Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Re: New install - Unable to get my ppc Mac Mini to boot the root partition

2010-09-03 Thread Joe Fox
Barry, That's a good idea. I forgot about that. I was was going to suggest that Mark verify that he's compiling the right drive controller driver, but if that was the case, he wouldn't have gotten as far as he did. Joe Fox Systems/Network Administrator Mobile# (716) 846-9308

[gentoo-ppc-user] Unsubscribe!!!

2010-09-03 Thread Dr John Krane
Hi, Can somebody please please please get me off this list? I have tried unsubscribing numerous times, only to get an automated response that I am not subscribed to the list in the first place. But I still get the emails! My address is: jkr...@netzero.com or jkr...@netzero.net I

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Re: New install - Unable to get my ppc Mac Mini to boot the root partition

2010-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Enlightened User li...@nc.rr.com wrote: http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/yaboot-howto/ch9.en.html Sections 9.2 and 9.3 show how to boot to the yaboot 'boot:' prompt and start the kernel with parameters. Hope that helps you get started. If you do change

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging php with pdo and sqlite3 does not get the driver

2010-09-03 Thread András Csányi
On 3 September 2010 01:24, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi.  I am trying to get the driver for pdo-sqlite in my php emerge.  I have the use flags for sqlite3 and pdo, but when I do php --info the sqlite pdo driver is not there and this seems to be verified by doing PDO::get_available_drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging php with pdo and sqlite3 does not get the driver

2010-09-03 Thread covici
András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 September 2010 01:24, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi.  I am trying to get the driver for pdo-sqlite in my php emerge.  I have the use flags for sqlite3 and pdo, but when I do php --info the sqlite pdo driver is not there and this seems to

[gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Robin Atwood
I decided to attempt the upgrade to KDE 4.5.1 now it's out. Upgrading Qt to 4.6.3 got rid of most of the blocks but I am left with a problem with kdepimlib. It looks like various kdenetwork packages are dragging in kdepimlib-4.5.1 which is incompatible with keeping KDEPIM at 4.4. Anyone else

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:54 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin Atwood did opine thusly: I decided to attempt the upgrade to KDE 4.5.1 now it's out. Upgrading Qt to 4.6.3 got rid of most of the blocks but I am left with a problem with kdepimlib. It looks like various kdenetwork

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 03 September 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:54 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin Atwood did opine thusly: I decided to attempt the upgrade to KDE 4.5.1 now it's out. Upgrading Qt to 4.6.3 got rid of most of the blocks but I am left with a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:14 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin Atwood did opine thusly: On Friday 03 September 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:54 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin Atwood did opine thusly: I decided to attempt the upgrade to KDE

[gentoo-user] cleaning:/usr/tmp/portage

2010-09-03 Thread James
Hello, What the usual admin cycle/tools/habits for pruning /usr/tmp/portage for a Gentoo workstation or server? James

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: new mail client

2010-09-03 Thread James
Daniel Troeder daniel at admin-box.com writes: TB3 brings archive support. I don't know if that is what you need, but see for yourself: http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Archived+messages I prefer having all mails stored on the server (used with IMAP) and backing that up. Most

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning:/usr/tmp/portage

2010-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:55 on Friday 03 September 2010, James did opine thusly: Hello, What the usual admin cycle/tools/habits for pruning /usr/tmp/portage for a Gentoo workstation or server? at any arb point in time: if (no instance of emerge running) then rm -rf

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 03 September 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:14 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin Atwood did opine thusly: On Friday 03 September 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:54 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin Atwood

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: new mail client

2010-09-03 Thread James
Aniruddha mailingdotlist at gmail.com writes: 1) http://doc.zarafa.com/6.40/User_Manual/en-US/html/_restoring_deleted_items.html 2) http://doc.zarafa.com/6.40/Administrator_Manual/en-US/html/_backup_amp_restore.html Ok, I'll look at these and rsync setups. thx, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of emerge -NDpvu world

2010-09-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.orgwrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2010 23:39:25 Dale wrote: Hmmm, whatever you set it to, you will be a few lines short. The error will always be just above what you can scroll back to. lol So you've noticed that too,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 03 September 2010 00:57:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/03/2010 01:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you're on KDE you can also read info documents with a much nicer, hyperlinked interface. Either enter info:grub in

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/03/2010 06:54 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 03 September 2010 00:57:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/03/2010 01:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you're on KDE you can also read info documents with a much nicer,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 03 September 2010 00:57:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/03/2010 01:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you're on KDE you can also read info documents with a much nicer, hyperlinked

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Dale
Robin Atwood wrote: I am sure I saw some posts here where people claimed to have installed 4.5.0 from the overlay. Maybe they have some input? Otherwise I will go with choice 2! -Robin I mentioned in a thread somewhere that I tried installing KDE 4.5.0. Thing is, all I got was a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 03 September 2010 17:01:44 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/03/2010 06:54 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 03 September 2010 00:57:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/03/2010 01:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Thanasis
on 09/03/2010 01:10 AM Peter Humphrey wrote the following: On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you're on KDE you can also read info documents with a much nicer, hyperlinked interface. Either enter info:grub in krunner (Alt+F2, fastest way) or as a URL in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 03 September 2010 17:19:08 Dale wrote: Just open konqueror and where URLs go, just type in man:ls or info:ls and the man or info page will pop up. Yes, thanks, I can do that. I just wanted to get my file associations cleaned up. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290,

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning:/usr/tmp/portage

2010-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:55 on Friday 03 September 2010, James did opine thusly: Hello, What the usual admin cycle/tools/habits for pruning /usr/tmp/portage for a Gentoo workstation or server? at any arb point in time: if (no instance of emerge running) then rm -rf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new mail client

2010-09-03 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:24 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Ok, I'll look at these and rsync setups. thx, I use rsnapshot, you can find the howto here: http://www.rsnapshot.org/howto/

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning:/usr/tmp/portage

2010-09-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 September 2010, James wrote: Hello, What the usual admin cycle/tools/habits for pruning /usr/tmp/portage for a Gentoo workstation or server? James tmpfs 8,0G 0 8,0G 0% /var/tmp/portage thus with every reboot all the garbage is done. uptime

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Robin Atwood wrote: I am sure I saw some posts here where people claimed to have installed 4.5.0 from the overlay. Maybe they have some input? Otherwise I will go with choice 2! I am running 4.5.0 for a while now, and for me it is the best KDE4 ever. Which does not mean that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 03 September 2010 17:19:08 Dale wrote: Just open konqueror and where URLs go, just type in man:ls or info:ls and the man or info page will pop up. Yes, thanks, I can do that. I just wanted to get my file associations cleaned up. I read about

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Always install some additional window managers for these cases :) So at least you have a GUI and can do useful things with your machine while downgrading. FEATURES=usepkg is also useful and reduces build time. Or back up your whole system before, this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I do only have KDE on here. The bad thing is, I use kdm for my login manager. Even that was broken. I had no GUI and no way to login to KDE or anything else. Log into a text console, and start KDE with 'XSESSION=KDE-4 startx'. Replace KDE-4 with anything from

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: I do only have KDE on here. The bad thing is, I use kdm for my login manager. Even that was broken. I had no GUI and no way to login to KDE or anything else. Log into a text console, and start KDE with 'XSESSION=KDE-4 startx'. Replace KDE-4 with

[gentoo-user] gawk and filefuncs

2010-09-03 Thread Al
Can anybody explain the Gentoo handling of filefuncs in the gawk package? Why isn't a simple patch used like in all other cases? Al

Re: [gentoo-user] gawk and filefuncs

2010-09-03 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 22:31:01 +0200 Al oss.el...@googlemail.com wrote: Can anybody explain the Gentoo handling of filefuncs in the gawk package? Why isn't a simple patch used like in all other cases? gawk provides dynamic extension modules. This is explained here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:31:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Just open konqueror and where URLs go, just type in man:ls or info:ls and the man or info page will pop up. Yes, thanks, I can do that. I just wanted to get my file associations cleaned up. This isn't a file association though,

Re: [gentoo-user] gawk and filefuncs

2010-09-03 Thread Al
The gawk source distribution comes with a number of such extensions in the (doh) extensions/ directory. filefuncs.c is such one extension, which demonstrate how to add stat() and chdir() capabilities to awk. The file is compiled into a .so file, which is then referenced from within gawk to

Re: [gentoo-user] gawk and filefuncs

2010-09-03 Thread Al
I have a second issue. When compiling gawk on Cygwin, where is no windows kernel, the Gentoo version of filefuncs breaks. I have to Sure there is a windows kernel. The linux kernel is missing. Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 03 September 2010 22:19:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:31:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Just open konqueror and where URLs go, just type in man:ls or info:ls and the man or info page will pop up. Yes, thanks, I can do that. I just wanted to get my file

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning:/usr/tmp/portage

2010-09-03 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Friday 03 September 2010, James wrote: Hello, What the usual admin cycle/tools/habits for pruning /usr/tmp/portage for a Gentoo workstation or server? James tmpfs 8,0G 0 8,0G 0% /var/tmp/portage thus with every reboot all

[gentoo-user] problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-03 Thread David Relson
I'm trying to setup mailing of emerge logs, but it's failing for reasons I don't grasp. In /etc/make.conf I have the following: PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=use...@mydomain.com Running emerge, for example emerge -1 uptimed give the following message: !!! A network error occured while trying to send

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg.conf (HDMI vs DVI-D)

2010-09-03 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: I would advice the OP to try again what I suggested, I have a very similar Samsung TV/Monitor, and using DVI and VGA works perfectly with the computer, but I started using an HDMI cable, and the image would distort, all borders would be

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-03 Thread David Relson
Needed to use: PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=use...@mydomain.com mymailserver.com On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:01:24 -0400 David Relson wrote: I'm trying to setup mailing of emerge logs, but it's failing for reasons I don't grasp. In /etc/make.conf I have the following:

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

2010-09-03 Thread Jarry
On 31. 8. 2010 20:30, Mick wrote: I stop apach mysql, run the update, dispatch-conf and then restart them both. Haven't had problems since. I tried it that way: /etc/init.d/apache2 stop /etc/init.d/mysql stop emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse world emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild