Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 and RAID

2005-09-21 Thread jarry
A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im talking about software RAID specifically. I would assume running lvm2 (a software process) over software RAID would have more overhead than just software RAID alone. I'd say you do not need to worry about it (if you have at least 500MHz cpu). SW-raid 0/1

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 and RAID

2005-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:44:04 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: Im talking about software RAID specifically. I would assume running lvm2 (a software process) over software RAID would have more overhead than just software RAID alone. Your CPU and memory are so much faster than your hard drive that

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware 5.0 stopped working after last emerge

2005-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:51:24 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: It seems that /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware-vmx must be setuid root and someone filed this in bugzilla (#106291) already. Thanks for the heads up. (Lucky I've not upgraded, still at -r1) I upgraded a couple of days ago and did not

RE: [gentoo-user] CUPS: Sharing printers via IPP

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 September 2005 22:33 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS: Sharing printers via IPP HA!!! I just set up windows to print to cups direct (no samba) and may be able to offer some

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for eggs.

2005-09-21 Thread Abraham Mar�E P��rez
Hi, I'm not an expert in ebuilds' issues, but /usr/portage/distfiles (or whichever else one chooses for his/her own system) is availabe through the variable DISTDIR (or is it DISTFILES? can't remember which one exactly is and don't have gentoo available here). Hence, that

[gentoo-user] SSL removal makes installation of kde fail

2005-09-21 Thread Francisco Santiago Capel Torres
Hi folks, I have installed gentoo on an x86 machine and in order to optimize memory and speed, I added -ssl to the USE flags. This makes kdeaddons fail to compile complaining about some KSSL_error (sorry for the poor description, I am not in the same machine). So I put ssl back but I can not

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for eggs.

2005-09-21 Thread Christoph Gysin
Pupeno wrote: DEPEND=chicken mysql should be: DEPEND=dev-scheme/chicken dev-db/mysql RDEPEND= Not sure, but I've often saw this: RDEPEND=${DEPEND} src_unpack() { mkdir -p ${S} cp /usr/portage/distfiles/${A} ${S} } mkdir isn't nessessary IIRC. You also shouldn't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for eggs.

2005-09-21 Thread Christoph Gysin
Christoph Gysin wrote: You also shouldn't have to copy the egg. Does it get modified during chicken-setup? If not, you can leave out the whole src_unpack(). Of course, you'll need to specify the path to the egg in chicken-setup. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2

[gentoo-user] emerge gnome

2005-09-21 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi all I'm having problem trying to emerge gnome. A very short while after starting I get the following error message Downloading ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/X11/GNOME/sources/libbonoboui/2.10/libbonoboui-2.10.0.tar.bz2 --10:38:48--

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome

2005-09-21 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Stewart Taylor wrote: Hi all I'm having problem trying to emerge gnome. A very short while after starting I get the following error message Downloading ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/X11/GNOME/sources/libbonoboui/2.10/libbonoboui-2.10.0.tar.bz2 --10:38:48--

[gentoo-user] emerge wine fails

2005-09-21 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Hello all, I'm trying to: # emerge =wine-20041019-r3 (this version seems to be recommended for several uses) I get this error message: In file included from /usr/include/alsa/asoundlib.h:48, from alsa.h:23, from audio_05.c:49: /usr/include/alsa/conf.h:189:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wine fails

2005-09-21 Thread Gentoo Shadow
did u configured your kernel for ALSA support + sound card module loaded + alsa working file?On 9/21/05, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hello all,I'm trying to:# emerge=wine-20041019-r3 (this version seems to be recommended for several uses)I get this error message:In file

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome

2005-09-21 Thread Gentoo Shadow
to check your harddisk space type #df -lh On 9/21/05, Tamas Sarga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Stewart Taylor wrote: Hi all I'm having problem trying to emerge gnome. A very short while after starting I get the following error message Downloading

[gentoo-user] Postfix/Cyrus + Spam/ClamAV

2005-09-21 Thread Roman v. Gemmeren
hi, yesterday i converted my sever from courier-imap - cyrus-imap. After struggling with the messed ebuild in portaeg ( for others with the problem: change emake - make, there is already a thread at bugzilla), it already checks for spam transfers mail to the correct mail-folders. And btw: It's

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wine fails

2005-09-21 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 21 septembre à 12:37:24 Gentoo Shadow [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | did u configured your kernel for ALSA support + sound card module loaded + | alsa working file? Yes; should they all be modules? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6)# grep SOUND .config CONFIG_SOUND=y

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wine fails

2005-09-21 Thread Gentoo Shadow
don't use de ALSA-DRIVER that come with de Linux kernel so u better to #emerge alsa-driver simply type #emerge info AND SEND TO THE MAILLING LISTOn 9/21/05, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 21 septembre à 12:37:24 Gentoo Shadow [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment:| did u

[gentoo-user] Newb question on handling of kernels and patches in Gentoo

2005-09-21 Thread Bob Alexander
Initially I emerged and used a gentoo-source IIRC kernel which worked perfectly. I then wanted to use the swsusp2 patch to the kernel. emerged a package and in fact it was an entirely new kernel tree with the patches included. The swsusp2 patches in this tree are not at the latest level and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Integrating Linux with windowsActive directory

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/21/05, Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,Whats the best to integrate linux users passwords with our existingWindows active domain, so that we can login with windows users and passwords into our Llinux machines.Winbind or Ldap ? To integrate with an ActiveDirectory you need

[gentoo-user] complete mess with dev-lang/php and dev-php/php

2005-09-21 Thread Bruno Lustosa
It seems there is now a complete mess with these two packages at ~x86. I guess I should go either with one or another, but not with both. If I try to emerge PEAR-PEAR, it asks me to get dev-lang/php-5.x to install PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6. If I do so, I get back to those strange messages about blocking

[gentoo-user] vmware guest os timer extremely slow

2005-09-21 Thread Qiangning Hong
Hardware: Thinkpad R52, pentium-m 1.73G, Host: suspend2-sources-2.6.13-r4, vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r7 Guest OS: Windows 2000 professional The windows guest os is extemely slow. After double-click the date at bottom-right corner and show the second hand of the clock, I find that it cost more

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-email on reboot?

2005-09-21 Thread Billy Holmes
Mark Knecht wrote: it reboots? I don't expect that this should happen often, but I'd like to know when it does. setup ssmtp, install mail-client/mailx, then add this to /etc/conf.d/local.start: date|mail -s 'I just rebooted!' [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-21 Thread Fernando Meira
On 9/20/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:50:28 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: - I run emerge -pv depclean and I get a list where I find these: These are the packages that I would unmerge: media-libs/libmpeg3 selected: 1.5.2 protected: none omitted: none

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-email on reboot?

2005-09-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Billy Holmes schreef: Mark Knecht wrote: it reboots? I don't expect that this should happen often, but I'd like to know when it does. setup ssmtp, install mail-client/mailx, then add this to /etc/conf.d/local.start: date|mail -s 'I just rebooted!' [EMAIL PROTECTED] And you know,

RE: [gentoo-user] auto-email on reboot?

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
What would be an accepted easy way, meaning not too much software setup, etc., to get the machine to email my GMail account every time it reboots? I don't expect that this should happen often, but I'd like to know when it does. Add a line to /etc/conf.d/local.start to either call a script

Re: [gentoo-user] complete mess with dev-lang/php and dev-php/php

2005-09-21 Thread Mark Shields
I mentioned this as a possible bug on the forums (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-381582-highlight-egroupware.html , as related to the latest version of egroupware), but someone blew me down without checking the facts out. In my not so humble opinion, if a package is fauling to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-email on reboot?

2005-09-21 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Mittwoch, den 21.09.2005, 07:26 -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, Yesterday my NFS server, used for MYthTV storage, but also a MythTV frontend, seems to have spontaneously rebooted twice. After that all recordings done for the rest of the day are bad. What would be an accepted easy

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-email on reboot?

2005-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:44:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: I just realized that I always turn this option (wherever it may be) off (I think it's the kernel, which would explain why I don't remember precisely where it is, since I configure all kernels to be the same as the last, so I set it once

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:36:59 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: If you installed it with portage, you should have it in world. I've installed with portage, but with --oneshop option. This is because (as Holly said) E17 packages need to be installed in proper order. So I use a script to update

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware guest os timer extremely slow

2005-09-21 Thread Richard Fish
Qiangning Hong wrote: Hardware: Thinkpad R52, pentium-m 1.73G, Host: suspend2-sources-2.6.13-r4, vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r7 Guest OS: Windows 2000 professional The windows guest os is extemely slow. After double-click the date at bottom-right corner and show the second hand of the clock,

Re: [gentoo-user] Newb question on handling of kernels and patches in Gentoo

2005-09-21 Thread Richard Fish
Bob Alexander wrote: Initially I emerged and used a gentoo-source IIRC kernel which worked perfectly. I then wanted to use the swsusp2 patch to the kernel. emerged a package and in fact it was an entirely new kernel tree with the patches included. The swsusp2 patches in this tree are not at

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome

2005-09-21 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Trivial yes, but easily overlooked. I have 1.6 GB free and the file length is correct. Stewart Very trivial question. Have you got enough freespace? Is the saved file equal in size with the said by wget? Cheers, Tamas Sarga Sárga Tamás -- Make the world

[gentoo-user] Re: auto-email on reboot?

2005-09-21 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Sep 21 16:44, Holly Bostick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: And you know, it just occurred to me-- isn't there a kernel option or an option somewhere that I can't remember right now, to enable or disable auto-rebooting on severe errors/kernel panics, something like that? [~] grep

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-email on reboot?

2005-09-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:44:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: I just realized that I always turn this option (wherever it may be) off (I think it's the kernel, which would explain why I don't remember precisely where it is, since I configure all kernels to be the same as the

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware guest os timer extremely slow

2005-09-21 Thread Qiangning Hong
Richard Fish wrote: The problem is probably because VMWare uses the processor TSC counter for timing, the rate of which varies with the processor frequency. The following works for me on a pentium-m 2.13ghz system: 1. Add processor.max_cstate=1 to your kernel boot options. 2. If you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking packages?

2005-09-21 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Well, dev-php is not compatible with dev-lang/php. You have to emerge dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php for apache support. If you emerge dev-lang/php, you'll have both of them, and it will have support for apache too. I recommend you to emerge dev-lang/php instead of dev-php/php and

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for eggs.

2005-09-21 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 06:33, Christoph Gysin wrote: Christoph Gysin wrote: You also shouldn't have to copy the egg. Does it get modified during chicken-setup? If not, you can leave out the whole src_unpack(). Of course, you'll need to specify the path to the egg in chicken-setup.

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking packages?

2005-09-21 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 9/21/05, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, dev-php is not compatible with dev-lang/php. You have to emergedev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php for apache support. If you emergedev-lang/php, you'll have both of them, and it will have support forapache too. I recommend you to

Re: [gentoo-user] Newb question on handling of kernels and patches in Gentoo

2005-09-21 Thread Richard Fish
A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Richard Fish wrote: The only problem with this is that when you unmerge old kernel sources, emerge will refuse to remove any patched, backup, or object files, so you have to go delete the remaining files manually. But I think you end up having to do

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.4 inline pgp sign/encrypt support ?

2005-09-21 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 R'twick Niceorgaw wrote: Hi, I read on gnome.org changelog for evolution 2.4 that it now supports inline pgp signature/encryption. However, when I installed it, couldn't find anywhere to select inline signature. It is still signing as an attachment.

[gentoo-user] System update problems

2005-09-21 Thread Rupert Young (Restart)
Hi, I havent touched the OS for about a year, since it was installed for me. I wanted to add some apps, but found problems with seemingly out of date links, after doing a sync. So, I've been trying the upgrade to 2005, though probably did things in the wrong order until I found the

RE: [gentoo-user] System update problems

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
Any help appreciated. /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux- gnu/../../libc.so when searching for -lc Dude, I think your build chain is now in a 'hosed' state, probably as a result of the migration that you were trying... Since gentoo is a

[gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble

2005-09-21 Thread Grant
Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I click Start this virtual machine, nothing happens at all. Does anyone know why this is happening? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Newb question on handling of kernels and patches in Gentoo

2005-09-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Richard Fish wrote: I think you are correct, if I could ever remember to do it, or if it would annoy me enough to warrant writing a script for it. :-) Since ebuilds have preinstall and postinstall functions, it would be nice if there were preunmerge and postunmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-21 Thread Fernando Meira
On 9/21/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:36:59 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: If you installed it with portage, you should have it in world. I've installed with portage, but with --oneshop option. This is because (as Holly said) E17 packages need to be installed in

[gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread Matt Randolph
I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). I'm using vixie-cron. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread John Jolet
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:11 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). I'm using vixie-cron. cron.daily doesn't get run from cron. gets run out of anacrondo

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:15:04 -0500 John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:11 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread John Jolet
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 22:47 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2005 22:15, John Jolet wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:11 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks

Re: [gentoo-user] Newb question on handling of kernels and patches in Gentoo

2005-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:55:06 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: Since ebuilds have preinstall and postinstall functions, it would be nice if there were preunmerge and postunmerge functions - then it would be easy to re-write the kernel ebuilds to clean up after themselves. Like these?

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble

2005-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:56:13 -0700, Grant wrote: Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I click Start this virtual machine, nothing happens at all. Does anyone know why this is happening? Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:03:53 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: Add them to world. As long as you don't do an automatic emerge -uD world you shouldn't have a problem. When updates come out, you'll see them in the output of emerge -pvD world (which you won't with your current setup) then you can

[gentoo-user] OT: gmail

2005-09-21 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I am sure I'll get flamed for this, but I am in need of a gmail account, anyone have one to give? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble

2005-09-21 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday September 21 2005 2:56 pm, Grant wrote: Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I click Start this virtual machine, nothing happens at all. Does anyone know why this is happening? The

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble

2005-09-21 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 06:02 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:56:13 -0700, Grant wrote: Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I click Start this virtual machine, nothing

[gentoo-user] samba

2005-09-21 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I keep getting this error, error libsmb programs must not be setuid root? This after upgrading samba. The config seems alright, I just can't mount any shares due to this error. Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org |

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:11:33 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). Does it not run or run and not do anything? The latter can be a path problem, as the cron

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:15:04PM -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:11 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). I'm using vixie-cron.

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble

2005-09-21 Thread Grant
Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I click Start this virtual machine, nothing happens at all. Does anyone know why this is happening? Is there anything in vmware.log in the directory of that

Re: [gentoo-user] c-sources, 2.6.13-ck5 corrupt.

2005-09-21 Thread Luca Botti
Alle Wednesday 21 September 2005 04:09, Erick Michau ha scritto: I can confirm the flaw for gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r2. The -r1 was good, though. for the ck-sources look at: http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sys-kernel;name=ck-sources it's marked as bug # 106405 (already closed )

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble

2005-09-21 Thread Grant
Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I click Start this virtual machine, nothing happens at all. Does anyone know why this is happening? The solution can be found in the Gentoo forums. I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble

2005-09-21 Thread Grant
Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I click Start this virtual machine, nothing happens at all. Does anyone know why this is happening? Is there anything in vmware.log in the directory of

Re: [gentoo-user] Newb question on handling of kernels and patches in Gentoo

2005-09-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:55:06 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: Since ebuilds have preinstall and postinstall functions, it would be nice if there were preunmerge and postunmerge functions - then it would be easy to re-write the kernel ebuilds to

[gentoo-user] USB modem

2005-09-21 Thread Thanasis Papakonstantinou
Can you recommend an external *USB* dialup PSTN modem, which will work 100-90% in Gento 2.6.13r1 ? After failing to setup my laptop's mart link winmodem (it can't be done, i'll have to wait), a USB modem is the only solution Thank u in advance -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gmail

2005-09-21 Thread Denis
heck I got 99 invites just collecting dust... :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble

2005-09-21 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday September 21 2005 5:54 pm, Grant wrote: Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I click Start this virtual machine, nothing happens at all. Does anyone know why this is happening?

Re: [gentoo-user] Newb question on handling of kernels and patches in Gentoo

2005-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:59:51 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: The gentoo-sources ebuilds dont seem to override them (for one thing, it could remove modules for the kernel you're unmerging). The kernel ebuilds only merge/unmerge the source code, they don't handle compiled code, unlike most other

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble

2005-09-21 Thread Grant
On 9/21/05, Joe Menola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday September 21 2005 5:54 pm, Grant wrote: Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I click Start this virtual machine, nothing happens at

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). I'm using vixie-cron. cron.daily doesn't get run from cron. gets run out of anacrondo you have anacron installed? Sorry, John, that's not

[gentoo-user] emerge --update world build problem

2005-09-21 Thread John Jolet
I'm having a problem doing an emerge --update world OR system on a new system, just set up today using the minimal boot cd, downloading the latest stage3 file for pentium 4, and the latest portage snapshot. It seems to be dying on the build for glibc. trying to move xtrace.new to xtrace (looong

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:15:35 -0400 Dave Nebinger wrote: I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). I'm using vixie-cron. cron.daily doesn't get run from cron. gets run out of

[gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm considering moving to SATA and wanted some feedback from other Gentoo users. 1. For SATA RAID what cards and drives do you recommend for a desktop system running Gentoo. I will be doing some audio recording on a dual AMD 1.6 with 2 gig of memory 2. If I went with SATA how much does

[gentoo-user] emerge world

2005-09-21 Thread John Jolet
okay, I figured out why this is failing, can someone help me fix it? it fails with this message: mv: cannot stat `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r1/work/build-deault-i686-pc-linux -gnu-linuxthreads/debbug/xtrace.new': No such file or directory anyone catch the problem? there IS NO debbug

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-21 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
I run a server running software RAID on SATA, performance is very acceptable. Yeah the SATA driver is not included in the default kernel configuration, I messed around with that for a long time :) Devraj Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I'm considering moving to SATA and wanted some feedback from

[gentoo-user] GenUX

2005-09-21 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi everyone, Looking breifly at the Gentoo Developer conference. I came across GenUX (actually I have now downloaded and had a quick go at it). It seems to me that they have put pre-built binaries on a LiveCD with a GUI front end for their installer. Has anyone tried it, if so what is your

[gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze

2005-09-21 Thread Qiangning Hong
I tried to transfer a large file (~300MB) to a windows machine from my gentoo laptop: # mount -t cifs //winbox/movies /mnt/samba -o iocharset=utf8,umask= # exit $ cp largefile.avi /mnt/samba The transfer starts and eats 100% of my CPU. However, after transfered ~40MB of data, my linux system

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] expand for linux?

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/21/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows drivers are sometimes delivered as compressed with a now fairlyancient scheme. part of which is that the filename is truncated, and thelast letter of the extension replaced with a underscore.(Like printer.ppd becomes printer.pp_)In windows 2k

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] expand for linux?

2005-09-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, September 22, 2005 3:30 pm, Michael Crute said: On 9/21/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows drivers are sometimes delivered as compressed with a now fairly ancient scheme. part of which is that the filename is truncated, and the last letter of the extension replaced with a

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-21 Thread Ron Bickers
On Wed September 21 2005 09:51 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: 1. For SATA RAID what cards and drives do you recommend for a desktop system running Gentoo. I will be doing some audio recording on a dual AMD 1.6 with 2 gig of memory I'm running several Seagate 200GB drives with the SATA

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gmail

2005-09-21 Thread Stephen Micheals
i also have about 200 free for anyone that would like to have one :) On 9/21/05, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: heck I got 99 invites just collecting dust... :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-21 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2005, 00:59 -0400 schrieb Ron Bickers: On Wed September 21 2005 09:51 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: 1. For SATA RAID what cards and drives do you recommend for a desktop system running Gentoo. I will be doing some audio recording on a dual AMD 1.6 with 2 gig of

Re: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze

2005-09-21 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2005, 11:03 +0800 schrieb Qiangning Hong: I tried to transfer a large file (~300MB) to a windows machine from my gentoo laptop: # mount -t cifs //winbox/movies /mnt/samba -o iocharset=utf8,umask= What if you just try mount -o username=xxx //winbox/movies