Re: [gentoo-user] equery

ffice computer. It is consistent... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Don't think it's in the docs; I know about it from reading my emerge output. The recommendation to run /usr/sbin/python-updater is in the einfo displayed at the end of a Python emerge (in the case you just updated from 2.2.x to 2.3.x). So I remembered th

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Running a script to update Perl&Python modules is a common issue after updating them (Perl&Python) to a new (specially) major version. Try the testing (~x86) version of gentoolkit it *may* work. It doesn't. I had already tried it. For dependency check

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Paul Varner wrote: I believe that you are running into bug #90680 Maybe not. I tried again while running "top" and memory usage din't go over 4.8%... Thanks, Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] KDE preferences

etc-update... The only thing I can think of is that I didn't emerge some package necessary to import preferences from previous version. Is there some solution? (Or is it time to give up on kde entirely?) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Christoph Eckert wrote: I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using the new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what I thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my normal user's  preferences! AFAIK Gentoo allows to run two KD

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:07:45 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using the new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what I thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:38:24 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: When kde started the first time, the wizard showed its face and I told it to quit (didn't want to lose my preferences, of course). You didn't have any preferences, that's

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:45:17 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 Nope. Nope what? Nope, it didn't work? nope you didn't try it? Didn't work. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Norberto Bensa wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: My best guess is that you didn't emerge whichever component is responsible for this. I think it is kdebase-startkde It was emerged. Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Try again (while logged out of KDE): rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 rm ~/.kde ln -s .kde3.4 ~/.kde Your .kde is a dir, it should be a symlink. Yes, I noticed that on my home box. Will give it a try, when I can (I won't be accessing the

[gentoo-user] Can't compile gcc

" I tried with CFLAGS="" and still nothing. The system has been giving some trouble, that's why I thought the problem might be with gcc, having run out of ideas (e.g., to compile lshw I had to remove '-pipe' from CFLAGS). I also tried removing /var/tmp/portage/gcc* -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't compile gcc

ot;-doc". Something is still very much wrong. Perhaps you need to remove something from your USE flags to keep doxygen from running during the gcc build, or try giving it enough time to complete. Thanks for the reply. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] glib with nptl

is normal for glib? If so, what can I do to provide the missing libraries? (I know my system is somewhat broken, I'm just trying to fix it be emerging some packages I suppose might be relevant...) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Frank Schafer wrote: Did you an ``emerge --newuse world'' before you tried to install further packages? Just a thought. I think I've seen nptl mentioned in the installation log of glibc. What if glibc don't know about this? Frank PS: I could be wrong. Don't have a gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Montag, 12. September 2005 12:48 schrieb Jorge Almeida: I added nptl to my USE variables and tried to emerge glib. you must re-emerge glibc, when adding nptl to your USE. glib does not use the nptl USE-variable ;) Yes, I did that

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Uwe Thiem wrote: Did you see that the error occurred in glibc? glibc compiled without errors, at least without fatal errors visible at the end. Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Catalin Trifu wrote: Hi, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Migrate_to_NPTL Have you tried it ? I read it. Can't emerge world, because some packages will fail (e.g. mozilla). That's why I'm trying to fix the system package by package. I did emerge glibc and other pack

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I think this happens because my system is broken, God knows where and why. Can you post the contents of /var/tmp/portage/glib-2.6.5/work/glib-2.6.5/config.log? I'm sending it to you off list (4302 lines!) This s

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Richard Fish wrote: If so, I suspect hardware problems: 1. Dirty/bad CPU fan. Try blowing out your system. 2. Bad memory. In addition to memtest86, there was another (and better) memory test script discussed on this list some weeks ago. Search the archives, or maybe s

[gentoo-user] partitioning from Knoppix

5 type ext3 (rw) So, what went wrong? And is there any way to force use of the new table, other than rebooting? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning from Knoppix

problem with many versions of linux, > including Gentoo, so that shouldn't be a problem using any modern distro. > Same here. The 1024 issue has proven not to be one. Although I keep the /boot partition in the beginning... > Robert Crawford > Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning from Knoppix [SOLVED]

da is consistent. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning from Knoppix

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 09:36:36 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > So, what went wrong? And is there any way to force use of the new table, > > other than rebooting? > > hdparm -z /dev/hda forces the kernel to try to re-re

[gentoo-user] imlib error

ypt cups curl doc gif jpeg jpeg2k kde ncurses nls nptl opengl pam perl pic png python qt readline ssl tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY revdep-rebuild show no errors... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] imlib error

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > Jorge Almeida schreef: > > I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: > > > > checking for gif_lib.h... no configure: error: *** GIF header not > > found *** > > I don't use kde-meta, but I went to

[gentoo-user] java nightmare

t;mozilla" was set; the emerge says that the former USE variable is the latter renamed... What to do? Can I safely ignore the revdep-rebuild messages? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

o tell revdep-rebuild to ignore a package? it's > really not comfortable to run revdep-rebuild -p and then manually > re-install the packages that complain (because I don't want it to > re-install opera every time). > I usually emerge those packages directly with emerge---s

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > You might consider the alternate route of removing the offending > libjsoundalsa.so file. > > Of course, rather than simply /bin/rm'ing the thing away you might want to > just relocate it temporarily. Then do a revdep-rebuild -p to see if blackdown

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

nth that is Sun's site. _No Sun._ Thanks for the reply, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

sle repulsive. After all, they're not charging for the product, so what's the point of making downloading such a pain? Stupid, if they ask me, which they don't, of course. Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > I'm installing gentoo from a Knoppix disk. I'm in the chroot > > environment now. I tried to download the thing using Firefox. It died > > quietly, probably because user knoppix has no permissions to write > > to the disk. > > Huh? Am I missing somet

[gentoo-user] xorg.conf

out" Identifier "Simple Layout" Screen "Screen 1" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection The last lines of /var/log/Xorg.0.log : [29] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x00

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf [SOLVED]

It seems it's a known bug. I emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" and it works now. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Matan Peled wrote: > > Just emerge alsa-headers and alsa-lib. > Did it. It's OK now, no more complaints from revdep-rebuild. I emerged (before) sun-jdk-1.4.2.09, but it didn't change anything. Thank you, Matan and Dave. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf [SOLVED]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > Jorge Almeida schreef: > > It seems it's a known bug. I emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx > > with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" and it works now. > > > > Glad that worked for you, but please now remember to

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > One thing to check is do you have any /dev/nv* devices? There was a thread in > the forums on this which has a script for recreating them and another thread > on this list in which I posted it. > That was it. I found the thread, that's why I emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf [SOLVED]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > The solution for your stated preference is to unmask the packages' > keyword in /etc/portage/package.keywords, and mask all versions of the > package above the one you have now, so that they do not appear if an > update occurs and you do not want to u

[gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

27;m writing "-*" at the beginning of the USE declaration in /etc/make.conf, but I can't avoid the feeling that this may be a Bad Thing. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > Afaik, they are set by /etc/make/profile/make.defaults, and > overridden/added to > globally by /etc/make.conf, and individually by /etc/portage/package.use. > The handbook http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2 says they co

[gentoo-user] translucency bork

because I don't know how to do that...) I don't know whether the fault is kwin's or baghira's. I really like the customization QT allows and the looks of baghira... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

makes sense, because if you're > installing science apps, you'll probably want it, and if you're not I probably won't, unless I'm a biologist, and a molecular one. OTH, I'll probably want tetex, which is not in the default list. > > Regards, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] amanda client

t small emerges?) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-user-es] unsubscribe

://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/ > > NO! > That's a cruel thing to say. You might be nice and point him to the HOWTO of Anthony Gorecky. -- Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] amanda client

h to > make one for you (or you can always nudge the package maintainer). > I wouldn't expect anyone to write an ebuild _only_ for me. I suppose few gentooers need only the client side of amanda. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

be used with gentoo :)) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I'm thinking of purchasing a "Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk > > Box 3.5 (CHD3U)", together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. > > Anyone has any experience with this? The

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) > > > CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) > > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) > > > > Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > One thing: you must be very careful of the power supply and requirements of > the HD. I have several models of external chassis that provide 12V 1.7A of > power, and this is insufficient for modern (and _large_) disks, and will > result in disk read a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: top quotes, html mail, and binary jokes

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, kashani wrote: > usefulness for the inarticulate), and top posting (I blame Pine). Why? > -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: top quotes, html mail, and binary jokes

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, kashani wrote: > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, kashani wrote: usefulness for the inarticulate), and > > > top posting (I blame Pine). > > > > Why? > > The semi-factual answer is because bottom posting was the

[gentoo-user] file with IP?

Anyone knows whether the current (dynamical) IP is stored in some text file? I know I can find the IP with ifconfig, but if the value were stored in some file I could setup a service to monitor the file for changes and take appropriate actions on change of IP. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

t; > May be a good idea. Will give it a try next weekend. Until then, I'm on a computer with static IP, and I can't really check the other suggestions. Thanks to everyone who replied. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] usermod broken?

ll matter, something I never really understood; but what about the need to edit /etc/group?) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

dr://'|sed -e 's/\s.*$//' -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] alsa-lib fails to compile

cdr crypt curl directfb doc dri dvd dvdread fbcon gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib java javaperl jpeg jpeg2k kde lm_sensors maildir mime motif ncurses nls nptl nsplugin offensive opengl pam pdflib pic png posix python qt readline recode scanner ssl tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xmljpeg zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-lib fails to compile

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Petteri Räty wrote: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112412 > So just emerge sync again and it should work. > Thank you, will try it ASAP. I'm compiling mozilla-thunderbird now, and it will take a while :) Jorge

[gentoo-user] compiling problems

-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdb cdparanoia cdr crypt curl directfb doc dri dvd dvdread fbcon gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib java javaperl jpeg jpeg2k kde lm_sensors maildir mime motif ncurses nls nptl nsplugin offensive opengl pam pdflib png posix python qt readline recode scanner ssl tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xmljpeg zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling problems

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > Probably not, because it isn't gcc that is failing...it is > gtkdoc-mkhtml, and it is running out of memory. > > You can either merge gtk with USE=-doc, which will skip this step, or > use MAKEFLAGS=-j1, which will run only one process at a time, and > r

[gentoo-user] confused udev?

;L250R0*", NAME="external_hd%n" I tried also SYSFS_vendor instead of SYSFS{vendor} ... $ mount -t auto /dev/plextor_memstick1 /mnt/maxtor/ $ ls /mnt/maxtor/ lost+found -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 10:26 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida: > > > I have a USB memory stick and an external USB box with an IDE disk. > > I configured udev to assign device names to both items, or so I thought. > > The

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 13:43 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida: > > > CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y > > (...) > > Did you also enable the sub options? No, since none appeared to have much to do with my devices. > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/17/05, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/40-my.rules > > BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="PLEXTOR ", SYSFS_model="PlexFlash-2*", > > NAME=

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > Can you post your current rules. Also, don't forget Dirk's suggestion > regarding BUS=="usb" instead of scsi. > > You could use the SYMLINK target instead of changing the name. Something > like: > > BUS=="usb" ... NAME="%k", SYMLINK="plextor_memsti

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > Hmm, looks ok. Could you set udev_log=7 in /etc/udev/udev.conf, and > post the entries that are added to /var/log/messages when you turn on > the hard drive. > $ tail -F /var/log/kernel/current Nov 17 17:41:51 [kernel] usb-storage: -- transfer complete N

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > important. If you have USB and the other drivers built as modules, > reload them and try again. If they are built into your kernel, > reboot. > This is Chaos. On reboot, /dev/external_hd and /dev/external_hd1 exist. I mounted the disk with no problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > Hmm, do you RC_DEVICE_TARBALL set in /etc/conf.d/rc? That would cause > something like this, and I recommend setting it to "no" for a pure > udev setup. > Yes, it was there since the time it was recommended. I changed it and rebooted. The memstick node

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > I'm not sure what the problem could be then. Maybe something in your > kernel configuration. Could you post the output of: > > grep "=[ym]" /usr/src/linux/.config > CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 17:19 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida: > > > Did it. Upon reboot, I had /dev/external_hd and /dev/external_hd1, but > > only /dev/plextor_memstick (i.e., no mountable /dev/plextor_memstick1). > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > > $ mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/pen > > mount: /dev/sdb1: can't read superblock > > This looks like artifacts from an old, static /dev (RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" > in /etc/conf.d/rc ?). With udev, you should only see sdb and exactly one > sdbX for

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > According to the dmesg output you posted earlier, your memory stick is > not partitioned. This is ok, some are, some are not. You can confirm > this by taking a look at /proc/partitions when it is inserted, or the > output of "fdisk -l". So, only get

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > So if it really is partitioned, we'll have to figure out why the > kernel is not seeing your partition table. I would be interested to > see the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' with the stick inserted. > No /dev/sda. But there exists /dev/plextor_memst

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > Ok, do dmesg and /proc/partitions agree that there is a partition > there? If not, then the problem is that the kernel is not recognizing No... > your partition table. I would suggest: > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 > > fdisk /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/23/05, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this time. This is just totally unreliable. I guess I'll boot from > > KNOPPIX, to see whether it may be a kernel problem... > > Yes, do that. And if it work

[gentoo-user] NVIDIA updating weirdness

! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NVIDIA updating weirdness

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Dave Jones wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote on 03/25/06 10:00: $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask >media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 >media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3 is the current ~x86 version, and works fine with gentoo-sources-2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] NVIDIA updating weirdness

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Dave Jones wrote: With the > you're masking out *all* versions *higher* that 1.0.7676-r1, which is probably not what you want. If you want to mask out a specific version, do that with an = in front of the version. OK, so I simply don't need a line in package.mask, packag

[gentoo-user] firefox+gmail crash

Firefox is crashing when I'm reading a message in Gmail and I click some link in the message. Anyone else has been experiencing this? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox+gmail crash

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, louis brazeau wrote: I've been using Firefox (www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r4) for a while and I don't have any problems with links in Gmail. Which version are you using ? Precisely the same as you. My system is updated (stable version). I can right-click and "open wi

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox+gmail crash

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, JimD wrote: Try starting Firefox from a command line in safe mode: firefox -safe-mode Nope. Did that and it keeps crashing. The URL is http://pyropus.ca/personal/writings/12-steps-to-qmail-list-bliss.html Tried with Konqueror and it works... Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

[gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

parent.sh #!/bin/bash /path/to/child.sh When parent.sh receives a TERM signal, I would like child.sh to receive TERM also, and then parent.sh receive TERM. The part is why I can't use "exec /path/to/child.sh". Is there some way to achieve t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

trap 'kill ; exit 1' TERM But how to find out the PID of child? What would be convenient is a way to send signals "recursively" to a process and its children. Maybe I'm trying to solve a problem with wrong tools... Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

On Tue, 2 May 2006, Zac Slade wrote: You can find the PID of the last backgrouned process using the bash variable $! The child is not backgrounded! So something like: subprocess & $pid=$! Using trap along with maybe setting alarms should get you what you want. Based on the suggestions of U

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

signal handler. Other processes *might* reuse the PID afterwards and might get sig-TERM-ed until resetting the signal handler again. Probably a minor, depending on the script's usage. Precisely the kind of thing I want to avoid. I think I need to reformulate my setup. Thanks. Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] kill a child and suicide

ng child is completed, which is not what I want (as reply of Hans-Werner). Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Christopher Fisk wrote: It's just bash scripting, just tell bash to exec child.sh in the background. /path/to/child.sh & Nope. I need the child in the foreground, so that its output and stderr goes to multilog. Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] kill a child and suicide

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: * Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03/05/06 19:30]: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: You can use 'kill 0' to send a signal to your own process group. Something like this: #!/bin/sh trap 'kill 0;exit' TERM echo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

parent process (I think); once the latter exits, I don't think the other process will be accessible. Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

her process will be accessible. It doesn't exit. It's just a shell built-in "wait" (no, in fact, it is a glibc built-in "wait"). The file handles are kind of dup'ed, so multilog should work just fine. Thanks again. Writing to this list is never a waste of time! -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Zac Slade wrote: On Wednesday 03 May 2006 16:04, Jorge Almeida wrote: But I won't be able to use svc to interact with the child. That's why I feel I must reformulate the whole setup. If you need deeper interaction with a child process then you might need to lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] kill a child and suicide

before inside This seems to agree with the comment of Hans-Werner about the man page. Can't imagine why it's different to you. Is /bin/sh a symlink to /bin/bash, or are you using another shell? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

for other frills: I open and close konsole windows via keyboard shortcuts, so it's easier to open a new window than a new tab (unless there is a way to open, close and cycle through tabs via keyboard, which I don't know...). -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

..) Not bad. It may be convenient to use tabs instead of new windows sometimes, to save desktop space or to simplify cycling trough windows... I never had a real look at the functionallities of Konsole... Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Alexander Skwar wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I don't have much use for other frills: I open and close konsole windows via keyboard shortcuts, so it's easier to open a new window than a new tab (unless there is a way to open, close and cycle through tabs via keybo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Justin Findlay wrote: + On 5/10/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize text colors (directories, symlinks,etc).

[gentoo-user] post-tetex?

Anyone has any idea about what will be the gentoo way to cope with the no-more-tetex issue? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] post-tetex?

On Tue, 30 May 2006, Bertrand Jacquin wrote: On 5/30/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone has any idea about what will be the gentoo way to cope with the no-more-tetex issue? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38615/match=gentoo+dev+tetex Thanks, Dani

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Any way to run files through procmail?

will process them when the come back in. procmail [-m /path/to/your/procmailrc] < /path/to/message This will deliver the message contained in the individual file /path/to/message. You'll have to iterate over all such files. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] vmware install fails

e visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html"; and "http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html";. Execution aborted. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install fails

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Mauro Faccenda wrote: do you have something like noexec on your /tmp partition? Indeed, and that was it. Remounting solved the problem. Thank you. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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