Re: [gentoo-user] [WORKAROUNDED]Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 23:03 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 10 September 2005 20:09, Frank Schafer wrote: ... or which distribution to install during less than 4 days? Hi list, as I wrote yesterday I planned to complete installation after work (started ``emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd timezone

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 23:36 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 9/11/2005 9:34 PM Mark Shields wrote: What does ls -ln /etc/localtime return? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -ln /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 27 May 8 11:07 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT Thanks for your

Re: [gentoo-user] Build Problem

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 15:37 +0200, Greg Armer wrote: Greetings list, Could anyone explain why 40% of all my emerges fail with this error message ? gcc-config error: Could not run/locate i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc Upon executing this file directly, it returns the exact same message: fyre ~

Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world date can't keep time

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 20:41 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Also, the BIOS clk is correct. How do you know that? what does hwclock tell you? -mw hum, run rc-status boot is clock started? check out /etc/conf.d/clock yup

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd timezone

2005-09-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/11/2005 11:41 PM Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 23:36 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 9/11/2005 9:34 PM Mark Shields wrote: What does ls -ln /etc/localtime return? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -ln /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 27 May 8 11:07 /etc/localtime -

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 18:38 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 11 September 2005 08:33, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 23:03 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 10 September 2005 20:09, Frank Schafer wrote: ... or which distribution to install during less

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 19:12 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 11 September 2005 18:58, Mark Shields wrote: From http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=6: // start quote Building the System To start building the system, execute emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 23:01 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:16:23 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: No, Neil, this thread (or the original issue, at least), is occurring during the initial install process: Whoops, my mistake. This comes up so often it's easy to get the

[gentoo-user] setting mythtv

2005-09-12 Thread Luigi Pinna
I'm trying to set mythtv in my machine. I installed mysql and I used all default parameters. When I launch mythsetup I recieve this message: 2005-09-12 09:09:52.350 Writing settings file /home/pinna/.mythtv/mysql.txt 2005-09-12 09:09:52.547 Unable to connect to database! 2005-09-12 09:09:52.548

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:49:52 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: No, but they are on the GRP package CDs that accompany each release. yes, but there's no requirement to use grp packages with a stage-3. There is if you're using stage 3 as quoted above. what have you been smoking Neil? A

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:59:14 -0500, John Jolet wrote: yes, but there's no requirement to use grp packages with a stage-3. There is if you're using stage 3 as quoted above. No, there isn't. This laptop was built with a stage 3 tarball, everything else was compiled from source. I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:11:21 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: Hasn't this already been covered early in the thread? Run fix_libtool.sh to fix the error then do emerge --resume to carry on. If I get it right ``fix_libtool_files.sh'' corrects the settings for libtool according to the native

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 08:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: If I get it right ``fix_libtool_files.sh'' corrects the settings for libtool according to the native compiler if gcc has changed. During a native install there isn't an older version of gcc. So this should be (and was) the wrong

[gentoo-user] how to display one X app to more than one X server simultaneously

2005-09-12 Thread Bobber Cheng
Hi, I know how to display X one app to a remote X server, but what if I want to display one app to two remote X servers simultaneously? e.g. I want to diplay oowrite on my machine(192.168.18.2) to two remote X servers (192.168.18.8 and 192.168.18.9) and my own X server. --

RE: [gentoo-user] how to display one X app to more than one X server simultaneously

2005-09-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
-Original Message- From: Bobber Cheng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I know how to display X one app to a remote X server, but what if I want to display one app to two remote X servers simultaneously? e.g. I want to diplay oowrite on my machine(192.168.18.2) to two remote X servers

[gentoo-user] minicom as a user but I am getting a cant create lockfile failure

2005-09-12 Thread W.Kenworthy
I want to use minicom as a user but I am getting a cant create lockfile failure. It works fine as root. I dont wish to change the perms on /var/lock unless I have to - so whats the gentoo way to get minicom working as a user? Also what group(s) do I need for serial port access (/dev/ttyS0 so I

RE: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:18 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: -Original Message- From: Frank Schafer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name of each log file. This makes it hard to find the log for a single package by name. I

[gentoo-user] Brother Printer

2005-09-12 Thread Mark Humphrey
Anyone here got a Brother printer? And if so what model? Email Disclaimer http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:02:21 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name of each log file. This makes it hard to find the log for a single package by name. Maybe some internal feature of portage? What about changing the logfile names

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Nagatoro
Neil Bothwick wrote: I like the idea of giving the two logs different names, it would make parsing this information with a script much easier. You'd still need some sort of unique identifier in the names, because you could merge the same package version more than once. But naming the files .log

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 09:37 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:02:21 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name of each log file. This makes it hard to find the log for a single package by name. Maybe some internal

[gentoo-user] USB TV card

2005-09-12 Thread Martin S
Anyone tried a USB TV card with a laptop. I saw a few quite cheap at my nearest computer shop - but naturally they are all targeted towards Windows. Anyone having experience getting such a beast up and running under Linux?Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-12 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Montag, 12. September 2005 08:56 schrieb Frank Schafer: On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 18:38 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: And in the 2005.1 handbook is no (!) --emptytree. LOL, LOL, LOL!! this is cut'n-pasted from the Gentoo Handbook 6d JUST NOW The 2005.1 Handbook, which Volker

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 11:12 +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Montag, 12. September 2005 08:56 schrieb Frank Schafer: On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 18:38 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: And in the 2005.1 handbook is no (!) --emptytree. LOL, LOL, LOL!! this is cut'n-pasted from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, September 12, 2005 8:02 pm, Frank Schafer said: Hi list, I'm just wondering about the manner portage manages it log files. It's a very good idea to have 2 logs for each package (one with each end every line of the make output and one with the messages of the package for the

[gentoo-user] Building Xorg - internal compiler error: segmentation fault

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
Hi all, so I hit this bug too. :( Well, the log itself says it's a bug and (even worse) that nobody knows where it comes from. Somebody on b.g.o. suggests to try building with a vanilly kernel. Did someone here make the same experience and if yes, will it run then on a gentoo-kernel? Thanks for

Re: [gentoo-user] USB TV card

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, September 12, 2005 9:10 pm, Martin S said: Anyone tried a USB TV card with a laptop. I saw a few quite cheap at my nearest computer shop - but naturally they are all targeted towards Windows. Anyone having experience getting such a beast up and running under Linux? go to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September 12, 2005 8:02 pm, Frank Schafer said: Hi list, I'm just wondering about the manner portage manages it log files. It's a very good idea to have 2 logs for each package (one with each end every line of the make output

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Xorg - internal compiler error: segmentation fault

2005-09-12 Thread Christoph Gysin
Frank Schafer wrote: so I hit this bug too. :( Well, the log itself says it's a bug and (even worse) that nobody knows where it comes from. Somebody on b.g.o. suggests to try building with a vanilly kernel. Did someone here make the same experience and if yes, will it run then on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, September 12, 2005 9:35 pm, Frank Schafer said: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September 12, 2005 8:02 pm, Frank Schafer said: I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name of each log file. This makes it hard to find the log for

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:55 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September 12, 2005 9:35 pm, Frank Schafer said: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September 12, 2005 8:02 pm, Frank Schafer said: I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Xorg - internal compiler error: segmentation fault

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 11:44 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote: Frank Schafer wrote: so I hit this bug too. :( Well, the log itself says it's a bug and (even worse) that nobody knows where it comes from. Somebody on b.g.o. suggests to try building with a vanilly kernel. Did someone here make

[gentoo-user] glib with nptl

2005-09-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
I added nptl to my USE variables and tried to emerge glib. checking whether to compile timeloop... yes checking if building for some Win32 platform... no checking for thread implementation... posix checking thread related cflags... -D_REENTRANT checking

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 22:59 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September 12, 2005 10:24 pm, Frank Schafer said: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:55 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September 12, 2005 9:35 pm, Frank Schafer said: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 11:48 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: I added nptl to my USE variables and tried to emerge glib. checking whether to compile timeloop... yes checking if building for some Win32 platform... no checking for thread implementation... posix checking

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

2005-09-12 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Montag, 12. September 2005 12:48 schrieb Jorge Almeida: I added nptl to my USE variables and tried to emerge glib. you must re-emerge glibc, when adding nptl to your USE. glib does not use the nptl USE-variable ;) Regards, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

2005-09-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Frank Schafer wrote: Did you an ``emerge --newuse world'' before you tried to install further packages? Just a thought. I think I've seen nptl mentioned in the installation log of glibc. What if glibc don't know about this? Frank PS: I could be wrong. Don't have a gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

2005-09-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Montag, 12. September 2005 12:48 schrieb Jorge Almeida: I added nptl to my USE variables and tried to emerge glib. you must re-emerge glibc, when adding nptl to your USE. glib does not use the nptl USE-variable ;) Yes, I did that

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

2005-09-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 September 2005 13:59, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Montag, 12. September 2005 12:48 schrieb Jorge Almeida: I added nptl to my USE variables and tried to emerge glib. you must re-emerge glibc, when adding nptl to your USE. glib does not use the nptl USE-variable ;) Did you see

[gentoo-user] out of sync audio

2005-09-12 Thread Qv6
Folks I have just created a vcd from one of my dvd's using dvd::rip. The problem is that the audio is out of sync ( with the speakers lips). Is there something special I need to do, or is there a filter that I need to enable? TIA, -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio and permissions.

2005-09-12 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 11:40:50AM -0700, gentuxx wrote OK, I tried that and I have/can verify that I am in the audio group. Logged out, then back in, even did a reboot. No joy. Now here's the weird thing. mplayer works fine, for

Re: [gentoo-user] openLDAP with mysql backend (problems with libmyodbc.so = undefined symbol: lt_dlclose )

2005-09-12 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Claudinei Matos wrote: [...] Looking around I've found that libmyodbc3.so is provided by myodbc package which one I've emerged and setup in both odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini like the tutorial says, but now, if I try to run iodbctest that's what I get when I type DSN=ldap: 1: [iODBC][Driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate

2005-09-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Sébastien MORAND schreef: pyrenees:~ # emerge -uNDvp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6) [blocks B

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question ----- Disk image post

2005-09-12 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
clip Can/has anyone used a 12V lead acid car battery as a UPS for their box? I've got a spare one in the garage and the thought has crossed my mind . . -- Regards, Mick Mick, It can be done but is slightly more involved than just plugging in teh car bat. I have 3 deepcycle batts, set up

[gentoo-user] Eclipse vs. Unifont

2005-09-12 Thread Matthias Bethke
Does anyone have an idea what the Eclipse ebuild doesn't like about Unifont? huxley ~ # emerge -DNupt dev-util/eclipse-sdk These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] media-fonts/unifont (is blocking

[gentoo-user] public_html on apache2

2005-09-12 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Does someone know how to allow everyone to access public_html on home folder of my users ? I had inserted the following lines on my commonapache2.conf and it still doesn't work Directory /home/*/public_html AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory

[gentoo-user] emerge -e world / --resume

2005-09-12 Thread fire-eyes
If I do an emerge -e world , and interrupt it, will I be able to --resume it? Including after a reboot? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world date can't keep time

2005-09-12 Thread maxim wexler
--- Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 08:41:31PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: --- Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:59:58AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, After emerge --deep --update world I compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world date can't keep time

2005-09-12 Thread maxim wexler
--- Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 08:41:31PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:59:58AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, After emerge --deep --update world I compiled and installed the new kernel,

[gentoo-user] reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi people This question follows on from a post I made regarding a hard drive death and backup problems, I made a little script that tar and gzip's each of the root directories in order. At the point of /usr which is a very large one I get the following error /root/fullsysbackup.sh: line 30:

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling DMA on SE7520BD2S

2005-09-12 Thread maxim wexler
--- Jarosław Kapica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using Intel Server Board SE7520BD2S with 3 disks, 2xSATA WDC WD1200JD-00H (sda sdb) and 1xATA133 Seagate ST3120026A (hda). SATA disks seem to work fine (though they show some warnings during tests), but I can't enable DMA on

Re: [gentoo-user] Proliant 3000

2005-09-12 Thread Covington, Chris
Guess I could, just wanted to keep the SCSI's clean for data only... The MBR doesn't use any space, and it won't alter your partitions in anyway. So to me it seems like the best route. --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY 10038 646-312-6269

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e world / --resume

2005-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:43:31 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: If I do an emerge -e world , and interrupt it, will I be able to --resume it? Including after a reboot? Yes. -- Neil Bothwick ABORT: Drivel filter is compromised! pgp4hmfp5UyID.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] The new apache2

2005-09-12 Thread Grant
Grant wrote: Hello, I've been on the new apache2 layout for some time now via ~x86. It looks like it's now marked stable so I'd like to remove the ~x86 keyword, but after that I get this: [blocks B ] dev-libs/apr-util (is blocking net-www/apache-2.0.54-r15) [blocks B ]

[gentoo-user] hardware advice for dual-processor set-up on gentoo

2005-09-12 Thread Denis
Folks, I am currently running Gentoo on a dual-processor machine that has 2 Intel Xeons with hyperthreading on a Tyan board, with 2GB of RDRAM. Some 3 years ago when I bought this machine, it was a marvel, and it still is a solid computational workhorse for me, doing things like Monte Carlo and

RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Daevid Vincent
Someone on the 'mailman' list pointed me at, but that didn't seem to be very helpful: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq06.016.htp I don't know why this would have broken/changed. I've been running mailman, so this was really just an upgrade. Same user/groups, lists, dirs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate

2005-09-12 Thread Sébastien MORAND
You clearly know how to clear a block, but your syntax for unmerging the blocking packages is wrong, which is why it's not working. If you want to unmerge the specific version of the package (for this example, let us assume php-5.0.5), the correct syntax is emerge -C =dev-php/php-5.0.5 If

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate

2005-09-12 Thread Sébastien MORAND
This is Gentoo's daft syntax again! What you need here is not # emerge -C giflib, as you would reasonably expect, but # emerge -C libungif I can't do that, libungif is required on my system. I'm pretty sure some programs won't run anymore if I remove it, but I can test anyway

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware advice for dual-processor set-up on gentoo

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 12 September 2005 21:40, Denis wrote: With my need for parallel execution of several single-thread Monte Carlo and Finite Element tasks, what would be the pros and cons in considering the Xeons and Opterons? Opterons everytime. Under certain circumstances HT can make the CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 12 September 2005 20:09, Stuart Howard wrote: Now for the silly question of the day, how do I know what version of reiserfs I have installed? debugreiserfs /dev/blah I've got a 2.3G file on a 3.6 formatted filesystem, but I can't help any further I'm afraid. -- Mike Williams --

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd timezone

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
Right now it's correct: tv mythtv # date Sun Sep 11 23:52:49 PDT 2005 However after some time it will return to being 8 hours earlier. I also saw in another thread that you could show your hardware clock by this command: tv mythtv # hwclock Sun Sep 11 23:54:54 2005 -0.081182

[gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Howard
Further reading further problem, I have been through the reiserfs FAQ and discovered that with 2.4 - 2.6 kernels that the file size limit I have posted below should not be an issue ie. I should be version 3.6 and therefore file size is well ... biG So I now need to discover where the fault

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware advice for dual-processor set-up on gentoo

2005-09-12 Thread John Jolet
On Monday 12 September 2005 15:40, Denis wrote: Folks, I am currently running Gentoo on a dual-processor machine that has 2 Intel Xeons with hyperthreading on a Tyan board, with 2GB of RDRAM. Some 3 years ago when I bought this machine, it was a marvel, and it still is a solid computational

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Howard
thanks mike using debugreiserfs -J /dev/hda3 answers my earlier question of Now for the silly question of the day, how do I know what version of reiserfs I have installed? =. 3.6 which means from reiserfs FAQ that :- 2^60 - bytes = 1 Ei, but page cache limits this to 8 Ti on

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Bryan Whitehead
I would gamble your shell doesn't have support for files larger than 2GB. You'll run into this with tcsh. :( The pipes created by the shell for child processes will inherit this problem. On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: Hi people This question follows on from a post I made

[gentoo-user] ebuild - .src.rpm

2005-09-12 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Does anyone know how to do this? There are some simple pachakes (like netselect) that I'd love to use at work - but don't want to go thru the hastle of making a rpm .spec file. ebuild file rpm only poops out a binary RPM... and using an updated gentoo system doesn't move over well with old

Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world date can't keep time

2005-09-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:03:27PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: what about the output from hwclock? run it as root, does it give the same time/date as date? the same. In fact when I update the time w/ date -s hwclock continues to give the incorrect one. Until a reboot when both will

Re: [gentoo-user] Proliant 3000

2005-09-12 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Monday 12 September 2005 03:34 pm, Covington, Chris wrote: Guess I could, just wanted to keep the SCSI's clean for data only... The MBR doesn't use any space, and it won't alter your partitions in anyway. So to me it seems like the best route. Trouble is when the SCSI is replaced and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Why autoconf?

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
Why the hick are there so much versions of autoconf (in system)? Well, somewhere in the [Nasty bug..] thread someone (again) mentioned, that different packaged depend on different versions of autoconf. That's NOT the truth for building a package. You're making some assumptions here... Part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
What about changing the logfile names to: package-version.log package-version.msg? Because multiple installs of the same version would overwrite the log. The added prefix is, I believe, either some sort of order number or a time-based reference, not sure which. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:40:05PM +0200, Stuart Howard wrote: Further reading further problem, I have been through the reiserfs FAQ and discovered that with 2.4 - 2.6 kernels that the file size limit I have posted below should not be an issue ie. I should be version 3.6 and therefore file

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild - .src.rpm

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
That would indeed be an interesting addition! I can see a few problems already. Different dependency names would be a problem - ie on gentoo a dependency might be named foo, on redhat it might be named foo2, on SuSE it might be named libfoo and on Mandrivel it might be named libfoo-2. In other

Re: [gentoo-user] howto list packages that depend on the package?

2005-09-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:32:42PM -0600, Peter Ziobrzynski wrote: Is there a way to get the list of packages that depend on a package (dependent packages) then doing grep through the /var/db/pkgs like that? cd /var/db/pkg find . -name DEPEND | xargs grep avifile

Re: [gentoo-user] howto list packages that depend on the package?

2005-09-12 Thread Peter Ziobrzynski
oops, I missed 'qpkg -q'. Ignore this Peter Ziobrzynski wrote: Is there a way to get the list of packages that depend on a package (dependent packages) then doing grep through the /var/db/pkgs like that? cd /var/db/pkg find . -name DEPEND | xargs grep avifile Unfortunately

Re: [gentoo-user] Proliant 3000

2005-09-12 Thread Covington, Chris
Trouble is when the SCSI is replaced and it is not thought of because the OS is on the IDE HD. For me it would be cleaner to boot with a floppy or CD and (even keep a couple of spare floppies). I have trouble remembering certian things, the location of the MBR on SCSI 0 would be one of

Re: [gentoo-user] Why autoconf?

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:26:45 -0400 Dave Nebinger wrote: It's really not a big deal to get upset over. No but I am glad it has been explored, as i had been wondering the same thing. The autoconf and automake packages are pretty small, so they don't take up a lot of disk nor do they

[gentoo-user] org-x11 GLSA 200509-07. Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3? (black icons)

2005-09-12 Thread W.Kenworthy
Re the xorg-x11 GLSA 200509-07. Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3? The -r2 version is unusable for me because of this. According to the bug its resolved, fixed upstream, but there is no detail which versions of xorg it applies to. BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild - .src.rpm

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
Of course you might like to consider this post again :-) http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030401-newsletter.xml Be careful to note the date of the article ! On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Bryan Whitehead wrote: Does anyone know how to do this? There are some simple pachakes

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 12 September 2005 22:40, Stuart Howard wrote: To recap the commands I am calling are     tar -czf /tmp/fullsysbackupusr.tgz /usr     cp /tmp/fullsysbackupusr.tgz /mnt/NEWSTU/genstubackup/fullsysbackup Is NEWSTU a samba mount from the XP box? The source is Gentoo box 2.6.11.5 on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:38:41 +0200 Frank Schafer wrote: There shouldn't be more logs than we have actually packages installed. The log for the installation of the version of (say) python I had installed 3 years ago isn't worth anything. (Me to say) A successful installation of a new version

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware advice for dual-processor set-up on gentoo

2005-09-12 Thread Denis
I was leaning toward the Opterons myself. While we're on the topic of hardware, has anyone here used Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE? I understand it's an NVIDIA-based high-end board that supports dual Opterons. I've always liked Tyan's products, as well as NVIDIA's, so I would be happy with such a

[gentoo-user] Samba/Names/XPPro

2005-09-12 Thread Edoceo Lists
List, I'm using Samba to share with Windows and am using the %m macro as the share name so that each Windows computer sees only one share with it's name to use. This works great for almost every machine on my network: other Sambas, Win2K, Win2K3, WinXP home but not this one XPPro. I've

[gentoo-user] Samba/Names/XPPro

2005-09-12 Thread Edoceo Lists
List, I'm using Samba to share with Windows and am using the %m macro as the share name so that each Windows computer sees only one share with it's name to use. This works great for almost every machine on my network: other Sambas, Win2K, Win2K3, WinXP home but not this one XPPro. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate

2005-09-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Sébastien MORAND schreef: You clearly know how to clear a block, but your syntax for unmerging the blocking packages is wrong, which is why it's not working. If you want to unmerge the specific version of the package (for this example, let us assume php-5.0.5), the correct syntax is

RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Daevid Vincent
Well, since I've gotten no replies here, I figured I'd file a report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105744 -Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 1:53 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user]

Re: [gentoo-user] The new apache2

2005-09-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:41:29PM -0700, Grant wrote: Grant wrote: Hello, I've been on the new apache2 layout for some time now via ~x86. It looks like it's now marked stable so I'd like to remove the ~x86 keyword, but after that I get this: [blocks B ] dev-libs/apr-util (is

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Xorg - internal compiler error: segmentation fault

2005-09-12 Thread Robin
I get segment faults randomly when emerging packages... and I know it is bad ram... so I would advise you to test it... :) Regards. On 9/12/05, Frank Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, so I hit this bug too. :( Well, the log itself says it's a bug and (even worse) that nobody knows

[gentoo-user] Kernel says hdd is my dvd drive, /dev/hdd does not exist

2005-09-12 Thread fire-eyes
Howdy. I have my kernel telling me that it found my dvd drive at hdd : hdd: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive However, /dev/hdd doesn't even exist: # stat /dev/hdd stat: cannot stat `/dev/hdd': No such file or directory I am using udev-068. Any clues as to what's going on here?

Re: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:34:26 -0700 Daevid Vincent wrote: Well, since I've gotten no replies here, I figured I'd file a report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105744 -Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 1:53

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse vs. Unifont

2005-09-12 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:18:41 +0200 Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have an idea what the Eclipse ebuild doesn't like about Unifont? Look at the ebuild Changelog: quote 04 Jul 2004; Karl Trygve Kalleberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] eclipse-sdk-3.0.0.ebuild: New upstream version.

[gentoo-user] Recent booting problems

2005-09-12 Thread Dunc
Hi, i rebooted my firewall yesterday, and it stopped just after the initrd, when trying to fsck the root filesystem, because it had failed to remount the / filesystem read-only because it was busy, and thus fsck was warning about checking a live filesystem i rebooted from livecd, and fsck'ed my

[gentoo-user] recent booting problems

2005-09-12 Thread Dunc
Hi, i rebooted my firewall yesterday, and it stopped just after the initrd, when trying to fsck the root filesystem, because it had failed to remount the / filesystem read-only because it was busy, and thus fsck was warning about checking a live filesystem i rebooted from livecd, and fsck'ed my

Re: [gentoo-user] Proliant 3000

2005-09-12 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Monday 12 September 2005 06:43 pm, Covington, Chris wrote: Trouble is when the SCSI is replaced and it is not thought of because the OS is on the IDE HD. For me it would be cleaner to boot with a floppy or CD and (even keep a couple of spare floppies). I have trouble remembering

RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Daevid Vincent
Thank you for taking the time to reply Nick. Odd that you took this long to upgrade mailman as mine was upgraded to 2.1.5-r4 in February ? I run a fairly stable x86 server and try not to 'fix' what ain't broke. I dunno. I usually run 'emerge -Davu system' and 'world' every couple of days and

RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Daevid Vincent
BTW, someone on the mailman list said, Yes, it has the flags, but what is the value of the ${MAILGID} parameter? The error message you received says it's 'mailman' and should be 'mail'. And looking at the log, he seems to be correct: Sep 12 12:16:19 [Mailman mail-wrapper] Group mismatch error.

Re: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:52:35 -0700 Daevid Vincent wrote: BTW, someone on the mailman list said, Yes, it has the flags, but what is the value of the ${MAILGID} parameter? The error message you received says it's 'mailman' and should be 'mail'. My system runs postfix, not exim, but

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild - .src.rpm

2005-09-12 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Yea... I'm not that much of n00b! I remember that newsletter when it was first posted! :) On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Nick Rout wrote: Of course you might like to consider this post again :-) http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030401-newsletter.xml Be careful to note the date of the article ! On

Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world date can't keep time

2005-09-12 Thread maxim wexler
--- Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:03:27PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: what about the output from hwclock? run it as root, does it give the same time/date as date? the same. In fact when I update the time w/ date -s hwclock continues to

[gentoo-user] emerge --oneshot vs emerge --uDvp differences

2005-09-12 Thread Ed Jabbour
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r2, as directed in the GLSA, returns a download for xemacs, which I do not now or ever had installed. It is not in use flags. However, an emerge -uDvp python doesn't even mention xemacs. Any clue as to why the difference? Any problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Richard Fish
Stuart Howard wrote: Yes I am using samba to connect to the XP box as you suggested. The error report arrived via mail from a cron, prehaps the garbling of the message occured there? Anyway thanks again for responses, I usually clean up /tmp after the script runs so I made the assumption later

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