[gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
When I crank up K3b, it complains about my setup, with the message System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this has been done intentionally. Most likely the

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: When I crank up K3b, it complains about my setup, with the message System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode

[gentoo-user] Setting up a second Adapted drive controller (fails)

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD dmesg.eek Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: When I crank up K3b, it complains about my setup, with the message

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde 3.5.9 revdep-rebuild

2008-05-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:49 AM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Yep, after rebooting (exiting kde hung) all is fine now. It's a bit quicker to just ctl-alt-backspace to restart X. No need to reboot, I think. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
is good because the Gentoo is PCIX, but the FC system is original PCI. In both cases, normal kernel drivers were fine. Just make sure your kernel has CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE=m or y Frankly, I bought on price also, and wanted external drives. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, and how am I supposed to know? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups not seeing a wireless host

2008-04-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 4/13/08, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:39:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked: What I want now is to let my wife's Windows Vista laptop use the printer. I've seen how to set up an LPD printer in Vista, and it's a bit easier than

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

2008-04-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 1/30/07, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:26:37 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried creating diagrams in xfig. It works fine for my LaTeX documents, but does not export well to PNG for use in web pages. Hm, what do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Webmin not accepting root logins

2008-04-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 4/14/08, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 13 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: This is the second in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on a separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and Windows Vista

[gentoo-user] Cups wedged print jobs

2008-04-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
jobs originated. Help? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Webmin not accepting root logins

2008-04-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
setting up anything else. 2) Can I undo the lock out? 3) Can I enable an account that I'm likely to remember? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Cups not seeing a wireless host

2008-04-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
access to the wider internet. It seems that this should work, but it does not. Help? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-04-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm gonna guess that's a difference between plasma and LCD displays. ++ kevin On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2008 14:25:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: One of the things I don't like about black background is that on all monitors

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-04-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 March 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've always used Linux Colours, on crt and on lcd displays. Contrast works fine for me. What display device do you use? What do you mean about contrast? My

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -aDNvu world fails

2008-03-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Gregory Shearman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I cannot emerge world any more because portage keeps barfing on some random java ebuild. Java's not even in the list of things to emerge, but here's what I see: Total: 14 packages (14

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-03-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got a problem with the colors that are used in Gentoo stuff. I run KDE, and my terminals are generally konsoles. The colors used by portage, ls and vim always seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-03-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2008, 17:30, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion? You can remap the colors used by portage. man color.map -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list I found that man page

[gentoo-user] emerge -aDNvu world fails

2008-03-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the offending file and re-syncing, but the same error occurs. Help??? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-03-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
), and I pretty much avoid dark backgrounds when I can because I think they're depressing and they give me eyestrain. Does anyone have a suggestion? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -aDNvu world fails

2008-03-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot emerge world any more because portage keeps barfing on some random java ebuild. Java's not even in the list of things to emerge

[gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
that the printer prints. So I'm gonna spend my time on getting apache and vmware working. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. I don't know where the warning would have been seen; generally there's so much stuff that any particular item has to really push to be noticed. But at that time, all ewarn and einfo messages were being mailed to me, but I don't remember seeing this. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
will take a LONG time. But when it's over, you will have everything, or at least I did. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 3, 2008 3:57 PM, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/02/08 00:19: I've installed cups and hplip I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently

2008-02-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 4, 2008 12:50 AM, Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman pisze: On Feb 3, 2008 3:15 PM, Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman pisze: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 3, 2008 4:27 AM, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 02/02/08 22:26: I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does

Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently

2008-02-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 3, 2008 3:15 PM, Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman pisze: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it silently fail. I tried looking in /var/log

Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently

2008-02-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 3, 2008 3:26 PM, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:08:34 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start

Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently

2008-02-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 3, 2008 4:16 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 3:26 PM, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:08:34 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-02-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 1, 2008 2:26 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Jones wrote: Hi Kevin Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 27/01/08 19:58: I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-02-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 2, 2008 10:18 AM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 1, 2008 2:26 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Jones wrote: Hi Kevin Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 27/01/08 19:58: I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-02-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 2, 2008 1:01 PM, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kevin Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 02/02/08 19:31: I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put

[gentoo-user] location of update-grub

2008-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm rebuilding my gentoo. I liked having the update-grub script polish off kernel installs, but I cannot seem to locate it. Somebody who has it please tell me what package it's in. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-01-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 1/7/08, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I see that it's now stable, and I'm going to let the emerge go forward. However, I scrolled back my terminal to when I sent that message, and here's what eix gave me then (primarily

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Jan 8, 2008 7:48 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Hmm, sounds reasonable. Perhaps you mistakenly ran emerge --sync instead of eix-sync that one time? I've done it myself once or thrice :-) I would not have thought so

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 1/8/08, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2008 23:30:51 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: However, it is true that emerge sync and eix-update were in two separate jobs scheduled an hour apart. It is vaguely conceivable that they got out of step somehow. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Suddenly I noticed I'm on the bleeding edge. I don't know why. The latest: emerge -aDvu world is emerging unstable k3b-1.0.4. At least if I'm reading the output of eix correctly, it's unstable. [I] app-cdr/k3b Available versions: 0.12.17 (~)1.0 (~)1.0.1 (~)1.0.1

[gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
references to x86, and they're in package.keywords for particular package releases whose features I needed. So why am I emerging these things? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare server + Win 98 = VGA only?

2007-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/22/07, James R. Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I did nothing to install the tools. I could not find them. There's an ebuild for workstation tools, but not for player or server. I didn't see anything helpful on the download

[gentoo-user] vmware-server requires a serial number, but is free? how does this work

2007-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
something on vmware.com? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] VMWare server + Win 98 = VGA only?

2007-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
shut me up about this. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Use of gethostname() and getdomainname()

2007-12-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. NOTE: I don't know whether this is the correct way to do things. Many times it works, but other, less clumsy, ways probably exist (I simply haven't had the need to search them until now). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Use of gethostname() and getdomainname()

2007-11-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
on the sender address when my crontab entries call it. Maybe because it sees that getdomainname(2) comes up empty. What's the right way to set this up? Should I just cobble my proper domain into setdomainname(2)? Is there a right way? Is there a better way? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge firefox 2.0.0.8 and now printing is hosed

2007-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
_ Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-ussource=wlmailtagline-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Emerge firefox 2.0.0.8 and now printing is hosed

2007-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
just fine. But I'd like firefox to work too. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge firefox 2.0.0.8 and now printing is hosed

2007-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, but that's not a show-stopper for me. ++ kevin On 10/24/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/07, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just emerged firefox 2.0.0.8 (I think it was 2.0.0.7 before), and now attempts to print a web page bring me to a skimpy little dialog

[gentoo-user] kdelibs won't build after change in GCC to 4.1.2 from 3.4.6

2007-10-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging java with gcj

2007-10-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
now. Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] update-grub? I have no such thing.

2007-10-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I see that building a kernel ends with checking for update-grub, which I don't have. Should I? Where does it come from? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Dual failures in emerge -aDNvu world

2007-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
- docs-1.4-r1/temp/build.log'. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/9/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 8. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: On 9/8/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 8. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: Unfortunately, while it tries to do a number of things, they all fail

[gentoo-user] Seeking threading advice in Perl and Apache

2007-09-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
with threading. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
vendor_perl The current perl version is 5.8.8. The versions 5.8.2 and 5.8.4 date from 2004. Can I safely just delete them? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/8/07, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2007 16:13:41 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Can I safely just delete them? Not really. But gentoo provides a tool to sort it. # perl-cleaner reallyall -- Mike William Interesting. I did not know about this cleaner

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/8/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 8. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: Unfortunately, while it tries to do a number of things, they all fail in the same way: a problem with Errno.pm. I guess using perl to clean up perl is not all that robust in this case

Re: [gentoo-user] Dead apache (cannot listen)

2007-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
and after using the default thiggie it worked fine. Am Freitag, 7. September 2007 03:08:43 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: Somewhere in the update to 2.2.4-r12, listening got lost. I tried to follow instructions, but apparently failed. Here's what happens (minus a MaxClients warning

Re: [gentoo-user] Dead apache (cannot listen)

2007-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/7/07, Steen Eugen Poulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman skrev: My 00_default_vhost.conf: === start 00_default_vhost.conf == # If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here. # #ServerName www.example.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Dead apache (cannot listen)

2007-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Mystery solved. As expected: my bad. Details at the bottom On 9/7/07, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/7/07, Steen Eugen Poulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman skrev: My 00_default_vhost.conf: === start 00_default_vhost.conf

[gentoo-user] Dead apache (cannot listen)

2007-09-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
at? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

2007-09-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
* WARNING: apache2 has already been started. treat init.d # ./apache2 status * Caching service dependencies ... * Service 'cupsd' should be AFTER service 'vmware', but one of * the services 'vmware' depends on, depends on 'cupsd'! [ ok ] * status: started treat init.d # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Evince won't emerge any more

2007-08-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=vga r128 mach64 radeon fbdev fglrx vesa Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Evince won't emerge any more

2007-08-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/21/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 22 August 2007 01:57:07 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: When I try to (re)-emerge evince, it fails while making the help system. This has been true for about a week. Here's the tail end of what's on the console, followed

[gentoo-user] What is portage trying to tell me?

2007-07-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
key Type not found Why is this allowed to occur? What am I expected to do about it, and how would I know that, given that I'm a user, not a developer? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

2007-07-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
builtin. So you have to ask yourself what capability are you missing that you want? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

2007-07-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
) It outputs everything in the order found, which makes it hard to browse. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean pwdb?

2007-07-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/15/07, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/15/07, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, guys. What about that kernel? I'm thinking it's probably not the kernel I'm using, but I'm not positive. thanks, gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 for me. [...] http://www.gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Is webmin a good thing?

2007-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
configurations, or anything else that might go wrong that I haven't thought of yet. So, is anyone using webmin? What's the verdict on this product? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Is webmin a good thing?

2007-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/6/07, Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I am looking for system admin tools to replace the laborious -- and sadly error-prone -- manual editing I've been using up to now. I've got a Gentoo and an Ubuntu system

Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/3/07, Naga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007 00:19:14 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Did I just reinvent a wheel? If not, is there any point it trying to make this part of gentoo? If so, how would one do that? See DOC_SYMLINKS_DIR in make.conf (man page I think, or .example

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/3/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070703 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have been using KDE for a long long time. Suddenly it's not there any more. anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm. 1183499736: ::: completed emerge (4 of 12) kde-base/kdebase-pam-7

Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/4/07, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:19:14 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I emerge with the doc USE flag and generally have a bunch of stuff in /usr/share/doc. Most of the time it's the HTML stuff I want to read, but it's a annoyingly laborious to wade

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/4/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 7/3/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070703 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have been using KDE for a long long time. Suddenly it's not there any more. anything else just

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/4/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007 18:44, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It was missing, but I can't emerge kdebase because there are about 20 packages that are blocking it. Maybe that's the problem. This looks odd. You haven't mixed monolithic and meta packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/4/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: so you are using split ebuilds - I don't. But since that file was removed accidentally, you should be able to locate the package which owned it, if you grep for it. grep

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
In 7/4/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070704 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have been using KDE for a long long time. Suddenly it's not there any more. anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm. The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me

[gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

2007-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
this part of gentoo? If so, how would one do that? Current script attached. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD makeindex.perl Description: Binary data

[gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
on with kdebase-pam (4 of 12), but I don't really know how to tell, or what to do at this point to get it back. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
running on the current terminal. If you are accessing via SSH, you can still use this with echo k /proc/sysrq-trigger Nice. However, I'm still wondering -- neither of my keyboards has a keytop labelled sysreq. What is it? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird account properties inaccessible

2007-06-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
://messenger/content/AccountManager.xul Line Number 1, Column 7: anager --^ Obviously, that's malformed, but I cannot find any file where it lives, at least not under my home directory, and there's no .xul in the filenames belonging to Thunderbird. Where should I be looking? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird account properties inaccessible

2007-06-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/17/07, Xavier Parizet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, June 17, 2007 21:22, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In Tunderbird, when I attempt to access the properies of one of my existing email accounts, I get an error in a popup window, complaining about some XML thing. I have been unable

Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-06-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
in Konsole. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Revdep won't rebuild gphoto2-2.1.5

2007-06-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
not that interested in keeping the older version, so I don't think filing a bug makes much sense. I just need to figure out what is calling for the 2.15 version and fix that. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/5/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I had firestarter-1.0.3 emerged for quite some time. I hadn't really used it, but I'm a bit surprised now to find that it's interfering with normal emerges because it's got a big red M smacked on it. I suppose that means

[gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
don't normally get. But now I'd like a clue: what's the {prognosis, workaround, fix, alternative}. As I mentioned, I hadn't really started to use it, but I'd like to have a better firewall tool than building iptables scripts in vim. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When

[gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
it). Again, thanks. I'll say more when it happens again. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/3/07, Guillermo A. Amaral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In the meanwhile, a couple of notes: 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU left for a non-X login from another machine. It has to be another machine because

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
spend less than an hour on administration. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
been doing this for years. I mostly reply no to all the prompts, but sometimes the new stuff is interesting. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Cleaning /var/lib/portage/packages -- a big mistake?

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
(self.file,r) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/packages/All/perl-cleaner-1.03.tbz2' portage # Pointers, please... ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning /var/lib/portage/packages -- a big mistake?

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
mycat = mytbz2.getfile(CATEGORY) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/xpak.py, line 345, in getfile a=open(self.file,r) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/packages/All/perl-cleaner-1.03.tbz2' portage # Pointers, please... ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning /var/lib/portage/packages -- a big mistake?

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/27/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Kevin O'Gorman, I also cleaned out /usr/portage/packages (10 GB) but now emerge --sync is complaining about a large number of them, and apparently cannot update its cache. I just moved them to another partition, they're not really

[gentoo-user] Firefox, fonts and stylesheets

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
tried fooling with variations in Firefox preferences, and with the details of the stylesheet, but nothings seems to work. Call me baffled. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] cdrtools incomplete?

2007-05-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
because it can't start cdrecord either. What did I screw up this time? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrtools incomplete?

2007-05-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/6/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070506 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm trying to burn a CD for the first time in a long while. It's not going well. I've got cdrtools-2.01.01-alpha10 installed. The description says it includes cdrecord, but I cannot find it. Moreover, K3B fails

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 4/29/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 28 April 2007 23:07, Dale wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole system. And reasonable menus for rebooting

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