Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 00:05:56 schrieb Harry Putnam:
I did try `cfg-update' but I thought it was really slow.
Slow? For me it's blazingly fast.
Bye...
Dirk
Hi,
Avahi keeps failing with what looks like a Python gtk module error that I
can't seem to figure out. I've done the obvious by re-emerging python (with
running python-updater) and pygtk but it still fails.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks, Richard
The configure failure message is:
On Sonntag 16 November 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I can't figure out how to fix this. emerge ati-drivers gives this:
[ebuild N] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r1 USE=acpi -debug
74,042 kB
[blocks B ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking
x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2)
I'm trying
dirvish is in portage.
tar/rsync/cp are not really backups but manual copies. If you want true
backup you need scripts to handle the extra functionality for things
like versioning, archive management and the all important restore.
Dirvish is excellent on all but restore.
BillK
On Sat,
On Sonntag 16 November 2008, William Kenworthy wrote:
dirvish is in portage.
tar/rsync/cp are not really backups but manual copies. If you want true
backup you need scripts to handle the extra functionality for things
like versioning, archive management and the all important restore.
On Sunday 16 November 2008 02:24:10 Harry Putnam wrote:
I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world
(Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem)
Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I
set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable
On Sunday 16 November 2008 02:08:42 Mick wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote:
Mick wrote:
Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my
memory!)
What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off
line?
I keep mine simple, cp
On Sunday 16 November 2008 11:04:41 William Kenworthy wrote:
dirvish is in portage.
tar/rsync/cp are not really backups but manual copies. If you want true
backup you need scripts to handle the extra functionality for things
like versioning, archive management and the all important restore.
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Attempting to install stumpwm-cvs I run into an emerge failure with on
of the dependencies; dev-lisp/cmucl.
Below is a snippet from the end of the emerge of
dev-lisp/cmucl-l-19d_p2. Can anyone see what might be the problem?
[...]
Hi.
First of all,
On Saturday 15 November 2008 19:40:50 Simon wrote:
This is not super efficient, but the way I've thought it, should be
simple to do... a simple gentoo hack so to speak. However, I'm wondering
if anybody has suggestion for better ways to do this and if you could give
me pointers to such
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2008/11/16 fortune wrote:
Emacs, n.:
A slow-moving parody of a text editor.
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Am Samstag, 15. November 2008 20:45:04 schrieb Mick:
Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my
memory!)
What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line?
I guess I would use rsnapshot to backup to another disk/machine if I had only
a small
On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:31:16 William Kenworthy wrote:
* app-backup/dirvish
Latest version available: 1.2.1
Latest version installed: 1.2.1
Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
Homepage: http://www.dirvish.org/
Description: Dirvish is a fast, disk
Michael Moore schrieb:
Hi,
I received a few quicktime files from a friend; however, when I play it
there is no video. The audio stream is fine. My friend can play it fine
in the application Media Player Classic for Microsoft Xp.
[...]
Any pointers would be handy.
Can you post the
It actually does a very fast, space efficient backup management.
As for restore, each backup is effectively an uncompressed fully
accessible mirror image so you can manually copy/tar/... etc back for
the full system, or individual files. The developers basically say we
have a working backup
On Sunday 16 November 2008 10:05:53 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2008 19:40:50 Simon wrote:
This is not super efficient, but the way I've thought it, should be
simple to do... a simple gentoo hack so to speak. However, I'm
wondering if anybody has suggestion for better
Florian Philipp schrieb:
Hi list!
I recently updated from tuxonice-2.6.24-r9 to tuxonice-2.6.26.
I hoped it would solve irregular kernel crashes on my Dell notebook and
would reactivate the wifi LED. However, it caused more problems than it
solved.
[...]
Is this kernel version
On Saturday 15 November 2008, 21:55, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
So I want a way to tell the kernel or X11 to ignore mouse motion.
Either to shut down mouse motion completely, or to allow it but to
ignore it for the effect considering the computer as idle. I have
performed a quick
On Sunday 16 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 16 November 2008 02:08:42 Mick wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote:
Mick wrote:
Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my
memory!)
What would you use to back up a running server
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that
the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving.
Usually this manifests by the pointer shaking, moving back and
forward one or two pixels very fast
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 12:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:31:16 William Kenworthy wrote:
* app-backup/dirvish
Latest version available: 1.2.1
Latest version installed: 1.2.1
Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
Homepage:
On Sunday 16 November 2008 13:51:23 Mick wrote:
Yes. Unix does some RealSmartThings(tm) when using files. The name is
just a pointer to the actual file, represented by an inode. Once you have
an inode open, it stays open until everything using it closes it. So you
can add/delete/copy/move
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2008, 21:55, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
So I want a way to tell the kernel or X11 to ignore mouse motion.
Either to shut down mouse motion completely, or to allow it but to
ignore it for
On Sunday 16 November 2008 14:36:22 William Kenworthy wrote:
I wouldnt call it fair trade, rather its working now and we'll make it
better it eventually.
I agree, backups should be just that - protection from mistakes/lost
data. However this is from someone who has the archives mounted via
On Sunday 16 November 2008 13:02:54 Florian Philipp wrote:
Can anyone say: Yeah, I use the iwl3945 driver with 2.6.26 and it works
flawlessly for me. If so, could you please post your exact kernel
version (for example gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2) and your kernel config?
No-one can say that, the
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Avahi keeps failing with what looks like a Python gtk module error that I
can't seem to figure out. I've done the obvious by re-emerging python (with
running python-updater) and pygtk but it still fails. I attach the
I use to have an X config many years ago, but one of the X upgrades
didn't like it and I had a lot of trouble trying to get it working
again, and then I found the new X was happy without any config file
(/etc/X11/xorg.conf), so I have been running that way for some time.
But the upgrade to 1.5, I
Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I
set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable (which I never have set
before)
I figured out I have an nvidia card so set VIDEO_CARDS=nv
Now with my emerge -vuDN @system @world complete I'm unable to start
X. (More on that
No, nvidia is for the proprietary binary nvida driver. The free
driver for nvidia cards is called NV.
By NV I meant nv. I always see it uncapitalized, so I think this
(nv) is its name, not NV.
Sorry for the typo.
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world
(Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem)
Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I
set the /etc/make.conf
On 11:58 Sun 16 Nov , Florian Philipp wrote:
Can you post the output of mplayer when you want to play these files -
possibly with -v?
Do you use a 64bit or 32bit system?
I use 64bit system (mostly stable), with the multilib profile.
Verbose Mplayer output is attached.
As an aside,
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 01:24:10 schrieb Harry Putnam:
But a little peek with eix -Ic |grep x11-drivers I still see a hefty
mess of them:
They wont go away just because you've set VIDEO_CARDS. You have to uninstall
them either manually or by running emerge --depclean (-p).
HTH...
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 01:24:10 schrieb Harry Putnam:
dep -l x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo:
! x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9
Actaully, the output is:
# dep -l x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo
x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo-1.1.1:
!=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9
And this means: You
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world
(Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem)
Someone
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 16:12:58 schrieb Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted some output in anther thread concerning
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dirk Heinrichs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 16:12:58 schrieb Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL
When I boot 2.6.27-r2, it creates /dev/fb0 and /dev/db, which X
complains about and refuses to run. My machine has an ATI Radeon and
X under 2.6.26 finds the right driver just fine, but X under 2.6.27
just barfs and refuses to run. I can del the two device entries and X
is happy, but this seems
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I
set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable (which I never have set
before)
I figured out I have an nvidia card so set VIDEO_CARDS=nv
Now with my emerge -vuDN @system @world complete I'm
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote:
Mick wrote:
Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my
memory!)
What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off
line?
I keep mine
Give this a shot:
VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia
No, nvidia is for the proprietary binary nvida driver. The free
driver for nvidia cards is called NV. I have a GeForce4 MX 440 and I
have this in my make.conf:
VIDEO_CARDS=nv vesa
What you say may be true, pretty sure it is, but what he is doing is
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:01:54 +0100
Michele Schiavo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/etc/sudoers ??
I think I'm trying to avoid running under sudo. Yes, that works, but must have
other security implications?
In researching the problem, the workaround I posted was cribbed from other
distros which
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:54 +
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 15 Nov 2008, at 00:57, Michael Higgins wrote:
...
An application runs as a web server. In this application I have
hooks to PAM. The results I was getting from attempting to
authorize against PAM were fruitless,
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
Give this a shot:
VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia
No, nvidia is for the proprietary binary nvida driver. The free
driver for nvidia cards is called NV. I have a GeForce4 MX 440 and I
have this in my make.conf:
VIDEO_CARDS=nv vesa
What you say may
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 00:05:56 schrieb Harry Putnam:
I did try `cfg-update' but I thought it was really slow.
Slow? For me it's blazingly fast.
Just to install it requires 3 pkgs to be installed:
Just to install, it wants three packages
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 18:24:17 schrieb Michael Higgins:
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:01:54 +0100
Michele Schiavo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/etc/sudoers ??
I think I'm trying to avoid running under sudo. Yes, that works, but must
have other security implications?
Which ones? You know that
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 19:04:02 schrieb Harry Putnam:
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 00:05:56 schrieb Harry Putnam:
I did try `cfg-update' but I thought it was really slow.
Slow? For me it's blazingly fast.
Just to install it requires 3
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag 16 November 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I can't figure out how to fix this. emerge ati-drivers gives this:
[ebuild N] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r1 USE=acpi -debug
74,042 kB
[blocks B ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking
I would build all that stuff in a chroot. The logic is that the your buildhost
system is not quite the same thing as the machine hosting the buildhost.
That's the big trick I was thinking about...
1) Make a proper development environment under a chroot, place the binworld on
top of world.
2)
Another possibility is to use distcc. I haven't used it recently, but an
earlier version seemed ok.
Distcc is used to speed compilation time. But the point is that even if I set
distcc hosts to not be on the localhost (ie, just compile remotely and only use
localhost to manage the whole
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or maybe just by experience in using the tool it would get handier
and faster
Just doing the automatic stuff, where no user intervention is involved _is_
blazingly fast. How fast you are in running the diff/merge tool of _your_
choice is, well,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila) writes:
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Attempting to install stumpwm-cvs I run into an emerge failure with on
of the dependencies; dev-lisp/cmucl.
Below is a snippet from the end of the emerge of
dev-lisp/cmucl-l-19d_p2. Can anyone see
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am not only concerned about the problem reported in this thread; I
also want to give opinion on his larger update a very outdated
system task.
Just for the record... I seem to have gotten things under control and
did set
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila) writes:
And regarding cmucl build error, there's a bug report on b.g.o. with a
patch that seems to fix it [2].
I've downloaded that but not used it yet.
But I seem to recall that when you change an ebuild,
Harry Putnam wrote:
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am not only concerned about the problem reported in this thread; I
also want to give opinion on his larger update a very outdated
system task.
Just for the record... I seem to have gotten things under
After looking at:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2chap=1#doc_chap2
[ Ebuild HOWTO ]
Reading only partially so far but this looks really complicated. I
thought I remembered a more nuts and bolts howto somewhere more
appropriate for someone getting started who is
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:16:26 -0600
Harry Putnam wrote:
After looking at:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2chap=1#doc_chap2
[ Ebuild HOWTO ]
Reading only partially so far but this looks really complicated. I
thought I remembered a more nuts and bolts howto
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:16:26 -0600
Harry Putnam wrote:
[ Ebuild HOWTO ]
Reading only partially so far but this looks really complicated. I
thought I remembered a more nuts and bolts howto somewhere more
appropriate for someone getting started who
Have you experience perhaps of rsyslog and how does it compare with gentoo's
default syslog-ng?
The native/internal modules of db writes and alerting of rsyslog sound
promising. There's a comparison here:
http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsyslog_ng_comparison.html
Portage isn't in sync with rsyslogs
Hi,
I want to reinstall ghostscript.
I did for checking reasons:
solfire:/rootemerge -pv ghostscript
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] virtual/ghostscript-0 0 kB
Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
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Hash: SHA1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I want to reinstall ghostscript.
I did for checking reasons:
solfire:/rootemerge -pv ghostscript
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ]
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 00:21, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I want to reinstall ghostscript.
I did for checking reasons:
solfire:/rootemerge -pv ghostscript
These are the packages that would be merged,
Andrey Vul wrote:
If you have eix installed, run the following:
# eix ghostscript -I -C app-text --only-names | xargs emerge -pv
and then
# eix ghostscript -I -C app-text --only-names | xargs emerge
better to do it just once:
# eix ghostscript -I -C app-text --only-names | xargs emerge -va
Am Sonntag 16 November 2008 21:18:44 schrieb ext Harry Putnam:
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or maybe just by experience in using the tool it would get handier
and faster
Just doing the automatic stuff, where no user intervention is involved
_is_ blazingly fast. How fast
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