Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 13 May 2006 00:10, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!': I have emerge sun-jdk1.5.**(i download it and ebuild it by myself).Now, i want to emerge tomcat,and it is dependent of dev-java/commons-daemon-1.0.1 .But when i emerge

[gentoo-user] webapp-config overwrites config-file

2006-05-13 Thread Dan Johansson
Hi, When I do a webapp-config -U -d /squirrelmail/ squirrelmail any-rev it always overwrite one of my configuration files: plugins/squirrelspell/sqspell_config.php. During the update the program recognizes that the file (sqspell_config.php) has changed but overwrites it anyway. !time

[gentoo-user] pppoe-status returns the wrong infomation! might be a bug..

2006-05-13 Thread fei huang
I've configued the rp-pppoe following the updated instruction in Gentoo Handbook, and my ADSL modem can be brought up at start up , however, the pppoe-status always returns message says that the PID file could not be found (which is definity wrong!). my network was working of course.. so. I found

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe-status returns the wrong infomation! might be a bug..

2006-05-13 Thread Farhan Ahmed
fei huang wrote: I've configued the rp-pppoe following the updated instruction in Gentoo Handbook, and my ADSL modem can be brought up at start up , [...] You can altogether do away with rp-pppoe, if you look in /etc/conf.d/net.example, you'll find the new confug syntax for bringing the ADSL

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-13 Thread Mick
On a limited resources box I have always used rxvt/aterm. I have also used Konsole but it slows things down. I am waiting for real transprency to work with aterm. Unlike pseudo-transparency which just looks pretty I think real transparency is useful as you can see the contents of other

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-13 Thread Nagatoro
Bo Andresen wrote: On Friday 12 May 2006 21:18, Nagatoro wrote: Note that the prompt for konsole is blinking ie invisible every other second. What is the output of: # echo $PS1 \[\033[38;5;[EMAIL PROTECTED];5;39m\]\h \[\033[38;5;25m\]\w \[$(ps_retc_f $?)\]$?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: On a limited resources box I have always used rxvt/aterm. I have also used Konsole but it slows things down. I am waiting for real transprency to work with aterm. Unlike pseudo-transparency which just looks pretty I think real

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 13 May 2006 14:05, Mick wrote: On 12/05/06, Jed R. Mallen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install them both and if you use a graphical login (gdm is my choice), you can choose which wm/de you want to go in for that session via a menu. Is there an xdm chooser so that one can manually

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-13 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 13 May 2006 14:02, Nagatoro wrote: What is the output of: # echo $PS1 \[\033[38;5;[EMAIL PROTECTED];5;39m\]\h \[\033[38;5;25m\]\w \[$(ps_retc_f $?)\]$? \[\033[38;5;70m\]$(ps_job_f)\[\033[38;5;52m\]$(ps_dir_f)\n\[\]\D{%a %T} \[\033[38;5;77m\]$ \[\033[0;0m\] Holy crap! How on

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-13 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Neil, on Tuesday, 2006-05-09 at 19:33:51, you wrote: which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Almost exclusively Gnome-Terminal. Although I usually prefer console tools I never really got into screen usage, so tabs are essential. I don't have anything to complain about its

[gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for Unicode I think the person who wrote this knows too much. ;-) What is unicode and why might an end user

[gentoo-user] QTrouble: static libraries?

2006-05-13 Thread Matthias Bethke
I have a QT program that's supposed to run on a server. I never liked the idea of putting all this QT runtime crap on the server just for this single program, so when it still ran SuSE, I just compiled it statically and all was fine. Now under Gentoo, the program complains it couldn't open the

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel panic

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/13/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, My hand-made kernel was giving me grief(see bug #132141) so I did #emerge genkernel, #zcat /proc/config.gz /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6, #genkernel all, and rebooted. Here's the grub session(not using grub-conf): grub

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for Unicode I think the person who wrote this knows too

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 20:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? konsole, because of tabs and easy to customize. xterm, when

[gentoo-user] Re: -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Köhler
I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for Unicode I think the person who wrote this knows too much. ;-) What is unicode and why might an end user

Re: [gentoo-user] QTrouble: static libraries?

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/13/06, Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a QT program that's supposed to run on a server. I never liked the idea of putting all this QT runtime crap on the server just for this single program, so when it still ran SuSE, I just compiled it statically and all was fine. Now under

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe-status returns the wrong infomation! might be a bug..

2006-05-13 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Umm, the instructions in the Handbook point to the method where Gentoo uses the kernel based pppoe rather than rp-pppoe. So rp-pppoe is never active I think. I could be wrong. I think you are wrong. The instructions in the handbook point to rp-pppoe based setup not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-13 Thread Nagatoro
Bo Andresen wrote: On Saturday 13 May 2006 14:02, Nagatoro wrote: What is the output of: # echo $PS1 \[\033[38;5;[EMAIL PROTECTED];5;39m\]\h \[\033[38;5;25m\]\w \[$(ps_retc_f $?)\]$? \[\033[38;5;70m\]$(ps_job_f)\[\033[38;5;52m\]$(ps_dir_f)\n\[\]\D{%a %T} \[\033[38;5;77m\]$ \[\033[0;0m\]

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 13 May 2006 18:59, Mark Knecht wrote: What is unicode and why might an end user want it or need it? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml -- Bo Andresen pgpDwUrn2UPqp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Max Lorenz
Hi, On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for Unicode I think the person who wrote this knows too

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/13/06, Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for Unicode I think the person who wrote this knows too much. ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 13 May 2006 03:19, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!': 2006/5/13, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Change your system javac to a 1.4 for the emerge of commons-daemon. The resulting class/jar files will run in

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
wu chuanwen wrote: enum in jdk1.5 is a keyword,but it is used as a variable in the dev-java/commons-daemon-1.0.1. So now is there anyway to emerge tomcat? Yep. Probably you need to de-install JDK 5.0 (1.5.0) and install the Gentoo approved JDK 1.4.x. You know, there IS a reason why

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/5/13, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Change your system javac to a 1.4 for the emerge of commons-daemon. The resulting class/jar files will run in a 1.5 vm -- since enum and assert (introduced in 1.4) are both still valid identifiers in bytecode under a 1.5

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Jim
Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe-status returns the wrong infomation! might be a bug..

2006-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
060513 Farhan Ahmed wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: the instructions in the Handbook point to the method where Gentoo uses the kernel based pppoe rather than rp-pppoe. So rp-pppoe is never active I think. The instructions point to rp-pppoe based setup not kernel mode pppoe. There have been

[gentoo-user] php-5 being forced to install?

2006-05-13 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi guys, I'm having weird symptoms on my gentoo 2005.x system. The system is trying to install php-5. It says... [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/php-5.1.2 [ebuild R ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 I don't understand why it's trying to do this, as I have not asked for php 5 to be installed. And I'm also

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
060513 Mark Knecht wrote: being a musican and not a computer scientist, I suppose they are fonts that use 16-bits instead of whatever they use when I don't include the unicode flag. the question still arises, why would I want these on my system? If you confine yourself entirely to English,

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/13/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here:

[gentoo-user] Problem emerging gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.14.0-r1

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
I don't know if I should file this as a bug, or if it's on my end. gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.14.0-r1 is on the current list for emerge -uD world, but I can't build it. It always errors with the following error message(s): creating cddb-slave2-query LC_ALL=C ../intltool-merge -d -u -c

[gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. I would like to know if anything like this is available in portage. If it helps, we have a website with all the pictures on it that would serve as input

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

2006-05-13 Thread Teresa and Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. I would like to know if anything like this is available in portage. If it helps, we have a website with all the pictures on it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:45 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. I would like to know if anything like this is available in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

2006-05-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:36:57PM -0500, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan squawked: My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. I would like to know if anything like this is available in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 19:16 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:36:57PM -0500, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan squawked: My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. I would

[gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
rant The folks who work the gentoo bugzilla do us an enormous service, and I suppose they're too busy to say more than they must in these communications, but it sure gets frustrating. I really need this thing. I want it to be stable. But sorry, the old one can't be built any more, and the new one

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

2006-05-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 07:07:23PM -0500, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan squawked: We followed your advice about adding the lines to ~/Xresources. Now, under what screensaver name will the pictures be displayed? Right now my wife has her screensaver set to Random Screensaver... Hum, I am

[gentoo-user] Listing portage categories?

2006-05-13 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Is there a way of getting a list of Portage categories? I know that I can `ls -s /usr/portage', but that seems like such a hack. Is there some way of getting that information with a Portage tool? --- Vladimir P.S. I haven't found a way to list categories with emerge, equery, esearch or eix.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really need this thing. I want it to be stable. But sorry, the old one can't be built any more, and the new one is masked. So I'm just out of luck. snip Clear-Text: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129864 Secure:

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name black is not defined

2006-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 06:50 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: I just made a symlink to /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt : Great idea. I'll give that a try on Monday when I'm back at the office. If that really fixes the problem, then it should be incorporated in the RGB package.

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-13 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/13, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 13 May 2006 03:19, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote You mean re-emerge sun-jdk1.4? You will have to have /a/ 1.4 javac, not necessarily Sun's. Can i just change the 1.5 javac to the 1.4 one?I have never try to do this. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-13 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/13, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wu chuanwen wrote: enum in jdk1.5 is a keyword,but it is used as a variable in the dev-java/commons-daemon-1.0.1. So now is there anyway to emerge tomcat? Yep. Probably you need to de-install JDK 5.0 (1.5.0) and install the Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

2006-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 18:02 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:45 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux [snip] I'll forward your advice to my wife. We have both Gnome and

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 13 May 2006 21:56, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!': 2006/5/13, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 13 May 2006 03:19, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote You mean re-emerge sun-jdk1.4? You will

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/5/13, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 13 May 2006 03:19, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote You mean re-emerge sun-jdk1.4? You will have to have /a/ 1.4 javac, not necessarily Sun's. Can i just change the 1.5 javac to the 1.4 one? No.