Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
050603 Andreas Vinsander wrote: Philip Webb wrote: IIRC you can make a symbolic link only within the same partition. others please correct me, if i'm mistaken. I will correct you now! You can make symbolic links across partitions, just try it! ok thanks (wry grin)! you are correct. --

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-04 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Philip Webb wrote: 050603 Andreas Vinsander wrote: Philip Webb wrote: IIRC you can make a symbolic link only within the same partition. others please correct me, if i'm mistaken. I will correct you now! You can make symbolic links across partitions, just try it! ok thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] (Was:KDE 3.4.1 released) Removing arts

2005-06-04 Thread Julien Cayzac
On 6/2/05, Andreas Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t want to start a flamewar here but I don´t see the reason why KDE insists on using arts. Why not just route all sounds through alsa? Or has it to do with some cards limitations for harwaremixing? Well, since OSS is gone and ALSA

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-04 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 04 June 2005 18:37, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 050603 Andreas Vinsander wrote: Philip Webb wrote: IIRC you can make a symbolic link only within the same partition. others please correct me, if i'm mistaken. I will correct you now! You can make symbolic links

[gentoo-user] GStreamer Pad error with Rhythmbox

2005-06-04 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, Has anyone else been seeing problems with Gstreamer based apps not playing files due to Internal GStreamer error: pad problem? It seems to of broken on the last update. There is a bug filled (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86675) but I was wondering if its an isolated case? --

[gentoo-user] module for ralink 2500?

2005-06-04 Thread Seung Hyun Cho
Hi, What can I a module for ralink 2500. I am using gentoo kernel 2.6.11-r5 w/ genkernel. Thanks, Seunghyun Cho -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Mac-like automounting?

2005-06-04 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hi all. I want to know if its possible under linux to have mac-like automounting, e.g. that when i insert a CDROM/usb stick/a removable device it will automatically pop-up on the desktop as an icon which i can then access. The closest i got to this is the 'supermount' patch which allows me to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] deadkeys in OpenOffice

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some problems with deadkeys in OO. In every other application the deadkeys works fine (like Kmail) to enter chars like åäö. But in OO nothing happens when i try to enter a special char (¨ + a to create a ä). Hi Dan, I never use

Re: [gentoo-user] Mac-like automounting?

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I want to know if its possible under linux to have mac-like automounting, e.g. that when i insert a CDROM/usb stick/a removable device it will automatically pop-up on the desktop as an icon which i can then access. The closest i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] meta-question: how can I receive the messages that I send to the ML?

2005-06-04 Thread Antonino Sabetta
Since this is known to be a Gmail feature, I would have to say that the answer to your question is read the list via a mail client or newsreader rather than via GMail. I almost never read this ML via Gmail, I use Thunderbird to retrieve my mail through pop (or whatever) but still I do not see

[gentoo-user] Rebuild entire system - recompile all installed packages

2005-06-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Because I've got way too much time at my hands *G*, I'd like to rebuild my entire system - IOW: I want to recompile all the packages that are currently installed. How do I do that? If I check how many packages are currently installed by running ls -1d /var/db/pkg/*/* | wc -l I

[gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Bill Roberts
My usual emerge -uavDt world this morning wanted to emerge busybox. It doesn't show as a dependency for anything, and I've never emerged it for anything. Any idea why?? Bill Roberts pgp1U8FSsV8oZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet without telnetd anyone???

2005-06-04 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 01:14:31 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just poking around through my system today. I see a directory /etc/xinet.d complete with cupsd and telnetd config files (WTF?). I'm sure we're all aware of the (in)security of telnetd. And yes, I had

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] meta-question: how can I receive the messages that I send to the ML?

2005-06-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Antonino Sabetta wrote: I almost never read this ML via Gmail, I use Thunderbird to retrieve my mail through pop (or whatever) but still I do not see my posts. I'm popping Gmail too, with KMail, but do see my own posts. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 04 June 2005 23:02, Bill Roberts wrote: My usual emerge -uavDt world this morning wanted to emerge busybox. It doesn't show as a dependency for anything, and I've never emerged it for anything. Any idea why?? I believe it's been added to system in place of sash. It's similarly

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild entire system - recompile all installed packages

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Shields
Try the --emptytree option (with --pretend of course). On 6/4/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Because I've got way too much time at my hands *G*, I'd like to rebuild my entire system - IOW: I want to recompile all the packages that are currently installed. How do I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild entire system - recompile all installed packages

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Shields
Ha, brain-fart today. I see you already tried that. You can try --onlydeps. Check out man emerge On 6/4/05, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try the --emptytree option (with --pretend of course). On 6/4/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Because I've got way too

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild entire system - recompile all installed packages

2005-06-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mark Shields schrieb: Try the --emptytree option (with --pretend of course). I did: emerge -Dep world Alexander Skwar -- Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Rebuild entire system - recompile all installed packages

2005-06-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mark Shields laebshade at gmail.com writes: Ha, brain-fart today. :) I see you already tried that. Yep. You can try --onlydeps. Check out man emerge Hm? If I understand the man page correctly, --onlydeps will emerge even FEWER packages, won't it? Suppose that a is installed and had

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild entire system - recompile all installed packages

2005-06-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Peter Ruskin schrieb: That's strange, this is what I get here: $ ls -1d /var/db/pkg/*/* | wc -l 1147 $ emerge -Dep world | wc -l 1100 Hmm.. Even on your system, emerge -De world would NOT re-install everything that's already installed. You'd miss 47 packages. Question: What 47 packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild entire system - recompile all installed packages

2005-06-04 Thread Andreas Claesson
On 6/4/05, Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's strange, this is what I get here: $ ls -1d /var/db/pkg/*/* | wc -l 1147 $ emerge -Dep world | wc -l 1100 $ emerge -Dep system | wc -l 183 I get: $ ls -1d /var/db/pkg/*/* | wc -l 334 $ emerge -ep world | wc -l 318 It is indeed

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Rumen Yotov
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 04 June 2005 23:02, Bill Roberts wrote: My usual emerge -uavDt world this morning wanted to emerge busybox. It doesn't show as a dependency for anything, and I've never emerged it for anything. Any idea why?? I believe it's been added to system in

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-04 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Andreas Vinsander wrote: I will correct you now! You can make symbolic links across partitions, just try it! Its hard links that dont work across file-systems. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Sean Crandall
With apologies for my ignorance, what did sash used to do? My understanding is that busybox is a very small embedded linux for SBCs and controllers and such (I noticed busybox yesterday too, and it made me curious as I didn't remember emerging it). On 6/4/05, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-06-04 Thread Charles Trois
I had put my question on this list two or three weeks ago, and Mark Knecht was kind enough to take an interest in it. Now, I have made some progress and the problem is different. To summarize: on my G4 iMac, Yellow Dog Linux 4.0.1 is installed on the HD, and I want to install Gentoo on a FW

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc blocks libiconv?

2005-06-04 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Today glibc blocks libiconv. libiconv and transcode are needeed by k3b? Mike - From the looks of it, k3b needs transcode if USE=encode. transcode needs an iconv implementation (which can be either glibc or libiconv, but

[gentoo-user] AMI - Primary Master Hard Disk Error??

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi ho Gentoo-ers, Why can't I boot??? Why can't I boot... Why? I do not even get as far as a grub message. I've just now installed Gentoo 2005.0 for the second time on a brand new Pundit-R machine. (ATI chipset, Celeron-D 533 FSB, 256MB) Both times the install went absolutely fine and both

Re: [gentoo-user] AMI - Primary Master Hard Disk Error??

2005-06-04 Thread Michael Kjorling
On 2005-06-04 11:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pri Master: IBM-DPTA-371360 P74IA30A Ultra-DMA Mode 4, S.M.A.R.T capable and status OK Pri.Slave: TOSHIBA CDW/DVD SD-R1612 TB02 Ultra-DMA Mode 2 Auto-Detecting USB Mass Storage Devices 00 USB mass storage devices found and

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-06-04 Thread creighto
I restarted cupsd with debug2 and produced way too much data, the following seems to be the inportant part. It would appear that the wise poster was correct that Ghostscript is the breaking point. Should I just emerge Ghostscript? Creighton D [04/Jun/2005:14:54:30 -0400] [Job 6] Starting

[gentoo-user] vfat or msdos on floppy

2005-06-04 Thread Joseph
How to tell if floppy file system is vfat or msdos? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 23:12 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 04 June 2005 23:02, Bill Roberts wrote: My usual emerge -uavDt world this morning wanted to emerge busybox. It doesn't show as a dependency for anything, and I've never emerged it for anything. Any idea why?? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Charles Trois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem now is that Gentoo does not boot: I get the message Cannot open root device sda11 or unknown-block(0.0). Please append a correct root= boot option. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology

2005-06-04 Thread Alastair Murray
Khan wrote: Hello, I'm thinking of installing gentoo on server with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology. Do I have to make something special in make.conf or to use usual flags: CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=-march=pentium4 -O3

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 D [04/Jun/2005:14:54:36 -0400] [Job 6] renderer return value: 127 D [04/Jun/2005:14:54:36 -0400] [Job 6] renderer received signal: 127 D [04/Jun/2005:14:54:36 -0400] [Job 6] Process dying with The renderer

[gentoo-user] Invitation to join the Web Services Discussion Forum

2005-06-04 Thread John Eliacy
Dear Madam/Sir, We, a group of enthusiastic web services developers and researchers,have started a new discussion forum at http://www.ws-talk.com to bring together academics and industry people interested in the subject of Web Services and related technologies, such as agents, distributed

Re: [gentoo-user] vfat or msdos on floppy

2005-06-04 Thread Joseph
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 14:48 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: --- Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to tell if floppy file system is vfat or msdos? Try to mount it and see if the driver complains? mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy I've always used

Re: [gentoo-user] AMI - Primary Master Hard Disk Error??

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks to all who answered. In the end it was the specific hard drive that caused this problem. I happened upon an 8GB drive that still had an old Fedora installation on it. while it didn't work, with that drive in I had no problems booting or running grub. Fedora started booting and then died

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-04 Thread maxim wexler
Remove the root (hd0,1) line. That should (I hope) let you boot gentoo from the floppy. Arrrgh! Now when I choose Gentoo from the menu: Booting 'Gentoo' kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue...

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-04 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: Remove the root (hd0,1) line. That should (I hope) let you boot gentoo from the floppy. Arrrgh! Now when I choose Gentoo from the menu: Booting 'Gentoo' kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue... See my second

[gentoo-user] difficulty installing gentoo on AMD sempron

2005-06-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have installed gentoo a few times without difficulty, but always on pentium 4s. My son is installing it on an AMD sempron and we are having trouble involving i686 vs i386. In make.conf we have CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2 CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} MAKEOPT=-j2

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 or possibly kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 which would be more the way I usually do it. On 6/4/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remove the root (hd0,1) line. That should (I hope) let you boot gentoo from the floppy.

[gentoo-user] Watch out folks!!! (Bug #95050 appears deadly!!!)

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
My new MythTV system I was bringing up today seems ot have bit the dust in a very ugly way. emerge --deep --update --newuse system was proceeding and then die. Now look at the results: localhost root # emerge -pv system /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot

[gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-04 Thread ««Omega21»»
Hi there. Right now, Im typing this in webmail because none of my Mozilla products are working right. And now that I think of it, Gaim is doing the same thing. What happens is: I start the program (firefox // thunderbird // gaim) After what seems to be a random time, it suddenly closes. At

Re: [gentoo-user] module for ralink 2500?

2005-06-04 Thread Seung Hyun Cho
Thanks~ ;) It is working sexy~* On 6/5/05, xav guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I think you should try emerge rt2500 it will install the correct module (rt2500), then just follow docs to configure your net. Xavier Guerin 2005/6/4, Seung Hyun Cho [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] Watch out folks!!! (Bug #95050 appears deadly!!!)

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: localhost root # emerge -pv system /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory localhost root # emerge sync /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared

Re: [gentoo-user] difficulty installing gentoo on AMD sempron

2005-06-04 Thread Ted Ozolins
Zac Medico wrote: --- Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The compile of glibc fails trying to access the file /etc/env.d/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5 The file does not exist. Instead we have the file /etc/env.d/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130 The directory

Re: [gentoo-user] difficulty installing gentoo on AMD sempron

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Zac, I was having the same problem and this fixed it for me. It makes me wonder why was this necessary? The bootstrap script probably works fine with the 2005.0 portage snapshot. Apparenly there's a bug when the script upgrades the

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- ««Omega21»» [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. Right now, Im typing this in webmail because none of my Mozilla products are working right. And now that I think of it, Gaim is doing the same thing. What happens is: I start the program (firefox // thunderbird // gaim) After what

Re: [gentoo-user] Watch out folks!!! (Bug #95050 appears deadly!!!)

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/4/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: localhost root # emerge -pv system /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory localhost root # emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Watch out folks!!! (Bug #95050 appears deadly!!!)

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/4/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, You only need to get back libstdc++.so.5 ;-) Are you sure it's gone? Mine is in /usr/lib/libstdc++-v3/libstdc++.so.5 and if yours is still there then you can run ldconfig to fix it (/usr/lib/libstdc++-v3 should be in

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc blocks libiconv?

2005-06-04 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Saturday 04 June 2005 04:12 am, Aaron Walker wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Today glibc blocks libiconv. libiconv and transcode are needeed by k3b? Mike From the looks of it, k3b needs transcode if USE=encode. transcode needs an iconv implementation (which can be either glibc or

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.4.1?

2005-06-04 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Saturday 04 June 2005 12:49 am, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, I'm seeing an interesting change in behaviour between 3.4.0 and 3.4.1. When told to turn off or reboot the computer, KDM now exits to a console login prompt instead of shutting down. Any ideas? Overall 3.4.1 is feeling more

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- ««Omega21»» [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. Right now, Im typing this in webmail because none of my Mozilla products are working right. And now that I think of it, Gaim is doing the same thing. What happens is: I start the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
Charles, I'm very, very lost looking at this Yellow Dog stuff. I think I'm going to be no help at all. Please excuse me if I get it totally wrong. Up front I cannot help with the unknown-block(0.0) part. When I've seen the message you're getting coming from grub on my x86 systems it

[gentoo-user] Grub nonsense

2005-06-04 Thread rob3
My $million advice. Go to www..gnu.org, and just download the Grub source and compile it. Just make a note somewhere on your copy of the Gentoo manual (you did print it out didn't you? haha) that grub is not in the emerge system. Problem solved. Once you know where all of grub resides (locate

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.4.1?

2005-06-04 Thread Roy Wright
The shutdown problem is because /sbin/halt is missing. Emerging baselayout restored /sbin/halt. Have fun, Roy Michael W. Holdeman wrote: On Saturday 04 June 2005 12:49 am, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, I'm seeing an interesting change in behaviour between 3.4.0 and 3.4.1. When told to turn off

Re: [gentoo-user] Mac-like automounting?

2005-06-04 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Saturday 04 June 2005 10:17 am, Oscar Carlsson wrote: I use KDE 3.4.1 with hald and dbus started - and when I plug my usb based mp3-mplayer in, KDE takes care of the mounting etc, and a device icon pops up on my desktop... It's really, really nice! I see dbus in portage, where is hald??

[gentoo-user] myrhtv minimums

2005-06-04 Thread William Kenworthy
Ive just been given two old P3 667's, one of which is to be my new gateway, and it looks like I will have enough bits left over for another machine so I am thinking of a PVR using mythtv. is this powerful enough - what is a good minimum? I can use an athlon-xp (2400) to backend it via the network

[gentoo-user] Where to find ebuild info?

2005-06-04 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Over the past few months since my first gentoo install, I have yet to discover how do I find out the current state of masked ebuilds. I.e., I'm looking for 1) why are they masked, and 2) any known issues with the build. I can look up the package on packages.gentoo.org, but can't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-04 Thread ««Omega21»»
--- Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- ««Omega21»» [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. Right now, Im typing this in webmail because none of my Mozilla products are working right. And now that I think of it, Gaim is doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- ««Omega21»» [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I figured it out. Here is my output: bash-2.05b$ firefox \No running windows found /home/omega21/.gtk_qt_engine_rc:62: error: unexpected character `{', expected character `}' /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 547: 16841 Segmentation

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to find ebuild info?

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, Over the past few months since my first gentoo install, I have yet to discover how do I find out the current state of masked ebuilds. I.e., I'm looking for 1) why are they masked, and 2) any known issues with the build. Read

Re: [gentoo-user] flags on /proc/cpuinfo

2005-06-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 01:46:34PM -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote Sory, I was far away for a time, my cpuinfo is here and thank you My cpuinfo output is very similar to yours. My CPU is an earlier Intel PIII (Katmai instead of Coppermine) running at 450 mhz. My flags line in /proc/cpuinfo

[gentoo-user] Configure errors

2005-06-04 Thread Ian K
Hi there. Geez this is like my 4th post on this list today. ;) I have been trying to install some new styles and stuff for KDE, all with configure scripts. The problem with like all 6 of them is that it always gets this error. Here is the output. For your reading ease, I have cut many configure

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure errors

2005-06-04 Thread ZeeGeek
On 6/5/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. Geez this is like my 4th post on this list today. ;) I have been trying to install some new styles and stuff for KDE, all with configure scripts. The problem with like all 6 of them is that it always gets this error. Here is the output.