[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 freezes sometimes

2006-05-24 Thread JC Denton
Hi! I have a big problem. I am using 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 and the system stops booting from time to time. This happens, when I get the sequence of errors like: ide-scsi: (IO,CoD) != (0,1) while issuing a packet command hdc: ATAPI reset complete Then it follows a "---[cut here

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla won't start after upgrading to 1.7.13 [DEAD BRANCH]

2006-05-24 Thread Roman Zilka
Oops, my fault and apologies. Please ignore this redundant post. -Roman Zilka Did you get it working or sorry for the second send? I ran into this a while back and it is on here somewhere but I can not remember what I did to fix it. Dale :-) Unfortunately not:( , that was

[gentoo-user] clock applet in gnome 2.14

2006-05-24 Thread JC Denton
Hello! This happens with the clock applet when adding it to the panel: panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet" Google does not have a clue so far. Would be nice to have a clock running with gnome 2.14 ;) Thanks! Yahoo! Messenger - kostenlos* mit Familie und

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla won't start after upgrading to 1.7.13 [DEAD BRANCH]

2006-05-24 Thread Roman Zilka
Anyway, if the solution lays posted somewhere around here, my repeated apologies are in place:). I'll check the archive once more, thanks for the hint. Searched again and found nothing. So this issue remains open. Any bit or piece of help much appreciated. -Roman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 freezes sometimes

2006-05-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/23/06, JC Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have a big problem. I am using 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 and the system stops booting from time to time. This happens, when I get the sequence of errors like: ide-scsi: (IO,CoD) != (0,1) while issuing a packet command hdc: ATAPI reset complete

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused with the --oneshot option of portage.

2006-05-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/24/06, Jonathan Chocron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, here are my questions : With world being autogenerated Not sure I would call it 'autogenerated'. It is more accurate to call it the list of packages that you have merged without the --oneshot option. - If I emerge a library, like

Re: [gentoo-user] sysconfig

2006-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 23 May 2006 19:50:12 -0500 Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to look at rc-update. It may help some too. I had to install Mandriva the other day, needed something on a system real quick, and I hate that thing now. Still not sure it is working right and I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome as an X Server.

2006-05-24 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Kurt, on Wednesday, 2006-05-17 at 11:33:30, you wrote: Hmm, maybe cause it is NOT an X server, its a Window Manager. Right, right. I probably deserve to get spanked for not using the proper terminology. You both do :) Gnome is a desktop environment that comes with a window manager

[gentoo-user] how to manage two different kernels/sets of modules init scripts

2006-05-24 Thread krgn
Hello, I would like to be able to have different kernel versions installed (i.e. rt-sources, ck-sources, suspend2-sources) and easily manage the startup scripts, modules, even configuration flies (xorg.conf) for each kernel. I am aware about initrd, but wonder whether it is possible to use

Re: [gentoo-user] clock applet in gnome 2.14

2006-05-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 09:27 +0200, JC Denton wrote: This happens with the clock applet when adding it to the panel: panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet check out the gentoo forums. There's a loong sticky thread there on gnome 2.14, which if you're trying, I

[gentoo-user] Disappearing ebuilds

2006-05-24 Thread Matthias Bethke
Here's what I've been getting on the last few emerges: | huxley ~ # emerge -DNvuta world | | These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: | | Calculating world dependencies | !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all | !!! masked or don't exist: | app-crypt/gpg-agent

Re: [gentoo-user] Disappearing ebuilds

2006-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 May 2006 14:01:27 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote: These just seem to be masked. It happeded before, and sometimes there was a message in the Changelog, but usually there's none. On another machine, sys-apps/fileutils just disappeared. Do I have to follow gentoo-dev to catch when/why

RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 freezes sometimes

2006-05-24 Thread Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74
Title: RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 freezes sometimes Additionally, when using cdrecord, you will use: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:X,Y,Z It is also possible to use a numbered ID when using IDE/ATAPI: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 Run cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus to find the valid IDs. See

Re: [gentoo-user] how to manage two different kernels/sets of modules init scripts

2006-05-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 12:42 +, krgn wrote: Hello, I would like to be able to have different kernel versions installed (i.e. rt-sources, ck-sources, suspend2-sources) easy (with a proviso... see below) and easily manage the startup scripts, modules, semi-easy even configuration

[gentoo-user] Spell package for nano?

2006-05-24 Thread Jeff
Hey all. Captain Obvious here didn't realize that nano has spell checking (duh). However, when trying to invoke it, it yells at me: [ Spell checking failed: Error invoking spell ] What package supplies this? I see a lot of 'emerge -s spell' stuff, but I'd like to use the most

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla won't start after upgrading to 1.7.13

2006-05-24 Thread Rumen Yotov
JC Denton wrote: Hi! Good question. I also emerged mozilla 1.7.13 but it does not work. I can start it but it hangs when opening a page. I used epiphany but it does the same strange stuff. I installed the gnome 2.14 yesterday, may be something went wrong? ;) JC */Roman Zilka [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread JC Denton
Hi! May be it is a stupid question, but can I remove the content of /usr/portage/distfile/ without problems? This file has a size of 1.5 GB ! I would like to have some space back ;) JC Mails löschen war gestern: Yahoo! Mail jetzt mit 1GB kostenlosem Speicher .

Re: [gentoo-user] how to manage two different kernels/sets of modules init scripts

2006-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 May 2006 22:39:27 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I suggest quickswitch. It's actually used for changing config files based on different network locations, but you could easily adapt it (and I did) for changing any files you want. There's also sys-apps/hprofile. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Wednesday, 24 May 2006 23:56, JC Denton wrote: Hi! May be it is a stupid question, but can I remove the content of /usr/portage/distfile/ without problems? This file has a size of 1.5 GB ! I would like to have some space back ;) JC Yes you may safely remove anything that you no

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
I think you meant /usr/portage/distfiles, right? Yes, you can remove them. They are the source archives of the packages you've installed. But, if you need to reemerge any of your packages, you'll have to download it again. PS.: JC Denton is from Deus Ex? On 5/24/06, JC Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Ptitjack
JC Denton a gentiment tapote: Hi! May be it is a stupid question, but can I remove the content of /usr/portage/distfile/ without problems? This file has a size of 1.5 GB ! I would like to have some space back ;) JC

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 May 2006 16:26:43 +0200 (CEST), JC Denton wrote: May be it is a stupid question, but can I remove the content of /usr/portage/distfile/ without problems? This file has a size of 1.5 GB ! I would like to have some space back ;) Yes you can, but it may mean you have to download

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread JC Denton
Yes! I think it is a great game.Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I think you meant /usr/portage/distfiles, right? Yes, you can removethem. They are the source archives of the packages you've installed.But, if you need to reemerge any of your packages, you'll have

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread znx
Hi, There is a utility called eclean which is meant for the purpose .. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Free_up_disk_space_in_Gentoo Hope this helps Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow

2006-05-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/23/06, znx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/05/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Does anyone know a nice little idiom for de-duping a colon-list like PATH or MANPATH?Yeah this is something that constantly annoyed me, I forget where I found this (although I moved it to a function), it

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused with the --oneshot option of portage.

2006-05-24 Thread Jonathan Chocron
Le Mercredi 24 Mai 2006 09:55, Richard Fish a écrit : On 5/24/06, Jonathan Chocron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, here are my questions : With world being autogenerated Not sure I would call it 'autogenerated'. It is more accurate to call it the list of packages that you have merged without

[gentoo-user] Gentoo and SCSI + RAID

2006-05-24 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi list, I'm tired with my problem and I hope someone can help... the problem is: I have my / partition on /dev/sda1, including /boot. But 2 days ago when I did the gentoo instalation I put it on a wrong disk. / partition must be /dev/sdb2, that is connected to a SCSI controler different than

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Xeon

2006-05-24 Thread Gessy
Hi, I'd like know how to install gentoo on Xeon with 64bits supports. What stage can i use? Can I use stage3? My processor is: vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz stepping: 3 cpu MHz

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo and SCSI + RAID

2006-05-24 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Just to complete information about the previous e-mail that I sent to the list... livecd ~ # lspci 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]

[gentoo-user] Gentoo presence at LinuxWorld this summer in San Francisco?

2006-05-24 Thread michael
Is there to be a Gentoo booth at LinuxWorld? I'd like to help. Whom do I contact? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Xeon

2006-05-24 Thread Teresa and Dale
Gessy wrote: Hi, I'd like know how to install gentoo on Xeon with 64bits supports. What stage can i use? Can I use stage3? My processor is: vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz

Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD

2006-05-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Teresa and Dale wrote: It is really rare that I have a drive to go out. Maybe I'm just lucky. shrugs I do have a few drives that are over a decade old and some a couple decades old. I have owned dozens of drives over the years. The only reliable brands that I have used are Western

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome as an X Server.

2006-05-24 Thread Kurt Guenther
ssh is too slow for X. It's okay if you're using a quick utility, but working on an IDE all day long is tedious. (Although, my new laptop has plenty of horse power (dual-centrino), so it's not as much of an issue working off my desktop.) As for security, I use iptables when I'm not in my

[gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
...to delete contents of /var/tmp/portage/. ? I run out of resources ;) thank you very much for any helpful reply in advance! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
Hi, znx wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Free_up_disk_space_in_Gentoo Using CFLAGS=-Os or CFLAGS=-O2 is much more effective on a desktop system and can shave off more than 30% of the size. This is because larger binaries (like the HUGE ones produced by -O3) take longer to load, and

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: ...to delete contents of /var/tmp/portage/. ? I run out of resources ;) thank you very much for any helpful reply in advance! mcc Yes you can, if you're not emerging something. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Jason Weisberger
Yeah you can delete the contents of that folder no problem. It's just the leftover compiles and source, probably taking up gigabytes of space.-- Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed... Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 15:00:39 -0400 Oh yeah! That saves me 0.1kEUR for a new harddisc! :) A.Einstein said : tmp is relative! so...I should believe in his words :O))) Thanks a lot! Have

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 May 2006 15:00:39 -0400, Jason Weisberger wrote: Yeah you can delete the contents of that folder no problem. It's just the leftover compiles and source, probably taking up gigabytes of space. Portage normally cleans up after itself, so there should only be a few MB at most in

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 24 May 2006 20:52:21 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, znx wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Free_up_disk_space_in_Gentoo Using CFLAGS=-Os or CFLAGS=-O2 is much more effective on a desktop system and can shave off more than 30% of the size. This is because larger

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: ...to delete contents of /var/tmp/portage/. ? Yes, go ahead and delete it. /var/tmp/portage is, where packages get built. Alexander Skwar -- Tussman's Law: Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Xeon

2006-05-24 Thread Gessy
Hi again!!! When I use a stage3-pentium4 for instalation and i tried compile the kernel - gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r7. My make.conf is: CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=nocona -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} MAKEOPTS=-j5 USE=-ipv6 multilib In the kernel configuration: ( )

[gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?

2006-05-24 Thread Mike Huber
Hi, I'm just trying to do some quick calculations using bc, but the version installed through portage truncates on multiplication/division.It didn't used to do this 2 years ago when I was taking number theory, and there are no USE flags available for sys-devel/bc to change this.From the manpage:

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/24/06, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using CFLAGS=-Os or CFLAGS=-O2 is much more effective on a desktop system and can shave off more than 30% of the size. This is because larger binaries (like the HUGE ones produced by -O3) take longer to load, and occupy more RAM. Is that

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?

2006-05-24 Thread brettholcomb
Did you try scale=n Where n is the number of digits after the decimal? More in man bc. From: Mike Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/05/24 Wed PM 12:48:29 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point? Hi, I'm just

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 freezes sometimes

2006-05-24 Thread JC Denton
Ok, I did the configuration of the kernel. And also cdrecord does complain, so everything seems ok. BUT it is not. I can surely say when the system will crash because in this cases it takes aweful long untill I can choose a operating system. And then it hangs when using kernel 2.6.16. I am getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?

2006-05-24 Thread Mike Huber
duh, sorry, case of me not fully reading the manpage. I'll be sure and fully read before I send to the list. Thanks a lot,--MikeOn 5/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you tryscale=nWhere n is the number of digits after the decimal?More in man bc. From: Mike Huber [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
Allan Gottlieb wrote: Often the bigger problem with large binaries is that their working sets exceeds the sizes of the L1 and (possibly) L2 caches. Well, I'm using -O3 and I have 1Mb L2, do you think I should migrate to -Os? Richard Fish wrote: the real deciding factor was that it took a

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2006-05-24 Thread Harald Arnesen
Mike Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm just trying to do some quick calculations using bc, but the version installed through portage truncates on multiplication/division. It didn't used to do this 2 years ago when I was taking number theory, and there are no USE flags available for

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 freezes sometimes

2006-05-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/24/06, JC Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I did the configuration of the kernel. And also cdrecord does complain, so everything seems ok. BUT it is not. I can surely say when the system will crash because in this cases it takes aweful long untill I can choose a operating system. And

[gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why?

2006-05-24 Thread CapSel
Hi all, I have sata disk sda connected to ICH7 (ata_piix). Everything worked fine until I saw these error messages: May 24 23:31:43 foo ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd1 host_stat 0x21 May 24 23:31:43 foo ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0xd1/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00 May 24 23:31:43 foo

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why?

2006-05-24 Thread Ryan Tandy
CapSel wrote: May 24 23:31:43 foo ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd1 host_stat 0x21 May 24 23:31:43 foo ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0xd1/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00 May 24 23:31:43 foo ata1: status=0xd1 { Busy } May 24 23:31:43 foo sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x802 May 24

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Philip Webb
060524 znx wrote: There is a utility called eclean which is meant for the purpose .. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Free_up_disk_space_in_Gentoo My experience is that 'eclean' is not efficient at removing things, so I've gone back to removing out-of-date distfiles by hand. --

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 24 May 2006 23:24:50 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: Often the bigger problem with large binaries is that their working sets exceeds the sizes of the L1 and (possibly) L2 caches. Well, I'm using -O3 and I have 1Mb L2, do you think I should migrate to -Os?

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?

2006-05-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You're welcome. Don't feel bad - it took me a This thing can't be that dumb and a man page read to find out it was smarter than I thought G. On Wednesday May 24 2006 17:15, Mike Huber wrote: duh, sorry, case of me not fully reading the manpage. I'll be sure and fully read before I send to

[gentoo-user] unknown process filled up /tmp partition

2006-05-24 Thread Alan E. Davis
Although it was not in a separate partition, my /tmp directory was filled with files looking like this: /tmp/magick-XXzxp1lE*ppm There were so many of them that ls or rm or dir wouldn't deal with them. I finally deleted them. Kdirstat showed a tremendous chunk of my / partition used

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown process filled up /tmp partition

2006-05-24 Thread Ryan Tandy
Alan E. Davis wrote: /tmp/magick-XXzxp1lE*ppm ImageMagick? Don't know about its /tmp usage, having never used it, but that was the first thing that jumped into my mind... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-24 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I tried to build OpenOffice from source. After hours of copmiling it fails with: Cleaning /var/tmp/portage/openoffice-2.0.2-r1/image//usr/lib/openoffice Building /var/tmp/portage/openoffice-2.0.2-r1/image//usr/lib/openoffice/ooo-wrapper2 Generating man page ... Building

[gentoo-user] Build error: potrace

2006-05-24 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, emerge potrace leads to: Not building PDL::IO::Browser. Turn on WITH_IO_BROWSER if this is incorrect. writing dummy Makefile Writing Makefile for PDL::IO::FastRaw Writing Makefile for PDL::IO::Misc Writing Makefile for PDL::IO::FlexRaw Writing Makefile

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-24 Thread Jeff
Good Lord man... why would you want to compile OO from source? emerge openoffice-bin :-) Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I tried to build OpenOffice from source. After hours of copmiling it fails with: Cleaning /var/tmp/portage/openoffice-2.0.2-r1/image//usr/lib/openoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-24 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed. Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:17:27 -0400 Good Lord man... why would you want to compile OO from source? Since gentoo offers this... Or in other words: Why does gentoo offer it, if one needs to be god to get it run