[gentoo-user] emerge problems

2006-08-26 Thread Martin S
I seem to find lots of bad repository servers when running emerge.emerge mozilla-firefox failed for quite some time (at least a day), emerge kuroo has failed for two days, just like emerge crafty.Does anyone know if there are any general problems with servers? Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] OT friendly cellphone w/ Gentoo?

2006-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:30:44 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: KDEbluetooth finds the Razr without any problems, just select Find device in the Razr's menu and click the bluetooth icon in the panel. yeah, it finds it. But it does not 'find' any services, like obex file transfer and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:53:31 +0100, Mick wrote: carcharias rjf # emerge --info | grep CONFIG_PROTECT CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/

Re: [gentoo-user] File replication

2006-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:49:23 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote: I'm searching a tool/method whenever I save a file on /home/user a duplicate copy will be saved automatically on /mnt/point/of/usb_enclosure/home/user simultaneously, similar to replication/mirroring. Thus the USB enclosure can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
A note for everybody who uses gensplash and splashutils. After i deleted the device files and rebooted the silent mode refused to work. So i decided to reemerge splashutils. But this is not necessary. After installing, the ebuild checks for missing devices, which was in my case /dev/tty1. Here

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:55:31 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: But what? Is it possible that /dev/tty1 is not in place at these early moments of booting when it is needed by splashutils? Yes, because the splash stuff runs before udevstart, so you need a static device node for anything required

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev

2006-08-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:55:31 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: But what? Is it possible that /dev/tty1 is not in place at these early moments of booting when it is needed by splashutils? Yes, because the splash stuff runs before udevstart, so you need a static device

[gentoo-user] openldap: taking too much of time to authenticate

2006-08-26 Thread bijayant kumar
Hi, I have installed openldap on my gentoo-linux . My purpose is to use LDAP server for login authentication using PAM. slapd is running fine. ldapsearch command is also running fine. But the problem is, it takes too much time to authenticate the user. My local system is server as well as the

Re: [gentoo-user] File replication

2006-08-26 Thread Robert Welz
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:49:23 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote: I'm searching a tool/method whenever I save a file on /home/user a duplicate copy will be saved automatically on /mnt/point/of/usb_enclosure/home/user simultaneously, similar to replication/mirroring. Thus the

[gentoo-user] Gensplash

2006-08-26 Thread Mick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Two different boxen. One has splash added to the boot runlevel - it shows up the framebuffer image on the console, towards the end of the boot sequence. If I rc-update -d splash boot, there is no framebuffer background image shown. This all

[gentoo-user] baselayout-1.12.* trouble

2006-08-26 Thread Grant
Is anyone else having trouble with the new baselayout-1.12.* ? It's causing all kinds of strange problems on my systems. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-1.12.* trouble

2006-08-26 Thread fire-eyes
Grant wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with the new baselayout-1.12.* ? It's causing all kinds of strange problems on my systems. You'll have to be a lot more specific on the list, so tell us specifics :) Definately make sure you have done an etc-update or dispatch-conf though. There have

Re: [gentoo-user] File replication

2006-08-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Robert, Tks for your advice. What about a perl script that just copies all files in /home/user to the device once it is plugged in? I'm not a programmer nor very acknowledgeable on perl. Could you please shed me some guide how to start. What I need is on saving a new file or edited

[gentoo-user] KDE Screensaver Crashes with SCIM Input

2006-08-26 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, I'm having issues with the login dialog of KDE's screensaver and SCIM. The dialog crashes every single time. I've compiled everything with -O3 CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, but have compiled scim, skim, scim-qtimm, and kdesktop with -O2. This only happens when I enable the password-protected

[gentoo-user] Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine

2006-08-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, A friend asked about trying out Linux. After doing a bit of reading and looking at the Gentoo site he wanted to try Gentoo so I said I'd help install it o his Windows box. The situation that I've not faced in a long time, if ever, is that he has an existing Windows installation on the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine

2006-08-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 August 2006 21:16, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) Do I load grub on /dev/hda1 - the NTSF partition? This seems wrong to me as grub most likely doesn't like NTSF. Please don't! It'll wipe out the Windoze partition boot sector and he won't be able to boot WinXP again (not without running

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine

2006-08-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Mick, I've never done the NTLDR method. That looks fairly interesting and somewhat benign in the sense that (it appears...) I add an entry to boot.ini to make Linux visible and then remove it if he doesn't end up using Linux at all. I'll check it out. I found this page:

Re: [gentoo-user] cdk: BUILD ERROR

2006-08-26 Thread Tamas Sarga
Keith Kastorff wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:37 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: I tried this before...it does not help. gcc 3.4.4 is still referenced by the cdk build process (or what else...) Try emerge --oneshot libtool. Hi, I'm not the opener, but I had the same problem with

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine

2006-08-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 August 2006 22:10, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Mick, I've never done the NTLDR method. That looks fairly interesting and somewhat benign in the sense that (it appears...) I add an entry to boot.ini to make Linux visible and then remove it if he doesn't end up using Linux at

[gentoo-user] Re: Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine

2006-08-26 Thread Sven Köhler
2) Do I put grub on the Gentoo boot partition and then do the standard chain load to Win XP? If this is the case then which partitions should be marked as bootable? AFAIK, grub can only be put into the MBR of a disk. anything like grub-install /dev/hda1 just will not work. Only something like

[gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-26 Thread Grant
I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will pop up saying failed to play DVD but sometimes not. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot mplayer for something like this? I'm emerging gxine now. I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine

2006-08-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 02:10 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: 2) Do I put grub on the Gentoo boot partition and then do the standard chain load to Win XP? If this is the case then which partitions should be marked as bootable? AFAIK, grub can only be put into the MBR of a disk. anything like

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-26 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Grant: I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will pop up saying failed to play DVD but sometimes not. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot mplayer for something like this? I'm emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine

2006-08-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/26/06, Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Do I put grub on the Gentoo boot partition and then do the standard chain load to Win XP? If this is the case then which partitions should be marked as bootable? AFAIK, grub can only be put into the MBR of a disk. anything like grub-install

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-26 Thread Grant
I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will pop up saying failed to play DVD but sometimes not. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot mplayer for something like this? I'm emerging gxine now. I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-26 Thread Collins Richey
On 8/26/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will pop up saying failed to play DVD but sometimes not. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot mplayer for

[gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-1.12.* trouble

2006-08-26 Thread Remy Blank
Randy Barlow wrote: Something funny that happened on my laptop with this was that somehow net.eth0 (wired network) tries to start at the boot run level every time and will just sit and wait for an IP. This never happened before I upgraded, and doesn't happen on my other machine. It's