Re: [gentoo-web-user] Upstream requirements for web-apps

2006-01-29 Thread Gunnar Wrobel
Renat Lumpau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're in good shape now, but we weren't even a couple of months ago. At this point, we should be fine if we take care of ongoing maintenance, but things can _quickly_ turn ugly. As a matter of fact, I'll be offline for the better part of the summer,

Re: [gentoo-web-user] Upstream requirements for web-apps

2006-01-29 Thread Gunnar Wrobel
Renat Lumpau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We need to be able, yes. Realistically speaking, if I disappear, that would require someone else spending more time on bug-fixing. Nowadays it's not too bad - we're talking maybe 1-5 version bumps and a couple of bugs a week. Is there anyone willing to

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 29 January 2006 06:41, Ian wrote: unmask all of the packages im building in package.keywords. You seem to have added them to package.unmask as well. Don't do that. -- Regards, Abhay pgpDBsUMAdkF2.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Dale
Hi, I have noticed this for a while but can't figure it out. After I have been logged into KDE for a long while, artsd starts using a LOT of memory. Keep in mine this rig has 1GB or ram if you go by the percentage. This is from top: top - 04:16:58 up 5 days, 12:31, 5 users, load average:

[gentoo-user] KDE programs starts slowly

2006-01-29 Thread Korondi Márk
Hi, everyone Yesterday I reinstalled gentoo, because I'd made the filesystem dirty (always used sudo, and installed programs not in portage randomly...) and I want a new, clean system. I install new kde (3.5.0), but there is a problem: While other programs - firefox, gftp, bittorrent - runs

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (29/01/06 04:23), Dale wrote: Hi, I have noticed this for a while but can't figure it out. After I have been logged into KDE for a long while, artsd starts using a LOT of memory. Keep in mine this rig has 1GB or ram if you go by the percentage. This is from top: top - 04:16:58 up

[gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in different terminal sessions at the same time? -- Aloha = Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (29/01/06 04:23), Dale wrote: Hi, I have noticed this for a while but can't figure it out. After I have been logged into KDE for a long while, artsd starts using a LOT of memory. Keep in mine this rig has 1GB or ram if you go by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
Beau E. Cox wrote: Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in different terminal sessions at the same time? Yes, I do all that all the time. Alexander Skwar -- Espy we need to split main intocore and wtf-uses-this -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] KDE starts and runs slowly

2006-01-29 Thread Korondi Márk
Hi, everyone Yesterday I reinstalled gentoo, because I'd made the filesystem dirty (always used sudo, and installed programs not in portage randomly...) and I want a new, clean system. I install new kde (3.5.0), but there is a problem: While other programs - firefox, gftp, bittorrent - run

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in different terminal sessions at the same time? -- Aloha = Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Yes, you can start as many sesions of emerge as you like, even

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 29 January 2006 12:56 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: Beau E. Cox wrote: Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in different terminal sessions at the same time? Yes, I do all that all the time. Alexander Skwar -- Espy we need to split main intocore and

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Korondi Márk
On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:55, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (29/01/06 04:23), Dale wrote: Hi, I have noticed this for a while but can't figure it out. After I have been logged into KDE for a long while, artsd starts using a LOT of

[gentoo-user] X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Quite a number of packages support a X USE flag. The package that I'm right now looking at is vlc: [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-0.8.4a USE=alsa arts cdda dvd esd ffmpeg matroska mp3 mpeg nls nsplugin ogg real vlm vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xml2 xv -3dfx -X -a52 -aac -aalib -avahi

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Dale
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: Be aware that if you disable arts you will loose sound notifications from kde programs (most notable kopete). A good workaroud is to let it active but configure all the programs that can use alsa directlly not to use arts. This will slow the growing of arts :) Also, there

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:23, Dale wrote: Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to normal. I hate logging out almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my slideshow OK. o_O so just kill it ... killall -9 artsd artsd or something like that. Why log out if you can kill it? And

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 29 January 2006 01:04 am, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in different terminal sessions at the same time? -- Aloha = Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE programs starts slowly

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:29, Korondi Márk wrote: programs using some kdelib or - if I'm right -, DCOP starts slowly, and after starting cannot run fine. For example: KDE starts up slower than in the previous installation. usually this is a not correctly set up /etc/hostname Then I

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:23, Dale wrote: Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to normal. I hate logging out almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my slideshow OK. o_O so just kill it ... killall -9 artsd artsd or something like that.

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Korondi Márk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you can disable arts without lose systemsounds. Just check kcontrol - Sound Multimedia - System Notifications, then go to the right bottom, button called Player Settings, click on it, choose external player (second button), and type

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Dale
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I kill artsd how do I restart it? It will be started automaticaly when a program needs it. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 January 2006 12:35, Dale wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:23, Dale wrote: Oh, I can log out and back in, it's back to normal. I hate logging out almost as much as I hate to reboot. I like my slideshow OK. o_O so just kill it ... killall -9

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE programs starts slowly

2006-01-29 Thread Korondi Márk
Thank you for the promptly answer, usually this is a not correctly set up /etc/hostname hmmm... during the install the gentoo-hanbook doesn't say me to set it up. I write my hostname in it, restart kde, but it didn't solve my problem. well, I do not get this warning and KDE is very fast. why

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: On Sunday 29 January 2006 06:41, Ian wrote: unmask all of the packages im building in package.keywords. You seem to have added them to package.unmask as well. Don't do that. Just as a note, there doesn't seem to be a choice in this regard (i.e., you have to add

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE programs starts slowly

2006-01-29 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Sunday 29 January 2006 13:46, Korondi Márk wrote: kill kdm and rm all the ICE, ksycoca and .dcop .X11-blabla stuff? I don't use kdm. Probably it's the problem? ;-) After rm -R /tmp/* the problem isn't solved... :-( remove those files from user directory; maybe .xsession-errors has some

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: DHCP Timeouts

2006-01-29 Thread Bill Roberts
On 19:29 Sat 28 Jan , fire-eyes wrote: fire-eyes wrote: I am having problems with dhcp on my wireless interface. Which is confusing, it worked fine before. It just times out. If I assign everything manually, there are no issues. Some ask if it's because association with the AP is

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE programs starts slowly

2006-01-29 Thread Korondi Márk
On Sunday 29 January 2006 13:14, Martins Steinbergs wrote: remove those files from user directory; I removed, even I tried with a new user, the problem is the same maybe .xsession-errors has some interesting info; Yes, it's interesting, but no .xsession-errors exists. Previous gentoo had it.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE programs starts slowly

2006-01-29 Thread Korondi Márk
U, please, look at this: I touched .xsession-errors. Then run up KDE. .xsession-errors says (ungrep the QT-locale-blabla line): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep -v 'Qt: Locales not supported on X server' .xsession-errors xset: bad font path element (#158), possible causes are: Directory does

[gentoo-user] Interpret characters in /etc/inputrc

2006-01-29 Thread reader
The help documentation for /etc/inputrc is found in`man 3 readline' under section INITIALIZATION FILE and is quite extensive. However I don't see any info regarding how to interpret the characters used in /etc/inputrc. Things like: # for linux console and RH/Debian xterm \e[1~:

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2006-01-29 Thread YoYo Siska
Ian wrote: This is kind of along the same line of alsa mixer. I use kde and fluxbox, but kde's stupid sound daemon wont let some apps have sound, such as audacity or firefox. When I use Fluxbox, the sound works, but _every_ time I boot my computer into Fluxbox, I must unmute and level up all

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Abhay Kedia wrote: Also, should I enable RTC in my kernel? As seen from the debug output, hwclock works fine without it. But maybe some other programs have some use for it, I don't know, here it is off. I am also using HPET in my kernel. Can I use both these features? Do they clash with

[gentoo-user] PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail

2006-01-29 Thread Dan Johansson
Hi, I have just done a PHP-4 to PHP-5 upgrade and as far as I can see everything works as it should - except Squirrelmail. When I try to send a message in Squirrelmail and I Sign or Encrypt the message the following error occurres: Fatal error: Call to undefined function ctype_print() in

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:56:17 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Just as a note, there doesn't seem to be a choice in this regard (i.e., you have to add kdewhatever-3.5.1 to package.unmask). If I don't add it to package.unmask, I get a halt from Portage because some of the dependent packages that [

Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question

2006-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:30:42 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: What are using to build these kernels? using the typical change symlink copy over .config, make oldconfig make make modules_installcp arch etc. Obviously, I made a typo last upgrade but I can't figure out how to fix it now.

Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question

2006-01-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 29 January 2006 10:02, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:30:42 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: What are using to build these kernels? using the typical change symlink copy over .config, make oldconfig make make modules_installcp arch etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question

2006-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:33:39 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: $ grep VERSION /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=2.6.14-r-4_new Hmm that seems to be it. It would appear that I have to rebuild the kernel with appropriate version descriptor. I used my old config and added the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge strace fails

2006-01-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 28 January 2006 14:21, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: emerge strace fails with the following errors: (updating a couple of packages since I first got these errors was successful) resource.c:478: error: `Q_SETUSE' undeclared here (not in a function)

Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question

2006-01-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:29, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:33:39 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: $ grep VERSION /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=2.6.14-r-4_new Hmm that seems to be it. It would appear that I have to rebuild the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 01:02 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 12:56 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: Beau E. Cox wrote: Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in different terminal sessions at the same time? Yes, I do all that all the time.

[gentoo-user] OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

2006-01-29 Thread James
Hello, I think my 'delete' key has quite working on a portable. Any programs or tricks for diagnosis the problem ? The 'delete' key does not work in any application or on the cli. It be nice to be able to check out other keys (special function) with some sort of diagnostic tool. Any ideas?

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 January 2006 13:13, Dale wrote: If I kill artsd how do I restart it? Actually, you can got the Control Center - Sound Muldimedia - Sound System. You switch it off and then on again. ;-) Maybe they will phase it out later on. It will not make it into KDE 4. The main developper

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch to VC's. I used to be able to do this by holding ctl-alt and pressing F1, for example. Does anyone out there happen to know how I can once again do this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 29 January 2006 06:53 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 01:02 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 12:56 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: Beau E. Cox wrote: Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in different terminal sessions

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx module with radeon driver

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Yee haw. I'm using xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1. I am using their radeon driver, and trying to get glx to load. It is my understanding that it now has 3d support (glx). However when I try to start glxgears, I get this: $ glxgears Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Error: couldn't get an RGB,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch to VC's. I used to be able to do this by holding ctl-alt and pressing F1, for example. Does anyone out there happen to know how I can once again do this? well, I can

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch to VC's. I used to be able to do this by holding ctl-alt and pressing F1, for example. Does anyone out there happen to know how I can once

[gentoo-user] USER ERROR: xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx module with radeon driver

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
fire-eyes wrote: Yee haw. I'm using xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1. I am using their radeon driver, and trying to get glx to load. It is my understanding that it now has 3d support (glx). However when I try to start glxgears, I get this: $ glxgears Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

[gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
I wrote a script a long time ago for resizing pictures uploaded to a certain directory on my server box. The script was supposed to check to see if any JPG files in the directory had not been resized, and if they hadn't, it was supposed to resize them. It did some other stuff, but that was the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Michael Sullivan wrote: I wrote a script a long time ago for resizing pictures uploaded to a certain directory on my server box. The script was supposed to check to see if any JPG files in the directory had not been resized, and if they hadn't, it was supposed to resize them. It did some

[gentoo-user] Portage

2006-01-29 Thread Tony Davison
Portage -2.1_pra4-r1 has a new dependency of dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1, anyone know why? I only askbecausi it is new and nothing else (on this box) depends on it, so I wondered what it would break. -- Big Tone -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash

2006-01-29 Thread znx
Hi, for x in *.JPG; doif [ ! -e current/$x ]; then I can't see anything wrong with this in particular, one thing that springs to mind is to quote the string that you are testing: for x in *.JPG; do if [ ! -e current/$x ]; then Hope that helps

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:56:17 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Just as a note, there doesn't seem to be a choice in this regard (i.e., you have to add kdewhatever-3.5.1 to package.unmask). If I don't add it to package.unmask, I get a halt from Portage because some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:36, fire-eyes wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch to VC's. I used to be able to do this by holding ctl-alt and pressing F1, for example.

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
Michael Sullivan wrote: Keep in mind though that multiple emerges will share resources, so each process may lose speed... Something that I always wondered about - does it actually *lose* speed? IOW: Is it, *IN* *TOTAL* slower to do multiple emerges in parallel compared to doing them

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash [SOLVED]

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 18:05 +, znx wrote: Hi, for x in *.JPG; do if [ ! -e current/$x ]; then I can't see anything wrong with this in particular, one thing that springs to mind is to quote the string that you are testing: for x in *.JPG; do if [ ! -e

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash

2006-01-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
Michael Sullivan wrote: As I said, before the bash upgrade this worked perfectly. Now, when I try to run it, I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ system/resizepics system/resizepics: line 11: [: too many arguments system/resizepics: line 11: [: too many arguments I don't get this error,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:36, fire-eyes wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch to VC's. I used to be able to do this by holding ctl-alt and

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage

2006-01-29 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (29/01/06 17:57), Tony Davison wrote: Portage -2.1_pra4-r1 has a new dependency of dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1, anyone know why? I only askbecausi it is new and nothing else (on this box) depends on it, so I wondered what it would break. -- Big Tone -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- Manuel A. McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 January 2006 07:20 pm, maxim wexler wrote: This time the printer whirred to life printed the first line of text across the very top of the paper then quit with the orange error light blinking. BTW, this is a DeskJet 612C

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Dale
Alexander Skwar wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: Keep in mind though that multiple emerges will share resources, so each process may lose speed... Something that I always wondered about - does it actually *lose* speed? IOW: Is it, *IN* *TOTAL* slower to do multiple emerges in parallel

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
Only thing that comes to mind is that when I did emerge -pv cups it said some file(can't recall which) was being blocked by xpdf which I don't use so I removed it and cups went in OK. Long shot. It was poppler. googling cups + poppler revealed this:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash [SOLVED]

2006-01-29 Thread Norberto Bensa
Michael Sullivan wrote: for x in *.JPG; do if [ ! -e current/$x ]; then Hope that helps Yep, that worked! Thanks! Hmm, I wonder why it worked before? Perhaps you got some file named: hey I am a long file name with spaces.jpg ;) -- Norberto Bensa Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

2006-01-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
James wrote: I think my 'delete' key has quite working on a portable. Any programs or tricks for diagnosis the problem ? Switch to a VT and run 'showkey' to see whether it still produces scan codes. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Simon Kellett
Andrei Slavoiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A very useful application for this is to do something like this: in one console start `emerge -f kde` and in another `emerge kde`. The first will just download the files needed and the second will compile them. Or just add parallel-fetch to FEATURES

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 January 2006 19:44, fire-eyes wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:36, fire-eyes wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can now no longer switch to VC's.

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:26:41 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Something that I always wondered about - does it actually *lose* speed? IOW: Is it, *IN* *TOTAL* slower to do multiple emerges in parallel compared to doing them sequentially? It could be faster, when one emerge is in a CPU-intensive

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:03:19 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Something that I always wondered about - does it actually *lose* speed? IOW: Is it, *IN* *TOTAL* slower to do multiple emerges in parallel compared to doing them sequentially? I'm no guru for sure but here

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
Simon Kellett wrote: Or just add parallel-fetch to FEATURES in /etc/make.conf What is it supposed to do? Alexander Skwar -- Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-29 Thread Simon Kellett
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: build R ] media-video/vlc-0.8.4a USE=alsa arts cdda dvd esd ffmpeg matroska mp3 mpeg nls nsplugin ogg real vlm vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xml2 xv -3dfx -X -a52 -aac -aalib -avahi -bidi -corba -daap -debug -dts -dvb -fbcon -flac -ggi -gnutls

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:36:50 +0100, Simon Kellett wrote: Sorry: I can not answer your question, but there is an error in your reasoning (I think). I assume the output above is from emerge -pv ? If so then I think it is NOT showing you the flags that *were* used to emerge the package, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:08:11 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: I'm also running ~x86, and kdelibs and kdebase-kioslaves 3.5.0 (the packages I'm having problems with) are currently installed. But if I do an emerge -uaD(N)tv world, krusader (because it is compiled with konqueror support, so it

[gentoo-user] x11-drivers/ati-drivers and latest kernel (stable)

2006-01-29 Thread Remy Blank
Has anybody had any luck with x11-drivers/ati-drivers and the latest stable kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1? I have been using the latest stable ati-drivers (8.14.13-r3) with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 for a few months and it has been absolutely stable. Now a hal update seems to need at least

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:12:45 +0100 Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Quite a number of packages support a X USE flag. The package that I'm right now looking at is vlc: [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-0.8.4a USE=alsa arts cdda dvd esd ffmpeg matroska mp3 mpeg nls nsplugin ogg real vlm vorbis

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1: Cannot switch to VC's

2006-01-29 Thread fire-eyes
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 19:44, fire-eyes wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:36, fire-eyes wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:11, fire-eyes wrote: I just upgraded to xorg-server-7.0.0-rc1, and I can

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

2006-01-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:09:55 -0500 Michael A. Smith wrote: gcc -v tells you what programs are invoked by gcc. gcc being a collection of compilers, this can differ quite a bit depending on your configuration. No it doesn't, it tells you how gcc was configured when it was compiled, as can be

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Alexander Grebenkov
Hello, Alexander. You wrote: Keep in mind though that multiple emerges will share resources, so each process may lose speed... Something that I always wondered about - does it actually *lose* speed? IOW: Is it, *IN* *TOTAL* slower to do multiple emerges in parallel compared to doing them

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage

2006-01-29 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:45, Rumen Yotov wrote: On (29/01/06 17:57), Tony Davison wrote: Portage -2.1_pra4-r1 has a new dependency of dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1, anyone know why? I only askbecausi it is new and nothing else (on this box) depends on it, so I wondered what it would

[gentoo-user] /usr is full

2006-01-29 Thread Jason W Elliot
Hi, While trying to run emerge today I got the message that there was not enough disk space. I ran df and noticed that /usr is 100% full. I am wonderring whether there is an easy way to clean it up. I'd rather not resize my partitions, and it's likely that there's a lot of junk in there

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/ati-drivers and latest kernel (stable)

2006-01-29 Thread Tom Naujokas
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 21:29 +0100, Remy Blank wrote: Has anybody had any luck with x11-drivers/ati-drivers and the latest stable kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1? snip Any insights would be greatly appreciated (or working combinations of kernel and driver versions). -- Remy This

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr is full

2006-01-29 Thread Dale
Jason W Elliot wrote: Hi, While trying to run emerge today I got the message that there was not enough disk space. I ran df and noticed that /usr is 100% full. I am wonderring whether there is an easy way to clean it up. I'd rather not resize my partitions, and it's likely that

[gentoo-user] kooka copy fails to print, etc.

2006-01-29 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have been trying to use a CanoScan N650U scanner to copy a printed A4 sheet of corporate headed paper with some black text (a typical letter, nothing too complicated in terms of image quality). I used xsane and kooka. Xsane prints it directly, but the image is misaligned on the page

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage

2006-01-29 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 30 January 2006 02:57, Tony Davison wrote: Portage -2.1_pra4-r1 has a new dependency of dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1, anyone know why? I only askbecausi it is new and nothing else (on this box) depends on it, so I wondered what it would break. It's to support non-MD5 hashing

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr is full

2006-01-29 Thread Philip Webb
060129 Jason W Elliot wrote: While trying to run emerge today I got the message that there was not enough disk space. I ran df and noticed that /usr is 100% full. Is it safe to remove the stuff in /usr/portage/distfiles? Yes there's a new utility to help: try 'man eclean'. --

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr is full

2006-01-29 Thread Jason W Elliot
The only problem with this approach is that I don't have enough space to download http-replicator. I'll try this as soon as I get things somewhat cleaned-up. Thanks for the advice! -Jason On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Dale wrote: Jason W Elliot wrote: Hi, While trying to run emerge today I

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr is full

2006-01-29 Thread Jason W Elliot
Thanks! This looks like exactly what I need. I'm running it right now. -Jason On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Philip Webb wrote: 060129 Jason W Elliot wrote: While trying to run emerge today I got the message that there was not enough disk space. I ran df and noticed that /usr is 100% full. Is it

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-29 Thread Manuel McLure
On Sunday 29 January 2006 10:54, maxim wexler wrote: One option to solve this is to emerge unix2dos and use the following command line: unix2dos filetoprint.txt | lp -l After removing and re-installing cups and installing unix2dos got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ unix2dos

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/ati-drivers and latest kernel (stable)

2006-01-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 21:29 +0100, Remy Blank wrote: Has anybody had any luck with x11-drivers/ati-drivers and the latest stable kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1? [snip] Then I emerged the latest ~x86 ati-drivers (8.21.7), which seems to work at first sight, but hangs when I logout. I had the

Re: [gentoo-user] kooka copy fails to print, etc.

2006-01-29 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:26, a tiny voice compelled Mick to write: Hi All, I have been trying to use a CanoScan N650U scanner to copy a printed A4 sheet of corporate headed paper with some black text (a typical letter, nothing too complicated in terms of image quality). I used xsane and

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-29 Thread Manuel McLure
On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:08, maxim wexler wrote: It was poppler. googling cups + poppler revealed this: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-08.xml?style=printable Have I swapped one problem for another? The GLSA shows that newer versions of poppler have the security hole

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:08:11 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: I'm also running ~x86, and kdelibs and kdebase-kioslaves 3.5.0 (the packages I'm having problems with) are currently installed. But if I do an emerge -uaD(N)tv world, krusader (because it is compiled with

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:57:35 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: ... but I found the problem. There was an old setting in /etc/portage/package.mask that needed to be cleared out (I had masked = some 3.4 version of kioslaves, for reasons that I assume were good at the time, but I totally forgot that I

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr is full

2006-01-29 Thread Dale
Jason W Elliot wrote: Thanks! This looks like exactly what I need. I'm running it right now. -Jason On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Philip Webb wrote: 060129 Jason W Elliot wrote: While trying to run emerge today I got the message that there was not enough disk space. I ran df and noticed that

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr is full

2006-01-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 30 January 2006 00:15, Jason W Elliot wrote: that I don't need. Is it safe to remove the stuff in /usr/portage/distfiles? yes. you may also have a look into localepurge. Oh, and putting portage onto reiserfs is helpfull. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Konqueror and scripts

2006-01-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm running KDE 3.4 and on some sites Konqueror pops up a dialog telling me some script is causing KHTML problems - it may freeze things up. If I hit continue Konqueror continues and all is well. Firefox handles these pages so I assume it's some setting but I haven't found it. Any ideas on

Re: [gentoo-user] dead USB card?

2006-01-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/28/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Richard Fish wrote: It looks like the ohci and ehci drivers are fighting over the card. You don't need both, so I would disable ohci in your kernel configuration and see if that works. The card has 3 USB 1.1

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE starts and runs slowly

2006-01-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/29/06, Korondi Márk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, everyone Yesterday I reinstalled gentoo, because I'd made the filesystem dirty (always used sudo, and installed programs not in portage randomly...) and I want a new, clean system. With Gentoo there is almost always an easier way than

RE: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
I had the same thing happen on Friday on a VMWare I use for LAMP development. Just Control D to continue. Your drives should mount as normal. If you have a stock system, /dev/hda3 is where your goods are. Hda1 is just /boot and hda2 is swap, so don't worry about the error. Follow these

Re: [gentoo-user] Interpret characters in /etc/inputrc

2006-01-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The help documentation for /etc/inputrc is found in`man 3 readline' under section INITIALIZATION FILE and is quite extensive. However I don't see any info regarding how to interpret the characters used in /etc/inputrc. Things like: #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Mark Shields
On 1/29/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Kellett wrote: Or just add parallel-fetch to FEATURES in /etc/make.confWhat is it supposed to do?Alexander Skwar--Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way. --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listMy guess would

Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/28/06, Fredrik Lundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * checking root filesystem ... Failed to open the device '/dev/hda2': No such file or directory * Filesystem couldn't be fixed: (Give root password for maintenance (or Control D to continue):_ --- Either this wasn't the problem or I

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