[gentoo-user] rsync backup problem

2006-03-09 Thread Paul
I am using rsync to backup my home directory to a network drive using the following command: rsync -Cav --delete --progress --exclude '*~' --exclude '.Trash*' /home/paul /mnt/network/home I am getting errors on each mail from the Mail folder, I think rsync thinks that each message should be a

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2 problem

2006-03-09 Thread David Helstroom
Pablasso wrote: if you have your video driver with dri/drm (3d acceleration) activated, thats the problem, suspend2 currently does not work along with 3d acceleration so you have to choose beetween them. Hi Pablasso, Perhaps I misunderstand, but suspend2 has long worked alongside 3d

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-09 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:49, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Also, it's really confusing trying to figure out /why/ they are bringing in virtual-x11. emerge -pvt is giving confusing results; basically saying that virtual-x11 is coming in because of packages which don't even have an optional

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 622 (36278-36327)

2006-03-09 Thread sanjaya athukorlala
hi all,recently when i used to use my gentoo box's audio suddenly it fails.when i tried to load the module with#modprobe snd#modprobe snd-via82xxxdisplays a lot error report saying error with that snd-via82xxx module.help metnxregard sanjayasanjaya athukoralaSri Lnaka Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to

[gentoo-user] Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Paul
I have mounted a networked usb drive to /mnt/network using the command: mount -t cifs -o user=paul //lkg7f.homenet.com/disc2 /mnt/network I then use: rsync -Cav --delete --progress --exclude '*tmp*' --exclude '*Trash*' /usr /mnt/network All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with

Re: [gentoo-user] SELinux

2006-03-09 Thread Simon Hogg
On 3/9/06, Steve B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everybody,Quick question.How can I disable SELinux without modifing(recompiling) the kernel?The reason I ask is because my kernel wascompiled with SELinux support, however its not active.Apparent vpopmail has issues with SELinux and I believe that I

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2 problem

2006-03-09 Thread scwang
vesa driver is the last resort! -- Wang ShaoChun(王绍春) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] USE flags

2006-03-09 Thread Goran Maksimovi
I saw that there was a discussion about USE flags and I would seek your advice on that matter. I recently installed once again Gentoo 2006.0 but before this version a few months' ago I installed and for a short period of time used Gentoo 2005.0. At that time I had trouble with USE flags because I

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Jerry Turba
Willie Wong wrote: Do you have gentoolkit installed? If so, run # equery list -p gentoo-sources It'd be good to know if you are missing the ebuild or if it is masked somehow. W Results of equery: backup:~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync backup problem

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am getting errors on each mail from the Mail folder, I think rsync thinks that each message should be a directory and then fails to copy. How can I get round this What are the exact errors? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Jerry Turba schreef: Willie Wong wrote: Do you have gentoolkit installed? If so, run # equery list -p gentoo-sources Results of equery: backup:~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ]

[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the message: symlink /mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0 - libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0.1.0 failed: Operation not supported I am wondering if this is a permissions problem. My network usb

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2 problem

2006-03-09 Thread Pablasso
it works -sometimes- but is buggy, i use it with my i915 video driver and it hangs sometimes to the point that i need to kill X and restart it, like 2 out of 3 times works well but i dont really like the idea of killing apps everytime it fails, so most of the time i disable DRI from the suspend2

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-09 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Jarry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:50 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus Bob Young wrote: PowerUser is different from Admin, Admin is the equevelent of root in the Linux/Unix world,

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 04:36:33PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick squawked: Jerry Turba schreef: Results of equery: backup:~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 15:36, Harry Putnam wrote: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the message: symlink /mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0 - libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0.1.0 failed: Operation not supported I am

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/9/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that there was a discussion about USE flags and I would seek your advice on that matter. I recently installed once again Gentoo 2006.0 but before this version a few months' ago I installed and for a short period of time used Gentoo

[gentoo-user] APR Compile, all versions fails

2006-03-09 Thread Jason Weisberger
Using either GCC 3.3 or 3.4 I get the following error when compiling EVERY verison of APR from 0.9.6 to 1.2.2 /include/arch -I../../include/arch/unix -c proc_mutex.c touch proc_mutex.lo proc_mutex.c: In function `proc_mutex_proc_pthread_create': proc_mutex.c:341: error:

[gentoo-user] KDE refuses to be compiled!!!

2006-03-09 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Any time i attempt to compile KDE 3.5, it fails misserably, here is some output from the make process: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[3]: *** [kcm_info.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2006-03-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/9/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just the way I do it, any comments? (no flames please, I'll not change my mind :) That is pretty much what I do, except that I also take the additional step of having -* for USE in my make.conf to disable anything that the profile adds by

Re: [gentoo-user] APR Compile, all versions fails

2006-03-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/9/06, Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is preventing me from doing a full upgrade. Any ideas? Please post the output of: emerge --info emerge -pv dev-libs/apr -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE refuses to be compiled!!!

2006-03-09 Thread Patrick B�rjesson
On 2006-03-09 14:03, Rafael Barrera Oro uttered these thoughts: Any time i attempt to compile KDE 3.5, it fails misserably, here is some output from the make process: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[3]: *** [kcm_info.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE refuses to be compiled!!!

2006-03-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/9/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any time i attempt to compile KDE 3.5, it fails misserably, here is some output from the make process: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive Does it merge if you do eselect opengl xorg-x11? Can you post the

[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Remy Blank
Paul Stear wrote: I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] APR Compile, all versions fails

2006-03-09 Thread Jason Weisberger
Richard,Actually, I posted this on the forums as well and the problem was solved fairly easily. It's a by-product of using the glibc 2.3.90 overlays with the new optimizations. I'm downgrading back to 2.3.6 since the patches were merged into the ebuild and I'll see what happens. There's a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE refuses to be compiled!!!

2006-03-09 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Thank you all, by now i am going to go ahead and try to switch the opengl interface before trying a new emerge, as for the patch, where can i find instructions to apply it, it seems to be the best solutions to this kind of problems (im sort of new to all this) Thanks for your quick replies! Rafa

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Eric Bliss
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:28, Kris Kerwin wrote: Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it from one another's computers. However, we would like to be able to share it over the network instead to make life easier for the both of us. However, there are a few problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Kris Kerwin
Daniel, Thanks for your quick reply. I couldn't think of a more complex solution right now, but couldn't you simply make your IP static? I've done it at work because our DNS was failing, simply copied the network configurations gained with DHCP and made it permanent... Question: how does

RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2006-03-09 Thread Goran Maksimović
Yes, I have also installed Gentoo 2006.0 with Gentoo LiveCD and installed GRP packages which were on CD but now I want to set USE flags to avoid what you have mentioned a installation of stuff which i will not use but which are installed with packages I install. So once again I am looking for some

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread John Jolet
Question: how does one *make* a static IP? I thought that IP was assigned by DHCP? Isn't that the way that DHCP works? It leases an IP to a specific computer, which then gives up that lease when it's done using it. At that point, DHCP is free to re-lease that same IP to whomever else requests it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an emerge sync a few days ago. If I run emerge -s gentoo- sources I get: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Latest version available: 2.4.31-r1 Latest version installed: 2.6.14-r2 Size of downloaded files: 31,219 kB Homepage:

[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Stear wrote: I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks. It can be done if the winbox has SFU (Services for Unix) installed I've heard, but really isn't the problem that the receiving

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/8/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks! I have a quick question. I'm a college student. I share my printer with my roommate. We have separate computers; he uses Windows XP, and I Gentoo. Together, we're behind our school's router which dynamically assigns us both IP's.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Definitely OT] Recommendations for getting started in Web design

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Smith
Start with learning about design and editing. You'll want to learn standards-compliant HTML, CSS and Javascript. The best editing tools to date are a decent text editor that has some syntax intelligence, a good scripting language such as perl or python, and a version-control system such as

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT] Recommendations for getting started in Web design

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/9/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, I'm looking to get started in Web design, with the long term goal of bringing a business (mine) online. I know nothing about design, what to look for in choosing a hosting service, editing tools, or good reference materials.

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Someone with more network knowledge will probably correct any bullshit I'll type from now on... :) On 3/9/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel, Thanks for your quick reply. I couldn't think of a more complex solution right now, but couldn't you simply make your IP static? I've

[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Typo alert! The receiving fs does not support symlinks .. not the comments ^^^ note -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] freezing mozilla with mplayer plug-in

2006-03-09 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 09 March 2006 19:56, pat wrote: I have Mozilla with MPlayer plug-in. Each time I play something with the plug-in the Mozilla freez with next operation. What's wrong ??? Did you check to see if you are getting any error by launching mozilla from a terminal? -- Regards, Abhay

[gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/9/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/8/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks! I have a quick question. I'm a college student. I share my printer with my roommate. We have separate computers; he uses Windows XP, and I Gentoo. Together, we're behind our

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Christoph Eckert
See list of all *installed* software. epm -ql Browse available software that can be installed. I use packages.gentoo.org See what version of a particular software package is installed. epm -ql | grep packagename See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Mantas Povilaitis
On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, snip Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what version of a particular software package is installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 09 March 2006 20:16, Jim wrote: Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/9/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, in fact, I think it does. I forgot that the main problem was in fact just PRINTING... Yeah, cups and samba will take care of that. Samba will broadcast netbios stuff over the net so you can see your shared printer (and folders). You

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-09 Thread Tim Igoe
Ghaith Hachem wrote: That's very intresting, i actually only use windows xp since all my university software don't run in wine (OU lan simulator, visual works, mathcad) anyway having a power user seems to be a good idea i'll try it when i reinstall windows thx -- Cheers, Ghaith A

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
Mantas Povilaitis wrote: On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, snip Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Thursday 09 March 2006 21:50, Jim wrote: For these tasks I use Kuroo (for KDE, http://tux.myftp.org/). I know where is something similar for GNOME too. What would be the Gnome equivalent? I use and prefer Gnome :) Jim porthole is gtk based, its my pick despite it happens to

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT] Recommendations for getting started in Web design

2006-03-09 Thread Dave Moore
I'm looking to get started in Web design, with the long term goal of bringing a business (mine) online. I know nothing about design, what to look for in choosing a hosting service, editing tools, or good reference materials. Basically, I'm quite a newbie in this area. The gold standard:

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-09 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:04, Holly Bostick wrote: Not sure why sometimes lines get wrapped when they shouldn't be, but it does happen (even in nano, where it shouldn't, and certainly in GUI editors, if you set it that way without thinking), and it can have unexpected consequences (like

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-09 Thread Cláudio Henrique
have you check this tutorial: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg ? On 3/9/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:49, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Also, it's really confusing trying to figure out /why/ they are bringing in virtual-x11. emerge -pvt is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 18:19, Harry Putnam wrote: Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Stear wrote: I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks. It can be done if the winbox has SFU (Services for Unix) installed

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
eix package epm -ql Where are these trick tools found? Maybe I'm way out of date but here is what I'd use: First (equery is part of app-portage/gentoolkit) (Go thru the man page of course) It has many of the same functions you may have used with rpm. o See list of all *installed*

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/9/06, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eix package * app-portage/eix Latest version available: 0.3.0-r2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 281 kB Homepage:http://eixwiki.unfoog.de Description: Small utility for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 14:39 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: eix package epm -ql Where are these trick tools found? app-portage/eix: Small utility for searching ebuilds with indexing for fast results app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux Eix is very nice. I have no experience with

[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry, This problem has nothing to do with windows, in fact my XP machine isn't even switched on. You say the fs was created by the the router and that you don't know what the fs is. Yet you also say it has nothing to do with windows. Your error output

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 09 March 2006 21:39, Harry Putnam wrote: # equery belongs `which dd` [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dd in *... ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 (/usr/bin/dd - /bin/dd) That gives you the address of the package this tool resides in on the portage tree (/usr/portage/ is dropped

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread jerry
Holly Bostick wrote: Jerry Turba schreef: Willie Wong wrote: Do you have gentoolkit installed? If so, run # equery list -p gentoo-sources Results of equery: backup:~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ] *

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Holly Bostick
jerry schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Myself, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a mirror issue (what mirror are you sync-ing with If you've synced twice already, and you're still getting such old packages (2.6.*11*??), there's gotta be something wrong with your mirror or your cache,

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-09 Thread wieseltux23
www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358 On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 22:24:25 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:49, Kumar Golap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64': Apologies for not having done

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread wieseltux23
www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358 On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:50:51 -0500 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mantas Povilaitis wrote: On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, snip Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo:

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 09 March 2006 20:16, Jim wrote: I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some issues I hope this group can help with. At first emerge was trying to merge some really old packages. For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was only

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Andresen wrote: snip HtH Thanks Bo, that what what I was looking for. Thanks to everyone else as well. I will know have a long and fun night of playing in Gentoo : ) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

[gentoo-user] www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358

2006-03-09 Thread wieseltux23
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[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where are these trick tools found? Answered ;) emerge -s stuff Not quite... sometimes yes, but not always. If it isn't in the package name that won't find it. I made a bad assumption that since I'd never heard of these tools they were not in package

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread jerry
Holly Bostick wrote: In any case, the problem I was trying to track is whether the reason your local Portage tree was not current, even though you've synced, might not be because the remote Portage tree you were syncing with was not current (it can happen; servers change or are not often

Re: [gentoo-user] www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358

2006-03-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:01:29AM +0100, Penguin Lover wieseltux23 squawked: www.[censored].php?id=7358 Yes yes, we heard you the first time, and figured out it is a P.O.S. site inviting miscreants like you to SPAM. No, we won't click your silly link, you silly Swiss-person. [insert French

[gentoo-user] how to track this down (emerge of amaya)

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Attempting to emerge www-client/amaya The tail end of emerge shows: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++: ../redland/raptor/.libs/libraptor.a: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [../bin/amaya] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/amaya-8.7/work/Amaya/LINUX-ELF/amaya' make: *** [amaya_prog]

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread jerry
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: It looks like you are using a very old profile. Make sure /etc/make.profile points to a recent profile (for the x86 architecture that would be /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0) See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml You are right and I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Holly Bostick
jerry schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: However, it's hard to imagine that the US pool might not be current. [General question] What else might prevent a sync from actually updating the local tree correctly? U unless it actually has, and the problem is Portage not knowing it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread b.n.
app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux you mean it's a rpm-like CLI for emerge? m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Christoph Eckert
app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux you mean it's a rpm-like CLI for emerge? not the backend, but the frontend, yes. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:52:08PM -0800, Penguin Lover jerry squawked: Andrei Slavoiu wrote: It looks like you are using a very old profile. Make sure /etc/make.profile points to a recent profile (for the x86 architecture that would be /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0) See

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:24:16PM -0800, Penguin Lover jerry squawked: I decided to go ahead and upgrade gcc-3.3.6 to 3.4.5. I am following the gentoo linux gcc upgrade guide carefully. I have already completed the emerge -e system, and will start emerge -e world. backup jerry # equery -C

[gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread TN
I'm attempting to install Gentoo with the GUI livecd 2006 utility, and I'm installing it on a laptop which was dual booting happily with debian winxp. I wiped the debian installation, and carefully made sure that Gentoo wasn't going to wipe out the winxp partition which is the first. I made

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:56, Eric Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba': On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:28, Kris Kerwin wrote: Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it from one another's computers. However, we would like to

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 03:28, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:49, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: emerge -pvt is giving confusing results; basically saying that virtual-x11 is coming in because of

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 14:28, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': have you check this tutorial: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg ? No, I was working from the Official Gentoo documentation linked from a Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2006-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 10:29, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags': On 3/9/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that there was a discussion about USE flags and I would seek your advice on that matter. Well, when I installed Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
* on the Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:24:58PM +1100, TN said: snip The grub boot lines are: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 I think I read

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread Sarpy Sam
On 3/9/06, TN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to install Gentoo with the GUI livecd 2006 utility, and I'm installing it on a laptop which was dual booting happily with debian winxp. I wiped the debian installation, and carefully made sure that Gentoo wasn't going to wipe out the

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim wrote: * on the Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:24:58PM +1100, TN said: snip The grub boot lines are: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 initrd

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-09 Thread scwang
I enabled the glx, but it seems the speed is still slow. $ glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes The output of glxgears is about 130 FPS. I use intel_agp. $ lsmod mach64 54144 1 drm75672 2 mach64 intel_agp 23324 1 agpgart

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/9/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux you mean it's a rpm-like CLI for emerge? I mean nothing, the ebuild says so... m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread TN
Jim wrote: snip I think I read somewhere that JFS needs to be booted rw instead of ro. Try to change your kernel= line to this: kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 rw *NOTE* the above should be ONE line. P.S. Why

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I enabled the glx, but it seems the speed is still slow. $ glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes The output of glxgears is about 130 FPS. I use intel_agp. $ lsmod mach64 54144 1 drm75672

[gentoo-user] AA Fonts

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am wondering if I messed up something during my build of Xorg. Some fonts look real nice on my system while others look like junk. Here is a page showing what is going on: http://keeliegirl.com/temp/fonts.html Courier looks like garbage until

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TN wrote: I have tried both rw ro since I had 2 different replies about this problem - unfortunately both failed with the same error as before. I use JFS since I find that it's fast stable too like Reiser. I tended to use a scattering of

[gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-09 Thread A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman
Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
* on the Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:06:14PM -0800, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman said: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin The live cd is still pretty new and could have

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread Sarpy Sam
I am assuming the kernel is built with JFS support compiled in and not as a module. I am not a genkernel user but couldn't you boot the machine like this, root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda2 This will test if it's a kernel problem or a boot splash

Re: [gentoo-user] AA Fonts

2006-03-09 Thread Thomas Kear
I see the issue. Generally I allow kde to control font antialiasing, I assume gtk-engines-qt passes the settings through to firefox and other gtk apps. Preview here: http://qupada.orcon.net.nz/ff.png Interestingly, konqueror produces output similar to firefox on your pc:

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-09 Thread Jeremy Olexa
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman wrote: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Bob Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 March 2006 21:05 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus [snip] As to insert App Name here not running without Admin rights, most of those cases can be taken care of with

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin I've trying to help you at the My screen goes off on boot thread,

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread TN
Jim wrote: evor. Did you try to boot from the livecd, or another boot cd, and see if you can even mount your JFS partition? Jim Yes I have. It mounts fine when using the livecd to boot from. I can read/write to it no problem, and all the file structure is there. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread TN
Sarpy Sam wrote: I am assuming the kernel is built with JFS support compiled in and not as a module. I am not a genkernel user but couldn't you boot the machine like this, root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda2 This will test if it's a kernel problem

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TN wrote: Yes I have. It mounts fine when using the livecd to boot from. I can read/write to it no problem, and all the file structure is there. I've had a look at the bootlog with dmesg, and I'm now thinking that the installed kernel doesn't

[gentoo-user] weird error messages

2006-03-09 Thread nick thompson
Hi, When I logged into my box just now I received the following error messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su Password: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item

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