Re: [gentoo-user] #Gentoo

2007-08-18 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Steen Eugen Poulsen skrev: Every day for around a hour the same op comes around and their is always trouble for some reason in that short period. The channel works perfectly the other 23 hours a day... So one has to wonder if the op is creating the problems... Things like kicking someone

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Samstag 18 August 2007 04:51:50 schrieb Crayon Shin Chan: On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: I've successfully mounted the stick copied a file onto it: it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored. For performance reasons a write-cache is used -

[gentoo-user] Updating a package on a box with no network

2007-08-18 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am trying to update a single package (gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2) on a machine that has no network (borked NIC driver). I transferred manually the ebuild files and the source file patches, but it tells me that the package is masked (masked by: corruption). Apparently, the relevant

Re: [gentoo-user] #Gentoo

2007-08-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Steen Eugen Poulsen schrieb: Steen Eugen Poulsen skrev: Every day for around a hour the same op comes around and their is always trouble for some reason in that short period. The channel works perfectly the other 23 hours a day... So one has to wonder if the op is creating the problems...

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a package on a box with no network

2007-08-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Mick, I transferred manually the ebuild files and the source file patches, but it tells me that the package is masked (masked by: corruption). Apparently, the relevant ebuild file is not in the Manifest. ebuild /path/to/ebuild manifest A better solution is to copy the whole of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 20:28:43 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 13:03:40 schrieben Sie: Am Mittwoch 15 August 2007 21:07:49 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Mittwoch 15 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Okay, I've found option.ko and airprime.ko. tail -f

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 02:21 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: `revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0`. And make sure it remerges both fontconfig and gtk+-2.x (amongst a lot of other stuff). If you have more problems with this feel free to ask again. I think the -X is implied on the new

Re: [gentoo-user] #Gentoo

2007-08-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 18 August 2007 10:05:32 Steen Eugen Poulsen wrote: Could we please re-educate the #Gentoo ops and get them to have a bit more professionalism and tact or maybe consider that not everyone has the skills to be a good community representative. I got banned from the channel for

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 18 August 2007 16:40:34 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 02:21 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: `revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0`. And make sure it remerges both fontconfig and gtk+-2.x (amongst a lot of other stuff). If you have more problems with this feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a package on a box with no network

2007-08-18 Thread Mick
On Saturday 18 August 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Mick, I transferred manually the ebuild files and the source file patches, but it tells me that the package is masked (masked by: corruption). Apparently, the relevant ebuild file is not in the Manifest. ebuild /path/to/ebuild

[gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-18 Thread Mick
Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

2007-08-18 Thread Walter Dnes
This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that involves responding to some event that is triggered by closing the lid on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC. I've got a few reasons for wanting the desktop to suspend, or at least sleep... 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Samstag 18 August 2007 20:01:15 schrieb Walter Dnes: This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that involves responding to some event that is triggered by closing the lid on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC. I've got a few reasons for

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Samstag 18 August 2007 19:38:01 schrieb Mick: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? Both should work fine. As far as I can remember SLUB was created because of SLAB's huge overhead on clusters with more than 100 processors. SLAB is well tested. SLUB is less complex and might give

[gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread gentoo
Today after an emerge update the system wants to update to kde 3.5.7 However I've run into a major problem, kdelibs wont compile It keeps stopping at the following point: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.3 and 4.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet bridge

2007-08-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:56:13 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What interfaces was the win2003 server using previously for bridging and connecting to the Internet? I'm not entirely sure windows 'bridging' is equivalent to linux Ethernet bridging. Specifically, wouldn't linux

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 18 August 2007 21:05:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today after an emerge update the system wants to update to kde 3.5.7 However I've run into a major problem, kdelibs wont compile It keeps stopping at the following point: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.3 and 4.0)

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a package on a box with no network

2007-08-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Mick, A better solution is to copy the whole of the gentoo-sources directory from the networked box as this includes the Manifest. Copying over the manifest file didn't do it, so I ran your suggested command and it looks good so far. Copying the manifest file is not enough. Unless

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread gentoo
Probably just means that qt-3.x is broken e.g. cause by the expat bump. Use revdep-rebuild to fix it (see the numerous recent threads on this list). -- Bo Andresen I'm in a right mess here. I did a revdep-rebuild -p. It wanted to rebuild, essentially all of kde-3.5.5, because I'm in the

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. Don't use slub except on test systems. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 18. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably just means that qt-3.x is broken e.g. cause by the expat bump. Use revdep-rebuild to fix it (see the numerous recent threads on this list). -- Bo Andresen I'm in a right mess here. I did a revdep-rebuild -p. It wanted to

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 18 August 2007 22:43:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was no mention of qt-3.3.8-r3, but of course the first thing revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild is kdelibs which wont rebuild because of the qt problem. Probably bug #188782. Make sure you have the latest version of portage (at

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 18 August 2007 04:51:20 pm Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. Don't use slub except on test systems. That said, slub is

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Samstag 18 August 2007 22:51:20 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. Don't use slub except on test systems. I wouldn't recommend

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today after an emerge update the system wants to update to kde 3.5.7 However I've run into a major problem, kdelibs wont compile It keeps stopping at the following point: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.3 and 4.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Am Samstag 18 August 2007 22:51:20 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy.

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today after an emerge update the system wants to update to kde 3.5.7 However I've run into a major problem, kdelibs wont compile It keeps stopping at the following point: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

2007-08-18 Thread b.n.
Walter Dnes ha scritto: This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that involves responding to some event that is triggered by closing the lid on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC. I've got a few reasons for wanting the desktop to suspend, or

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread gentoo
it does, if you run revdep-rebuilt without options. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Right, Ignoring all the kde and media stuff in the revdep-rebuild -p output leaves the following packages: dev-libs/apr-util-1.2.8 dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.12-r1 x11-libs/pango-1.16.4 x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.3.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Samstag 18 August 2007 23:57:02 schrieb b.n.: Walter Dnes ha scritto: This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that involves responding to some event that is triggered by closing the lid on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread gentoo
it does, if you run revdep-rebuilt without options. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Right, Ignoring all the kde and media stuff in the revdep-rebuild -p output leaves the following packages: dev-libs/apr-util-1.2.8 dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.12-r1 x11-libs/pango-1.16.4

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 19. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it does, if you run revdep-rebuilt without options. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Right, Ignoring all the kde and media stuff in the revdep-rebuild -p output leaves the following packages: dev-libs/apr-util-1.2.8

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it does, if you run revdep-rebuilt without options. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Right, Ignoring all the kde and media stuff in the revdep-rebuild -p output leaves the following packages: dev-libs/apr-util-1.2.8 dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.12-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 19. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it does, if you run revdep-rebuilt without options. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Right, Ignoring all the kde and media stuff in the revdep-rebuild -p output leaves the following packages: dev-libs/apr-util-1.2.8

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 19 August 2007 00:05:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In answer to the other question, I'm using portage-2.1.2.11 Soo.. as said. You should fix that. That will change the order in which revdep-rebuild rebuilds things.. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

2007-08-18 Thread felix
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 09:00:45PM -0500, ?Q? wrote: The script is at http://remarqs.net/misc/mids2urls.sh.txt. Feel free to reply to me off-list (or just to flame me) if you think this kind of non-Gentoo-specific stuff has no place here. I took a quick look and about the only advice I'd

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

2007-08-18 Thread »Q«
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 09:00:45PM -0500, ?Q? wrote: The script is at http://remarqs.net/misc/mids2urls.sh.txt. Feel free to reply to me off-list (or just to flame me) if you think this kind of non-Gentoo-specific stuff has no place here. I took a quick look

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

2007-08-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 19 August 2007 04:00:45 »Q« wrote: It works as it is, but I'm interested in learning about any newbie traps into which I might be falling or about any better practices I should use. This is my first attempt at printing a usage message or parsing arguments. The script is at

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

2007-08-18 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:10:30 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 August 2007 04:00:45 »Q« wrote: It works as it is, but I'm interested in learning about any newbie traps into which I might be falling or about any better practices I should use. This is my first