[gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Joseph
Does anybody knows what had happened to: http://gentoo-wiki.com ? -- #Joseph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

2007-08-19 Thread »Q«
Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also things like [[ $foo == ]] should rather be [[ -n $foo ]] but that's a minor. [[ -z $foo ]] seems to work much better. ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Sven Köhler
Does anybody knows what had happened to: http://gentoo-wiki.com ? And http://www.gentoo-portage.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Dale
Sven Köhler wrote: Does anybody knows what had happened to: http://gentoo-wiki.com ? And http://www.gentoo-portage.com/ I read somewhere that they had a problem with the server. Seems like it was a security issue. They are working on it but the guru is out of town or something and

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

2007-08-19 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:01:15PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that involves responding to some event that is triggered by closing the lid on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC. Why not type

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:27:57 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sven Köhler wrote: Does anybody knows what had happened to: http://gentoo-wiki.com ? And http://www.gentoo-portage.com/ I read somewhere that they had a problem with the server. Seems like it was a security

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrito: Does anybody knows what had happened to: http://gentoo-wiki.com ? As everyone knows by now, Gentoo is dying... :) Regards, Norberto This message was sent using IMP, the Internet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

2007-08-19 Thread Alex Schuster
»Q« writes: On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:10:30 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 August 2007 04:00:45 »Q« wrote: It works as it is, but I'm interested in learning about any newbie traps into which I might be falling or about any better practices I should use.

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 18 August 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Am Samstag 18 August 2007 22:51:20 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is

[gentoo-user] [OT] Quanta editor auto-indentation

2007-08-19 Thread Mick
Hi All, Quanta seems to automatically insert spacing and CRs in the code, when I would not really like it to. Do you know how this can be changed? For example, I enter: h1Contact Us:/h1 Then place the cursor between Us and : (in the GUI window, not in the text editor) and enter a space.

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC problems after MS Windows update

2007-08-19 Thread Mick
At long last I managed to find a work around to this problem, which was probably caused by Microsoft deciding to become environmentally friendly . . . If this problem applies to your NIC then you may want to read on: On Sunday 12 August 2007, Rumen Yotov wrote: On (11/08/07 08:55) Mick

[gentoo-user] what's happening with kde ebuilds?

2007-08-19 Thread b.n.
Hi, Coming back from the holidays I sync'd and when I try to emerge world, I find messages like that: Calculating world dependencies \ !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ~kde-base/kdm-3.5.7 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: -

Re: [gentoo-user] what's happening with kde ebuilds?

2007-08-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 19 August 2007 13:26:46 b.n. wrote: Coming back from the holidays I sync'd and when I try to emerge world, I find messages like that: Calculating world dependencies \ !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ~kde-base/kdm-3.5.7 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages

Re: [gentoo-user] what's happening with kde ebuilds?

2007-08-19 Thread b.n.
Bo Ørsted Andresen ha scritto: kdm-3.5.7 has been stable for 8 days. Most likely an overlay is overshadowing it (xeffects?). Complain to the maintainer of said overlay. Oh, yes. I forgot about xeffects -most probably it's the problem. Thanks for the hint. m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

2007-08-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 18 August 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: NO! don't mask expat! There is some reason why it got stable. expats current form is out for ages. emerge latest expat, emerge fontconfig, emerge qt and everything else broken. Do as Volker says. After you run revdep-rebuild you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Dale
»Q« wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:27:57 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sven Köhler wrote: Does anybody knows what had happened to: http://gentoo-wiki.com ? And http://www.gentoo-portage.com/ I read somewhere that they had a problem with the server.

[gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-19 Thread b.n.
Hi, I'm getting quite desperate. My soundcard is a SiS onboard AC'97 as lshw shows: description: Multimedia audio controller product: AC'97 Sound Controller vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] physical id: 2.7 bus info: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-19 Thread Michael Gisbers
Am Samstag 18 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 20:28:43 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 13:03:40 schrieben Sie: Am Mittwoch 15 August 2007 21:07:49 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Mittwoch 15 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp:

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 16:52:37 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Samstag 18 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 20:28:43 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 13:03:40 schrieben Sie: Am Mittwoch 15 August 2007 21:07:49 schrieb Michael Gisbers:

[gentoo-user] About Macintosh

2007-08-19 Thread Balaviswanathan Vaidyanathan
Hi How to install MacOs X along with Gentoo - Bollywood, fun, friendship, sports and more. You name it, we have it.

[gentoo-user] About Macintosh

2007-08-19 Thread Balaviswanathan Vaidyanathan
Hi How to install MacOs X along with Gentoo - Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-19 Thread Michael Gisbers
Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 16:52:37 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Samstag 18 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 20:28:43 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 13:03:40 schrieben Sie: Am

Re: [gentoo-user] About Macintosh

2007-08-19 Thread Tim
Balaviswanathan Vaidyanathan wrote: Hi How to install MacOs X along with Gentoo Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now

Re: [gentoo-user] no standalone jre?

2007-08-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 19 August 2007 16:57:17 Ralf Stephan wrote: when installing jre, a full jdk is downloaded (57M). $ paludis -pi jre * dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.02 {:1.6} [N] X -alsa -doc -examples -jce nsplugin * virtual/jdk-1.6.0 {:1.6} [N] * virtual/jre-1.6.0 {:1.6} [N] Is this a bug? I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] About Macintosh

2007-08-19 Thread Balaviswanathan Vaidyanathan
Thank you Tim for your kind help Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Balaviswanathan Vaidyanathan wrote: Hi How to install MacOs X along with Gentoo Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now Very briefly: -

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-19 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. Don't use slub except on test systems. I've been using slub since kernel 2.6.22

[gentoo-user] Custom CFLAGS

2007-08-19 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, list Is there a way to use custom CFLAGS for a given package? I want to set CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe globaly in make.conf and compile certain packages with different CFLAGS. In other words I'm looking for functianlity like the one /etc/portage/packages.use povides for the USE flags.

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Philip Webb
070818 Florian Philipp wrote: Am Samstag 18 August 2007 04:51:50 schrieb Crayon Shin Chan: On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: I've successfully mounted the stick copied a file onto it: it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored. For performance

Re: [gentoo-user] Custom CFLAGS

2007-08-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 19:32:32 schrieb Daniel Iliev: Hi, list Is there a way to use custom CFLAGS for a given package? I want to set CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe globaly in make.conf and compile certain packages with different CFLAGS. In other words I'm looking for functianlity like

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Philip Webb, I've also noticed that it seems to take noticeably longer to copy files, the more data is already on the stick: can anyone explain ? Fragmentation? -- Neil Bothwick Miracle worker, Doctor! I'm a dammit, not a jim.. no, scratch that... signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Jan Seeger
On planet gentoo, one can read that the cause for the outage was a security issue: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20070814-infrapr.xml Regards, Jan pgp0Q9OVm0ElC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Custom CFLAGS

2007-08-19 Thread Elias Probst
On Sunday 19 August 2007 19:52:01 Florian Philipp wrote: Sort answer: No. Long answer: Yes, but it's complicated. Look at this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/186864/focus=186874 An easier way: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/181809/focus=181813

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 20:13:14 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Hello Philip Webb, I've also noticed that it seems to take noticeably longer to copy files, the more data is already on the stick: can anyone explain ? Fragmentation? I don't think so. Because there are no moving parts, the latency

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 19 August 2007 20:16:16 Jan Seeger wrote: On planet gentoo, one can read that the cause for the outage was a security issue: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20070814-infrapr.xml No no no.. gentoo-wiki.com like gentoo-portage.com is in no way affiliated with Gentoo. You won't find reasons

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 19 August 2007 01:32:27 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selon Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. Don't use

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Dale
Jan Seeger wrote: On planet gentoo, one can read that the cause for the outage was a security issue: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20070814-infrapr.xml Regards, Jan That's the list I was looking for. Thanks for the link. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-19 Thread Mick
On Sunday 19 August 2007, b.n. wrote: Hi, I'm getting quite desperate. My soundcard is a SiS onboard AC'97 as lshw shows: description: Multimedia audio controller product: AC'97 Sound Controller vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-19 Thread b.n.
Mick ha scritto: Just in case this bares any resemblance to my earlier NIC problem, is your box also booting into MS Windows and did you run a MS Windows or OEM driver update since? No, it's a purely Linux box since 2004 :) m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Philip Webb
070819 Florian Philipp wrote: Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 20:13:14 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Hello Philip Webb, I've also noticed that it seems to take noticeably longer to copy files, the more data is already on the stick: can anyone explain ? Fragmentation? Because there are no moving parts,

[gentoo-user] MySQL isn't slotted. What to do?

2007-08-19 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
The issue is, I need to keep mysql 4.1.x version for my job. OTOH, say, last dev-libs/apr-util needs mysql 5.x version. The mysql package isn't slotted, and this fact is rather strange (4.0.x, 4.1.x and 5.x versions are _very_ different, and all are widely used in real servers). What to do? --

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote on 19/08/07 20:43: On Sunday 19 August 2007 20:16:16 Jan Seeger wrote: On planet gentoo, one can read that the cause for the outage was a security issue: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20070814-infrapr.xml No no no.. gentoo-wiki.com like gentoo-portage.com is in no way

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-19 Thread b.n.
b.n. ha scritto: Hi, I'm getting quite desperate. My soundcard is a SiS onboard AC'97 as lshw shows: description: Multimedia audio controller product: AC'97 Sound Controller vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] physical id: 2.7

[gentoo-user] Cannot uninstall kworldclock-3.5.5

2007-08-19 Thread Mick
not found in KDE_DERIVATION_MAP, please report bug !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/kde-base:kdeartwork-kworldclock-3.5.5:20070819-210350.log

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot uninstall kworldclock-3.5.5

2007-08-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 20 August 2007 00:16:45 Mick wrote: !!! Package kde-base/kworldwatch not found in KDE_DERIVATION_MAP, please report bug As it says.. it's a bug. Some dev screwed up. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189352 [SNIP] How do I move on? You sync. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Custom CFLAGS

2007-08-19 Thread Daniel Iliev
Thanks, people! Your replies lead me to a solution and now I have all my current wishes for custom build environment fulfilled. In case anybody else has the same question, here is the original solution by Bo Ørsted Andresen: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/186864/focus=186874

[gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome!

2007-08-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
I hope this goes through. In the recent past, thread-beginning posts sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] get lost in the mail. Replies go through fine, but original threads don't. If you see this, this one didn't get lost. I've been gone for a couple of weeks (from August 5 to

Re: [gentoo-user] no standalone jre?

2007-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 19 August 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] no standalone jre?': On Sunday 19 August 2007 16:57:17 Ralf Stephan wrote: when installing jre, a full jdk is downloaded (57M). Is this a bug? I don't really recall the reason for virtual/jdk to

Re: [gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome!

2007-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 19 August 2007, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome!': I logged into GNOME, no programs had title bars, and I couldn't Alt+TAB between them. How can I fix this? How can I even find out exactly what package is causing the problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome!

2007-08-19 Thread James Ausmus
On 8/19/07, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this goes through. In the recent past, thread-beginning posts sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] get lost in the mail. Replies go through fine, but original threads don't. If you see this, this one didn't get lost.

Re: [gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome!

2007-08-19 Thread James Ausmus
On 8/19/07, James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/19/07, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this goes through. In the recent past, thread-beginning posts sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] get lost in the mail. Replies go through fine, but original threads

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC problems after MS Windows update

2007-08-19 Thread James Ausmus
On 8/19/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At long last I managed to find a work around to this problem, which was probably caused by Microsoft deciding to become environmentally friendly . . . If this problem applies to your NIC then you may want to read on: On Sunday 12 August 2007, Rumen

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

2007-08-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 11:57:02PM +0200, b.n. wrote Walter Dnes ha scritto: Normal rebooting is a pain, because I usually run with 3 or 4 text consoles logged in for different functions, as well as an X session. So what do I have to do to get a *DESKTOP* PC to suspend to disk

Re: [gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome! [SOLVED]

2007-08-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 18:41 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: This is usually caused by a missing/crashing/failing window manager. The default window manager in Gnome is metacity (IIRC). If you use compiz/beryl/compiz-fusion, this may be separated into a different program called the

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:51 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 17 August 2007 06:50:25 Iain Buchanan wrote: /etc/env.d $ grep LDPATH * | grep gcc 05compiler:LDPATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6 05gcc:LDPATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

2007-08-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 20:44 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 11:57:02PM +0200, b.n. wrote Walter Dnes ha scritto: ... By the way, why suspend-to-ram is second choice? Shouldn't it be much faster? I don't know that much about suspend issues (heck, I even don't have a

[gentoo-user] Very OT - Problems with mythfilldatabase

2007-08-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
Has anyone else had problems updating program listings with mythfilldatabase? Here's my output from it: 2007-08-19 20:48:56.028 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2007-08-19 20:48:56.062 New DB connection, total: 1 2007-08-19 20:48:56.069 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Problems with mythfilldatabase

2007-08-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 19 August 2007 09:52:35 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: Has anyone else had problems updating program listings with mythfilldatabase? Here's my output from it: No problems... I still have access to the zap2it servers until october, 10 of this year. After that I'll have to deal with:

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot uninstall kworldclock-3.5.5

2007-08-19 Thread Joseph
I think I had a similar problem, at the end there was suggestion to remove the ebuild manually; I did it and the as able to emerge -C kworldwatch -- #Joseph On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 00:30 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 20 August 2007 00:16:45 Mick wrote: !!! Package

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] bash script advice/criticism wanted

2007-08-19 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:43:18 +0200 Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is comp.unix.shell. Thanks. I'll go there from now on. And read the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ I had been reading the ABS doc, but parts of it made more sense after the input