Re: [gentoo-user] how long does an install take on "average"?

Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:09:38 -0300, Diogo Tridapalli wrote: > > > >>I install in pIII 900 and take almost a week! >> >> > >I installed on a 1GHz iBook and had a full KDE desktop in a little over >an hour. The GRP CDs are there for a reason :) > > > > I instaled on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Have portage lost its memory?

Jules Colding wrote: >On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:40 +0100, Jules Colding wrote: > > >>So what exactly is going on here? >> >> > >Having an SSH session on another machine and forgetting ll about it. > >Please forgive my stupidity here. > >Sorry, > jules > > > > > I thought only I could do th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

Christopher O'Neill wrote: >I've been using 3.5.1 for a while also, imo it should stay in unstable >for now. There are a few bugs with the desktop, Konqueror and >Kaffeine also has a habit of seg-faulting. I am considering >rebuilding it with the debug flags to I can submit some useful bug >repo

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Gabriel Dain wrote: >>However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel >> >> > ># cd /usr/src/linux ># make menuconfig > ># make && make modules_install > > Addition: cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage Then add it or change it in bootloader, grub is easier on this one.

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Lord Sauron wrote: >On 3/24/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Gabriel Dain wrote: >> >> >> >>>>However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel >>>> >>>> >>>> >

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Lord Sauron wrote: > >>Either they have a new bootloader or you mean grub. I have used Lilo >>and now use grub. IMHO, grub is better. >> >> > >Yes, I mean grub. I had a small technical difficulty : ) > > For me, that would be not being able to type worth a hoot. My sig on the forums say

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Gabriel Dain wrote: >Are you sure you compiled it as embbeded, and not module? (* or M in >menuconfig). If it is M, you'll have to load the module, and add it to >the list of modules that are loaded at startup. >-- >Gabriel Dain > > > I'll take some time to clarify this more. This is a copy and

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Lord Sauron wrote: >On 3/26/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >I had this set to be compiled into the kernel. Should that present >any problems? > > Most things do not matter. You can do either way. There are some things that I have s

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Devon Miller wrote: > Just to throw my 2 cents in... > > I always set > > CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y > CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y > > unless I'm building for a memory constrained system. This stores the > config file in the kernel image and makes it available as > /proc/config.gz. That way, when I get it worki

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Lord Sauron wrote: >On 3/27/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Extremely clever. I'll have to remeber cool tricks like that when I'm >working with my own server... > > You can never know to much. That's for sure. I know I

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Lord Sauron wrote: > >> Would you say about 45 seconds is right for a >> 1.0GHz Pentium-M with 256Megs of PC2700 SO-DIMM RAM? (200-pin, of >> course) > > > Sounds about right. You aren't recompiling the WHOLE kernel everytime. > Just whatever changes. > > -Jeremy > >> >> I'm

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

Hi, I upgraded gcc a while back. I thought I read somewhere that it is best to just upgrade on occasion with the major upgrades. Should this be upgraded or should I mask it? This is what I get: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -up world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: >

Re: [gentoo-user] USRobotics internal modem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Alle 19:29, lunedì 27 marzo 2006, JimD ha scritto: > > >>On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:16:11 + >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>>Solved!! >>> >>>Thank you >>> >>>emilio >>> >>> >>You should post how you solved the problem in case someone else runs >>into the

[gentoo-user] Card games in portage

Hi folks, My girlfriends mom comes over sometimes and she likes to play card games on the computer. Anybody have a list of the games in portage that are card games? You know, like Solitaire or something like that. I have the ones that come with KDE and Pysol too. Just looking for some more for

Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

Ted Ozolins wrote: >pysol. you have to emerge python with tcltk use flag in order for it to >work. Pysol contains just about every card game you can imagine. > > > Yea, I have that one though. I was wondering if there were any more though. I looked in /usr/portage but they are not sorted by ca

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >On Tuesday 28 March 2006 08:06, Teresa and Dale wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I upgraded gcc a while back. I thought I read somewhere that it is best >>to just upgrade on occasion with the major upgrades. Should this be >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

Michael Sullivan wrote: >On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:29 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>Try the kde game set. I can't remember off the top of my head (and I'm not >>near the system) what it's called. >> >> > >The card game suite is called Patience (the filename is 'kpat'.) I use >it f

Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

Phil Sexton wrote: > Teresa and Dale wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> My girlfriends mom comes over sometimes and she likes to play card games >> on the computer. Anybody have a list of the games in portage that are >> card games? You know, like Solitaire or some

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:50:28 -0600, Teresa and Dale wrote: > > > >>Thanks to both. I looked in my world file and I think I upgraded as a >>oneshot so why is it upgradeing? I did the -t option and nothing else >>is coming up as pulling it in.

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

Ryan Tandy wrote: > Teresa and Dale wrote: > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> gcc is part of system. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> LOL That would be a good reason huh? Where is that file? I'm not real >

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot

Walter Dnes wrote: > > That's not necessary. I regularly... > - start off with a basic text-console-only install > - and then I fire up "emerge gimp" before heading off to work > > By the time I get home from work, Portage has pulled in and built the >approximately 40 packages necessary to ge

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

Nagatoro wrote: >Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >>On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:41:14 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: >> >> >> >>>Assuming it's the gcc-3.4.5-r1 update you're considering postponing, >>>you could just: >>> >>># echo '>sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5' >> /etc/portage/package.mask >>> >>>and just remove that

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

Holly Bostick wrote: > >>(other) Funny thing is, last I heard, you were planning to mask the >>"upgrade" versions of GCC. If you did that, of /course/ you are no >>longer offered upgrades, since that's the point of masking (to mark a >>package as "unavailable to be installed on this computer"). >>

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

Lord Sauron wrote: > > >Okay. So there are two ways of making kernels, and one of them is >with Genkernel and I'm not using that so I don't need to worry, right? > > > Just like most things in Linux, there are several ways to do it. Yours isn't the way I do it but if it works for ya, go for i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge inforamtion

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >USE flags doubts (again). > >If I run this command: > >emerge -pv hplip > >the output is: >[ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-0.9.7-r3 +X +cups +foomaticdb -ppds +qt >+scanner* -snmp +usb 0 kB > >There are 5 flags prefixed by a plus and red coloured (+X, +cups, +foomaticdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell

Marco Costa wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi all, after emerging and emerging . . . >> and an enrge --newuse world >> the system bell keeps on not working. >> With System bell I mean: >> KDE Control Center -> Sound & Miltimedia -> System bell >> >> I controlled the volume levels on kmix a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell

Mick wrote: >On 31/03/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >>Same here. I just thought it was me changing something and not >>remembering it. It used to work though. I suspect a etc-update somewhere. >> >> > >Did any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell

David Morgan wrote: >On 11:18 Fri 31 Mar , Teresa and Dale wrote: > > >>Same here. I just thought it was me changing something and not >>remembering it. It used to work though. I suspect a etc-update somewhere. >> >> >> > >Ahh, you were

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!

Anthony Roy wrote: >Hi All, > >Last night I decided to set up a rsync server on my gentoo server box. >I have a partition mounted under /srv, and that was the disk the rsync >module was located on. I then proceeded to rsync the contents of my >main PC over to the server. I tested the scripts a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

Lord Sauron wrote: >>Sort of a side thing... what's the difference between fstab and mtab? >> >> > > > >Thanks for your help!' > >-- >== GCv3.12 == >GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+> P+ >L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ >V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ >

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!

Anthony Roy wrote: >Hi Dale, > > > >>Google found this: >>http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9208&sid=7a741429de5dcddf32c3ff133d202d01 >> >> > >Cheers. I had already googled around, without much success - this >gives me an idea of what to do at least. Looks like I need a part

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!

Anthony Roy wrote: >>I have been really lucky. I have been messing with computers for over >>25 years and I don't recall having a hard drive of mine go out. I have >>worked on others that have though. I guess I replace mine to often. >> >> > >Lucky indeed - the drive that has gone tits up w

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally, the bell rings.

Ted Ozolins wrote: > >After emerging hplip you will notice info re: ppds. If I'm not mistaken, >emerging hplip without the "ppds" USE flag will not create the ppd files >needed. Once you emerge hplip with the ppds USE flag the ppd files will >be created. Then when you go to set-up your printer in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume question

Peter Campion-Bye wrote: >Hi, >Trying to do an 'emerge -e world' I come up against the odd package that >doesn't build without some intervention. I know I can do 'emerge --resume >--skipfirst' and carry on, but sometimes the broken package could be built ok >with a little intervention, for example

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging amule

Birch wrote: > < snip > > >>> > !!! set-wxconfig: Error: Can't find normal or debug version: > !!! set-wxconfig: /usr/lib/wx/config/base-unicode-release-2.6 > not found > !!! set-wxconfig: /usr/lib/wx/config/base-unicode-debug-2.6 > not found > Mine went a little further:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging amule

One more thing I found: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-450208-highlight-.html Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging amule

Birch wrote: > Thanks, that solved the problem. > > :) > > > > Teresa and Dale wrote: > >> One more thing I found: >> >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-450208-highlight-.html >> >> Dale >> :-) >> >> > Your we

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Compiling Ewl

Colin Rothwell wrote: >Hi All, >I'm trying to compile engage and it seems to be fine up until it trys to >compile ewl when I get this error message >I am trying to build engage on my gentoo linux 2006.0 system. >My wm is e16 and my gernel is gentoo-sources. >It works fine up until the point where

Re: [gentoo-user] inkscape crash

Chris Bare wrote: >Inkscape crashes on me whenever I select Text->Text and Font... > >Anyone know what to do to fix this? >As far as I can tell all my libraries are up to date. I've tried 0.43 and >0.43-r1 > > OK, I'm not sure why but I have it installed and thought I would see if this helps.

Re: [gentoo-user] System bell (again)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Alle 17:29, venerdì 7 aprile 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > > >>Alle 16:26, venerdì 7 aprile 2006, Richard Fish ha scritto: >> >> >>>On 4/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, I recompiled my kernel and now the system be

[gentoo-user] KDE, saved session and Mozilla mail

Hi, I have KDE 3.5.2 set up to restore my saved session. It goes something like this, Mozilla browser on #1, Mozilla mail on #2, Konsole on #3, Konqueror on #4, my games on #5, gkrellm and Yahoo IM on #6. When I login everything comes up except Mozilla mail on #2. Since it stored everything els

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: "Space" opera

Meino Christian Cramer wrote: >Hi, > > my harddisk begins to sound a little "strange"...I fear I have to > buy a new (bigger) one. > > When I have to copy my current / to another harddisk, which has a > different physical layout of partitions and another overall size -- > how would I do this best

[gentoo-user] Samba setup, I dunno what to do here. :\

Hi, I have a little network here. We have a cable modem that connects to a Linksys router then we have two computers that hook to it and share the internet. I have my Gentoo Linux box that I just installed samba on. She has a Windoze XP box. I think I have my samba set up, not real sure though

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

Martins Steinbergs wrote: > > >read ~/.xsession-errors >maybe some hint there, once i had that file fill free space on /home with few >GB 'cause busy filling errors > >before start KDE also try remove previous session saves, maybe there some >sassion saved in bad state >rm ~/.kde/share/config/se

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

Lord Sauron wrote: >>You might also want to use top to see what, if anything, is using up >>your CPU time. Also keep in mind that if the CPU is fairly idle that >>the hard drive may be busy as well. I ran into this once before on a >>really slow system and it was the updatedb program. It was ni

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

Lord Sauron wrote: >On 4/12/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>My light blew out on one of my servers. No smoke but still no workey. >>:-( I have to use top instead. Since the drive is so old, I can hear >>it with no problems at all. >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Signing Messages

Ralph Slooten wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I did. However, I sent the key anyway so that you don't have to go > hunting > >for which keyservers I was able to use. Some of them didn't work. I'll > >re-try later, but right now there's a few (about two or three - I don't > >remember exac

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 and eth1 unwanted autoconfiguration

darren kirby wrote: >Hello all, > >Does anyone know why my eth0 (wired) and eth1 (wireless) interfaces are >getting started and autoconfigured at boot despite not being present at any >runlevel in rc-update? > >They are getting configured with the settings in conf.d/net, whether or not >eth0 ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Signing Messages

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Friday 14 April 2006 01:45 pm, Teresa and Dale wrote: > > >>Ralph Slooten wrote: >> >> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I did. However, I sent the key anyway so that you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-config...

Ryan Tandy wrote: >> What package is this rc-config command contained in? I don't have it >> on my system, and as far as I can tell from Googling it's been >> obsolete since 2004.3 in favour of rc-status. > I have it on mine too. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge --info > Portage 2.0.54 (default-

[gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

Hi folks, I have recently noticed that when I get new email my screen flashes red, on whatever desktop I am on even if it is not where Mozilla is. I went into prefs and the mail settings thing and can not find a setting to cut off this "feature". I did find the one for the new email notification

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

Mick wrote: >On 17/04/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hi folks, >> >>I have recently noticed that when I get new email my screen flashes red, >>on whatever desktop I am on even if it is not where Mozilla is. I went >>into prefs

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

Benno Schulenberg wrote: >Dale wrote: > > >>I have recently noticed that when I get new email my screen >>flashes red, on whatever desktop I am on >> >> > >KDE Control Center > Regional &... > Accessibility > Visible Bell > >Benno > > Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

Benno Schulenberg wrote: I notice that in Konsole, I didn't get the beep for a good while. After the last upgrade it worked again. So maybe they are working on it. Where is that "MEHP" sound located and what do they call it? There are a lot of sounds in /usr/kde/3.5/share/sounds/. I copied so

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe

Thomas Cort wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> Is there a way to retrieve a listing of kernel modules that are >> currently loaded? > > > lsmod Another neat find I had a while back is this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # modprobe --list > /lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe [SOLVED]

Michael Sullivan wrote: > >I'm helping a guy in Maryland work through the handbook to install >Gentoo and neither one of us was sure what driver the LiveCD was using >for his network card. I think lsmod worked out. Thanks. > > > That was the command but I thought I would give just a little ex

Re: [gentoo-user] system sounds

Benno Schulenberg wrote: >Dale wrote: > > >>Where is that "MEHP" sound located and what do they call it? >> >> > >It's the PC speaker itself, the System Bell that lets you set >Volume, Pitch and Duration (except that Volume doesn't work here, >it sets Duration too). > > > >> I would lik

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issues

Walter Dnes wrote: >On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:43:05AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote > > > >>And one more question: Why does emerge wvdial insist on installing all >>this X stuff? More than 90 Megs! What does my serial port hardware >>care if I can look at an xterm or not? >> >>I tried USE="-X" but

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off

Geoff wrote: >Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video >signal >to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5 >minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or >anything set. > > > If it is in a GUI, check your xorg.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with changing virtual terminals

Goran Maksimovic wrote: >Hi! > >I installed Gentoo 2006.0 with LiveCD and then in my /etc/make.conf I enabled >portage feature ~x86 so I could install the latest Xorg and KDE. When all was >over I entered KDE by startx as normal user and noticed that I can't change >virtual terminals by ctrl+al

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off

Simon Prosser wrote: > >setterm -blank 0 > > That too should work. I think if you do a "setterm powersave off" it will do the same thing. I think that disables all the other power save, standby and such. Note the I think. It's been a while since my servers are headless anyway. I also made

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with changing virtual terminals

Goran Maksimovic wrote: >Hi! > >I will try that but where if I haven't got this should I put it? Thanx for you >help :). > >Bye > >Goran > > > > >>Check the xorg.conf file and look for this. Mine works and this is what >>mine looks like, yours should be the same. >> >> >> >>>#Option "N

Re: [gentoo-user] Best Modem for Gentoo

Harald Arnesen wrote: >"Michael Crute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>I am trying to setup a fax server using Gentoo, I tried using an Intel >>536ep chipset card with little success. After looking around the >>general consensus seems to be go with US Robotics. Can anyone provide >>the model

Re: [gentoo-user] Best Modem for Gentoo

John Jolet wrote: > >On 4/26/06 1:55 PM, "Teresa and Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I agree 100%. You do not want a winmodem and a internal hardware modem >>can be hard to find and sometimes it is hard to get them to tell you if >>

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

Richard Fish wrote: > On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've already run memtest86, no problem report. > > > memtest86 is nearly useless on modern computers. > > Try this one instead: > http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html > > -Richard > I ran into this with a

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

Daniel da Veiga wrote: >On 4/28/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >>I ran into this with a family member recently, the CPU was running hot >>and the mobo was cutting the CPU off. The only way to get it back up >>again was to reboot.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

Jorge Martín wrote: > Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make > some udev rulez too.. > > On 4/29/06, *JimD* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: >Hello all: > >I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. >Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. > >Thanks, >RV > > > > Do you mean to make one install then copy everything over to a new system? Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

Ronald Vincent Vazquez wrote: >Do you mean to make one install then copy everything over to a new system? > >Dale >:-) >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >Dale: > >Yes, let say that I install a machine with all my basic software and want >to set up a second machine without having to reinst

[gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

Hi, OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this happens again, this is windoze so it will happen, likely sooner rather than later too. I w

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 5/2/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has >> already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to >> working, again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

Thierry de Coulon wrote: > >I've done that on Laptops (you know, those thingies that come with crap >pre-installed) in order to put that back if I sell them later... > > I got you there. ;-) >I know if two ways that (might) work: > >a) dd - you might have to shrink the partition first or try

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

Mick wrote: > >First defragment her OS partition a couple of times (and reboot in between for >good measure ;-). Then you can use a Knoppix or other Linux LiveCD on her >machine, run partimage and save an image of her OS partition on one of your >boxen over the LAN. If you don't want to take

Re: [gentoo-user] PLEASE HELP!!! Emerge Isssue Now!

Christopher E wrote: > Hello All, > > I have tryed it in the vt and have also tryed to emerge other stuff to > see if it would work, I had tryed firefox and this is what I got this > time, this is ALL at the vt as xterm is NOT working: > > "emerge --update --deep mozilla-firefox" gives me: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

Kris Kerwin wrote: >Dale, > >I believe that the kernels have been able to write to NTFS safely for >some time, now. > >In fact, as I recall from the last time that I built that >functionality into my own kernel, menuconfig said that there were >never any reported problems with the same code tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Set up a Samba server... hmm... KDE Control Centre has a excellent interface >for that. Very easy. > >In a related story... > >The first time I used Samba to do some network transfers I spent ten minutes >checking file intergrity. It went so darn fast... I was sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

Farhan Ahmed wrote: >Hi, > I want to know which is the best file system for a high >performance Linux? I'm presently a encrypted ext3 file system for my >Gentoo Desktop machine.. I've heard that ReiserFS provides the best >performance.. Is it true? What about XFS? My file system is created

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

Frédéric Grosshans wrote: >Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 11:26 -0500, Michael Sullivan a écrit : > > > >>Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? >> >> > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#Disadvantages says no, unless full >dump and restore i.e. tar everything, clean your disk, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

Alexander Skwar wrote: > Ryan Tandy wrote: > >> I haven't used Home myself, so I don't know if they're there too. > > > At least ping and traceroute (tracert) are there as well. I think > nslookup might be there as well. > > Alexander Skwar This is the home edition and ping was not there befor

Re: [gentoo-user] ISSUE: ivman error after emerge!

Christopher E wrote: > Hello All, > > I am geting this error after emergeing ivman and type in this command > as follows: > > /etc/init.d/ivman start > > << snip >> > > * to try and fix this. > * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... > * Could not get dependency info for "ivman"! > * Pleas

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

Mick wrote: > On 05/05/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is the home edition and ping was not there before. I just >> reinstalled it, it crashed, I may give it another go. Maybe this >> install has it. > > > The home edition als

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 corrupted after power cut off when emerged world

wu chuanwen wrote: > I just "emerge --update --deep --newuse world" and suddenly the power > is cut off. > Then,when i start my gentoo again,my network can't work now. > The error message is : > " > Starting eth0 > ls:*.sh:No such file or directory. > * no interface module has been loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

Adrian wrote: >Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. > >I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran > >emerge regen > >now everything I try to emerge I get: > >Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest > >>From doing a google, it looks like i ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

Adrian wrote: > >Hi Dale; > >I tried the metadata. Didn't help. > >I use to not have any problems with emerge sync, even tho it take take >a bit of time. Now I have 2 boxes and both of 'em can't make it. > >I've been playing with this for days, no luck. It's 'bout to drive me >nuts. > >Adrian >

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Portage 2004.0 to 2005.x fails

Denny Schierz wrote: >hi, > >i have two very old gentoo boxes and i can't upgrade them. After a sync, >the default profile 2004.0 was deleted and know i can't do anything with >portage: > >router x86 # emerge -n '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51' >!!! 'str' object has no attribute 'insert' >!!! 'rm -Rf /

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Portage 2004.0 to 2005.x fails

Denny Schierz wrote: >hi, > > > >i tested a lot of things, but nothing works, so i did the hardway and >replaced portage by hand, its seems, portage is working again. > >i saw, that 2006.x is out ;-) so i using the newest profile. > >cu denny > > > I'm still on 2005.1 I think. I need to chag

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

Michael Sullivan wrote: >My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for >Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. >I would like to know if anything like this is available in portage. If >it helps, we have a website with all the pictures on

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > This should work OK, and the original poster could simply read: > > man portage > > And learn all of this and more! I think the original poster has the same problem as me, I just use trial and error and the -p option, a lot sometimes. It took me at least a half dozen

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world --> Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP

Jeremy Olexa wrote: > > I would start with the defaults, eg. leave USE="" (blank) in make.conf > and then start editing package.use to modify them from there. type > emerge --info to see ALL of the use flags that are being used > > > -- > Jeremy Olexa > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Office: EE/CS 1-201 >

Re: [gentoo-user] system suspend every time when rebooting or shutdown.

fei huang wrote: > This issue was found when I started to use gentoo again after around > three months. I remember that I updated some packages including the > portage... the system suspends with " *no more* processes *left in > this runlevel* >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

Joseph wrote: >On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 16:17 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > >>Dave Jones wrote: >> >> >>>I've implemented the hddtemp service, and see that my HDs, one an IBM >>>120GB, the other a Hitachi 120GB disk, run a steady 46 and 49 degrees C. >>> >>>This seems a bit too warm for my li

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

Jonathan Chocron wrote: >Le Dimanche 21 Mai 2006 16:11, Daniel D Jones a écrit : > > >>I get the following error: >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/db/pkg # emerge -uDvat world >> >>These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: >> >>Calculating world dependencies - >>!!! All ebuilds tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage + Package Version

Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: > Ok. The package in question is mysql. I what to install version 3, but > I masked the oldest 4.0 and emerge search returns mysql version 5. How > can I install version 3? > > Thanks, > > Leandro > > 2006/5/22, Gian Domeni Calgeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Am Montag 2

Re: [gentoo-user] how to determin CFLAGS used in a package emerge

Richard Broersma Jr wrote: >Is there are way to determine the CFLAGS options used to build/emerge a >specific package? > >In my case, I am specifically looking to determine which CFLAG options where >used to build the >apcupsd package to determine if it has SNMP support built in or not? > >Any

Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On May 23, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > >> I can't remember any Maxtor disks failing, though there is one disk >> I had to RMA a year or so ago and I cannot remember the make -- it >> could have been Maxtor. > > > Actually, I went

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla won't start after upgrading to 1.7.13 [DEAD BRANCH]

Roman Zilka wrote: >Oops, my fault and apologies. Please ignore this redundant post. > >-Roman Zilka > > Did you get it working or sorry for the second send? I ran into this a while back and it is on here somewhere but I can not remember what I did to fix it. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] sysconfig

Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > thanks, Justin I was hoping for an answer like that > > On 5/23/06, Justin Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 5/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Maybe this is a stupid question for the list, but I was wondering >> > about and try

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla won't start after upgrading to 1.7.13 [DEAD BRANCH]

Roman Zilka wrote: >>>Oops, my fault and apologies. Please ignore this redundant post. >>> >>>-Roman Zilka >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Did you get it working or sorry for the second send? >> >>I ran into this a while back and it is on here somewhere but I can not >>remember what I did to fix it. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] sysconfig

Nick Rout wrote: >On Tue, 23 May 2006 19:50:12 -0500 >Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>You may want to look at rc-update. It may help some too. I had to >>install Mandriva the other day, needed something on a system real quick, >>and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Xeon

Gessy wrote: > Hi, > > > I'd like know how to install gentoo on Xeon with 64bits supports. > What stage can i use? Can I use stage3? > > My processor is: > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 15 > model : 4 > model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00G

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