Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-11 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:42:33 -0500 Troy Curtis Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always wondered (but never asked - That's the dumb part) how Gentoo manages to update a package

Re: [gentoo-user] Package dependencies

2006-10-11 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 11 October 2006 06:13, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I have seen it mentioned here several times that equery depends ... is broken. Is there a good way to determine package dependency? This shows all dependencies required for $pkg: # emerge -pve $pkg

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-11 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Troy Curtis Jr wrote: On 10/10/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always wondered (but never asked - That's the dumb part) how Gentoo manages to update a package that happens to be running at the time. Given that the old

Re: [gentoo-user] Package dependencies

2006-10-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 08:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Maybe I meant reverse dependency. Not sure. I want to know what depends on a particular package so that I can decide whether I can delete it or not. Yes, that's reverse dependencies. The portage way is to see if it shows up on

[gentoo-user] Version conflicts when mixing arch and ~arch

2006-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, A portage question, to satisfy my own curiosity i.e. I know how to fix the problem I had, but I'd like to know if I fully understand how to use portage in a case like this: My desktop is a mostly stable x86 machine, but I use e17- as my wm. x11-wm/e depends on evas which has a hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 04:16 -0700, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Iain, Yes, it worked, no icons on gnome desktop. $ ls -al /media/disk $ ls -al /media/disk-l showed 2 partitions of the USB enclosure. # gnome-volume-propertie ... Mount removable drives when hot-plugged Mount removable media

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-11 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia środa, 11 października 2006 06:21, Anthony E. Caudel napisał: I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always wondered (but never asked - That's the dumb part) how Gentoo manages to update a package that happens to be running at the time. Given that the old version

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype

2006-10-11 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:06, Richard Fish wrote: On 10/10/06, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried using arecord and got the following error matt# arecord -d 10 cd -t wav -D copy test.wav ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM copy It doesn't know what

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:30:59 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I suspected it might be memory. However I still find it difficult. If I'm running KDE for example, it requires at least kdelibs which is a lot to hold in memory. Programs only load the libraries they use, you're unlikely to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Version conflicts when mixing arch and ~arch

2006-10-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: [SNIP] emerge -p world had to parse the entire portage tree anyway, it could easily check for versioning conflicts while doing it and display a message to the user, much like blockers do currently. I get it that portage likely can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Package dependencies

2006-10-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 08:47, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: [SNIP] Yes, that's reverse dependencies. The portage way is to see if it shows up on emerge --depclean --pretend. If it doesn't then you have something in your world file that depends on it. If the package itself is in your world

Re: [gentoo-user] Conexant chip

2006-10-11 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone gotten the conexant chip modem to work under linux? Yes, I have running hcfpci for some years now. You need to rebuild it every time you compile a new kernel. What's your problem? -- Regards, Mick pgpGzZhGpdlsT.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC over SSH (VNC session is non-local to SSH)

2006-10-11 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:55, Mark Shields wrote: Guys, there's no need to keep replying. Thanks for the help, but I'm able to do it now (have been for the past 4 e-mails) I'm glad you got it sorted Mark. A vaguely related but quite O/T question: would you perhaps know why when I select

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Kevin Fullerton wrote: Here's the procmail recipe I use with maildir folders and the Gentoo lists - I think as long as procmail is setup with maildir support you just need to set your MAILDIR var and use a trailing slash and it knows it'd delivering to a MailDir. A, I guess I hadn't

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-11 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:32:08AM +0100, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Is formail the right tool for me to use here? Is there a tool to deliver an mbox of messages to a maildir that I can use in place of ' gentoo_user/' above? To googling for mbox2maildir or mb2md(?). With a bit of work I think they

[gentoo-user] Re: Circular Block? kde-env / kdelibs -- RESOLVED

2006-10-11 Thread Stefan Wimmer
* Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-10-10 13:47] : You could have seen this straight away by adding --tree to the emerge command. Neil Bothwick Well - in my case emerge --tree brings up that media-fonts/font-alias needs kde-env?!?!! Any explanation for that? Greetz Stefan --

Re: [gentoo-user] Version conflicts when mixing arch and ~arch

2006-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 11:19, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: [SNIP] emerge -p world had to parse the entire portage tree anyway, it could easily check for versioning conflicts while doing it and display a message to the user, much

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Circular Block? kde-env / kdelibs -- RESOLVED

2006-10-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 12:40, Stefan Wimmer wrote: You could have seen this straight away by adding --tree to the emerge command. Well - in my case emerge --tree brings up that media-fonts/font-alias needs kde-env?!?!! Any explanation for that? Please show us that output of emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring UPS for Gentoo

2006-10-11 Thread brettholcomb
Set it to shutdown when you have x minutes of battery left where x is enough to allow you to shutdown the system. There is an application in portage - nuts I think that is supposed to interface to UPSs. From: Suranga Kasthuriarachchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/10/11 Wed AM 01:27:25 EDT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Circular Block? kde-env / kdelibs -- RESOLVED

2006-10-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:40:55 + (UTC), Stefan Wimmer wrote: You could have seen this straight away by adding --tree to the emerge command. Well - in my case emerge --tree brings up that media-fonts/font-alias needs kde-env?!?!! Any explanation for that? Not without seeing the full

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0+composite+radeon OSS drivers+radeon9200se : X cpu usage sometimes rockets to 80%

2006-10-11 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: Wow! That's a big step towards what I wanted to hear -integrated 3d desktop without having to hack around with X.I don't like to use ~x86 for critical packages like X, but I hope 7.1 will be x86 relatively soon... Yes, pretty WOW!

[gentoo-user] gnome exit clean

2006-10-11 Thread Shaochun Wang
I want to execute beagle-shutdown when I logout from gnome, how can I configure gnome to do something on exiting? BTW, it's easy to achive this by the ExitFunction in FVWM. And I don't know whether there exits equivalent things for gnome. Thank you in advance. -- Shaochun Wang [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome exit clean

2006-10-11 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shaochun Wang wrote: I want to execute beagle-shutdown when I logout from gnome, how can I configure gnome to do something on exiting? /etc/gdm/PostSession if I'm not mistaken. Check that path out. or find it with find /etc -name PostSession -type

[gentoo-user] Re: procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-11 Thread reader
Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- :0 * ^List-Id:.*gentoo-user.gentoo.org | formail +1 -ds gentoo_user/ -- I don't have your setup but am a longtime procmail user.. Maybe you can use formail as a filter and then deliver something like below... I may have it broken up wrong but

Re: [gentoo-user] can't log in gnome and xfce desktop gone!

2006-10-11 Thread Chuanwen Wu
# equery check gnome-vfs thanks,my gnome-vfs crack! now my gnome problem is fix! I will try to fix my xfce -- Bo Andresen -- wcw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome exit clean

2006-10-11 Thread Shaochun Wang
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:14:48AM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: /etc/gdm/PostSession if I'm not mistaken. Check that path out. It's /etc/X11/gdm/PostSession pgpAIJwiOSGqb.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] ksensors

2006-10-11 Thread reader
I recently installed lm_sensors and ksenors since I run kde. When I click on the ksenors Icon under kde start/utilities/ksenors I see the little bouncing icon for a moment then an icon appears in my taskbar. Clicking the icon allows me do config. But I never see anything in the ksensors

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 11:32 +0100, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Kevin Fullerton wrote: Here's the procmail recipe I use with maildir folders and the Gentoo lists - I think as long as procmail is setup with maildir support you just need to set your MAILDIR var and use a trailing slash and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-11 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Iain, Yes, it worked, no icons on gnome desktop. $ ls -al /media/disk $ ls -al /media/disk-l showed 2 partitions of the USB enclosure. # gnome-volume-propertie ... Mount removable drives when hot-plugged Mount removable media when inserted Browse removable media when inserted all

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome exit clean

2006-10-11 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shaochun Wang wrote: It's /etc/X11/gdm/PostSession And I was mistaken, after all! :) So good for the find command :P - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica Do you know about the dangers of DRM? Find out at

Re: [gentoo-user] Conexant chip

2006-10-11 Thread millerhe1
It locks up everytime I attempt to query the modem. Kpp by the way. Sorry for top post blackberry only allow that. Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:42:31 To:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Rasmus: I've had a look at mb2md, and this seems close to what I'd need - though I'm dubious about two aspects: 1.It doesn't seem to have a filter mode (i.e. It always takes file as input as opposed to stdin, which would allow it to slot more neatly into a procmail based solution. 2.The

[gentoo-user] Re: Configuring UPS for Gentoo

2006-10-11 Thread James
Richard Broersma Jr rabroersma at yahoo.com writes: / I'm having a 2.2KV APC UPS, and i'm connecting my Gentoo email server on it, so what is the proper way to configure my server to auto shutdown, when the Main power off. emerge apcupsd It works beautifully. Communication between

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-11 Thread Grant
mount /dev/dvd TITLE=$(vobcopy -I 21 | awk '/DVD-name:/ {print $3}') vobcopy -m || exit mkisofs -dvd-video -V ${TITLE} -o ${TITLE}.iso ${TITLE} || exit rm -fr ${TITLE} umount /dev/dvd Thanks for the script. I set it up to temporarily use my dd images as the source, and it looks

[gentoo-user] wireless (solved)

2006-10-11 Thread Ted Ozolins
I assumed that the wep key the router uses was a string s:** It turns out that the key is a hexi number instead. Of course removing the s: solved the problem. Now the wireless works nicely. essid_ath0=patkno mode_ath0=managed channel_ath0=6 key_patkno=** enc open -- Ted

[gentoo-user] where to put mknod chmod

2006-10-11 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, One of my morning chores after booting linux is to su and enter #mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and #chmod a+rw /dev/parport0. Where can I park these commands to automate the process? -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the

[gentoo-user] Re: procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-11 Thread Moshe Kamensky
* Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [11/10/06 09:34]: I'm familiar with this procmail recipe: -- :0 * ^List-Id:.*gentoo-user.gentoo.org | formail +1 -ds gentoo_user -- However... I need to use maildir is there a straightforward way to deliver directly to maildir folders with

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always wondered (but never asked - That's the dumb part) how Gentoo manages to update a package that happens to be running at the time. Given that the old version (the one running) is

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod chmod

2006-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:00, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, One of my morning chores after booting linux is to su and enter #mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and #chmod a+rw /dev/parport0. Where can I park these commands to automate the process? udev is supposed to create these nodes and set

[gentoo-user] logcheck rule problem

2006-10-11 Thread Dave S
Hi, I have setup logcheck and added various filters - it works great apart from one niggle ... Oct 8 07:38:56 localhost exiting on signal 15 Oct 8 07:38:57 localhost syslogd 1.4.1#17ubuntu7: restart. I can filter out the restart with /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/syslogd ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11}

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-11 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Nick Rout wrote: which leads top the point that if you update a daemon like sshd, yopu need to restart it, or else you are still running the old daemon. And ... if the startup scripts change or a major version bump occurs, a clean shutdown should happen BEFORE the new package is installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:24:48 -0700, Grant wrote: I tried using vobcopy to decrypt my The Life of Mammals dd images and, strangely, it's not working. vobcopy outputs the same error that dvdbackup did, something about an error cracking the CSS keys, which comes from libdvdcss. Could it be

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:05:12 -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: And ... if the startup scripts change or a major version bump occurs, a clean shutdown should happen BEFORE the new package is installed. The portage system really should shutdown any services before an upgrade occurs. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdebase

2006-10-11 Thread Trenton Adams
I can't right now, as my logs for that don't exist, I forgot to put the 21. Right now I'm trying to revdep-rebuild so.6. We'll see how that goes first. Thanks. On 10/10/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 11 October 2006 07:23, Trenton Adams wrote: Any other ideas?

[gentoo-user] maildrop linking fails with __gxx_personality_v0

2006-10-11 Thread Trenton Adams
I remember getting this long ago for one of my programs. It occured when I tried to use the wrong compiler, whether it was g++ or gcc, I can't remember. Anyhow, this is happening with the mail-filter/maildrop-2.0.1, which is actually installed already, but won't compile right now. Mental note

[gentoo-user] xsm and dependency...

2006-10-11 Thread pk
Hi! After a emerge --sync a while ago a couple of new packages has appeared on the emerge radar, namely: x11-apps/xsm-1.0.1 net-misc/netkit-rsh Does anyone know why they have appeared? I don't have them installed previously and I am quite skeptical about netkit-rsh since it installs rexec,

[gentoo-user] emerge -pvuND world versus emerge -pveuND world

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi, I recognized this some time ago! When my system is up to date emerge -pvuND world shows me: emerge -pvuND world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! Total size of downloads: 0 kB Which is normal because an up to date

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pvuND world versus emerge -pveuND world

2006-10-11 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/10/11, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I recognized this some time ago! When my system is up to date emerge -pvuND world shows me: emerge -pvuND world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! Total size of downloads: 0

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pvuND world versus emerge -pveuND world

2006-10-11 Thread Trey Gruel
On 10/11/06, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Which is normal because an up to date system doesn't have to download anything. But when i add the emptytree option emerge -pveuND world i get this (output reduced): emerge -pveuND world These are the packages that would be merged,

[gentoo-user] Re: xsm and dependency...

2006-10-11 Thread Remy Blank
pk wrote: Does anyone know why they have appeared? I don't have them installed previously and I am quite skeptical about netkit-rsh since it installs rexec, rlogin and rsh. Me too, since it installs them setuid root. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely

Re: [gentoo-user] xsm and dependency...

2006-10-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:31:41 +0200, pk wrote: Does anyone know why they have appeared? I don't have them installed previously and I am quite skeptical about netkit-rsh since it installs rexec, rlogin and rsh. emerge --update --deep --tree world will tell you why. -- Neil Bothwick If a man

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype

2006-10-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/11/06, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The arecord apeared to work, but when I played it back with aplay - silence! At this point you may want to try the patch that you found on the forums. Unfortunately it doesn't apply cleanly against 1.0.13, and the original patch author

[gentoo-user] Re: Unexpectedly terminated - would you like to try again?

2006-10-11 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:38, Alex Pelts wrote: Use netstat and see if ssh is listening on local host on the right port. default vnc port is 5900 by the way. 5800 is the one that java client is served on. Thanks again Alex, I can shift the ports to the 5900 range, although all things

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pvuND world versus emerge -pveuND world

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Actually, with the 'emptytree' option, it should be trying to rebuild everything in your 'world' set along with the dependancies using their current versions and use flags. I'm guessing that the odd behavior is because you're using it in conjunction with 'uND'. 'Update' and 'newuse' go

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype

2006-10-11 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 22:19, Richard Fish wrote: On 10/11/06, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The arecord apeared to work, but when I played it back with aplay - silence! At this point you may want to try the patch that you found on the forums. Unfortunately it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Circular Block? kde-env / kdelibs -- RESOLVED

2006-10-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:53, Stefan Wimmer wrote: Please show us that output of emerge --tree. Makes it soo much easier to explain it... Uh sorry - did not want to spam this list with too much text ;-) No, this is not spam. It is necessary info to explain what's going on. portage

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pvuND world versus emerge -pveuND world

2006-10-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:31, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: [SNIP] Calculating world dependencies . ... done! [ebuild N] sys-devel/binutils [2.16.1-r3]USE=nls -multislot -multitarget -test -vanilla 109 kB $ emerge -pv binutils These are the packages that would be merged,

Re: [gentoo-user] Conexant chip

2006-10-11 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It locks up everytime I attempt to query the modem. Kpp by the way. Sorry for top post blackberry only allow that. Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless You need to emerge hcfpcimodem; run hcfpci-config (I think this happens

[gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
I did emerge -p --depclean and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11 (version 7.0-r1). Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!) I know --depclean is not to be blindly trusted, but is this normal? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 October 2006 00:56, Jorge Almeida wrote: I did emerge -p --depclean and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11 (version 7.0-r1). Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!) I know --depclean is not to be blindly trusted, but is this normal? As has been mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 06:51 -0700, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Iain, OK, we're getting somewhere!! Something strange happened here. After serveral boots the trick did not work any more. Login as user # `gnome-volume-manager ` (gnome-volume-manager:6102): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/11/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did emerge -p --depclean and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11 (version 7.0-r1). Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!) I know --depclean is not to be blindly trusted, but is this normal? xorg-x11 is just a

Re: [gentoo-user] xsm and dependency...

2006-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 21:28 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:31:41 +0200, pk wrote: Does anyone know why they have appeared? I don't have them installed previously and I am quite skeptical about netkit-rsh since it installs rexec, rlogin and rsh. emerge --update

Re: [gentoo-user] xsm and dependency...

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:31:41 +0200, pk wrote: Does anyone know why they have appeared? I don't have them installed previously and I am quite skeptical about netkit-rsh since it installs rexec, rlogin and rsh. emerge --update --deep --tree

Re: [gentoo-user] can't log in gnome and xfce desktop gone!

2006-10-11 Thread Chuanwen Wu
gnome is ok now!But i still can't fix my xfce.when i run 'revdep-rebuild -p' every thing is OK! But when i enter my xfce,i just can't find my desktop!The screen is black except the tool bar,and i still can use the items which are on the tool bar. It's not like you haven't mentioned this

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package

2006-10-11 Thread Trenton Adams
Why does revdep-rebuild try and update packages that do not exist? Is this a bug, or am I missing something? # revdep-rebuild --library libstdc++.so.5 -- -p -v 21 ... Calculating dependencies / emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =dev-lang/python-2.3.5. # equery list python [ Searching

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-11 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Iain, Sorry, previously I made a mistake running; # mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk It should be # mount /dev/sda1 /media/ The USB enclosure can still be mounted. They are there. - snip - Now that you kind-of have things happening, what does /var/log/messages show when you plug in a usb

[gentoo-user] emerge deps AFTER build

2006-10-11 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi Guys, Is there a way of asking emerge to only merge the packages after all dependencies have been successfully built into tar.bz2 packages? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] eselect could not source blas.eselect

2006-10-11 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi guys, eselect doesn't appear to be working on my one computer (amd64) for some reason. I've re-emerged it already, but to no avail. I run # eselect and get the following... Usage: eselect global options module name module options Global options: --no-color,--no-colourDisable coloured

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge deps AFTER build

2006-10-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 October 2006 04:43, Trenton Adams wrote: Is there a way of asking emerge to only merge the packages after all dependencies have been successfully built into tar.bz2 packages? From `man emerge`: --buildpkgonly (-B) Creates binary packages for all ebuilds processed without

Re: [gentoo-user] xsm and dependency...

2006-10-11 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Daniel Barkalow: emerge --update --deep --tree world will tell you why. It'll tell you what wants them, but not why. In particular, it doesn't specify why xinit-1.0.2-r6, which didn't need xsm on September 22nd, now does. What's up with this? I really don't want netkit-rsh

Re: [gentoo-user] xsm and dependency...

2006-10-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 October 2006 02:49, Daniel Barkalow wrote: Does anyone know why they have appeared? I don't have them installed previously and I am quite skeptical about netkit-rsh since it installs rexec, rlogin and rsh. emerge --update --deep --tree world will tell you why. It'll

[gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Lord Sauron
They're going to install wireless in my school so I guess I better get this working sometime soon : ) I isolated my problem to this: emerge ipw2100 ties in ieee80211, and that fails to compile because it says that the current kernel cannot have the option IEEE80211 in either module or

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:00, Lord Sauron wrote: [SNIP] I isolated my problem to this: emerge ipw2100 ties in ieee80211, and that fails to compile because it says that the current kernel cannot have the option IEEE80211 in either module or enabled. It needs it disabled. I tried to use

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Lord Sauron
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:11, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:00, Lord Sauron wrote: [SNIP] I isolated my problem to this: emerge ipw2100 ties in ieee80211, and that fails to compile because it says that the current kernel cannot have the option IEEE80211

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect could not source blas.eselect

2006-10-11 Thread Trenton Adams
[22:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] trenta]# equery check eselect [ Checking app-admin/eselect-1.0.2 ] * 57 out of 57 files good [22:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] trenta]# eselect Usage: eselect global options module name module options Global options: --no-color,--no-colourDisable coloured output Built-in

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Trenton Adams
You create net.eth0, or whatever, by linking /etc/init.d/net.ethX to /etc/init.d/net.lo The driver will create the actual kernel device name of eth0, ath0, or whatever, and then your link will make it work. On 10/11/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:11,

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Lord Sauron
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:45, Trenton Adams wrote: You create net.eth0, or whatever, by linking /etc/init.d/net.ethX to /etc/init.d/net.lo The driver will create the actual kernel device name of eth0, ath0, or whatever, and then your link will make it work. Makes sense. How do I do

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, You would run the command: # ln -s /etc/init.d/net.{lo,ethX} However, ethX would refer to the device name of your network card, which you should be able to find out via a search on Google. - Neil On 21:53 Wed 11 Oct , Lord Sauron wrote: On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:45, Trenton

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Neil Hodges wrote: Hello, You would run the command: # ln -s /etc/init.d/net.{lo,ethX} However, ethX would refer to the device name of your network card, which you should be able to find out via a search on Google. You can also do ls /sys/class/net to get a list of

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect could not source blas.eselect

2006-10-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:41, Trenton Adams wrote: [SNIP] [22:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] trenta]# eselect [SNIP] Extra modules: bashcomp Manage contributed bash-completion scripts binutils Manage installed versions of sys-devel/binutils !!! Error: Couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] xsm and dependency...

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, darren kirby wrote: quoth the Daniel Barkalow: emerge --update --deep --tree world will tell you why. It'll tell you what wants them, but not why. In particular, it doesn't specify why xinit-1.0.2-r6, which didn't need xsm on September 22nd, now does. What's up

[gentoo-user] Re: ksensors

2006-10-11 Thread reader
Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The command `sensors' displays all the expected data but ksenors never shows me anything but a blank screen. did you run sensors-detect? The command `sensors' would not show the data I mentioned if I had not. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xsm and dependency...

2006-10-11 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Daniel Barkalow: What's up with this? I really don't want netkit-rsh installed either...xsm changelog says nothing... You want to be looking at xinit's info; turns out you want the minimal USE flag if you don't want to include the things used by the default Xsession, which