Hi all,
Complements of the season.
I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I have
noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time instead of
updating only the changes. I am wondering if rsync has changed. I have
read the man pages but am not quite sure if I u
On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:43:32 +0000, Paul Stear wrote:
> > I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I
> > have noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time
> > instead of updating on
On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> --one-file-system
Hi Neil,
Still not sure what the above will produce, I didn't find the man page
very readable. Take sys for example, if it is saying that the directory
would be created, would I still need to exclude everything under it?.
I
> Neil has handled this... I wanted to include the rsync syntax to
> collect only directories... full or empty:
>
> So to collect all the directories regardless of your excludes
> put this before any excludes:
> --include=/**/
>
> The trailing slash confines it to direcotories only.
Thanks for
On Friday 28 December 2007, Roman Zilka wrote:
> > symlink
> > "/mnt/external/OneFileSystemBackup/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libopcod
> >es.so" -> "/usr/lib32/binutils/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/libopcodes.so"
> > failed: Operation not permitted (1)
>
> This is most likely caused by the FAT filesystem o
Hi all,
For the best part of the week I have not received any mail from the amd64
list.
Is there a problem?
Paul
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Hello all,
I have the above tablet and have been trying to get it working with Gentoo.
The problem seems to be that the kernel driver is USB and all instructions I
can find seem to concentrate on the USB versions of Wacom products. I am
using:
Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop,
On Monday 29 September 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> Don't rely on this script to much. Because it works for me must not
> mean it does for you. I have tested some cases and I worked every time
> until now. So verify the output of a manual "emerge -pv --depclean
> " on the "unneeded" entry first
Sorry for posting this again but can anybody help?
How do I find out what 451 Temporary Local Problem is?
Paul
Hello all,
Sometime ago I stopped receiving elog mail messages.
The error in the log is:-
sendmail: RCPT TO: (451 Temporary local problem - please
try later)
!!! PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND fa
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 11:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Nistor Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'm experiencing some
> > weird behaviour in Amarok. The problem is that with some songs the length
> > is not displayed. I'm unable
Is it possible to copy the kmail mail folders/messages so that they can be
read by opera's mail client?
Thanks for any replies
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Hi,
Sorry to bother you but I am missing the use of musicbrainz in amarok 1.4.0
using kde 3.5.2 on an amd64 platform.
When will we get it back?
If it's a question of testing I would like to volunteer my services (as a
user).
kind regards
Paul
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Hi all,
I have a new install of xine on an amd64 system.
I have a new dvd (Silent Hill) that starts and then errors with the
following:-
The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. Your DVD is probably crypted.
According to your country laws, you can or can't install/use libdvdcss to be
ab
Hi all,
My amd64 based setup seems to be working fine but I have just noticed an error
during the boot process.
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
Unable to handle kernel paging request at c203cf5d RIP:
{:fdomain:__fdomain_16x0_detect+416}
PGD
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 19:12, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:24:48 -0700, Grant wrote:
> > I tried using vobcopy to decrypt my "The Life of Mammals" dd images
> > and, strangely, it's not working. vobcopy outputs the same error that
> > dvdbackup did, something about an error
On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 15:36, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the message:
> > symlink "/mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0" ->
> > "libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0.1.0" failed: Operation not supported
> >
On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 18:19, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Paul Stear wrote:
> >> I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs
> >
> > I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks.
>
> It
On Friday 10 Mar 2006 14:42, Harry Putnam wrote:
snip
>
> I don't really understand the relationship between what you call a
> server and the actual disks. How is it different from just having the
> disks on an USB port?
The external USB discs have a USB connector that plugs into the Linksys
netw
snip
> The external USB discs have a USB connector that plugs into the Linksys
> network storage box, that in turn is connected to my network switch as are
> my linux and my windows boxes.
snip
I have connected one of the discs directly to the usb port.
fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 2
Hi all,
I am trying to rsync to a remote server with the command:
rsync -Cav --delete --progress /test lkd5f:/test
but I get the following error messages:
ssh: connect to host lkd5f port 22: Connection refused
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: er
but get the same errors. I thought ssh was used
by default.
How do I check if the remote machine allows ssh?
> Paul Stear wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >I am trying to rsync to a remote server with the command:
> >rsync -Cav --delete --progress /test lkd5f:/test
> >but I get th
y
device.homenet.com. If I then click on the device I get 3 icons NFS SMB HTTP
If I click on SMB the location changes to smb://device.homenet.com and I can
copy any files I want - even links seem to work
I'm sure there must be a simple answer to this
Paul
> >>Paul Stear wrote:
>
The root of all my rsync/network problems is a permissions problem
The /mnt/network is
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Mar 13 13:24 test
After I mount using
mount -t smbfs -o
username=paul,password=pass //LKG7DDD5F/gentoobackup /mnt/network
the /mnt/network permissions have change to
drwxr-xr-x
snip all
Hi,
The mystery gets deeper, every time I mounted the network storage server disk
and rsync'd I had a lot of errors. It appears that the mount point was
changing permissions every time I mounted.
I want all of the directories and files to retain the original privileges
during the rsyn
Hi all,
I am so dumb. I partitioned a new disk for 1 large partition, I then needed
to make a file system and by mistake I entered
mke2fs -j /dev/sda and ignored the warning. I soon discovered that I didn't
have any partition so I created it again with fdisk and the made the file
system correc
On Thursday 16 Mar 2006 12:01, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:10 +0000 Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB
> > disk) I get 2 icons on my kde desktop
On Thursday 16 Mar 2006 18:58, Rick van Hattem wrote:
> dd if=/dev/zero
> of=/dev/sda bs=1k count=100
Thanks for the help
That worked It is now only showing sda1
Paul
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Hi,
I am in the process of updating my system to ~x86 and have reached 28 out of
388 packages. The emerge stopped with the following error
Error: Failed to import module 'portage_db_cdb.database'
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1290, in load_best_module
mod = load_mod(best_mod
> Mhh, are you using cdb with portage ? if yes, try "mv
> /etc/portage/modules /etc/portage/__modules".
>
> AFAIK, cdb doesn't work with portage-2.1*
>
> regards,
>
> Boris.
Thanks for the reply, I had just worked it out and now am emerging normally.
Thanks
Paul
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Hi all,
For some time now I have been getting errors on boot.
1. This happens a number of times:-
udev-event [1777]:find_free_number: %e is deprecated, will be removed and is
unlikely to work correctly. Don't use it
What does this mean and how do I fix it?
1. etc/modules.devfs not automa
Hi all,
After upgrading to kde 3.5 amarok will not start, also I have had juk fail
with the same lib error.
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
I am using :- Portage 2.1_rc4-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla,
glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686)
Paul
/usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkhtml.so: un
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 16:10, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On 06 June 2006 15:43, Paul Stear wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > After upgrading to kde 3.5 amarok will not start, also I have had juk
> > fail with the same lib error.
> > Any ideas on how to resolve this?
> > I am usi
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 16:10, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On 06 June 2006 15:43, Paul Stear wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > After upgrading to kde 3.5 amarok will not start, also I have had juk
> > fail with the same lib error.
> > Any ideas on how to resolve this?
> > I am usi
Hi all,
I am logged into kde 3.5.3 as a user and when I run the superuser konsole I am
asked for root's password, this I enter as normal but I get the following
error message:-
configuration error - unknown item 'GETPASS_ASTERISKS' (notify administrator)
It still works for emerges etc.
Is this a
Hi all,
I moved my /var to a new disk and now amarok will nor work because it can't
connect to mysql
Can't connect to local MySQL server through
socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
If I /etc/init.d/mysql stop
* Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
* WARNING
Sorry if this is duplicate but I don't think the original arrived.
Hi all,
I moved my /var to a new disk and now amarok will nor work because it can't
connect to mysql
Can't connect to local MySQL server through
socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
If I /etc/init.d/mysql stop
* Caching serv
On Monday 12 June 2006 12:09, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> > So it looks as if I have really screwed up moving /var
> > The /var/run/mysql directory is empty
>
> Check the permissions on /var/run/mysql.
> It should be owned by mysql.
> What's in mysql logs? They're probably in /var/log/mysql
>
> Sa
Hi all,
I have just tried to use eix but all I'm getting is Found 0 matches.
I have updated eix
update-eix
Reading Portage settings ..
Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch ..
[0] /usr/portage/ (cache: cdb)
Reading 100%
[1] /usr/local/portage/ (cache: none)
Reading 100%
Applying
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:19, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:27:48 +0100, Paul Stear wrote:
> > I have just tried to use eix but all I'm getting is Found 0 matches.
> > I have updated eix
>
> Have you switched to portage 2.1? If so, the cdb
Hi,
I am running an ~x86 system and yesterday I did an emerge world, all went well
until the next time I booted. kdm ran but the screen just had a flashing
loggin box. I could not even get another terminal using alt F1-F7. So I am
faced with not being able to loggin at all. This raises a few q
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:05, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote:
> > 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state?
> > What tools do I need?
>
> In this case, all you need to do is boot without X, or SSH in f
Hi all,
emerging samba results in the following error:-
!!! ERROR: net-fs/samba-3.0.22-r2 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1545: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 940: Called src_compile
samba-3.0.22-r2.ebuild, line 104: Called
econf '--with-fhs' '--sysconfdir=/etc/samba' '--locals
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 13:09, you wrote:
> Hi all,
> emerging samba results in the following error:-
> !!! ERROR: net-fs/samba-3.0.22-r2 failed.
> Call stack:
> ebuild.sh, line 1545: Called dyn_compile
> ebuild.sh, line 940: Called src_compile
> samba-3.0.22-r2.ebuild, line 104: Call
Hi all,
I have just tried to use my scanner for the first time in months and it is not
recognized. However, if I run xscanimage as root it all works well.
I have read the man pages and my setup seems to be correct scanimage -L find
the scanner as root but not as a user.
My conclusion is that I
On Saturday 08 July 2006 14:45, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote:
> Hi
>
> Normally, you have to be in the scanner group. You should try gpasswd -a
> scanner and then logout and login.
>
> Gian
>
> Am Samstag, 8. Juli 2006 13:16 schrieb Paul Stear:
> > Hi all,
> > I h
On Saturday 08 July 2006 16:45, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> SYSFS{product}=="CanoScan", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="Canon", GROUP:="scanner",
> MODE:="0660"
Neil,
Thanks that's just what I'm looking for.
SYSFS{product}=="0x0808", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="0x04b8", GROUP:="scanner",
MODE:="0660"
But where do I p
On Saturday 08 July 2006 20:05, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > But where do I put this?
Hi,
Neil advised that in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules I enter the following:-
SYSFS{product}=="USB MFP", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="EPSON", GROUP:="scanner",
MODE:="0660"
This worked well and I was able to scan.
Howe
Hi all,
Last week I needed to use the scanner part of my MFP and managed to get thing
working by using Neil's suggestion that I enter a USB rule
in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules, so I entered the following:-
SYSFS{product}=="USB MFP", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="EPSON", GROUP:="scanner",
MODE:="066
Thanks Richard I did option 2 and all is working well.
> 2. Change the GROUP:= setting to be "lp". This will let cups access
> the device again. You will then need to add your user account to the
> lp group in order to scan.
>
Thanks again
Paul
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Hi all,
I have never got system messages, cron messages etc to work in gentoo. This
really hasn't been a problem but the more progs I have running the more I
think I should attempt to get this working. Especially elogs.
I have ssmtp installed but not set up correctly, I have looked at the man pa
I am copying files from my gentoo box to an xp box and it is so slow. I have
both boxes connected with cable via a router, which connects to my broadband
isp.
When downloading from the internet to either box I get fast speeds in the
100's of MBs. However transferring box to box I only get abou
On Monday 24 July 2006 18:09, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On 7/24/06, Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am copying files from my gentoo box to an xp box and it is so slow. I
> > have both boxes connected with cable via a router, which connects to my
> > broadban
On Monday 24 July 2006 19:46, Daniel Huckstep wrote:
> Are you sure it's actually slow or are you just looking at the number
> thinking it's slow...
> If you are getting "fast speeds in the 100's of MBs" from the internet
> then I want your internet connection. it's probably more like 100's of
> KB
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 09:07, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/24/06, Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes it is just very slow, the mesage stalled keeps coming up and then
> > starts again.
>
> Double check what the connection speed is for XP. You can do the same
Hi all,
I have been having this problem for a few days now I am "~x86", Portage
2.1.1_pre4-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.17-gentoo-r1 i686).
Any ideas?
Paul
i386/snowdsp_mmx.c: In function 'ff_snow_vertical_compose97i_sse2':
i386/snowdsp_mmx.c:461: error: PIC
Hi All,
I have a strange problem with amarok rebuilding the database everytime I start
it, so all of my scores etc have been lost.
I am using amarok 1.4.1 and mysql 4.1.20, I'm sure it's just a setting
somewhere but I can't think where. Any help?
Paul
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> I've been running x86 sources on an AMD 4200+ for several months and it
> is very stable.
>
> Tony
>
Hi,
I am wondering if I should run x86 an an athlon 64. I am upgrading my win box
to athlon x2 4600 and I'll use the old athlon 64 for gentoo.
Does using x86 make the 64 athlon act as 2 processo
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 14:39, Friedrich Göpel wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am wondering if I should run x86 an an athlon 64. I am upgrading my
> > win box to athlon x2 4600 and I'll use the old athlon 64 for gentoo
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