Re: [gentoo-user] portage problems

2003-12-02 Thread Robert Cole
Thanks for the quick reply! It's probably my fault or I'm mis-reading something in your reply but my system is built with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 from the beginning. The masking notes say the ~ should be there. Is that not correct? It's late for me here so it's probably a goof on my part. :) I

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problems

2003-12-02 Thread Marius Mauch
On 12/02/03 Allen Parker wrote: You should definitely file your own bug report. One of the caveats of running ~x86 is that sometimes things are just broken. I'd suggest a rebuild with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 instead as portage-2.0.49-r15 is working fine for me. If there are things that are

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problems

2003-12-02 Thread Robert Cole
Thanks I looked it up. I did indeed find a lockfile so I tried re-emerging the add and I see that it fails to completely install: making executable: /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.5 Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/libsndfile-1.0.5/image/ Merging media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.5 to / ---

Re: [gentoo-user] about spam

2003-12-02 Thread Adrian Pirciu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 you have the IMAP choice for the see before you download thing.. POP3 also supports it if the server and the client support this feature.. On Tuesday 02 December 2003 03:36, Oliver Lange wrote: Hi Everybody, IMHO, the traditional (our currently

Re: [gentoo-user] razor problems

2003-12-02 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-01, Redeeman wrote: hi, i am trying to install razor, but i get the following problems: [...] !!! ERROR: net-mail/razor-2.36-r1 failed. !!! Function perl-module_src_install, Line 78, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) anyone know what the problem can be, and how to solve? Hi!

Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

2003-12-02 Thread Matthieu Amiguet
I would suggest QtParted (a gui for parted, http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/). I've never used it, but it looks like it should work with FAT32. As already mentioned, KNOPPIX would be helpful to get started since you can boot from it and will have a full set of gnu/linux tools available.

Re: [gentoo-user] about spam

2003-12-02 Thread Matthieu Amiguet
Perhaps Oliver should have a look at poppy (http://www.cnpbagwell.com/projects.html) From the website: This simple Perl script will individually read the headers of messages on a POP3 or IMAP account and then prompt you to read, save, delete or reply to the message. This works great for

Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

2003-12-02 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-01, Jonas Widarsson wrote: [...] Haha I kinda felt gentoo users are mostly the kind that doesn't use windows at all, and dual boot for the sake of windows is something rare among this freedom loving crowd. I must say that I have never seen as many Outlook/Outlook Express users

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-01, Redeeman wrote: i thought about make an account for mailinglists too, but i didnt do it, sadly :( On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:27, SN wrote: Yeah I have about 8 email accounts: work-related, private and so on, but this one really gets spammed heavily.I'm just happy, that I

[gentoo-user] CUPS (print to file)

2003-12-02 Thread Epifanov Alexander
Hello, Is it possible to have a printer in CUPS, And all documents, sended to this printer, save in file (for example postscript). Thanks. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS (print to file)

2003-12-02 Thread Peter Eis
Epifanov Alexander wrote: Hello, Is it possible to have a printer in CUPS, And all documents, sended to this printer, save in file (for example postscript). net-print/cups-pdf - creates PDF files HTH, Peter Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] timidity++ and oss

2003-12-02 Thread Matthieu Amiguet
A short answer to my own post. This is bug 29522 or bug 11232. Sorry. Matthieu I'm still trying to make timidity play directly to my i810_audio driver soundcard. # emerge -pv timidity++ gives me flags -nas -esd +motif +X +gtk -oggvorbis +tcltk +slang -alsa And then timidity -Od

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS (print to file)

2003-12-02 Thread Peter Eis
Peter Eis wrote: Epifanov Alexander wrote: Hello, Is it possible to have a printer in CUPS, And all documents, sended to this printer, save in file (for example postscript). net-print/cups-pdf - creates PDF files you could also create your own cups-backend to capture the spoolfile and the

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Helgi Örn Helgason -- Some clear signs of a mailinglist newbie: * Top mailing. * Never tidying up a RE: message. * Lot of OT stuff. And? You got born as a mailinglist expert super pro? Sorry, this isn't ment as offensive as it might look, but I don't like this

[gentoo-user] using mirrorselect -i

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Anderson
Hi, ok, so I've emerged mirroselect and typed mirrorselect -i. I get a list of mirrors to choose from and pinged them to find the fastest. Now I want to select certain ones and I'll be darned if I can't figure out how to select. Am I really this dumb of a user or is there a trick? Thanks,

[gentoo-user] Creating mysql tables type=innodb

2003-12-02 Thread Chris Carter
Hi, This may seem a little off-topic but I can't seem to get my hands round this. I emerged mysql 4.0.14 with USE=innodb in my make.conf; which built just fine. I created a database and added some tables using type=innodb and started working with them just fine. Yesterday morning I noticed the

[gentoo-user] Re: reiser, fsck

2003-12-02 Thread sf
Jonathan Stickel wrote: ... OK, ext3 doesn't need a full-blown fsck every boot either. I'm asking specifically how to do a one-time full-blown fsck of reiser during a boot. Sorry if I wasn't completely clear. emerge sys-fs/reiserfsprogs man reiserfsck Regards, Stephan -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] emerge OpenOffice.org fails

2003-12-02 Thread s
Hi all. emerge openoffice.org fails with the following message: ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /var/tmp/portage/ openoffice-1.1.0-r2/work/oo_1.1_src/basctl/source/basicide !!! ERROR: app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 471, Exitcode 1 !!! Build

[gentoo-user] Re: CHOST=i?86-pc-linux-gnu

2003-12-02 Thread sf
Nicholas wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Gentoo on an AMD K6-III system -- successfully -- until I noticed that the ebuild for xine-lib-0.9.13-r3 had changed my -march=k6-3 to i686 and libpng changed it to i586. I understand why this is done, but I thought that a k6-III was equivalent to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge OpenOffice.org fails

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting s -- anyone have any ideas how I might get this app installed? I saw the warning about cflags, but mine are conservative. Sorry, I can't help you with this, but have you tried searching on bugs.gentoo.org? Enter an ALL openoffice -- there are tons of bugs, maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-02, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Helgi Örn Helgason -- Some clear signs of a mailinglist newbie: * Top mailing. * Never tidying up a RE: message. * Lot of OT stuff. And? You got born as a mailinglist expert super pro? No, absolutely not. I

Re: [gentoo-user] A good PCI modem that will work with Gentoo or Linux

2003-12-02 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Christopher Lyon wrote: Can anybody recommend a good PCI internal modem that will work with Gentoo? I have found a couple of links out, idir.net/~. and they all seem to have outdated information. Any help would be appreciated. I use very cheap ( 20EUR) HW PCI modem with Lucet chipset,

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Helgi Örn Helgason -- No, I am sorry, i know I was not being polite. After a few weeks reading this list I got kind of frustrated by all these top-postings, they make me dizzy and confused...:o| I am on your side, I don't like them either. And I also think that one

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge OpenOffice.org fails

2003-12-02 Thread Stefan Hildebrandt
On Die, 2003-12-02 at 12:38, s wrote: Hi all. emerge openoffice.org fails with the following message: ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /var/tmp/portage/ openoffice-1.1.0-r2/work/oo_1.1_src/basctl/source/basicide !!! ERROR: app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r2 failed. !!! Function

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Alexander Williams
Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 6:11:45 AM, Matthias wrote: MFB questions in a wrong manner. But: where should I have learned it, if MFB not on the list itself? Well, in the old days, we used to learn by actually reading the ML for a while before posting to it and seeing how the folks who

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge OpenOffice.org fails

2003-12-02 Thread brett holcomb
Did you set up java using java-config? Also - what is conservative for the flags? I used -O3 or -O2 with no additional junk. On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 05:38:25 -0600 s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. emerge openoffice.org fails with the following message: ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making

Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

2003-12-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:43:35 +0100 Matthieu Amiguet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest QtParted (a gui for parted, http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/). I've never used it, but it looks like it should work with FAT32. As already mentioned, KNOPPIX would be helpful to get started

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problems

2003-12-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 23:02:34 -0800 Robert Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the quick reply! It's probably my fault or I'm mis-reading something in your reply but my system is built with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 from the beginning. The masking notes say the ~ should be there. Is that not

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 07:18:46 -0500 Alexander Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 6:11:45 AM, Matthias wrote: ObGentoo: Its really, really easy to pull up and configure one of the innumerable Bayesian mail filtering systems on your server.

[gentoo-user] [postfix] Mails to root@ are sent to nobody@

2003-12-02 Thread Thomas Preissler
Hello folks, I recently merged postfix-2.0.11. Now I am missing mails, which are sent to root and via .procmailrc they are resent to my local user-account. This was working properly with sendmail. I can't use an alias root-user, because some mails *must* be sent to root... Now I determined,

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:40:24 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure that most of you who own a TV in the US have seen one of the many commercials for the new game 'Prince of Persia: Sands of Time'. SNIP Okay, bringing this back On Topic, i'm not sure how many of

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Spider -- Okay, bringing this back On Topic, i'm not sure how many of you played the original, but I know it made a nice impression on me when I was in the age of such games. (that and the much later RayMan ;) And now I'm rummaging around for some

Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

2003-12-02 Thread Norberto Bensa
Mark Knecht wrote: but I got some really ugly messages in the xterm I started to run it, so I wasn't sure if I should go any further just yet. Yep. You can. I've resized many FAT{,32} partitions from my customers and friends. I can't remember for sure, but I think I did a NTFS resize too.

[gentoo-user] tbz2 structure

2003-12-02 Thread Adrian Pirciu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know that the tbz2 packages contain some metadata besides the files. where can I find the structure ? (google'ing didn't help me :( ) What other data can I find there ? dependencies ? use flags ? How can I extract the metadata ? thx adixor

Re: [gentoo-user] tbz2 structure

2003-12-02 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 16:43:18 +0200 Adrian Pirciu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know that the tbz2 packages contain some metadata besides the files. where can I find the structure ? (google'ing didn't help me :( ) What other data can

Re: [gentoo-user] way way OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: It actually says his name at the bottom of the screen at the end of the commercial: Peter Gabriel.. oh wait that is in the Uru ad you had me wodering there for a second. /me googles... Ah: I've only seen the particular commercial where it says the name once. To

RE: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
There is a DOS version of Prince of Persia you can download! -Original Message- From: Spider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] begin quote On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:40:24 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure that most of you who own a TV in the US have seen one of the many

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread William Kenworthy
Better yet, make it configurable so us top posters can bin the bottom posters as well! Bottom posters, especially those that that fail to trim there posts are a real pain in many modern mail readers ... :) BillK On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 22:14, Spider wrote: begin quote On Tue, 2 Dec 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:19:41 -0600 Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone mention a clone, or an emulator/VM setup that can play said old game? ( nope, the ps/2 that I ran it on originally is dead ) There is a DOS version of Prince of Persia

[gentoo-user] terragen on linux?

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, there are still some moments when I miss my old dual-boot setup (win2k kicked after a virus). This time, I restarted my attempt to bring terragen to life under Linux, unfortunately with no luck so far. I tried with wine, but it seems this is an unlucky plan. I don't want to use VMWare

RE: [gentoo-user] portage problems

2003-12-02 Thread MARTINSON, GREGORY
I have the same problem with use=~x86 I even reported this as a bug. But I went ahead and continued on. -Gregg -=-=-=-=-= Why am I in a handbasket and where am I headed? Gregg Martinson, RAHS Media -Original Message- From: Jason Stubbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Redeeman
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 13:10, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Helgi Örn Helgason -- No, I am sorry, i know I was not being polite. After a few weeks reading this list I got kind of frustrated by all these top-postings, they make me dizzy and confused...:o| I am

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Redeeman
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 17:12, Redeeman wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 13:10, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Helgi Örn Helgason -- No, I am sorry, i know I was not being polite. After a few weeks reading this list I got kind of frustrated by all these top-postings,

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Redeeman -- just to do as you do, :) but i like to write stuff in the top of the email! then do so ... I think no one will ever shoot you because of top quotes ;) -- Why did this have to happen now, during prime time, when TV's brightest stars come out to shine?

[gentoo-user] Re: Alsamixer will not work.....

2003-12-02 Thread Steve
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:09, Steve wrote: When I run alsamixer ( as root or a normal user) I get this: =20 Illegal Instruction. Did you compile that from source? If so, what is your -arch set to? What kind of CPU is your machine? Keith Dart mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kdart.com/ It's a

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:10:49 +0100 Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- quoting Helgi Örn Helgason -- No, I am sorry, i know I was not being polite. After a few weeks reading this list I got kind of frustrated by all these top-postings, they make me dizzy and

Re: [gentoo-user] using mirrorselect -i

2003-12-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:19:51 -0500 Ben Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ok, so I've emerged mirroselect and typed mirrorselect -i. I get a list of mirrors to choose from and pinged them to find the fastest. Now I want to select certain ones and I'll be darned if I can't figure out

RE: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Allen Parker
-Original Message- From: Collins Richey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:10:49 +0100 Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Unfortunately it's not just newbies or Outlook-challenged posters who do top postings. There are confirmed top-posters (disgusting as this may be) on every list who are well aware of what they are doing and who could care less about netiquette. IMO, the proper way to handle this

[gentoo-user] my ls.so.conf is missing

2003-12-02 Thread Helder Rossa
hi, how can I regenerate my ld.so.conf?? can someone be kind and email me a working ls.so.conf?? thanx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser, fsck

2003-12-02 Thread Jonathan Stickel
sf wrote: Jonathan Stickel wrote: ... OK, ext3 doesn't need a full-blown fsck every boot either. I'm asking specifically how to do a one-time full-blown fsck of reiser during a boot. Sorry if I wasn't completely clear. emerge sys-fs/reiserfsprogs man reiserfsck Nothing there about setting

Re: [gentoo-user] my ls.so.conf is missing

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Helder Rossa -- how can I regenerate my ld.so.conf?? can someone be kind and email me a working ls.so.conf?? I think it should be enough to run env-update. HTH! Greets, Matthias -- D'oh! English! Who needs that? I'm never going to England. Come on, let's smoke.

Re: [gentoo-user] my ls.so.conf is missing

2003-12-02 Thread Sigurd Stordal
how can I regenerate my ld.so.conf?? env-update will create it. -- Sigurd Stordal master in Petrology/mineralogy President of GOGS Opuscreator VS in DNM95 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] my ls.so.conf is missing

2003-12-02 Thread Redeeman
type ldconfig as root in a console On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 18:05, Helder Rossa wrote: hi, how can I regenerate my ld.so.conf?? can someone be kind and email me a working ls.so.conf?? thanx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against

[gentoo-user] SciPy?

2003-12-02 Thread Karshi F.Hasanov
Hi all, Is there anybody tried to install SciPy (www.scipy.org) on Gentoo? I am having problems to install it. Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Cant Mount Cdrom to install packages from cd2

2003-12-02 Thread Alexander A. Koulouris
Hi Ian, Well, I have completed the install and I reboot and login as root and enter the root password. When I try to mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom it tells me mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist. I tride to mkdir /mnt/cdrom and still it wont allow me to do that. I don't know why? I am

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:01:14 -0600 Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, like I said, if you show me this law that says we are all wrong, and your right, I will bow to the Collins law of proper netiquette. Interestingly enough, Collins' law cannot be found via a simple google search

FW: [gentoo-user] Cant Mount Cdrom to install packages from cd2

2003-12-02 Thread Alexander A. Koulouris
Hi all, Well, I have completed the install and I reboot and login as root and enter the root password. When I try to mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom it tells me mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist. I tride to mkdir /mnt/cdrom and still it wont allow me to do that. I don't know why? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser, fsck

2003-12-02 Thread Redeeman
im really not sure. but i read somewhere that shutdown -F would make it check 100% on next startup On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 18:10, Jonathan Stickel wrote: sf wrote: Jonathan Stickel wrote: ... OK, ext3 doesn't need a full-blown fsck every boot either. I'm asking specifically how to do

[gentoo-user] open office font weirdness

2003-12-02 Thread Chris Bare
I just tried open office 1.1.0, and the font used in the menus and dialogs looks like it has at least 3 spaces between each character. in other words, the menu bar looks like this: F i l eE d i tT o o l s I ran oosetup after manually deleting ~/.sversionrc ~/.openoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:27:02 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bottom posters, especially those that that fail to trim there posts are a real pain in many modern mail readers ... And just why would you think that only bottom posters fail to trim their posts? That's even more

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant Mount Cdrom to install packages from cd2

2003-12-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:25:31 -0500 Alexander A. Koulouris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Well, I have completed the install and I reboot and login as root and enter the root password. When I try to mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom it tells me mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist.

Re: [gentoo-user] my ls.so.conf is missing

2003-12-02 Thread Helder Rossa
hummm, since the env-update is python I couldn't run that after boot :-S but a did a find for directories named lib an made a ld.so.conf. now i can run all stuff again and I will give it a try. thanx to all On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 17:12, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Helder

RE: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
And just why would you think that only bottom posters fail to trim their posts? That's even more likely with top posting - just start keying away at the top of the reply without looking at what was quoted below. Geez, I still can't believe people piss and moan about crap like this. Isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] open office font weirdness

2003-12-02 Thread Redeeman
i hate those fonts too, so i installed openoffice with ximians patches, and that simply rocks! nice fonts and looks much better! On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 18:27, Chris Bare wrote: I just tried open office 1.1.0, and the font used in the menus and dialogs looks like it has at least 3 spaces between

[gentoo-user] KDE, Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-12-02 Thread Kathy Wills
I am trying out Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird. My desktop of preference is KDE. Is anyone else using this combination? I haven't been able to figure out how to open Firebird when clicking links in Thunderbird. Clicking links in Thunderbird does nothing. I can copy and paste the urls from

[gentoo-user] xmms-alsa development-sources

2003-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, OK, I'm going completely buggy. I want to emerge alsa-xmms for my 2.4.20-r7 machine, but emerge is telling me it wants to emerge development-sources also. I do not have development-sources installed. Why must I do this? Is there a simple way for me to stop this occurance at the command

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser, fsck

2003-12-02 Thread mathieu perrenoud
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 06:10 pm, Jonathan Stickel wrote: OK, ext3 doesn't need a full-blown fsck every boot either. I'm asking specifically how to do a one-time full-blown fsck of reiser during a boot. Sorry if I wasn't completely clear. emerge sys-fs/reiserfsprogs man

[gentoo-user] System hangs on shutdown

2003-12-02 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm having an annoying problem when I try to reboot or shutdown my system. GNOME exits fine, X shuts down, and INIT starts the shutdown sequence, but once it gets to INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal it simply stops with a blinking cursor on the next line. I've left it overnight, with no

[gentoo-user] How to fix Invalid db entry in portage?

2003-12-02 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
What causes the below and does anybody know how to fix it? Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd !!! Couldn't find match for dev-perl/SGMLSpm No outdated packages were found on your system. Thanks in

[gentoo-user] reiser, dump

2003-12-02 Thread Glenn English
Is there such a thing as reiserdump? Or a way to use amanda and dump to back up a reiser fs? -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix Invalid db entry in portage?

2003-12-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:16:45 -0600 Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What causes the below and does anybody know how to fix it? Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd !!! Couldn't find match for

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-12-02 Thread brett holcomb
Thunderbird is brain dead in that respect. It's at what - version 0.2 or so. You might check the forums for help. I like what Tbird looks like it's going to be G but I haven't figured out what's wrong with the Mozilla group. This is third try at browser and mailer and you'd think they'd

[gentoo-user] Re: reiser, fsck

2003-12-02 Thread sf
Jonathan Stickel wrote: sf wrote: Jonathan Stickel wrote: ... OK, ext3 doesn't need a full-blown fsck every boot either. I'm asking specifically how to do a one-time full-blown fsck of reiser during a boot. Sorry if I wasn't completely clear. emerge sys-fs/reiserfsprogs man reiserfsck

Re: [gentoo-user] xchat user list missing

2003-12-02 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:00:25 -0500 (EST) Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using xchat 2.0.3 on Mandrake. Now I'm using 2.0.5 on Gentoo, and the list of users that used to be on the right side is not there and I can't figure out how to get it back. I've looked all through

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-12-02 Thread Chris I
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 13:31, brett holcomb wrote: Thunderbird is brain dead in that respect. It's at what - version 0.2 or so. You might check the forums for help. I like what Tbird looks like it's going to be G but I haven't figured out what's wrong with the Mozilla group. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] xchat user list missing

2003-12-02 Thread Chris Bare
I pull it toward the left, only a grey area is revealed. What am I missing? With xchat closed, edit ~/.xchat2/xchat.conf and change gui_ulist_hide = 1 to gui_ulist_hide = 0. Thanks a lot, that fixed it. I wonder why it defaults to hidden now? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms-alsa development-sources

2003-12-02 Thread Thomas Achtemichuk
On 12/02/03 13:00:42, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, OK, I'm going completely buggy. I want to emerge alsa-xmms for my 2.4.20-r7 machine, but emerge is telling me it wants to emerge development-sources also. I do not have development-sources installed. Why must I do this? Because according to your

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-12-02 Thread brett holcomb
My point exactly. Mozilla and Netscape make it work but Firebird and Tbird don't. I wonder why the technology wasn't transferred over. If I remember correctly Konq could handle mailto links with an external program, too. Hopefully they will get it working as I hate to install Mozilla. On

[gentoo-user] per-user package administration

2003-12-02 Thread Matt Garman
While daydreaming during a boring meeting, I was thinking how nice it would be to have a Linux box at work (currently I have only a Win2k machine). However, I'm so used to having root that if I got a Linux machine at work, I'd probably only have normal user access. In the past, on the various

[gentoo-user] CUPS printing

2003-12-02 Thread Helder Rossa
hi, I can't print anything in gentoo :-S. I add a network printer in the cups web configuration... Printer State: idle, accepting jobs then I did Print Test page and ... Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. Network host '192.168.88.240' is busy; will retry in 15 seconds...

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:33, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: I wonder, wouldn't it be possible to play it on a dos emulator for Linux? I don't know. My question would be, can you run old dos _graphical_ programs (like games) under dosuni? And is it possible to run it under FreeDOS?

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 17:01, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: But, like I said, if you show me this law that says we are all wrong, and your right, I will bow to the Collins law of proper netiquette. See http://www.albury.net.au/new-users/rfc1855.txt and search for top Peter --

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Matthew Baxa
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 13:40, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 17:01, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: But, like I said, if you show me this law that says we are all wrong, and your right, I will bow to the Collins law of proper netiquette. See http://www.albury.net.au/new-users/rfc1855.txt

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread brett holcomb
You might also check out dosemu which is in portage, too. On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:36:52 +0100 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:33, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: I wonder, wouldn't it be possible to play it on a dos emulator for Linux? I don't know.

Re: [gentoo-user] tbz2 structure

2003-12-02 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:43, Adrian Pirciu wrote: I know that the tbz2 packages contain some metadata besides the files. where can I find the structure ? (google'ing didn't help me :( ) What other data can I find there ? dependencies ? use flags ? How can I extract the metadata ? Isn't

RE: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
But, like I said, if you show me this law that says we are all wrong, and your right, I will bow to the Collins law of proper netiquette. See http://www.albury.net.au/new-users/rfc1855.txt and search for top Few Things: one, This is not LAW, this is, and I quote Netiquette Guidelines.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail openpgp

2003-12-02 Thread Philipp Kügle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 1. Dezember 2003 17:35 schrieb Simon Prosser: On Sunday 30 November 2003 5:50 pm, Jeff Smelser wrote: The mail will show yellow if you don't have the public key to validate the signature against, or the key is untrusted. also check

[gentoo-user] Kernel Support for 48bit lba Addressing

2003-12-02 Thread Yogesh Sharma
Hi, I have one western digital IDE drive 165gb. Does gentoo kernel (2.4.20-gentoo-r8 ) is patched for 48 bit lba addressing ? Thanks Yogesh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tbz2 structure

2003-12-02 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:45:32 +0100 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:43, Adrian Pirciu wrote: I know that the tbz2 packages contain some metadata besides the files. where can I find the structure ? (google'ing didn't help me :( ) What

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 20:45, brett holcomb wrote: You might also check out dosemu which is in portage, too. Yeah, I know check below. On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:36:52 +0100 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:33, Matthias F. Brandstetter

[gentoo-user] Re: top posting (Was: spam after subscribing to gentoo-user)

2003-12-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
A: Top posting. On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:01:14 -0600 Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Well, I am curious, where can I find this proper netiquette your | talking about?? Your obviously a lot smarter than most of us who just | hap hazardly throw our comments any where in the message..

RE: [gentoo-user] Kmail openpgp

2003-12-02 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
On Sunday 30 November 2003 5:50 pm, Jeff Smelser wrote: The mail will show yellow if you don't have the public key to validate the signature against, or the key is untrusted. also check your gpg.conf and set these: keyserver x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve

[gentoo-user] Oh, please no..(was:spam after subscribing to gentoo-user_

2003-12-02 Thread jnichols
But, like I said, if you show me this law that says we are all wrong, and your right, I will bow to the Collins law of proper netiquette. See http://www.albury.net.au/new-users/rfc1855.txt and search for top An 8 year old document. Not another top posting vs bottom posting

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread brett holcomb
Gee, I thought there was a new program in portage! There is also dosbox which is another emulator. I've been playing with both trying to get some old DOS stuff running. On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:02:53 +0100 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2003 20:45, brett

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail openpgp

2003-12-02 Thread Martin Hudec
Hi, You used that aegypten or just created gpg.conf at home directory with those two lines (keyserver and keyserver-options)? On Tuesday 02 December 2003 21:07, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: I saw that in my searches. That's for aegypten and I didn't want to use it. I have it working great now as I

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problems

2003-12-02 Thread Robert Cole
I use to write code many years ago and I'm looking into getting back into it as soon as I figure out what to start with but in the mean time I like to contribute the best way I can right now and that's testing. :) I'm fairing good at testing stuff and then using my programming background to get

Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

2003-12-02 Thread Jonas Widarsson
daniel wrote: i think what you're looking for is gnu parted # emerge --search parted should get you what you need Hmm. That's when the system runs .. How are things now again... *thinking* *trying to remember* Is there a ram disk I can install it to during gentoo install before fdisk and

RE: [gentoo-user] Kmail openpgp

2003-12-02 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Hi, You used that aegypten or just created gpg.conf at home directory with those two lines (keyserver and keyserver-options)? On Tuesday 02 December 2003 21:07, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: I saw that in my searches. That's for aegypten and I didn't want to use it. I have it working

Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

2003-12-02 Thread Redeeman
just to warn you, i just emerged qt parted and made a test with resize of fat32, and it failed, but recover tools could fix it though, (i didnt loose my own data, i had test partitions) On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 21:28, Jonas Widarsson wrote: daniel wrote: i think what you're looking for is gnu

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