Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-04-26 Thread Qian Qiao
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 19:40, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j1 didn't fix it. Off to find another solution. -- :wq Does sound like it's just you. I've been running with MAKEOPTS=-j13 and everything compiled and ran just fine. -- Joe

Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-04-26 Thread Qian Qiao
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 22:41, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Qian Qiao qian.q...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 19:40, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j1 didn't fix it. Off to find another solution. -- :wq Does sound like

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org

2009-01-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 00:20, loki lokisa...@gmail.com wrote: Erm... You send an email to that address, not put it in the subject line. HTH. -- Joe

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2009-01-08 Thread Qian Qiao
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 03:05, Daryl Styrk darylst...@gmail.com wrote: Tence T. George wrote: errr...what's seems to be the problem? On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Daryl Styrk darylst...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I was looking for the list mailman.. I deleted the initial Welcome to the list

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2009-01-08 Thread Qian Qiao
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 03:15, Daryl Styrk darylst...@gmail.com wrote: Qian Qiao wrote: Such information is in the header of every message you get from the list. Thank you for that. I normally do not view headers detailed and had overlooked it as an option. Many list softwares add those

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Qian Qiao
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:30, Jeff Cranmer jcranme...@earthlink.net wrote: On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:52:11 am Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:11:59 am Justin wrote: Jeff Cranmer schrieb: I have a problem with my gentoo system I am trying to update, and I get a C

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Qian Qiao
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:39, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Anyone see this before? Thanks, Mike To quote the error message: * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if * relevant. * A complete build log is located at *

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Qian Qiao
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:48, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/11/08 Qian Qiao said: Running processes: 0 deliver -- version: 1.130 Module 'sw' delivered successfully. 261 files copied, 0 files unchanged 1 module(s): chart2 need(s) to be rebuilt Reason(s

Re: [gentoo-user] forcing file removal, fails with ESTALE

2008-11-20 Thread Qian Qiao
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 18:13, Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to remove a file, yet it fails with ESTALE (Stale NFS file handle). I'm thinking that this is due to a corrupt inode but fsck fails to fix it. Is /lib/rc/console/unicode suppoed to be NFS or do I need to do a long

Re: [gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?

2008-11-19 Thread Qian Qiao
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:54, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Nov 2008, at 04:06, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... Why do you want to do this? ... I don't understand why. What is your justification for doing that? To prevent his kids from watching YouPorn. Stroller. In that case,

Re: [gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?

2008-11-19 Thread Qian Qiao
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 15:07, Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10:05 Wed 19 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:54, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Nov 2008, at 04:06, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... Why do you want to do this? ... I don't understand why

Re: [gentoo-user] download gentoo

2008-11-17 Thread Qian Qiao
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 15:12, chloe K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi how and where I can dowload 64 bit gentoo (intel and amd) thanks Take a look at the handbook[1], you don't download prebuilt gentoo like other binary distributions, you boot your system up with a livecd/usb - download the

Re: [gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

2008-11-14 Thread Qian Qiao
I doubt if any livecd distro would have a default root password and enable SSH at the same time, cos that would be a serious security flaw. Btw, apologies if I am top-posting, bloody mobile won't let me edit the quoted text. On 14 Nov 2008, 12:10 PM, Momesso Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Pb emerge cups

2008-11-11 Thread Qian Qiao
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:40, denis cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to emerge several packages that need cups but I keep getting this error (tried several mirror sites). Any help appreciated. Thanks Denis spcc08 ~ # emerge xscreensaver Calculating dependencies... done!

Re: [gentoo-user] Pb emerge cups

2008-11-11 Thread Qian Qiao
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:48, denis cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried that but keep getting the error. Did you do a emerge --sync then? I had the same issue a few days ago, but I had a up-to-date portage tree, so in my case, removing the file did the trick. -- There are 3 kinds of people

Re: [gentoo-user] Python blockage problem.

2008-08-02 Thread Qian Qiao
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:14 PM, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: python-updater says it is blocked by an old version of python. Yet I have an up-to-date version of python installed. This is keeping me from upgrading. Any help appreciated. [snip] Please search the list for previous

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater, boost and endless loop

2008-07-28 Thread Qian Qiao
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Yes you can, get rid of the old python, and it'll come out clean. If you want to be on the extra safe side, you can always recompile boost after getting rid of the old python. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] The root of the problem is really quite simple, you have a system with a python version python-updater doesn't like. The solution is actually quite simple: step 1. update python to 2.5, rebuild cracklib (afaik cracklib

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-26 Thread Qian Qiao
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Nothing mysterious there, python-updater was trying to rebuild vte-0.16.12, which doesn't exist in the portage tree anymore. #emerge --update --oneshot vte then re-run python-updater, and you'll be fine. --Joe --

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Eclipse fails

2008-07-21 Thread Qian Qiao
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Suma Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy eclipse-sdk have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.2.1-r2 (masked by: required EAPI 1, supported EAPI

Re: [gentoo-user] Process on server, print on client

2008-02-01 Thread Qian Qiao
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 1, 2008 1:39 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently processing orders one by one and I'd like to increase automation. I'm currently submitting an order number from my desktop to my server via firefox, and manually opening and

Re: [gentoo-user] xeffects overlay

2008-02-01 Thread Qian Qiao
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: Hi, It's a bit the xeffects overlay seems unreachable. I had a (admittedly brief) look on the web and it seems they are moving/rebuilding/refactoring it, but I had no info on how to find it now and/or when it will be back alive.

Re: [gentoo-user] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-01-30 Thread Qian Qiao
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Must... resist... posting... the... kit... - -- A computer scientist is someone who, when told go to hell, considers the go to harmful rather than the destination. GnuPG Key: 0xB14661D9 GnuPG FP: DE08 57AE A1AD 620C 02AA CCDD 611B 63AC B146 61D9

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Qian Qiao
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: Assuming you know what you are doing. If you've ever tried to help a number of less confident users through it, you'd know what I mean. While I don't disagree that a Gentoo live CD is absolutely necessary, you seem to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Qian Qiao
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Relson wrote: Is it gentoo's goal to make the installation difficult so only a select group can do the install? Or is the goal to make gentoo a great distro? In the latter case, why not make the installation easy? The installation isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Qian Qiao
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:09:04 +0100 Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With just sources, you can't do anything. Even when you built your LFS you have to download first you toolchain as binaries, before re-compilation. To compile a compiler.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Qian Qiao
On Jan 11, 2008 1:46 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's sent multipart, so the pure text can be used alone for users like Qian Qiao. That's how I've set up my kmail (I can view it as html if I wish) To be honest, it's not really a big deal for a list like this. The text is 492

Re: [gentoo-user] Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Qian Qiao
On Jan 11, 2008 10:38 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 January 2008, Galevsky wrote: You can say that devs have no time to make it, but please, don't tell that Gentoo doesn't need any installCD (outdated means no CD at all for many computers nowaday).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Qian Qiao
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:15:49 -0500 David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used the Gentoo LiveCD when I started with Gentoo in 2006. Prior Linux experience covered 8 or so years with Slackware, RedHat, and Mandrake. The installation was not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Qian Qiao
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Martin wrote: I installed Gentoo from inside Ubuntu 6.10 (my previous system) through chroot. This was because I couldn't use a LiveCD as I have an AMD64 based system. Knoppix and many other LiveCDs are 32bit, as that is currently what a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Qian Qiao
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Galevsky wrote: Yes it is. Portage is not included Huh? If are talking about installation, then whether the LiveCD carries portage or not is irrelavent, portage is in the stage tarball you fetch over the internet. you depend on other systems that

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML vs. Text messages (WAS: Is GWN dead?)

2008-01-11 Thread Qian Qiao
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Martin wrote: I'll keep that in mind when I am sending email to the list from Thunderbird. I'm also aware that many corporations block HTML mail to lower the risk of a staff member opening up an infected/laced email (generally on a Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiz-Fusion

2007-12-31 Thread Qian Qiao
On Dec 31, 2007 5:23 PM, Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone using compiz-fusion on this list? I'm putting together a system I'll be using to demo linux. compiz-fusion appears to be the eye-candy that would make a demo shine. I see that its in portage (masked) any gotchas I should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Any reason to keep older gcc?

2007-12-29 Thread Qian Qiao
On Dec 30, 2007 2:58 AM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:41:55AM +, Qian Qiao wrote The usual suspects? It should list nothing if the dependencies are handled properly. OK, I'll admit that I cheated somewhat when installing Gentoo. - I started off

Re: [gentoo-user] Any reason to keep older gcc?

2007-12-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On Dec 28, 2007 12:37 AM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My current version of gcc appears to be 4.12 [m3000][waltdnes][~] gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.1) ...snip disclaimer... emerge -p --depclean lists the usual suspects, which I know not to unmerge. The

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for Pentium Dual Core E2160 ?

2007-11-10 Thread Qian Qiao
On Nov 10, 2007 2:18 PM, David W Noon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you change the CHOST, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS variables, then do: emerge -e system emerge -e world you will have converted everything except your kernel to 64-bit. This was what you were planning anyway, but the change of

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for Pentium Dual Core E2160 ?

2007-11-09 Thread Qian Qiao
On Nov 10, 2007 12:19 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greets, I recently bought a new CPU for my mythtv-box, it's a Pentium Dual E2160 Currently I use CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer as I moved the system over from a Pentium 4 (which just

[gentoo-user] Unable to emerge with nss_ldap in use.

2006-11-04 Thread Qian Qiao
Hi, I've come across this very strange problem. I have a few work stations configured to use pam_ldap and nss_ldap. The portage user and portage group are on the local machines, i.e, in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. with passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)

2006-04-29 Thread Qian Qiao
On 4/28/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's happening about locales/languages? I've tried to install PHP-Nuke and Xoops, but one of them (I don't remember which one, now ;-)) doesn't like utf8 encoding, because it creates too long primary keys for MySQL. So I remerged MySQL and

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/6/05, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout wrote: To everyone in this thread: it would probably help if you specified which version of portage you are running! Do you really think it is important? Because since I'm using Gentoo, I do not take care about versions, portage does it

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/7/05, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=1#doc_chap3 copypaste= Updating your System To keep your system in perfect shape (and not to mention install the latest security updates)

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/7/05, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That might happen, sooner o later. But still I think it is still better than leaving some hole for uninvited visitors. You'd rather having a b0rked system, than some uninvited visitors... Hmmm. One piece of advice: turn that system off. -- Joe --

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/7/05, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I prefer rather breaking some dependencies in my system, over leaving some security hole in it. I am fully aware of the possibility that some services might be unavailable, but logsentry and monit will inform me about it... If your server

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: java-config issues

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/7/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well using 'python-updater' env-update source /etc/profile etc-update and 'emerge -uD world' everything is fine now. Where does one read about python-updater ? It was printed on the screen when you update your python package. Did you do your

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/7/05, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b.n. wrote: Polite and respectful. They don't look that much. Well, I always thought that using the words like please is a sign of respect to others. On the other side, some of replies included phrases like ...it bloody matters!... or how the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/7/05, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trim doh, everything is trimmed. :D /trim Let's leave the brave, dumb, ignorance, arrogance out, and concentrate on maintaining a server, especially production servers with clients. First of all, I should point out that maintaining a server is far more

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/7/05, Qian Qiao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, I left out an important note: major upgrades, feature upgrades should always be tested on a test server before applying to production. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/7/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can understand the paranoia of having your servers hacked but there is usually a middle ground that works reasonably well. I run a script nightly via cron but all it does is do a portage sync and then *prebuild* binary packages for any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: java-config issues

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/8/05, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:48:20PM +, Qian Qiao wrote: On 11/7/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well using 'python-updater' env-update source /etc/profile etc-update and 'emerge -uD world' everything is fine now

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --security

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/8/05, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening all, Just before I had to kill-file a thread earlier today, I saw mention of emerge --security Running this on my system produces: //garbanzo/root # emerge --security !!! Error: --security is an invalid option. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] Pin an ebuild (mysql)

2005-11-05 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/5/05, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently did an emerge -uavD world like I ususally do, and it failed trying to upgrade mysql from 4.0 to 4.1. Well, I'd really like to need to keep 4.0 around. Is there some way to say, don't upgrade mysql when I emerge -uavD world? Even

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync

2005-11-02 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/2/05, Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, got this error not the first time, shouldnt there be a sync option to sync part of portage not the whole thingy? 002617 !!! Digest verification Failed: 002618 !!!/usr/portage/dev-python/pyrex/pyrex-0.9.3.1.ebuild 002619 !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] -mtune for P4M (dothan)

2005-11-02 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/2/05, Patrick Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just noticed: it seems that Intel has two pages for their mobile version of the Pentium 4. shrug This is the second one, and (guessing by the name) is probably what the flag is really for:

Re: [gentoo-user] -mtune for P4M (dothan)

2005-11-02 Thread Qian Qiao
After going through the GCC docs, i've decided to use: -march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -msse2. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] -mtune for P4M (dothan)

2005-11-02 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/2/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qian Qiao wrote: After going through the GCC docs, i've decided to use: -march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -msse2. I don't really recommend that. A few things may have compile errors if you globally use -mmmx, -msse, and -msse2. Instead, I

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-11-01 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/1/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that non-standard? I only see * sys-fs/udev Latest version available: 068 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 436 kB Homepage:

[gentoo-user] -mtune for P4M (dothan)

2005-11-01 Thread Qian Qiao
Hi, Trying to install gentoo on a notebook with a P4M (dothan), wondering what -mtune should I go for, the GCC manual says: pentium-m Low power version of Intel Pentium3 CPU with MMX, SSE and SSE2 instruction set support. Used by Centrino notebooks. pentium4, pentium4m Intel Pentium4 CPU with

Re: [gentoo-user] German Wiki pages

2005-11-01 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/1/05, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gentoo-wiki.com isn't owned or maintained by gentoo. Is there any effort to synchronize the wiki pages? I doubt there is any. Would there be any problems if I translated the page and put it in the english version? Do I need to get

Re: [gentoo-user] German Wiki pages

2005-11-01 Thread Qian Qiao
On 11/1/05, Qian Qiao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/1/05, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gentoo-wiki.com isn't owned or maintained by gentoo. The 2nd gentoo there was meant to be Gentoo Foundation, my bad. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-31 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/31/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: Dale schreef: If I am that big of a headache, so sorry I came here. I used to wonder why more people didn't try to help people that use Linux, I beginning to see why. You join a list and have to turn yourself upside down to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-31 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/31/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that last one worked right either. It was supposed to ask before sending, it didn't. I added this domain to plain text, something I just lucked up and found in preferences. Maybe this will work. Let me know if it does or not. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-31 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/31/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny, I feel turned upside down. I'm not everybody else either, I'm me. I like to help people but I don't want to change who I am to do it. It's just like moving into a new neighbourhood, you have to take your time to get acquainted, it is natural

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
Ok, i top post, just for you, :)Imagine someone who wasn't following the thread need to do to pick up this thread:1. Scroll all the way to the bottom, read Ted's message.2. Scroll a bit upwards, to read you message 3. Then scroll all the way to the top, to read mine.I can hardly say it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/05, Qian Qiao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can post how you like. Please dont change your ways on my accord. I was replying Dale's message, :) Um did you not read my previous message? Obviously not, mate... I agree with you

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did see a forum once that lets you put the posts in reverse order, most recent at the top. I would sort of like that. I'm on a very slow dial-up and I can likely read the new post before the rest of the page can even load up. That wasn't the

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, If I think I'm helping someone, I don't care if they top or bottom post or post like you did below, middle posting I guess. I certainly won't care if someone is helping me. If you were asking for help, you might as well ask for it nicely.

Re: [gentoo-user] wiping unused space and/or secure erasing of files

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob schrieb: Is there a gentoo port that does this kind of stuff? dd if=/dev/zero of=file rm file I'm a noob on journaling file systems, won't the file be recovered if the journal is re-played? When we erase a file like that, don't we

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qian Qiao wrote: On 10/30/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is trimming? Now I am middle posting. Deleting the bits that are out of context, to keep the message relatively smaller in size. Dial-up users benefit from trimming and not using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel updates

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Tim Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On 27.10.2005 Qian Qiao wrote: # cat /var/lib/portage/world grep sys-kernel UUOC I stand corrected. grep sys-kernel /var/lib/portage/world is a neater way. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale wrote: I found it. Is this better? I'm a bottom feeder, um poster. LOL I even took out some of the clutter above. Well done, :) Trimming could be extremely useful, when you see a thread with over 30 replies. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qian Qiao wrote: Honestly, I like it all together in one place. That way you don't have to dig for it. I delete emails that are more than a week or so old. I do save the ones that have passwords to sites I have joined or something but the rest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel updates

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Tim Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need the less-than here. grep can work directly on the file. % grep sys-kernel /var/lib/portage/world doh, :) So long, tkr -- You know you're using the computer too much when: You try and use wget to pick up that pizza.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qian Qiao wrote: It can? Oh. I didn't know that. www.gmane.org Are you accusing me of having a sense of humor? LOL Maybe I'm the third kind. scratches head Here's the answer: cos I can't count, :P -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
Owned, lmao. On 10/30/05, Nicholas Hockey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOOK I'M TOP POSTING IN ALL CAPS, OMG YOU MIGHT DIE I don't know why ppl just want to bitch about top posting and HTML? Sure back when we were all on an old external hays 9600 it was irritating to download all that

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Anthony Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Repartition hdb to add root, swap and boot partition of about 10GB for root (what tools can I use in order to keep the data intact on hdb whilst partitioning?) Some softwares like partition magic can do that, but they run under doze. I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Anthony Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can boot from the suse, repartition the hdb, then chroot, and do your gentoo installation. Excellent - so really I won't even need to have server downtime while installing? I'll definitely look into this approach. You shouldn't have any

Re: [gentoo-user] wiping unused space and/or secure erasing of files

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qian Qiao schrieb: On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dd if=/dev/zero of=file rm file I'm a noob on journaling file systems, won't the file be recovered if the journal is re-played? When we erase a file like

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Anthony Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the prompt advice guys. I'll be taking it slowly - I aim to get the main installation and changeover done over Christmas when I have a little more time, and the preparation done prior to that so that I have the partitions ready to

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, C. Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just upgraded MySQL using the instructions on the Gentoo website. For the most part, everything went fine and now everything works, but I had to make a couple of adjustments. My question now is if there is a proper way to do what I

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, C. Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qian Qiao wrote: What was the error message, if it was about the key length exceeding 1000, then you hit a known bug. No, I didn't get any error messages on restoring the database that was created by the backup process that was included

Re: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy~ Thanks for the reply. I actually used genkernel to make the kernel. I used 'genkernel all'. That's why I'm a little confused as to why this didn't take effect. The previous kernel was also built with genkernel and didn't have any

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/31/05, C. Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qian Qiao wrote: So the mysqldump you did on the 4.0 didn't dump the databases other than test, hmmm. That's correct. And as stated in my original post, I think it might have something to do with the way I got the database into Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale schrieb: Me too. Badly translated joke. It should read: There are 10 kinds of people. Then it is funny. It takes a bit of time to get the joke, :) It has nothing to do with binary system. :P -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-29 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cant seem to get eterm to emerge and I really need/like Eterm please dont make me use xterm or aterm :( Quote: /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O3 -pipe -march=pentium-m -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=pentium-m -L/usr/lib -o

Re: [gentoo-user] unsibscribe

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/27/05, Tamer Higazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying very hard to resist the temptation of sending you the manual for the unsubscribe kit, :P Meanwhile, I strongly recommend you to read the documentations on how to unsubscribe from the list, and also try to spell the word unsubscribe

Re: [gentoo-user] Python - !!! Failed to complete python imports.

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/27/05, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok I am in need of some serious help well my home server is: After emerging python (with distcc running and attempting to do a cross compilation) I get the following message when I try run any program associated with python:

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/27/05, renna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi to all. i am finalizing a fresh new gentoo installation. i'm having some problems with xorg and my nvidia geforce mx 440 card. i followed the instructions on the dedicated part of documentation on gentoo.org, and even tried the following commands

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/27/05, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: renna bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 1:01 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module hi to all. i am finalizing a fresh new

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/27/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The portage system seems pretty effective in keeping the user level code up to date on a gentoo system - but now that I have had my system installed for 6-7 months it has occured to me that my kernel is no longer current, and I havn't found

Re: [gentoo-user] System refuses to boot after upgrade

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/27/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I Just upgraded my PC (replaced new hard disk, dd'ed all the data from the old one, ran emerge -uav world + grub-install). The kernel boots but then INIT hangs at Configuring kernel parameters ). Anyone got any ideas on what the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/27/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but I am ok on configuring the kernels and then installing them in /boot. The thing which isn't clear to me is how I should get the 'linux-new_version' directory installed on my system without downloading a whole new install image

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/27/05, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Now that you mention it, I did have problems with a ~amd64 version of nvidia-kernel, couldn't remember the version number tho, :( And after that, I reverted to the stable version of nvidia-kernel, and had no problem afterwards. Strange...

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/27/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Thats what wasn't clear to me. I assume this is a special case in that an 'update world' won't install new kernel sources by default? emerge --update world should install the new kernel sources for you. Did you do a emerge --sync? If

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/27/05, Jose Maria Alvarez Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's kernel related. 2.6.13 doesn't create the nvidia devicess correctly with udev, which with 2.6.13 is default. You can try to put this in the local.start if you want to use this nvidia kernel versions: for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/27/05, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Qian Qiao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:20 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module I doubt it's kernel related, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging without Internet connection

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/24/05, Gentoo Voyager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, My home gentoo box dos't have a internet connection, but i need to install Sendmail on my PC( for testing perposer), any one know how to do it without internet cennection.. thanks.. Suranga Option 1. Find a gentoo box that

Re: [gentoo-user] Python - !!! Failed to complete python imports.

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/27/05, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Already tried that. I get the same error. A stage1 tarball will contain a working copy of python and portage, probably a fairly dated version tho. Backup your files carefully, and give that a try? -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/28/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:45:49AM +0200, Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:43:07 +0100 Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The portage system seems pretty effective in keeping the user level code up to date on a gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/23/05, Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01:31 Sun 23 Oct , Richard Watson wrote: I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X woes after baselayout update.

2005-06-25 Thread Qian Qiao
On 24/06/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qian Qiao schreef: On 24/06/05, Qian Qiao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, if I run udevstart before trying to start X, X fires up correctly. More info, alsa woes too. alsasound cannot start correctly at boot time, have to run

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