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2006-04-12 Thread Zhang Weiwu
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[gentoo-user] package.mask

2006-04-12 Thread Niki Balov
Hi there, i want to ask how to mask versions of glibc above 2.4? I compile my entire system with gcc3.4.5 and glibc 2.4 and i don't want to upgrade them. I added the following lines in package.mask sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5 sys-libs/glibc-2.4 but there is glibc-2.4-r1 and the system wants to upgrade. I

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask

2006-04-12 Thread Nagatoro
Niki Balov wrote: Hi there, i want to ask how to mask versions of glibc above 2.4? I compile my entire system with gcc3.4.5 and glibc 2.4 and i don't want to upgrade them. I added the following lines in package.mask sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5 sys-libs/glibc-2.4 sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5 sys-libs/glibc-2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask

2006-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:55:16 +0300, Niki Balov wrote: i want to ask how to mask versions of glibc above 2.4? I compile my entire system with gcc3.4.5 and glibc 2.4 and i don't want to upgrade them. I added the following lines in package.mask sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5 sys-libs/glibc-2.4 but there

[gentoo-user] Clarification on LVM vs JBOD

2006-04-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Just wanted to clarify something. Say I have a bunch of disks, I can go either using JBOD, and mount each disk eg: /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2 /mnt/disk3 and use them as is. If one crash, I still retain data on the other 2. If I use LVM, for ease of configuration and to provide me

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on LVM vs JBOD

2006-04-12 Thread jarry
Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Say I have a bunch of disks, I can go either using JBOD, and mount each disk eg: /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2 /mnt/disk3 and use them as is. If one crash, I still retain data on the other 2. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think JBOD (just bunch

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on LVM vs JBOD

2006-04-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2006 11:29 schrieb ext Ow Mun Heng: Just wanted to clarify something. Say I have a bunch of disks, I can go either using JBOD, and mount each disk eg: /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2 /mnt/disk3 and use them as is. If one crash, I still retain data on the other 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)...

2006-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/11/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I'm still trying to fix my Myth frontend box. Bummer. I've got X working again by going back to older udev. Myth is working if I use a keyboard, but my remote controi has stopped working. (Darn emerge!) Anyway, if I

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-12 Thread Sven Köhler
Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( mkfs, but make sure you have a backup. *SCNR* No risk, no fun! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] tunning use flag

2006-04-12 Thread Pawel K
Hello I'm not sure whether I understand the USE flag properly. I'm using fluxbox as X window manager. I'm not using kde and gnome and I'm not interested in those packages. Can I remove support for them in my /etc/make.conf by specifying: USE=-kde -gnome -qt -gtk -gtk+ Will ethereal work after

Re: [gentoo-user] gdm not coming up

2006-04-12 Thread Grant
I just set up xdm and gdm and xdm is coming up fine but I never see gdm. I followed the instructions here: Did you modify /etc/rc.conf to set DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm? How are you starting X - startx, /etc/init.d/xdm start, ? -James That fixed it. It's working perfectly now. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag

2006-04-12 Thread Gogiel
Pawel K wrote: Hello I'm not sure whether I understand the USE flag properly. I'm using fluxbox as X window manager. I'm not using kde and gnome and I'm not interested in those packages. Can I remove support for them in my /etc/make.conf by specifying: USE=-kde -gnome -qt -gtk -gtk+

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-12 Thread wcw84
From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:01:57 +0800 (CST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] error after update On 4/11/06, wcw84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I updated in my second gentoo to gcc 4.0.2 and glibc2.4,and emerge -e system

Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, Pawel K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm not sure whether I understand the USE flag properly. I'm using fluxbox as X window manager. I'm not using kde and gnome and I'm not interested in those packages. USE flags turn on optional support (and dependancies) in packages. So

Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:03:39 +0800 (CST) wcw84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: config_eth0=( 222.20.45.71 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 222.20.45 255 ) There's a dot missing right before the last 255. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, wcw84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I so appreciated the help from Richard!Thank you for telling me to add the alsasound to starting in default level.Now i have sound! My pleasure. But i still don't know how to deal with my network problem. This is my /etc/con.d/net: # This blank

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on LVM vs JBOD

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think JBOD (just bunch of disks) is a name for some simple sort of multi-disk array, where disks are just joined into one volume, without any stripping/mirroring. It is actually even simpler than that. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:03:39 +0800 (CST) wcw84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: config_eth0=( 222.20.45.71 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 222.20.45 255 ) There's a dot missing right before the last 255. Nice catch! -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on LVM vs JBOD

2006-04-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 08:26 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 4/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think JBOD (just bunch of disks) is a name for some simple sort of multi-disk array, where disks are just joined into one volume, without any

Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 April 2006 16:03, wcw84 wrote: # This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.* # scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration, # please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration # in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).

[gentoo-user] Getting NX to work - account locked?

2006-04-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! I installed net-misc/nx-x11-1.5.0-r5 net-misc/nxclient-1.5.0-r2 net-misc/nxcomp-1.5.0-r1 net-misc/nxproxy-1.5.0 net-misc/nxserver-freenx-0.5.0 net-misc/nxssh-1.5.0 according to the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_FreeNX_Server I also followed the step on the discussions page at

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting NX to work - account locked?

2006-04-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar wrote: Do I need to unlock the account? I wonder, because the howto says nothing about it. Hm. I now unlocked the nx account by giving it a password, but I still fail to login. The client still errors out with Server not installed or NX access disabled and when I click on

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Roy
On 10/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it's not part of the stage1. It's emerged when you do emerge system, I believe. Which would have been fine, except that I thought I was doing a stage 3 install :-) -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Another query.. this time about installprofile.xml

2006-04-12 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
Hi everyone :) In installprofile.xml, there's an option to list packages you want installed in a space-delimited format. Just wondering--can I specify *versions* there? Like: app-admin/logrotate-x.xx app-admin/sudo-y.yy app-admin/syslog-ng-z.zz app-admin/sysstat-q.qq and so forth (where

[gentoo-user] koffice-libs-1.5.0 fails

2006-04-12 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
Koffice-libs-1.5.0 fails to build. Message follows. -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -fexceptions -c -o rubyextension.lo `test -f 'rubyextension.cpp' || echo './'`rubyextension.cpp In file included from

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 01:45, Lord Sauron wrote: Hello, This happened once before in Kubuntu, though this time I was more alert and know what I did right before this happened. So what did transpire? I sent my laptop into sleep mode via the popup menu on the battery monitor in KDE. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 05:12, Sven Köhler wrote: Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ And i'm running it right now ... oh oh ... Yes! my

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-12 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 22:59, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 01:45, Lord Sauron wrote: Hello, This happened once before in Kubuntu, though this time I was more alert and know what I did right before this happened. So what did transpire? I sent my laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Another query.. this time about installprofile.xml

2006-04-12 Thread Chris White
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 12:30 pm, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) wrote: Hi everyone :) In installprofile.xml, there's an option to list packages you want installed in a space-delimited format. Just wondering--can I specify *versions* there? Like: app-admin/logrotate-x.xx app-admin/sudo-y.yy

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-12 Thread Teresa and Dale
Martins Steinbergs wrote: read ~/.xsession-errors maybe some hint there, once i had that file fill free space on /home with few GB 'cause busy filling errors before start KDE also try remove previous session saves, maybe there some sassion saved in bad state rm ~/.kde/share/config/session/*

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

2006-04-12 Thread CR Little
I did a df h on my system today and I only have 300 megs left on /usr So I went into /usr/portage and ran du sh and it shows as 1.5G I then went into /usr/src and ran du sh and it shows as 1.5G also Granted this is a small box 5 Gigs for /usr Should I delete all the outdated

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

2006-04-12 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
emerge sync cleans up after itself. Rather, rsync takes care of that, so do not expect to gain too much. Cleanup of kernels is good, if they are portage managed than you can do something akin to this: emerge -c =gentoo-sources-version-revision e.g. To remove all of these kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-12 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
I do something like this: for x in /*; do if [ ${x} != /usr ]; then tar zcf ${x}.tar ${x} fi done for x in /usr/*; do tar zcf /usr_`basename ${x}`.tar ${x} done Then you save those files to another medium [i.e. cd, or another host or hard drive or something] format your

Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag

2006-04-12 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
gtk != gnome. Gnome uses GTK, but so does XFCE, Gimp, Ethereal, etc. So, you may not want -gtk and -gtk+ in your main packages. That said Gogiel is absolutley correct. js On 4/12/06, Gogiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pawel K wrote: Hello I'm not sure whether I understand the USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] mirror email servers

2006-04-12 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
That's close to what I use. However, MX entries alone aren't the solution. You also have to configure the mail servers to forward the mail on to the final destination once it comes back online. I'm not sure how to do that myself, and don't really have to time to put much effort into it since

RE: [gentoo-user] Another query.. this time about installprofile. xml

2006-04-12 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
Chris said: Yes but that's not clean Understood. I'm _very_ new to Gentoo. I've spent the past 6 years supporting FreeBSD systems, and I'm being thrown into the deep end of the pool at this new job ;-) Use the same portage tree, have only the package version(s) you want avaliable. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

2006-04-12 Thread Robert Crawford
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 16:59, CR Little wrote: I did a df -h on my system today and I only have 300 megs left on /usr So I went into /usr/portage and ran du -sh and it shows as 1.5G I then went into /usr/src and ran du -sh and it shows as 1.5G also Granted this is a small box - 5

RE: [gentoo-user] Another query.. this time about installprofile. xml

2006-04-12 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
*Sigh* Sorry for the fat fingers before :-/ Let's try this again, eh? Chris said: Yes but that's not clean Understood. I'm _very_ new to Gentoo. I've spent the past 6 years supporting FreeBSD systems, and I'm being thrown into the deep end of the pool at this new job ;-) Use the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

2006-04-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: emerge sync cleans up after itself. Rather, rsync takes care of that, so do not expect to gain too much. /usr/portage/distfiles will be taking up much of that 1.5GB. It's safe to clean that. Cleanup of kernels is good, if they are portage managed than you can do

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

2006-04-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
CR Little wrote: So I went into /usr/portage and ran du -sh and it shows as 1.5G Use eclean. I then went into /usr/src and ran du -sh and it shows as 1.5G also Use 'emerge --prune gentoo-sources'. Next, what will happen if I rm -rf /usr/portage will the next emerge sync rebuild it? It

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-12 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/12/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 01:45, Lord Sauron wrote: Hello, This happened once before in Kubuntu, though this time I was more alert and know what I did right before this happened. So what did transpire? I sent my laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-12 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/12/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martins Steinbergs wrote: read ~/.xsession-errors maybe some hint there, once i had that file fill free space on /home with few GB 'cause busy filling errors Yeah, I'll be looking in there shortly to see if there's any residual

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kdebugdialog-3.5.2 emerge error

2006-04-12 Thread Pete Pardoe
Richard OK, no I told you so's please - you were right! Thanks for the help! Now for the next question. How do I get my system to load kde 3.5 instead of kde 3.4? Thanks in advance. PeteOn 4/9/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/9/06, Pete Pardoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RichardThe

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

2006-04-12 Thread Robert Crawford
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 18:13, Benno Schulenberg wrote: CR Little CR Little, Please post output of df -h, and your /etc/fstab. From the posts on your problem, I can't tell what's what- looks lke all is on /usr, as its own partition. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] firefox upgrade-downgrade problem

2006-04-12 Thread Grant
I upgraded to the ~x86 firefox and it had some stability issues so I downgraded again. Now when I run firefox in a terminal it outputs this: Extension System Warning: Failed to set up default extensions files probably because you do not have write privileges to this location. While you can run

[gentoo-user] I cannot emerge sync after I used gcc-4.1 glibc-2.4

2006-04-12 Thread DongBin.Lou
hello everyone: I cannot emerge sync after I used gcc-4.1 glibc-2.4 I try it from 1:00 pm to 23 am ,but never work...I can only use emerge-webrsync now. and when my pc start ,it show warning: could not generate /etc/modprobe.confand system.map could not check(maybe this) symboland it

[gentoo-user] eth0 and eth1 configs flip flop

2006-04-12 Thread Kenton Groombridge
I have two NICs in my system, one for Internet and the other for my private network. The NIC that I want to be eth0 uses the forcedeth module and the NIC I want to be eth1 uses the 3c59x module. I have set up aliases in my /etc/modules.d/forcedeth: alias eth0 forcedeth and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 23:14, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: I do something like this: for x in /*; do if [ ${x} != /usr ]; then tar zcf ${x}.tar ${x} fi done for x in /usr/*; do tar zcf /usr_`basename ${x}`.tar ${x} done Then you save those files to another medium

Re: [gentoo-user] I cannot emerge sync after I used gcc-4.1 glibc-2.4

2006-04-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 13 April 2006 02:37, DongBin.Lou wrote: hello everyone: I cannot emerge sync after I used gcc-4.1 glibc-2.4 I try it from 1:00 pm to 23 am ,but never work...I can only use emerge-webrsync now. and when my pc start ,it show warning: could not generate /etc/modprobe.confand

Re: [gentoo-user] I cannot emerge sync after I used gcc-4.1 glibc-2.4

2006-04-12 Thread DongBin.Lou
yeah,maybe I lost some libs recompiled. * Athena amorous # emerge -uDp rsync *** 'rsync' will now install the package rsync. *** To sync the tree, please use '--sync' instead. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 and eth1 configs flip flop

2006-04-12 Thread Ryan Tandy
Kenton Groombridge wrote: snip What I can do to ensure that it associates the correct module with the correct eth? Thanks, Ken udev can help you. Unfortunately I don't know enough about it to go into greater detail. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-12 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: You might also want to use top to see what, if anything, is using up your CPU time. Also keep in mind that if the CPU is fairly idle that the hard drive may be busy as well. I ran into this once before on a really slow system and it was the updatedb program. It was nice'd

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 and eth1 configs flip flop

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, Kenton Groombridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I can do to ensure that it associates the correct module with the correct eth? Your best choice is to write udev rules for them. A google for udev ethernet rules should get you started. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kdebugdialog-3.5.2 emerge error

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, Pete Pardoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for the next question. How do I get my system to load kde 3.5 instead of kde 3.4? Take a look in /etc/env.d. You should have both a 46kdepaths-3.4 and 45kdepaths-3.5. If so, then running 'env-update' and logging back in should be all you need

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 and eth1 configs flip flop

2006-04-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 13. April 2006 03:50 schrieb ext Kenton Groombridge: I have two NICs in my system, one for Internet and the other for my private network. The NIC that I want to be eth0 uses the forcedeth module and the NIC I want to be eth1 uses the 3c59x module. What I can do to ensure that