Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-25 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I was having problems getting OO to build. I issued the following bug report. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126937 In my case the it was due to a hardware issue. I kept retrying the emerge and at last it succeeded (on a very very cold evening...). My best guess is that the large

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed. Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:17:27 -0400 Good Lord man... why would you want to compile OO from source? Since gentoo offers this... Or in other words: Why does gentoo offer

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: I was having problems getting OO to build. I issued the following bug report. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126937 In my case the it was due to a hardware issue. I kept retrying the emerge and at last it succeeded (on a very very cold evening...). My best

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown process filled up /tmp partition

2006-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 May 2006 12:00:28 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: Is it adviseable to arrange to automatically delete all temporary files when booting? If so, how to do this? Edit /etc/conf.d/bootmisc and set WIPE_TMP=yes. -- Neil Bothwick OK Scotty, NOW! Detonate and energize! I

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 May 2006 00:17:27 -0400, Jeff wrote: Good Lord man... why would you want to compile OO from source? emerge openoffice-bin Maybe because he is using an architecture for which the bin package is not available? It takes around 16 hours to compile 2.0.2 on my laptop. but it's better

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 May 2006 04:50:41 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: I tried to build OpenOffice from source. After hours of copmiling it fails with: ** ERROR: ERROR: Could not register all components! in function:

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown process filled up /tmp partition

2006-05-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Thursday 25 May 2006 04:00 skrev Alan E. Davis: Is it adviseable to arrange to automatically delete all temporary files when booting? If so, how to do this? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_clean_/tmp -- Bo Andresen pgpvMF0QUtAs5.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] disenable distcc during emerging special package

2006-05-25 Thread Bobber Cheng
Hi, I used to emerge packages with distcc on my laptop connected tow power server, and it's great. But today distcc cause c-client to fail to compile. I have to edit make.conf to disenable distcc feature. The worse is that I'm emerge other packages simultaneously, while change of make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] disenable distcc during emerging special package

2006-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 May 2006 15:39:12 +0800, Bobber Cheng wrote: I'm looking forward to a way to disenable distcc during emerging special package just like USE=sqllite emerge qt. FEATURES=-distcc emerge c-client -- Neil Bothwick Jimi Hendrix's modem was a Purple Hayes. signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Alex
Allan Gottlieb wrote: You have to do experiments. It depends heavily on your application mix. Yes, that would be the best, but I'm wondering how, because e.g. time bzip2 -9 foobar wouldn't be helpfull. So now I've switched to -Os and soon I can test, if it's a real difference. Thank you!

[gentoo-user] Re: No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-25 Thread Caster
Note that emerge shouldn't be leaving stuff there unless you're using FEATURES (meant for debugging) like 'noclean', 'keeptemp' or 'keepwork' in your make.conf, or unless emerge crashes during the build.Caster

[gentoo-user] fix_libtool_files.sh and gcc problems...

2006-05-25 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi folks, a copule of days ago I did a gentoo 2006 fresh install. During the installation, I modified CHOST and the link to /etc/profile, so now I have: lx-arnau ~ # !grep grep CHOST /etc/make.conf CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu # ls -l /etc/make.profile /etc/make.profile -

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why?

2006-05-25 Thread CapSel
On 5/25/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make a backup. Now. When you start seeing 'end_request: I/O error', it's always (in my experience) been a sign of a disk getting ready to pack it in. Double check physical connections, make sure no wires are loose; if S.M.A.R.T. is available,

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why?

2006-05-25 Thread Jarry
CapSel wrote: Unfortunately smartmontools does not support SATA disks. More exactly: Smartmontools should work correctly with SATA drives under both Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, if you use the standard IDE drivers in drivers/ide. If you use the new libata drivers, it won't work correctly

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why?

2006-05-25 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
smartmontools does in fact support SATA disks starting with kernel 2.6.15. Use the '-d ata' argument with SATA disks and it will work fine. For example: # smartmontools -d ata -a /dev/sda On Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:03, CapSel wrote: Unfortunately smartmontools does not support SATA disks. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] fix_libtool_files.sh and gcc problems...

2006-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 May 2006 11:16:25 +0200, Arnau Bria wrote: # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5 * [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardened [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednopie [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednopiessp [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednossp For what I see, I

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why?

2006-05-25 Thread CapSel
On 5/25/06, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately smartmontools does not support SATA disks. More exactly: Smartmontools should work correctly with SATA drives under both Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, if you use the standard IDE drivers in drivers/ide. If you use the new libata drivers,

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why?

2006-05-25 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
These are supported by libata as of kernel 2.6.15 On Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:09, Jarry wrote: CapSel wrote: Unfortunately smartmontools does not support SATA disks. More exactly: Smartmontools should work correctly with SATA drives under both Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, if you use the

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why?

2006-05-25 Thread CapSel
On 5/25/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: smartmontools does in fact support SATA disks starting with kernel 2.6.15. Use the '-d ata' argument with SATA disks and it will work fine. For example: # smartmontools -d ata -a /dev/sda -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck --

Re: [gentoo-user] fix_libtool_files.sh and gcc problems...

2006-05-25 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 25 May 2006 10:44:42 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You run fix_libtool_files.sh with the old compiler version, the version that the ebuild is looking for but failing to find, which would appear to be 3.4.4 from your errors. you also need to add an option to fix the

[gentoo-user] can't use usb scanner

2006-05-25 Thread Stefán István
Hello! I have a Canon usb scanner and I have problem using it with xsane. The sane-find-scanner finds it: found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x220e [CanoScan], chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:003:004 But scainmage -L doesn't find it. I don't know what to do next. If I just simply start

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 25 May 2006 10:40:26 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: You have to do experiments. It depends heavily on your application mix. Yes, that would be the best, but I'm wondering how, because e.g. time bzip2 -9 foobar wouldn't be helpfull. So now I've switched to

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: My experience is that 'eclean' is not efficient at removing things, so I've gone back to removing out-of-date distfiles by hand. Not even 'eclean-dist --destructive' is enough? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] firefox hangs frequently...

2006-05-25 Thread fei huang
well, I know the post should not shows up at list of gentoo, but the problem is really quite annoying and I could not find any useful solution through google. every time I click on the save link as or save image as, firefox immediately stops responding, It is said that the problem might be

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?

2006-05-25 Thread John Green
Mike Huber wrote: Hi, I'm just trying to do some quick calculations using bc, but the version installed through portage truncates on multiplication/division. It didn't used to do this 2 years ago when I was taking number theory, and there are no USE flags available for sys-devel/bc to

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Alex
Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Thu, 25 May 2006 10:40:26 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: You have to do experiments. It depends heavily on your application mix. Yes, that would be the best, but I'm wondering how, because e.g. time bzip2 -9 foobar wouldn't be helpfull.

[gentoo-user] emerge rxvt nearly caused my system to die today...

2006-05-25 Thread Jeff
Emerging rxvt almost killed my box today - I watched gawk inside 'top' eating 100% CPU and even 100% RAM/swap. Anyone ever see this before? DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 0 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 1 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 1 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0 DMA32

[gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Somewhere along the line, ssh and ssh2 have gotten conflated, confused or just downright broken. I have been running ssh daemon(s) for so long I don't even remember how I set them up. They Just Ran (TM). For a short while, ssh connections to here (home) from work have taken an unusually long time

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 25 May 2006 18:21:39 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Thu, 25 May 2006 10:40:26 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: You have to do experiments. It depends heavily on your application mix. Yes, that would be the best, but I'm

[gentoo-user] Launching X.org through ssh

2006-05-25 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi, I'm connecting from a computer (remote computer) to a server (sshd, it is running apache2 too, but it doesn't matter right now), and I can connect through ssh to it, and run every command all right, but launching X.org. If I try a startx command, it will start X.org in the local computer,

Re: [gentoo-user] Launching X.org through ssh

2006-05-25 Thread Toby Cubitt
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:09:38PM +0200, Rafael Fern?ndez L?pez wrote: Hi, I'm connecting from a computer (remote computer) to a server (sshd, it is running apache2 too, but it doesn't matter right now), and I can connect through ssh to it, and run every command all right, but launching

Re: [gentoo-user] Launching X.org through ssh

2006-05-25 Thread Alan
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:09:38PM +0200, Rafael Fern?ndez L?pez wrote: Hi, I'm connecting from a computer (remote computer) to a server (sshd, it is running apache2 too, but it doesn't matter right now), and I can connect through ssh to it, and run every command all right, but launching

Re: [gentoo-user] Launching X.org through ssh

2006-05-25 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Thursday 25 May 2006 15:09, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, I'm connecting from a computer (remote computer) to a server (sshd, it is running apache2 too, but it doesn't matter right now), and I can connect through ssh to it, and run every command all right, but launching X.org. If I

[gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
I think I may have made a break through here! I've always noticed that everything portage is very slow. It's like it's having to un-tar and un-bzip everything all the time... lo and behold, it is. I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 This has

[gentoo-user] SSH/SSH2 hosed, partially fixed, some rubble remains

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've been using ssh and/or ssh2 daemons on this gentoo system for so long I've forgottenhow I had it set up. Now it's broken, and I have no idea how it got that way. At first, it was just taking a long time to connect to this system (home) from work and ask for a password. Now it is still slow,

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
IGNORE this posting. It was a fumble-fingers. Corrected and completed posting follows.On 5/25/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Somewhere along the line, ssh and ssh2 have gotten conflated, confused or just downright broken. I have been running ssh daemon(s) for so long I don't even

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-25 Thread John Jolet
On May 25, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Somewhere along the line, ssh and ssh2 have gotten conflated, confused or just downright broken. I have been running ssh daemon(s) for so long I don't even remember how I set them up. They Just Ran (TM). For a short while, ssh

[gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On May 25 11:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 This is just a remnant from when you installed Gentoo. You can delete that file. Portage is already using uncompressed files under

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/25/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I may have made a break through here! I've always noticed that everything portage is very slow. It's like it's having to un-tar and un-bzip everything all the time... lo and behold, it is. No, it is not. I've found (after much

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH/SSH2 hosed, partially fixed, some rubble remains

2006-05-25 Thread Steven Susbauer
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: /etc/init.d/sshd and /etc/init.d/sshd2 I can start and stop sshd, but not sshd2, which complains it's not configured. File timestamps indicate that sshd2 stuff has not changed since some time in 2004. Moreover, equery belongs cannot locate

[gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem

2006-05-25 Thread Matthias Langer
recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg shuts down immediatly direct access to the box via the terminal is

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/25/06, Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 May 2006, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I also get the bonehead award: there was a new kernel sitting on my hard drive and just yesterday I found and installed it. It was remarkably easy to install! I loaded the configuration

[gentoo-user] One building host for other hosts

2006-05-25 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi List I am pretending to make a building host for slow host, I got and AMD 64x2 machine that I want to use to build gentoo systems to a i686 desktop machine and a i686 gateway I was reading today on gentto wiki this article : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:33:47 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: the new, working kernel... it rewrites symlinks to the new kernel. BTW, Only if you specifically do a USE=symlink emerge gentoo-sources No, that controls the /usr/src/linux symlink to the sources. The /boot/vmlinuz symlink is

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-25 Thread Kenton Groombridge
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I tried to build OpenOffice from source. After hours of copmiling it fails with: What did I so badly wrong here ? Kind regards, mcc I have the same problem, looks to be same bug posted in: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126777 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/25/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:33:47 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: the new, working kernel... it rewrites symlinks to the new kernel. BTW, Only if you specifically do a USE=symlink emerge gentoo-sources No, that controls the /usr/src/linux

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem

2006-05-25 Thread Alexander Kirillov
recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg shuts down immediatly direct access to the box via the terminal is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On May 25 11:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 This is just a remnant from when you installed Gentoo. You can delete that file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Friday 26 May 2006 01:00 skrev Lord Sauron: If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so long to just index and search packages that took apt-get much less time to work with.  I don't think it should be this slow.  I'm not even talking about compile-times - I know and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: I've got one on my hard drive. You can have it if you want ; ) I have them in /usr/portage/*/*/metadata.xml but none anywhere else though. There are none that end in .tar.bz2 though. Where is yours and where is mine? O_O Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:00 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It takes about as long to start going as it does to open the archive /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 - conincidence? I think not! I think so ;) If it's not, then I really need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... This doesn't look like genkernel: I loaded the configuration file from my old kernel and then just make make install to use genkernel, you have to call

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem

2006-05-25 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 01:50 +0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote: recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox hangs frequently...

2006-05-25 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fei huang wrote: well, I know the post should not shows up at list of gentoo, but the problem is really quite annoying and I could not find any useful solution through google. every time I click on the save link as or save image as, firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox hangs frequently...

2006-05-25 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 19:37 -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fei huang wrote: well, I know the post should not shows up at list of gentoo, but the problem is really quite annoying and I could not find any useful solution through google. every

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Cluster

2006-05-25 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Lustosa wrote: Hello, list. I'm searching for a good cluster solution. What I need: - Distributed filesystem, so that all machines can share the same filesystem. Something like RAID-over-ethernet. - Load balancing. Tasks should migrate

Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow

2006-05-25 Thread znx
This _does_ help. It's mysterious enough that I tested it, and it seems to work except that it removes . from any path. This is not quite what I want. Glad it was almost a success ;) Interesting, thats not something I noticed before, I have never wished . in my PATH, I should point out of

Re: [SPAM] - [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point? - Bayesian Filter detected spam

2006-05-25 Thread znx
On 24/05/06, Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm just trying to do some quick calculations using bc, but the version installed through portage truncates on multiplication/division. It didn't used to do this 2 years ago when I was taking

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox hangs frequently...

2006-05-25 Thread fei huang
I have seen wierd problems with binary packages. Have you triedcompiling firefox from source yet? - --Jeremy Olexa([EMAIL PROTECTED])yes, It took me more than half an hour to compile it from source last night, um;--( Maybe you should also# emerge -av gentoolkit# revdep-rebuildHTH,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
sorry for my sin. I didn't know about eix. On 5/25/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friday 26 May 2006 01:00 skrev Lord Sauron: If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so long to just index and search packages that took apt-get much less time to work

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox hangs frequently...

2006-05-25 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 10:04 +0800, fei huang wrote: I have seen wierd problems with binary packages. Have you tried compiling firefox from source yet? - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) yes, It took me more than half an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 26 May 2006 04:12, Lord Sauron wrote: sorry for my sin. I didn't know about eix. On 5/25/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friday 26 May 2006 01:00 skrev Lord Sauron: If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so long to just index and

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Steven Susbauer
he copied the config from his old kernel, it is not using the default options and thus *should* work just fine. Yeah, I missed that line. You're right. But he didn't installed the new kernel, and alsa-driver, ndiswrapper, nvidia drivers and a lot of other stuff claim a new compile after a

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... This doesn't look like genkernel: It doesn't have to look, he used the Gentoo installer, and so, it IS

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/25/06, Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: he copied the config from his old kernel, it is not using the default options and thus *should* work just fine. Yeah, I missed that line. You're right. But he didn't installed the new kernel, and alsa-driver, ndiswrapper, nvidia

[gentoo-user] Ghost of vmware workstation haunts player?

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I had a trial license for vmware workstation. I decided to work just with vmware player, so I did an emerge -C on workstation, and an emerge of player. The install was perfectly smooth, but it doesn't work. The symptoms were pretty bizarre, so I did a careful by-hand deletion of the files that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Ryan Tandy
Lord Sauron wrote: On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On May 25 11:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 Much exploration? Forgive my amazement and please don't be

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/25/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But he isn't because he used the installer and thus use genkernel, hmm, its like the third time I'll say that, so, I'll stop and report you all to read the complete thread. It doesn't really matter how many times you say it, the OP did *not*

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Ryan Tandy
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: So instead of emerge sync AND update-eix, you just run esync. eix-sync It's only three more keys... :P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 23:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... This doesn't look like genkernel: It

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-scripts: status: stopped log message

2006-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 14:14 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: My /var/log/messages is filling up with the lines like May 24 12:01:50 orpheus rc-scripts: status: stopped They're coming in two's, about every two seconds. What on earth is causing this? It's only been happening from about

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-scripts: status: stopped log message

2006-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I made it a bit further: something is calling /etc/init.d/samba status - I found this out by editing /etc/init.d/runscript.sh and changing the output to print the service name, so instead of rc-scripts: status: stopped I got

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:00 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It takes about as long to start going as it does to open the archive /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 - conincidence? I think not! I

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 Simply a portage snapshot, maybe the one you used to install Gentoo in the first place? Take a look at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On May 25 16:44, Daniel da Veiga (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: (correct me if I'm wrong, but you installed using the Gentoo Installer, didn't you? if you had a complete experience of Gentoo install, you would know that by now,

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox hangs frequently...

2006-05-25 Thread fei huang
On 5/26/06, Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 10:04 +0800, fei huang wrote: I have seen wierd problems with binary packages. Have you tried compiling firefox from source yet? - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) yes, It took memore than halfan hourto compile it from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 26 May 2006 04:12, Lord Sauron wrote: sorry for my sin. I didn't know about eix. On 5/25/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friday 26 May 2006 01:00 skrev Lord Sauron: If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so