[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread John Blinka
I maintain an up-to-date system that requires gcj. For some time, running revdep-rebuild -p generates this output: ~-- revdep-rebuild -p Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 14:02, John Blinka wrote: However, both are located in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1, not in /usr/lib. Is this a bug, or is there something I can do to fix my system?  (Other than put in soft links to the needed libraries.) It's an ancient bug that still

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread John Blinka
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: It's an ancient bug that still isn't fixed. You can either edit the .la files or create symlinks. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728 So, how does one edit a .la file? John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread Markus Schönhaber
John Blinka wrote: So, how does one edit a .la file? By using the texteditor of one's choice. Regards mks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:15, John Blinka wrote: Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: It's an ancient bug that still isn't fixed. You can either edit the .la files or create symlinks. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728 So, how does one edit a .la file? [In the spirit of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch

2007-01-24 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Jakob Buchgraber wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I just reinstalled everything and Firefox takes about 3-5 mins to load the first time. After that it is very fast. Does anyone have an idea as of why this is happening? I tried deleting my ~/.mozilla directory but that doesn't help.

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread John Blinka
Alan McKinnon wrote: [In the spirit of the immortal words uttered by the young junior Vogon]: Errr,... with vi? alan Sheeesh I've never looked at the innards of a .la file - assumed that, since they were located in .../lib directories, they

[gentoo-user] Sempron64

2007-01-24 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've succesfully confirmed (I think!) that my new server is a Sempron64, but it's my first time with one of these CPUs. I'm planning to setup a courier-mta mail server. Could you please help me to decide on stage and cflags to use? I was

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:01, John Blinka wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: [In the spirit of the immortal words uttered by the young junior Vogon]: Errr,... with vi? alan Sheeesh I've never looked at the innards of a .la file - assumed that,

[gentoo-user] livecd from scratch - attempting to mount media: - /dev/hda

2007-01-24 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
Hi everybody! I prepared a custom livecd following this howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_build_a_LiveCD_from_scratch and I tested it correctly on an old computer I have at home, but trying it with my laptop (DELL INSPIRON 6000) the boot process stops without any error message. ...probing

[gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Carl Adams
I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? Either inkjet or low-cost laser. Thanks Carl Adams --

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: Guess what? I did the same thing two months ago :-) After years of working with the stuff I'd never ever had reason to look inside a .la and it was only when I hovered over one in Konqueror I saw it was plain text One

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/1/24, Carl Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? Either inkjet or

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/1/24, Carl Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? At OpenPrinting

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recommend clean monospaced condensed TTF

2007-01-24 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Alan, on Wednesday, 2007-01-17 at 11:11:29, you wrote: I prefer Bitstream Vera Mono for this (or DejaVu which is a fork of the same font). It looks good at small sizes down to 7 and I can easily tell the difference between i,I,1,l and 0,O. It has an actual bold font variant so there's

[gentoo-user] Re: Sempron64

2007-01-24 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Sorry to bother you people with these, but I'm not a hardware guy, and my googling is starting to confuse me. Sorry, but thanks in advance. OK, replying to myself: I have to use stage3-amd64, because the other 64

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not starting with eth0, router not giving IP

2007-01-24 Thread Samuel Baldwin
What kind of router is it? It's a DX-E401 check if dhcpd is enabled? Yeah, it's running. However, it's setup to give me a static local IP to my mac address, but that shouldn't matter, since It's been like that long before the problem started. The only thing new that I can think of is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 12:33, Carl Adams wrote: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use?

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Carl Adams
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i guess! Are you using the HP drivers? Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver, and this should work. The problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Petr Uzel
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:32, Carl Adams wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i guess! Are you using the HP drivers? Yes, I've downloaded the

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either: 1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are: AppSocket/HP JetDirect Backend Error Handler Internet Printing Protocol (http) Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) LPD/LPR Host or Printer

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Sigfrido V. Ortiz C.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? Either inkjet or low-cost laser.

[gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:33:39 -0500, Carl Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Sigfrido V. Ortiz C.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:33:39 -0500, Carl Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory small disks?

2007-01-24 Thread James
Wolfgang Liebich Wolfgang.Liebich at siemens.com writes: I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's standards, too, I would like to hear

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Sigfrido V. Ortiz C.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:33:39 -0500, Carl Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

2007-01-24 Thread jcd
Alan McKinnon píše v Út 23. 01. 2007 v 21:55 +0100: On Tuesday 23 January 2007 19:47, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Did you reboot between changing the partition layout and creating that new partition (and moving data)? Otherwise the kernel wouldn't be aware of the new partition layout. Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 January 2007 18:32, Carl Adams wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i guess! Are you using the HP drivers? Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

2007-01-24 Thread jcd
You say in your original mail that after moving the data everything was fine. What exactly do you mean by that: 1. The command ended without failure so you assume it moved stuff correctly, or 2. You proved the move was done by mounting the partition and all your files were there, or 3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:32:20 +1000, Carl Adams wrote: At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i guess! Are you using the HP drivers? Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver,

[gentoo-user] network scanning with gentoo / hplip / hpaio

2007-01-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have an HP-7310 all-in-one. We have it on our wired network at URL 192.168.1.50. As a printer/fax/copier, it works fine. My problem is with scanning. Our older HP-7130 does fine at all tasks. We have two problems identifying scanners. ajglap ~ # scanimage -L device

[gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread »Q«
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Carl Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? Either inkjet or low-cost laser. I have a low-end laser, the usb HP LaserJet 1020. Support isn't from HP, just from

[gentoo-user] Dependency info is missing and /sbin/depscan.sh is not helpful

2007-01-24 Thread Jan Stępień
Hi folks, I've been updating my system recently (emerge -u world). I've stopped the update process with ctrl-c in order to turn the PC off. After relaunching in the middle of the runlevel 1, right after configuring kernel parameters, updating environment , cleaning /var/lock, /var/run and /tmp,

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch

2007-01-24 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Alan wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 07:36:15PM +, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I just reinstalled everything and Firefox takes about 3-5 mins to load the first time. After that it is very fast. Does anyone have an idea as of why this is happening? I tried deleting my ~/.mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Thomas Kear
Well I've grown quite attached to my low-cost laser, an HP LaserJet 1022. 19ppm black on A4, 20ppm on letter, 1200x600 or 600x600dpi. They could have been a bit more generous than the 8MB of ram they gave this model, but it doesn't present a problem in anything but extreme images (which you

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency info is missing and /sbin/depscan.sh is not helpful

2007-01-24 Thread Randy Barlow
Jan Stępień wrote: I would be very glad if you could support me' What exactly were you in the middle up updating when you rebooted the system? What had been updated already before that? It sounds like something crucial to the system. I would recommend booting using the livecd and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency info is missing and /sbin/depscan.sh is not helpful

2007-01-24 Thread Jan Stępień
2007/1/24, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What exactly were you in the middle up updating when you rebooted the system? What had been updated already before that? I can't remember what was it exactly. I'll try to skim the logs, I hope I'll find something over there. Besides, I'm quite sure I

[gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread »Q«
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recommend the 1022 over the slightly cheaper 1020 (suggested by another user) due to not requiring boot-time firmware loading, one less thing to worry about. I don't disagree at all, but only note that having to load the

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

2007-01-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:37:16 +0100 jcd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything was fine mean; I created partition and then formatted it without any errors or warnings. There are messages from syslog: --- Jan 22 23:43:16

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not starting with eth0, router not giving IP

2007-01-24 Thread Adam Carter
Recently after rebooting from Windows to Gentoo, I noticed I had no internet access. My router, which is set to give my mac address the same IP (192.168.0.104), seems to have decided NOT to do this anymore. Nothing has changed in my settings on either my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 12:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:12:07 -0800 (PST), Eric Bohn wrote: Using Portage you're putting yourself at the mercy of any Joe Schmoe with a proxy connection to a Gentoo server that wants to compromise your machine. How so? They'd have to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gives backtrace during first-time install of gentoo in a Debian sarge chroot.

2007-01-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 03:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: Installing gentoo for the first time, starting yesterday. I just got to the point of choosing the system logger as described in section 9b of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=9 and syslog-ng gives me a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Carl Adams
Thanks to all who replied to this. Petr Uzel's advice was first up, since I didn't have hplip installed: make sure you have hplip running before configuring cups. Then there should appear something like hp:/ in that list. I've PSC 1610 and it works perfectly. I hope it will help, otherwise,

[gentoo-user] cle266 xv problem

2007-01-24 Thread Anton S. Ustyuzhanin
Hello all. I have a VIA embedded video card: lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03) XVideo doesn't work for me. :( I use xf86-video-via driver from portage. Xorg starting ok, but mplayer doesn't play with

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Hotplug SATA drive?

2007-01-24 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/22/07, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently bought a third SATA drive and a carrier and am trying to determine if it can be un/plugged while hot. I have googled and there seems to be different answers depending on the controller, the drive, the kernel version (I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

2007-01-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:37, jcd wrote: [snip] Everything was fine mean; I created partition and then formatted it without any errors or warnings. There are messages from syslog: - -- Jan 22 23:43:16 localhost EXT3 FS