Neil Bothwick wrote:
make && make modules_install && make install
make && make modules_install install
works just as well and is simpler still. ;)
In fact, I go one step further with:
make && make modules_install install && reboot
;)
Be
timothy johnson wrote:
May be a dumb question, but is there a version of the linux kernel for
the intel dual core 64bit??
Yes, it is a dumb question. Gentoo users create their own kernel
versions depending on their hardware and configuration.
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Peter Kotrcka wrote:
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Just how thick can you be?!!
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nger be
the case, if people using this flag are regularly receiving compilation
errors
No errors here. :)
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g a bug.
Well, the change is documented as I stated above.
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Jules Colding wrote:
Hmm... Among my USE flags is "nptlonly". Might that be a problem?
I don't think so as I have that too.
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Jarry wrote:
I got viruses many times.
Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many versions of
DOS, all versions of Windows since Windows 286, all versions of OS/2
since 1.3 and several distributions of Linux. I have never, ever seen a
virus. I have to wonder what you are d
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
No, there are virii and worms in the wild.
This is one of my pet hates. There is no such word as "virii". The
correct plural of "virus" in the English language is "viruses". Whilst
the word virus comes from Latin, the common pluralisation by replacing
"us" with
>
I've never seen advansys.ko. I have always used the sym53c8xx driver for
my Advansys card.
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Martin S wrote:
it crashes on most pages sooner or later - even those it has rendered before :(
Anyone else seen this?
No. Not at all. In fact, I have never seen Firefox crash.
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-Original Message-
From: "Daevid Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subj: RE: [gentoo-user] help with UDEV and USB flash drive
Date: Fri 9 Jun 2006 20:32
Size: 848 bytes
To:
Now the second part of this. SOMETIMES, when I plug the stick in (I assume
that's when it happens), KDE gives me
f other checks from each computer each
week. Most weeks I just scan the mails and move on as nothing is
reported. Occasionally I remove a line or two from /etc/portage/*, which
is far less work than trying to decipher the mess after leaving it for
several months.
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appen.
/dev/root is just a symlink to the real device containing the root
partition. ISTR it came in with openrc.
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ace (or free time) to repartition them? :)
With the RAID, you could fail one disk, repartition, re-add it, rinse and
repeat. But that doesn't take care of the time issue.
> I am really curious
> if there are any gains to be made on my own system...
Me too, so post back after you'v
s it resets after unplug/plug. My user is in
> the uucp group. How can I enable printing after unplug/plug without
> chmod?
That looks like it should work, but you can change the permissions or
ownership with a udev rule.
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g appropriate USE flags (I run pam-free here by
doing just that) but D-Bus provides a standard way for applications to
communicate with one another and removing it can stop your desktop
working as it should.
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*STEP)."
It is a messaging layer and nothing to do with HAL, although HAL may use
it to communicate, for example to let the desktop know that a USB device
has been connected or disconnected.
While HAL is an ugly mess that should never be exposed to users, D-Bus
just gets on with its job, maybe becaus
ture of RAID is redundancy, so you could remove one disk
from the array to modify its setup then replace it.
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itions, just one stripe of them.
A 3 disk RAID 5 array can handle one disk failing. Although information
is striped across all three disks, any two are enough to retrieve it.
If this were not the case, it would be called AID 5.
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cept that particular version is not there, so it was never in portage.
You can either make do with a close version or copy the nearest ebuild
and rename it to match the version you need.
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.
In order not to confuse the matter further, I deliberately left out the
pseudo-hardware controllers on many modern motherboards. ;)
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ware RAID using whole disks. However, using
whole disk with RAID5 is unlikely unless you have another disk too,
otherwise you wouldn't be able to load the kernel.
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Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 February 2010 18:03:39 Neil Walker wrote:
>
>
>> Be lucky,
>>
>> Neil
>>
>
> How would I go about doing that?
>
Well, you need a rabbit's foot, a four leaf clover, a horseshoe
(remember to keep the ope
1Tb size - does this 4k issue affect
> hardware RAID and how do you get around it? (Never set up a HW RAID
> card before)
>
You would need to check with Adaptec. The latest BIOS is 2 years old so
it may not support the latest drives.
Be lucky,
Neil
DeviceKit?
> From what I read it appears to be the same guy doing both. Maybe,
> just maybe, some lessons were learned and it will be a lot better.
Isn't that the point of redoing it? It's when someone else comes along
with brand new way of doing things that we get a whole load
t, so your mail client goes
into offline mode rather than pointlessly trying to access your mailbox.
KDE4 uses it quite extensively, ust as KDE3 used DCOP.
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a minor inconvenience, but they are giving us a decent warning.
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:30:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I seem to have them both installed with only my old version of MYthTV
> requiring qt-3.3.8
That's easy then, switch to MythTV 0.22, it's much better :)
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I really ough
lydeps mythtv && emerge -B mythtv"
first so that I could then run emerge -k mythtv on the server to minimise
the time it was down.
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... "I just forgot to increment the counter," Tom said, nonplussed.
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set. By building binary packages, the
downtime is minimal and if you use the same themes as before (I don't
like the new 0.22 default) there's little relearning for your family.
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Now the world is weird and people take P
gi indexer that can affect performance. I only notice it on
my desktop because of the increased drive noise. It's a three year old
dual core box, but there's no real impact. On the other hand, it brings
my Eee PC 1005 to its knees, which is why it's turned off on that.
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:03:15 -0600, Roy Wright wrote:
> IMO, mandatory semantic-desktop is a very good reason to find another
> desktop manager (even after being my primary desktop for 7 years).
It's so mandatory it takes a whole mouse click to turn it off :(
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x27;s the main reason for adding the kde-sunset overlay.
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r own way, ignoring each other and duplicating effort. If you
want an OS like that, I hear they produce one in Redmond.
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ndbook and one of the man pages explain
these options.
You can add /etc/init.d to CONFIG_PROTECT and remove it from
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK in make.conf.
Or you could remove mpd from the default runlevel and call both the init
scripts from /etc/conf.d/local.
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already been stated countless times in this
thread that this service can be switched off.
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:35:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> You must set up your own environment in your script run from cron. For
> example, you are likely missing JAVA_HOME and friends.
"source /etc/profile" at the top of the script often works.
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:18:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Switch to a text console (Ctrl-Alt-Fx) and ls things there, perhaps the
> garbage dumped to the screen in your for simply upset the terminal
> emulation.
In which case, running reset in the affected terminal should clear it.
Without us, the title
> will likely go to some SuSE user.
I was going to suggest that would be a Debian stable user, but they're
probably still on KDE 2.
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expensive ones are still worth a look.
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ously is not a valid command.
It's not, if it were reset the second and fourth characters would be the
same :P
This tagline generator's at it again :)
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until you hear them speak.
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gt; way automatically?
You can't, because buildpkg builds the package before installation (it
actually builds the package and then installs from it) so it only
contains the default configs. That shouldn't be an issue if you
backup /etc regularly.
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:22:50 +0100, heini wrote:
> > Or you could remove mpd from the default runlevel and call both the
> > init scripts from /etc/conf.d/local.
>
> Nope. Lookup /etc/rc.conf:
I'd forgotten all about that, nice one!
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esktop. Are they all bad too?
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se the apps can
always work out which disk blocks to use by themselves. Don't get me
started on compilers, what a bloated waste of resources when apps could
be written in hand crafted assembly.
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could be what one person called it, or it could be the efficient
way for applications to share code and resources that a dozen people have
described it as.
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Franklin
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rack. Postage paid by sender, naturally.
This year, I seem to be working mainly for the Inland Revenue. I'll give
them your address :P
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:39:48 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Volker is. I am not sure I am and I'm not sure that Neil was talking
> about quickpkg which is what I am using so far. The command
>
> quickpkg --include-configs
>
> says it includes the configs. That's what I
it is not optional, otherwise the ebuild would support the
existing semantic-desktop flag. If upstream have made this feature
compulsory, disabling it is not the Gentoo way either.
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:21:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Could you (or anyone else here) give us a really dumbed-down summary
> > of why a dev would want/need to use a socket, versus a pipe, versus
> > a signal, versus dbus, versus, well, whatever else is out there?
Alan's answered all of t
that they are still partially dependent on the DE, KMail
also needs various KDE libraries. KDE was designed as a cohesive DE, not
just a bunch of applications with a common look and feel. KDE apps are
intended to be run on a KDE desktop, anything else is a nice bonus.
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if CHECK_IF_INSTALLED $P; then echo $P; fi
> > done
> >
> > What to replace for CHECK_IF_INSTALLED ?
>
> check for the existence of /var/db/pkg/$CAT/%PKG-* using test -f
if [[ "$(eix -I -e cat/pkg)" != "No matches found" ]]; then...
if [[ -n &quo
o make life easier for us by automating
such mundane tasks. Your suggestion is a little like a washing machine
beeping at you to say "I've finished the rinse now, switch me to spin"
instead of just doing it.
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/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do just what the OP
wants, rebuild everything without touching the configs.
Of course, a backup of /etc is always a handy thing to have around anyway,
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:57:09 -0500, Walt Rarus wrote:
> BTW, I love the quotations following your sig. Speaking of "source",
> are you willing to reveal the source of these beauties?
Yes, it's a place called "the Internet" ;-)
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ogical rationalisation of previous, disparate implementations.
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; > anyway,
>
> For this case, it's probably easier to just tar /etc/ and untar it back
> later.
>
> The OP then doesn't have to deal with 600+ conf-update complaints
Run conf-update and press a then d :)
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On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:39:53 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> The audio player needs to communicate with my email client because...?
This is a relevant and meaningful example because...?
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ually. Just in case
You may grow out of that, if you have time after reading all those
configs :)
On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial changes,
so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the majority,
won't be flaged at all.
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ing etc-update or dispatch-conf I would
welcome it with open arms though.
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;s the problem, I use Crystal. Changing to Oxygen makes it
> all work. Bummer, I don't much like Oxygen. ;)
Currently, it only works with Oxygen. Now that 4.4 is out and more people
will want this feature, the devs of the other themes will make the
necessary changes.
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thread has had enough people trying to find specific use
cases where IPC would not be useful and trying to use that as some sort
of justification for it never being useful.
You're a little late for the party.
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=="Canon", GROUP:="scanner",
MODE:="0660"
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"Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a
blanket And sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."
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he reason the ebuild has changed from nonfs4
to nfs4 is that it is now possible to turn the flag on by default in the
ebuild, which is particularly useful for local flags that can't be set in
a profile.
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ficant concern, you should be using some form of RAID, along with
regular, automated backups of course.
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7;merge') (buildtime)
>
qt-gui needs cmake to build, but you have set the qt4 USE flag, so cmake
needs QT to build, hence the circular dependency.
USE="-qt4" emerge --oneshot cmake
will temporarily build cmake without QT support, allowing it to build
first.
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On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:56:07 +, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> If emerge has a large number of installs to do, for example, during a
> world update, and I am in a tty, how would I find which one emerge is
> up to?
emerge genlop
genlop -c
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the UK some 40 years
ago and abandoned.
Of course, the whole thing of the tagline came about because of the name,
you are not saving daylight at all. In the UK, it's called Summer Time,
probably because that means we can tell when it's summer by checking the
clock settings :)
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y hours, those cows have a lot to answer for. When are
they going to start considering the environment?
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urself, there's Gallery. It too has plenty of
options and can take a little tweaking to get it just as you want.
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pictures.
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What frakk'in greenhouse gases ?
The huge amounts of methane they emit, although it turns out we blamed
the wrong end of the cow for that.
> Is anyone stupid enough to still
> believe in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ?
I don't recall ever claiming that c
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:53:15 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > If you want to host it yourself, there's Gallery. It too has plenty of
> > options and can take a little tweaking to get it just as you want.
>
> Neil, do you know off hand if gallery offers user/viewer th
d, however Iain also said that he tried to mount individual
partitions and this failed. This should work with RAID1, so I wonder if
something else is at work here; either some sort of logical volumes or a
weird filesystem in use.
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re not bad in that they do the basic job. It's just that the
alternatives can be so much better.
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ing in world even though it is not in the world file.
To remove it from @system, add
-sys-apps/busybox
in /etc/portage/profile/packages.
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into account Hoffstead's Law." - Hoffstead's Law
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with the filesystem superblock.
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> contains "-sys-apps/busybox" or not, as soon as I do remove busybox from
> package.provided emerge tries to install busybox-1.15.3, and if I add it
> back to provided the warning reappears.
Does --tree show what is trying to pull it in?
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hit a high peak in the next couple of years. It has
already been predicted that this will affect GPS accuracy.
So not only will you have a reason for the failure, you'll also have an
excuse for turning up late to fix it :)
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; removed?
>
They are totally redundant.
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le, but when I did I preferred Pan to
Knode. While I am a KDE fan, I do find myself using quite a few GTK apps
on my KDE desktop.
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Why are you passing the mail through a conversion gateway only to read it
in a mail client? Wouldn't subscribing directly be even more simple?
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you start up your client. However, this convenience
uses more bandwidth, so if that is worth more to you than your time, using
Usenet for selective reading does make sense.
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Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank
even when you are the only person in line.
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
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30+ mailing list subscriptions.
That looks just like my mailboxes do :)
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you are talking about.
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.
How do you read messages without an Internet connection?
Everything has pros and cons.
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nes would be a pain.
No, I read them from a number of machines but using a single server that
handles all the filtering too.
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Theory is when you know everything, but nothing works.
Reality is when everything works, but you don't know why.
However, usually theory and reality ar
; > Everything has pros and cons.
>
> You got me with that one :) Just because I don't have this problem
> doesn't mean no else does either.
You are permanently wired to the Internet? Don't you ever go out? :P
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the server. You handle it yourself, I let
> gmane do it. :)
The main difference is that mine still works when my Internet connection
is not available. And that all my mail is accessible from the same place,
including mails I'd never put on a server owned by someone else.
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you may not. I need to keep
some of my mails locally, not stored at an online service - as the server
is already there and set up, it makes sense to use it for everything. For
me, using an email-to-usenet gateway would actually mean more work.
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Two rights don't make a
kup systems in the next few weeks.
It looks interesting, and no program is that good that alternatives
should never be considered, but I really like the way BaclupPC works.
Everything is handled by the server, all you need to do on each client is
copy the backuppc user's public key to /root/.ssh
itch back
to the old style menu.
> I know how to find things already, but indexing my gigabytes of game
> records is just silly.
The strigi settings allow you to choose which directories are indexed, so
you could keep it running but exclude those game records.
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although I've never used this myself.
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Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> e.g. 'lockd'?
> If so, which ebuild installs it?
I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but, afaik, file locking is handled
internally by the kernel.
Be lucky,
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? I can't find a good way to take
> regular backup's from laptop that come and go.
You can manually start a backup using the BackupPC web interface, but the
automatic backup thing works with laptops, the server just waits until
the laptop appears on the network.
--
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he server software runs
> as an unpriviledged user, so you can just bypass the bit where you have
> to compromise root there as well.
You lose :P
The server runs as a restricted user, with no login shell.
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7;m really not sure.
tar tvf archivename
Don't specify the compression type, let tar work it out for itself.
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day.
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walt wrote:
> On 02/25/2010 07:05 AM, Neil Walker wrote:
>> I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but...
>
> Are you using something else instead now?
I was using nfs for portage on my local network. I use http-proxy now.
For everything else, I use ssh.
Be lucky,
Neil
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Neil Walker wrote:
> I use http-proxy now.
>
Sorry, that should be http-replicator.
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not necessary to rebuild
everything.
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4 files and then repaired the partition. The
> machine booted cleanly as far as I can tell.
>
> So, something went bad and I managed to sneak around it for a while
> and now I'm sort of living with the machine wondering what to do.
Check the disk with smartmontools.
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; what they're up to.
With KDE 4 you can split a single console window do display the content
of multiple tabs at once.
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eed to do.
You should still run --depclean as dependencies change and you could still
have plenty of no longer needed ones installed.
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