RE: [gentoo-user] layman overlays

2007-03-22 Thread Nelson, David J
-Original Message- From: John covici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2007 05:47 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] layman overlays Hi. I have a problem with the gnome-experimental layman overlay package -- where shold I write to get some help on

[gentoo-user] Back down to older version (emerge)

2007-03-22 Thread reader
The few times I've tried backing down from current installed to older versions of something... I've had a problem getting the syntax right. According to man emerge and man portage this syntax should work: Either: emerge -vp =mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.7 or emerge -vp

RE: [gentoo-user] layman overlays

2007-03-22 Thread John covici
, and the call !!! stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at !!! '/var/log/portage/gnome-extra:yelp-2.18.0:20070322-041220.log'. !!! This ebuild is from an overlay: '/usr/portage/local/layman/gnome-experimental' and this is the last bit of the log configure:24519: checking which gecko

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem failure

2007-03-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 March 2007 05:37, Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:08:24AM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: The root partition on my laptop just crapped out today. The kernel logs report a problem with reiserfs. Reiserfsck suggests --rebuild-tree, which AFAICT has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Back down to older version (emerge)

2007-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:32:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The few times I've tried backing down from current installed to older versions of something... I've had a problem getting the syntax right. According to man emerge and man portage this syntax should work: Either: emerge -vp

Re: [gentoo-user] keyserv SIGSEGV

2007-03-22 Thread ooyh eah
i've opened a bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171772 but several minutes later i've fixed my problem using this way: 1. took libmp.so.3 and mp.h from another (little older) working gentoo machine 2. put it to /usr/lib and /usr/include on the problem machine 3. then i compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] layman overlays

2007-03-22 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Talking about layman... Is anyone experiencing problems with it? I don't seem to be able to get a list of overlays, update, etc. I was using gfn just fine, and suddenly my mplayer started crashing again. I noticed it was the Gentoo Portage

[gentoo-user] Custom rsync command for emerge --sync?

2007-03-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. On one of my systems, I'd like to use a custom rsync command when emerge --sync is to be used (I'd like rsync to use a SOCKS proxy and I'd like emerge to call socksify rsync instead of just rsync. For this, I'd write a tiny wrapper script). How do I tell emerge to use a custom rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem failure

2007-03-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:42:35AM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: You may find that a --fix-fixable does the trick and you don't have to re-install - this usually only works if you keep your fingers crossed at the same time. ;-) I wasn't so lucky. :( So now I am re-installing system.

[gentoo-user] Re: Custom rsync command for

2007-03-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name writes: Hello. On one of my systems, I'd like to use a custom rsync command when emerge is to be used (I'd like rsync to use a SOCKS proxy and I'd like emerge to call socksify rsync instead of just rsync. For this, I'd write a tiny wrapper

[gentoo-user] Problems with udev and network cards changing device name

2007-03-22 Thread Jonathan Gill
Hi. Ive got a weird problem here and hoping someone can give me a solution, or point me to some docs that show how to resolve this. I have a system that I have built that I use as a base for all my other boxes. (think stage 4) I tar it up, boot the new box on a livecd, and untar it after

[gentoo-user] Re: rfc viewer

2007-03-22 Thread Stefan Wimmer
* Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-22 05:41] : Doesn't anyone know a good rfc viewer available for linux? 'rfcutil' seems to do the job ... * app-text/rfcutil Available versions: 3.2.3 Homepage: http://www.dewn.com/rfc/ Description: return all related RFCs based upon a number

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with udev and network cards changing device name

2007-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:56:43 +0800, Jonathan Gill wrote: To tar it up, I boot on a live cd, mount the partitions as needed (root and boot) and then tar with cjpf the whole thing. Once ive set the bootloader up and rebooted, it moves the network cards from eth0 and eth1 to eth2 and eth3

[gentoo-user] test

2007-03-22 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't send more email to this mailing list, if you receive this email I solve the problem. I apolize for the inconvenience, Luigi - -- Public key GPG(0xC5CB65CD) on hkp://pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [gentoo-user] test

2007-03-22 Thread Jason Carson
Test worked! :-) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't send more email to this mailing list, if you receive this email I solve the problem. I apolize for the inconvenience, Luigi - -- Public key GPG(0xC5CB65CD) on hkp://pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

[gentoo-user] [Way OT] Kernel Symlink use or not use?

2007-03-22 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
hi @ all I considered switching to LFS a while ago as this would be the only Linux distribution fulfilling my requirements (besides Gentoo, of course). So when reading the LFS Book there was a warning saying Quote from LFS Book 6.2: Some kernel documentation recommends creating a symlink

[gentoo-user] flash sound?

2007-03-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
esearch netscape-flash [ Results for search key : netscape-flash ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-www/netscape-flash Latest version available: 9.0.31.0 Latest version installed: 9.0.31.0 # chown root:audio /dev/dsp # ls -la /dev/dsp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 02:09 /dev/dsp

[gentoo-user] failed on stable packages

2007-03-22 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I installed a stable x86 gentoo using my old amd64 world file. During world compiling the system failed on some packages (transcode,kth-krb, noatun-plugins). I think it is something correlated with my processor (an amd64), but I installed and

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with udev and network cards changing device name

2007-03-22 Thread Neil Walker
Jonathan Gill wrote: Once ive set the bootloader up and rebooted, it moves the network cards from eth0 and eth1 to eth2 and eth3 (and its just moved them to eth4 and eth5 on a new installation!) What can I do to make sure it comes up as eth0 and eth1 each time? Delete

[gentoo-user] KVM plans?

2007-03-22 Thread Christopher Granade
Are there plans to support KVM (http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki) in Gentoo with an ebuild for the userspace tools? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Custom rsync command for

2007-03-22 Thread Jan-Hendrik Zab
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:35:49 + (UTC) Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name writes: [...] Hmm, well, it just occured to me, that I could run socksify emerge --sync instead of having emerge run socksify rsync. The net effect would be

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Kernel Symlink use or not use?

2007-03-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi ! I think that the /usr/src/linux symlink is used in Gentoo by ebuilds (as vmware-modules for example) that build kernel modules for specific hardware which aren't yet in the kernel, and so needs to know the current kernel config to see if it

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM plans?

2007-03-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 11:47 -0800, Christopher Granade wrote: Are there plans to support KVM (http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki) in Gentoo with an ebuild for the userspace tools? I was gonna ask if you had checked bugzilla, but I went ahead and did that for you:

[gentoo-user] SquirrelMail GPG plugin make bad signature with my keys

2007-03-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I use squirrelmail-1.4.9a with GPG plugin enabled (with gnupg-2.0.3 and the builtin gpg plugin). I don't know which information you need to check this problem, but you can check on this email if my GPG signature is good or bad. Thanks for advice

Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound?

2007-03-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 22 March 2007, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: esearch netscape-flash [ Results for search key : netscape-flash ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-www/netscape-flash Latest version available: 9.0.31.0 Latest version installed: 9.0.31.0 # chown

Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound?

2007-03-22 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ernie Schroder wrote: OK now I see that flash 9 doesn't work with OSS. My ALSA hasn't worked since the nforce sound drivers were removed from portage. Can someone please point me to a source of info. Hey, I have an nForce onboard card and it

Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound?

2007-03-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 22 March 2007, a tiny voice compelled Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: OK now I see that flash 9 doesn't work with OSS. My ALSA hasn't worked since the nforce sound drivers were removed from portage. Can someone please point me to a source of info.

Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound?

2007-03-22 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ernie Schroder wrote: OR a permission problem Then use id. Check out to which groups the ernie user belongs to. Then check out with ls -l /dev/any/sound/device and see what happens. Usually users should be in the audio group. - -- Arturo Buanzo

Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound?

2007-03-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 22 March 2007, a tiny voice compelled Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: OR a permission problem Then use id. Check out to which groups the ernie user belongs to. Then check out with ls -l /dev/any/sound/device and see what happens. Usually users should

[gentoo-user] VOIP solution?

2007-03-22 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Dear List We are a tiny business running in China. In China ISP competition is not very healthy, 2 major ISPs: China Telcom, China Netcom both defend their own business by limiting network access to other ISP. We have an office in Beijing, in Beijing there is only one ISP company (monoplay

Re: [gentoo-user] VOIP solution?

2007-03-22 Thread deface
Your better off to use a VPN device to hold the connection across the 2 offices. If your connection is extremely crap; then you'll need to upgrade to a better service provider. As far as your windows vpn issue, the device is not hidden; you just built your vpn connection wrong. you need to remove

[gentoo-user] Re: VOIP solution?

2007-03-22 Thread Zhang Weiwu
于 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:40:08 +0100,deface写到: Your better off to use a VPN device to hold the connection across the 2 offices. If your connection is extremely crap; then you'll need to upgrade to a better service provider. As far as your windows vpn issue, the device is not hidden; you just