[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For me that means updating 6 > machines in parallel which is a significant time sync. Are those machines identical? If so, why don't you just update just one machine and then mount /lib, /usr, ... from that machine, or use FEATURES=buildpkg or --buildpkg

[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe the revdep-rebuild guys should (could?) include -X if it's the > right thing to do? They do. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry. I should have started that a number of the failures have come > while doing revdep-rebuild. One seemingly large problem is that > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages that are no longer in portage > so you have to remove those from the rebuild or

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:03:43 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said I think most of my home would be better > off with something like Ubuntu or Suse but I haven't the inclination > to learn it. Ubuntu's _really_ easy as long as nothing goes wrong with the kernel (there's no he

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:09:22 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > berkdb = sys-libs/db. apr-util is slotted and 0.9.12 is in a > different slot than 1.2.8. this might give you some idea of what packages might be effected by the nontrivial update of db: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eq

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:58:16 -0300 "Ricardo Bevilacqua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl > > alcohol and a cotton swab? > > > > Of course it's safe, just turn everything off, take the card out and > clean it with the alcohol. Most

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On Thursday 13 September 2007 05:32:07 Mark Knecht wrote: > That's very interesting. What about slotting issues? What if it's the > old version in a slot that needs to be rebuilt? (FYI - I don't really > understand slotting that much since I don't program. I've guessed it's > because some code need

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On 9/12/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This latest emerge pass seems to be working better. I did have to skip > a couple of packages though. I'll go back and see if I can catch them > with revdep-rebuild when it hopefully finishes up in the next hour. > Error #3 follows. This one

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On Thursday 13 September 2007 05:23:45 Mark Knecht wrote: > gda-firebird-recordset.c:517: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete > type make[2]: *** [gda-firebird-recordset.lo] Error 1 [...] > !!! ERROR: gnome-extra/libgda-1.2.3 failed. You really ought to learn to search bugzie.. :p https://

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On 9/12/07, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Sorry. I should have started that a number of the failures have come > > while doing revdep-rebuild. One seemingly large problem is that > > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages th

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On 9/12/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 September 2007 04:54:08 Mark Knecht wrote: > > OK, the emerge -DuN world finished up and said everything was good. I > > then ran revdep-rebuild and have a list of things that need to be > > rebuilt. One has failed - dev-lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Sorry. I should have started that a number of the failures have come > while doing revdep-rebuild. One seemingly large problem is that > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages that are no longer in portage > so you have to remove those from

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

> > Of course it's safe, just turn everything off, take the card out and > clean it with the alcohol. > > Another thing...What do you mean by instability? Abnormalities in the video, and computer crashes when viewing tv. Without the card, no crashes. I have cleaned the contacts of the card (with

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On Thursday 13 September 2007 04:54:08 Mark Knecht wrote: > OK, the emerge -DuN world finished up and said everything was good. I > then ran revdep-rebuild and have a list of things that need to be > rebuilt. One has failed - dev-libs/apr-util. > > checking gdbm.h presence... yes > checking for gdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On 9/12/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This latest emerge pass seems to be working better. I did have to skip > a couple of packages though. I'll go back and see if I can catch them > with revdep-rebuild when it hopefully finishes up in the next hour. > OK, the emerge -DuN world f

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

Dan Farrell wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:54:01 -0400 > "Colleen Beamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I used fdisk - deleted all the partitions, created the new partition >> table and created file systems on them. I can read data from the >> drive - any text file that I can "cat" displays fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On 9/12/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:06:21 -0700 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One seemingly large problem is that > > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages that are no longer in portage > > so you have to remove those from the rebuild or

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

2007/9/12, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by > hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts and see > if it, by a miracle, solves the problem. But I don't want to make it worse. > So: is it

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by > hardware problems in my TV card. Why don't you take out the PCI card for a couple of days, and see what happens? - -- Arturo "Buanzo" Busle

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:06:21 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One seemingly large problem is that > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages that are no longer in portage > so you have to remove those from the rebuild or attempt to change > revision numbers by hand on the fly in th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lenovo distro poll

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:42:30 +0400 Peter Volkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not seen this link here, but I think it's worth it. > Vote, please! ;) > > http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98 > > "I'm going to put another poll question up asking which Linux you all > would like to see o

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On 9/12/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:36:56 -0700 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' or > > unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' > > looks like your libraries are a littl

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggestion for recombining audio with video

On 9/12/07, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 23:58 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > > On 9/10/07, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > 5. mix two (or more?) audio sources into one audio+video > > file, with > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

Besides the fact consideration of why the contacts of the card are that dirty. A short exposure of rubbing alcohol will be okay. Dust the card off with compressed air or something similar. then use the cotton swab soaked with a little bit of the alchohol on the contacts in question On 9/12/07,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by > hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts > and see if it, by a miracle, solves the problem. But I don't want to > make it worse. So: is it safe to clean the contac

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 21:21 -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by > hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts > and see if it, by a miracle, solves the problem. But I don't want to > make it worse.

[gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts and see if it, by a miracle, solves the problem. But I don't want to make it worse. So: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl alcohol and

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On Thursday 13 September 2007 01:36:56 Mark Knecht wrote: > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' or > unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' # ls -l /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la # equery check gnome-vfs ? -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a d

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

Try to remerge only gnome first and check the flags. 2007/9/12, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:36:56 -0700 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' or > > unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libgnomevf

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:36:56 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' or > unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' looks like your libraries are a little off. Have you tried revdep-rebuild? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

[gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

Hi, I'm not expecting that I can get a simple answer to this so I'm posting one of very many errors I'm seeing now. Please excuse the nature of my frustration here. I'm venting at this point. I've been messing with a standard x86, middle of the road Gentoo machine for over two days now. There

Re: [gentoo-user] usb suspend bug for mouse?

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:23:52 -0700 Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a run of the mill USB optical mouse which has worked fine for > several years. Recently it started "stalling" , "hanging" or > "freezing" from gentoo. > > Haven't yet tried a different mouse. Perhaps it's just worn

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggestion for recombining audio with video

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 23:58 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > On 9/10/07, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > 5. mix two (or more?) audio sources into one audio+video > file, with > some simple crossfade [snip] > Oh, and point #5 you can

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage the upgrade.

On Wednesday 12 September 2007 20:59:50 econti wrote: > Hi all, it's me again. > Above all, thank you everybody for the help . . .but now I am a little > confused. > Well, here is what I understood: 0. Resolve blockages.. :p > 1 - first of all: to upgrade gcc following what explained here -> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Automated "emerge -e world"

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:01:01 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's also the update script mentioned in this GWN: > > http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20070723-newsletter.xml > > HTH. Thanks! I'll take a look at this one too. P.S. For some reason GWN can't make its way to my Inbo

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA Supplicant

Try this: cp /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf wpa_supplicant.conf.source wpa_passphrase Easy_Mac k8aqn2zcz497zupa > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf killall wpa_supplicant or modprobe -r wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1 -B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d 2007/9/12, AJ Spagnoletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting USB Drive/MP3 PLayer

Hello forgottenwizard, > Alright, I've got it. It doesn't mount via sda anymore, but by uba. > Either way, it works. Thanks for the help. You don't normally want that, for one thing it is slower. Set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB=n in your kernel config. -- Neil Bothwick "Everything takes longer than exp

Re: [gentoo-user] Automated "emerge -e world"

On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:36:27 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > I was actually expecting some kind of a simple bash script. Anyway I'll > > give it a try // even though I'm so afraid of snakes :) // > > Python has nothing to do with snakes, althoug

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA Supplicant

> > Use: psk="k8aqn2zcz497zupa" > > Thanks for the help that did it > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:54:01 -0400 "Colleen Beamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used fdisk - deleted all the partitions, created the new partition > table and created file systems on them. I can read data from the > drive - any text file that I can "cat" displays fine. I just can't > get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

Colleen Beamer wrote: > This link tells nothing - it was from the first time I installed Gentoo on > the new laptop. This time I *did* configure sata into the kernel. So > *that* is not the issue. And I'm not *that* stupid that I would repeat a > previous mistake. I truly thing something is scr

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA Supplicant

AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > After several days of googling and searching for a solution to this I > am still clueless so I will pose the question to the list. At my dorm > I have a wireless router (WRT54G) with a WPA encryption on it. I am > trying to configure WPA Supplicant to connect to this router

[gentoo-user] WPA Supplicant

After several days of googling and searching for a solution to this I am still clueless so I will pose the question to the list. At my dorm I have a wireless router (WRT54G) with a WPA encryption on it. I am trying to configure WPA Supplicant to connect to this router but I am getting an error with

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting USB Drive/MP3 PLayer

Alright, I've got it. It doesn't mount via sda anymore, but by uba. Either way, it works. Thanks for the help. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting USB Drive/MP3 PLayer

Hi, On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:01:10 -0500 forgottenwizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alright, I did that. I tried to enable a few other options within SCSI, > and none of them did anything. Dmesg still says it sees the device, > knows it is USB, gives is an address, and designates it a configurati

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

On 9/12/07, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Colleen Beamer wrote: > > So what I thought was some residual problem with > > screwing up and hitting the 'Media Direct' button wasn't really > > the problem after all. > > It might still be, depending on how you've reinstalled. If you

[gentoo-user] apache upgrade default configuration - not explained correclty

Enabling hosting from "/var/www/localhost/htdocs" is not explained correctly in configuration files (correct me anybody if I missed something) . This is the second time I got caught this this problem. Default configuration for apache is as follow: In file: modules.d/00_default_settings.conf ... #

[gentoo-user] usb suspend bug for mouse?

I have a run of the mill USB optical mouse which has worked fine for several years. Recently it started "stalling" , "hanging" or "freezing" from gentoo. This morning I booted into Fedora and it seemed to work fine (for a few minutes). The pattern is that a window is opened, then the arrow canno

Re: [gentoo-user] Tomcat+portlet

On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: > Hi everybody > > Having just installed tomcat 6, and tried to familiarize myself with the > folder layout differences between the standard tomcat distribution and > the gentoo distribution I have moved on to my next (and must important

Re: [gentoo-user] How to know current state of LCD

kou yu wrote: > I can turn on/off LCD by using vbetool > vbetool dpms on/off > > But I can not find a way to know the current state of LCD. on? or off? > Is there any method, command or something else to indicate the state of LCD? Use "xset q" - if you grep through there you will see a line that

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

On 12.09, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Block dev sda3 is not a valid root device > The root block device is unspecified or not detected. Does it say anything beyond that? I'd expect it to continue with: Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell.. boot() :: The previous error me

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

Colleen Beamer wrote: > So what I thought was some residual problem with > screwing up and hitting the 'Media Direct' button wasn't really > the problem after all. It might still be, depending on how you've reinstalled. If you blanked the first few gigabytes of the disk with 'dd if=/dev/zero of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: multiple ethernets

On Tuesday 11 September 2007, James wrote: > Elias Probst eliasprobst.eu> writes: > > > I just cannot find what to remove > > > or re-initiate to get the sequence of nic assignments to be > > > eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3. > > > > > > I looked at net.examples but somehow I've missed something else. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting USB Drive/MP3 PLayer

Alright, I did that. I tried to enable a few other options within SCSI, and none of them did anything. Dmesg still says it sees the device, knows it is USB, gives is an address, and designates it a configuration. I'm going to look at the USB options and see if there is anything there I missed. On

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problems with USB subsystem after upgrading to 2.6.22

Hi, On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:44:23 +0200 Dan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found myself a solution to this problem (I don't know if it's the best way > to do it but it works for me). > > I added the following two files to my system: > > # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/00-local.rules > SUBSYST

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing [OT: Issues with an article on the wiki]

Hi, On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:35:41 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for your patience, it's finally working! OK, that's good news :-) > If you don't edit the wiki, I'll do it (sooner or later). Just tell me > if you don't want to see your name when I give you credit fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting USB Drive/MP3 PLayer

Giving it a shot. Thanks On 14:07 Wed 12 Sep , John covici wrote: > on Wednesday 09/12/2007 forgottenwizard([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > First off, the MP3 player is a Zen Stone, which generally just needs to > > be mounted like a hdd. > > > > When I have it plugged in, dmesg and lsusb te

[gentoo-user] Problem mounting USB Drive/MP3 PLayer

on Wednesday 09/12/2007 forgottenwizard([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > First off, the MP3 player is a Zen Stone, which generally just needs to > be mounted like a hdd. > > When I have it plugged in, dmesg and lsusb tell me it is seen, but the > device (generally /dev/sda1 or similar) does not sho

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't build pango

On Wednesday 12 September 2007 18:20:19 Jean-Philippe Caruana wrote: > I try to build gnome on my system, but I can't build the pango dependence : [SNIP] > I put the build.log here : > [SNIP] > here is my make.conf :# cat /etc/make.conf > CHOST="i

RE: [gentoo-user] I can't build pango

Try emerge --sync...Then visit http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-575655.html The first post worked for me. Do what it asks and then re-emerge world. Then revdep-rebuild. -Original Message- From: Jean-Philippe Caruana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:20 P

[gentoo-user] Problem mounting USB Drive/MP3 PLayer

First off, the MP3 player is a Zen Stone, which generally just needs to be mounted like a hdd. When I have it plugged in, dmesg and lsusb tell me it is seen, but the device (generally /dev/sda1 or similar) does not show up. This is a new kernel, so what kind of option may I be missing, or what el

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problems with USB subsystem after upgrading to 2.6.22

On Sunday 09 September 2007, Dan Johansson wrote: > After upgrading to 2.6.22 one of my USB-devices stopped working "out of the > box". I've found a workaround (see below) to get it working. And my > question is how can I make this automatically? > > Here's the workaround: > > From dmesg: > usb 2-1

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't build pango

Jean-Philippe Caruana schrieb: > Hi, > > I try to build gnome on my system, but I can't build the pango dependence : > > here is the (end of the) message : > !!! ERROR: x11-libs/pango-1.16.5 failed. > Call stack: > ebuild.sh, line 1638: Called dyn_compile > ebuild.sh, line 985: Called qa_

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

Hans-Werner Hilse schrieb: > Hi, > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:38:26 +0200 > Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Now the kernel can handle connection state matching :) >> >> I can apply your rules with one exception: >> iptables -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE >> >> The same error m

[gentoo-user] I can't build pango

Hi, I try to build gnome on my system, but I can't build the pango dependence : here is the (end of the) message : !!! ERROR: x11-libs/pango-1.16.5 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1638: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 985: Called qa_call 'src_compile' ebuild.sh, line 44: Calle

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:15:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried this, but couldn't find a way to switch it off. Super glue the button to the case? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:30:56 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does my host get root access like that? > > - Grant > Auto-logged in console, perhaps? Or access to the filesystem on a locally administered fileserver or something? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: metacity Woes[solved? you let me know]

Hello, I came across the same problem. I believe it happened during an upgrade or update of either gnome/gtk or libexpat. I know that the execution of metacity and such settings are set in the .gnome* files. So as a last resort without any help I just figured; why not just delete the .gno

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: metacity Woes

Solved it. Just delete your local .gnome .gnome2 .gnome_private files in your home dir. -Original Message- From: Moshe Kamensky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:20 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: metacity Woes Hi, I don't ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Benno Schulenberg wrote: >>> Colleen Beamer wrote: zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-conf-2.6 >>> This grabs the configuration from the running kernel (the one >>> from the CD you booted from), not the configuration

[gentoo-user] Re: metacity Woes

Hi, I don't have a solution, just to mention that I have the same problem (with gnome-2.18.2-r1). I guess the starting point would be: Where goes the output (and error) of whatever script starts the gnome session? and where in the config files does it say that metacity should start? Thanks, Mo

Re: [gentoo-user] why unmerge acpid ?

On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Thanasis wrote: > # emerge -pve gnome > gnome > # grep -i acpi gnome > [ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1  USE="acpi crypt disk-partition > -debug -dell -doc -pcmcia (-selinux)" 0 kB > [ebuild   R   ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.18.0-r2  USE="acpi apm > gnome hal i

Re: [gentoo-user] Automated "emerge -e world"

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:36:27 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > I was actually expecting some kind of a simple bash script. Anyway I'll > give it a try // even though I'm so afraid of snakes :) // Python has nothing to do with snakes, although it does share a common history with spam :) -- Neil Both

Re: [gentoo-user] Automated "emerge -e world"

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:52:55 -0500 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 03:04 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Hi, list > > > > I'd like to automate a full re-emerging and to get a record of all > > packages that failed. Something like: > > > > ## > > > > emerge -e

[gentoo-user] Tomcat+portlet

Hi everybody Having just installed tomcat 6, and tried to familiarize myself with the folder layout differences between the standard tomcat distribution and the gentoo distribution I have moved on to my next (and must important) task: installing a portlet container. I can see that the need files