Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Problems booting...still

2005-10-28 Thread nova
I have attached fstab. It has the paritions configured with root = /dev/dha7 ext3, which is correct. I ran the e2fsck (because it said that is had been over 12000 days since the last test, due to not resetting the clock), and it reported no problems, 1.1% fragmentation. What should I be using

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Problems booting...still

2005-10-28 Thread Rod Furey
On 28 Oct 2005, at 17:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should I be using instead of devfs? udev - I'd expect the newer profiles to use this by default... The battery on my iMac is stuffed as well. However when the system is shutdown it syncs the time with the h/ware clock so it's not too

Re: [gentoo-user] top for disk access

2005-10-28 Thread Bryan Whitehead
run 'vmstat 1' On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing the most disk reads/writes? Sometimes my disk will go crazy, and my system slow down. I usually know its updatedb, or something similar, but sometimes I

Re: [gentoo-user] having a real mta + virtual one (ie postfix nbsmtp)

2005-10-28 Thread Bryan Whitehead
I don't understand why you would need to do this? If you need a MTA and a MUA, why would you bother with a MUA? All of what a MUA can do is in the MTA - postfix On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Covington, Chris wrote: Hi all, I'd like to have both nbsmtp and postfix, so that I can run an MTA and

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

2005-10-28 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Make sure all nfs services are running on client and server. OR you have iptables running and you are blocking random nfs service ports. Check both client and server. run rpcinfo -p on each machine to see what ports need to be open. It might be better to just allow anything to go between

Re: [gentoo-user] Which package contains NAME uninstalled tool

2005-10-28 Thread b.n.
Harry Putnam wrote: I'm sure this has come up several times but finding the correct search string is proving to be a problem. How can a user tell which package an uninstalled tool is in? For example. I want to make an xfs file system. It turn out I have no mkfs.xfs. I find these in my

Re: [gentoo-user] top for disk access

2005-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, thanks for your reply, On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 00:05 -0700, Bryan Whitehead wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing the most disk reads/writes? run 'vmstat 1' that doesn't seem to tell me what

Re: [gentoo-user] Python - !!! Failed to complete python imports.

2005-10-28 Thread b.n.
!!! Failed to complete python imports. There are internal modules for !!! python and failure here indicates that you have a problem with python !!! itself and thus portage is no able to continue processing. !!! You might consider starting python with verbose

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:42:25 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: Thats what wasn't clear to me. I assume this is a special case in that an 'update world' won't install new kernel sources by default? It will, provided the existing kernel sources were emerged. Portage only tracks software installed by

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging without Internet connection

2005-10-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:28:59 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: Yeah I would suggest doing a emerge package and then CTRL-C'ing it and copying the url that it was attemping to download it from. That way you make sure you get the right sources for your current portage tree. but only for the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Which package contains NAME uninstalled tool

2005-10-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:00:06 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: How can a user tell which package an uninstalled tool is in? Asking here is one way. For example. I want to make an xfs file system. It turn out I have no mkfs.xfs. I find these in my portage tree: sys-fs/xfsdump and xfsprogs.

Re: [gentoo-user] top for disk access

2005-10-28 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:16:54PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing the most disk reads/writes? run 'vmstat 1' that doesn't seem to tell me what processes are running, only what the system totals are. I wanted to see

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

2005-10-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Stroller wrote: Can anyone explain to me how to use this, please? Try as I might I don't seem to be getting it right. Seems to be a bug in lspci. It works here like it should. I have tried this on a couple of machines. The output produced by `lspci -x` _looks_ reasonable - I've attached

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Digby Tarvin schreef: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:25:52PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: I gather one cannot just copy the .config file for this much of a jump, so I guess the best thing to do is a simultaneous 'make menuconfig' in both old and new kernel using two different windows so that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

2005-10-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Christoph Gysin wrote: Nonetheless this seems like a bug and should be fixed. Could you file a bug and reference it here? Searching google turns out that it has already been fixed. Update to the latest pciutils will fix the issue. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr *

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

2005-10-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Gysin schreef: Christoph Gysin wrote: Nonetheless this seems like a bug and should be fixed. Could you file a bug and reference it here? Searching google turns out that it has already been fixed. Update to the latest pciutils will fix the issue. Why search Google and not

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

2005-10-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: Why search Google and not b.g.o itself, or packages.gentoo.org? Either manually or-- if you use Firefox-- using the Firefox b.g.o search engine? Seems like a waste of effort to have to filter irrelevant hits from Google when one already knows that the status of the issue

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-28 Thread James Hiscock
As I am going from 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 to 2.6.12-gentoo-r10, which is more than just a revision change, it would seen that 'make oldconfig' is not recomended. Recommendations are just that: recommendations. You can take them or leave them. :) And I have to agree with Holly on this one: it's a

[gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

2005-10-28 Thread Qiangning Hong
My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it via ssh. I had to hard reset the machine, therefore no error message is left in the

[gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?

2005-10-28 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package is in /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editing package.mask? Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?

2005-10-28 Thread Jules Colding
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:08 +, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package is in /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editing package.mask? I should add that I tried to add it to package.unmask, but that didn't help. --

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?

2005-10-28 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/28/05, Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package isin /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editingpackage.mask?Thanks,jules Hi, yes, you should not change /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but instead add the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?

2005-10-28 Thread Jules Colding
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 14:17 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:08 +, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package is in /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editing package.mask? I should add that I

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?

2005-10-28 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi Jules; there is a lot of documentation about masked packages on gentoo.wiki.com and on gentoo-handbook but if you want to unmask this package you can edit the file /etc/portage/package.keywords and insert the line =media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.10 ~x86 if x86 is your machine arch ... good luck.

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

2005-10-28 Thread Budd, Tracy
I used mknod in local.start. That seems to have fixed the problem. Side note: a 2.1.11 kernel that I had lying around created the devices correctly. I only had to do this for 2.1.13. Thank you all. -Tracy -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:46 AM

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kudzu-knoppix (is blocking sys-libs/libkudzu-1.1.62-r1)

2005-10-28 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 10/28/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting an error:sys-apps/kudzu-knoppix (is blocking sys-libs/libkudzu-1.1.62-r1)Does anybody knows how to fix it?kudzu-knoppix - appears to be blocked.Just unmerge kudzu-knoppix, and you should be able to emerge libkudzu without a problem. I have

[gentoo-user] Intel Wireless networking with kernel 2.6.14.

2005-10-28 Thread John Green
Hi, I never did get Intel wireless networking working with 2.6.13.x. I just tried with kernel 2.6.14, and I get compilation errors when I try to emerge ieee80211. It complained about lots of incompatible ieee80211 filles in the Linux kernel sources, but still failed when I removed the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

2005-10-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:46:11 -0400, Budd, Tracy wrote: I used mknod in local.start. The only problem with that is that the devices are created well after the module is loaded. With the settings in /etc/modules.d/nvidia, which is part of the nvidia-kernel package, the devices are created

Re: [gentoo-user] having a real mta + virtual one (ie postfix nbsmtp)

2005-10-28 Thread Covington, Chris
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:21:17AM -0400, gentuxx wrote: I believe adding the mailwrapper USE flag will give you what you want. According to [1] this flag allows multiple MTAs. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml Yeah this works. It has a side effect of clobbering the

Re: [gentoo-user] having a real mta + virtual one (ie postfix nbsmtp)

2005-10-28 Thread Covington, Chris
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 06:10:48PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: What exactly are you trying to acheive? I want to run mutt without it using my installed postfix, but another dedicated, external SMTP server instead. I use postfix on the box to test things out (like dspam, RBLs, various policy

[gentoo-user] Re: top for disk access

2005-10-28 Thread James
Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing the most disk reads/writes? bonnie and bonnie++ might help eix bonnie Sometimes my disk will go crazy, and my system slow down. I usually know its updatedb, or something

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

2005-10-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it via ssh. I had to hard reset the

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

2005-10-28 Thread Stroller
On Oct 28, 2005, at 10:44 am, Christoph Gysin wrote: Christoph Gysin wrote: Nonetheless this seems like a bug and should be fixed. Could you file a bug and reference it here? Searching google turns out that it has already been fixed. Update to the latest pciutils will fix the issue. Hi,

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables on gentoo

2005-10-28 Thread James
A. Khattri ajai at bway.net writes: /etc/init.d/firewall is the default file where where you put your rules you have written or grabbed elsewhere and modified to meet your specific needs. Not sure where this script came from - it doesn't come with iptables. You are right, as it seems a

Re: [gentoo-user] Wearab le Gentoo Computer?

2005-10-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote: My gosh! They've invented the world's most expensive Knoppix CD. I forgot, the Knoppix CD is writable and comes with a fingerprint reader... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

2005-10-28 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it via ssh. I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

2005-10-28 Thread John Jolet
On Friday 28 October 2005 10:11, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse point doesn't move, keyboard

[gentoo-user] Help, Marvell patched sk98lin for livecd 2005.1

2005-10-28 Thread Qiangning Hong
I am installing gentoo on a new machine with an onboard Marvel 8E8053 Gigabit LAN controller. However, LiveCD 2005.1 can not detect this controller, both sk98lin and skge don't work. After googling, I find this artical http://pavuk.7gods.org/notebook.html#network and know that I must patch the

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

2005-10-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Stroller wrote: Do you have any references on this, please? I'm obviously using different search terms from you, because I can't find anything about this bug on Google. search term: bug lspci -F : ... brings us to: http://www.google.ch/search?q=bug+%22lspci+-F%22+%22%3A%22+ ...

[gentoo-user] local portage server

2005-10-28 Thread John Jolet
Okay, thanks for the advice, turns out rsyncd must be running for the rsync:// syntax to work. Next step, when I do an emerge --sync, I get rsync: link_stat /metadata/timestamp.chk (in portage) failed: No such file or directory (2) 2005/10/28 17:18:57 [1266] rsync error: some files could not

Re: [gentoo-user] local portage server

2005-10-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:23:08 -0500, John Jolet wrote: Okay, thanks for the advice, turns out rsyncd must be running for the rsync:// syntax to work. Next step, when I do an emerge --sync, I get rsync: link_stat /metadata/timestamp.chk (in portage) failed: No such file or directory (2)

Re: [gentoo-user] local portage server

2005-10-28 Thread John Jolet
On Friday 28 October 2005 12:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:23:08 -0500, John Jolet wrote: Okay, thanks for the advice, turns out rsyncd must be running for the rsync:// syntax to work. Next step, when I do an emerge --sync, I get rsync: link_stat /metadata/timestamp.chk

Re: [gentoo-user] Help, Marvell patched sk98lin for livecd 2005.1

2005-10-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 23:49 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: I am installing gentoo on a new machine with an onboard Marvel 8E8053 Gigabit LAN controller. However, LiveCD 2005.1 can not detect this controller, both sk98lin and skge don't work. After googling, I find this artical

[gentoo-user] evolution, aspell and multilanguage support

2005-10-28 Thread Matthias Langer
I've recently switched to evolution for writing and receiving mail. As German is my mother language I write German e-mails in regular intervals. So I thought installing app-dicts/aspell-de would be a good idea. However, I'm not able to select a German dictionary in evolution. Last but not least

[gentoo-user] network questions

2005-10-28 Thread capsel
1. I have 2 computers, first is directly connected to lan with IP 10.0.0.3 and gateway 10.0.0.1 and has second NIC with IP 10.0.0.4 connected to second computer with IP 10.0.0.5 {LAN}--[10.0.0.3|GENTOO|10.0.0.4]---[10.0.0.5] Is it possible to set up routing from .5 to 10.0.0.0/24 (lan)?

Re: [gentoo-user] local portage server

2005-10-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:14:33 -0500, John Jolet wrote: You should have got that when you synced the server with one of the Gentoo mirrors. the file is at ${PORTDIR}/metadata/timestamp.chk should have been loaded in with an emerge --sync? or an rsync of the whole tree from one of the

[gentoo-user] Configuring fbsplash

2005-10-28 Thread Grimaldy Soto
Good Day.Guys i wanna configure so i can see a beautiful background when my machine is upload it..I'm using the gensplash in 5 easy steps to do this, but there are something that i wanna know.. For example i'm using the 2.6.13-r6 Sources Kernel , i remembered that i active the framebuffer support,

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread kashani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if PostgreSQL server is on another machine why must I install it locally for postfix/cyrus-sasl to use it? Wasn't there talk awhile ago about some libpq package that should be used instead? I'm confused. I also don't want to have to put the postgresql full package

Re: [gentoo-user] Wearab le Gentoo Computer?

2005-10-28 Thread Matt Randolph
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote: My gosh! They've invented the world's most expensive Knoppix CD. I forgot, the Knoppix CD is writable and comes with a fingerprint reader... This is a very interesting product and I am glad that you mentioned it.

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 14:36 -0500, kashani wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if PostgreSQL server is on another machine why must I install it locally for postfix/cyrus-sasl to use it? Wasn't there talk awhile ago about some libpq package that should be used instead? I'm confused. I

Re: [gentoo-user] way OT - doze equivalent for dvdrip for a linophobe friend

2005-10-28 Thread luis jure
el Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:28:17 +1000 Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I am really embarrassed to ask this question but I have spent a couple of hours searching and couldn't find anything even remotely as good as: emerge -av dvdrip i understand dvdrip is a front-end to transcode and it's good

Re: [gentoo-user] network questions

2005-10-28 Thread Richard Fish
capsel wrote: 1. I have 2 computers, first is directly connected to lan with IP 10.0.0.3 and gateway 10.0.0.1 and has second NIC with IP 10.0.0.4 connected to second computer with IP 10.0.0.5 {LAN}--[10.0.0.3|GENTOO|10.0.0.4]---[10.0.0.5] Is it possible to set up routing from .5 to

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring fbsplash

2005-10-28 Thread Richard Fish
Grimaldy Soto wrote: Good Day. Guys i wanna configure so i can see a beautiful background when my machine is upload it.. I'm using the gensplash in 5 easy steps to do this, but there are something that i wanna know.. For example i'm using the 2.6.13-r6 Sources Kernel , i remembered that

Re: [gentoo-user] Wearab le Gentoo Computer?

2005-10-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote: If you must have a biometric scanner for security, there are much cheaper ways to do it. I just found a 512MB Sandisk Cruzer Profile for $55. It is a thumbdrive and a fingerprint scanner combined. Add a Knoppix CD and you have the same functionality

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring fbsplash

2005-10-28 Thread Stroller
On Oct 28, 2005, at 8:34 pm, Grimaldy Soto wrote: Anyway i wanna know a way of to know if i need reconfigure the kernel again.. i've emerge splashutils and also livecd 2005.1 bootsplash theme the which is the one that i wanna configure,... bootsplash != splash. Bootsplash was depreciated

Re: [gentoo-user] network questions

2005-10-28 Thread John Jolet
On Oct 28, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Richard Fish wrote: capsel wrote: 1. I have 2 computers, first is directly connected to lan with IP 10.0.0.3 and gateway 10.0.0.1 and has second NIC with IP 10.0.0.4 connected to second computer with IP 10.0.0.5

[gentoo-user] test. please ignore

2005-10-28 Thread Jason Cooper
dyndns.org changed their setup, or my dynamic dns service expired. At any rate, checking to see if mails are making it around ok since I fixed the dyndns.org acct and pings are moving okay. jason. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Video iPod

2005-10-28 Thread Ian
Hi there, Has anyone gotten videos transferring to the new iPod yet? -- Cheers,Ian

[gentoo-user] Test, please discard.

2005-10-28 Thread Ian
Testing.-- Cheers,Ian

[gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

2005-10-28 Thread Robert Persson
For some reason (probably a careless etc-update) ncurses based apps (e.g. mc and kernel make menuconfig) have started looking really ugly when displayed in a text console, but look fine in xterm and konsole. Rectangular frames are absent, columns don't line up, the wrong character disappears

[gentoo-user] Test, please discard

2005-10-28 Thread Ian
Hi there. This is a test.-- Cheers,Ian

[gentoo-user] Java with Firefox not recognized

2005-10-28 Thread Joseph
I have Java installed blackdown-jdk-1.4.2 on my system and it is enabled in Firefox. However, when I try to view some pages that need Java it keeps complaining about missing plug-in Java Runtime Environment and it is not available when i try to install it, even though I have Java installed and

Re: [gentoo-user] Java with Firefox not recognized

2005-10-28 Thread George
Joseph wrote: I have Java installed blackdown-jdk-1.4.2 on my system and it is enabled in Firefox. However, when I try to view some pages that need Java it keeps complaining about missing plug-in Java Runtime Environment and it is not available when i try to install it, even though I have Java

Re: [gentoo-user] Java with Firefox not recognized

2005-10-28 Thread Joseph
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 22:40 -0600, George wrote: Joseph wrote: I have Java installed blackdown-jdk-1.4.2 on my system and it is enabled in Firefox. However, when I try to view some pages that need Java it keeps complaining about missing plug-in Java Runtime Environment and it is not

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

2005-10-28 Thread Peter Gordon
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 20:03 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: For some reason (probably a careless etc-update) ncurses based apps (e.g. mc and kernel make menuconfig) have started looking really ugly when displayed in a text console, but look fine in xterm and konsole. Rectangular frames are