Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:51:32 -1000 Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in | different terminal sessions at the same time? No. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 29 January 2006 09:59 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:51:32 -1000 Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in | different terminal sessions at the same time? No. Many have said Yes. Can you explain? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:33:01 -1000 Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sunday 29 January 2006 09:59 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:51:32 -1000 Beau E. Cox | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in | | different

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr is full

2006-01-30 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: 060129 Jason W Elliot wrote: While trying to run emerge today I got the message that there was not enough disk space. I ran df and noticed that /usr is 100% full. Is it safe to remove the stuff in /usr/portage/distfiles? Yes there's a new utility to help: try

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Persson
On Saturday 28 January 2006 01:35 Jorge Almeida was like: I am still having to sudo echo -n mem /sys/power/status and then to enter a password. What am I doing wrong? Did you edit /etc/sudoers? Example: joeuser ALL = NOPASSWD: /your/command/here Remember to edit the file with

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:48:34 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Now I have got a related question: Imagine you have got one portage tree on one box but several boxes that NFS mount it with different world files. Will several parallel emerge --fetchonly processes on those different boxes still be safe?

RE: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(now resolved)

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Ernie Schroder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 January 2006 13:40 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(now resolved) On Friday 27 January 2006 06:17, a tiny voice compelled Paul to write: Hi all,

Re: [gentoo-user] battstat requires apmd?

2006-01-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Iain Buchanan schreef: Hi, I've just rebuilt my system, and emerged gnome-light this time instead of gnome. I noticed battstat isn't part of gnome-applets, but when I try and emerge it, I get all these wierd deps. For a start, why does it need apmd? I thought I had it working with acpi

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: the many ways in which parallel merges can still break. Please give us one example. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I have a home LAN with a mix of dual boot, XP and Gentoo[-- mine]. Now the basic problem is this :- Transfer of file [eg. 200Mb] Dual boot on XP-- XP speed approx 50Mbps Dual boot on linux-- XP speed = 1Mbps Now this applies regardless of transport ie. I have tried smb FTP NFS, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Huib van Wees
On 1/30/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:48:34 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Now I have got a related question: Imagine you have got one portage tree on one box but several boxes that NFS mount it with different world files. Will several parallelemerge --fetchonly

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread jarry
Dual boot on XP-- XP speed approx 50Mbps Dual boot on linux-- XP speed = 1Mbps I have read somewhere that this might be caused by slightly different mru/mtu settings between your linux and XP computers. If you had that second comp dual-bootable, I bet you would not get 1Mbps between

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread William Kenworthy
How are you measuring this? My first suspicion is that you are measuring on your machine and trying to compare the figures from different tools running on different OS's. You also dont say what type of network this is over - 10/100/1000 ?? Also what hardware and drivers? BillK On Mon,

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE starts and runs slowly

2006-01-30 Thread Korondi Márk
With Gentoo there is almost always an easier way than re-installing...but too late for that now. Is there? And what is that way? (because in the future I'll use sudo,too :-)) do you set KDE_IS_PRELINKED? No, I didn't. So, now I'm under twm, with my being fresh system - I actually reinstall

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr is full

2006-01-30 Thread Huib van Wees
I use tmpwatch to clean /usr/portage/distfiles-- Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,H. van Wees---The official Gentoo motto is, If it moves, compile it. On 1/30/06, Jason W Elliot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,While trying to run emerge today I got the message that there wasnot enough disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:24:14 +0100, Huib van Wees wrote: Yes, because portage uses lockfiles in $DISTDIR. Once one emerge begins downloading a file, any others wanting that file will wait for it. I can remember that export the portage dir for other host wasn't supported and can cause

[gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki

2006-01-30 Thread Matthew R. Lee
Anybody know why the gentoo-wiki is down? I've been trying to look at it for the last couple of days -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash [SOLVED]

2006-01-30 Thread znx
On 29/01/06, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you got some file named: hey I am a long file name with spaces.jpg ;) No it can't be that, see the for before hand, that will separate at whitespace by default (unless you tamper with IFS), so the variable tested will be without

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:41:37 +0100 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | the many ways in which parallel merges can still break. | | Please give us one example. You install a package that runs autotools and a package that provides an aclocal entry at the same

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki

2006-01-30 Thread znx
Hi, My guess is this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Gentoo_Linux_Wiki:Fundraising (if you can get there) Also see: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Gentoo_Wiki_Fundraising (if you can't :P) ThanksOn 30/01/06, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know why the gentoo-wiki is down?I've been trying

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash [SOLVED]

2006-01-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
znx wrote: No it can't be that, see the for before hand, that will separate at whitespace by default No, it won't. Try it. (unless you tamper with IFS), so the variable tested will be without whitespace, No, it won't. I can only guess its a charset or similar that is causing the issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE starts and runs slowly

2006-01-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Korondi Márk schreef: Richard Fish schreef: On 1/29/06, Korondi Márk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I reinstalled gentoo, because I'd made the filesystem dirty (always used sudo, and installed programs not in portage randomly...) and I want a new, clean system. With Gentoo there is

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki

2006-01-30 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:15:13 + znx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My guess is this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Gentoo_Linux_Wiki:Fundraising (if you can get there) Also see: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Gentoo_Wiki_Fundraising (if you can't :P) To whom/what do we make the check and to what

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail

2006-01-30 Thread ellotheth rimmwen
On 1/29/06, Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal error: Call to undefined function ctype_print() in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/plugins/gpg/gpg_hook_functions.php on line 842 Did you compile PHP5 with support for the character type functions (USE=ctype)? -- ellotheth

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki

2006-01-30 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I would be willing to make a donation, but how? I can't connect to the site to get the right link for, I assume, paypal On Monday 30 January 2006 11:15, znx wrote: Hi, My guess is this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Gentoo_Linux_Wiki:Fundraising (if you can get there) Also see:

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

2006-01-30 Thread Ralph K
Hello, I recently installed xorg 7.0 on my system and I get the following errors when using 'startx' or 'Xorg -configure': Wth module glx - 'undefined symbol' glCallList With module via_drv - 'undefined symbol' drmCommandWrite Used 'nm -D' on libGLcore.so and libdrm.so and those symbols are

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:24 +0100, Huib van Wees wrote: On 1/30/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:48:34 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Now I have got a related question: Imagine you have got one portage tree on one box but

Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-30 Thread Fredrik Lundgren
Well, a local Gentoo-guru fixed the problem with etc-update. So the failure to appears to have been there. As, a newbie I could use some subtantial advice where, when, and how ect-update should be used (there were 80 config files to take care of) - although when I failed I wasn't even aware

Re: [gentoo-user] Electricsheep (General Question)

2006-01-30 Thread Simon Hogg
On 1/27/06, Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20:19 Fri 27 Jan , Ian wrote:Hey everyoneI came across this app and and having issues getting it to work.I was told to leave it running so it could do a download. After 8-10minutes, nothing came up. Is there any way I can verify what its doing?

Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-30 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 30 January 2006 10:17, a tiny voice compelled Fredrik Lundgren to write: Well, a local Gentoo-guru fixed the problem with etc-update. So the failure to appears to have been there. As, a newbie I could use some subtantial advice where, when, and how ect-update should be used (there

[gentoo-user] sound card stopped working after kernel rebuild

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Persson
I recently rebuilt my kernel and my audigy2 sound card stopped working. I reverted to the way the kernel was before, but it still doesn't work. The change I made was to build the emu10k1 driver into the kernel, instead of having it as modules, as I had before then. The reason I did this was to

Re: [gentoo-user] sound card stopped working after kernel rebuild

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Crawford
On Monday 30 January 2006 12:23, Robert Persson wrote: EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of :02:09.0 failed with error -12 I think EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of :02:09.0 failed with error -12 might have something to do with modprobe failing with a new kernel. Maybe try rebuilding .module-init-tools

Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question

2006-01-30 Thread Jerry Eastmanhouser
I thought that this was in the top 4 lines of the kernel Makefile. It's embedded in the kernel after the kernel is compiled. Example is from my servers below for the 2.4 kernel. The extraversion line is set to whatever I want...it just appends that to the end of kernel name...so if you want to

[gentoo-user] dev packages

2006-01-30 Thread Tom Smith
I'm working on an install of Xen 3.0 (manual install, not from Portage) and trying to locate its listed prerequisites. I'm having trouble locating two of them: zlib-dev python-dev (This is what the Xen docs refers to them as.) I don't see anything in Portage that resembles these names, nor do I

Re: [gentoo-user] dev packages

2006-01-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/30/06, Tom Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on an install of Xen 3.0 (manual install, not from Portage) and trying to locate its listed prerequisites. I'm having trouble locating two of them: zlib-dev python-dev Since Gentoo is a build-from-source distribution, the -dev

Re: [gentoo-user] sound card stopped working after kernel rebuild

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Persson
On Monday 30 January 2006 09:58 Robert Crawford was like: I think EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of :02:09.0 failed with error -12   might have something to do with modprobe failing with a new kernel. Maybe try rebuilding .module-init-tools against your new kernel? Just a guess. I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread Stuart Howard
I agree in that I am using whichever tool is available to measure the speed eg. konqueror file transfer dialog or bmon to monitor rate however I am not talking optmisations here where the same tool would be necessary eg. win to lin 39Mb file 6 minites win to win 39Mb file 20 seconds all on same

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread Stuart Howard
OK well I give up Situation :- Transfer 39Mb file from gentoo - XP share using Konqueror trans time =25 seconds [XP share mounted smb using Linneibourhood] Transfer 39Mb file from gentoo - XP share using winXP copy trans time =5 mins [gentoo smb directory to XP share dir ie. XP shared dir Not

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail

2006-01-30 Thread Dan Johansson
On Monday 30 January 2006 15.35, ellotheth rimmwen wrote: On 1/29/06, Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal error: Call to undefined function ctype_print() in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/plugins/gpg/gpg_hook_functions.php on line 842 Did you compile PHP5 with support

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-drivers/ati-drivers and latest kernel (stable)

2006-01-30 Thread Remy Blank
I had the display corruption on logout also (happened when I try to switch to a console or restart xdm too). After going back and forward through many version of ati-drivers, it mysteriously disappeared! I have been playing around with a lot of kernels and ati-driver versions to try and get

[gentoo-user] Re: Interpret characters in /etc/inputrc

2006-01-30 Thread reader
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The help documentation for /etc/inputrc is found in`man 3 readline' under section INITIALIZATION FILE and is quite extensive. However I don't see any info regarding how to interpret the characters

[gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail empty replies

2006-01-30 Thread A. R.
Hi, I've been having some problems with kmail. When I reply to a message, the message is delivered blank: The original message and my response are both blank. Does anybody know what could be causing this? Thank you in advance for your help. - AR -- The absence of war does not mean peace. --

Re: [gentoo-user] dev packages

2006-01-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 30 January 2006 19:16, Tom Smith wrote: I'm working on an install of Xen 3.0 (manual install, not from Portage) and trying to locate its listed prerequisites. I'm having trouble locating two of them: zlib-dev python-dev that is only relevant for binary (rpm) distros, which do not

[gentoo-user] Re: Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Simon Kellett
My guess would be adds the ability to grab packages at the same time you're compiling; so, grab packages needed to emerge one ebuild, then while that one is compiling grab the next sources in the background. That is also my understanding: after the first download, the process forks: 1 for

[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-30 Thread Simon Kellett
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any changed flags will have a * after them. I thought that meant that the option was auto-selected for you (eg if the default for this ebuild is -perl, but you have perl installed it will change the default to +perl and put a * by it to warn you.

[gentoo-user] What is misconfigured in hostnaming proceedure?

2006-01-30 Thread reader
I've apparently got something wrong with the hostnaming process that is causing sendmail to balk. Jan 30 12:41:02 localhost sendmail[10391]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry Jan 30 12:41:20 localhost sendmail[10445]: My unqualified host name (localhost)

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail

2006-01-30 Thread Ryan Tandy
Dan Johansson wrote: On Monday 30 January 2006 15.35, ellotheth rimmwen wrote: On 1/29/06, Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal error: Call to undefined function ctype_print() in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/plugins/gpg/gpg_hook_functions.php on line 842 Did

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-30 Thread Ryan Tandy
Simon Kellett wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any changed flags will have a * after them. I thought that meant that the option was auto-selected for you (eg if the default for this ebuild is -perl, but you have perl installed it will change the default to +perl and

[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-30 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 30 January 2006 22:16, Simon Kellett wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any changed flags will have a * after them. I thought that meant that the option was auto-selected for you (eg if the default for this ebuild is -perl, but you have perl installed it will change

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-30 Thread maxim wexler
--- Manuel McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 10:54, maxim wexler wrote: One option to solve this is to emerge unix2dos and use the following command line: unix2dos filetoprint.txt | lp -l After removing and re-installing cups and installing

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

2006-01-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ralph K wrote: I recently installed xorg 7.0 on my system and I get the following errors when using 'startx' or 'Xorg -configure': Wth module glx - 'undefined symbol' glCallList With module via_drv - 'undefined symbol' drmCommandWrite To get the newer via driver to load, I've had to add

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail empty replies

2006-01-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
A. R. wrote: I've been having some problems with kmail. When I reply to a message, the message is delivered blank: The original message and my response are both blank. Does anybody know what could be causing this? A miscompiled KMail? Did you recompile it recently? Or kdelibs maybe? With

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:16:14 +0100, Simon Kellett wrote: Any changed flags will have a * after them. I thought that meant that the option was auto-selected for you (eg if the default for this ebuild is -perl, but you have perl installed it will change the default to +perl and put a * by it

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-30 Thread Mick
maxim wexler wrote: [snip...] I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Job 23 queued on 'deskjet' by 'root'. Why are you running it as root? I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 5868) for job 23. I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Started filter

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 02:00:32PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: Oh, and changing debug level in cupsd.conf doesn't have any effect. I saved the file; do I have to logout and in again? you need to restart cupsd after changing the config. /etc/init.d/cupsd restart W -- The

Re: [gentoo-user] battstat requires apmd? [solved]

2006-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 11:38 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Iain Buchanan schreef: Hi, I've just rebuilt my system, and emerged gnome-light this time instead of gnome. I noticed battstat isn't part of gnome-applets, but when I try and emerge it, I get all these wierd deps. Is

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-30 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 30 January 2006 23:00, maxim wexler wrote: I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 5870) for job 23. E [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] PID 5869 stopped with status 3! I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to debug to

[gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
How do I find what my floppy drive is called? I thought it would be called /dev/fd0, but /dev/fd0 doesn't exist, and I'm at a loss on how to address it... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-30 Thread Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: How do I find what my floppy drive is called? I thought it would be called /dev/fd0, but /dev/fd0 doesn't exist, and I'm at a loss on how to address it... I usually just look around in there and find it. I use udev, I assume you do to, and this is what I get:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: How do I find what my floppy drive is called? I thought it would be called /dev/fd0, but /dev/fd0 doesn't exist, and I'm at a loss on how to address it... I usually just look around in there and find it. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and scripts

2006-01-30 Thread Robin
As a rule Firefox handles errors and badly formed pages extremely well... So it may very well be the website. On 1/29/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running KDE 3.4 and on some sites Konqueror pops up a dialog telling me some script is causing KHTML problems - it may freeze

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/30/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory No /dev/floppy!!! Does dmesg indicate the kernel is finding a floppy drive? Did you configure your kernel with floppy support? -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-30 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday 30 January 2006 6:09 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory Check for /dev/floppy/0 (note: floppy is a folder) If neither /dev/fd0 or /dev/floppy/0 exist then verify the drive is valid via bios setup. -jm --

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and scripts

2006-01-30 Thread brettholcomb
It's happened on several websites so I was wondering if I'd missed some setting or could tell Konq to carry on. From: Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/30 Mon PM 07:24:34 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and scripts As a rule Firefox handles

[gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-30 Thread Grant
Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard disk. Lucky for me I don't have any interest in actually doing this, but I got in an argue\ment with a buddy last night about whether or not it was possible. I'm sure I've read that the government and other well-funded

[gentoo-user] xfce4 netload panel app

2006-01-30 Thread Grant
I'm having trouble with my xfce4 netload panel app. When I save the configuration, it tells me: Linux proc device '/proc/net/dev' not found. The file is sitting there. Does anyone know what the problem might be? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-30 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 01:03, Grant wrote: Hello!  I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard disk.  Lucky for me I don't have any interest in actually doing this, but I got in an argue\ment with a buddy last night about whether or not it was possible.  I'm sure I've read

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Hope that helps. I type it out because it took me a while to figure out what HTH was. LOL # emerge wtf $ wtf hth HTH: hope this helps (PS, sorry to hijack the thread :) -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Every man who is high

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-30 Thread Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory No /dev/floppy!!! I should have thought of the new to Linux factor. /dev/floppy is only a link to /dev/floppy/0. Just like /dev/mouse is a link to /dev/input/mouse0 for me.

[gentoo-user] slotted mysql ready for testing (~arch)

2006-01-30 Thread Francesco Riosa
As the subject say, In less than 24 hours slotted mysql ebuilds will be unmasked, to point the finger they are: =dev-db/mysql-4.1.16-r30 =dev-db/mysql-5.0.18-r30 There is a migration guide [1] that explain some of the magic, thanks to the editors: Chris White, Jan Kundrát, Joshua Saddler to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash [SOLVED]

2006-01-30 Thread znx
First off.. OH! On 30/01/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: znx wrote: No it can't be that, see the for before hand, that will separate at whitespace by defaultNo, it won't. Try it. True, ok so it did? and not now with bash3, I presume this is why it worked before and doesn't now?

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread Steven Susbauer
I've had similar problems quite a bit. After a while I just installed pure-ftpd on Gentoo and used smart ftp on Windows. It still took a long time but seemed to go much faster than that smb stuff. On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Stuart Howard wrote: OK well I give up Situation :- Transfer 39Mb file

Re: [gentoo-user] Electricsheep (General Question)

2006-01-30 Thread Steven Susbauer
It takes a lot longer than 8-10 minutes, I don't think their download server is very quick, or something like that. Wait a while and it will actually start working (and if you have it selected in kscreensaver or xscreensaver, you shouldn't need to configure anything). On Mon, 30 Jan 2006,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive

2006-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 19:51 -0600, Dale wrote: Look in dmesg for something like this: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 That is what mine looks like and it should be something similiar to that. My floppy was made before 1991. I didn't know it was that old.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

2006-01-30 Thread ralpklm
On 1/30/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph K wrote: I recently installed xorg 7.0 on my system and I get the following errors when using 'startx' or 'Xorg -configure': Wth module glx - 'undefined symbol' glCallList With module via_drv - 'undefined symbol' drmCommandWrite

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail

2006-01-30 Thread Jeff Grossman
Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: iso-8859-15, 21 lines --] Hi, I have just done a PHP-4 to PHP-5 upgrade and as far as I can see everything works as it should - except Squirrelmail. When I try to send a message in Squirrelmail

[gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0 + Blackdown-jdk

2006-01-30 Thread Karl Huysmans
Hi,I have installed xorg-x11-7.0 a few weeks ago, everything fine. I now want to start using a Java application, and this causes problems, the application complains about libXp.so.6 not being found. Checked the same Java application on another box running xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6, no problem.Tried

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive [SOLVED]

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:27 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/30/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory No /dev/floppy!!! Does dmesg indicate the kernel is finding a floppy drive? Did you configure