My best connectivity sometimes is behind a firewall at school. It's a
pretty paranoid firewall, although for pretty understandable reasons.
I have trouble accessing many types of content that are useful for
teaching (streaming video, for example), and while my students might
chat with other
Hi all,
I've come across a weird issue. The other day I decided that it's been
a while since I've had a good read/write badblocks run through fsck.ext3
on all my partitions.
The problem is with /dev/hdb1 , normally mounted on my Gentoo system as
/olddeb since it's a small install of Debian
On Saturday 09 September 2006 02:33, John J. Foster wrote:
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 06:33:40PM -0500, Colleen Beamer
wrote:
I'm not, but I *could* be a grandmother, so I guess I'm not
the average
Well, I *couldn't* be a grandmother, because I am a
grandfather who has pretty much no clue
Hi,
I am doing a research on distributions and was wondering if anybody can tell
me how many developers work on Gentoo? A rough figure would be fine.
Thanks a lot :-)
Ladislav
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2006/9/11, Ladislav Bodnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
I am doing a research on distributions and was wondering if anybody can tell
me how many developers work on Gentoo? A rough figure would be fine.
Thanks a lot :-)
Hi,
did you see this list ? :
On Monday 11 September 2006 17:22, Boris Fersing wrote:
did you see this list ? :
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml
That's perfect, thanks a lot for the link.
Ladislav
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On Monday, 11. September. 2006 11:15, Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
Hi,
I am doing a research on distributions and was wondering if anybody can
tell me how many developers work on Gentoo? A rough figure would be fine.
IIRC, Christel told me that we're currently 332 developers working on it
On Monday 11 September 2006 02:51, Grant wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to set your system's front side bus speed in
software? My Dell motherboard and BIOS don't seem to have any
facility for it, and I've heard there is a utility in Windows that
will allow you to set it.
Isn't there a
Hi , This is about gentoo installation of 2006.1 . When i booted up from the live cd and let it to proceed with the graphical installation , that installation gives , error saying , Can not connect to the DHCP server . Then after i did disabled DHCP in boot prompt ( no dhcp ) . Then again i
Hi guys,
This may be a trivial question, but I'd like to know if it is possible
to emerge gnome-light with X=... -X gtk gtk2 gnome
Thank you,
Rafael Fernández López.
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Hi all,
trying to install 2006.1 on a machine with
an ASUS PC-DL board (Intel ICH5R SATA controller and 2 Maxtor SATA
drives) I get (lots of)
dma timeout retry: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
during the initial formatting.
Is this board known to be broken?
Many thanks
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:21:21PM +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
Hi guys,
This may be a trivial question, but I'd like to know if it is possible
to emerge gnome-light with X=... -X gtk gtk2 gnome
In what the hell I was thinking... I wanted to say USE=... -X gtk
gtk2 gnome.
Thank
On Monday 11 September 2006 12:21, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
Hi guys,
This may be a trivial question, but I'd like to know if it is
possible to emerge gnome-light with X=... -X gtk gtk2 gnome
But even if you did get it to compile with -X, the concept
doesn't make sense. The whole
Has anyone else seen this?
===
Emerging (1 of 4) net-libs/wvstreams-4.2.2-r2 to /
* wvstreams-4.2.2.tar.gz MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ]
* wvstreams-4.2.2.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ]
*
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:31:02 +0800, Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
On Monday 11 September 2006 17:22, Boris Fersing wrote:
did you see this list ? :
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml
That's perfect, thanks a lot for the link.
Ladislav
Not a really accurate count though
On 9/11/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone else seen this?
SNIP
SNIP
configure: error: Required dependencies missing: XPLC
!!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/wvstreams-4.2.2-r2/work/wvstreams-4.2.2/config.log
I
Today, I got a lot of rebuild requests from emerge after doing:
emerge -puDvt --newuse world
I spot checked a couple of builds, but nothing has changed! Can you help
decipher the following please:
Using the first application that shows up as an example:
[ebuild R ]
2006/9/11, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Today, I got a lot of rebuild requests from emerge after doing:
emerge -puDvt --newuse world
I spot checked a couple of builds, but nothing has changed! Can you help
decipher the following please:
Using the first application that shows up as an example:
On Monday 11 September 2006 13:16, Peter wrote:
Today, I got a lot of rebuild requests from emerge after doing:
emerge -puDvt --newuse world
I spot checked a couple of builds, but nothing has changed!
If you updated portage, maybe the reason is this:
In portage-2.1.1, emerge --newuse is
On Monday 11 September 2006 13:12, Mick wrote:
!!! [Errno 13] Permission
denied: '/etc/portage/profile/make.globals'
!!! Incorrect multiline literals can cause this. Do not use
them.
!!! Errors in this file should be reported on bugs.gentoo.org.
Did you see this bit and check it? Maybe you
On Monday 11 September 2006 12:18, Mark Knecht wrote:
I have not seen it. eix xplc comes back with dev-libs/xplc. Possibly
try emerge -1pv xplc and see if that fixes it up?
Thanks Mark, I tried your suggestion but unfortunately it did not fix it. :-(
Time to file a bug.
--
Regards,
Mick
On Monday 11 September 2006 12:39, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 11 September 2006 13:12, Mick wrote:
!!! [Errno 13] Permission
denied: '/etc/portage/profile/make.globals'
!!! Incorrect multiline literals can cause this. Do not use
them.
!!! Errors in this file should be reported on
Hi,
there is an error
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sorry, I pushed enter tooo early :D
I get the following error with libquicktime-0.9.9-r1 when compiling
against ffmpeg (which in turn is built against x264-svn with the x264
USE-flag):
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../include
-I../../include/quicktime -O3
On Monday 11 September 2006 13:55, Mick wrote:
On Monday 11 September 2006 12:39, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 11 September 2006 13:12, Mick wrote:
!!! [Errno 13] Permission
denied: '/etc/portage/profile/make.globals'
!!! Incorrect multiline literals can cause this. Do not
use
On Monday 11 September 2006 12:31, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 11 September 2006 12:21, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
Hi guys,
This may be a trivial question, but I'd like to know if it is
possible to emerge gnome-light with X=... -X gtk gtk2 gnome
No, it isn't.
But even if
On Monday 11 September 2006 14:10, karsten wrote:
Hi,
there is an error
from /usr/portage/profile/package.mask:
# Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] (12 Aug 2006)
# x264 doesn't play nice with older version, temp mask for a
better
# transition
=media-libs/x264-svn-20060810
On Monday 11 September 2006 13:17, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Thanks Alan, but I do not have this file on my system.
Arggghhh, recent baselayout/portage/profile changes strike
again. That's an old location. You need a make.globals - it's
kinda important
o_o
Like me you may find it at
here's the output from emerge --info:
obiwan ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gen too-r5 i686)
=
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:26:59PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote:
If you're planning to use a remote X server you, you should compile
xorg-server with USE=minimal. Then gnome can link to the libraries it needs
but you don't need to install a complete X server.
Yes, I wanted a remote X server. OK,
Well, as the title, glibc is failing on me on my server. I have noticed that
in the stack trace there is: multiple definition of `__libc_multiple_libcs'
and emerge --info shows glibc-2.3.6-r4 and glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 are both
installed. Not sure why. Not sure even if this is the problem.
Does anyone know of a way to set your system's front side bus speed in
software? My Dell motherboard and BIOS don't seem to have any
facility for it, and I've heard there is a utility in Windows that
will allow you to set it.
Isn't there a jumper or two on the circuit board that you should
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 16:23 +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:26:59PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote:
If you're planning to use a remote X server you, you should compile
xorg-server with USE=minimal. Then gnome can link to the libraries it
needs
but you don't
On Monday 11 September 2006 16:23, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:26:59PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote:
If you're planning to use a remote X server you, you should compile
xorg-server with USE=minimal. Then gnome can link to the libraries it
needs but you don't need to
On Monday 11 September 2006 15:55, Mick wrote:
On Monday 11 September 2006 13:17, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Thanks Alan, but I do not have this file on my system.
Arggghhh, recent baselayout/portage/profile changes strike
again. That's an old location. You need a make.globals -
it's kinda
Responding to all, sorry
[user]
control
compiler optimizations (I run on P4 Xeon)
it was the first distro I found whose kernels didn't mess up the
Xeon CPU throttling stuff and
randomly start running at 10% speed
glutton for pain (I hate worrying about all those ewarns and config
files
Hi michael,
on Friday, 2006-09-08 at 08:44:05, you wrote:
I hope my experience is better than yours. I'm in the middle of this process
on a live system, been building since Monday (it's an old 600MHz box)
I just upgraded one Pentium-M laptop; went fine save for a few hitches
like Richard
quoth the darren kirby:
My instinct is to unmerge glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 and try again, but the
ominous warning from portage coupled with the fact this is my live mail/web
server is making me hesitant to try this. Any thoughts?
Well, I made a quickpkg of the old glibc, removed it, and tried
On Monday 11 September 2006 16:25, Alan McKinnon wrote:
What shall I do? Manually cp it over to
/etc/portage/profile/make.globals?
No, leave it where it is, that's the correct new location. It's
where it is on my system, and my emerge works fine.
That implies that the error coming from
Hi All,
I was handed what seems to be a corrupt xD flash card to extract the last
photo from it. When the WinXP system at work coughed and died on it
(couldn't read it) I thought that my Linux would do better. Anyhow, I've
inserted it into my Fuji camera and this is what dmesg shows:
Hi!I upgraded to gcc-4.1.1 but when I did emerge --deep --update --newuse world I got the following:libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../..//lib*.la seems to be movedwhere lib*.la stands for some libraries.For example: libgconf-2.la is in this list of warnings and it
reader at newsguy.com writes:
I haven't used cups for quite a while and haven't been paying
attention to cups related posts here but a search on gmane indicates
there isn't much going on.
I recently had trouble with cups too. So I follow this document:
http://localhost:631/sam.html
which
On Monday 11 September 2006 20:52, JC Denton wrote:
Hi!
I upgraded to gcc-4.1.1 but when I did emerge --deep --update --newuse
world I got the following:
libtool: link: warning:
`/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../..//lib*.la seems to be moved
where lib*.la stands for some
Did anybody find xorg destabilize after enabling freetype/type1
modules ?
My machine freezes up randomly after I activate those two.
My config:
Pentium M 1.6
IBM ThinkPad X31
gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)
--
Dmitry Makovey
Web Systems Administrator
Athabasca
On 9/11/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mount fails:
$ mount /dev/sda
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg
Hi Mick,
on Monday, 2006-09-11 at 19:50:05, you wrote:
Is there a Linux (or even M$Windoze?) way of me recovering the last photo,
that doesn't involve reconstructing raw data with a hexeditor?
I had the honor of being tasked by my wife with recovering photos from
the amorphous blob of data
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:15:09 -0500, Dale wrote:
So basically if I mess with a file and then unmerge the program it
belongs to, I have to remember which ones I messed with and delete them
myself?
Yes, because the file is no longer the file portage installed, so it has
no right to remove it.
On Monday 11 September 2006 21:37, Richard Fish wrote:
On 9/11/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mount fails:
$ mount /dev/sda
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
missing codepage or other error
On Monday 11 September 2006 22:19, Matthias Bethke wrote:
Hi Mick,
on Monday, 2006-09-11 at 19:50:05, you wrote:
Is there a Linux (or even M$Windoze?) way of me recovering the last
photo, that doesn't involve reconstructing raw data with a hexeditor?
I had the honor of being tasked by my
A bit off topic here but I'm getting mail into my spam traps about
Chase bank account being frozen etc etc. Please go here and give all
your private personal information into the little box.
This particular one is semi slick since it has managed to be injected
into newsguy with out showing more
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
reader at newsguy.com writes:
I haven't used cups for quite a while and haven't been paying
attention to cups related posts here but a search on gmane indicates
there isn't much going on.
I recently had trouble with cups too. So I follow this document:
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:54:09 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've done a little digging (no pun intended) on the address with `dig'
and jwhois, but I'm not getting a phone number or email address to
report this to.
Can someone coach me a bit how to ascertain who is in charge for this
block
On 09/09/06, Nadav Horesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got a core duo machine with an intel motherboard with the 965 chip set.
There is a sata HD and ide DVD. The installation disk fails to boot since
the jernel does not recognize the dvd. I tried the following bios
configurations:
* switch
I was handed what seems to be a corrupt xD flash card to extract the last
photo from it. When the WinXP system at work coughed and died on it
(couldn't read it) I thought that my Linux would do better. Anyhow, I've
inserted it into my Fuji camera and this is what dmesg shows:
On Saturday 09 September 2006 13:46, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Saturday 9 September 2006 22:12, Daniel Waeber wrote:
Although she promised that when the NTFS drivers for Linux are
developed adequately to allow her to work on her NTFS stored data
from both OS, she will make an effort to
On Saturday 09 September 2006 04:05, darren kirby wrote:
quoth the Lord Sauron:
snip
What should I do to fix Emacs? I hear it's a very powerful and
useful editor, and I would like to learn to use it (vi and/or its
many variants is next on my list, so no emacs vs. vi wars please)
so any
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 07:55 -0700, Grant wrote:
The Dell motherboard detects the CPU's FSB and sets it that way. The
board officially supports 66/100/133. My Celeron 700 runs at 66FSB,
but I'd like to try 100FSB so my memory will run at full speed and I
can see if the CPU can handle 1050
quoth the Lord Sauron:
Much more confused than before. I get why I'd want to use unicode, but
the instructions on how to do that were outdated or for a setup other
than mine and they threw me off real quickly.
I also spent some time looking through the Gentoo Wiki and found that
there's a
On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 12:13 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
On 29 August 2006 11:55, Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:16 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
=== begin script ===
#! /bin/sh
BITRATE=730
INFILE=dvd://
[snip]
that seems to capture from dvd though? I may [not]
yes, that was it. Unfortunately, the messages scroll by quickly and I didnot have a chance to read it.
Configure the elog system, see /etc/make.conf.example. You'll be able to read main warnings in the /var/log/portage/elog (default).
Hi,
I'm trying to do a fresh install on my second drive here. I copied the
portage directory over from my current install and I keep getting this
error that it is corrupt or something.
09:43:24 (233.71 KB/s) -
`/usr/portage/distfiles/util-macros-1.1.0.tar.bz2' saved [43036/43036]
*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A bit off topic here but I'm getting mail into my spam traps about
Chase bank account being frozen etc etc. Please go here and give all
your private personal information into the little box.
This particular one is semi slick since it has managed to be injected
into
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 03:39, Dale wrote:
[SNIP]
!!! Digest verification failed:
!!! /usr/portage/distfiles/util-macros-1.1.0.tar.bz2
!!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification
!!! Got: 8bad98dd55d18d6ec69f444e86d0f934
!!! Expected: bc06eebd94b6e65405c2d5b1e479fea8
[SNIP]
I have
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 03:39, Dale wrote:
[SNIP]
!!! Digest verification failed:
!!! /usr/portage/distfiles/util-macros-1.1.0.tar.bz2
!!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification
!!! Got: 8bad98dd55d18d6ec69f444e86d0f934
!!! Expected:
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 03:58, Dale wrote:
!!! Digest verification failed:
!!! /usr/portage/distfiles/util-macros-1.1.0.tar.bz2
!!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification
!!! Got: 8bad98dd55d18d6ec69f444e86d0f934
!!! Expected: bc06eebd94b6e65405c2d5b1e479fea8
I have re-synced a
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:17:09AM +0200, Liebich, Wolfgang wrote
I'm installing a new computer w/ gentoo (had Windows 2003 Server on
it before). I'm installing from the minimal installation CD (tried w/
knoppix before). BUT today I OFTEN get IDE READ errors and afterwards
- no command works.
Hi Bo,
- snip -
Otherwise please show the output of:
# equery check gnome-base/gnome-session
# equery check gnome-base/gnome-session
-bash command not found
# emerge --search equery
Application not found
# emerge equery
emerge : there are no ebuilds to satify equery
- snip -
Perhaps
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 03:58, Dale wrote:
!!! Digest verification failed:
!!! /usr/portage/distfiles/util-macros-1.1.0.tar.bz2
!!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification
!!! Got: 8bad98dd55d18d6ec69f444e86d0f934
!!! Expected: bc06eebd94b6e65405c2d5b1e479fea8
How can I determine my current CPU speed? I have a Celeron 700 that
should be running at 1050 if I insulated one of its pins correctly.
All of the information I can find on determining CPU speed is related
to mobile speedstep processors and mine is a desktop CPU.
- Grant
--
Hi,
recently I did a emerge -e system; emerge -e world.
Apart from some applications, which dont want to compile with
the new system -- now based on gcc-4.1.1 -- everything works fine.
(Before emergeing I did a full image backup of the old system on
another harddisk of the same model (dd
From: Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [gentoo-user] Real CPU speed
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:08:41 -0700
How can I determine my current CPU speed? I have a Celeron 700 that
should be running at 1050 if I insulated one of its pins correctly.
All of the information I can find on determining
How can I determine my current CPU speed? I have a Celeron 700 that
should be running at 1050 if I insulated one of its pins correctly.
All of the information I can find on determining CPU speed is related
to mobile speedstep processors and mine is a desktop CPU.
- Grant
Hi Grant,
try
On 9/11/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/11/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apps, which need output of sound (kaffeine, mplayer...) seem not to
miss anything (no Permission denied or /dev/* : No such device).
and act normally -- with no sound at all.
Hmm,
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:15:09 -0500, Dale wrote:
So basically if I mess with a file and then unmerge the program it
belongs to, I have to remember which ones I messed with and delete them
myself?
Yes, because the file is no longer the file portage installed, so
Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Apologies, apologies, apologies! I am down on my knees :)
I found the problem: Volume was up but the PCM channel was
*MUTED* !
Thanks a lot anyway!
Keep hacking!
mcc
That is VERY common. I do wish they would put that at half way or
something.
Richard Fish wrote:
On 9/11/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I dunno. Maybe I wasn't holding my mouth right when I copied it. I
only did that about 10 times though. I have had the problem before,
especially when I was on dial-up. It's just not usually that stubborn
about it. Usually I
On Monday 11 September 2006 23:32, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:15:09 -0500, Dale wrote:
So basically if I mess with a file and then unmerge the program it
belongs to, I have to remember which ones I messed with and delete them
myself?
Yes, because the file is no longer the
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 05:28, Dale wrote:
I copied it there because I did a rm -rfv
/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles/util-* first.
/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles == /usr/portage/distfiles ?
--
Bo Andresen
pgpM04hDm9nwq.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Dale wrote:
Cheese, I'm learning something. I already knew that it would not delete
files in /etc/ and now I know why. LOL I never put the two together
before you said that.
Well, the /etc thing is generally more due to CONFIG_PROTECT - it won't
delete files from /etc regardless of whether
No offence or copyright infringement intended, but I found this funny:
Let us pray...
Our system, who art on raised tile,
Hallowed be thy OS.
Thy portage come, thy emerge be done,
On servers, as it is on workstations.
Give us this day, our daily sync,
And forgive us our broken ebuilds,
As we
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 15:04 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
No offence or copyright infringement intended, but I found this funny:
Let us pray...
Our system, who art on raised tile,
Hallowed be thy OS.
Thy portage come, thy emerge be done,
On servers, as it is on workstations.
Give us this
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