Re: [gentoo-user] format 1.68Mb floppy with ext2

2005-03-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:59:04PM -0700, Joseph wrote Are there any advantages of ext2 or ext3 on floppy? I will be formating floppy to 1.68Mb or 1.72Mb as I need extra space for floppy firewall. An ext2 floppy will have less space than a FAT floppy, due to inodes. Ext3 on a floppy may

Re: [gentoo-user] Poll? What applications do you want to see?

2005-03-31 Thread Spider
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 19:06 +1200, Dion Sole wrote: Seriously Can you stop sending the same message over and over again? Actually, he didn't. its the CC, gary at smtp dot nildram dot co dot uk thats repeatedly re-forwarding messages to the list. //Spider -- begin .signature

[gentoo-user] dhcpcd and pdnsd together

2005-03-31 Thread Robert Svoboda
Hi, my work machine gets network setup from DHCP server. I'm running pdnsd localy. Everytime DHCP updates my settings /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten and I have to manually set nameserver to 127.0.0.1 to use pdnsd. Is there some simple way how I can preserve line: nameserver 127.0.0.1 in my

Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-03-31 Thread Joel Merrick
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 15:19 -0600, John Shawger wrote: Does anybody know where I could get a decent quality used computer for not very much money ($500). I want to use it as my main workstation, but it does not have to be incredibly fast. I have been looking at some things on ebay, but I am

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd and pdnsd together

2005-03-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:00:21 +0200 Robert Svoboda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some simple way how I can preserve line: nameserver 127.0.0.1 in my resolv.conf? The dhcpcd man page says: -R Prevents dhcpcd from replacing existing /etc/resolv.conf file. I think this is what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: On-topic, possible mailing list issue

2005-03-31 Thread Andrea Barisani
The problem has been fixed, now X-BeenThere is being checked. Sending this message for testing purposes as well ;). -- Andrea Barisani [EMAIL PROTECTED].*. Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Developer V

Re: [gentoo-user] Poll? What applications do you want to see?

2005-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 19:06 +1200, Dion Sole wrote: Seriously Can you stop sending the same message over and over again? He isn't, its a loop. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] E-Builds for DVD Software

2005-03-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Nicolas Bailey -- To rip I use dvdrip. Hi, can you make backup copies of copy protected DVDs with dvdrip? Of course, including menu and resizing to a single layer DVD, as some windows programs can do? Greetings, Matthias -- When will I learn? The answers to life's

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd and pdnsd together

2005-03-31 Thread Robert Svoboda
* Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-31 12:10]: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:00:21 +0200 Robert Svoboda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The dhcpcd man page says: -R Prevents dhcpcd from replacing existing /etc/resolv.conf file. I think this is what you're searching for? Yes. this is

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread Bill Roberts
On 12:26 Wed 30 Mar , A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: The only thing they have missed, IMHO, are Western Digital's SATA drives. I have two of their 10,000 rpm Raptors running on a RAID0, my machine screams. These are Western Digital's effort to break into

[gentoo-user] Mass mailing in my name

2005-03-31 Thread Andreas Lööw
Hello everyone, One email I sent earlier today to this list seems to have been delivered several times to this list. After looking at the headers, and verifying the pgp signatures of these mails, it appears three of them are actually from me. I would like to assure everyone that this was not

Re: [gentoo-user] Microsoft videos

2005-03-31 Thread Michal Kurgan
On Wednesday 30 of March 2005 23:21, Nuno Alexandre Neves Raimundo wrote: Hi, I try to watch the video in the fowling  page, but i can't see that video. http://www.wwe.com/common/video/pop_wwevideo.jsp?advert=wmv=raw/200503/

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2005-03-31 Thread Bill Roberts
On 11:52 Wed 30 Mar , Grant wrote: I've neglected to update any packages since a nasty case of the new package blues a while ago, but in the last few days I've gotten back on top of it. I'm up to date with 'emerge -Du world' and I'd like to give 'emerge --depclean' a go, but I've read

[gentoo-user] lcms install

2005-03-31 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Hello all, I just installed lcms and tried using qtmonitorprofiler, but I don't find this utility on my machine. Lcms installed commands with those names in /usr/bin: icc2ps, icclink, icctrans, jpegicc, tifficc, wtpt. Looking at the website of littlecms, I find that I can use: qtmonitorprofiler,

Re: [gentoo-user] E-Builds for DVD Software

2005-03-31 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi, can you make backup copies of copy protected DVDs with dvdrip? Of course, including menu and resizing to a single layer DVD, as some windows programs can do? Although I don't know the answer to that, however I

RE: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 error

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
What's wrong with emerge cyrus-sasl? emerge cyrus-sasl fails. How about posting a transcript of what is actually going on? Have you tried sync'ing since this started? If it was a temporary fluke there may be a new or updated ebuild to fix it. And just because the emerge fails doesn't mean

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] moving /usr to different partition

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
I want more space under /, so I tried to move /usr to a different partition - and (IIRC) had a 'failure to unmount the initrd' on boot... and no boot. So, is there a safe way to do this? /usr is a little tricky because it will usually have open processes on it. You can move /usr to a new

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: On-topic, possible mailing list issue

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
-Original Message- From: Richard Fish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to figure out how two copies of my email You should not be posting mail to robin.gentoo.org, just [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout wrote: I thought perhaps CFLAGS=whatever CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} emerge foo no doubt some dev guru will tell me I am way out of line :-) wrong! there's nothing wrong with doing that. If it was something like ACCEPT_KEYWORDS you were

[gentoo-user] Wireless redux

2005-03-31 Thread Ed Jabbour
After days of wrangling with /etc/wireless, I got it -- almost. One problem remains. At boot, wlan0 sets up fine, but then dhcpcd fails, returning that dhcpcd is already running on wlan0. Once booted, I must remove /var/run/dhcpcd-wlan0.pid and then run dhcpcd. I can't seem to find what in

Re: [gentoo-user] ethtool fails on adaptec

2005-03-31 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Reading through /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/de4x5.txt I see this chipset is supported by the dc2114x module - have you tried using that driver instead? No but i will going to, accoording to several sites i found with google

[gentoo-user] 64Bit Proc

2005-03-31 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, Can i install without problems Gentoo on the new Dell machines with a 64bit Xeon processor? TIA Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Microsoft videos

2005-03-31 Thread Nuno Alexandre Neves Raimundo
I have de win32 codecs instaled and i have avi in the use flag, and i still can't see the video. Here is my emerge --info: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.11-nitro2 i686)

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-31 Thread Shawn Singh
I'm wondering if a browser that you may have installed needs it...or possibly some other program... On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:30:10 +1000 (EST), Robert S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a gentoo amd64 system with a number of servers running and KDE. I'd like to get rid of blackdown-jdk to free up

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2005-03-31 Thread Grant
I've neglected to update any packages since a nasty case of the new package blues a while ago, but in the last few days I've gotten back on top of it. I'm up to date with 'emerge -Du world' and I'd like to give 'emerge --depclean' a go, but I've read that it can be tricky. My world file

Re: [gentoo-user] lcms install

2005-03-31 Thread michael higgins
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:57:14 +0200 Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I just installed lcms and tried using qtmonitorprofiler, but I don't find this utility on my machine. Lcms installed commands with those names in /usr/bin: icc2ps, icclink, icctrans, jpegicc,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] moving /usr to different partition

2005-03-31 Thread michael higgins
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:15:36 +0100 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want more space under /, so I tried to move /usr to a different partition - and (IIRC) had a 'failure to unmount the initrd' on boot... and no boot. So, is there a safe way to do this? /usr is a little tricky

Re: [gentoo-user] E-build for Java

2005-03-31 Thread Shawn Singh
I know that I'm going to sound like a kid asking why, but would you mind explaining why the symlink won't suffice? Shawn On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:27:39 +, Julien Cayzac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:56:02 +, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found it. The java

Re: [gentoo-user] Apology (was Re: On-topic, possible mailing list issue)

2005-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:28:58 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Can't the list admins at least find out if gary is subscribed and get | him off the list? He was the guy that was causing problems a day or two back. He'd been removed by infra -- I guess he must've resubscribed again. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless redux

2005-03-31 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 31 March 2005 08:33 am, Jason Cooper wrote: Ed Jabbour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: After days of wrangling with /etc/wireless, I got it -- almost. One problem remains. At boot, wlan0 sets up fine, but then dhcpcd fails, returning that dhcpcd is already running on wlan0.

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:32:39 -0500 Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Compiling is not only cpu intensive, but involves a great deal of | read/write. Which is why you make /var/tmp/portage a tmpfs mount. Or at least we do for sparc and mips stage and GRP builds... But then our build boxes

Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen Bubble and Sound Problem

2005-03-31 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
I knew there was something wierd about that. Thanks, Dion ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] moving /usr to different partition

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
As to whether to move all of /usr or just parts of /usr, I have separate partitions for /usr/local and /usr/portage but leave /usr on the root partition. Okay. I can live with that, if I know it's possible. I just need a little extra space, as the disk use approaches 90%. Moving

[gentoo-user] Error compiling showimg

2005-03-31 Thread Nuno Alexandre Neves Raimundo
When i try to compile showimg, the fowling error apears: ... /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith

RE: [gentoo-user] Error compiling showimg

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
grep: /usr/kde/3.3/lib/libkio.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/kde/3.3/lib/libkio.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/kde/3.3/lib/libkio.la' is not a valid libtool archive I have kde 3.4, but he tries to compile with a library from kde 3.3 that is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless redux

2005-03-31 Thread Jason Cooper
Ed Jabbour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Thursday 31 March 2005 08:33 am, Jason Cooper wrote: Ed Jabbour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: After days of wrangling with /etc/wireless, I got it -- almost. One problem remains. At boot, wlan0 sets up fine, but then dhcpcd fails,

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Antonio Coralles
gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout wrote: I thought perhaps CFLAGS=whatever CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} emerge foo no doubt some dev guru will tell me I am way out of line :-) wrong! there's nothing wrong with doing that. If it was something

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling showimg

2005-03-31 Thread Nuno Alexandre Neves Raimundo
this is my /etc/ld.so # ld.so.conf autogenerated by env-update; make all changes to # contents of /etc/env.d directory /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3-20050110 /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox /usr/lib /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.07/jre/lib

[SOLVED ]Re: [gentoo-user] Can't complie Xorg -- X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory

2005-03-31 Thread Gabriel Menini
On 30/03/2005 16:41, Gabriel Menini wrote: I forgot the following important item... :) Actually, after removing all the ~86 lines in the /etc/portage/package.keywords file, Xorg compiled flawlessly. :) Thanks... -- Gabriel Menini -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 05:40:24PM +0200, Antonio Coralles wrote: gentoo-user@gentoo.org wrote: [...] So, the correct way would be (??): #CFLAGS=whatever #CXXFLAGS=CFLAGS #emerge something If you really feel the need to cram it all onto one line, you could #CFLAGS=whatever CXXFLAGS=CFLAGS

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge want to install two version of apache

2005-03-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Zarick Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seems mod_perl 1.27 is only work with Apache 1.x As I can see mod_perl 1.99.x is for Apache2. But I don't know is it stable enouble ? Taking a look I tried: emerge -v -p dev-perl/mod_perl/mod_perl-1.99.17-r1.ebuild These are the packages that I would

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling showimg

2005-03-31 Thread Nuno Alexandre Neves Raimundo
Is there any way to see what libraries hare linked to library? On Thursday 31 March 2005 16:58, Dave Nebinger wrote: It don't have any /usr/kde/3.3/lib line in it. I have done ldconfig but it still dont compile Well I guess you could try ln -s /usr/kde/3.4 /usr/kde/3.3 and try the compile

Re: [gentoo-user] 64Bit Proc

2005-03-31 Thread Boudewijn Ector
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, Can i install without problems Gentoo on the new Dell machines with a 64bit Xeon processor? TIA Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list why should there be problems? You might encounter some custom hardware, but drivers for these components should be

[gentoo-user] Alsa problem after upgrade to 2.6 kernel

2005-03-31 Thread Paul
Hi all, I have migrated to the 2.6.11 kernel and have followed the instructions in the www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml document. All appears to have gone well except for sound. alsaconf doesn't find any cards. I have NOT emerged alsa-driver but have marked each of my sound cards in

Re: [gentoo-user] lcms install

2005-03-31 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le mar mars à 16:29:58 michael higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:57:14 +0200 Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I just installed lcms and tried using qtmonitorprofiler, but I don't find this utility on my machine. Lcms installed

[gentoo-user] Re: Wireless redux

2005-03-31 Thread Remy Blank
Ed Jabbour wrote: After days of wrangling with /etc/wireless, I got it -- almost. One problem remains. At boot, wlan0 sets up fine, but then dhcpcd fails, returning that dhcpcd is already running on wlan0. Once booted, I must remove /var/run/dhcpcd-wlan0.pid and then run dhcpcd. I can't

[gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread Grant
Since my depcleaning, updatedb and locate are bad commands and dhcpcd is gone. I'm surprised that stuff isn't depended on or part of the system, but minimal is good. dhcpcd is back, but what package is updatedb/locate part of? Should I go for slocate instead? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] 64Bit Proc

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Can i install without problems Gentoo on the new Dell machines with a 64bit Xeon processor? I have Gentoo running on a dual-Xeon DELL server. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Joel Merrick wrote: Plus the fact that I can sit next to my girlfriend and work, while she yaps on, has increased my scoring on the boyfriend points chart ;) Yapping? How do you get any work done?! :-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge want to install two version of apache

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: Calculating dependencies *** You need to adjust PORTDIR or PORTDIR_OVERLAY to emerge this package. I didn't recognize those variable so went to the online docs about portage:

Re: [gentoo-user] ethtool fails on adaptec

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Actually, I also see there de4x5 module which is the one mentioned in the txt file. Anyway, Im hoping one of those will have support for ethtool. Bad luck, the machine freeses when it bringup a network interface These are the tulip modules I

Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-03-31 Thread Antoine
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Joel Merrick wrote: Plus the fact that I can sit next to my girlfriend and work, while she yaps on, has increased my scoring on the boyfriend points chart ;) Yapping? How do you get any work done?! :-) It's a technique my father perfected and I am in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2005-03-31 Thread Bill Roberts
On 06:30 Thu 31 Mar , Grant wrote: I've neglected to update any packages since a nasty case of the new package blues a while ago, but in the last few days I've gotten back on top of it. I'm up to date with 'emerge -Du world' and I'd like to give 'emerge --depclean' a go, but I've

[gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread Grant
I have three Gentoo workstations. One is a laptop I take with me, and the other two are used by other people and stay at a remote location that I only visit occasionally. I would like nothing more than to have Gentoo and only Gentoo on these three machines but I'm scared of something not working

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa problem after upgrade to 2.6 kernel

2005-03-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
All appears to have gone well except for sound. that's bad :) . alsaconf doesn't find any cards. I have NOT emerged alsa-driver You do not need alsa-driver because the drivers are now in the kernel. but have marked each of my sound cards in the kernel configuration. Should I have made

RE: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-03-31 Thread Mike Turcotte
You be like any other good boyfriend and just pretend you are listening to your g/f's yapping of course ;-) Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca -Original

RE: [gentoo-user] Error compiling showimg

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
Is there any way to see what libraries hare linked to library? ldd is your friend... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: On-topic, possible mailing list issue

2005-03-31 Thread maxim wexler
This mailing list has gone goddamned crazy for the last few months. I am sick of it, I try to contribute, yet I am flooded with idiots posting messages twice (once to gentoo-user@gentoo.org and once to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) That's because people doesn't know how to use their mail

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help line 6: B: command not found FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-31 Thread James Hiscock
No wonder changes to the registry are so often needed on Windows machines in order to configure advanced behaviour. I think the registry is just pure evil - a great place for virii/worms/spyware to hide stuff... I always get a kick out of this kind of thing: bashing the Windows registry,

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread Bill Roberts
On 15:56 Thu 31 Mar , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:32:39 -0500 Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Compiling is not only cpu intensive, but involves a great deal of | read/write. Which is why you make /var/tmp/portage a tmpfs mount. Or at least we do for sparc and

[gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-03-31 Thread Bryan Oestergaard
Greetings and salutation everybody! Here's your monthly bugday (like anybody could possibly forget :) that the next bugday is held saturday 2. april. Join #gentoo-bugs on irc://irc.freenode.net to participate in all the fun and occasional bugfixing :) Regards, Bryan stergaard --

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Grant wrote: Since my depcleaning, updatedb and locate are bad commands and dhcpcd is gone. I'm surprised that stuff isn't depended on or part of the system, but minimal is good. dhcpcd is back, but what package is updatedb/locate part of? Should I go for slocate

Re: [gentoo-user] E-build for Java

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Shawn Singh wrote: I know that I'm going to sound like a kid asking why, but would you mind explaining why the symlink won't suffice? Probably because java-config maintains it for you and if it moves, you won't have to worry about it. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread Kashani
Grant wrote: Since my depcleaning, updatedb and locate are bad commands and dhcpcd is gone. I'm surprised that stuff isn't depended on or part of the system, but minimal is good. dhcpcd is back, but what package is updatedb/locate part of? Should I go for slocate instead? Those are part of the

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread James Hiscock
but what package is updatedb/locate part of? Should I go for slocate instead? Those commands are also provided by slocate, so go for it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread spetznaz
First excuse my english. But nobody on the Scandinavian forum know what is wrong. (norwegian version at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-316515.html) I get the error after updating the system to 2005.0 using this guide

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread Grant
but what package is updatedb/locate part of? Should I go for slocate instead? Those commands are also provided by slocate, so go for it. Right on, fully operational once again. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:59:50 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how many | times it emerges blackdown-jdk: This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary packages. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell

RE: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
The advice was: rm -f /usr/lib32 ln -s ../../emul/linux/x86/usr/lib /usr/lib32 FEATURES=-sandbox emerge gcc This fix the update off gcc problem. (but i am wondering it may break somting else?) Well probably you lost your /usr/lib32's file crt1.o file. Bummer. If you remember what the

RE: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-03-31 Thread michael
Hey, let's keep all stereotypes, positive or negative, gender-based or otherwise, out of the discussion, please. Let's set a good example here. Thanks, Michael On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: You be like any other good boyfriend and just pretend you are listening to your g/f's yapping of

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Christoph Gysin
Juergen Fiedler wrote: If you really feel the need to cram it all onto one line, you could #CFLAGS=whatever CXXFLAGS=CFLAGS emerge something without the typo and even smaller: # CFLAGS=whatever CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS emerge something SCNR Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread Christoph Gysin
Matthew Cline wrote: IIRC, locate is in the findutils package. No, it's not. $ qpkg -f $(which locate) sys-apps/slocate * Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My system startup (was More on fbuffer andgrub setup)

2005-03-31 Thread Richard Fish
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Wow.. This is a long post. :-D Yep, If I had personal web pages up and running again, I would have written it up there, and just posted a link. ;- [Big SNIP] your explanation seems logical but I won't know until I tried it out. Before I do that, I just need to ask. 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Grant
| I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how many | times it emerges blackdown-jdk: This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary packages. I didn't think I was. I don't think I've ever used an 'emerge -K' command. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread Ivan Yosifov
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-294109.html This may help. On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 20:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First excuse my english. But nobody on the Scandinavian forum know what is wrong. (norwegian version at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-316515.html) I get the

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread Richard Fish
Bill Roberts wrote: read/write. Show me any other way you can easily get the following numbers from hdparm: /dev/md0: Timing cached reads: 2868 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1432.78 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 410 MB in 3.01 seconds = 136.05 MB/sec zx,qu012,mzxcpiuq,mxc982avc asdfq

RE: [gentoo-user] Annoyance with net.ath0 internal wifi card and /etc/init.d/net.ath0

2005-03-31 Thread Daevid Vincent
Stroller, I am using: sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.10-r4 And I just re-emerged it to be sure. -Original Message- From: Stroller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 2:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Annoyance with net.ath0 internal

[gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Antonio Coralles
Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing [particullary for people without root access] i would like to know if someone has had

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:46:31 +0200 Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Juergen Fiedler wrote: | If you really feel the need to cram it all onto one line, you could | #CFLAGS=whatever CXXFLAGS=CFLAGS emerge something | | without the typo and even smaller: | # CFLAGS=whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:51:09 +0200 Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Matthew Cline wrote: | IIRC, locate is in the findutils package. | | No, it's not. | | $ qpkg -f $(which locate) | sys-apps/slocate * It might be if you haven't upgraded for a year or so. -- Ciaran McCreesh :

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:52:55 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how | | many times it emerges blackdown-jdk: | | This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary packages. | | I didn't think I was. I don't think I've

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Mike Turcotte
Before restarting net.eth0, check to see if you are properly receiving an IP address from a DHCP server, if not using static IP addressing Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing [particullary for people without root access] i would like to know if someone has had

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread spetznaz
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:31:19 -0500 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The advice was: rm -f /usr/lib32 ln -s ../../emul/linux/x86/usr/lib /usr/lib32 FEATURES=-sandbox emerge gcc This fix the update off gcc problem. (but i am wondering it may break somting else?) Well

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 08:57 -0800, Grant wrote: I have three Gentoo workstations. One is a laptop I take with me, and the other two are used by other people and stay at a remote location that I only visit occasionally. I would like nothing more than to have Gentoo and only Gentoo on these

[gentoo-user] Re: My system startup

2005-03-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep, If I had personal web pages up and running again, I would have written it up there, and just posted a link. ;- Richard, Thanks for posting all the details. Too bad but on my server (news.gmane.org) it appears that your post got caught up in some

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing [particullary for people without root

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restar

2005-03-31 Thread Antonio Coralles
Dave Nebinger wrote: Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing [particullary for people without root access] i would like to

RE: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread Mike Turcotte
Are you using hardware or software RAID0? I am using 2x Seagate 7200.7 120GB NCQ drives on my Sil 1334 onboard hardware assisted controller (using dmraid in linux) and I get 90MB/s sustained. I'd say that's pretty good for 7200RPM drives, but I would like to get some of those Raptors. I feel that

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing [particullary for people without root access] i would like to know if someone has

Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Antoine wrote: It's a technique my father perfected and I am in training. You simply ignore everyone and everything. Someone asks you a question or to do something and you don't even hear it. I have not yet perfected the automatic reasonable answer (i.e., you give the

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread Grant
| | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how | | many times it emerges blackdown-jdk: | | This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary packages. | | I didn't think I was. I don't think I've ever used an 'emerge -K' | command. Blackdown is shipped as

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: Point is, I think the premium paid for scsi is too high. In some 15 years of computing, I've only had one HD fail, that was an IBM Deskstar, aka DeathStar. Do you run many servers 24x7? I didn't think so... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Richard Fish
Best guess, I would say that you need to increase your dhcpcd timeout. You are probably not getting a response from your DHCP server in the time allowed. You could also try setting up ifplugd. If nothing else, it would allow your users to reset the network by removing and reinserting the

Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer

2005-03-31 Thread Bill Roberts
I am using software raid. For RAID0, there isn't much advantage in using hardware RAID. Bill Roberts On 14:27 Thu 31 Mar , Mike Turcotte wrote: Are you using hardware or software RAID0? I am using 2x Seagate 7200.7 120GB NCQ drives on my Sil 1334 onboard hardware assisted controller

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-03-31 Thread Richard Fish
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 08:57 -0800, Grant wrote: 1. I'm traveling and need to connect my laptop to strange Internet connections that (with Linux) require exotic configs. Well, I share this worry. I haven't yet run into anyplace wired or wireless that Gentoo couldn't

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
You could also try setting up ifplugd. If nothing else, it would allow your users to reset the network by removing and reinserting the network cable. That's not something I'd let *my* users do ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Apache ebuild can't see Berkeley DB?

2005-03-31 Thread A. Khattri
I did a search in Bugzilla and didn't see this reported anywhere, so I thought I would ask here before posting it as a bug. Im building the latest Apache (1.x) ebuild, during the configure process: Creating Makefile in src + configured for Linux platform + setting C compiler to gcc + setting

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Tero Grundström
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Aaron Walker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout wrote: I thought perhaps CFLAGS=whatever CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} emerge foo no doubt some dev guru will tell me I am way out of line :-) wrong! there's nothing wrong with doing that. If it

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restar

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
# during boot ## Mar 31 15:31:31 [kernel] NET: Registered protocol family 10 Mar 31 15:31:31 [net.agent] add event not handled # guess this line is the problem # Mar 31 15:32:07 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response_ # guess this line is the problem

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