Re: [gentoo-user] Odd or disturbing things go by in emerge

2006-05-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/28/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Portage is a wonderful thing. That said, it is sometimes a bit unnerving to look at the details. For instance, I was watching my update go by just now and saw this during the update to kpdf: Source unpacked. This Makefile is only for

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems when more than one application uses sound

2006-05-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/28/06, Jure Varlec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ALSA supports software mixing, but you have to create a proper asoundrc config file to activate the dmix plugin. See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_Complete_(includes_dmix) Actually current versions (since 1.0.10, I think) of alsa activate

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 Problems

2006-05-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/28/06, John Laremore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quit f John, donate your computer to charity. This whole internet thing is just not for you... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/28/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kenton Groombridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed. Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 17:16:51 - Hi, As suggested I tried to install the newest hunspell available and installed openoffice-2.0.2-r2. The

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/26/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that KDE 3.5 finally made it out of testing. I plan to upgrade to it but since it is slotted, I'll have to unmerge 3.4 first. You don't need to unmerge 3.4 _first_. You can do it after you have merged 3.5, although even then it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1: emerge -e world required?

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gcc update Nothing needs to be done Sure... How much did the person who wrote this check? Hello World! worked, and that's it? Sometimes this complete lack of QA is really pissing me off :( Stop using ~arch packages, or stop whining.

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 Problems

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, I figure upgrading to GCC 4.1.1 from 3.4.5 wouldn't be such a pain, right? WRONG. So far I've had just about every problem under the sun, mostly in the form of filesize errors which I wouldn't think would be related to GCC, but

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 Problems

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so run ebuild blabla.ebuild digest wow, that is hard... Probably better to just delete the distfiles and let them be downloaded again though... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1: emerge -e world required?

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stop using ~arch packages, or stop whining. No, I won't do neither. The GWN and the upgrade doc used to say, that an upgrade is (basically) riskless. Well I can't force you to do anything. You found a problem, reported a bug, and got the

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1: emerge -e world required?

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 May 2006 19:58, Alexander Skwar wrote: Did you try to compile glib? No? Then I guess you've done no testing. if he does not have glib? To be fair, I did mention mozilla, so it is safe to assume that I have gtk and glib

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1: emerge -e world required?

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And also pardon me, when I'm annoyed because of too bold statements which turn out to be wrong. If it says no problems expected, then that's what I expect. I don't expect to run into deep problems. And the GWN and upgrade doc clearly stated,

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 Problems

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read a few things about 4.1.1 not playing well with GTK packages on the forums, however, and that still appears to be the case. I'll get exact error messages when I return and bring this thread up again. Cool. Hopefully any problems

Re: [gentoo-user] net-nntp/klibido

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone gotten this to compile with gcc 4.x? Doesn't look promising. I just tried it, and I get this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133535 I just upgraded to gcc 4.1 and I also just installed kdelibs 3.5 (I am a gnome guy and want

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade problem with perl-cleaner

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !!! Digest verification Failed: !!! /usr/portage/distfiles/perl-cleaner-1.03.tar.gz !!! Readon: Filesize does not match recorded size You should check the mail-list archives here...it has come up a couple of times in the last day or so.

Re: [gentoo-user] net-nntp/klibido

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Part of me wanting to try kde again was because of the nice speed increase with startup times and gcc 4.1. However, I don't know if this is try from experience. Is kde 3.5 noticeably faster when compiled with gcc 4.1? I'll let you know in a week or

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, Kenneth Hopping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem appears to be that /sys/class/net/eth0 does not exist. This is a pseudo-filesystem like proc that I cannot manipulate. Is there some configuration file that needs initialization or a package that I need to install? No, you just

Re: [gentoo-user] net-nntp/klibido

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: I'll let you know in a week or so once my emerge -e world finishes... :-) Same here. Rebuilding world should take a while. Hold the phone!! OOo just completed building on my system in 4h 08m 07s. When I get some time I'm going

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/25/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But he isn't because he used the installer and thus use genkernel, hmm, its like the third time I'll say that, so, I'll stop and report you all to read the complete thread. It doesn't really matter how many times you say it, the OP did *not*

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 freezes sometimes

2006-05-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/23/06, JC Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have a big problem. I am using 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 and the system stops booting from time to time. This happens, when I get the sequence of errors like: ide-scsi: (IO,CoD) != (0,1) while issuing a packet command hdc: ATAPI reset complete

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused with the --oneshot option of portage.

2006-05-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/24/06, Jonathan Chocron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, here are my questions : With world being autogenerated Not sure I would call it 'autogenerated'. It is more accurate to call it the list of packages that you have merged without the --oneshot option. - If I emerge a library, like

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/24/06, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using CFLAGS=-Os or CFLAGS=-O2 is much more effective on a desktop system and can shave off more than 30% of the size. This is because larger binaries (like the HUGE ones produced by -O3) take longer to load, and occupy more RAM. Is that

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 freezes sometimes

2006-05-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/24/06, JC Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I did the configuration of the kernel. And also cdrecord does complain, so everything seems ok. BUT it is not. I can surely say when the system will crash because in this cases it takes aweful long untill I can choose a operating system. And

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/22/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Richard. Those steps did the trick. And the author's correction fixed the problem also. Cool. If upstream is going to apply the patch to a future release that may be some weeks off, you might consider filing a bug report on

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: //csdc/EngSoftware /mnt/engsoftsmbfs username=commodity\\allan,noauto0 0 I do not think you need \\ here. You only need this when running on the command line since bash interprets '\' as an escape character, so

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/23/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, cifs is better to use unless you are trying to mount something from Win95. Oh, and checking the cifs man page (man 8 mount.cifs), the option would be: user=commodity/allan HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice, the bar thing solved the problem with samba, I had never used cifs, is it better ? in what things it is better then smbfs ? Among other things, it supports files 2G (or is it 4G?). From

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the explanation. And what about samba project ? it doesn´t use SMB ? It will speak SMB, but nowadays it prefers CIFS. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/23/06, Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, I think the brand new ebuild within the last week or so will have it, but if he installed the ebuild without any revisions, it will not contain the correct any-any update. Well yes, he needs a -rsomething, but nothing was changed

Re: [gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/19/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ls -l /dev/ttyS*: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 19 10:07 /dev/ttyS0 - tts/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 19 10:07 /dev/ttyS1 - tts/1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 19 10:07 /dev/ttyS2 - tts/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 19 10:07 /dev/ttyS3 - tts/3

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech cordless

2006-05-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/22/06, James Colby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List members - I am trying to use a Logitech cordless keyboard and mouse with my gentoo based laptop. When I try to boot into linux the cordless receiver is never enabled. After doing some research on google it appears that the easiest solution

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package

2006-05-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/22/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to make a change in the code for a gentoo package (pgcalc2) to check whether it corrects a problem. If I simply download it with emerge -f pgcalc2, make the correction and then try to finish the emerge, it will fail the md5 check.

Re: [gentoo-user] linux make modules fails

2006-05-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/18/06, Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this a single command? Mine only prints out: make -rR -f /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-rc4/scripts/Makefile.modpost scripts/mod/modpost -m -a -o /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-rc4/Module.symvers vmlinux Yep, that is a single command that includes all

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/18/06, Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still having timer problems, vmware complains on startup about /dev/rtc not being available (though it is, and the module is compiled into the kernel). Do you get a message in /var/log/messages like this? May 17 00:41:54 carcharias

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udevd-event [2161] find_free_number: %e is deprecated

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/18/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use %n instead of %e. it solves the problem. Well it clears up the message, but not the problem. %n is not equivalent to %e. What is someone to do if they really need/want the behavior of %e?? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udevd-event [2161] find_free_number: %e is deprecated

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/18/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What file would that be found in? I always see make sure udev is starting at boot, but I have no idea what boot script is used to start udev, as there is nothing in /etc/init.d/ that contains udev or dev of any kind...

Re: [gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/18/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just one little problem left. From the boot console: udevd-event[3787]: udev_make_node: mknod(/dev/ttyS0, 020660, 4, 64) failed: File exists Hmm, odd. What do ls -l /dev/ttyS* and grep ttyS /etc/udev/rules.d/* produce? -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/18/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is supposed to have noauto, because /boot does not need to be mounted in the normal course of events. GRUB doesn't use /etc/fstab, it uses grub.conf to find the kernel. The only time you need to mount /boot is when installing a new kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] linux make modules fails

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/18/06, Ben Reubenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Justin ~ Read the docs on Gentoo.org. Understand what Stage 2 is. How is that supposed to help? His problem is with building modules, not installation... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] linux make modules fails

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/18/06, Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to build the 'modules' target with linux it doesn't create the .ko files. It seems to get stuck at 'stage 2', whatever that means, and I am at a loss finding out what exactly stage 2 is, from looking at scripts/Makefile.modpost, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/16/06, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: certainly gave qemu a nice speed boost. What's more annoying at the moment is the slow graphics emulation, and the fact that I cannot emulate my full screen (1920x1200) in qemu. Is VMWare able to do that, and how fast is the graphics emulation?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That certainly sounds faster than what I see in qemu. I guess I'll give VMWare a try and see how it compares. Just two more tipsfor 1920x1200 resolution, you will need to add: svga.maxWidth = 1920 to the .vmx file for your virtual machine.

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 emerge problem

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Leopold Gouverneur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerge lvm2 abort during compilation with this message: ... ../include/lvm-string.h:40: attention : 'struct dm_pool' declared inside parameter list ... wordir/.../lvm-string.h i see: ... struct pool; char

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 emerge problem

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Leopold Gouverneur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ebuild N] sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.05 USE=nolvm1 nolvmstatic nosnapshots readline -clvm -cman -gulm -nomirrors Anyway i think that without a previous declaration of dm_pool the compilation should abort.But since i seem to be the only one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess that's not enough. Can I manually tweak that? (I have no ~/.profile, only ~/.bash_profile which refers to ~/.bashrc). Yeah, just add the OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP setting to ~/.bashrc. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As things stand, I can start my virtual machine (the current one runs Minix) only as root. I can start vmware as a user, but any attempt to start my VM brings up a message about it not being able to connect to its peer (whatever that is),

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome2_src_unpack: command not found

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Jason Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, not to brow-beat the subject, but I'm kind of desperate here. I haven't been able to find anything about this at all, including in the forums. In case I haven't gotten any bites because I haven't provided enough info, let me try again...

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has gotta be the problem. Or most of it. I've been going along all this time separately mounting a /boot partition, formatted ext2 and a root partitiion, formatted reiserfs which already has a boot dir attached. Is that the one that actually

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it an env problem? I am really lost with this because I do not understand how OOo links into the DE. OOo looks at your environment to determine which desktop you are running and tries to activate an appropriate plugin to integrate with the DE. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/15/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kernel panic! That's what happens. Why? Is it because it couldn't find your root device? Did it detect your hard drives correctly on boot? Or was it because it found your root, but failed to mount it? Or is it something completely

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 16 May 2006 12:44:37 -0500, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it appears then that something is wrong with this update process. emerge -v -uDp gcc doesn't want to update the current gcc which is 3.3.6 yet the glibc it wants to install requires a newer gcc bad. No, you already

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
Yeay! Result! Gnome and KDE look cool. 'none' looks yukky. So, I guess mine picks up none, which is puzzling given my USE flags - I mean, what's the point setting flags then? Well the use flags just add the ability to support (and add dependancies on) the given environment by building the

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/16/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where/how do you check that? # env | grep KDE I am running fluxbox and a number of KDE apps which I launch as and when needed. More rarely I launch the full KDE as a DE (BTW, are you running KDE as a DE?). It is worth mentioning that when I launch

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/16/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Further suggestions welcome. Have you followed the rest of the thread? Which DE (if any) do you run? Because when I change my menu font in KDE, OOo automatically picks up the changes and uses them. No mucking with the OOO scaling

Re: [gentoo-user] more CFLAG

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/16/06, James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the `O' (uppercase oh) have an `s' component? Yes - the -O setting is the level of code optimization that gcc does - -Os is very similar to -O2, but also does code size optimization, which may, under some circumstances, result in slower

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/16/06, James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope - VMWare doesn't give the guest OS a hardware copy of what the host machine is - it does software emulation of the entire computer - BIOS, CPU, Video Card, Hard Drive (unless you go for RAW access to a specified hard drive), sound, etc etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?

2006-05-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I would really like to see is something like reiser4's plugin scheme brought up to the VFS layer in the kernel, so that any filesystem could gain transparent compression. Hmm, wouldn't that be a device mapper task, just like dm-crypt?

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem and gcc-3.4.5-r1

2006-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/lib-org-w3c-dom.la (requires /usr/lib/libgcj.la) broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/lib-org-xml-sax.la (requires /usr/lib/libgcj.la) done. There is probably a better way,

Re: [gentoo-user] update failed

2006-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, dirk dil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new to gentoo. My system is fairly recent and I'm running the amd64 version of gentoo. I'm trying to update my system and I get the following error: emerge --update --deep world --- Invalid

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling they think I'm making stuff up. No, maxim. Most likely, YOU have made a mistake

Re: [gentoo-user] QTrouble: static libraries?

2006-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll play with strace some more, looks like the program used some call that's not traced by default because it's not even trying to read $DISPLAY; the error seems to be something generic. Just an FYI, you won't see the environment access

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel panic

2006-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can a patch fix an ailing kernel or is only to make an older one up-to-date? Normally it is for updating an older kernel source tree to the current one. You probably don't have to mess with that though. If you have merged any 2.6.16 sources,

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for Unicode I think the person who wrote this knows too

Re: [gentoo-user] QTrouble: static libraries?

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/13/06, Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a QT program that's supposed to run on a server. I never liked the idea of putting all this QT runtime crap on the server just for this single program, so when it still ran SuSE, I just compiled it statically and all was fine. Now under

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really need this thing. I want it to be stable. But sorry, the old one can't be built any more, and the new one is masked. So I'm just out of luck. snip Clear-Text: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129864 Secure:

Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?

2006-05-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/12/06, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I currently use: But I dont have room for two archives, and this method doesnt keep versions. Trying to keep incrementals using this has proven to be a disaster. Again, checkout dar. It is specifically designed for doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error in threads.c, maybe related to nptlonly use flag.

2006-05-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/12/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np... no snip checking for pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np in -lc... yes threads.c:145: error: `pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np' undeclared (first use in this function) I think the nptl nptlonly use

Re: [gentoo-user] Startup Script Help

2006-05-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/12/06, Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want ifplugd. It will allow you to boot the machine even if there is not DHCP response and then do the appropriate action when the DHCP server comes back up. Try that out, maybe it will suit your needs. Actually I don't think ifplugd will

Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!

2006-05-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/12/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:47, Richard Fish wrote: On 5/11/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going one step further with gcc 4.1.0. After I emerged gcc and glibc... I did an emerge -e system twice and am now following up

Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?

2006-05-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/12/06, plougher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish write: From what I can tell, there are no really good compressing filesystems available currently. I would disagree, Squashfs is an advanced read-only compressing filesystem, I should have said read-write filesystem. What I would

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )

2006-05-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/11/06, Christopher E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am geting this at the top of my world update, here is the command and the very beggining of the out put: Mr-Eyes ~ # emerge -aqDu --newuse world [blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-090) [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!

2006-05-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/11/06, Christopher E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, What should I do after I do a emerge of gcc and glibc vers in subject line? What versions are you upgrading from? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] After gcc-3.4.6-r1 glibc-2.4-r2 emerge!

2006-05-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/11/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going one step further with gcc 4.1.0. After I emerged gcc and glibc... I did an emerge -e system twice and am now following up with two emerge -e world commands... Wow, you like to waste a lot of CPU cycles... -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems

2006-05-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vgchange -a y device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:0) Failed to add device (254:0) to dtree My guess is a conflict between the device-mapper version and your kernel. 2.6.7 is quite

Re: [gentoo-user] is gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org faulty? or is it just me? =(

2006-05-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/9/06, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone enlighten me? So I can finally fix this issue. Want a gmail invite? :-) -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gfortran libraries

2006-05-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/9/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for gfortran libraries... configure: error: could not determine how to set LDFLAGS for gfortran! What does it mean? Check the config.log output. That will tell you what the real problem is. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/9/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use konsole, for no other reason than it is the default in my

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/8/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah but then your CPU is doing a lot of work. A cable for 10c seems cheaper than lots of CPU cycles. I wouldnt' say a _lot_ of CPU cycles. CDDA is just uncompressed 16-bit 44khz 2-channel audio samples. All the app has to do is configure an alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/7/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried editing /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf and make the nvidia driver module unload when you hibernate and reload it when it comes up? Well, I had done this previously without good results. But I just tried it again in response to your

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/7/06, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish I could rip the ATI card out of this otherwise FANTASTIC laptop, and throw in an nvidia... but that can't happen. Well, as someone who recently changed from an ATI to an NVidia laptop, my view is that, while things _are_ better on this side

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg downgrade problems

2006-05-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/7/06, Luigi Pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I have an update problem since when I downgrade from xorg 7.0 to 6.8.2: I can't update some programs like xorg, kde or k3b or install licq... The messagge is always the Xft is missing... but it

Re: [gentoo-user] debugging runscript

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/4/06, Leigh Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone tell me how to trace through init scripts, which are executed by /sbin/runscript? Add set -x near the top of the script, but after the first line. #!/sbin/runscript set -x ... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games - update

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/6/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JimD wrote: Ok, this is a three part question. I am on vacation and I am using my wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I have been using the laptop as

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/6/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that. Last night memtest got through the first 4 tests. When test 5 came the screen got all garbaled, though the test kept running. I let the laptop cool overnight and this morning ran just test #5 and it completed. I then booted to Gnome and

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/6/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at speedstep-centrino.c in the kernel source and added the Sonoma. However it still does not work and I just get: FATAL: Error inserting speedstep_centrino

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/6/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you use genkernel? Nope, never have. If you like, I can email you the relevant global, power management, and processor parts of my .config. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/3/06, The Slash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting... I'm still a little bit paranoid about adding this to make.conf, though. Can anybody think of a reason why I wouldn't want to add it? Um, yes, as I have said twice in this thread alreadyG_DISABLE_DEBUG DOESNT DO ANYTHING

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/4/06, Jure Varlec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 18:26, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? From Wikipedia: There is no known way to defragment a ReiserFS filesystem, aside from a full dump and restore. However ReiserFS v4 has a

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/3/06, S. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I would have to go back to 6629. This one just needs a bit of patching. I was looking for some help in that direction. You may want to track this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127618 This is probably why none of the 7xxx

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Difficulties

2006-05-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/3/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that these various packages haven't switched their dependecies back to the 6.8.2-r6 virtual for x11-xorg? Why are they looking for dependencies from the 7.0 tree, still? Is it because I still have some rogue 7.0 packages installed on this

Re: [gentoo-user] PLEASE HELP!!! Emerge Isssue Now!

2006-05-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/3/06, Christopher E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please respone ASAP as I would like to try and continul with this stuff as I am having noting but bad luck with it. You really need to give us more info than this. Try running emerge from a console, and redirect all the output to a file.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/3/06, S. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127618 Thanks for the link, very interesting indeed. In comment #18 someone says that Nvidia won't release a newer legacy driver set any time soon, whereas in the nVNews-forum someone

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/1/06, Farhan Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you wish to have latest packages, change ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86, it might make your system a bit unstable but going through my experience it has not broken a thing in my system. And I recommend that you do *not* set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 unless

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/1/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:11 pm, Jeff Rollin wrote: I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too So, can you please tell me how to do this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Any ideas on when net-misc/asterisk-1.2.7 will be unmasked?

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/2/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a little confused because Asterisk 1.2.7 is the latest according to their website, and 1.2.5 was the previous version. Yet the ebuilds go steadily from 1.0.7 through 1.0.10 and then there's nothing till this hard masked 1.2.7 version... :-\

Re: [gentoo-user] splitdebug vs USE debug

2006-05-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/1/06, Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the 'debugging' howto referenced in this week's GWN it mentions the CFLAGS and setting FEATURES to either nostrip or splitdebug. However, there is also a global 'debug' USE flag. Should this also be set if setting CFLAGS to include -g and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modprobe looks in wrong dir

2006-05-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/1/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thing makes it to the prompt. I log in. Run uname. Yikes! It *is* _running_ the old kernel. BUT, it's _booting_ from the new! I checked! I don't see how this is possible. How did you check that it is booting the new kernel? Checking dmesg

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/30/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander, DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them smaller (and faster) Maybe as a CFLAG, but not a USE flag. And it will only affect gnome/glib/gtk applications. PS: As Alexander already said, please do not

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE=hal, and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). And also make sure she is a member of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install?

2006-04-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/29/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kernel /boot/kern[TAB] (grub auto-completes) root=/dev[TAB] Error 11: Unrecongnized device string. This is not a problem. The kernel will use an internal mapping to figure out what the device major and minor number is for /dev/sda1. It does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install? - Fixed

2006-04-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/29/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet wrote: that should not have been necessary. my grey hairs are telling me you'll encounter other problems down the road is udev enabled in the kernel? I thought udev was just userland? What option would I need in the kernel? There is

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