[gentoo-user] Portage dead -- don't know how to proceed

2005-07-18 Thread George Garvey
/usr/portage itself is NFS mounted from a server and is fine. However, emerge --metadata and emerge -av1 glibc both report problems with some bdb stuff and doesn't work. This all happened after a failed glibc emerge. It detected that it was nptlonly, said it was removing /lib/tls, does with

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I just emerged KDE, changing from the monolytic packages to the split ones. Now windows redrawing is painfully (and cas-ca-ding) slow. The problem seems to be the same as in

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I just emerged KDE, changing from the monolytic packages to the split ones. Now windows redrawing is painfully (and cas-ca-ding) slow. The problem seems to be the same as in

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Openbox supports multiple desktops. You can replace the default kde window manager (kwin) with openbox: http://icculus.org/openbox/docs.php?page=build.html#install-kde Zac Browsing the documentation, it seems it doesn't support setting the

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Openbox supports multiple desktops. You can replace the default kde window manager (kwin) with openbox: http://icculus.org/openbox/docs.php?page=build.html#install-kde Zac Browsing the documentation, it seems it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCD with rdiff-backup?

2005-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:04:29 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: I am using rdiff-backup for my full system backups. Of course, it would be annoying if I had to use it to do a full restore. I would need a LiveCD with rdiff-backup on it. You wouldn't, unlress you needed to recover older versions of files.

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

2005-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:49:18 +, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Any suggestions about how to recover my original world file? emerge -p depclean Check the output for any programs you need (just the programs, not their dependencies) emerge -n program1 program2... rinse and repeat -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 18 July 2005 10:17, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I just emerged KDE, changing from the monolytic packages to the split ones. Now windows redrawing is painfully (and cas-ca-ding) slow. The problem seems to be the same as in

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Do you have enough ram? If you need swap, kde is dead slow. This one should be *really* obvious. If the hard drive is thrashing, you're out of ram :-). Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Thanks for the many suggestions... Lots of interesting ideas and different perspectives. Zac Medico wrote: Filezilla is an ftp client that supports file transfer over ssh: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ I'll give that a look - it's not really what I was after - while I suppose I

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Thanks for the many suggestions... Lots of interesting ideas and different perspectives. Zac Medico wrote: Filezilla is an ftp client that supports file transfer over ssh: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ I'll give that a look - it's not really what I was after -

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so, not kde, but mozilla is slow? Slow redreaw of gtk is known. Do you have enough ram? If you need swap, kde is dead slow. Is RenderAccel on? Is KDE prelinked? It's not a RAM problem (512M, and top shows it's not leaking somewhere). KDE is

Re: [gentoo-user] [tight/real]vnc and ctrl-alt-del

2005-07-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:24 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: yes there is, I think its right click in vncviewer for the menu, or shiftF8 to get the menu. Going from memory but this should point you in the right direction. There's no Menu at all. The SHifts doesn't work either. BTW, this is both

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 18 July 2005 12:15, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so, not kde, but mozilla is slow? Slow redreaw of gtk is known. Do you have enough ram? If you need swap, kde is dead slow. Is RenderAccel on? Is KDE prelinked? It's not a RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] [tight/real]vnc and ctrl-alt-del

2005-07-18 Thread William Kenworthy
My mistake, I am now in front of a system with net-misc/vnc (I had to revert from tightvnc which wasnt compatible with the viewer on a palm I was using) Its F8 on its own - one of the menu choices is send F8 of course! I think tightvnc was similar. BillK On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 18:15 +0800, Ow

Re: [gentoo-user] [tight/real]vnc and ctrl-alt-del

2005-07-18 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
No, Billk, you aren't mistaken! Ow Mun Heng, in the tightvnc client (version 1.3dev5) hit F8 to get the menu, which has Send CTRL-ALT-DEL among the other options. From the vncviewer man page: You can use F8 to display a pop-up utility menu. Press F8 twice to pass single F8 to the remote

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: well 512 is most of the time enough, but not always ;) I know, but I checked top. hm, if only gtk apps are slow, it is normal - gtk IS slow. Very slow. But it wasn't noticeable before... It looks as if the several widgets were being shown

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage dead -- don't know how to proceed

2005-07-18 Thread George Garvey
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:30:10PM -0700, George Garvey wrote: /usr/portage itself is NFS mounted from a server and is fine. However, emerge --metadata and emerge -av1 glibc both report problems with some bdb stuff and doesn't work. This all happened after a failed glibc emerge. It

[gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Because I need my Gentoo server to perform periodic tasks on my behalf I new I needed some implementation of cron - and after a brief investigation I settled on fcron as I liked the idea that I could give flexible scheduling in order to allow the OS to delay processing in the event of heavy

[gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread Bruno Gola
Any way to resize a ext3 partition ? I'm trying with parted: br ~ # parted /dev/hdb resize 1 Start? [32kB]? End? [80GB]? 70GB Error: File system has an incompatible feature

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100 Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed the directories /etc/cron.daily; /etc/cron.hourly; /etc/cron.monthly etc. and therein a bunch of non-user-specific administration tasks... For example, in ./etc/cron.daily I've logrotate.cron and

RE: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired automatically by fcron? You missed the message that flew by when emerging fcron... Fcron includes the /etc/cron.* directories but does not install cron jobs for them automatically, and it does not support /etc/crontab (as other crons do). You need to

RE: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
# Now do the command to determine what tasks need to be executed # Only generate emails on errors... !nolog(true) Oops, this nolog bit comes from my crontab and is not normally put in. I added it because I hated getting emails for regular runs. If you choose to include it, add !reset to

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:46:23 +0100, David Morgan wrote: You could remove win32codecs from base/use.mask, try and use it and see if it works since it shouldn't break anything. But each time you did emerge sync it'd get written over. Profile changes should be made in /etc/portage/profiles, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-18 Thread David Morgan
On 15:42 Mon 18 Jul , Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:46:23 +0100, David Morgan wrote: You could remove win32codecs from base/use.mask, try and use it and see if it works since it shouldn't break anything. But each time you did emerge sync it'd get written over. Profile

[gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has jumping versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know what might trigger this behavior? -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator

[gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-07-18 Thread Vincent A. Primavera
Hello, Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you would be presented with many, many dependencies and USE flags. I would

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: well 512 is most of the time enough, but not always ;) I know, but I checked top. hm, if only gtk apps are slow, it is normal - gtk IS slow. Very slow. But it wasn't noticeable before... It looks as if the several

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has jumping versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know what might trigger this behavior? This is

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Knecht
OK, I'm flummoxed. Have I just gotten lucky all these years? I attempted to emerge a new glibc this morning and I cannot because it completely fills my 2.7GB /var partition in the process and I end with a 'no space on device' message! Obviously the emerge doesn't finish and I'm left to clean up

RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm trying to avoid a big, bloated system without going too crazy here. Any suggestions? Your problem is going to be the incremental enabling thing you'd like to do. If you add a new USE flag later on, you need to emerge with the newuse flag which will result in a larger emerge than what you

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has jumping versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know what might trigger this behavior? Hi, At least

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:36:32 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv glibc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5 [2.3.4.20041102-r1] -build -debug -erandom -hardened (-multilib) +nls +nptl

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 18, 2005 09:34 am, Mauro Faccenda wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has jumping versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-07-18 Thread Vincent A. Primavera
Vincent A. Primavera wrote: Hello, Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you would be presented with many, many dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/18/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:36:32 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv glibc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5 [2.3.4.20041102-r1]

[gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon all, A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to create temporary file system in memory and mount your portage

[gentoo-user] DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Hello, I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2412 in my portable. #lshw reveals: *-cdrom description: DVD reader product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 vendor: Toshiba physical id: 0 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
John J. Foster wrote: OK, this happens all the time. I search, can't find what I want, post a question, search again, and there it is. This is not the thread I was talking about, but it was right in front of me on the Gentoo Wiki. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage_with_tmpfs Does

[gentoo-user] emerge libdvdcss - ACCESS DENIED Error

2005-07-18 Thread Kurt Guenther
I've been getting this starting last week Thursday (?). Any ideas? --Kurt (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) Writing index file refman.idx No file refman.aux. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd)kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm1440 ACCESS DENIED access_wr:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Mark Knecht wrote: PORTAGE_TMPDIR determines where portage uses for temporary storage. I set this in make.conf, correct? Seems logical but man emerge and man portage don't seem to mention this variable. That's odd, it's not in portage(5) either. It is documented in make.conf.example

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2412 in my portable. #lshw reveals: *-cdrom description: DVD reader product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 vendor: Toshiba

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/18/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:05:22 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: PORTAGE_TMPDIR determines where portage uses for temporary storage. I set this in make.conf, correct? Correct Seems logical but man emerge and man portage don't seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Fish
Zac Medico wrote: John J. Foster wrote: OK, this happens all the time. I search, can't find what I want, post a question, search again, and there it is. This is not the thread I was talking about, but it was right in front of me on the Gentoo Wiki.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:05:22 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: PORTAGE_TMPDIR determines where portage uses for temporary storage. I set this in make.conf, correct? Correct Seems logical but man emerge and man portage don't seem to mention this variable. man make.conf mentions it, as does

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Stuart Howard schreef: thx for the response I think we missed each other with the point though, currently my sound works just fine and I am happy with it as it is [ie. built in] I am not sure where the alsa driver in world came from unless it is a hangover from my initial genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm: failed to stop /dev/md1

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Fish
Jarry wrote: Hm, I've noticed on console-screen some strange message when doing shutdown: mdamd: failed to stop /dev/md1 array, device or resource busy [!!] /dev/md1 is mounted as root partition, apart from that I have 7 more /dev/md partitions, all are stopped without any message. Right

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 18 July 2005 19:07, John J. Foster wrote: Good afternoon all, A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to create

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Routing advice requested

2005-07-18 Thread David Mallwitz
George Garvey wrote: I just installed a T1 to a new ISP using a Sangoma CSU/DSU card. I thought I could use aliased IPs on existing gigE NICS on our LAN to set up the hosts that need an internet routable presence. Maybe that can be done, but not by me. I don't understand enough. I can

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Mauro Faccenda wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has jumping versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know what might

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big data Cluster

2005-07-18 Thread David Busby
I just found this one: http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/iscsi/ So we can make a Linux box an iSCSI target, freaking sweet. Now we can put the clustered initiators in the front with some targets behind. s--- yea! /djb James wrote: David Busby busby at edoceo.com writes: I'm looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Oh, I see... Well, since you have it builtin and everything is working, maybe its dependent on other app, do you have alsa-utils or anything that could pull alsa-drivers? If you have an old installation and (like me) don't remember exactly the steps for the initial configuration (I used

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
cdr and cdrw? On 7/18/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. Well googling produces lots of complaints about trouble. But it looks mostly like old windows stuff... So, you're still not able to

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-07-18 Thread Marco Matthies
Vincent A. Primavera wrote: Hello, Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you Hi, regarding kde, you might want to try the

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 18, 2005 11:23 am, Tero Grundström wrote: This is because gnumeric REQUIRES =1.10.0... and when you do a -uD it will be upgraded. You should keep using -uNp instead of -uDNp ;) I wouldn't throw away -uDNp just because of this. On my system there are only two packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging gentoo-kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r31

2005-07-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Thomas Drueke schreef: Hi, I want to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r31 but it has been deleted from the rsync repository. Is there a way to get the corresponding ebuild-file back to get it emerged ? BR Thomas Go to www.gentoo.org, click the view our CVS link on the sidebar, scroll

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread David Morgan
On 13:07 Mon 18 Jul , John J. Foster wrote: Good afternoon all, A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to create

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Stuart Howard
thx for the response I think we missed each other with the point though, currently my sound works just fine and I am happy with it as it is [ie. built in] I am not sure where the alsa driver in world came from unless it is a hangover from my initial genkernel instalation. I would like to remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. So, you're still not able to burn them? Try erasing an RW or writting an RW (so you don't spent cds). You should be able to do that with k3b, unless you already have mounted the cd (the erase and burn operations don't need the drive mounted) but I

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Fish
Jorge Almeida wrote: But it wasn't noticeable before... It looks as if the several widgets were being shown _before_ the main window... So, if I understand you correctly, some mozilla controls get drawn long before the titlebar? Is that right? If so, possibly an error with themes or

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libdvdcss - ACCESS DENIED Error

2005-07-18 Thread Kurt Guenther
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98854 Thx. I think I was able to work around it. --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Fish
Bruno Gola wrote: Any way to resize a ext3 partition ? I'm trying with parted: I guess you'll have to do it manually with resize2fs and fdisk. Just read the man page carefully, and think of it as a 2 or 3-step process: Growing: 1. use fdisk to grow the partition first. 2. use

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:40:18PM -0400, Colin wrote: Plus, you can charge people if they want to come over and rent your computing power. (Virginia Tech does that with their System X, 1,100 dual-2.3GHz-processor XServe G5's.) :-) As I'm a little short of this total right now, I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Colin
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:14:41 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to

[gentoo-user] Re: Big data Cluster

2005-07-18 Thread James
David Busby busby at edoceo.com writes: I'm looking for reccomendations for storage clustering. I'd like to network together some Gentoo boxes which internally are SCSI+RAID5 and then be able to store data on these multiple boxes as though they are one big filesystem. Similar to what

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 18, 2005 12:21 pm, Zac Medico wrote: mkdir /etc/portage echo gnome-extra/libgsf-1.12.0 /etc/portage/package.mask that would actually produce negative effects on gnumeric so I'd rather do as other post (by Tero) suggests: mask higher version as no package is requiring it anyway. But

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
In order to use alsa-driver, you must not have alsa compiled in the kernel, I dunno exactly how you got this error using alsa already if everything was working before (unless you changed any settings on your kernel config). Enable only the audio support, compile modules for your sound-cards and

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Tero Grundström wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has jumping versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:14:41 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to create temporary

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging gentoo-kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r31

2005-07-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Thomas Drueke wrote: I want to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r31 but it has been deleted from the rsync repository. Is there a way to get the corresponding ebuild-file back to get it emerged ? See http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/ Download the desired one,

[gentoo-user] Re: QOS

2005-07-18 Thread James
A. Khattri ajai at bway.net writes: Are there people on the list who are using QOS, i need it to preserve 4MB for IP telephonie on a 100Mbit line. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping Hey, this looks very cool. Have you implemented this with success? HTB (Hierarchial Token Buckets)

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. Well googling produces lots of complaints about trouble. But it looks mostly like old windows stuff... So, you're still not able to burn them? Try erasing an RW or writting an RW (so you don't spent

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging gentoo-kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r31

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Thomas Drueke wrote: Hi, I want to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r31 but it has been deleted from the rsync repository. Is there a way to get the corresponding ebuild-file back to get it emerged ? BR Thomas It looks like you can grab it from cvs:

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Stuart Howard wrote: thx for the response I think we missed each other with the point though, currently my sound works just fine and I am happy with it as it is [ie. built in] I am not sure where the alsa driver in world came from unless it is a hangover from my initial genkernel instalation.

[gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I think I know why I have this error but I woul like another view before I -aCv the package, the error from this mornings emerge -aDuv world was :- checking for built-in ALSA... yes configure: error: You have built-in ALSA in your kernel. !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jorge Almeida wrote: I just emerged KDE, changing from the monolytic packages to the split ones. Now windows redrawing is painfully (and cas-ca-ding) slow. Have you tried renaming your .kde3.4/ dir temporarily (while logged out of KDE)? And removed all kde and mcop junk from /tmp? Have you

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-07-18 Thread Vincent A. Primavera
Vincent A. Primavera wrote: Hello, Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you would be presented with many, many dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
have you tried using k3bsetup? On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:36:44 + (UTC) James wrote: Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. Well googling produces lots of complaints about trouble. But it looks mostly like old windows stuff...

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has jumping versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know what might

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Greetings, On 7/18/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2412 in my portable. #lshw reveals: *-cdrom description: DVD reader product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 vendor: Toshiba

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-18 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
2005/7/18, Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the many suggestions... Lots of interesting ideas and different perspectives. Zac Medico wrote: Filezilla is an ftp client that supports file transfer over ssh: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ I'll give that a look - it's

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libdvdcss - ACCESS DENIED Error

2005-07-18 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98854 On Monday 18 July 2005 01:53 pm, Kurt Guenther wrote: I've been getting this starting last week Thursday (?). Any ideas? --Kurt (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) Writing index file refman.idx No file refman.aux.

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: cdr and cdrw? We'll 'lshw' shows: product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio cd-r cd-rw dvd so I'd assume cd-rw means read write: Also the Toshiba web page:

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:07:38PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: Good afternoon all, A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The general jist of it

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 7/18/05, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to create temporary file system

[gentoo-user] Emerging gentoo-kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r31

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Drueke
Hi, I want to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r31 but it has been deleted from the rsync repository. Is there a way to get the corresponding ebuild-file back to get it emerged ? BR Thomas -- Thomas Drueke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has jumping versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know what might trigger this behavior? There's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Bruno Gola wrote: and about the cd-writer, ive tried cdrecord -scanbus, and it appears my CD-writer there, but now, nothing appears... When cdrecord stops it just broke in my display, i cant exit it, just killing... it stops something like that: ATAPI 1: and stops (ive already wait for 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread David Busby
Zac Medico wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: PORTAGE_TMPDIR determines where portage uses for temporary storage. I set this in make.conf, correct? Seems logical but man emerge and man portage don't seem to mention this variable. That's odd, it's not in portage(5) either. It is documented in

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Stuart Howard
OK well it looks like I have been neglecting my admin duties I am going to proceed with removing the alsa-driver and then go from there, Holly thx for the workaround but I do not feel confident in me ;) I will trust the powers that be and make portage happy, my theory being that portage manages

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: But it wasn't noticeable before... It looks as if the several widgets were being shown _before_ the main window... So, if I understand you correctly, some mozilla controls get drawn long before the titlebar? Is that right?

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread James Hiscock
On 7/18/05, Bruno Gola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled. 1) Remove the journal from the ext3 partition using tune2fs: tune2fs -C ^has_journal partition 2) Resize using parted 3) Add the journal back using tune2fs: tune2fs -j partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:26:38 +0200 Francesco Talamona wrote: On Monday 18 July 2005 19:07, John J. Foster wrote: Good afternoon all, A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable when

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Think i can't of great help here, but at least twice when i had slow graphical performance solved it by re-emerging some packages and xorg-x11 once (i assume you have run 'revdep-rebuild' ;) As it seems your main DM is KDE it's likely that there may be

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Have you tried renaming your .kde3.4/ dir temporarily (while logged out of KDE)? And removed all kde and mcop junk from /tmp? Have you unmerged the old kde ebuilds? And done --depclean? And revdep-rebuild? No. I think a deep cleaning is in

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Jorge Almeida wrote: ... IMHO you could first try emerging: glibgtk+ and probably in second place: xorg-x11. There are also many image-manupulation libraries: jpeg,png,mng HTH. Rumen Sigh I guess it's going to be a long week... Thanks :) Jorge Something that's still unclear to me: is the

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: have you tried using k3bsetup? Ah, this may be the problem. IN the k3b gui, I went under settings, but did not see anything critical. The only documents I have found are in /usr/share/doc/k3b-0.11.24. Running k3bsetup as root fired up the gui. All of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
yes i think you should try cdrecord from the command line with the verbose option turned on and see what happens. ( the option is -V). If you need the basics of how to use cdrecord see the cd writing howto at http://tldp.org There is some weird crap with cdrecord and various kernel versions.

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Something that's still unclear to me: is the problem with kde, mozilla, or both? If you experience the same problem with mozilla under openbox then your troubles have nothing to do with kde. OTOH, if you there's no problems under openbox then the problem

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: yes i think you should try cdrecord from the command line with the verbose option turned on and see what happens. ( the option is -V). If you need the basics of how to use cdrecord see the cd writing howto at http://tldp.org Well looking at that I

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