Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] vmware virtual disk expanded but invisible in VM

2008-04-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Apr 2008, at 06:23, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... This is reason 1 of many that LVM should always be used. lol! Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Master - Slave MySQL Database Server

2008-04-02 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
hi, Is there a step by step guide to set up Master - Slave MySQL Database Server on Gentoo Thanks and Regards Kaushal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes on Suspend to Disk ( hibernate )

2008-04-02 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Martin wrote: | Thomas Kahle wrote: | | Hi, | | | | for a couple of days now, no idea how it started, my X-Server crashes | | when coming back from suspend to disk. I use kernel 2.6.25-rc6, | | xorg-server 1.4.0.90 and coming back from suspend

Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting =x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0 ????

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:40:44 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I figure that an older version of program x should not be considered as a block to a newer version of program x. Isn't that the whole point of --update? It is, but the way portage updates packages is to install the new version and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Short question: What determines how the Go menu in Konqueror is populated? have you fiddled with: right-click (on the taskbar menu button) - [Panel Menu] - [Configure Panel] - [Menus] -- Crayon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes on Suspend to Disk ( hibernate )

2008-04-02 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Kahle wrote: | Hi, | | for a couple of days now, no idea how it started, my X-Server crashes | when coming back from suspend to disk. I use kernel 2.6.25-rc6, | xorg-server 1.4.0.90 and coming back from suspend to ram works | perfectly. There

Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting =x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0 ????

2008-04-02 Thread Walter Dnes
I had interpreted the error message to read that some other package required = openmotif-2.3.0 On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:53:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote What's confusing about that? The reason is in the ebuild for x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0-r1 where it's configured to not co-exist with

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-04-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 14:25:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: One of the things I don't like about black background is that on all monitors the background seems to crowd the glyphs -- the markings seems more slender than when the colors are reversed. That's odd - I get exactly the converse

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Nvidia drivers

2008-04-02 Thread James
Gregory Shearman zekeyg at gmail.com writes: It looks like the kernel devs are trying to update references to the include asm files and the nvidia devs are yet to catch up. Maybe one day nvidia will release its driver specs and save itself a lot of trouble and money building catchup linux

Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting =x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0 ????

2008-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: To fix: unmerge the existing openmotif, merge the new one   But, but, but... isn't the whole point of --update --world to *UPDATE* to the latest available version?  Why is it that openmotif requires *MANUALLY* deleting the old version, when 99%

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). Since I wanted to shutdown instead of reboot, it would be ALT + SysRq + S + U + O then correct?

[gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any potential harms to the hardware / system in case one tends to abuse (i.e. use more often than necessary) of this command? You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. Because of this, filesystem and/or applications might get corrupt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. You're not? I thought that's the purpose of the whole thing? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved sort of)

2008-04-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Alan McKinnon wrote: Please post the output of revdep-rebuild -p -i Do these various packages require specifically gstreamer-0.8? If so, that is a bug and should be rpeorted at b.g.o. In general, unmerging gstreamer-0.8 will cause other things linked to it to now not work, so I reckon you

[gentoo-user] LVM2

2008-04-02 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi when i reboot the gentoo box all the lvm settings are gone, I have followed the below steps http://pastebin.com/d52c219ba Please let me know if I am missing something Thanks and Regards Kaushal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. You're not? I thought that's the purpose of the whole thing? It's more like pulling the plug, isn't it? At least none of the shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. You're not? I thought that's the purpose of the whole thing? It's more like

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But nobody proposed _not_ to run ALT + SysRq + U, Neil even proposed ALT + SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and unmounted. There is actually a Wikipedia page that recommended remembering the word

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2

2008-04-02 Thread tecnic5
What I'd check: Make sure dm-mod is either part of the kernel or, if it's a module, make sure it's loaded during start-up. Make sure lvm init script is executed on start-up. Take a look at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml HTH, Abraham when i reboot the gentoo box all the lvm settings are

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:28:29 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: But nobody proposed _not_ to run ALT + SysRq + U, Neil even proposed ALT + SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and unmounted. Just don't try to do E or I over an SSH connection. It kills the SSH daemon and you can't

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved sort of)

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:27 -0600, Ted Ozolins wrote: Having followed your recommendations I found thet : emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I tried, Unless you tell it otherwise, emerge always tries to operate on the latest version of a package. You need emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Nvidia drivers

2008-04-02 Thread Steven Lembark
Maybe hell will also freeze over on that day. More likely pigs will floss... -- Steven Lembark +1 888 359 3508 Workhorse Computing 85-09 90th St [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woodhaven, NY 11421

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Steven Lembark
Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). Since I wanted to shutdown instead of reboot, it would be ALT + SysRq + S + U

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-02 Thread ionut cucu
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:09:27 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:46:49 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pongracz Istvan pongracz.istvan at gmail.com writes: I've got several boxen that need to be installed so I was hoping to test drive

Re: [gentoo-user] ps2pdf /undefinedfilename but only when run from perl -- NEVER MIND

2008-04-02 Thread felix
Criminy. Turned out to be a race condition and the file truly did not exist yet; insufficient testing showed the false correlation which made it seem like it was caused by dashes in the file name. But the error message didn't help -- NO SUCH FILE would have been better than undefined. --

[gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
Hi I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for it? or does where i read for it? thanks in advance -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Lundgren
Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: Hi I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for it? or does where i read for it? thanks in advance If you want a version that old, you have to build it from source. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). Since I wanted to

[gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. You're not? I thought that's the purpose of

Re: [gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo schrieb: Hi I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for it? or does where i read for it? thanks in advance http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/www-servers/apache/?hideattic=0 Take a look here 2.0.63 is not there but

Re: [gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: Hi I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for it? or does where i read for it? it is in the cvs-tree (or is it subversion)?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: Neil even proposed ALT + SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and unmounted. Which might or might not work. But note that I was also talking about applications being in a corrupted state (the database

Re: [gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
El mié, 02-04-2008 a las 18:48 +0200, Lundgren escribió: Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: Hi I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for it? or does where i read for it? thanks in advance If you want a version that old, you have to build it

Re: [gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
El mié, 02-04-2008 a las 19:45 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann escribió: On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: Hi I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for it? or does where i read for it? it is in the cvs-tree (or is it

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved sort of)

2008-04-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:27 -0600, Ted Ozolins wrote: Having followed your recommendations I found thet : emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I tried, Unless you tell it otherwise, emerge always tries to operate on the latest version of a

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved sort of)

2008-04-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:27 -0600, Ted Ozolins wrote: Having followed your recommendations I found thet : emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I tried, Unless you tell it otherwise, emerge always tries to operate on the latest version of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish should be ALT+SysRq(or

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command,

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish should

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Short question: What determines how the Go menu in Konqueror is populated? have you fiddled with: right-click (on the taskbar menu button) - [Panel Menu] - [Configure Panel] - [Menus]

Re: [gentoo-user] Master - Slave MySQL Database Server

2008-04-02 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: hi, Is there a step by step guide to set up Master - Slave MySQL Database Server on Gentoo By Master - Slave do you mean a server and a client? These may help: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-howto.xml http://gentoo-wiki.com/MySQL --

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Alan McKinnon: Thanks for answering, only one so far? That's for the K-menu, I'm looking to populate Go on Konqueror's menu bar, which is something else entirely. Anyone know? Or is my question so way out there that no-one knows? I've often found that the answer to these sorts of

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:28:29 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: But nobody proposed _not_ to run ALT + SysRq + U, Neil even proposed ALT + SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and unmounted. Just don't try to do E or I over an SSH connection. It kills

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:57:21 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Yesterday our MythTV backend server crashed 4 times. It hung completely killing X, etc. and I was in need of a good way to bring the machine down. You have X and a keyboard on your MythTV backend? There's no way I could shut mine down

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:19:36 -0500, Dale wrote: Folks, keep in mind why I asked this question in the first place. My power supply was frying and I needed a VERY fast shutdown. I'd shutdown and stay shutdown until I could replace the PSU. PSUs are cheap, the components a dying one can take

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:19:36 -0500, Dale wrote: Folks, keep in mind why I asked this question in the first place. My power supply was frying and I needed a VERY fast shutdown. I'd shutdown and stay shutdown until I could replace the PSU. PSUs are cheap, the

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

2008-04-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: So this depend on the Video Bios of your card and you maybe can't do anything about it! Although 1280x1024 should normally work and i guess you use this resolution for your Desktop. How do you generate your initrd? Which card do you have?

[gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread luis jure
hello list, i bought i laptop with windows xp pre-installed. i shrunk the windows partition to install my gentoo linux, which is what i normally use. but the machine is still dual boot. several years ago (8-9) i tried a 30-days demo version of vmware and it was quite efficient running windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:58:22 -0600, darren kirby wrote: Just don't try to do E or I over an SSH connection. It kills the SSH daemon and you can't reboot the box. You can guess how I learned that one :( Ha. Hopefully the machine wasn't too far away physically. Yards, fortunately :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 22:06:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: That's for the K-menu, I'm looking to populate Go on Konqueror's menu bar, which is something else entirely. Does it reappear if you create a new user? -- Neil Bothwick Portable: Survives system reboot. signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread b.n.
Michael Higgins ha scritto: On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:10:20 -0300 luis jure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello list, [8] i found a few pages on the net explaining how to install vmware on gentoo, but i'm not clear about those issues. thanks for any hint.

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:10:20 -0300 luis jure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello list, [8] i found a few pages on the net explaining how to install vmware on gentoo, but i'm not clear about those issues. thanks for any hint. http://archiver.mailfighter.net/gentoo-user/2008/January/1600.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Hal Martin
Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:19:36 -0500, Dale wrote: Folks, keep in mind why I asked this question in the first place. My power supply was frying and I needed a VERY fast shutdown. I'd shutdown and stay shutdown until I could replace the PSU. PSUs are

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread luis jure
El Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:12:15 +0200 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: My experience with vmware itself (I use vmware-player and that known website that creates images, I don't remember the url) is a lot smoother. However I never tried to run a system already installed on another partition.

Re: [gentoo-user] Master - Slave MySQL Database Server

2008-04-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Kaushal Shriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, Is there a step by step guide to set up Master - Slave MySQL Database Server on Gentoo AFAIK there is no such howto (I assume you mean Replication when you say Master x Slave setup). Maybe cause MySQL has a

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: Neil even proposed ALT + SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and unmounted. Which might or might not work. But note that I was also talking about applications being

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Short question: What determines how the Go menu in Konqueror is populated? have you fiddled with: right-click (on the taskbar menu