Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-25 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:29:29 + (UTC) schrieb James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com: Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: Besides gcc, what is a good list of critical software to use guickpkg as to keep backup binaries? FEATURES=buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:59:36 -0600, Dale wrote: I'm pretty sure I lost python once and buildsyspkg didn't keep a binary copy around. Just try to emerge something without python installed. :-( emerge paludis, it's an alternative package manager that doesn't use Python. You don't have to

[gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-25 Thread James
Marc Joliet marcec at gmx.de writes: AFAIK, there is no list that portage uses. You can restrict it to the system set by using buildsyspkg instead of buildpkg (see make.conf(5)). OK, Thanks to everyone that help me with this thread. I'm going to mull over my options a bit, after setting

[gentoo-user] strange library dependencies

2011-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've just emerged app-text/djview4 which went through without any errors. But invoking djview4 fails due to missing libraries libdjvulibre.so.15 and libtiff.so.3 On my system there the more recent versions libdjvulibre.so.21libtiff.so.5 I don't understand how something that's just

Re: [gentoo-user] strange library dependencies

2011-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Please ignore! There were an older binary somewhere in my PATHs. Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-25 Thread Adam Carter
Did you remember to restart the sshd on your amd64 system? If not, try disabling the new high performance stuff on the client. I had a problem logging into a solaris box until i disabled it. In my ~/.ssh/config file I added; host ip or hostname HPNDisabled yes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-02-25 Thread dhk
On 02/15/2011 06:35 AM, dhk wrote: On 02/15/2011 06:10 AM, laconism wrote: you can use 'lspci' in shell to know something about your sound card,then http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml has a guide about how to set your hardware and kernel,the information used to make sure the

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-25 Thread dhk
On 02/24/2011 08:08 PM, dhk wrote: On 02/24/2011 06:30 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 24 February 2011 21:51:56 dhk wrote: Thanks, but I've tried that. ssh'ing to the hostname and loopback address work. However, when I go out to the WAN it doesn't. So I can't ssh user@123.123.123.123 even

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-25 Thread dhk
On 02/25/2011 05:36 AM, Adam Carter wrote: Did you remember to restart the sshd on your amd64 system? If not, try disabling the new high performance stuff on the client. I had a problem logging into a solaris box until i disabled it. In my ~/.ssh/config file I added; host ip or hostname

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-25 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: On 02/25/2011 05:36 AM, Adam Carter wrote: Did you remember to restart the sshd on your amd64 system? If not, try disabling the new high performance stuff on the client. I had a problem logging into a solaris box until i disabled it. In my ~/.ssh/config file I added;

[gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto

2011-02-25 Thread James
Hello, Is the link below the best howto guide as to using an existing ebuild to hack a new ebuild? JFFNMS has been languishing despite repeated requests for a version bump; so I'm taking the plunge and going to update it on one of my systems.

[gentoo-user] Re: Ebuild hacking howto

2011-02-25 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: Any other documents I should reference before attempinging to update an ebuild on my own person overlay dir? What about this link: rpm -- ebuild ? a tool that generates an ebuild from a rpm package?

[gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Dale
Well, I think my machine is possessed or something. I'm getting random reboots here. When it does this, it is like hitting the reset button. It is sitting on the grub screen when it does this. I noticed the first time the other day and this was before adding the extra memory. I seemed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto

2011-02-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/25/2011 08:13 AM, James wrote: Hello, Is the link below the best howto guide as to using an existing ebuild to hack a new ebuild? JFFNMS has been languishing despite repeated requests for a version bump; so I'm taking the plunge and going to update it on one of my systems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/25/2011 04:33:20 PM, Dale wrote: Well, I think my machine is possessed or something. I'm getting random reboots here. When it does this, it is like hitting the reset button. It is sitting on the grub screen when it does this. I noticed the first time the other day and this

[gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-25, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I think my machine is possessed or something. I'm getting random reboots here. When it does this, it is like hitting the reset button. It is sitting on the grub screen when it does this. I noticed the first time the other day and

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I think my machine is possessed or something.  I'm getting random reboots here.  When it does this, it is like hitting the reset button.  It is sitting on the grub screen when it does this.  I noticed the first time the

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I think my machine is possessed or something.  I'm getting random reboots here.  When it does this, it is like hitting the reset button.  It is sitting on the grub screen when it does this.  I noticed the first time the

[gentoo-user] Portage overlay: howto find installed packages

2011-02-25 Thread Giampiero Gabbiani
Hi all, Is there a way in order to know how which packages were installed from a given overlay? Best regards Giampiero

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Dale, I have better experience with sys-apps/memtester for catching memory errors - though running it over night. You can tell it what to test. Furthermore I had one machine (an AMD Phenom II) where I got random errors though all memory tests went through without a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage overlay: howto find installed packages

2011-02-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Giampiero Gabbiani asks: Is there a way in order to know how which packages were installed from a given overlay? Yes: eix -I --in-overlay overlay Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage overlay: howto find installed packages

2011-02-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Giampiero Gabbiani giampi...@gabbiani.org wrote: Hi all, Is there a way in order to know how which packages were installed from a given overlay? eix -I --installed-from-overlay overlayname where overlayname is the overlay you want to see installed packages of.

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-25 Thread Mick
On Friday 25 February 2011 12:09:38 dhk wrote: On 02/24/2011 08:08 PM, dhk wrote: On 02/24/2011 06:30 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 24 February 2011 21:51:56 dhk wrote: Thanks, but I've tried that. ssh'ing to the hostname and loopback address work. However, when I go out to the WAN it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-02-25, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I think my machine is possessed or something. I'm getting random reboots here. When it does this, it is like hitting the reset button. It is sitting on the grub screen when it does this. I noticed the first time

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage overlay: howto find installed packages

2011-02-25 Thread Giampiero Gabbiani
Many thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Shields
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:43 AM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: After a recent upgrade to ssh I can no longer log into my Gentoo box (amd64) from another Gentoo box (x86) that has also had a recent upgrade to ssh. However, I can log in to it from Suse and Redhat boxes. Any ideas? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: When you say memtest what memtest are you using, exactly? The one from the kernel? I prefer memtest86+ as it is updated and has support for the latest CPUs and memory configurations. You can install it from portage and add an entry to your Grub menu and don't need to mess

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: let memtest86 run - for 12h. increase ram voltage - a bit. Like 0.01V. get a different psu. 12 hours? By that time, I would be in a rubber room. I would go nuts. lol I did let it run for almost 5 hours tho. No errors. O, I hate changing voltages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Shields
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:13 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, Is the link below the best howto guide as to using an existing ebuild to hack a new ebuild? JFFNMS has been languishing despite repeated requests for a version bump; so I'm taking the plunge and going to update it

[gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-25 Thread luis jure
hello list, i'm old-fashioned and i never cared for this automount thing, but now i have two pen drives and two usb hard disks that i have to mount and umount all the time, and doing it by hand every time is beginning to be very annoying... i see that distributions like ubuntu and others have

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-25 Thread Dale
luis jure wrote: hello list, i'm old-fashioned and i never cared for this automount thing, but now i have two pen drives and two usb hard disks that i have to mount and umount all the time, and doing it by hand every time is beginning to be very annoying... i see that distributions like

[gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-25 Thread Grant
I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards. I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed. Can anyone point me in the right direction? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-25 Thread Amankwah
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 06:26:51PM -0800, Grant wrote: I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards. I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed. Can anyone point me in the right direction? -

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards.  I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed.  Can anyone point me in the right

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-25 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:34:09AM -0600, Dale wrote I didn't tell portage to include KDE, qt, and a boatload of other stuff to be part of @system. Did I enable the kde USE flag, yea. That should be part of the world stuff not the system stuff. If I disable kde, qt

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Amankwah amankw...@gmail.com wrote: How about this? find -name foo*.txt ? Why would you scan the entire file system when you have an speedy index?