add the appropriate kernal line like: title=kernel-2.6.27-r3-0x31a-1280x1024 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.27-r3 root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywra

[gentoo-user] Re: dual booting 2 gentoo installations

2008-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 24 November 2008 23:04:54 Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm just having second doubts about how to dual boot 2 gentoo >> installations. >> >> Can I just edit grub from the original install and add the appropria

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