[gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header

2007-03-25 Thread Alan
Somehow one of my hard drives got a raid header on it, causing it to start automatically sometimes when not needed. It's on /dev/hda, my main system disk, which is not RAID at all. Running mdadm -E /dev/hda I get: --- phoenix alan # mdadm -E /dev/hda /dev/hda:

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header

2007-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 25 March 2007, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header': Somehow one of my hard drives got a raid header on it, causing it to start automatically sometimes when not needed. It's on /dev/hda, my main system disk, which is not RAID at all. Running

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

2007-03-25 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:29:25 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also make this change permanent by adding =mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0 to /etc/portage.package.mask Neil was the above a typo? Or is it correct that using greater than

[gentoo-user] hardened-sources-2.6.18 booting very slow and no network connection

2007-03-25 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I have an instance of hardened sources using selinux as a webserver. 2.6.16 is running fine however 2.6.18-r6 boots up, but it's terribly slow and won't allow any network connection. I compiled the new kernel with the old .config using make oldconfig and there weren't many new sec- config

[gentoo-user] problem with usb card reader with gentoo

2007-03-25 Thread John covici
Hi. I have a strange problem with a small card reader I use for certain types of memory cards such as low voltage sd cards. I have used this in that other operating systems and the card is seen by that other system and even another Linux distribution I used to use, but when I insert the reader

[gentoo-user] OT: Status of TiLP2?

2007-03-25 Thread Marc Joliet
Hi list, I wanted to know whether it's planned to add TiLP2 to the portage tree any time soon. I read http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109220 and http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112985, however the last updates were about 5 months ago. I'm asking because I would like to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.

2007-03-25 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Well, I will know soon enough. The bank itself will be changing to this mess in a few days. If it doesn't work, I'll just call customer service to find out my balance because it will be much faster than trying to get it on the internet. This is if I can get in at all. Right

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.

2007-03-25 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 25 Mar 2007 7:06:33 pm Dale wrote: That said, I don't like using Konqueror as a web browser. How do I get Seamonkey to either not ID itself or something so this will work? I looked in preferences and I can't find anything in there to change. You can always try installing user

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.

2007-03-25 Thread Dale
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Sunday 25 Mar 2007 7:06:33 pm Dale wrote: That said, I don't like using Konqueror as a web browser. How do I get Seamonkey to either not ID itself or something so this will work? I looked in preferences and I can't find anything in there to change. You can

[gentoo-user] How emerge GCC

2007-03-25 Thread Arnaud FARINE
Hello, I've got a big problem...I can't compile anything or install software. Reason : last week I need to emerge the new gcc 4.1.1. I made this without to follow the gentoo tutorialSince, I can't compile because I get an error concercing C++ (not found!). Today, I would like to retrieve a

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 24 March 2007 06:30:58 Dale wrote: You may want to either sync again or run emerge --metadata one. I seem to recall running into this and it can't update the database without that link being correct. The metadata part should fix it. Not necessary. I just recreated

Re: [gentoo-user] How emerge GCC

2007-03-25 Thread Dale
Arnaud FARINE wrote: Hello, I've got a big problem...I can't compile anything or install software. Reason : last week I need to emerge the new gcc 4.1.1. I made this without to follow the gentoo tutorialSince, I can't compile because I get an error concercing C++ (not found!). Today, I

[gentoo-user] Maya

2007-03-25 Thread Mick
This may be a silly question, but I am trying to understand if Maya is free for Linux - despite it being a commercial product. The License page says that we should go to http://www.aliaswavefront.com/spar to register, but the link is dead. What do you know about this package and the license

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header

2007-03-25 Thread Alan
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 04:03:32AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header': Somehow one of my hard drives got a raid header on it, causing it to start automatically sometimes when not needed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Maya

2007-03-25 Thread Neil Walker
Mick wrote: This may be a silly question, but I am trying to understand if Maya is free for Linux - despite it being a commercial product. The License page says that we should go to http://www.aliaswavefront.com/spar to register, but the link is dead. What do you know about this package and

RE: [gentoo-user] all digest files missing for portage update after rsync with local server

2007-03-25 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
-Original Message- From: Zac Medico [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is that portage-2.1.2.2 will automatically exclude the digest files during sync. In order to make the sync compatible with portage-2.0.x, you can override the PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS variable that's defined in

[gentoo-user] Questions about gparted

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I just emerged gparted-0.3.3, and find a couple of things I don't understand. As there seems to be no documentation (even on SourceForge), I'm asking here. 1) It complains about being unable to open /dev/nbd1 throught /dev/nbd16; I have no idea what these are. 2) There is a warning sign and a

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-25 Thread Dale
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: emerge --metadata is completely unrelated. You are probably speaking of one of the issues at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/common-problems.xml See `man emerge` to see what --metadata does... I just know it fixed it. I was told on the forums to

[gentoo-user] Invalid atom in =media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20070325

2007-03-25 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello list, After a recent sync I get Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: =media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20070325 anytime I issue an emerge command. I wonder whether this is particular to my system. Thanks, -- Valmor -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid atom in =media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20070325

2007-03-25 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sonntag, den 25.03.2007, 15:38 -0400 schrieb de Almeida, Valmor F.: Hello list, After a recent sync I get Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: =media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20070325 anytime I issue an emerge command. I wonder whether this is particular to my system.

RE: [gentoo-user] Invalid atom in =media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20070325

2007-03-25 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
-Original Message- From: Marc Joliet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Am Sonntag, den 25.03.2007, 15:38 -0400 schrieb de Almeida, Valmor F.: I wonder whether this is particular to my system. That would likely be - as a quick eix ffmpeg -v showed - that the entry should look like this:

[gentoo-user] Re: Invalid atom in =media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20070325

2007-03-25 Thread »Q«
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc Joliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag, den 25.03.2007, 15:38 -0400 schrieb de Almeida, Valmor F.: After a recent sync I get Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: =media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20070325 anytime I issue an emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about gparted

2007-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 25 March 2007, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Questions about gparted': 1) It complains about being unable to open /dev/nbd1 throught (sic) /dev/nbd16; I have no idea what these are. Block devices exposed by the 'nbd' module. The nbd module allows block

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened-sources-2.6.18 booting very slow and no network connection

2007-03-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: I have an instance of hardened sources using selinux as a webserver. 2.6.16 is running fine however 2.6.18-r6 boots up, but it's terribly slow The 2.6.18 kernel was slow for me too (normal gentoo-sources), not terribly, but noticeably sluggish. You might try

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header

2007-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 25 March 2007, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header': On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 04:03:32AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header':

RE: [gentoo-user] Invalid atom in =media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20070325

2007-03-25 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
-Original Message- From: Marc Joliet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe I'm putting too much thought to it and making a big deal over a trivial typo. See previous e-mail from Q on this list. It is a bug. I just did a new emerge --sync and fixed. Thanks, -- Valmor --

[gentoo-user] nfs.confd.old on manifest not found

2007-03-25 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, I anyone else bumping into this message after a recent emerge --sync followed by system and world update? !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found: /usr/portage/net-fs/nfs-utils/files/nfs.confd.old emerge system will complete but not emerge world. There isn't a bug filed

[gentoo-user] microcode error

2007-03-25 Thread Mick
Hi All, I changed the CPU on an old box from a PIII 600MHz to a PIII 733MHz. Then updated the box and sys-apps/microcode-ctl-1.15 was installed. Since then it's been coming up with errors: === # /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl restart * Caching service

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs.confd.old on manifest not found

2007-03-25 Thread David W Noon
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: I anyone else bumping into this message after a recent emerge --sync followed by system and world update? Yes, I got this message this afternoon. -- Regards Dave [RLU#314465] ==

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Invalid atom in =media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20070325

2007-03-25 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Q See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172200. I filed the bug earlier today, and lu_zero has taken ownership, so hopefully it will be resolved soon. I did a recent emerge --sync and the problem has been

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs.confd.old on manifest not found

2007-03-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 18:05 -0400, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Hello, I anyone else bumping into this message after a recent emerge --sync followed by system and world update? !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found: /usr/portage/net-fs/nfs-utils/files/nfs.confd.old

Re: [gentoo-user] all digest files missing for portage update after rsync with local server

2007-03-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found: /usr/portage/net-fs/nfs-utils/files/nfs.confd.old http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172231 Now on my other boxes I proceeded with an emerge --sync to sync the

RE: [gentoo-user] all digest files missing for portage update after rsync with local server

2007-03-25 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
-Original Message- From: Zac Medico [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found: /usr/portage/net-fs/nfs-utils/files/nfs.confd.old http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172231 The bug has been fixed. The

Re: [gentoo-user] all digest files missing for portage update after rsync with local server

2007-03-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Now that my rsync local server has been upgraded to portage 2.1.2.2, should I still keep PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after

RE: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.

2007-03-25 Thread Nelson, David J
Try emailing your bank? It may be that their website uses some sort of Windows script via MSIE (which I am led to believe allows sites to do stuff with your local machine, I know at work if I open the intranet in MSIE it knows who I am from my NT logon, but in firefox I have to enter username