Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

2003-08-24 Thread Stroller
On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 11:42 pm, Terje Kvernes wrote: I've been running ~x86 on three boxes for a couple of months now, with the latest and greatest. things work surprisingly well, with some tidbits here and there requiring testes... I think you're saying it takes balls to run

Re: [gentoo-user] bad partition table

2003-08-24 Thread Andrew Farmer
At 23 August, 2003 Mark Huson wrote: I recently switched a harddrive that i use to hold data from one gentoo comp to another. When i try to mount the harddrive though it gives the standard mount error. I then tried to check the partitions and when i try to start cfdisk i get no partition

Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

2003-08-24 Thread Terje Kvernes
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 11:42 pm, Terje Kvernes wrote: I've been running ~x86 on three boxes for a couple of months now, with the latest and greatest. things work surprisingly well, with some tidbits here and there requiring testes... I

Re: [gentoo-user] bad partition table

2003-08-24 Thread Mark Huson
On Sunday 24 August 2003 12:15 am, Andrew Farmer wrote: At 23 August, 2003 Mark Huson wrote: I recently switched a harddrive that i use to hold data from one gentoo comp to another. When i try to mount the harddrive though it gives the standard mount error. I then tried to check the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage killed itself

2003-08-24 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 August 2003 21:55, Simon Mushi wrote: Hi people, Wow, I can't believe it...after upgrading portage just today...I realized that it removed itself after I the upgrade. when I try to run emerge i get: -bash: emerge: command not

Re: [gentoo-user] portage killed itself

2003-08-24 Thread Simon Mushi
Thanks Mike, Good to know that there may be hope...will try it out Sunday morning... saturday night is not for trying to do something like this. BEst SImon On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 August 2003 21:55, Simon

[gentoo-user] Subversion Ebuild

2003-08-24 Thread Tom Eastman
Hey all, Is there anyone out there who uses the new subversion ebuilds in portage? I've used subversion heavily since November, but I never used the gentoo-provided ebuilds because they were so out of date, and Berkeley 4.0.14 seemed to do weird stuff whenever I tried to emerge it. On my

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer gtk2 gui

2003-08-24 Thread Andrusky
On Aug 23, 2003 [00:39] -0400, Chris Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrusky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else have problems with gtk2 and mplayer. When compiled with gtk I can right click anywhere on the movie window and get a menu. When compiled with gtk2 I can't get the menu. On

[gentoo-user] Re: Subversion Ebuild

2003-08-24 Thread Van Gale
Tom Eastman wrote: Hey all, Is there anyone out there who uses the new subversion ebuilds in portage? I've built it from the ebuilds, and it seems to work but I admit I haven't actually committed anything yet :) My only complaint with the ebuild is that it seems to assume all network access

[gentoo-user] Portage errors

2003-08-24 Thread David
I get the following message whenever i use emerge (emerge sync, emerge -upv world...etc). Emerge last worked about 4 hours ago when I emerged mutt, fetchmail and procmail. Then... emerge sync Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2003 (Could take a couple minutes if

[gentoo-user] Deleting /var/tmp/portage/*

2003-08-24 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
Hello gentooers! A short question: Is it safe to wipe out contents of /var/tmp/portage directory? Quick searching in docs didnt give me an answer (perhaps that's because I'm too sleepy now). Thanks in advance for answers. Dmitry. -- WinErr: 678 This was the last level in Windows. Do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleting /var/tmp/portage/*

2003-08-24 Thread Lloyd I Freese Jr
On Sunday 24 August 2003 02:56 am, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: Hello gentooers! A short question: Is it safe to wipe out contents of /var/tmp/portage directory? Quick searching in docs didnt give me an answer (perhaps that's because I'm too sleepy now). Thanks in advance for answers. Dmitry.

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleting /var/tmp/portage/*

2003-08-24 Thread Scott Jones
On 03:02 Sun 24 Aug, Lloyd I Freese Jr wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 02:56 am, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: Hello gentooers! A short question: Is it safe to wipe out contents of /var/tmp/portage directory? Quick searching in docs didnt give me an answer (perhaps that's because I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of CD-ROM.

2003-08-24 Thread Anupam Kapoor
is it possible that your cd drive is running as a slave to the hdd ? kind regards anupam Scharf Yuval [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, 1. It has nothing to do with another mm application because It also happeneds when I use cdplay in the console (before starting X). 2. When Steve asked me

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleting /var/tmp/portage/*

2003-08-24 Thread drewbian
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 17:34, Scott Jones wrote: On 03:02 Sun 24 Aug, Lloyd I Freese Jr wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 02:56 am, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: Hello gentooers! A short question: Is it safe to wipe out contents of /var/tmp/portage directory? Quick searching in docs

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleting /var/tmp/portage/*

2003-08-24 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
Thanks guys, I think I'll try it. If I'll end up with some errors -- I can always count on our greatest gentoo community ;). Dmitry. On Sunday 24 August 2003 11:34, Scott Jones wrote: Don't really know if it's offically okay but I've done it before without anything blowing up. YMMV though

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer gtk2 gui

2003-08-24 Thread Max
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:08:24 -0600 Andrusky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 23, 2003 [00:39] -0400, Chris Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrusky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else have problems with gtk2 and mplayer. When compiled with gtk I can right click anywhere on the movie

[gentoo-user] [OT] Audigy2 configuration

2003-08-24 Thread Leonid Podolny
Hi, This issue is not strictly gentoo-related, but I hope someone has encountered it in the past and can help me. I've recently bought an audigy2 card. I had no idea that it could be unsupported -- after all, the creative production is as mainstream as could be :). However, I can't get it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on RAID box question

2003-08-24 Thread Kai Lindenberg
Hi Stephen, Am Samstag, 23. August 2003 18:09 schrieb Stephen Liu: The RAID-0 box is for test purpose. The RAID controller needs a driver to run but it works for Windows only. There is no driver for Linux therefore Redhat can't see a single drive but 2 drives instead. I have a Promise and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Audigy2 configuration

2003-08-24 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Sunday 24 August 2003 01:45 am, Leonid Podolny wrote: Hi, This issue is not strictly gentoo-related, but I hope someone has encountered it in the past and can help me. I've recently bought an audigy2 card. I had no idea that it could be unsupported -- after all, the creative production is

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleting /var/tmp/portage/*

2003-08-24 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 August 2003 07:56, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: Hello gentooers! A short question: Is it safe to wipe out contents of /var/tmp/portage directory? Quick searching in docs didnt give me an answer (perhaps that's because I'm too sleepy

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage errors

2003-08-24 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:28, David wrote: I get the following message whenever i use emerge (emerge sync, emerge -upv world...etc). Emerge last worked about 4 hours ago when I emerged mutt, fetchmail and procmail. Then... [snip errors] Woah,

[gentoo-user] the gimp

2003-08-24 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Hi all. I wanted to save a image in tiff format. The file format is not supported, neither is gif. How do I get this working? Is this some non-free stuff? Kenneth -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bad partition table

2003-08-24 Thread Dave Henry
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 03:14, Mark Huson wrote: I recently switched a harddrive that i use to hold data from one gentoo comp to another. When i try to mount the harddrive though it gives the standard mount error. I then tried to check the partitions and when i try to start cfdisk i get no

Re: [gentoo-user] the gimp

2003-08-24 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Sunday 24 August 2003 13:28, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: Hi all. I wanted to save a image in tiff format. The file format is not supported, neither is gif. How do I get this working? Is this some non-free stuff? I believe gif was non-free, but it's free now. Anyway, my gimp

[gentoo-user] Several places , several settings

2003-08-24 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I have a laptop, and each place i come has different setting for DHCP, wireless, mount points and so on. Is it possible at boot time to choose where i am, and so activate thoose settings. I was thinking of several entries in my grub.conf and add something like this. kernel

[gentoo-user] Power off button

2003-08-24 Thread Jan Meier
Hi, How can i enable that if I press the power off button on my computer it shut down? ACPI and APM have i enabled in the kernel and it works! Thanx, jan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity problem

2003-08-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 05:42, Jorge Almeida wrote: Has anyone managed to get audacity-1.1.3 working? I emerged it with USE=-gtk2 and it compiles, but it spills out error messages on opening. I searched the foruns and someone had the same problem

[gentoo-user] Re :mozilla mail not working

2003-08-24 Thread Charlie
Ever since I emerged mozilla 1.4 the mail component has stopped working. I cannot send or receive messages. I am sending this from my debian sarge. Are bothe users the same ID ? Dit it work before ? The debian mozilla package is version Mozilla Debian Package did this so that whichever OS is

[gentoo-user] KDE question - mounted icons on desktop

2003-08-24 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have it setup that KDE displays when a CDROM is mounted. It works fine, but the title of the icon is long and unneccessary. CD-ROM (cdrom1) mounted at /mnt/auto/cdrw I would rather have 'CD-ROM (cdrom1)' Does anyone know how to change this? -

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE question - mounted icons on desktop

2003-08-24 Thread gabriel
On August 24, 2003 02:54 am, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: I have it setup that KDE displays when a CDROM is mounted. It works fine, but the title of the icon is long and unneccessary. CD-ROM (cdrom1) mounted at /mnt/auto/cdrw I would rather have 'CD-ROM (cdrom1)' Does anyone know how to

[gentoo-user] kernel config

2003-08-24 Thread Christian Schfer
hi gentoo-user, mal ne blöde frage. wenn ich in /usr/linux ein make config ausführe, WO also in welcher datei ist diese konfiguration dann gespeichert? (um sie von system a zu system b zu kopieren.) danke! gruss /Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I propose that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage errors

2003-08-24 Thread David
On Sunday 24 August 2003 02:55 am, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:28, David wrote: I get the following message whenever i use emerge (emerge sync, emerge -upv world...etc). Emerge last worked about 4 hours ago when I emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] nano-1.2.2 strange output

2003-08-24 Thread el lodger
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 06:08:22 -0700 el lodger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading to portage-2.0.49 I ran etc-update and then tried to edit make.conf with nano. Nano produced some blinking blocks of text that said something like painting line 1 new line is. This is not verbatim as I

[gentoo-user] best way to move a gentoo installation

2003-08-24 Thread Adam Dunstan
i'm looking to move my existing gentoo install from a 3 gig hd to an 80 gig hd. i'm thinking i'll format the 80 gig (/dev/hdb) as 64 meg /boot (/dev/hdb1) 2 gig swap (/dev/hdb2) and the rest for / (/dev/hdb3) then i'll mount the /dev/hdb3 in /mnt/new and /dev/hdb1 as /mnt/new/boot and then cp

Re: [gentoo-user] best way to move a gentoo installation

2003-08-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
It should work fine. I did that a couple of weeks ago and all was good. On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Adam Dunstan wrote: i'm looking to move my existing gentoo install from a 3 gig hd to an 80 gig hd. i'm thinking i'll format the 80 gig (/dev/hdb) as 64 meg /boot (/dev/hdb1) 2 gig swap

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla mail not working

2003-08-24 Thread Stephan Linkel
Thomas Stoddard wrote: Ever since I emerged mozilla 1.4 the mail component has stopped working. I cannot send or receive messages. I am sending this from my debian sarge. Are there any errors? I had a problem, that an error message occured when I clicked on 'compose' or 'reply' which said, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Several places , several settings

2003-08-24 Thread Tom Condon
On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:29, Patrick Marquetecken carved in granite: I have a laptop, and each place i come has different setting for DHCP, wireless, mount points and so on. Is it possible at boot time to choose where i am, and so activate thoose settings. I was thinking of several

Re: [gentoo-user] best way to move a gentoo installation

2003-08-24 Thread Adam Dunstan
will i have to do something with lilo aswell? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] best way to move a gentoo installation

2003-08-24 Thread nmeyers
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:04:47AM +1000, Adam Dunstan wrote: i'm looking to move my existing gentoo install from a 3 gig hd to an 80 gig hd. i'm thinking i'll format the 80 gig (/dev/hdb) as 64 meg /boot (/dev/hdb1) 2 gig swap (/dev/hdb2) and the rest for / (/dev/hdb3) then i'll mount

Re: [gentoo-user] best way to move a gentoo installation

2003-08-24 Thread Tom Condon
On Sunday 24 August 2003 08:04, Adam Dunstan carved in granite: i'm looking to move my existing gentoo install from a 3 gig hd to an 80 gig hd. i'm thinking i'll format the 80 gig (/dev/hdb) as 64 meg /boot (/dev/hdb1) 2 gig swap (/dev/hdb2) and the rest for / (/dev/hdb3) then i'll mount

Re: [gentoo-user] best way to move a gentoo installation

2003-08-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Adam, Parted will do it for you in less than 15 minutes. I did it once on another distro. It is quite convenient and smooth. Please visit following website for further information; http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/56140/GNU-Parted.html B.R. Stephen Liu On Sun, 2003-08-24 at

Re: [gentoo-user] best way to move a gentoo installation

2003-08-24 Thread Holger Kettler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 will i have to do something with lilo aswell? nothing more than last time you installed lilo PS: /boot sometimes needs to be bootable... - -- 0x87D205F6 hkp://pgp.mit.edu #198379 http://counter.li.org You can't prove it won't happen...

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config

2003-08-24 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Sunday 24 August 2003 16:32, Christian Schäfer wrote: hi gentoo-user, mal ne blöde frage. wenn ich in /usr/linux ein make config ausführe, WO also in welcher datei ist diese konfiguration dann gespeichert? (um sie von system a zu system b zu kopieren.) Ich will nicht irgendwie

Re: [gentoo-user] best way to move a gentoo installation

2003-08-24 Thread Adam Dunstan
should I copy my /tmp directory over aswell? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config

2003-08-24 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:32:01 +0200 Christian Schäfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi gentoo-user, mal ne blöde frage. wenn ich in /usr/linux ein make config ausführe, WO also in welcher datei ist diese konfiguration dann gespeichert? (um sie von system a zu system b zu kopieren.) danke!

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage errors

2003-08-24 Thread David
On Sunday 24 August 2003 07:33 am, David wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 02:55 am, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:28, David wrote: I get the following message whenever i use emerge (emerge sync, emerge -upv

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2ctl start

2003-08-24 Thread Ben Anderson
ok, I emerge gentoolkit and then I run: revdep-rebuild, but it errors with this message: make: *** [ext/iconv/iconv.lo] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs !!! ERROR: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.2 failed. !!! Function php_src_compile, Line 402, Exitcode 2 !!! compile problem Result is not

Re: [gentoo-user] best way to move a gentoo installation

2003-08-24 Thread Holger Kettler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 should I copy my /tmp directory over aswell? You don't have to, no. - -- 0x87D205F6 hkp://pgp.mit.edu #198379 http://counter.li.org You can't prove it won't happen... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [gentoo-user] Many ebuilds fail (cd failes after configure)

2003-08-24 Thread Paidhi
After much frustration I finally found where the beast was hiding. It looks like make is not working correctly if you have CDPATH set. Unsetting CDPATH fixed the problem for me. There is also a bug report: [url]http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14103[/url] Rgds, Markus On Sunday 17

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] kernel config

2003-08-24 Thread Christian Schäfer
hi Collins, Gar keine bloede Frage, aber auf Englisch, bitte! sorry, mixed up with the other mailing list Im in... gruss /Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) 19-Sep-82

Re: [gentoo-user] best way to move a gentoo installation

2003-08-24 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 23:02:38 +0400 Makurin Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 24.08.2003, × 19:04, Adam Dunstan : i'm looking to move my existing gentoo install from a 3 gig hd to an 80 gig hd. i'm thinking i'll format the 80 gig (/dev/hdb) as 64 meg /boot (/dev/hdb1) 2 gig swap

Re: [gentoo-user] the gimp

2003-08-24 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Sunday 24 August 2003 13:28, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: Hi all. I wanted to save a image in tiff format. The file format is not supported, neither is gif. How do I get this working? Is this some non-free stuff? I believe gif was non-free, but it's free now.

[gentoo-user] re: mozilla mail not working

2003-08-24 Thread Thomas Stoddard
Ever since I emerged mozilla 1.4 the mail component has stopped working. I cannot send or receive messages. I am sending this from my debian sarge. Are bothe users the same ID ? Dit it work before ? The debian mozilla package is version Mozilla Debian Package did this so that whichever

[gentoo-user] MP3s playing too fast.

2003-08-24 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I have downloaded some copies of some old time Radio Mystery Theater stuff from various places around the Net. However, each and every one of the mp3s are playing far too fast. They all sound like a bunch of chipmunks reading a story :) I have tried using xmms and mp3blaster, and they both have

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity problem

2003-08-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 05:42, Jorge Almeida wrote: Has anyone managed to get audacity-1.1.3 working? I emerged it with USE=-gtk2 and it compiles, but it spills out error messages on opening. I searched the foruns and someone had the same problem

Re: [gentoo-user] MP3s playing too fast.

2003-08-24 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sunday 24 August 2003 21:42, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I have downloaded some copies of some old time Radio Mystery Theater stuff from various places around the Net. However, each and every one of the mp3s are playing far too fast. They all sound like a bunch of chipmunks reading a story

Re: [gentoo-user] Power off button

2003-08-24 Thread Yuri Enshin
Jan Meier wrote: Hi, How can i enable that if I press the power off button on my computer it shut down? ACPI and APM have i enabled in the kernel and it works! Thanx, jan Just install sys-apps/acpid -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] why forced opera downgrad?

2003-08-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, for app. 2 days emerge -pU world wants to downgrade opera: energy root # emerge -puU world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild UD] net-www/opera-6.12 [7.11] höh? Why? Is there any plausible reason to downgrade? 7.11 is

Re: [gentoo-user] why forced opera downgrad?

2003-08-24 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 23:15:10 + Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, for app. 2 days emerge -pU world wants to downgrade opera: energy root # emerge -puU world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild

[gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop in Europe

2003-08-24 Thread ejbr
Anyone on this list gone to Europe w/ a laptop? Going to Italy and France. I have an IBM T30. I know I'll need a plug adapter, but don't know if I need a voltage converter. I don't think so, but thought I better check. And, if anyone's used an internet cafe in Paris or Rome, charges?

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity problem

2003-08-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 13:59, Jorge Almeida wrote: Thank you, Mark. I just found out that audacity doesn't like aRts. It is in http://audacity.sourceforge.net/unix.php at the end of the page (don't know how I didn't see it before...). Still no help system, though. Jorge, If you'd like to

[gentoo-user] determining length of MPEG video

2003-08-24 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I used dvd::rip to rip a DVD. It split it into the audio and video streams. When it used transcode to combine them, the audio was out of sync with the video. I opened the audio stream (.mpa) in xmms. It said it was 149:23. How can I determine the length of the video stream (.m1v)? And once

Re: [gentoo-user] determining length of MPEG video

2003-08-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 15:13, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I used dvd::rip to rip a DVD. It split it into the audio and video streams. When it used transcode to combine them, the audio was out of sync with the video. I opened the audio stream (.mpa) in xmms. It said it was 149:23. How can I

Re: [gentoo-user] determining length of MPEG video

2003-08-24 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 15:13, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I used dvd::rip to rip a DVD. It split it into the audio and video streams. When it used transcode to combine them, the audio was out of sync with the video. I opened the audio stream (.mpa) in xmms. It said it was 149:23.

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity problem

2003-08-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 13:59, Jorge Almeida wrote: Thank you, Mark. I just found out that audacity doesn't like aRts. It is in http://audacity.sourceforge.net/unix.php at the end of the page (don't know how I didn't see it before...). Still no help