Re: [gentoo-user] Reformat/repartition USB flash drive to ext2/3?

2006-11-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/18/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I seem to remember reading somewhere that one shouldn't use a journalling file system on flash-based devices such as USB drives (i.e. you should use ext2 rather than ext3), but I can't find the reference right now. Can anyone clarify this for me

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked?

2006-11-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/19/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Same response as gtkdiff. Do you actually use them? If not, why do you care? Apologies for the out-of-context line that should have been removed before I clicked send. Call it a case of "email Tourrettes". -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked?

2006-11-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/18/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I assume that this means gnome-libs-1.4.2 is going to be removed in one month. but lots of packages directly depend on gnome-libs: Yes, all old gnome and gnome-dependant things are going away as they are unmaintained. # eque

Re: [gentoo-user] Reformat/repartition USB flash drive to ext2/3?

2006-11-18 Thread Ryan Tandy
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I am annoyed with using vfat on my USB flash drives because I cannot get proper permissions and ownership. Not for the security (meaningless on a drive that easy to steal, unless encrypted), but annoying anyway. Is there any technical reason I should not repartition it as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems getting started with vmware

2006-11-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:05:09AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Walter, did you actually get a license somehow? When I look on their > pages unders `product licensing'. A `VMware Product Licensing' page > appears with no real indication of which license or even what product > is being discus

[gentoo-user] Reformat/repartition USB flash drive to ext2/3?

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I am annoyed with using vfat on my USB flash drives because I cannot get proper permissions and ownership. Not for the security (meaningless on a drive that easy to steal, unless encrypted), but annoying anyway. Is there any technical reason I should not repartition it as something else -- ext3

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 masked?

2006-11-18 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
[Subject corrected to "gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 masked?] --- Vladimir On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 21:28 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > When I run 'emerge -Davu world' I get this message (and the emerge > fails): > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "gnome-base/gnome-libs" have >

[gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked?

2006-11-18 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
When I run 'emerge -Davu world' I get this message (and the emerge fails): !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "gnome-base/gnome-libs" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Resize /

2006-11-18 Thread Dale
Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > Impossible to do. Nothing at all can be done without knowledge. > > IMO a better question is: How hard is it, to get proper > knowledge? > > Answer: Easy, thanks to the excellent LVM howto. See > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > > > < snip > > > > Alexander Skwa

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge blender

2006-11-18 Thread frank
Hi, I returned to gentoo to be able to install blender 2.4*. Well, the ebuild is there, but ... emerge blender ... g++ -pipe -funsigned-char -march=i686 -O2 -pipe -Wall -W -DGAMEBLENDER=1 -DUSE_BULLET -DUSE_SUMO_SOLID -DNDEBUG -DFTGL_STATIC_LIBRARY -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/FTGL -I/

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP + Samba as PDC

2006-11-18 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
On 11/14/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Cameron, > > thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, all the reg hacks I found > didn't work. If I find one that does, I'll post it here. :) > > Regards, > > Raphael This sounds exactly like you do not have the nsswitch.conf envi

Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync

2006-11-18 Thread Sergio Polini
Michael Sullivan: > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 19:57 +0100, Sergio Polini wrote: > > Neil Bothwick: > > > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:00:09 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote: > > > > May I undo an emerge --sync? > > > > > > Only be restoring from a previously made backup or another > > > computer that you haven't s

Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS vs ext3

2006-11-18 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Shawn Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-11-17 09:10]: > In ( what seems like ) similar situatoins, I've just let the partition > that I want to "share" b/w OSes just be a NTFS partition if say, I > were dual-booting my machine ( Linux & Windows ). IMHO, Linux support > for NTFS is fine, meaning that

Re: [gentoo-user] How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!

2006-11-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/18/06, Robert Cernansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: eix gives following output on the same request: $ eix -cA app-misc/screen [I] app-misc/screen (4.0.2-r5): Screen is a full-screen ... [N] app-misc/screenie (): Screenie is a small and ... Hmm, eix 0.8.1 on my system produces: [N] app-mi

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem. (Partly SOLVED)

2006-11-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/18/06, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device "813" or unknown-block(8,19) This means the kernel found your root drive/partition, but couldn't mount it. Most likely you forgot to compile the filesystem driver *into* your kernel (make sure it is =y and not =

Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync

2006-11-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 19:57 +0100, Sergio Polini wrote: > Neil Bothwick: > > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:00:09 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote: > > > May I undo an emerge --sync? > > > > Only be restoring from a previously made backup or another computer > > that you haven't synced yet. > > I apologize for

Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync

2006-11-18 Thread Sergio Polini
Neil Bothwick: > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:00:09 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote: > > May I undo an emerge --sync? > > Only be restoring from a previously made backup or another computer > that you haven't synced yet. I apologize for my delay. What have I to backup to be able to restore a previous sync? A

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Resize /

2006-11-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> < snip > >> The advantage of EVMS over LVM in this case would be, that he >> wouldn't have to reformat/repartition and would still be able >> to resize the partition/filesystem, wouldn't he? >> < snip > >> Yes, with reiserfs, this can be don

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem. (Partly SOLVED)

2006-11-18 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Erik wrote: > I had this problem for a while as well. Adding 'noapic' to my boot > options fixed it for me. I think it's a problem with certain > motherboards, like the Asus M2NPV-VM. Thank you Erik. That worked and allowed me to boot with the Mi

Re: [gentoo-user] How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!

2006-11-18 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:35:28 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > either. As an extra bonus eupdatedb (which does look go through the vdb too) > is a lot slower that its eix equivalent (update-eix). ;) So can anyone > mention any advantage of esearch compared to eix? I like ese

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multi-user pop3 mail delivery

2006-11-18 Thread Ralph Slooten
So if a mail is sent to A and B and only A is a valid user, both copies go to postmaster? Exactly. This wasn't a problem as one employee would sift through the postmaster email every day, that was until spammers started spamming randomly generated addresses at their domain. She received all thes

[gentoo-user] Seeking advise for gentoo install/upgrade

2006-11-18 Thread Sathish Vasudevaiah
I have a bit of a situation as I plan to do upgrade/install gentoo for the following systems: (All these systems are currently running gentoo (2.6.11) with the portage snapshot of 20051009) System Processor./HW some info. [1] Cyrix c7 Runs myth

[gentoo-user] Kino starts with a blank greyed out screen in Gnome

2006-11-18 Thread Alan Watson
Hi, I've been trying for weeks to get Kino to run. When it starts I get a blank grey screen in Gnome. Plus the following error message. I've checked dependencies but I can't figure out what's going on. Any help would be really appreciated. I've tried reinstalling libglade but it didn't fix the issu