[gentoo-user] another upgrading to gcc 4.x issue

2006-09-01 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
During 'emerge -e system' I have got emerge errors for two packages (sys-libs/db and sys-libs/pam). At both cases an error is something like this: ... checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-cc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-cc checking for C compiler default

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Richard, After entering chroot environment re-installed grub; # cat EOF | grub root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) EOF Running install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst... succeeded Exited chroot and umount everythings. Rebooted PC. Grub started but

[gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config

2006-09-01 Thread David Grant
I accidentally deleted /var/lib (I meant to delete /var/lib/mysql). The only damage seems to be the deletion of /var/lib/portage/config and /var/lib/portage/mysql I'm not worried about world, I can easiliy fix that over time by running emerge -p --depclean and adding world entries. There are

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - WiFi cards for laptop

2006-09-01 Thread Mick
Anyone? On Wednesday 30 August 2006 16:11, Mick wrote: Hi All, I am about to splash out on a WiFi card for my laptop and I have foudn the whole choice experience daunting. I would ideally like to be able to also use this card on the laptop as a wireless access point when I am at home.

[gentoo-user] hotplug in runlevel?

2006-09-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
Should hotplug be removed from the boot runlevel? The emerge warning WARNING: The hotplug init script is now gone (dead and buried). doesn't make it clear. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user-es] vim y utf8

2006-09-01 Thread Arnau Bria
Buenas, Buenas !! hoy me he dado cuenta que no puedo escribir acentos en vim... lo raro es que tengo un montón de archivos donde si he podido, y no se que diablos he podido cambiar para este nuevo comportamiento... Seguí la guía de utf8 al pie de la letra, y me funcionaba todo

[gentoo-user] Trying to active the irda into my laptop

2006-09-01 Thread d2clon
Hi people: I'm trying to turn on the irda on my laptop but I don't know how to know which chipset it is, I think I need to know this to know which module I need to compile in the kernel. The command 'lspci'[1] does not show me any thing that looks like an irda. Looking for 'irda' into 'dmesg'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user-es] vim y utf8

2006-09-01 Thread Arnau Bria
Uops! This should be in spanish list! sorry! no coffe yet! Cheers! On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:23:28 +0200 Arnau Bria wrote: Buenas, Buenas !! hoy me he dado cuenta que no puedo escribir acentos en vim... lo raro es que tengo un montón de archivos donde si he podido, y [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] another upgrading to gcc 4.x issue

2006-09-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: During 'emerge -e system' I have got emerge errors for two packages (sys-libs/db and sys-libs/pam). At both cases an error is something like this: ... checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-cc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-cc

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to active the irda into my laptop

2006-09-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 01 September 2006 09:39, d2clon wrote: 'm trying to turn on the irda on my laptop but I don't know how to know which chipset it is, I think I need to know this to know which module I need to compile in the kernel. findchip - installed by irda-utils alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! The Ubuntu folks report on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh, that bootup and also ./configure runs are *WAY* faster if dash is used as /bin/sh instead of bash. Did anyone try this out on Gentoo? Are the boot scripts from Gentoo strictly POSIX compliant? Bye, Alexander Skwar -- Vini,

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to active the irda into my laptop

2006-09-01 Thread d2clon
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 01 September 2006 09:39, d2clon wrote: 'm trying to turn on the irda on my laptop but I don't know how to know which chipset it is, I think I need to know this to know which module I need to compile in the kernel. findchip - installed by irda-utils biit ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] ELOG doesn't seem to be logging much

2006-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 03:11:22 +0200, Nico wrote: PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=warn error log PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save The messages are saved to $PORT_LOGDIR/elog, have you checked there? -- Neil Bothwick An unemployed Court Jester is nobody's fool. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-01 Thread asl . pavel
But /bin/sh just link to /bin/bash On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:45:44AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! The Ubuntu folks report on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh, that bootup and also ./configure runs are *WAY* faster if dash is used as /bin/sh instead of bash. Did anyone try this

Re: [gentoo-user] another upgrading to gcc 4.x issue

2006-09-01 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Stefan, It seems, you are a magician :-) - it helped at both cases, thanks! === On Friday 01 September 2006 12:28, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: === Andrew Gaydenko wrote: During 'emerge -e system' I have got emerge errors for two packages (sys-libs/db and sys-libs/pam). At both cases an

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config

2006-09-01 Thread Erik
David Grant wrote: But what is config all about? On my other machine it looks like the file contains a bunch of hashes for config files in /etc/. Are these used to quickly see if a file in /etc/ is different or does it just do a diff? It looks like the numbers I get when running md5sum

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc completed screwed my system

2006-09-01 Thread David Grant
A very small step in the right direction...I unzipped the quickpkg I made into the /mnt/gentoo and now I am able to chroot in there. If I try to re-emerge glibc-2.3.6 though it complains that downgrading is a sure way to destruction. I'm pretty sure it would be safe for me to downgrade because I

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config

2006-09-01 Thread David Grant
I noticed that my /var/lib/portage/config file is not getting populated with new entries anymore, although it did get created by some program. Very strange... David On 9/1/06, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Grant wrote: But what is config all about? On my other machine it looks like the

Re: [gentoo-user] Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-01 Thread Erik
Alexander Skwar wrote: The Ubuntu folks report on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh, that bootup and also ./configure runs are *WAY* faster if dash is used as /bin/sh instead of bash. Did anyone try this out on Gentoo? Are the boot scripts from Gentoo strictly POSIX compliant? I tried time

[gentoo-user] AVI fixer

2006-09-01 Thread rob
Is there a program that will fix multiable AVI files at once. My problem is I have some AVI's that have timming problems some players stop the AVI's in the middle of the streem. Because the streem time shows lower that it is. Other programs play the streem all the way. Hope someone can help

[gentoo-user] 2006.1 profile access rights

2006-09-01 Thread Mick
I changed to the new profile, but I cannot understand why the access rights are different from previous ones: # ls -la /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/ total 36 drwxr-xr-x 10 portage portage 4096 Sep 1 10:36 . drwxr-xr-x 15 portage portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user-es] vim y utf8

2006-09-01 Thread info
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:23:28AM +0200, Arnau Bria wrote: Buenas, Buenas !! hoy me he dado cuenta que no puedo escribir acentos en vim... lo raro es que tengo un montón de archivos donde si he podido, y no se que diablos he podido cambiar para este nuevo comportamiento...

[gentoo-user] Genkernel doesn't work when module loadable support is disabled

2006-09-01 Thread Xavier MOGHRABI
Dear all, I'm trying to generate a kernel without module. So I've disabled Enable loadable module support option with genkernel. Genkernel compiles well the bzimage but fails after with the message ERROR: Failed to compile the modules target... (look hereunder log). Do you know how can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Genkernel doesn't work when module loadable support is disabled

2006-09-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 01 September 2006 15:29, Xavier MOGHRABI wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to generate a kernel without module. So I've disabled Enable loadable module support option with genkernel. Genkernel compiles well the bzimage but fails after with the message ERROR: Failed to compile the

Re: [gentoo-user] Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:03:35 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: I saw no errors, so they are certainly WFM compliant :) Or not. The boot process worked fine, but some scripts started failing once the desktop was working. The first, somewhat appropriately, was sux. It works from a VC but errors out in

Re: [gentoo-user] Genkernel doesn't work when module loadable support is disabled

2006-09-01 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 01 September 2006 14:29, Xavier MOGHRABI wrote: I'm trying to generate a kernel without module. So I've disabled Enable loadable module support option with genkernel. Genkernel compiles well the bzimage but fails after with the message ERROR: Failed to compile the modules target...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 16:33:01 +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: You can force sux to use bash. Just replace the first line in /usr/bin/sux with #!/bin/bash That was the first thing I tried, it made no difference. A quick look at sux shows it building a command to pas to exec that used $SHELL,. This is

[gentoo-user] Audio CD support

2006-09-01 Thread sdoma
Hi, Does somebody know how I can get XMMS to play audio CSs? Play audio CD simply cleans the playlist and doesn't do anything else. In Preferences-Audio CD the Audio CD directory is set to /mnt/cdrom (We don't mount audio CDs - do we?) My cdrom drive is on /dev/hdc but I can't browse to this

[gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread sdoma
Hi, I got some MP3 files which seem not to be properly coded. The Interpret/Title information is missing for some, other show very ugly time information in XMMS ( -234567:21, 893767:13 i.e.) but the frame/duration in the MP3 info is correct. Are there any tools (preferred command line) to decode

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Richard, Further to my late posting, after mounting # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot Ran # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot boot - . grub lost+found # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot boot - . grub lost+found # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot/boot boot - . grub lost+found # ls -l

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 01 September 2006 17:47, sdoma wrote: Hi, I got some MP3 files which seem not to be properly coded. The Interpret/Title information is missing for some, other show very ugly time information in XMMS ( -234567:21, 893767:13 i.e.) but the frame/duration in the MP3 info is correct.

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD support

2006-09-01 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You won't need to mount the cd, but make sure the user who plays the cd is in the cdrom group. If this simple suggestion does not help, try to start xmms in a terminal and look what it has to say. Post the output here if you can't find the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD support

2006-09-01 Thread Jeff Grant
Hey Frank. Make sure you have: * media-plugins/xmms-cdaudio Latest version available: 1.2.10-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 2,916 kB Homepage: http://www.xmms.org Description: Xmms Plugin: xmms-cdaudio License:

Re: [gentoo-user] ELOG doesn't seem to be logging much

2006-09-01 Thread Nico
The messages are saved to $PORT_LOGDIR/elog, have you checked there?-- Neil BothwickYep, that's what I mean : I don't have many information in those files, and less files than before : some warning messages that I can see during the compilation are not stored like before in this directory, I must

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread sdoma
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:12 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 01 September 2006 17:47, sdoma wrote: Hi, I got some MP3 files which seem not to be properly coded. The Interpret/Title information is missing for some, other show very ugly time information in XMMS ( -234567:21,

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD support

2006-09-01 Thread sdoma
... right [ Not Installed ] for me too. Thanks ;) On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 12:17 -0400, Jeff Grant wrote: Hey Frank. Make sure you have: * media-plugins/xmms-cdaudio Latest version available: 1.2.10-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 2,916 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD support

2006-09-01 Thread Jeff Grant
Make sure you log out/log back in after adding yourself to any group. -Jeff sdoma wrote: I've installed it now and added me to the cdrom group. Still nothing ... ) BTW: I don't see the plugin amongst the installed plugins within XMMS. The manual doesn't say so much about this. Does this

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 01 September 2006 18:21, sdoma wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:12 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 01 September 2006 17:47, sdoma wrote: Hi, I got some MP3 files which seem not to be properly coded. The Interpret/Title information is missing for some, other

[gentoo-user] Bugday Reminder

2006-09-01 Thread Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone :-) Saturday (that would be tomorrow), it's bugday again, and we would like to see you in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net :-) We hope to see as many people as possible, and to get as many bugs as possible fixed :-) Bjarke AKA

Re: [gentoo-user] AVI fixer

2006-09-01 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Friday 01 September 2006 13:43, rob wrote: Is there a program that will fix multiable AVI files at once. My problem is I have some AVI's that have timming problems some players stop the AVI's in the middle of the streem. Because the streem time shows lower that it is. Other programs play

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 September 2006 16:47, sdoma wrote: Hi, I got some MP3 files which seem not to be properly coded. The Interpret/Title information is missing for some, other show very ugly time information in XMMS ( -234567:21, 893767:13 i.e.) but the frame/duration in the MP3 info is correct. Are

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread sdoma
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:58 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Could you point me to some of the lots of tools you mentioned? media-sound/audiotag Latest version available: 0.15 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 14 kB Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Friday 01 September 2006 19:58, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 01 September 2006 18:21, sdoma wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:12 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 01 September 2006 17:47, sdoma wrote: Hi, I got some MP3 files which seem not to be properly

Re: [gentoo-user] Genkernel doesn't work when module loadable support is disabled

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 September 2006 15:29, Xavier MOGHRABI wrote: Do you know how can I generate my kernel w/o module support using Genkernel ? You don't. The entire point of genkernel is to make it easy for newbies to compile a kernel, complete with

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD support

2006-09-01 Thread sdoma
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 12:49 -0400, Jeff Grant wrote: Make sure you log out/log back in after adding yourself to any group. -Jeff This was not sufficient. I had to change the permissions of /mnt/cdrom (belonged to root:root - changet this to root:cdrom; was accessible with drwx-- -

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And recoding: mp3 is a lossy format. If you turn them into wavs you have not only wavs based on reduced information, you remove the stuff that makes mp3 sound 'better' than they are. If you encode them again, you are removing more

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug in runlevel?

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can hotplug then be unmerged? This is Gentoo. You can do anything you want. ;-) But it probably isn't a good idea, as the hotplug scripts are still used for...wellvarious things. For example, setting the permissions on USB scanners

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD support

2006-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:49:19 -0400, Jeff Grant wrote: Make sure you log out/log back in after adding yourself to any group. Or use newgrp. PS please do not top post and do edit your quotes. -- Neil Bothwick As long as you do not move you can still choose any direction. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ran # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot boot - . grub lost+found Well, this is why you cannot boot. You do not have a kernel image in /boot. Are you actually _following_ the guide that you posted a link to originally, because you seem to have missed[1]:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Friday 01 September 2006 17:47, sdoma wrote: even if there are tools - don't do it. The artist/title info is in the id4 tags - you can edit them with lots of tools, even inside most players. No need to recode them. This is true, no need to re-encode just

[gentoo-user] Re: Streaming Audio: source - server - clients.. What to use for source to send to server?

2006-09-01 Thread Jim Ramsay
fire-eyes wrote: I'm out of ideas now, and pretty frustrated. I am looking for ideas. This would preferably be a console application so I don't have to depend on a GUI. Again, it needs to support both mp3 and ogg at the same time, yet have the ability to take the oggs, re-encode to mp3 on the

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc completed screwed my system

2006-09-01 Thread James
David Grant davidgrant at gmail.com writes: If anyone can help me I'm desperate to save this system and not have to reinstall. Well, I have lost xwindows/kde on (2) systems because of an upgrade of make.profile to point to 2006.1. I'm sure glibc was part of the problem. A third syxtem, an

[gentoo-user] Mono error (SIGSEGV)

2006-09-01 Thread Nico
Hi,I was following the guide for upgrading GCC and was running the command 'emerge -eav world' (all the command before where good) and Mono failed during the compil time.Here is the error : ** (../../class/lib/net_2_0_bootstrap/mcs.exe:23591): WARNING **: The class

[gentoo-user] Re: Mono error (SIGSEGV)

2006-09-01 Thread Nico
I've found a workaround in the forum : emerge -C mono emerge mono :-/This command is running now, i'll tell you if it works

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc completed screwed my system

2006-09-01 Thread David Grant
On 9/1/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Grant davidgrant at gmail.com writes: If anyone can help me I'm desperate to save this system and not have to reinstall. Well, I have lost xwindows/kde on (2) systems because of an upgrade of make.profile to point to 2006.1. I'm sure glibc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Streaming Audio: source - server - clients.. What to use for source to send to server?

2006-09-01 Thread fire-eyes
Jim Ramsay wrote: fire-eyes wrote: I'm out of ideas now, and pretty frustrated. I am looking for ideas. This would preferably be a console application so I don't have to depend on a GUI. Again, it needs to support both mp3 and ogg at the same time, yet have the ability to take the oggs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD support

2006-09-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 September 2006 17:17, Jeff Grant wrote: Hey Frank. Make sure you have: * media-plugins/xmms-cdaudio Latest version available: 1.2.10-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 2,916 kB Homepage: http://www.xmms.org

[gentoo-user] Re: Mono error (SIGSEGV)

2006-09-01 Thread Nico
emerge -C mono emerge --resume did the trick.Now running the big compil.Thx for me lol

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 01 September 2006 21:23, darren kirby wrote: Hardly bearable? Maybe if you have the ears of a dog. If you start with a decent bitrate in the first place (128+) I don't see a difference with naked ears at all. I hear the fine high pitch sound of TVs and I hear the fine high noise of

[gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

2006-09-01 Thread Mick
I moved onto 2006.1 profile, updated gcc, remerged system and now as I am getting ready to remerge world, suddenly I noticed: -kde, -qt, -opengl, -xmms, -png, -gif. Most of these were in my make.conf (well, at least kde qt were there). Now there's a number of packages that will be compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I hear the fine high pitch sound of TVs and I hear the fine high noise of marten repellants. So yes, I have the ears of a dog. You are not alone boy! I used to get to my girlfriend's house, and although the TV was

Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

2006-09-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 02 September 2006 01:05, Mick wrote: I moved onto 2006.1 profile, updated gcc, remerged system and now as I am getting ready to remerge world, suddenly I noticed: Consider switching to the newly introduced desktop profile (2006.1/desktop). There is a server profile too but that

[gentoo-user] Using Boinc under Gentoo

2006-09-01 Thread Frank Jahn
Hi all! I have a strange behavior in my BOINC client. All projects tell me that the platform 'i386-pc-linux-gnu' was not found. I might add, that I am quite new to Gentoo (not Linux in general) and just installed 2006.0 Thanks in advance ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Richard, On 9/1/06, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ran # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot boot - . grub lost+found Well, this is why you cannot boot. You do not have a kernel image in /boot. Are you actually _following_ the guide that you posted a link to originally, because

[gentoo-user] Buying Webcameras

2006-09-01 Thread Paulo J. Matos
HI all, I'm searching for a laptop webcam and a desktop webcam which should work under Gentoo and preferably work well under Ekiga with very good quality. I was thinking on Logitech cameras: Quickcam for Notebooks Deluxe or Pro and Quickcam Pro 5000 for desktop. I'm not sure about creative

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 02 September 2006 01:14, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I hear the fine high pitch sound of TVs and I hear the fine high noise of marten repellants. So yes, I have the ears of a dog. You are not alone boy! I used to get to my girlfriend's house,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have to run another round again wiping out the complete HD. Yeah, I think so... Another thing, what did you mean ...Use whatever name you feel is appropriate for your kernel choice and remember it as you will need it later on when you

[gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-01 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 01 September 2006 17:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: Speaking of which, you probably should see the shell used in the scripts from the sys-apps/baselayout package. All shell scripts use /bin/bash and not /bin/sh. So linking (d)ash as the default shell doesn't nearly have the impact

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-01 Thread Harm Geerts
On Saturday 02 September 2006 03:52, Richard Fish wrote: On 9/1/06, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have to run another round again wiping out the complete HD. Yeah, I think so... Another thing, what did you mean ...Use whatever name you feel is appropriate for your kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 01 September 2006 22:06, Harm Geerts wrote: On Friday 01 September 2006 17:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: Speaking of which, you probably should see the shell used in the scripts from the sys-apps/baselayout package. All shell scripts use /bin/bash and not /bin/sh. So linking

[gentoo-user] Bonehead mistake

2006-09-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi,After you guys get finished ROTFL, I hope someone can help me out.I did a real bonehead thing. I *hate* slotted packages. What can I say, I'm a neat freak. Normally, with the exception of genkernel, if a package is going to install into a new slot, I remove the original and install fresh.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Friday 01 September 2006 21:23, darren kirby wrote: Hardly bearable? Maybe if you have the ears of a dog. If you start with a decent bitrate in the first place (128+) I don't see a difference with naked ears at all. I hear the fine high pitch sound of

[gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-01 Thread Adrian
Greetings. This would be my first attempt at getting photos from a digital camera with my Gentoo system. I am using a Kodak EasyShare C533. With USBViewr I can see that the system sees the camera. That part of things seems to be working. However, I've not really a clue what software to use.

[gentoo-user] OT: convert mov to avi

2006-09-01 Thread Adrian
Greetings; Does anyone know of a program, command line would be great, which will simply convert a mov video to an avi video. Nothing fancy, just change the format. Thank you much. Adrian -- On The Fly Photography -:- Creation From Chaos On The Fly Photography: http://204EastSouth.com

[gentoo-user] OT: Atom RSS

2006-09-01 Thread Adrian
I have tried the Google search and can't find what I'm looking for. I think it has something to do with the fact that I don't know enough to use the correct search terms me thinks. What I am trying to find is some step by step, idiot level instructions about how to set up Atom. Essentially I

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-01 Thread Ted Ozolins
Adrian wrote: Greetings. This would be my first attempt at getting photos from a digital camera with my Gentoo system. I am using a Kodak EasyShare C533. With USBViewr I can see that the system sees the camera. That part of things seems to be working. However, I've not really a clue what

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: convert mov to avi

2006-09-01 Thread Adrian
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:28:59 +0930 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: Oh sorry I misread your message, swap 'mov' and 'avi' in my previous message and it should still apply :p You may want to specify some codecs when transcoding to avi format, I don't know what ffmpeg

[gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I recently had a drive failure in with a Raid 1 setup. However, for testing purposes I tried to re-add the drive to the array after I removed it. However I ran into the following error message. ~ # mdadm /dev/md4 --add /dev/hdj1 mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/hdj1 as 2: Invalid

Re: [gentoo-user] Bonehead mistake

2006-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:27:44 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: I was told that there was a new version of gcc and that it would be installed into a new slot. I know that gcc is a compiler without a compiler things just don't want to compile. However, I removed it

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-01 Thread Adrian
Thanks, I will check those out. Adrian On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 08:06:51 +0400 Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: May be these packages? - media-gfx/digikam media-plugins/digikamimageplugins === On Saturday 02 September 2006 08:37, Adrian wrote: === Greetings.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-01 Thread Adrian
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:11:59 -0700 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: Adrian wrote: Greetings. This would be my first attempt at getting photos from a digital camera with my Gentoo system. I am using a Kodak EasyShare C533. With USBViewr I can see that the system sees

[gentoo-user] /etc/make.conf: changing CHOST on same system

2006-09-01 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I got some homebrewed problems :-/ This morning I tried to update to glibc-2.4-r3. Checking dependencies breaks with: -- checking glibc-2.4-patches-1.17.tar.bz2 ;-) checking glibc-linuxthreads-20060605.tar.bz2 ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Boinc under Gentoo

2006-09-01 Thread Shawn Haggett
Frank Jahn wrote: Hi all! I have a strange behavior in my BOINC client. All projects tell me that the platform 'i386-pc-linux-gnu' was not found. I might add, that I am quite new to Gentoo (not Linux in general) and just installed 2006.0 Thanks in advance ;) What is your CHOST

Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

2006-09-01 Thread Daniel Iliev
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 02 September 2006 01:05, Mick wrote: I moved onto 2006.1 profile, updated gcc, remerged system and now as I am getting ready to remerge world, suddenly I noticed: Consider switching to the newly introduced desktop profile (2006.1/desktop).

Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

2006-09-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 02 September 2006 07:17, Daniel Iliev wrote: Of course its gentoo and therefore there is yet another approach: USE=-* kde qt 'all flags that you want' This way release changes wouldn't affect your USE flags. Or simply don't upgrade your profile until the old profile gets

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/make.conf: changing CHOST on same system

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: glibc-2.4 is nptl-only! NPTL requires a CHOST of i486 or better You missed fixing this error. -Richard !!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r3 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-01 Thread Ted Ozolins
Ted Ozolins wrote: Adrian wrote: Greetings. This would be my first attempt at getting photos from a digital camera with my Gentoo system. I am using a Kodak EasyShare C533. With USBViewr I can see that the system sees the camera. That part of things seems to be working. However, I've