Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 January 2007 16:57, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday 01 January 2007 15:16, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite > > surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a long while. > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 January 2007 19:15, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 08:16, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > about '[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': > > revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite >

Re: [gentoo-user] libGl.so.1 / prelinking

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 January 2007 19:52, Strong Cypher wrote: > Oh I remember, I had this problem few month ago ... so they is a solution > > You absolutly need to remove ntpl for xorg-server and mesa > > Try : USE=-ntpl emerge -DNupv world > to see what package are concerned, Interesting. Will try that tomorrow

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 January 2007 08:22, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 15:24, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': > > One can list binaries known to portage with: > > > >cat /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS | grep /usr/bin/

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - limit an icon to a single desktop

2007-01-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 January 2007 15:28, b.n. wrote: > Uwe Thiem ha scritto: > > On 30 December 2006 20:09, »Q« wrote: > >> This would be better asked in a KDE user forum, but I'm just getting > >> Gentoo set up on a laptop and haven't found any KDE groups/lists yet. > >

[gentoo-user] wrong subscription

2007-01-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, who subscribed to this list as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Idot! Would someone with enough karma please unsubscribe this address? Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Slooooow gnome dialog

2007-01-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 January 2007 18:11, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > Hello. > > I'm using audacious as my music player, and having all sorts of trouble > with it. As it's a gnome application, it uses all of its dialog windows. > For example, when I press the eject to add files, it opens the gnome > open dialog. And he

Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 January 2007 17:20, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/3/07, James Lockie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have one of these? :-) > > It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it. > > My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine. > > It is only the hard drive that I can't un

Re: [gentoo-user] archiving

2007-01-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 January 2007 08:56, James Lockie wrote: > Randy Barlow wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:47 -0500, James Lockie wrote: > >> Compressing a folder doesn't work. > >> > >> When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a > >> "please wait" dialog opens and the progress bar j

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 January 2007 14:22, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Apologies for the off-topic post but I thought to ask here because there > have been a couple of threads in the past where embedded Linux OS' for > hardware routers were discussed and that may offer a solution to my > problem. > > I would like to

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc

2007-01-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 January 2007 15:47, sean wrote: > I am reading over the info on distcc so that I might be able to setup an > older P4 1.3 Ghz system to have help compiling from my dual Opteron > (amd64 mode). > > I only want the Opteron to help the P4, not the other way around, the > Opteron does not need th

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc

2007-01-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 January 2007 18:47, sean wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 05 January 2007 15:47, sean wrote: > >> I am reading over the info on distcc so that I might be able to setup an > >> older P4 1.3 Ghz system to have help compiling from my dual Opteron > >> (am

Re: [gentoo-user] Init scripts waiting for deps in progress

2007-01-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 January 2007 19:10, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > I have the following set of init stuff: > > net.wireless depends on ipw3945d > ntp-client depends on net > net.wireless automagically starts when the interface "wireless" appears > net.wireless is in the boot runlevel > > When I boot the comput

[gentoo-user] grub-install vs. manual install

2007-01-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I have just been bitten by this and bring it up here so others don't need to fall into the same pit. If you want (or are forced) to have /boot and your MBR on different harddrives (*not* partitions) invoke grub and do the manual install as described in the handbook rather than use gr

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install vs. manual install

2007-01-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 January 2007 15:54, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:31:42 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > If you want (or are forced) to have /boot and your MBR on different > > harddrives (*not* partitions) invoke grub and do the manual install as > > described in the handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus downgrade via revdep-rebuild

2007-01-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 January 2007 08:01, Grant wrote: > I upgraded to dbus-1.0.2, but a subsequent revdep-rebuild wants to > downgrade dbus back to 0.62-r2. How can I fix this? Try to re-emerge those packages that pull in 0.62-r2. Then repeat your revdep-rebuild. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

2007-01-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 January 2007 17:35, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Neil Bothwick > > There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking > like an idiot. A very fine one. ;-) Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2007 09:46, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > Regarding pbzip2, by the way, I gave it a shot last night. Definately > faster for the type of archive I was compressing (mp3s in a tar archive). > If I remember rightly it was approx 1min30s vs 0min50s. Not quite twice as > fast, but a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting

2007-01-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2007 10:42, Kent Fredric wrote: > That said, im in favour of bottom posting, logically it makes more > sence. answers after questions, not before. :) I am for pruning the original mail and posting in context. ;-) Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.Sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2007 13:20, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 January 2007 08:40 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program > versions &

Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

2007-01-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 January 2007 14:05, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is > > that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which > > contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them. > > Not knowing if it's possible t

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Emerge Net Connect Error

2007-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2007 16:45, Ryan Crisman wrote: > I do a ping distfiles.gentoo.org > ping: unknown host distfiles.gentoo.org > > Than i try and ping its ip and i get > connect: network is unreachable > > Pinging www.Google.com: > connect: network is unreachable > > contents of resolv.conf > domain lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 January 2007 11:25, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > I've been holding back on replying for a while now, but I think you > > should try a simple iptables setup like this one: > > Excuse me, but my problem is not that my tables are not working, they > work very well. I applied forwarding and masque

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 January 2007 08:45, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 02:10 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > > hmm, shorewall must have done something that's more persistent. > > ... > > > > Well, these idea's are really stabbing in the dark, but you gotta start > > > somewhere! > > > > thanks f

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 January 2007 23:46, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 1/19/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a > > minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, > > but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 January 2007 20:23, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that > > all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into > > memory just once. W

Re: [gentoo-user] Web hosting

2007-01-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 January 2007 09:30, Nikolay Balov wrote: > Hi all > I'm trying to make a web server who will serve may be 3-4 domains. I > need to make a ftp account for every domain, which root is the root of > the apache domain (/var/www/domain1/htdocs must be root for apache and > for the ftp server) so t

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 January 2007 18:32, Carl Adams wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC > > 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i > > guess! Are you using the HP drivers? > > Yes, I've downloaded the recommend

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2007 19:15, Grant wrote: > > > The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the > > > laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but > > > I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network. > > > > Hum...that's pretty much a show s

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2007 20:09, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 05:07:26PM +0100, Jan Stępień wrote: > > I entered Amarok's setting window and in the Appearance tab I found an > > option allowing me to change the default font. Moreover the font chooser > > dialog allows

Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)

2005-12-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 December 2005 17:24, Richard Neill wrote: > 1)My main machine is a laptop, so it doesn't really have either the disk > space for sources or CPU power to compile everything > kernel,X,kde,openoffice ...). Is there a way to do a binary install that > will get me a fully working system within a

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 December 2005 17:15, John Jolet wrote: > On Dec 29, 2005, at 9:14 AM, gentoo user mail list wrote: > okay... we're good, but we need a BIT more information than that. :) Reminds me on something Matthias Ettrich once said when kwm was still KDE's window manager: "Alright, folks, next I wil

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 January 2006 18:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:55:19 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > > Ooh, Neil, you're such a pedant! > > You're too kind :) Shivers are good for the soul. ;-) ... and pedants are good for software development. Uwe (who is good for throwing these Chinese

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2006 18:17, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 16:03 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:31:57 -0500, Darryl Wagoner wrote: > > > It looks interesting concept similar to something I can up with but > > > haven't had the time to do anything with. What i

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2006 01:35, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:27:56 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Uwe > > (who is good for throwing these Chinese solid state thin clients, I > > have got yesterday, out of the [wW]indows) > > I hope you are referring t

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-2.4.3-r10.ebuild

2006-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2006 13:39, Charles Trois wrote: > It's not easy to install things in Gentoo without Internet access, > especially when it's about installing the Internet connexion itself. > > My ISP uses PPPoA, and I have a Speedtouch USB modem, the installation > of which requires ppp-2.4.3. This i

Re: [gentoo-user] after update, eth0 won't work

2006-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2006 15:44, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I did a# emerge -uDv world on a ~x86 box. Seems like something > has happened to networking. > > lo is not configuring properly > eth0 is not configuring properly. > > I sense there are problems with dbus and maybe hal. > > The following is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way (This is a Joke, laff will ya?)

2006-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2006 19:21, Devon Miller wrote: > *Dear Gentoo-User,* [ snip ] > *Yours sincerely, * > * Simon kabila.* Hilarious. The "From: " field, though, should contain an address in Congo, Nigeria, Kenya or, at least, France. Hotmail or yahoo would be acceptable as well. ;-) -- Unix is s

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4

2006-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2006 19:28, Shawn Singh wrote: > Thanks Holly. The user can login from the console. The user's icon doesn't > show in the list of users. Come to think of it, neither does my user show > in the list. I can key in my username and password to authenticate, so I > suspect (that since the

Re: [gentoo-user] Routing I think

2006-01-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 January 2006 21:19, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Hi all > > I am currently redoing a server for my old high school. The old server > had to network cards: > eth0 - 192.168.1.2 > eth1 - 192.168.4.1 > > The 192.168.4. network is the admin network for all the teachers. The > server connects to another

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 January 2006 21:33, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > > What I landed up doing is defining a set of my own rules that detected > > > if penis, viagra, slut and such words occured it added a +10.0 to the > > > spam assassin rating so if is clearly identified as spam. > > > > I'm somewhat cautious about

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling Kde-Graphics 3.4.3-r3

2006-01-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 January 2006 19:40, Thiago Lüttig wrote: > folks i´ve tried all those things and the damn error still there... > strange.. very strange... emerge --oneshot giflib emerge --oneshot imlib2 emerge --oneshot kdegraphics or emerge kdegraphics if you want it in your world file. "emerge --update

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Jammer

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 January 2006 11:50, Chris Ong wrote: > Hi All, > Is there anyway to stop unauthorized or unwanted DHCP server to > broadcast within a network? > > Say, I have a DHCP server is distributing 172.30.10.0/24 IP range, but > a joker simply plug in another DHCP server and distributing >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 January 2006 14:48, Matthias Bethke wrote: > Hi Michael, > > on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 10:53:50, you wrote: > > I had missed that! Are you saying that if poppler has been emerged > > there's no need to re-emerge xpdf? I didn't know that and I re-emerged > > xpdf. > > I think you do, poppler

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 January 2006 16:33, Matthias Bethke wrote: > Hi Uwe, > > on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: > > If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either > > pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? > > No, it wants both of them. I do have lynx

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 January 2006 16:47, Michael A. Smith wrote: > Matthias Bethke wrote: > > Hi Uwe, > > > > on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: > >>If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either > >>pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? > > > > No, it

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 January 2006 17:12, Michael A. Smith wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > >*** begin snippet *** > > > > RDEPEND=">=net-zope/cmf-1.4.7 > > app-text/htmltidy > > app-text/wv > > dev-libs/libxslt > > app-text/xlh

Re: [gentoo-user] cruel & unusual?

2006-01-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 January 2006 20:36, James wrote: > Well, hopefully, we're all familiar with the status line of an > 'emerge sync'>>> Updating Portage cache: 50% > > > Right before that, every time I sync I get this message: > speedup is 8.20 > > > After months/years of 'speedup' it should run very fas

Re: [gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 January 2006 03:01, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Hi all > > I have a slight problem, my squid cache is full and hence I cant > browse any websites through the proxy. How does one get squid to clean > out old items? I would of thought squid would of removed older items. > I would prefer not to just d

Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 January 2006 07:08, Chris White wrote: > On Friday 20 January 2006 18:10, Linux Java wrote: > > I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. > > That's the most blatant start of a flamewar I've seen... Oh, there are other ways to start flamewars as good as this one: What is better,

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 January 2006 16:50, Holly Bostick wrote: > That's not the point, which is where we have a failure to communicate. > Openbox and FVWM-crystal (and ICEwm, for that matter) are lighter, > faster desktops than KDE partially because they do not contain the code > to put icons on the desktop (whet

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 January 2006 16:50, Holly Bostick wrote: > So for all of > me, they could have done something else with that time (like make the > code modular, so if I didn't want it, I could disable it with a USE flag > or something, Forgot this in my other mail: When I looked last time, konqueror contai

Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 January 2006 20:07, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/21/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A flamewar about flamewars. > > Well the most popular flamewar on this list is obiously about > filesystems, so that must be the best! :P I forgot that one. Shame on me! Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | gr

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 January 2006 19:35, Abhay Kedia wrote: > The will probably be dropping aRts in KDE 4 Make that certainly. Arts is dead. Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 January 2006 05:26, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 19 January 2006 03:01, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > I have a slight problem, my squid cache is full and hence I cant > > > browse any websites through the proxy.

Re: [gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 January 2006 09:20, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > You didn't read the rest of my reply. ;-) > > > > Uwe > > I must be missing something. This is all I got: > > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Squid does that. Do you go with the default confi

[gentoo-user] joomla

2006-01-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, any joomla or mambo experts here? I have got joomla-1.0.7 and php-5.1.1. When I try to log into the site as admin after configuring it, I get this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_name() in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/joomla/administrator/index.php on line 83 I just syn

Re: [gentoo-user] php blocking

2006-01-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 January 2006 20:20, James Ausmus wrote: > On 1/24/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've looked at the previous threads, but I cannot seem to remove > > (unmerge) these packages: > > > > [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5) > > [blocks B

Re: [gentoo-user] joomla

2006-01-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 January 2006 22:25, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > any joomla or mambo experts here? > > > > I have got joomla-1.0.7 and php-5.1.1. > > > > When I try to log into the site as admin after configuring it, I

Re: [gentoo-user] joomla

2006-01-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 January 2006 00:22, Robin wrote: > Arrghhh Bad Habits... > Add: > > dev-lang/php session > > to your package.use file That's what I actually did. ;-) Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-us

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 January 2006 06:46, Tom Smith wrote: > I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a > compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it > would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the > connection was compressed. The reason, as

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

2006-01-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 January 2006 09:50, gentuxx wrote: > I went to do an `emerge -Duatv world` tonight, and I get dev-php/php > and dev-php/mod_php blocking. So I uninstalled them, and thought that > I would re-install later (if necessary). When I run it again, I get > dev-lang/php blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 January 2006 17:28, Abhay Kedia wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am facing a very annoying problem with my system clock. Here is what is > happening. > > I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I > shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 January 2006 18:10, Michael A. Smith wrote: > Abhay Kedia wrote: > > I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I > > shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo > > sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2006 06:14, Abhay Kedia wrote: > > Is TZ set in your environment? If so, unset it and let /etc/localtime do > > the job. > > How can I know what is the TZ in my environment? Just curious. "env | grep TZ" Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; f

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2006 09:55, Robert Persson wrote: > I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as > root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this, > but I am not having any success. > > The command I want to execute as root is "echo -n mem > /sys/p

Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2006 16:15, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: > Thanks for the advice, > > To the best of my knoledge Kernel 2.6.15.1 was downloaded and installed. > I haven't made any change with respect to devfs or udev. How should i > make the migration? And I haven't used etc-update. What should I start >

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 January 2006 13:13, Dale wrote: > If I kill artsd how do I restart it? Actually, you can got the Control Center -> Sound & Muldimedia -> Sound System. You switch it off and then on again. ;-) > Maybe they will phase it out later on. It will not make it into KDE 4. The main developper

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE programs starts slowly

2006-01-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 January 2006 13:46, Korondi Márk wrote: > > kill kdm and rm all the ICE, ksycoca and .dcop .X11-blabla stuff? > > I don't use kdm. Probably it's the problem? ;-) It could be because kdm tries to load as much of KDE as possible while it is waiting for a user to log in. Honestly, I doubt thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 January 2006 13:56, Holly Bostick wrote: > Abhay Kedia schreef: > > On Sunday 29 January 2006 06:41, Ian wrote: > >> unmask all of the packages im building in package.keywords. > > > > You seem to have added them to package.unmask as well. Don't do that. > > Just as a note, there doesn't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 January 2006 18:53, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Keep in mind though that multiple emerges will share resources, so each > process may lose speed... True, but "--fetchonly" emerge can pull in sources as fast as possible while the other emerge compiles stuff. That makes sense if you are paying

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 January 2006 15:19, Schleimer, Ben wrote: > I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the > data Don't believe people telling that. The data will still be recoverable (with the right hardware). That is so because overwriting a "0" with a "0" will lead to anot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Detecting when a USB device is attached

2006-02-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 February 2006 16:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:36:54 + (UTC), James wrote: > > dbus/hald/ivman is broken on gentoo, but, it used to work automatically, > > and I could use my unix and mtools commands both on the usb memory. > > No more > > Please don't tell my compu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Detecting when a USB device is attached

2006-02-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 February 2006 17:20, James wrote: > Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > Mine too, although things were broken for awhile until I figured out I > > needed to be a member of the 'plugdev' group. > > OK, I'll admit this new information > plugdev:x:413:root,james > makes it work again, but

Re: [gentoo-user] One host, two NIC's...

2006-02-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 February 2006 04:53, Walter Dnes wrote: > Is there a way use dialup without tearing down eth0? Sure. Delete your default route before dialing. Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] font server

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I need to run a font server but x11-apps/xfs seems to depend on the new modular X server. Is there really no font server for X 6.8.2? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] font server

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 February 2006 10:58, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Tuesday 07 February 2006 09:28, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I need to run a font server but x11-apps/xfs seems to depend on the > > new modular X server. Is there really no font server for X 6.8.2? > >

[gentoo-user] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I am trying to connect solid state thin clients (*not* LTSP ones) to a gentoo server. There is one big problem: kdm on the gentoo box does not connect to the X server on the thin client. I tweaked /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc any way I could think of - to no avail. I even took

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 February 2006 19:26, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Tuesday 07 February 2006 17:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I am trying to connect solid state thin clients (*not* LTSP ones) to a > > gentoo server. There is one big problem: kdm on the gentoo box

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 February 2006 19:26, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Tuesday 07 February 2006 17:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I am trying to connect solid state thin clients (*not* LTSP ones) to a > > gentoo server. There is one big problem: kdm on the gentoo box

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM - KDE root problem

2006-02-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 February 2006 19:45, El TuZa wrote: > Hi, I'm new to gentoo..I have just emerged KDE and it works fine, but > I can't log with the root account from kdm Assuming your KDE version is 3.5: Go to /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm, edit kdmrc and search for "AllowRootLogin". Set it to "true". If yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuch on k3b at dep install of Transcode

2006-02-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 February 2006 18:29, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm trying to install k3b. One of its dependancies is transcode. The > emerge stopped at transcode with specific errors, When checking > bugzilla I see this is a known problem. I am away from my portage tree right now, so I can't check this. AFAIK

[gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I did an update world last night with a --sync that was a couple of days old because it took me several nights to get all the stuff (deltup didn't have most of the diffs, so I had to download the whole tarballs). After emerging, compiling, installing all of it, I did an etc-update. Am

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 February 2006 23:21, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > The devices of interest are under /dev/sound and not under /dev/snd > > > > # ls -l /dev/sound > > total 0 > > crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 4 Feb 11 15:19 audio > > crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 3 Feb 11 15:19 dsp > > crw-rw  1 root audio 14

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 February 2006 22:19, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > Sound is gone. Artsd complains that there is no /dev/dsp - and > > rightly so. All sound-related devices under /dev are gone. There are > > a couple of devices under /dev/snd: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/snd $ ls -l > > total 0 > > crw-rw---

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 February 2006 23:04, Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Sunday 12 February 2006 00:59, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Sound is gone. Artsd complains that there is no /dev/dsp - and rightly > > so. All sound-related devices under /dev are gone. There are a couple of > > devices under /dev/sn

[gentoo-user] ebuilds gone to the happy hunting-grounds

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, while trying to fix some other problems involving revdep-rebuild, I stumbled over some ebuilds no longer in portage but still installed on my system. How can I get rid of that stuff? I mean "emerge --unmerge dead-package" won't do it because the ebuild doesn't exist any more. Uwe -

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 February 2006 21:21, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > Did you raise the > > > master and PCM sliders in alsamixer -c 1? > > > > What does that have to do with udev not creating the special device > > files? > > Nothing, just the default answer if there's no audio output. Well, default answers a

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 February 2006 00:25, Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Monday 13 February 2006 00:29, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > No, they are not. That's OSS stuff and not present on my box since I > > don't use OSS. > > I have this in my /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules which is rel

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuilds gone to the happy hunting-grounds

2006-02-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 February 2006 11:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:30:13 +0200 Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | while trying to fix some other problems involving revdep-rebuild, I > | stumbled over some ebuilds no longer in portage but still installed > | on my s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 February 2006 09:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 07:40 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 February 2006 08:52, Richard Fish wrote: > On 2/12/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about dsp and such? Shouldn't there be rules to create them as well? > > Yes, your 50-udev.rules file should contain: > > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting time in middle of session

2006-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 09:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've had to temporarily switch to dial-up from a broadband connection > and of course /etc/init.d/ntp-client fails since a connection is not > available on boot-up. I have tried manually executing this but it has > occurred to me that setting t

Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 09:56, Robert Persson wrote: > My (parallel port laser) printer started spewing garbage (i.e. pcl data as > text - a few characters per sheet) as a result, I think, of a loose cable. > > Trouble is I can't stop it. I cleared the print jobs. Even stopped cups. > Tried to rmmod pa

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 22:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:40:49 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > "needed" - What's "needed", anyway? > > / and swap, nothing else :) Actually, not even swap. ;-) Amazing how passionate people turn over how to partition the system. Uwe -- Why do

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 21:50, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, > i've followed this how http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash to have > a framebuffer splash under gentoo. I've added "splash" to the boot > runlevel; however the framebuffer images start only in the default > runlevel. > > # rc-status

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting time in middle of session

2006-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 23:20, James wrote: > Uwe Thiem iway.na> writes: > > With a dial-up connection, you haven't much chance other than connecting > > to a time server when your connection is up. I do it automatically > > in /etc/ppp/ip-up. > > Hey, this is

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 10:15, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi Uwe, > > > Change the "kernel line" to: > > > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r5-fb root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc > > ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 quiet > > video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 11:16, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi Uwe, > > > It makes sure the splash screen start as early as possible (don't forget > > the "quiet" option). On my systems, it starts immediately after the > > kernel and the initrd are loaded. > > > > Kernel panic ... hm ... > > > > How did you

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 13:10, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi Uwe, > > > Try: > > genkernel --gensplash=emergence --gensplash-res=1024x768 initrd > > > > genkernel puts all those nifty little things in your initrd. You could > > add "--menuconfig" if you want to check your kernel options. > > > > Look up t

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