Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-11-01 Thread Oliver Friedrich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Eastman wrote: Hey guys, I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail whenever I feel like

[gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread 赵光
i want know how to emerge e17 i found some method on gentoo forum,but i can;t emerge it some package on cvs can't download who can tell me how to emerge it thx

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ethereal weirdness

2005-11-01 Thread John Myers
On Monday 31 October 2005 07:43, James wrote: unset: adns snmp and kerberos are all in blue. Does this mean they are optional? I have not found documents on this color coding with various gentoo tools. Any documental wisdom on discerning these various color coded words in a terminal session?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread st3vie
On 11/1/05, 赵光 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want know how to emerge e17 i found some method on gentoo forum,but i can;t emerge it some package on cvs can't download who can tell me how to emerge it thx did you try the HowTo on the Gentoo wiki? It should still be okay to use.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel updates

2005-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:15:16 +0100, Tim Kruse wrote: % grep sys-kernel /var/log/emerge.log should do the trick then qpkg -I -g sys-kernel -- Neil Bothwick This is the day for firm decisions! Or is it? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-01 Thread Harald Arnesen
Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] And if you do, make sure you have a good UPS. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel error messages: gentoo-sources 2.6.13-r5

2005-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:51:58 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Thanks. That got X working again, although it turned out that I have no xorg.conf although there *is* and xorg.conf.example. The file I wound up changing was XF86Config!!! But I'm definitely using xorg. X.Org uses the XFree86 config

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread 赵光
did you try the HowTo on the Gentoo wiki?It should still be okay to use. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_e17 yes,i try this ,but i can;t emerge epeg,can;t got it from cvs

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread Christoph Gysin
赵光 wrote: i want know how to emerge e17 i found some method on gentoo forum,but i can;t emerge it some package on cvs can't download who can tell me how to emerge it The anonymous cvs server from sourceforge is very busy. Perhaps you are luckier with the newly set up mirror from thinktux.net.

[gentoo-user] emerge xmlto ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Hi, I have ran into this error a lot of times. I posted it the other day but have learned that a lot of people don't read HTML stuff. So here I go again. This is the whole thing, sorry it is a bit long but I didn't want to cut out the very part you need. Yes, my rig is named smoker. :/

[gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, I was updating my system yesterday when suddenly the computer switched off... it got too hot!! Fans may be getting dirty.. When I restarted again, I tried to emerge --resume but portage said that there was nothing to resume.. I then ran emerge -u world again (because the update was not finish

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 02:19, Fernando Meira wrote: So, there are some missing libraries and others causing conflicts.. don't know if that was caused by the power-down, or something while updating was running, but how can I fix this? Should I reemerge some packages? If so, which ones? try

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread 赵光
The anonymous cvs server from sourceforge is very busy. Perhaps you are luckierwith the newly set up mirror from thinktux.net. Just export ECVS_SERVER beforeemerging:export ECVS_SERVER=thinktux.net:/root thx,i will try,maybe i will be the lucker

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Fernando Meira wrote: So, there are some missing libraries and others causing conflicts.. don't know if that was caused by the power-down, or something while updating was running, but how can I fix this? Should I reemerge some packages? If so, which ones? Thanks for the help, Fernando

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 November 2005 02:19, Fernando Meira wrote: So, there are some missing libraries and others causing conflicts.. don't know if that was caused by the power-down, or something while updating was running, but how can I fix this? Should I

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: So, there are some missing libraries and others causing conflicts.. don't know if that was caused by the power-down, or something while updating was running, but how can I fix this? Should I reemerge some packages? If so, which ones?

Re: [gentoo-user] Apple external booting (WAS: What list for Mac Mini?)

2005-11-01 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 31 October 2005 23:11, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks for the info. So if yaboot is on the internal drive already then yaboot can get to an external drive as easily as internal, right? I'm thinking is sort of like /dev/sda is the internal drive with it's OS x partitions. Yaboot is there.

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:36:52 +0100, Fernando Meira wrote: # emerge -Dav dbus hal Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/dbus-0.36.2 +X -debug -doc -gtk -mono +python +qt +xml2 0 kB [ebuild UD] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 [0.36.2] +X -debug -gtk -mono +python +qt +xml2 0 kB

[gentoo-user] beagle compile error

2005-11-01 Thread karlos
Hi, I run into this compilation error when trying to emerge beagle: Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 12) dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp-2.3.92 to / cp ../gtk-sharp.snk . cp ../AssemblyInfo.cs . /usr/bin/mcs -nowarn:0169,0612,0618 -unsafe -out:gdk-sharp.dll -target:library

Re: [gentoo-user] list of all installed packages?

2005-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:40:31 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: qpkg -I -nc (Yes, I know, there's no qpkg anymore...) Yes there is. It is installed by gentoolkit, just not in your $PATH. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ qpkg -l gentoolkit | grep qpkg /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre8/deprecated/qpkg

[gentoo-user] lockup and freeze

2005-11-01 Thread Tamas Sarga
Hi, I have a problem. My PC lockups time to time with the attached dmesg. It occurs once or twice a week. After a minute or so it comes back, and the computer works again. At last time it dropped lost interrupts into dmesg, but I can't save it because it didn't come back after ten minutes and I

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel updates

2005-11-01 Thread Tim Kruse
* On 01.11.2005 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:15:16 +0100, Tim Kruse wrote: % grep sys-kernel /var/log/emerge.log should do the trick then qpkg -I -g sys-kernel This is true. But you should mention, that 'qpkg' is deprecated and 'equery' should be used: ,-[qpkg

Re: [gentoo-user] lockup and freeze

2005-11-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 12:17, Tamas Sarga wrote: Hi, I have a problem. My PC lockups time to time with the attached dmesg. It occurs once or twice a week. After a minute or so it comes back, and the computer works again. At last time it dropped lost interrupts into dmesg, but I can't

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem emerging realplayer-10.0.6

2005-11-01 Thread Tim Kruse
* On 01.11.2005 Walter Dnes wrote: Several people on this list, me included, have been bitten by this. Note the s in https. That means secure. wget is the program that emerge uses to download files. In order to access https URLs, wget *MUST* be emerged with the ssl flag. You can either

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging realplayer-10.0.6

2005-11-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
I didn't understand how to set the ssl flag. I used wget to download, using the option mentioned in the error message given, and installed it in /usr/portage/distfiles. Then emerge realplayer again. It's not pretty but it worked. Alan On 11/1/05, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread 赵光
* This is a LIVE CVS ebuild. * That means there are NO promises it will work. * If it fails to build, FIX THE CODE YOURSELF * before reporting any issues. Unpacking source... * Fetching CVS module e17/libs/ecore into /usr/portage/distfiles/cvs-src ... * Running cvs -q -f -z4 -d

Re: [gentoo-user] lockup and freeze

2005-11-01 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 11:17, Tamas Sarga wrote: I have a problem. My PC lockups time to time with the attached dmesg. It occurs once or twice a week. After a minute or so it comes back, and the computer works again. At last time it dropped lost interrupts into dmesg, but I can't save it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel updates

2005-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:18:00 +0100, Tim Kruse wrote: qpkg -I -g sys-kernel This is true. But you should mention, that 'qpkg' is deprecated and 'equery' should be used: In that case I would have recommended equery to start with. But equery is horrendously slow to start up, whereas qpkg is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem emerging realplayer-10.0.6

2005-11-01 Thread Tristan Helmich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had the same problem and my wget is emerged with the ssl USE flag same here :( So that is not the issue here. The problem is, that wget couldn't verify the certificate (for which reason ever) and you have to manually download it (or set the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Hi, I have ran into this error a lot of times. I posted it the other day but have learned that a lot of people don't read HTML stuff. So here I go again. This is the whole thing, sorry it is a bit long but I didn't want to cut out the very part you need. Yes, my rig

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread Christoph Gysin
赵光 wrote: !!! ERROR: x11-libs/ecore- failed. !!! Function cvs_fetch, Line 332, Exitcode 1 !!! cvs login command failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message look like the server refuse me Try again in a few hours. It is down for maintenance at

[gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Today the updating of the portage cache was real quick -- something like a minute, instead of the ten minutes it used to take during the past month or so. What has changed? Was it the r2 to r3 update on glibc-2.3.5? Did I emerge something in the meantime that Portage uses if present but does

[gentoo-user] Redirecting a script output to the mail command

2005-11-01 Thread Thiago Lüttig
Hi. I Know, this question is stupid, but i simply don' t remenber how to do that :'( I need to redirect an script output to the mail command. how ?? i've tried the following: ./script.sh mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] but the bash says [EMAIL PROTECTED] command not found.--

[gentoo-user] realtime-preemption patch

2005-11-01 Thread karlos
hi, I just wanted to ask whether someone on the List has experiences with the Realtime Preemption patches by Ingo Molnar http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ applied to the gentoo-kernel. I have just tried it out but a LOT of files are not where patch thinks they should be, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Meira schreef: This is what emerge would do: # emerge -Dav dbus hal Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/dbus-0.36.2 +X -debug -doc -gtk -mono +python +qt +xml2 0 kB [ebuild UD] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 [0.36.2] +X -debug -gtk -mono +python +qt +xml2 0 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 赵光 wrote: !!! ERROR: x11-libs/ecore- failed. !!! Function cvs_fetch, Line 332, Exitcode 1 !!! cvs login command failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message look like the server refuse meTry again in

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:07:06 +0100 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Today the updating of the portage cache was real quick -- something | like a minute, instead of the ten minutes it used to take during | the past month or so. What has changed? A really really dumb bit of code in

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirecting a script output to the mail command

2005-11-01 Thread Christoph Gysin
Thiago Lüttig wrote: I need to redirect an script output to the mail command. how ?? i've tried the following: ./script.sh mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] but the bash says [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] command not found. Use the pipe character '|':

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:36:52 +0100, Fernando Meira wrote: # emerge -Dav dbus hal Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/dbus-0.36.2 +X -debug -doc -gtk -mono +python +qt +xml2 0 kB [ebuild UD] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 [0.36.2] +X

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today the updating of the portage cache was real quick -- somethinglike a minute, instead of the ten minutes it used to take duringthe past month or so.What has changed?Was it the r2 to r3 update on glibc-2.3.5 ?Did I emerge somethingin the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Holly Bostick wrote: Programs That Depend On xmlto app-text/robodoc dev-util/mercurial sci-geosciences/gpsd sys-auth/libnss-pgsql doc media-gfx/k3d Which, if any of these programs do you have installed on your system? I have none of those installed, but that k3d looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirecting a script output to the mail command

2005-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:07:57 +, Thiago Lüttig wrote: I need to redirect an script output to the mail command. how ?? i've tried the following: ./script.sh mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./script.sh | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Neil Bothwick Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve

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

2005-11-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
Sorry about the delayed reply - I have been away for a couple of days. On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:25:12PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: and the fact that you get a /dev/ttyACM0 and I get a /dev/usb/acm/0. I wonder if that indicates a slight USB driver change between our two kernels? The

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel updates

2005-11-01 Thread Tim Kruse
* On 01.11.2005 Neil Bothwick wrote: This is true. But you should mention, that 'qpkg' is deprecated and 'equery' should be used: In that case I would have recommended equery to start with. But equery is horrendously slow to start up, whereas qpkg is virtually instant. It may be deprecated

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: A really really dumb bit of code in Portage itself was changed. See the gentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details. Is that the same reason it was sticking at 50% or so? If so there is a thread about it on the forums too. I hope that fixed it.

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Fernando Meira wrote: Have you ran some command that caches the portage dir to memory before updating portage cache? That normally speeds up.. but then again, maybe there were changes so that the annoying problem got fixed... Fernando You been running that du -s command to huh? It does

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem emerging realplayer-10.0.6

2005-11-01 Thread Tim Kruse
* On 01.11.2005 Alan E. Davis wrote: TOFU corrected You must emerge wget after setting the ssl flag, and then wget can access https URLs. I didn't understand how to set the ssl flag. He means the USE flag So long, tkr -- There is a Massachusetts law requiring all dogs to have their

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:57:59 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | A really really dumb bit of code in Portage itself was changed. See | the gentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details. | | Is that the same reason it was sticking at 50% or so? Yup. --

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote:A really really dumb bit of code in Portage itself was changed. See thegentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details.Is that the same reason it was sticking at 50% or so?If so there is a thread about it on the forums

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:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Programs That Depend On xmlto app-text/robodoc dev-util/mercurial sci-geosciences/gpsd sys-auth/libnss-pgsql doc media-gfx/k3d Which, if any of these programs do you have installed on your system? I have none of those installed, but that

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: Have you ran some command that caches the portage dir to memory before updating portage cache? That normally speeds up.. but then again, maybe there were changes so that the annoying problem got fixed... FernandoYou been running that

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Version

2005-11-01 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Monday 31 October 2005 23:53, Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2005-10-31 22:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make make modules_install then change /etc/lilo.conf to the new(and only) kernel You need to copy the new bzImage (arch/*/boot/bzImage)

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:21:23 +0100 Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You been running that du -s command to huh? It does work. I really need it on my old 200MHz machine. Would you happen to know what that command does? I read the man page but it didn't help much. I'm learning

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Version

2005-11-01 Thread karlos
´acutally, running lilo afterwards solved the problem for me. thanks. Karstne

Re: [gentoo-user] realtime-preemption patch

2005-11-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:11:48 + karlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to ask whether someone on the List has experiences with the Realtime Preemption patches by Ingo Molnar http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ applied to the gentoo-kernel. I have just tried it

Re: [gentoo-user] realtime-preemption patch

2005-11-01 Thread karlos
could you point me to a list where all the patches are listed, as I really don't know what patches are applied to gentoo-sources.#? k

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Fernando Meira wrote: Yeah.. I sync'ed portage yesterday and still took forever to finish. Although all the way is slow and painful, the worst part was indeed from 50% to 52%.. these 2% take SOO loong You say that your old 200MHz took 30m? I'd say my laptop took at least 30m

[gentoo-user] Re: lockup and freeze

2005-11-01 Thread James
Tamas Sarga tamas at wansite.homelinux.net writes: I have a problem. My PC lockups time to time with the attached dmesg. It occurs once or twice a week. After a minute or so it comes back, and the computer works again. At last time it dropped lost interrupts into dmesg, but I can't save it

Re: [gentoo-user] realtime-preemption patch

2005-11-01 Thread Max
Hi, On 11/1/05, karlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you point me to a list where all the patches are listed, as I really don't know what patches are applied to gentoo-sources.#? http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/ k Cheers, Max -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] realtime-preemption patch

2005-11-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:01:40 + karlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you point me to a list where all the patches are listed, as I really don't know what patches are applied to gentoo-sources.#? See http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches HTH, -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Holly Bostick wrote: It is not *currently* installed, you mean. But xmlto remains installed as a dependency of the uninstalled package. Does it (xmlto) appear in the output of an emerge deplclean -p (don't forget the -p!!)? It is not in that list. I'm pretty sure I had that though. I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Version

2005-11-01 Thread James
karlos k.gebbert at gmail.com writes: then change /etc/lilo.conf to the new(and only) kernel Grub is a superior alternative to lilo.in my opinion. I fought, scratch, pleaded, begged, and had massive lilo withdrawals, until I spent some time with grub. Now you could not get me to use

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Well, I tried. This is funny. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -C xmlto --- Couldn't find xmlto to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected for removal. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # If it is not there, what is trying to pull it in? This is weird. That k3d thing is not installed either. Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Version

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
James wrote: Grub is a superior alternative to lilo.in my opinion. I fought, scratch, pleaded, begged, and had massive lilo withdrawals, until I spent some time with grub. Now you could not get me to use lilo I also experimennt with lots of kernel versions and modifications. I

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-11-01 Thread John Dangler
Roy~ I've been leaning toward building the kernel myself; maybe this is a good time to jump in... I know from lspci that, in addition to the nvidia kernel (which module-rebuild correctly identifies), that ipw2100 (wireless) is a module that I had to emerge in order to be functional on my laptop.

[gentoo-user] Re: ethereal weirdness

2005-11-01 Thread James
John Myers electronerd at electronerdia.net writes: Red means 'on' Blue means 'off' Green means 'on, and changed since last merge' And and asterisk after the flag name means 'changed since last merge' Thanks! ethereal works fine now James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Version

2005-11-01 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
James wrote: Grub is a superior alternative to lilo.in my opinion. Superior ... definitely an opinion. I also use Grub, but only because the interface is nicer and I don't have to load the boot sector every time I update the kernel. However, there is a catch. The computer will not

[gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Alexander Skwar wrote: Than why did you top post? More importantly: Why do you full quote? trimming is good -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirecting a script output to the mail command

2005-11-01 Thread Richard Fish
Peter Ruskin wrote: Try: sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./script.sh No, that will send the _contents_ of script.sh to recipient, not the output of executing the script. I think you meant: ./script.sh | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Holly Bostick wrote: Oooh, so it's a double joke (in both binary and decimal). Now I like it even more. ok.. I have another geeky joke for you, then.. Why do programmers always confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because oct31 = dec25 --b -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Alexander Skwar wrote: Because oct 31 is the same as dec 25. bah.. you beat me to it.. dupe post -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Nicholas Hockey wrote: I don't know why ppl just want to bitch about top posting and HTML? just because you *can* do it, doesn't mean you should. General common sense. I'd much rather fill up my harddrive with mp3's rather than 400 replies that top post the original, which basically mean you

Re: [gentoo-user] BUG in glibc????

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
capsel wrote: j=strcmp( log, *(lines+i) ); printf( ble\n ); if( strcmp( log, *(lines+i) ) == 0 ) { printf( ble2\n ); it looks to me like you're probably getting an invalid pointer reference. When that

Re: [gentoo-user] lockup and freeze

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Tamas Sarga wrote: What can be the problem? What other informations do you need? you could try turning off dma for your drive and see if the problems continue to happen, however, you need to rule out certain things first. (1) Rule out the harddrive - put in another harddrive -or- (2) Rule

[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] Re: Quoting styles

2005-11-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Billy Holmes schrieb: Alexander Skwar wrote: Because oct 31 is the same as dec 25. bah.. you beat me to it.. dupe post :) Well, how do they say? 2nd place is 1st loser? *G* Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread Christoph Gysin
Fernando Meira wrote: On 11/1/05, *Christoph Gysin* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 赵光 wrote: !!! ERROR: x11-libs/ecore- failed. !!! Function cvs_fetch, Line 332, Exitcode 1 !!! cvs login command failed !!! If you need support, post the

[gentoo-user] rsync backup after time change

2005-11-01 Thread Joseph
When I perform backup using rsync after recent time change my entire system is being backup up. Does anybody know why? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-11-01 Thread Ryan Viljoen
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

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread Matias Grana
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:42:18PM +0100, Christoph Gysin wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: On 11/1/05, *Christoph Gysin* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 赵光 wrote: !!! ERROR: x11-libs/ecore- failed. !!! Function cvs_fetch, Line 332, Exitcode 1

Re: [gentoo-user] realtime-preemption patch

2005-11-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/1/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:11:48 + karlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to ask whether someone on the List has experiences with the Realtime Preemption patches by Ingo Molnar

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

2005-11-01 Thread Bill Roberts
On 16:53 Tue 01 Nov , Ryan Viljoen wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Support in 2.6.13-r5 Kernel? --SOLVED!!!

2005-11-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/30/2005 9:46 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 10/30/2005 9:33 AM Holly Bostick wrote: Drew Tomlinson schreef: I am trying to upgrade from a 2.6.11 genkernel to 2.6.13-r5 genkernel. However when booting, I get a message about root not being a valid root device and then a prompt to enter

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: A really really dumb bit of code in Portage itself was changed. But the last time I updated portage was three weeks ago. And only today suddenly the cache's updating lost its terrible slowness. See the gentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details.

[gentoo-user] realplayer emerge problem

2005-11-01 Thread Will White
When I emerge realplayer I get: emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / Downloading https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm: Unsupported scheme. !!!

[gentoo-user] German Wiki pages

2005-11-01 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Elsewhere I had asked a question regarding the Cherry CyMotion Master Linux keyboard. While researching it, I ran across a German Gentoo Wiki page on configuring the keyboard (http://de.gentoo-wiki.com/Cherry_CyMotion_Master_Linux). I noticed the page was not in the english Wiki

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] BUG in glibc????

2005-11-01 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 30 October 2005 13:54, capsel wrote: is it a bug in glibc or in my code? Probably not a bug in glibc. I'm 99% sure that there are no bugs that obvious in printf or strcmp. glibc is absolutely the most tested code in a GNU/Linux system, aside from the kernel itself, seeing as it is

Re: [gentoo-user] realplayer emerge problem

2005-11-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Will White schreef: When I emerge realplayer I get: emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / Downloading https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm:

[gentoo-user] Re: realtime-preemption patch

2005-11-01 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: I just wanted to ask whether someone on the List has experiences with the Realtime Preemption patches by Ingo Molnar On Gentoo I build my own kernels. I dearly wish there was a realtime kernel project here based on Ingo's work but there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: realtime-preemption patch

2005-11-01 Thread karlos
hi, hm, seems to be relatively straight forward, at least the patching. Yet still some questions remain for me, for example, how can I upgrade to this kernel version (from 2.6.13-r5) to 2.6.14, when emerge won't do it by itself. I guess I should not simply download the sources mentioned by MArk

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-01 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, Jeff Smelser wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 05:15 pm, C. Beamer wrote: The instructions on the Gentoo website for upgrading gave a step by step to create a backup of my database. However, when I went to restore the database after the upgrade, the restore didn't work. I'm thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] realplayer emerge problem

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew Kirilenko
Hello! On Tuesday 01 November 2005 20:43, Will White wrote: When I emerge realplayer I get: emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / Downloading https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-2005 0915.i586.rpm

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Ryan L
Dale wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: Have you ran some command that caches the portage dir to memory before updating portage cache? That normally speeds up.. but then again, maybe there were changes so that the annoying problem got fixed... Fernando You been running that du -s command

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

2005-11-01 Thread James Hiscock
...I keep thinking that I've forgotten about something that I did in moto4lin to get it to work, but I can't for the life of me remember what that was... maybe I'll try installing it on my laptop, and see if I can reproduce what I did on my desktop once I get home from work this evening...

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Ryan L wrote: What is this 'du -s command' you speak of? If it makes things faster, I have to try it! Since they fixed it, it may not help that much now. But if you still have trouble, du -s /var/cache/edb du -s /usr/portage emerge sync There was a explaination as to what it does earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-11-01 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 05:40:28 + Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would you guys suggest in terms of specs for a server, serving say 50 odd thin clients? Probably 2P Opteron with 2 GB to 8 GB main memory. Cpus around 2 GHz. You'll have to calculate the memory needs of each

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Ryan L
Dale wrote: Ryan L wrote: What is this 'du -s command' you speak of? If it makes things faster, I have to try it! Since they fixed it, it may not help that much now. But if you still have trouble, du -s /var/cache/edb du -s /usr/portage emerge sync There was a

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