On Thursday 01 May 2008, John P. Burkett wrote:
eix reveals that the required USE flag is in fact tk
Thanks, Alan! Changing the USE flag from tcltk to tk, as you
suggested, was the key to getting R to find tcltk. After making that
change, doing emerge -C R and emerge R was enough to correct
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:17:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
[2] vi /var/lib/portage/world
Edit at will with sense of abandon
vi /etc/make.conf
Edit where appropriate
vi /etc/portage/*
Fearlessly edit
On Thu, 1 May 2008 10:28:06 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Moving slightly off-topic, it would have been nice if portage had told
you that you were trying to use an unsupported USE flag in a more
obvious way than the simple yellow 'tcltk%' it currently gives. It's
very easy to miss that in
On Thu, 1 May 2008 10:30:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
What a horrible suggestion, not only does it use vi - three times! -
but it ends with a goto!
Here's a much more horrible thing: In which way does the suggestion,
horrible as it is, depart from reality?
Your reality must be bad
On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[2] vi /var/lib/portage/world
What if I emerge -vC all I know I don't want.
All kde all gnome all xorg for example, before update world.
It seems fine in theory, but every time I've done it in real
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Danis Petkakis wrote:
hello there i try to play .mkv files with kaffeine but there is no
sound...when i play some .avi files the sound is proper...also when i play
.mkv files with vlc sound is also ok...what might be the problem and i
don't have any sound in .mkv
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 2008 10:30:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
What a horrible suggestion, not only does it use vi - three
times! - but it ends with a goto!
Here's a much more horrible thing: In which way does the
suggestion, horrible as it is,
Mick wrote:
2008/4/30 Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
skype
/opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6:
version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /opt/skype/skype)
/opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6:
version `GLIBCXX_3.4.4'
Hi,
I used revdep-rebuild --SEARCH_DIRS /opt
with no luck. How do I check it to enable /opt?
thanks
g
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On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
Hi,
I used revdep-rebuild --SEARCH_DIRS /opt
with no luck. How do I check it to enable /opt?
thanks
g
revdep-rebuild will not solve your problem. It only fixes problems where
binaries used to link to other files that are no longer there. It
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
Hi,
I used revdep-rebuild --SEARCH_DIRS /opt
with no luck. How do I check it to enable /opt?
thanks
g
revdep-rebuild will not solve your problem. It only fixes problems where
binaries used to link to other files that are no
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
Hi,
I used revdep-rebuild --SEARCH_DIRS /opt
with no luck. How do I check it to enable /opt?
thanks
g
revdep-rebuild will not solve your problem. It only fixes problems where
binaries used to link to other files that are no
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
as per your original post. I recommend you upgrade gcc to version
4.1.2
thanks,
However I need gcc 3~ for some critical software. If I change to 4
'it' won't recompile. I suppose I could alternate profiles as
required.
I had that with qemu.
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
as per your original post. I recommend you upgrade gcc to version
4.1.2
I've altered gcc to 4 now I get
'skype
Floating exception
did you run env-update and either source /etc/profile or log out/log in
first?
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alan dot
I noticed today that my man pages aren't displaying correctly. Whenever
I view one, I see the ESC codes rather than seeing bold fonts, etc.
I don't remeber when I last used man and it displayed correctly, but I
can check back 2 weeks this evening.
I have tried several terminals (xterm,
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
as per your original post. I recommend you upgrade gcc to version
4.1.2
thanks,
However I need gcc 3~ for some critical software. If I change to 4
'it' won't recompile. I suppose I could alternate profiles as
required.
I had
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:20:44AM -0400, Michael George wrote:
I noticed today that my man pages aren't displaying correctly. Whenever
I view one, I see the ESC codes rather than seeing bold fonts, etc.
I don't remeber when I last used man and it displayed correctly, but I
can check back 2
Hi,I dl from skype.com and with gcc4~ IT WORKS!
thanks
g
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Hi,
I just gave 2008.0_beta2 Minimal a try and there is no make.defaults
file in the profile directory
/etc/make.profile - ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0
However there is a make.defaults file inside
/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux
Is this how it should be?
Thanks,
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On Thursday 01 May 2008, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote:
Hi,
I just gave 2008.0_beta2 Minimal a try and there is no make.defaults
file in the profile directory
/etc/make.profile - ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0
However there is a make.defaults file inside
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
Hi,I dl from skype.com and with gcc4~ IT WORKS!
thanks
g
I seem to remember having something similar. I think it was one of the
2.0.0 versions - 48? 63? Could never get it to work.
Eventually I just put an old ebuild in my overlay and used that
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
vi was written by Bill Joy
Bill Joy wrote lots of good stuff in BSD
Our favourite OS owes a lot to BSD
using vi pays homage to those magnificent BSD'ers of old
I second all the vi accolades.
I like the fact that Bill Joy was horribly drunk when he
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All kde all gnome all xorg for example, before update world.
It seems fine in theory, but every time I've done it in real life I get
into deep dependency trees that take more time to sort out than simply
emerging world first.
The trouble seems to
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Michael George wrote:
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| It was /etc/man-conf. A change in the NROFF definition caused the
| problem. Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change,
| so I ran etc-update this time and found it.
|
| Hopefully this will be helpful
Hello,
On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's
CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the
executables will be recompile (willing to wait)
or do I have to rebuild system (all packages) or such to switch?
James
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Today I made the mistake of upgrading my profile from
default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop to default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop and
it messed up eix eix-test-obsolete.
Here's a part of the output from eix-test-obsolete:
--8
Installed packages with a version
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James wrote:
| Hello,
|
| On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's
| CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the
| executables will be recompile (willing to wait)
| or do I have to rebuild system (all packages)
I've emerged wireshark, and made myself a member of both the wireshark
group, and the tcpdump group, but still wireshark refuses to capture packets
if executed as a non root user. The error message is: Couldn't run dumpcap
as a child process: Permission denied.
A little research indicated that
dany2a [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You've got to update portage first, looks like you have an older portage
version, that cannot handle lzma. Had the same prob and updating portage was
the fix (besides installing lzma-utils).
emerge -a1 portage
That was it.
Thanks very much.
Cheers,
Roger
Wolf Canis wolf.canis at googlemail.com writes:
James wrote:
| Hello,
|
| On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's
| CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the
| executables will be recompile (willing to wait)
| or do I have to rebuild system
On Thursday 01 May 2008, James wrote:
Hello,
On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's
CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the
executables will be recompile (willing to wait)
or do I have to rebuild system (all packages) or such to switch?
No need
I'm trying to install a package that is being blocked by a package that
portage claims is not even installed:
catherine ~ # emerge -av =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N]
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:12:19PM +0200, Wolf Canis wrote:
Michael George wrote:
|
| It was /etc/man-conf. A change in the NROFF definition caused the
| problem. Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change,
| so I ran etc-update this time and found it.
|
| Hopefully
Hello,
I am compiling a vanilla-sources 2.6.24.4 kernel (2008.0_beta2 minimal
install) and no matter what I do to disable scsi support I end up with a
scsi module (scsi_wait_scan.mod) after compilation. When looking at the
.config file I see
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y
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James wrote:
|
| But in order to avoid recompiling all of those packages (for now)
| I can just add it to my CFlags and wait a few months, as another option?
Yes, there shouldn't any problems appear.
|
| Or is there real peril with this approach to
On Thu, 1 May 2008 18:52:20 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote:
Today I made the mistake of upgrading my profile from
default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop to
default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop and it messed up eix
eix-test-obsolete.
Before the change of profile the output was clean.
Any
Justin justin at j-schmitz.net writes:
As the wiki says
I cannot seem to find this reference in any of the wikis
I use for Gentoo, perhaps a url so I can read more?
-fomit-frame-pointer tells gcc to omit frame pointers, freeing up an
additional register on the CPU. This is mainly useful
James schrieb:
Justin justin at j-schmitz.net writes:
As the wiki says
I cannot seem to find this reference in any of the wikis
I use for Gentoo, perhaps a url so I can read more?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/CFLAGS#-fomit-frame-pointer
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on Thursday 05/01/2008 Michael Sullivan([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
I'm trying to install a package that is being blocked by a package that
portage claims is not even installed:
catherine ~ # emerge -av =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
My cleanup routine pretty much involves running vim on
/var/lib/portage/world and going down the list. If I see something I
definitely don't need, I remove that line. If I see something that I
don't remember what it was, in another terminal (just an ALT-TAB away)
I run esearch package-name. After
Brandon Mintern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Call me old school, but that method never takes me more than a few
minutes to do. I am also someone in the vim camp. It fires up quickly
Unless you are updating a vmappliance built on old (even for 2006)
2006 pkgs to current 2008 pkgs.
I know this is
In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current
2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff.
Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far
makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all those
answers somewhere so whatever test is done for each
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 14:25 -0400, John covici wrote:
on Thursday 05/01/2008 Michael Sullivan([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
I'm trying to install a package that is being blocked by a package that
portage claims is not even installed:
catherine ~ # emerge -av =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brandon Mintern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Call me old school, but that method never takes me more than a few
minutes to do. I am also someone in the vim camp. It fires up quickly
Unless you are updating a vmappliance built on old
I thought I remembered someway to compile a single module after the
fact that didn't involve recompiling everthing... but just now I
entered the usr/src/linux directory and edited .config adding the
sshfs FUSE module.
when I ran `make' I see it grinding thru the whole thing again. Is
that
yes
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought I remembered someway to compile a single module after the
fact that didn't involve recompiling everthing... but just now I
entered the usr/src/linux directory and edited .config adding the
sshfs FUSE module.
when I ran
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current
2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff.
Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far
makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to
2008/5/1 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
In gnome-2.20.3, how would I find out what Main
Menu-System-Administration-Printing tries to run? And where would
errors from attempting to run it be dumped to? When I run it, it fails
silently.
You can try to find out which desktop file
On Thu, 1 May 2008 15:13:27 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote:
I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if
it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things.
Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-)
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Just got a new car for my wifeGreat Trade!
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:22 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 01 May 2008 14:12:38 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
I unmerged gtk-doc and ran my command again. Now it wants to install
gtk-doc, but it's still blocked:
catherine ~ # emerge -av =gtk+-2.12.9-r2
These are the
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:25 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
I looked it up and found the file. The Exec line was
gnome-cups-manager. Should gnome-cups-manager have some visible GUI,
because it doesn't. When I run it at the terminal prompt, it just gives
me a blinking cursor until I Cntrl+C
updating from an old 2006 pkg based install to latest 2008 and have
gotten pretty far along... right now emerging udev in an
emerge -vuDN system
command.
The emerge is hung at:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] sys-fs/udev-120 [087-r1] USE=(-selinux) 0 kB
Total: 1
On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
waiting for lock on
/var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/.udev-120.portage_lockfile
And has been there a good while.
Looking at the bugs I see it mentioned but says it was fixed quite
sometime ago.
Any suggestions of how to get past this item and on
On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current
2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff.
Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far
makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all those
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ctrl-C to kill the emerge and
rm /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/.udev-120.portage_lockfile
Egad and how many times have done that in other situations...
I tried emerge -vC udev followed by emerge -v udev
No help
Its just udev-120 that does this.
Before
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Brandon Mintern wrote:
I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if
it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things.
Hey Neil,
Looks like we caught one - a big fish this time :-) :-)
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 2008 15:13:27 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote:
I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if
it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things.
Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-)
Hey, watch it
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You are expecting autoconf to actually do something sane when it runs???
Har har.
You must be new here.
hehe... no not new... you'd never know it by the questions I ask but
I've been running linux since redhat 3 series circa 1995-6 or so.
I probably
On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ctrl-C to kill the emerge and
rm /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/.udev-120.portage_lockfile
Egad and how many times have done that in other situations...
I tried emerge -vC udev followed by emerge -v udev
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to
current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff.
Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so
far makes me
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 2008 15:13:27 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote:
I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if
it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things.
Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-)
You were very
After updating to 2008 pkgset after merging openrc I lost the
net.eth0 link.. I see other have seen this and even at least 2 bug
reports but the cure is said to be recreating by hand.
I find that not to work... DETAILS:
First, net.lo is itself a symlink to /lib/rc/sh/net.sh, so I'm
creating a
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After updating to 2008 pkgset after merging openrc I lost the
net.eth0 link.. I see other have seen this and even at least 2 bug
reports but the cure is said to be recreating by hand.
I find that not to work... DETAILS:
First,
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 23:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I've seen similar messages a few times on my boxes recently, but each
time the emerge got going again after a short while. So I never really
bothered finding out exactly what is going on.
I believe portage recently switched to using
On Thu, 1 May 2008 22:41:23 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-)
You were very clear. Some time ago, I offered you a Hansa Draught for
some help if you ever happened to come to Windhoek. That offer is
void now, and I'll drink the pint myself.
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:12:19PM +0200, Wolf Canis wrote:
Michael George wrote:
|
| It was /etc/man-conf. A change in the NROFF definition caused the
| problem. Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change,
| so I ran etc-update this time and found it.
|
| Hopefully this
Hello Gentoo users,
I'm trying to enable smb:// support for Krusader. Searching the net I got a
solution: I have to emerge kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves. (on Ubuntu I had to
install a very similarly named package to do this).
But unfortunately doing this isnt a good idea, because:
lapitopi gyuszk
Just the samba USE flag when emerging kde.
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Sorry, I hit the send button by accident.
I think all you have to do is to enable the samba USE flag when emerging kde.
You can append the line:
kde-base/kdebase samba
to /etc/portage/package.use
to accomplish that
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On Freitag, 2. Mai 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote:
Hello Gentoo users,
I'm trying to enable smb:// support for Krusader. Searching the net I got a
solution: I have to emerge kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves. (on Ubuntu I had to
install a very similarly named package to do this).
But unfortunately
Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So what is the correct procedure here?
Did you try
# /etc/init.d/net.eth0 zap
It has no effect whatsoever:
root # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 zap
* Manually resetting net.eth0 to stopped state
(In fact it is not stopped I can ping www.gentoo)
root
-Original Message-
From: Bob Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:03 AM
To: Gentoo-user List
Subject: [gentoo-user] Wireshark won't run except as root
I've emerged wireshark, and made myself a member of both the wireshark
group, and the tcpdump group, but
Following the instructions here, I tried to create an updated ebuild for
mozilla-thunderbird-bin. The newest version is 2.0.0.14; current ebuild
is 2.0.0.12.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild
Everything worked fine until I tried to update the hashes in the manifest,
I must say once again I'm deeply impressed and thankful for the folks
at Gentoo. My Windows Vista laptop has taken a dump. I'm reasonably
sure the hardware is OK but like everything M$ you pile on driver
after driver, virus protection and firewalls, junk after junk after
junk, and finally the darn
Have you logged out and back in since becoming a member of the
wireshark group? A quick way to test without having to log out and
back in would be to Ctrl-Alt-F2 (or whatever) over to a virtual
terminal and log in there, and then try to run the command. If that
works, of course, you just need to
I thought I remembered someway to compile a single module after the
fact that didn't involve recompiling everthing... but just now I
entered the usr/src/linux directory and edited .config adding the
sshfs FUSE module.
when I ran `make' I see it grinding thru the whole thing again. Is
that
# /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
* ERROR: net.eth0 has been stopped by something else
# /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
* WARNING: net.eth0 has already been started
meantime netstat indicates no changes at all.. eth0 is up throughout.
Do this;
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop
- verify the interface
Am Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2008 schrieb ext de Almeida, Valmor F.:
Hello,
I am compiling a vanilla-sources 2.6.24.4 kernel (2008.0_beta2 minimal
install) and no matter what I do to disable scsi support I end up with a
scsi module (scsi_wait_scan.mod) after compilation. When looking at the
.config
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