Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag oddity
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I noticed that as constituted, I would see firefox and thunderbird differing on the flag mozcalendar. It seemed like something I would like, however, so I tried putting the flag into /etc/portage/package.keywords: Why did you use that file? What made you use this file, and not some other file? but the subsequent emerge shows that this does not avoid the situation: notice that TB has +moscalendar, but FB has -mozcalendar. Sure. That's to be expected. Call me confused... Well, I rather call the manual page of portage upon you... And there, you should read the package.keywords section and the section directly following that. Alexander Skwar -- Microsoft Zen - Become one with the blue screen. -- From a Slashdot.org post -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce4 ohne Hintergrundbild
On 5/12/06, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =xfce4-4.3.90.1 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - xfce-base/xfce4-4.3.90.1 (masked by: package.mask) ## Daniel Ostrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] (20 Apr 2006) ## XFCE 4.4 beta1 Man. I wish I knew German. All the same, I would suggest copying the entire xfce mask from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask to your /etc/portage/package.unmask. This should enable you to emerge xfce4-4.3.90.1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/de/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=3 Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?
On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:51, W.Kenworthy wrote: What can I use for a compressed file system? I am looking at setting up a loopback mounted filesystem that I want to use to store backups into. Compression is needed as space will become a limitation in the future (I want to do a whole system backup that so far is 2:1 compressed via tar.bzip2. I am thinking of using dirvish into a compressed loopback mount - but how do I set up a compressed fs? Have you tried reiserfs? As long as it is NOT mounted with the notail option it can sometimes save 50% on space compared to ext3/jfs/xfs depending on your usage. There is also a possiblility of using LVM2 snapshots also if you have LVM2 devices already set up. I'm not sure how dirvish is for backup and I'm not sure how good a loopback backup to a file really is anyway. That depends on the consistency of at least a partition anyway. Maybe you are trying to solve the wrong problem? -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: unmerge the blocking packages, coldplug, pam-login and ant-tasks. This usually happens because the functionality the package provides is now handled by something else that emerge world needs to bring it. This is certainly the case with udev now handling coldplug's job. Which begs the question that if attempting to rebuild all the packages in a working system indicates blockers, how did the system get in that state and why did portage not indicate a blockage when the incompatible packages were installed or upgraded? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?
since you are not looking at writing to this fs, then you can use cloop or squashfs for example, gentoo uses squashfs for its live cd/dvd squashfs is considered better, but both are in use on live cd/dvd, cloop was (At least partially) written by the knoppix dude. typically you get 2.5:1 compression with these over a general linux distro file average. either one will put all files starting at a root path into the compressed structure. The only real difference between doing it cloop/squashfs and tar.*z is that cloop/squashfs can be directly accessed (once mounted), which might be of some use. big negative (unless fixed in recent releases) is you need enough ram/VM to hold the entire fs (to be compressed) in memory. So if you have 512MB ram and a 1GB VM allocation, the biggest fs you can archive using cloop/squashfs would be 2.5GB (approx), that compresses down to the 1GB to fit into your VM. pretty recent cloop souce is at knoppix web site, squashfs, IIRC is at kernel.org squashfs would also be available in gentoo, as gentoo uses it in their live cd. -tl On Fri, 12 May 2006 02:47:56 -0500 Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:51, W.Kenworthy wrote: What can I use for a compressed file system? I am looking at setting up a loopback mounted filesystem that I want to use to store backups into. Compression is needed as space will become a limitation in the future (I want to do a whole system backup that so far is 2:1 compressed via tar.bzip2. I am thinking of using dirvish into a compressed loopback mount - but how do I set up a compressed fs? Have you tried reiserfs? As long as it is NOT mounted with the notail option it can sometimes save 50% on space compared to ext3/jfs/xfs depending on your usage. There is also a possiblility of using LVM2 snapshots also if you have LVM2 devices already set up. I'm not sure how dirvish is for backup and I'm not sure how good a loopback backup to a file really is anyway. That depends on the consistency of at least a partition anyway. Maybe you are trying to solve the wrong problem? -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?
This is what I currently use: But I dont have room for two archives, and this method doesnt keep versions. Trying to keep incrementals using this has proven to be a disaster. BillK On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 23:25 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 5/11/06, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can I use for a compressed file system? I am looking at setting up a loopback mounted filesystem that I want to use to store backups into. From what I can tell, there are no really good compressing filesystems available currently. But why do you need to do this in the filesystem? Why not use a compressible format for your backups like tar, cpio, or (my favorite) dar? -Richard -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?
I already use reiserfs with notail, but potentially 60G wont go into 40G of space without compression, and then there is trying to keep versions ... Its notail is also irrelevant if you backup into a single file. Same for LVM snapshots (though in this case its a non-LVM laptop that I want disaster protection for - i.e., in case I drop it!). My working data is actually handled well by unison onto a solaris system at work, but again, space/time and data transfer costs are a problem when trying to do whole systems remotely, so it would be nice to handle it myself, I just dont want to go buy another disk to do it unless I have to. BillK On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 02:47 -0500, Zac Slade wrote: On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:51, W.Kenworthy wrote: What can I use for a compressed file system? I am looking at setting up a loopback mounted filesystem that I want to use to store backups into. Compression is needed as space will become a limitation in the future (I want to do a whole system backup that so far is 2:1 compressed via tar.bzip2. I am thinking of using dirvish into a compressed loopback mount - but how do I set up a compressed fs? Have you tried reiserfs? As long as it is NOT mounted with the notail option it can sometimes save 50% on space compared to ext3/jfs/xfs depending on your usage. There is also a possiblility of using LVM2 snapshots also if you have LVM2 devices already set up. I'm not sure how dirvish is for backup and I'm not sure how good a loopback backup to a file really is anyway. That depends on the consistency of at least a partition anyway. Maybe you are trying to solve the wrong problem? -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )
On Fri, 12 May 2006 02:25:30 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Which begs the question that if attempting to rebuild all the packages in a working system indicates blockers, how did the system get in that state and why did portage not indicate a blockage when the incompatible packages were installed or upgraded? Because you are upgrading the packages. The versions you currently have installed are not blockers, but the new versions are different. How are you doing your updates? If you are not using the --deep option, I am not surprised that you never saw the blockers before, because portage will consider _only_ those packages actually in world for an update unless you use --deep. That's not necessarily true, depending on the command used to update world. emerge world only updates any packages in world and any forced dependency updates. emerge --update world also considers first level dependencies and updates those, even if the existing version satisfies the world packages' dependencies. As you say, emerge --deep --update world goes right down the tree. The only packages --deep misses are those that are not in world and not dependencies of world, i.e. non-dependent packages emerged with --oneshot. -- Neil Bothwick Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name black is not defined
On Friday 12 May 2006 01:57, Alexander Skwar wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: Is this an Xorg 7.0 installation?? Yep. Did you also include x11-apps/rgb?? Yep - else I wouldn't have a /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt, would I? :) Ok... fair enough... but I use /usr/share/X11/rgb and my color problems are gone... -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! Buy an Xbox 360 core for $299.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $11.00! Buy an Xbox 360 for $399.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $126.00! 7:06am up 48 days, 15:45, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!
On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:47, Richard Fish wrote: On 5/11/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going one step further with gcc 4.1.0. After I emerged gcc and glibc... I did an emerge -e system twice and am now following up with two emerge -e world commands... Wow, you like to waste a lot of CPU cycles... Actually... nothing is wasted. I've read that this is the best way to rebuild the tool chain, then the applications. Sources that rely on other sources are guaranteed to be accurately built after the second pass of world -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! Buy an Xbox 360 core for $299.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $11.00! Buy an Xbox 360 for $399.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $126.00! 7:07am up 48 days, 15:46, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.04, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name black is not defined
Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 12 May 2006 01:57, Alexander Skwar wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: Is this an Xorg 7.0 installation?? Yep. Did you also include x11-apps/rgb?? Yep - else I wouldn't have a /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt, would I? :) Ok... fair enough... but I use /usr/share/X11/rgb and my color problems are gone... Well. Not here. I use RgbPath /usr/share/X11/rgb and this doesn't help at all. As this has been introduced just recently, there must have been some change. It used to work. Question: What has been changed? Alexander Skwar -- But you'll notice Perl has a goto. -- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name black is not defined
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 10:19, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Since a recent update, I always get error messages like the following, when I start certain applications (eg. xterm): Warning: Color name black is not defined xterm: Cannot allocate color red xterm: Cannot allocate color magenta On bgo, I found http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78385 which suggests to make sure that RgbPath is correct in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It is correct, I think: RgbPath /usr/share/X11/rgb [10:09:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ ls -la /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17371 10. Mai 10:07 /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt [snip] Any ideas about what might be broken? # ls -l /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17371 2006-04-07 03:03 /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt # grep black /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt 0 0 0 black # equery check rgb [ Checking x11-apps/rgb-1.0.0 ] * 9 out of 9 files good -- Bo Andresen pgpUU4FzZpJhz.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] static ip wont connect but dhcp will
I have my connection set to get an ip using dhcp and this works. However if I try to use a static ip, by setting it in /etc/conf.d/net, it doesn't work, even if I try the ip I have been given by the dhcp server. Nor does it work with an ip obtained using apipa. I can ping other parts of the local network but not out onto the internet. the config I have in /etc/conf.d/net is : config_eth0=( 192.168.1.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 ) routes_eth0=( default gw 192.168.1.1 ) When I run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start I get green oks for everything, but trying to ping www.gentoo.org I get the following error, immediately: ping: unknown host www.gentoo.org Any clues as to what's up? Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!
On Friday 12 May 2006 06:18, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!': On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:47, Richard Fish wrote: On 5/11/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going one step further with gcc 4.1.0. After I emerged gcc and glibc... I did an emerge -e system twice and am now following up with two emerge -e world commands... Wow, you like to waste a lot of CPU cycles... Actually... nothing is wasted. Actually, that's quite a BIT of waste. There's about 30(?), maybe more packages in system, depending on your use flags. About 4-5 are your toolchain. So, there's 25+ compiles wasted per system pass. You *might* need to compile your toolchain twice, but the critical package, gcc, already compiles itself twice. It compiles a minimal gcc (C-only, just enough to compile full gcc, and very portable across toolchains) using the current toochain then compiles full gcc (all your use flags settings, and requires gnuC extensions) using that minimal gcc. (That's the normal gcc build, not Gentoo specific.) After that, you normally only need to compile your applications ONCE. Cyclic dependencies could require more than one compile for full effect, but those are bad for other reasons, and could make it to where you have to recompile MORE than TWICE, depending on their complexity. In ANY case, you don't HAVE to rebuild you applications right away, and it would save you a few CPU cycles to just use the new compiler new time the package is updated. If you are running ~ARCH that generally pretty often. :) -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpO8boYriykX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] static ip wont connect but dhcp will
On Friday 12 May 2006 07:27, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] static ip wont connect but dhcp will': I have my connection set to get an ip using dhcp and this works. However if I try to use a static ip, by setting it in /etc/conf.d/net, it doesn't work, even if I try the ip I have been given by the dhcp server. When I run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start I get green oks for everything, but trying to ping www.gentoo.org I get the following error, immediately: ping: unknown host www.gentoo.org Any clues as to what's up? Can you ping by ip address outside the network? Try pinging these addresses -- they are various google servers near me: 64.233.167.104 64.233.167.147 64.233.167.99 Your problem sounds like not having a valid /etc/resolv.conf, which a part of the process in resolving names to ip addresses. DHCP clients will often write this file based on the information received from the DHCP server, but they often save the old version and put it back into place when they shut down. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgp4UlcKbu9Eh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a subsystem?
On Friday 12 May 2006 14:39, Yuan MEI wrote: embed the portage system into the already-installed system (in cygwin, other version of Linux or BSD, OSX...), and keep its functionality. I know there's a `Gentoo/BSD' project, but it's not good enough. Especially it doesn't work for OSX, which is essentially a BSD system. You can learn about the status of gentoo portage for mac OSX here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/macos/ http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/macos/targets.xml -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Graham Murray wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: unmerge the blocking packages, coldplug, pam-login and ant-tasks. This usually happens because the functionality the package provides is now handled by something else that emerge world needs to bring it. This is certainly the case with udev now handling coldplug's job. Which begs the question that if attempting to rebuild all the packages in a working system indicates blockers, how did the system get in that state and why did portage not indicate a blockage when the incompatible packages were installed or upgraded? Just because they are conflicting now doesn't mean that there was conflicting packages before. Upgrades do happen, and things do change ;) Every time you sync and get a new ebuild, you are generally getting a new version of the package (assuming there is a new version available). - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEZIqmFN7pD9kMi/URAkfTAJ4vYtxZTPGTYufzQyWJaog5dk+zBwCfVtPQ WitkwasBfNu1qMKQTpTsXQc= =UqNp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a subsystem?
On Friday 12 May 2006 07:39, Yuan MEI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Gentoo as a subsystem?': Currently for newly shipped pc and mac, Operation systems are all pre-installed Not true. There are a number of companies that will ship you a computer without any operating system installed. and for recovery, warranty, support and convenience reasons, it's usually not a good idea to re-partition the hard drive and install gentoo. *Shrug* I find I get much better support with Gentoo than I ever did with Windows. My warranty covers my hardware, not my software. It's more convenient (that is, I'm more productive) running Gentoo than Windows. As far as recovery goes, I've recovered from a corrupt initrd, some fat-fingering during a HW RAID upgrade, deleting the contents of /dev, LVM/device-mapper conflict, (2) occurances of glibc getting borked, and numerous other small problems -- most of those would spell R-E-I-N-S-T-A-L-L if I was running windows. So, I guess I'd have to disagree with you. It's for those very reasons that I'd blow away ALL partitions and install gentoo. (As opposed to resizing one and installing gentoo in the free space.) So, is there any way to embed the portage system into the already-installed system (in cygwin, other version of Linux or BSD, OSX...), and keep its functionality. Portage and the portage tree should be installable on any unix-like system that has python and rsync available. 'Course, it's probably not going to do what your want... My concern is that we normal users don't have to fight with the hardware drivers, the strange software and hardware we have to use. These stuff should be done by manufactures, and we purchased them when we buy the computers. And drivers *by their very nature* are OS specific. You don't seriously think that there's a magic way for Gentoo to access hardware using a windows or mac driver, do you? There was some wrappers out there (like ndiswrapper) but certainly no generic framework. As far as Linux goes, you can always use the kernel (and modules) provided by your HW vendor. Just add a line or two to package.provided. But we still need some freedom, some controlablily with our own computers, and some fun, so we just embed the favorite system into the pre-installed system, and use it. Maybe windows with cygwin is not a good start, but OSX on mac should be. Is there anyone would like to figure a way for this? I understand the sentiment. You want the HW support provided by your vendor, but you want the software tools provided by Gentoo/GNU/Linux. Might I suggest in the future you purchase your HW with Gentoo preinstalled? Also, you might want to become part of the solution by making HW suport in Linux better. Oh, you might also look into coLinux instead of cygwin, I think Gentoo support is better that way. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpwJUPEekkC3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce4 ohne Hintergrundbild
Hi Bertram You should write in English the next time. Wie Du in der anderen Antwort sehen konntest solltet Du auch xfce4-4.3.90.1 in der Datei /etc/portage/package.keywords eintragen. So kannst Du mit allen Paketen verfahren, die von emerge als masked bezeichnet werden. Uwe Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hallo, im Xfce4 habe habe ich ein Hintergrundbild eingestellt. Auf einem anderen System, wo auch 4.2.3.2 installiert ist, wird dies auch angezeigt. Hier allerdings bleibt der Hintergrund einfarbig stahlgrau. Legt sich das wieder bei einem späteren syncupdate? Kann man sonst etwas tun? Alternativ würde ich auch Version 4.3 installieren. Ich habe alles entmaskiert, dessen ich im Zusammenhang mit Xfce4 habhaft werden konnte, die Meldung bleibt aber: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =xfce4-4.3.90.1 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - xfce-base/xfce4-4.3.90.1 (masked by: package.mask) ## Daniel Ostrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] (20 Apr 2006) ## XFCE 4.4 beta1 Was geht da vor sich? Danke im voraus, Bertram begin:vcard fn:Uwe Klosa n:Klosa;Uwe org:Uppsala University;Electronic Publishing Centre adr:;;;Uppsala;;75120;Sweden email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:+46 (0)18 471 7658 url:http://publications.uu.se/epcentre version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)
On 5/12/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 May 2006 08:03, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wroteabout 'Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)': On 5/12/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 May 2006 22:18, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)': Weird. Yeah, especially since the /same/ type of blackbox (no auth, just cable-ethernet translation) for cable service is called a cable modem, at least in my circles. *boggle*/snip DSL and cable modems are different.DSL uses PPPoE.A cable modem does not.I know, I've used both services.In his case he's got a black box that hejust plugs in to his DSL connection (no auth he has to set up) and plugs his ethernet into that black box.In my case I've got a black box that Ijust plug in to my cable connection (no auth I have to set up) and plug myethernet into that black box.My blackbox is called a modem.His blackbox is called a router.That is WEIRD.I have digital cable, so my box does not MOdulate/DEModulate asignal.His connection is analog (probably) so his box doesMOdulate/DEModulate a signal.My blackbox is called a modem.His blackbox is called a router.THAT. IS. FSCKING. *WEIRD*.I used to have a DSL modem (actually, it's probably still around,somewhere).It required me to run PPPoE software (to enterusername/password) on the computer hooked directly to it via ethernet. He's got a DSL router that does any PPPoE needed inside the router andjust provides an IP address (over ethernet of course) via DHCP.--If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightestclue what's best for them in terms of package stability.-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreeshCalling a cable modem such is a misnomer, unless you're using a one-way cable modem, in which case there is modulation/demodulation going on (if the cable modem still connects to an analog line). The name cable modem stuck even when 2-way modems were created. He's got a DSL router My blackbox is called a modem. His blackbox is called a router. THAT. IS. FSCKING. *WEIRD*.Partially correct. He has a DSL modem/router combo box. It's not weird when you stop and thinking about it (and actually understand it). -- - Mark Shields
Re: [gentoo-user] wine CVS does not find freetype on amd64
On 5/12/06, Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: Please direct me to a more appropriate mailing list if such exists. You probably won't find much help on the gentoo list about this. Start here: http://www.winehq.com/site/getting_help ..I would chat in there IRC channel and forums. Good luck! Indeed the wine forums/groups are a good idea that I haven't thought of. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!
On Fri, 12 May 2006 07:27:14 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm going one step further with gcc 4.1.0. After I emerged gcc and glibc... I did an emerge -e system twice and am now following up with two emerge -e world commands... Wow, you like to waste a lot of CPU cycles... Actually... nothing is wasted. Actually, that's quite a BIT of waste. There's about 30(?), maybe more packages in system, depending on your use flags. About 4-5 are your toolchain. So, there's 25+ compiles wasted per system pass. And system is included in emerge -e world, so you are actually compiling these packages four times! -- Neil Bothwick Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments' -and they ALWAYS WIN THEM. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)
On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:03:19 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: DSL and cable modems are different. DSL uses PPPoE. A cable modem does not. Not necessarily. In the UK, ADSL uses PPPoA but all of the ethernet modems I've used, including plain modems with no routing capabilities, use plain old ethernet to talk to the computer. From my computer's point of view, connecting to my ADSL modem and cable modem are identical. -- Neil Bothwick Inland Revenue: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] GCC info docs?
I'd rather not dive into the guts of portage - Does anyone know why gcc's info docs aren't being installed anymore? Oversight, or what? -- Michael J. Barillier /// http://www.blackwolfinfosys.net/~blackwolf/ _|O|_| ``What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.'' _|_|O| -- Nietzsche O|O|O| -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)
On 5/12/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:03:19 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: DSL and cable modems are different.DSL uses PPPoE.A cable modem does not.Not necessarily. In the UK, ADSL uses PPPoA but all of the ethernet modems I've used, including plain modems with no routing capabilities,use plain old ethernet to talk to the computer.From my computer's point of view, connecting to my ADSL modem and cablemodem are identical. It was a general statement. As I stated, my experience with DSL is limited. My experience came from using a DSL modem in the U.S. From a quick google search, PPPoA (PPP over ATM) is generally for internal DSL modems; however, thank you for the correction. -- - Mark Shields
Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!
Hello all, I thank you all fo responses to this posting of mine. Now that I was following this thread I just read the one that states that the emerge -e world does also emerge -e system stuff, so now that I am in the mid of doing emerge -e system how can I run emerge -e world with out doing all of them again and only doing the ones that did not get done doing a emerge -e system? Thanks ahead of time Sincerely, Christopher On 5/12/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006 07:27:14 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm going one step further with gcc 4.1.0. After I emerged gcc and glibc... I did an emerge -e system twice and am now following up with two emerge -e world commands... Wow, you like to waste a lot of CPU cycles... Actually... nothing is wasted. Actually, that's quite a BIT of waste. There's about 30(?), maybe more packages in system, depending on your use flags. About 4-5 are your toolchain. So, there's 25+ compiles wasted per system pass. And system is included in emerge -e world, so you are actually compiling these packages four times! -- Neil Bothwick Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments' -and they ALWAYS WIN THEM. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)
On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:51:50 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: My experience came from using a DSL modem in the U.S. From a quick google search, PPPoA (PPP over ATM) is generally for internal DSL modems; Not over here. The main UK DSL network uses ATM, irrespective of modem type. -- Neil Bothwick Open the disk drive door, Hal. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)
On 5/12/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:51:50 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: My experience came from using a DSL modem in the U.S.From a quick google search, PPPoA (PPP over ATM) is generally for internal DSL modems; Not over here. The main UK DSL network uses ATM, irrespective of modemtype.I'm not saying your doesn't. I said From a quick google search, PPPoA (PPP over ATM) is generally for internal DSL modems;-- - Mark Shields
[gentoo-user] postgresql
HI all, I've installed a postgres SQL and trying to connect into it. Does the installation contains a testing DB ??? Is there a super user for the it (somethink like sysdb, system etc. in oracle) and if yes what is its default passwd. I've tryed google and documentation on the postgresql.org but without luck. The DBs are not my cup of tea, but I need them :-| Thanks Pat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC info docs?
060512 Michael J. Barillier wrote: I'd rather not dive into the guts of portage - Does anyone know why gcc's info docs aren't being installed anymore? Oversight, or what? Mine seems to have installed 'info' 'man' files : equery files gcc ... /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/info/cpp.info.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/info/cppinternals.info.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/info/g77.info.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/info/gcc.info.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/info/gccinstall.info.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/info/gccint.info.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/man/man1/cpp.1.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/man/man1/g++.1.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/man/man1/g77.1.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/man/man1/gcc.1.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/man/man1/gcov.1.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/man/man7/fsf-funding.7.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/man/man7/gfdl.7.gz /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/man/man7/gpl.7.gz -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql
On 5/12/06, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed a postgres SQL and trying to connect into it. Does the installation contains a testing DB ??? Is there a super user for the it (somethink like sysdb, system etc. in oracle) and if yes what is its default passwd. The superuser for postgresql is 'postgres'. You can su to root, and then 'su postgres' to connect to the database, as the postgres user doesn't have a password by default. You can use the template1 database to connect to the server, and then create more databases. So: $ su root Password: # su postgres $ psql template1 Hope this helps -- Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lustosa.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] try gentoo again?....LIVE version device support?
On 5/10/06, ted leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feed up with a few other distros, i am giving GENTOO another look.I tried it when it first came out and had .. hmmm. a bit of trouble.I assume things are alot more refined now.I am looking for a distro to base a LIVE DVD (or CD) from, Can anyone comment on how good GENTOO LIVE CD is on device detection,in particular Network cards, USB, and to a lesser extent graphics/monitors.If someone, in the know, could compare GENTOO against say SUSE or Knoppix in that area, that would be very helpfull.I produce a LIVE DVD for a company, and SUSE has made a pretty good bases,but their release cycle is not to quick, and of course GENTOO, a good thing in this case,has almost a perpetual release cycle. In particular, DELL has started selling PC's with no PS2 ports for keyboards/mice,and thats taking its toll on distros that were released last year.So I am contemplating moving to GENTOO, but I can't test the device recognition on other then a few machines I have, but when I release it to my target audience,it has to work 99.99% across 400+ employees computers, which can be just aboutany computer of recent vintage, including of course brand new Dells with no ps2 ports. -tl--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listGENTOO has no problem working with USB keyboard/mice. I used a KVM switch which uses a USB port to hook up both keyboard and mouse(bothPS/2) to one PC, and it worked fine. This was, however, with the universal install cd for x86. The HID device support is built-in the kernel, and if you're going to build a live cd from scatch (Gentoo even has instructions on their website on how to do this with their distro), just make sure to compile HID device support into the kernel. -- - Mark Shields
[gentoo-user] How to make new windows not get focus on Gnome-2.14 ?
Hello. This is kind of irritating. All new windows on gnome get the focus automatically. So, I'm typing something and then a window appears and I have to get back to the window where I was typing to continue. I have looked on gnome-control-center and on metacity properties, but I couldn't find anything related to this. I also looked on gconf-editor, but didn't find anything. It seems the gnome usability team loves trimming useful configuration options for the sake of not confusing users (i.e. treating users as dumb beasts). So, does anyone know how to make metacity behave like this? I might have overlooked some configuration somewhere. Thanks -- Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lustosa.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Startup Script Help
Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thus I'm trying to think of a way to get the Gentoo box to wait a few minutes if DHCP fails on boot up. I've thought about making a simple script with the 'sleep' command and putting it in the boot runlevel but I really don't want it to wait on every reboot. Thus it seems there must be a way to modify the network startup script so that if DHCP fails, then it sleeps before trying again. Then maybe after so many DHCP failures, it finally uses a static configuration. However my scripting knowledge is limited so if someone would point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC info docs?
pw == Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pw 060512 Michael J. Barillier wrote: I'd rather not dive into the guts of portage - Does anyone know why gcc's info docs aren't being installed anymore? Oversight, or what? pw Mine seems to have installed 'info' 'man' files : pw equery files gcc ... pw /usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/info/cpp.info.gz [snip] Ah, so there they are. Didn't run equery, just looked in the usual places (/usr/info, etc.). Thanks, I'll update `Info-directory-list' accordingly ... -- Michael J. Barillier /// http://www.blackwolfinfosys.net/~blackwolf/ _|O|_| ``What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.'' _|_|O| -- Nietzsche O|O|O| -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Benchmarking software for Kernel revisions
Hi folks: I just rebuilt one of my kernels that I had originally installed from the Installer disk. As expected, the kernel was HUGE, BLOATED and NASTY - I expected it going in, so not a huge problem, the system seems more peppy, but I would really like to find a package that would allow me to put numbers to that rather subjective assessment -- something I could run right before a kernel rebuild and then again after to see a difference in performance Thanks TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a subsystem?
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Yuan MEI wrote: for retrieving and managing the software. So, is there any way to embed the portage system into the already-installed system (in cygwin, other version of Linux or BSD, OSX...), and keep its functionality. Someone already sent you the Gentoo/MACOS link, here's the Gentoo/cygwin ;) https://sourceforge.net/projects/gentoocygwin/ They have a mailing list which is managed through the main Gentoo page, I believe. It's still in alpha though, I've personally never managed to get it working. But it could! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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Re: [gentoo-user] Startup Script Help
On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:23:06 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thus I'm trying to think of a way to get the Gentoo box to wait a few minutes if DHCP fails on boot up. I've thought about making a simple script with the 'sleep' command and putting it in the boot runlevel but I really don't want it to wait on every reboot. Thus it seems there must be a way to modify the network startup script so that if DHCP fails, then it sleeps before trying again. Then maybe after so many DHCP failures, it finally uses a static configuration. You can do all this in /etc/conf.d/net # set the dhcp timeout to 3 minutes dhcpcd_eth0=-t 180 # create static fallback options fallback_eth0=( 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 ) fallback_route_eth0=( default via 192.168.0.1 ) See /etc/conf.d/net.example -- Neil Bothwick Orcs aren't all that bad... if you have plenty of ketchup. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)
On Fri, 12 May 2006 11:31:59 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: Not over here. The main UK DSL network uses ATM, irrespective of modem type. I'm not saying your doesn't. I said From a quick google search, PPPoA (PPP over ATM) is generally for internal DSL modems; I don't want to get into an argument over this, but your information seems rather US-centric. I can assure you that in the UK, the use of PPPoA has absolutely nothing to do with the type of modem. However, I'm prepared to accept that our national telecom provider may be doing things differently from everyone else because they can :( -- Neil Bothwick Call out the vice squad! Someone's mounting a disk drive! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Startup Script Help
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thus I'm trying to think of a way to get the Gentoo box to wait a few minutes if DHCP fails on boot up. I've thought about making a simple script with the 'sleep' command and putting it in the boot runlevel but I really don't want it to wait on every reboot. Thus it seems there must be a way to modify the network startup script so that if DHCP fails, then it sleeps before trying again. Then maybe after so many DHCP failures, it finally uses a static configuration. However my scripting knowledge is limited so if someone would point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, Drew You want ifplugd. It will allow you to boot the machine even if there is not DHCP response and then do the appropriate action when the DHCP server comes back up. Try that out, maybe it will suit your needs. - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEZL4CFN7pD9kMi/URAs5KAJ9Gw+ITUea2jV7Y6Dyu7ItN4RTbVACeNrQX V1+AGvCWpLaZUgVDUK3PNkI= =e5Fn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] use shfs
Hi list, i have a question regarding shfs. I'm use to connect a remote computer (let's call it C) from a linux machine (A) via ssh passing through a *nix gateway (B). I would like to be able to transfer data from C to A as easy as possible. Since B works only as a gateway i'm not able to save anything into it. Is there a way to use shfs (or similar) in order to reach this objective? Many thanks, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Build error in threads.c, maybe related to nptlonly use flag.
Hi all, In advance please pardon the long post. I'm trying to do a stage 1/3 install as described here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-345229.html I've successfully rebuilt the tool chain and am at the stage of rebuilding the system with the new toolchain. Unfortunately I've encountered a build error with krb5-1.4.3 that I don't know how to solve. The following is what I believe to be the relevent output from #emerge -e system Unpacking source... Unpacking krb5-1.4.3-signed.tar to /var/tmp/portage/mit-krb5-1.4.3/work Applying mit-krb5-lazyldflags.patch ... Source unpacked. * econf: updating krb5-1.4.3/src/config/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating krb5-1.4.3/src/config/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localsta tedir=/var/lib --without-krb4 --without-tcl --enable-ipv6 --disable-static - -with-system-db --localstatedir=/etc --enable-shared --with-system-et --with -system-ss --enable-dns-for-realm --libdir=/usr/lib64 --build=x86_64-pc-linu x-gnu configure: creating cache ./config.cache checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes . . . . configure: enabling thread support checking for the pthreads library -lpthreads... no checking whether pthreads work without any flags... no checking whether pthreads work with -Kthread... no checking whether pthreads work with -kthread... no checking for the pthreads library -llthread... no checking whether pthreads work with -pthread... yes checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... no checking for cc_r... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc configure: PTHREAD_CC = x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc configure: PTHREAD_CFLAGS = -pthread configure: PTHREAD_LIBS = checking for pthread_once... no checking for pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np... no checking for pthread_rwlock_init... no configure: rechecking with PTHREAD_... options checking for pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np in -lc... yes checking for pthread_rwlock_init in -lc... yes configure: disabling static libraries configure: enabling shared libraries checking for ANSI C header files... yes . . . . make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/mit-krb5-1.4.3/work/krb5-1.4.3/src/util' making all in util/support... make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/mit-krb5-1.4.3/work/krb5-1.4.3/src/util/support' x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -fPIC -DSHARED -DPACKAGE_NAME=\\ -DPACKAGE_TARNAME =\\ -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\\ -DPACKAGE_STRING=\\ -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\\ -DKRB5_PRIVATE=1 -DKRB5_DEPRECATED=1 -DKRB5_DNS_LOOKUP_KDC=1 -DKRB5_DNS_LOOK UP_REALM=1 -DKRB5_DNS_LOOKUP=1 -DHAVE_LIBRESOLV=1 -DHAVE_RES_NINIT=1 -DHAVE_ RES_NCLOSE=1 -DHAVE_RES_NSEARCH=1 -DHAVE_DN_SKIPNAME=1 -DHAVE_RES_SEARCH=1 - DHAVE_PRAGMA_WEAK_REF=1 -DDELAY_INITIALIZER=1 -DCONSTRUCTOR_ATTR_WORKS=1 -DD ESTRUCTOR_ATTR_WORKS=1 -DENABLE_THREADS=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD_MU TEXATTR_SETROBUST_NP_IN_THREAD_LIB=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INIT_IN_THREAD_LI B=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_ H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H =1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMMOVE=1 -DHAVE_REGCOMP=1 -DG ETSOCKNAME_ARG2_TYPE=struct\ sockaddr -DGETSOCKNAME_ARG3_TYPE=socklen_t -DGETPEERNAME_ARG2_TYPE=GETSOCKNA ME_ARG2_TYPE -DGETPEERNAME_ARG3_TYPE=GETSOCKNAME_ARG3_TYPE -DHAVE_LIBUTIL=1 -DHAVE_SYSLOG_H=1 -DHAVE_STDARG_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SELECT_H=1 -DHAVE_IFADDRS_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_OPENLOG=1 -DHAVE_SYSLOG=1 -DHAVE_CLOSELOG=1 -DHAVE _STRFTIME=1 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF=1 -DNEED_SWAB_PROTO=1 -DHAVE_STRUCT_SOCKADDR_STO RAGE=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H=1 -DHAVE_NETINET_IN_H=1 -DHA VE_NETDB_H=1 -DHAVE_INET_NTOP=1 -DHAVE_INET_PTON=1 -DHAVE_GETNAMEINFO=1 -DHA VE_GETADDRINFO=1 -DKRB5_USE_INET6=1 -DPOSIX_SIGNALS=1 -DUSE_RCACHE=1 -DRETSI GTYPE=void -DHAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R=1 -DHAVE_GETSERVBYNAME_R=1 -DHAVE_GMTIME_R =1 -DHAVE_LOCALTIME_R=1 -I../../include -I./../../include -I../../include/ krb5 -I./../../include/krb5 -I. -I. -march=opteron -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-p ointer -ftracer -pthread -c threads.c -o threads.so.o mv -f threads.so.o threads.so threads.c: In function `krb5int_pthread_loaded': threads.c:145: error: `pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np' undeclared (first use in this function) threads.c:145: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once threads.c:145: error: for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [threads.so] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory
Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name black is not defined
Bo Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 10 May 2006 10:19, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Since a recent update, I always get error messages like the following, when I start certain applications (eg. xterm): Warning: Color name black is not defined xterm: Cannot allocate color red xterm: Cannot allocate color magenta On bgo, I found http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78385 which suggests to make sure that RgbPath is correct in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It is correct, I think: RgbPath /usr/share/X11/rgb [10:09:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ ls -la /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17371 10. Mai 10:07 /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt [snip] Any ideas about what might be broken? # ls -l /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17371 2006-04-07 03:03 /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt # grep black /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt 0 0 0 black # equery check rgb [ Checking x11-apps/rgb-1.0.0 ] * 9 out of 9 files good [19:06:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ grep black /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt 0 0 0 black [19:06:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ equery check rgb [ Checking x11-apps/rgb-1.0.0 ] * 9 out of 9 files good Yep. So? What to do? Why is the system not finding the definition of the color black? Where does it look for the definition? And how do I add a color (like: black) to these definitions? Obviously, /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt is not used as a source for these definitions. Alexander Skwar -- Brian: Why don't you shut up for about a week? Stewie: Very well, what are the stakes if I win? Brian: I wasn't making a bet. Why don't you just shut up for about a week? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry! (was: Xfce4 ohne Hintergrundbild)
Am Freitag, 12. Mai 2006, 09:20:57 +0200 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: Hallo, im Xfce4 habe habe ich ein Hintergrundbild eingestellt. Auf [...] Sorry, wrong list. I apologize. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?
On 5/12/06, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I currently use: But I dont have room for two archives, and this method doesnt keep versions. Trying to keep incrementals using this has proven to be a disaster. Again, checkout dar. It is specifically designed for doing differential backups. As an example: # full backup dar --create /media/backups/20060513 --empty-dir -H0 --nodump -O -N -g / # differntial/incremental backup dare --create /media/backups/20060514 --empty-dir -H0 --nodump -O -N \ --ref /media/backups/20060513 -g / -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?
William Kenworthy wrote, regarding Squashfs: and you need at least the uncompressed space to create the image ... not useful here. Wrong, you need sufficient disk space to create the compressed filesystem, that is all. Phillip Lougher -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-can-I-use-for-a-compressed-file-system--t1604870.html#a4362648 Sent from the gentoo-user forum at Nabble.com. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?
ted leslie wrote: big negative (unless fixed in recent releases) is you need enough ram/VM to hold the entire fs (to be compressed) in memory. So if you have 512MB ram and a 1GB VM allocation, the biggest fs you can archive using cloop/squashfs would be 2.5GB (approx), that compresses down to the 1GB to fit into your VM. This isn't the case for Squashfs (and never has been). Prior to version 3.0, mksquashfs could create a 4GB compressed filesystem irrespective of the amount of free memory/VM in the host computer. In version 3.0, the 4 GB filesystem limit has been removed, and filesystem sizes are potentially unlimited. Phillip Lougher -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-can-I-use-for-a-compressed-file-system--t1604870.html#a4362494 Sent from the gentoo-user forum at Nabble.com. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Build error in threads.c, maybe related to nptlonly use flag.
On 5/12/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np... no snip checking for pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np in -lc... yes threads.c:145: error: `pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np' undeclared (first use in this function) I think the nptl nptlonly use flags are relevant to this, but am not sure. I know the kerberos flag is related, but since the box will be interacting with an Active Directory domain controler kerberos seems appropiate to have. Not an nptl issue, looks like a bug in the configure to me. The configure is finding that glibc has the pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np function, so in threads.c it is activating this piece of code: # ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_SETROBUST_NP_IN_THREAD_LIB || pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np == 0 # endif However, looking at /usr/include/pthread.h, we find this: #ifdef __USE_GNU /* Get the robustness flag of the mutex attribute ATTR. */ extern int pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np (__const pthread_mutexattr_t *__attr, int *__robustness) __THROW; /* Set the robustness flag of the mutex attribute ATTR. */ extern int pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np (pthread_mutexattr_t *__attr, int __robustness) __THROW; #endif So these functions are GNU only, and a program is supposed to set the define the __USE_GNU flag if it wants to use them. This has already been reported to bugzilla, with patches: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125966 If you don't want to try and patch it yourself, try masking out this version of mit-krb in /etc/portage/package.mask so you build the previous one. Comment: Okay...It's available in -lc what does that mean? That the function is available in glibc (GNU libc). and if it's available why is it causing a build error? The program didn't see the prototype of the function, because it didn't define __USE_GNU Comment: What does -lc mean? Link against the 'c' library. The linker adds a 'lib' prefix and a '.so' suffix to whatever is passed to the -l option, to come up with libc.so. Another example, -lqt means to link against libqt.so. Would declaring pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np as external on the condition of some define solve the problem? Actually, that _is_ the problem!! Again sorry for the long post, No problem, you gave _plenty_ of information to figure out what was wrong. Always a good thing! -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] KDE blocking itself?
Hey all. Check this out: emerge kde -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/khelpcenter-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kicker-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdepasswd-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-data-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kcontrol-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdm-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/khotkeys-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kcminit-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdesu-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/libkonq-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) [ebuild N] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1 [ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-3.5.2 What am I doing wrong here? Most puzzling. Any help, greatly appreciated! -Jeff -- Darth Vader: Your powers are weak, old man. Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi: You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?
William Kenworthy wrote This is what I currently use: But I dont have room for two archives, and this method doesnt keep versions. Trying to keep incrementals using this has proven to be a disaster. Even though Squashfs is read-only (and so is tar, cpio etc.), you can append to pre-existing Squashfs filesystems without needing to decompress and then recompress the filesystem. Because Squashfs detects duplicates, and renames duplicated files (in the top level directory) at appending, this supports simple incremental versioning. For example, you could archive directory data, delete it, and later add directories a and b to the archive without needing the disk space to decompress directory data. If you kept the data directory, and later added new files to it, or modified files, adding the data directory to the Squashfs archive a second time would create two directories data, the first version, and data_1 the second version. Only files that have been added or have changed in the data directory will be added to the Squashfs archive, the other files (presumably the bulk) will be be detected as duplicates and not added. Phillip Lougher -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-can-I-use-for-a-compressed-file-system--t1604870.html#a4362944 Sent from the gentoo-user forum at Nabble.com. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Startup Script Help
On 5/12/06, Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want ifplugd. It will allow you to boot the machine even if there is not DHCP response and then do the appropriate action when the DHCP server comes back up. Try that out, maybe it will suit your needs. Actually I don't think ifplugd will work in this case. It lets the box come up without a physical network link, but presumably as long as he had that, the box would still try to come up. Depending upon what services you run on this box, you might set RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING=lo in /etc/conf.d/rc. It will let the net dependancy be satisfied by just having the local loopback device, and the box should boot fine (and quickly!). The dhcp client will continue in the background trying to obtain an address for eth0. This won't work if you run some services that insist on attaching to specific addresses...named for example. But most other services attach to the 'all addresses' interface of 0.0.0,0, so they should be fine. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc-2.4 and Gcc-4.0.3??
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 03:57, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone here running a ~x86 box and have the latest glibc and a 4.0.3 gcc running on it? any good reasons not to use gcc 4.1? gcc 4.0.X has a lot of annoying bugs - and several of them are fixed in 4.1 ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!
On 5/12/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:47, Richard Fish wrote: On 5/11/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going one step further with gcc 4.1.0. After I emerged gcc and glibc... I did an emerge -e system twice and am now following up with two emerge -e world commands... Wow, you like to waste a lot of CPU cycles... Actually... nothing is wasted. I've read that this is the best way to rebuild the tool chain, then the applications. Sources that rely on other sources are guaranteed to be accurately built after the second pass of world I'm sorry, but what you read was simply wrong, written by somebody who probably didn't understand how compilers, linkers, dynamic libraries, and executables interact. I could see _some_ value in emerge -e system followed by emerge -e world. There can be some (very small) effects of system packages on each other. But you are building system again when you emerge -e world, and there is simply no reason at all to emerge -e world twice. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!
On Thursday 11 May 2006 15:25, Christopher E wrote: Hello All, Could Gnome and KDE run on the same system happly together with out causing issue and if so could someone please walk me through it so I may figure out which one I would wather use. yes, you can have them both installed. If you are using kdm as login manager, click on 'menu' and select 'session type' to choose which DE should be started. You can even have them both running at the same time! Start X. like with gdm, log in, open an xterm,type: xinit -e xterm -- :1 voila, a second X session on alf+ctrl+f8 was started. Now you can start any desktop you want there, and switch back to the original instance on F7. Isn't that pure luxury? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Build error in threads.c, maybe related to nptlonly use flag.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Fish Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 10:48 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Build error in threads.c, maybe related to nptlonly use flag. Not an nptl issue, looks like a bug in the configure to me. The configure is finding that glibc has the pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np function, so in threads.c it is activating this piece of code: Thanks for the detailed explaination and the solution, much appreciated. Regards, Bob Young -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Startup Script Help
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thus I'm trying to think of a way to get the Gentoo box to wait a few minutes if DHCP fails on boot up. I've thought about making a simple script with the 'sleep' command and putting it in the boot runlevel but I really don't want it to wait on every reboot. Thus it seems there must be a way to modify the network startup script so that if DHCP fails, then it sleeps before trying again. Then maybe after so many DHCP failures, it finally uses a static configuration. However my scripting knowledge is limited so if someone would point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, Drew and putting your dhcp server on a ups is out of the question? try creating an /etc/rc.local and putting /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start in it. then run it on runlevel 2 in your inittab. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?
Richard Fish write: From what I can tell, there are no really good compressing filesystems available currently. I would disagree, Squashfs is an advanced read-only compressing filesystem, which uses numerous techniques to obtaIn high compression ratios while also being fast. Some of the techniques (compressed metadata, use of fragment blocks, indexed compressed directories) I doubt you'll find many places elsewhere irrespective of the operating system. What I would agree with is there is no commercial support for compressing filesystems, which at a time where the major improvements to the Linux kernel are (arguably) being driven by the Linux distribution vendors, is a major limitation. Unfortunately, embedded systems vendors tend to simply use what is there, and the others are mainly focussed on the enterprise which is why there's a lot of enterprise scale and clustering filesystems about. But why do you need to do this in the filesystem? Why not use a compressible format for your backups like tar, cpio, or (my favorite) dar? So you can mount the filesystem and transparently access the files as if they were uncompressed. Phillip Lougher -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-can-I-use-for-a-compressed-file-system--t1604870.html#a4363501 Sent from the gentoo-user forum at Nabble.com. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE blocking itself?
That's what I was thinking! GAH! Excuse me while I go beat the *USER* who used root to do EVIL! Bad user... bad, naughty user... Thanks for the tip Fish. Richard Fish wrote: On 5/12/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. Check this out: emerge kde -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/khelpcenter-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) What am I doing wrong here? Most puzzling. You are trying to merge the kde monolithic builds when you already have the modular builds installed. They are incompatible. Perhaps you wanted emerge -p kde-meta? -Richard -- Han Solo: Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce4 [solved]
Hi, Am Freitag, 12. Mai 2006, 01:44:14 -0600 schrieb Justin Findlay: On 5/12/06, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =xfce4-4.3.90.1 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - xfce-base/xfce4-4.3.90.1 (masked by: package.mask) ## Daniel Ostrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] (20 Apr 2006) ## XFCE 4.4 beta1 Man. I wish I knew German. Another time I apologize for having reached the wrong list. So, I have to thank the more for your answer. All the same, I would suggest copying the entire xfce mask from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask to your /etc/portage/package.unmask. This should enable you to emerge xfce4-4.3.90.1. I had both to copy these to /etc/portage/package.unmask and to insert them into /etc/portage/package.keywords, each line extended by ~x86. No it compiles. In suspense, Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
Alexander Skwar wrote: Nagatoro wrote: But the deal breaker for me is the color support. It's not nearly as good as xterm or rxvt(-unicode) (here my bash prompt that is set to some nice colors is displayed as underlined in gnome-terminal and blinking in konsole). Could you maybe provide screenshots? If you don't have webspace http://dx.homelinux.org/gentoo/ Note that the prompt for konsole is blinking ie invisible every other second. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Friday 12 May 2006 21:18, Nagatoro wrote: Note that the prompt for konsole is blinking ie invisible every other second. What is the output of: # echo $PS1 -- Bo Andresen pgpoZ6pVk0Gru.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Video Intel 82865g
On 10/05/06, Fernando Ferrari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm use a Xorg version 7.0.0 and the video card Intel 82865G, and Xorg don't work with vesa or fbdev, Any ideas? Thanks Saludos Fernando Ferrari Desarrollador Linux http://fernandorferrari.blogspot.com Why dont you use the i810 driver? I have this setting in my xorg.conf and xorg-7 it's working correctly -- Andrés -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?
On 5/12/06, plougher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish write: From what I can tell, there are no really good compressing filesystems available currently. I would disagree, Squashfs is an advanced read-only compressing filesystem, I should have said read-write filesystem. What I would really like to see is something like reiser4's plugin scheme brought up to the VFS layer in the kernel, so that any filesystem could gain transparent compression. I have no use for compression on backup disks, since I use programs that support compression internally. But I would love to be able to compress my normal filesystems /, /var, and /usr/portage. Being a laptop user, I could actually get more speed from those volumes if they were compressed, depending upon the algorithm used. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Video Intel 82865g
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:37, Fernando Ferrari wrote: Hi, I'm use a Xorg version 7.0.0 and the video card Intel 82865G, and Xorg don't work with vesa or fbdev, Any ideas? Use it with i810 driver? I had a 865GV board and it worked fine with i810 driver. What is the compulsion behind using vesa? -- Regards, Abhay pgp7kwJ5urHKH.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] kmcinit
Hello, Hello, Recently, my kde login hangs. The process I have to kill of to get the kde login session to complete is 17813 100 0.0 2272 412 ? R 19:59 1:40 xrdb -quiet -merge /tmp/kde-james/kcminitWQBDHB.tmp xrdb is not even install, yet someting in the kde login session tries to run xrdb. * kde-base/kdebase Installed: 3.2.3-r1 3.3.2-r3 3.4.3-r1 Ideas on fixings this are most welcome. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!
I can't find the exact discussion on the subject of running two emerges for both system and world, but this link gives the kernel of the idea. The original doc went into some details that's missing here and as mentioned, following the suggestions helped clear up some goofy mplayer problems I was having. http://lcni.uoregon.edu/mediawiki/index.php/SOFT:Gentoo_AMD64_1 Emerging world twice may be a bit overkill, but then it's never something I sit and watch... It's amazing what you can do with a bit of bash and cron when you are happily sleeping. Cheers... On Friday 12 May 2006 14:07, Richard Fish wrote: On 5/12/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:47, Richard Fish wrote: On 5/11/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going one step further with gcc 4.1.0. After I emerged gcc and glibc... I did an emerge -e system twice and am now following up with two emerge -e world commands... Wow, you like to waste a lot of CPU cycles... Actually... nothing is wasted. I've read that this is the best way to rebuild the tool chain, then the applications. Sources that rely on other sources are guaranteed to be accurately built after the second pass of world I'm sorry, but what you read was simply wrong, written by somebody who probably didn't understand how compilers, linkers, dynamic libraries, and executables interact. I could see _some_ value in emerge -e system followed by emerge -e world. There can be some (very small) effects of system packages on each other. But you are building system again when you emerge -e world, and there is simply no reason at all to emerge -e world twice. -Richard -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! Buy an Xbox 360 core for $299.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $11.00! Buy an Xbox 360 for $399.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $126.00! 5:37pm up 49 days, 2:16, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.04, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] use shfs
On Friday 12 May 2006 18:57, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i have a question regarding shfs. I'm use to connect a remote computer (let's call it C) from a linux machine (A) via ssh passing through a *nix gateway (B). I would like to be able to transfer data from C to A as easy as possible. Since B works only as a gateway i'm not able to save anything into it. Is there a way to use shfs (or similar) in order to reach this objective? I suppose you do something like a$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] b$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] c$ and, from there, you want to copy stuff from c to a and viceversa. The simplest way I can think of right now is to do a port forwarding, ie: a$ ssh -L :c.com:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] b$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] c$ In fact, you don't even need to connect to c. From now on, open a new terminal on a and you can do (to copy files from c to a): a$ scp -P [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/file/on/c /destination/path/on/a You can also reverse things and use the -R option to start the copy from c (but you need to have the ssh daemon running on a in this case). Man ssh will give you the details. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] choosing different xservers (xorg.confs) as needed?
Is it possible to choose between different xorg.conf files depending on your needs? What I mean is, can you get startx or xinit to choose a config file other than the default? What I have in mind is to be able to choose between using fglrx (for faster opengl) or the radeon driver (because fglrx won't (AFAIK) work alongside other drivers for multi-head setups (and because it's not very reliable either)). One problem would be that fglrx works best with ati opengl, whereas other drivers require mesa. Would I have to eselect the different opengl version each time I started X? I suppose that it would be possible, failing all else, to simply run a script each time I start X to sort out the opengl and swap the xorg.confs about. Actually, the card I am using is a radeon-9200se. I understand that the chipset support for this card in the radeon driver is better than for later models. Is the performance of the radeon driver for this card likely to catch up with that of fglrx in the relatively near future and make my question obsolete? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] use shfs
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 06:57:11PM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i have a question regarding shfs. I'm use to connect a remote computer (let's call it C) from a linux machine (A) via ssh passing through a *nix gateway (B). I would like to be able to transfer data from C to A as easy as possible. Since B works only as a gateway i'm not able to save anything into it. Is there a way to use shfs (or similar) in order to reach this objective? I can't test the shfs part - I tried shfs out a while back, liked it, but got rid of it since I never really seemed to use it. But the ssh part is easy: just use port forwarding (assuming you have ssh access to B; if not, you're out of luck). Using your example, you'll need to do something like: ssh -L8022:C:22 B Port 8022 on your local machine A is now a tunnel to port 22 (the ssh port) on C. You should be able to mount directories from C on A, by pointing shfs at port 8022 on A. Something like: shfsmount -P 8022 A:/remotedir /mnt/mountpoint This all assumes your user name is the same on all machines. If not, just specify the appropriate user name before the host names. E.g. shfsmount -P 8022 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/remotedir /mnt/mountpoint where user is your user name on machine C, *not* A, because you're in fact tunnelling to C with this command. HTH, Toby -- PhD Student Quantum Information Theory group Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Garching, Germany email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.dr-qubit.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] choosing different xservers (xorg.confs) as needed?
On Saturday 13 May 2006 00:49, Robert Persson wrote: Is it possible to choose between different xorg.conf files depending on your needs? What I mean is, can you get startx or xinit to choose a config file other than the default? Yes, just use the -config option, eg startx -- -config config file name but beware of the limitations of config file name if you are not root (man Xorg will tell you). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name black is not defined
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 19:08 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Yep. So? What to do? Why is the system not finding the definition of the color black? Where does it look for the definition? And how do I add a color (like: black) to these definitions? Obviously, /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt is not used as a source for these definitions. sorry to come in late with useless info :) have you actually fixed (or found a workaround to) the problem? I just made a symlink to /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt : $ ls -al /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-05-11 20:14 /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt - /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt and it works. I don't have time to care why atm. Just letting you know in case you haven't fixed it yet... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au It's computer hardware, of course it's worth having g -- Espy on #Debian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name black is not defined
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 19:08 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Yep. So? What to do? Why is the system not finding the definition of the color black? Where does it look for the definition? And how do I add a color (like: black) to these definitions? Obviously, /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt is not used as a source for these definitions. sorry to come in late with useless info :) have you actually fixed (or found a workaround to) the problem? No, I haven't. Up to now, it seems that nobody has a clue - and me, I'm the most clueless person reg. this :( I just made a symlink to /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt : $ ls -al /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-05-11 20:14 /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt - /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt and it works. Great idea. I'll give that a try on Monday when I'm back at the office. If that really fixes the problem, then it should be incorporated in the RGB package. Alexander Skwar -- Peter Griffin: NOO. Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids. Damn longears, trying to take Easter away from Jesus. Anyway, what was that you were saying? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!
Hi!Everybody! I have emerge sun-jdk1.5.**(i download it and ebuild it by myself).Now, i want to emerge tomcat,and it is dependent of dev-java/commons-daemon-1.0.1 .But when i emerge it,errors just occur: enum in jdk1.5 is a keyword,but it is used as a variable in the dev-java/commons-daemon-1.0.1. So now is there anyway to emerge tomcat? Thanks in advance! -- wcw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql
On Fri, 12 May 2006 12:43:05 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote On 5/12/06, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed a postgres SQL and trying to connect into it. Does the installation contains a testing DB ??? Is there a super user for the it (somethink like sysdb, system etc. in oracle) and if yes what is its default passwd. The superuser for postgresql is 'postgres'. You can su to root, and then 'su postgres' to connect to the database, as the postgres user doesn't have a password by default. You can use the template1 database to connect to the server, and then create more databases. So: $ su root Password: # su postgres $ psql template1 Hope this helps Thanks, that helps. Pat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
