[gentoo-user] User group problem

2006-04-11 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I sometimes have to add my user to a group. This of course doesn't take effect until I log out and back in. However, if I'm under X, I can't logout without first exiting X. So, I'm wondering if there is any way to re-log the user without exiting X? Tony -- Those who would give up essential

Re: [gentoo-user] No ebuild for mysql-extras-20060316

2006-04-11 Thread Ryan Tandy
Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: After this mornings emerge --sync, mysql-4.1.14-r1 is marked as stable. But when doing emerge --update --deep --newuse world, I get following error during compiling of mysql: !!! No message digest entry found for file mysql-extras-20060316.tar.bz2. !!! Most likely

Re: [gentoo-user] User group problem

2006-04-11 Thread Zac Slade
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:34, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I sometimes have to add my user to a group. This of course doesn't take effect until I log out and back in. However, if I'm under X, I can't logout without first exiting X. So, I'm wondering if there is any way to re-log the user

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get a good backtrace from X?

2006-04-11 Thread Jules Colding
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 07:49 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 4/10/06, Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having trouble with the latest NVidia drivers: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127824 Are there any way for me to get the maximum amount of debug information

Re: [gentoo-user] No ebuild for mysql-extras-20060316

2006-04-11 Thread Francesco Riosa
Ryan Tandy wrote: Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: After this mornings emerge --sync, mysql-4.1.14-r1 is marked as stable. But when doing emerge --update --deep --newuse world, I get following error during compiling of mysql: !!! No message digest entry found for file

[gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-11 Thread wcw84
Hi everybody!Last time,my first gentoo could not have any sound.And I think i had tried every way .At last I had a new gentoo system,and it was OK with sound.Then i copy the /etc in my second system with sound to the fist system which is without sound ,and then my first gentoo is Ok with

[gentoo-user] udev tty's

2006-04-11 Thread Arnau Bria Ramírez
Hi folks, a long time ago, I set up udev in my system. If I remember correctly, I had aboud 150/200 devices. Now, I was looking for something, and found # ls /dev/ Display all 665 possibilities? (y or n) most of them ttys and pttys. Any explanation about it? I have no udev rules defined, and

Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results [SOLVED]

2006-04-11 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:11 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 02:40 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 18:51 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:51:31AM +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my

[gentoo-user] Quick vnc question..

2006-04-11 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
Hi everyone! I'm looking for a little app called vncconfig--everything seems to point that this should be a part of RealVNC's package, net-misc/vnc. Unfortunately, it seems that the package is only the viewer, when I need the server as well. Is there a package that has vncconfig in it that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick vnc question..

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/11/06, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone! I'm looking for a little app called vncconfig--everything seems to point that this should be a part of RealVNC's package, net-misc/vnc. Unfortunately, it seems that the package is only the viewer, when I need the server

RE: [gentoo-user] Quick vnc question..

2006-04-11 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
Richard, carcharias rjf # emerge -pv net-misc/vnc These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-misc/vnc-4.0-r1 USE=-server 0 kB Looks like you should be able to get the server by: echo net-misc/vnc server

[gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.

2006-04-11 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi all, I am in the middle of a fresh install, using the latest 2006.0 install disk. I am just about to emerge genkernel, and have got to the stage where I have to link the relevant /usr/share/zoneinfo time zone to /etc/localtime, but the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory doesn't exist! Where should

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick vnc question..

2006-04-11 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Richard Fish wrote: On 4/11/06, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: echo net-misc/vnc server /etc/portage/package.use emerge net-misc/vnc That is exactly it. You need the server USE flag. -Jeremy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] User group problem

2006-04-11 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Zac Slade wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:34, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I sometimes have to add my user to a group. This of course doesn't take effect until I log out and back in. However, if I'm under X, I can't logout without first exiting X. So, I'm wondering if there is any way to

Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/11/06, wcw84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I updated in my second gentoo to gcc 4.0.2 and glibc2.4,and emerge -e system emerge -e world and etc-update and update all the file.And when i reboot,error occured:udev-event[1731]:find_free_number:%e is deprecated will be removed and is

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/11/06, Anthony Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am in the middle of a fresh install, using the latest 2006.0 install disk. I am just about to emerge genkernel, and have got to the stage where I have to link the relevant /usr/share/zoneinfo time zone to /etc/localtime, but the

[gentoo-user] Problems doing an emerge sync

2006-04-11 Thread Thiago Lüttig
Hi folks, i have an machine wich has passed a long time without an emerge sync. I did it a few hours ago, but received the following message: Updating Portage cache: 88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.!!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/ghostscript-0) what´s may

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.

2006-04-11 Thread Rumen Yotov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all, I am in the middle of a fresh install, using the latest 2006.0 install disk. I am just about to emerge genkernel, and have got to the stage where I have to link the relevant /usr/share/zoneinfo time zone to

[gentoo-user] mirror email servers

2006-04-11 Thread El Nino
Dear list friends, i deployed several testing mail servers on different locations(towns). now i need to mirror these all servers. how to do this? idea(scenario) like, o when one mail server goes down 2nd mail server get the email. but when 1st up, 2nd mail server forward the email to 1st server.

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.

2006-04-11 Thread Nicholas Doyle
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:54, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all, I am in the middle of a fresh install, using the latest 2006.0 install disk. I am just about to emerge genkernel, and have got to the stage where I have to link the relevant /usr/share/zoneinfo time zone to /etc/localtime, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.

2006-04-11 Thread Anthony Roy
It's OK - thanks for the replies, but I downloaded and untarred the stage1 tarball rather than the stage3... Seems that the timezone directory isn't part of the stage1. On 11/04/06, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems doing an emerge sync

2006-04-11 Thread louis brazeau
Hi Thiago, On 4/11/06, Thiago Lüttig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, i have an machine wich has passed a long time without an emerge sync. I did it a few hours ago, but received the following message: Updating Portage cache: 88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.

[gentoo-user] unmerge hotplug

2006-04-11 Thread Marko Kocić
Hi all, I wanted to do some cleanup of the system to get rid of some unneeded modules. emerge -pv --depclean suggested me lately that I should remove hotplug I have hotplug added at runllevel default. I'm using vanilla-sources with udev for some time ago. Is it safe to unmerge hotplug? Has it

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel

2006-04-11 Thread Tamas Sarga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It contains =media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756 ~x86 =media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8756 ~x86 now. It contained the 8178-r3 version, because I needed it for some purpose, but I don't want to upgrade at every testing ebuild. I just wanted that

[gentoo-user] udev problems after rather major emerge update

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello, I've got a couple of older Pundit-R machines that we use as MythTV frontend machines around the house. I was trying to get ready to do an update on MythTV so I started working on both machines. In the process I updated a lot of the basic system stuff on both machines but only got udev

[gentoo-user] Re: udev problems after rather major emerge update

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
I rolled it back to 079-r1 and don't have the problems anymore. I guess 087 just isn't quite right yet. Sorry for the thread. Mark On 4/11/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a couple of older Pundit-R machines that we use as MythTV frontend machines around the house.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel

2006-04-11 Thread Tamas Sarga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 10 April 2006 16:48, Tamas Sarga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel': My /etc/make.profile links to ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/. That's a little bit old

[gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Jarry
Hi, I have following problem: with my notebook I am mostly using usb-mouse, but sometimes I'm too lazy to pull it out of bag (or I forget to take it), and in such a case I must use Synaptics Touchpad. Both of them work with gpm (in console), problem is that when mouse is attached, I can move

RE: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

2006-04-11 Thread Daevid Vincent
This should not be needed. The X server (actually, the nvidia module loaded in the X server) should create these automatically if they do not exist. From an strace of X on my system after removing the nvidiactl and nvidia0 device nodes: Okay. I removed them. Thanks. So what is causing X7

[gentoo-user] Gentoo USB CD-ROM 'root block device is unspecified'

2006-04-11 Thread Jeff
Hey all. I have these big fatty Dell blade servers, and the only way I've found to install Gentoo on them is to use a USB CD-ROM drive, but when booting from the CD-ROM, I get: Determining root device... The root block device is unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or

[gentoo-user] woe is ftpd!

2006-04-11 Thread maxim wexler
Hi Rich, Sorry, lost my end of the thread. I checked that file: /usr/include/sys/mman.h:20:1: unterminated #ifndef If the error meant missing semi-colon, they all seem to be there. Don't have equery so did emerge -pv gentoolkit and the machine crashed. Booted into single user and did

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USB CD-ROM 'root block device is unspecified'

2006-04-11 Thread Jeff
The machine in question is a Dell Blade 1855. By passing the argument: gentoo-nofb dobladecenter By doing so, my USB CD-ROM didn't get 'lost' after booting up! All is well! Thank you awesome Gentoo devs! ;-) Jeff wrote: Hey all. I have these big fatty Dell blade servers, and the only way

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:55:46 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to configure gpm so, that if usb-mouse is attached, then only mouse can be used as pointing device? You may try to use udev for that. It can call scripts when devices are plugged in and out or just present at

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge hotplug

2006-04-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 April 2006 19:44, Marko Kocić wrote: Hi all, I wanted to do some cleanup of the system to get rid of some unneeded modules. emerge -pv --depclean suggested me lately that I should remove hotplug I have hotplug added at runllevel default. I'm using vanilla-sources with udev for some

Re: [gentoo-user] mirror email servers

2006-04-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 April 2006 19:17, El Nino wrote: Dear list friends, i deployed several testing mail servers on different locations(towns). now i need to mirror these all servers. how to do this? idea(scenario) like, o when one mail server goes down 2nd mail server get the email. but when 1st up, 2nd

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 4/11/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:55:46 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to configure gpm so, that if usb-mouse is attached, then only mouse can be used as pointing device? You may try to use udev for that. It can call

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Daniel da Veiga
wowowow, sorry, misunderstood the GDM, GPM difference... Ignore the last message On 4/11/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/11/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:55:46 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible

[gentoo-user] everything is showed hard-masked with equery[was nvidia-kernel]

2006-04-11 Thread Tamas Sarga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I started a new thread, because my problem got a new aspect. My original problem was that testing (~) nvidia-kernel packages were showed as hardmasked (M~) in equery. Now I realized, that all testing ebuilds is showed as hardmasked. I did a try

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/11/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I can't go much into practical details, I've no use for this, personally :-) For X11, this can also work, if you use the synaptics driver in X, since you can have your rule call syn-client to modify the TouchpadOff setting. HTH,

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.

2006-04-11 Thread stupendoussteve
No, it's not part of the stage1. It's emerged when you do emerge system, I believe. On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Anthony Roy wrote: It's OK - thanks for the replies, but I downloaded and untarred the stage1 tarball rather than the stage3... Seems that the timezone directory isn't part of the stage1.

[gentoo-user] Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)...

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm still trying to fix my Myth frontend box. Bummer. I've got X working again by going back to older udev. Myth is working if I use a keyboard, but my remote controi has stopped working. (Darn emerge!) Anyway, if I restart lircd I see this message: myth14 ~ # /etc/init.d/lircd stop * Re-caching

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 21:55 +0200, Jarry wrote: Hi, I have following problem: with my notebook I am mostly using usb-mouse, but sometimes I'm too lazy to pull it out of bag (or I forget to take it), and in such a case I must use Synaptics Touchpad. Is it possible to configure gpm so, that

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:47:42 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I don't know how to do this automatically, nor how to make X use a different mouse without restarting... Would a symlink help here? Link the touchpad to, say, dev/input/mymouse then override this link with one to the USB mouse when it is

[gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-11 Thread Lord Sauron
Hello, This happened once before in Kubuntu, though this time I was more alert and know what I did right before this happened. So what did transpire? I sent my laptop into sleep mode via the popup menu on the battery monitor in KDE. It did this, however, when the machine came out of sleep

[gentoo-user] reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-11 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i once read about a tool to convert a reiserfs to ext3 - but without using to much additional space. Instead, that tool claimed to use a sparse-file within the original filesystem to create the new filesystem by moving the files to new FS contained in the sparse file. Do you know tools, that

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-11 Thread Sven Köhler
Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ And i'm running it right now ... oh oh ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] woe is ftpd!

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/11/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems I can do simple tasks ls, cat, nano, mount, etc. But calling on the authorities leads to disaster :^( Oy, hope you made a backup recently :-( -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/11/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you comment out the line: Load glx in xorg.conf, do you still get the crash? No. X starts now. But glxgears segfaults. So it is definitely opengl related. What DE do you normally run? KDE, Gnome, ? It seems to me that one the

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-11 Thread Sven Köhler
Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ And i'm running it right now ... oh oh ... Yes! my Gentoo had just gone to hell! Don't use convertfs ;-) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

2006-04-11 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 4/11/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/11/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you comment out the line: Load glx in xorg.conf, do you still get the crash? No. X starts now. But glxgears segfaults. So it is definitely opengl related. Maybe an idiot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)...

2006-04-11 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Mark Knecht wrote: I'm still trying to fix my Myth frontend box. Bummer. I've got X working again by going back to older udev. Myth is working if I use a keyboard, but my remote controi has stopped working. (Darn emerge!) Anyway, if I restart lircd I see this message: myth14 ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 00:42 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:47:42 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I don't know how to do this automatically, nor how to make X use a different mouse without restarting... Would a symlink help here? Link the touchpad to, say,

Re: [gentoo-user] mirror email servers

2006-04-11 Thread Patrick Watson
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 11 April 2006 19:17, El Nino wrote: Dear list friends, i deployed several testing mail servers on different locations(towns). now i need to mirror these all servers. how to do this? idea(scenario) like, o when one mail server goes down 2nd mail server get the email. but

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2006 01:59 schrieb ext Sven Köhler: Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( mkfs, but make sure you have a backup. *SCNR* Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs