Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Virtualbox-ing existing WinXP

2008-05-04 Thread Tim
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:48:30 +0100, Mick wrote: I have a box which has WinXP dual-booting with Gentoo. I would like to be able to have access to a clone of the existing WinXP installation, from within Gentoo. The original WinXP partition should be left well alone, as

[gentoo-user] more webcam

2008-05-04 Thread Gavin Seddon
Messages are Failed to query (1) UVC control 2 (unit 2) : -32 (exp. 2). May 4 11:14:07 extreme uvcvideo: Failed to query (135) UVC control 3 (unit 2) : -32 (exp. 2). May 4 11:14:07 extreme uvcvideo: Failed to query (135) UVC control 7 (unit 2) : -110 (exp. 2). May 4 11:14:08 extreme

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-04 Thread Jil Larner
Hi Mark, Mark Knecht a écrit : [...] happen I have a way to restore where I am today. Since the disk usage is currently about 4GB it seems like a great time to do it. Is this possible? I think it's essentially what the stage 3 file is that I use when I install, isn't it? If you don't export

[gentoo-user] pygtk threading disabled at compile time

2008-05-04 Thread luis jure
hello list, recently i began having problems when trying to run gaupol, a subtitle editor. it fails thus: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/gaupol, line 18, in module import gaupol.gtk File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gaupol/gtk/__init__.py, line 44, in module

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 04 May 2008 12:21:47 +0200, Jil Larner wrote: You also ought to backup the full MBR, which is a good practice, so you can bring back your boot sector and the partition table. Backing it up if very painless, just a dd command, cf. http://gentoo-wiki.com/MBR . The MBR contains only

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Virtualbox-ing existing WinXP

2008-05-04 Thread Akselii
On 5/4/08, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:48:30 +0100, Mick wrote: I have a box which has WinXP dual-booting with Gentoo. I would like to be able to have access to a clone of the existing WinXP installation, from within Gentoo. The

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-04 Thread Mark Knecht
Jil Neil, Thanks for the really great information! I'm going to give this a try today. It strikes me that to test my backup I could create a chroot on the very system I'm backing up. (Or some other system.) I follow the procedure we're outlining here using the install CD and when it's done

[gentoo-user] [off-topic] Hello all!

2008-05-04 Thread Akselii
Hello all, this is my first time trying these lists, and i found them quite handy already. Any tips or tricks for me? Sorry for off-topic! -- Akseli Ollikainen -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] layman: svn broken?

2008-05-04 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, svn (dev-util/subversion-1.5.0_rc4) doesn't want to update nor add layman's repos: $ sudo layman -a vmware * Running command /usr/bin/svn co http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk/; /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware... svn: Unrecognized URL scheme for

[gentoo-user] Using package.use

2008-05-04 Thread reader
In man portage I see examples of using package.use Its listed with address /etc/portage/package.use and shows usage like this: some/package:useflag(to add a specific use flag) I want to subtract a use flag so trying: (tried with and without quotes just in case the dash (-) was not

Re: [gentoo-user] Using package.use

2008-05-04 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Sun, 04 May 2008 10:54:04 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In man portage I see examples of using package.use Its listed with address /etc/portage/package.use and shows usage like this: some/package:useflag(to add a specific use flag) I want to subtract a use flag so trying:

[gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] Hello all!

2008-05-04 Thread reader
Akselii [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any tips or tricks for me? tip # 1: You will get much better results asking something specific and maybe some details of what yov've tried. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Using package.use

2008-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 04 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In man portage I see examples of using package.use Its listed with address /etc/portage/package.use and shows usage like this: some/package:useflag(to add a specific use flag) I want to subtract a use flag so trying: (tried with and

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: svn broken?

2008-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Norberto Bensa wrote: Hello list, svn (dev-util/subversion-1.5.0_rc4) doesn't want to update nor add layman's repos: $ sudo layman -a vmware * Running command /usr/bin/svn co http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk/; /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware...

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Hello all!

2008-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Akselii wrote: Hello all, this is my first time trying these lists, and i found them quite handy already. Any tips or tricks for me? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: svn broken?

2008-05-04 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (04/05/08 12:49) Norberto Bensa wrote: Hello list, svn (dev-util/subversion-1.5.0_rc4) doesn't want to update nor add layman's repos: $ sudo layman -a vmware * Running command /usr/bin/svn co http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk/; /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware...

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: svn broken?

2008-05-04 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
svn (dev-util/subversion-1.5.0_rc4) doesn't want to update nor add layman's repos: $ sudo layman -a vmware * Running command /usr/bin/svn co http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk/; /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware... svn: Unrecognized URL scheme for

[gentoo-user] Only a - in top column WCHAN since downgrade to gcc 4.1.2

2008-05-04 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, since I gcc downgraded to version 4.1.2 I have in the top column WCHAN only a -. This applies to all processes. The System.map is available in /usr/src/linux. It works after installation, that was late 2007, with gcc 4.1.2 and it works with gcc

[gentoo-user] Re: Using package.use

2008-05-04 Thread reader
Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: net-analyzer/tcpdump:-samba net-analyzer/tcpdump:-samba Neither way appears to have an effect on emerge -vuDNp tcpdump [...] try: net-analyzer/tcpdump -samba It works ... thanks .. I was confused with this info which is apparently really about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Using package.use

2008-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 04 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: try: net-analyzer/tcpdump -samba It works ... thanks .. I was confused with this info which is apparently really about something else lines 560-592 of 630 [...] Format:

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2008-05-04 Thread Anders Trobäck
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Re: [gentoo-user] layman: svn broken?

2008-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Rumen Yotov wrote: Had similar problems with neon library which interfaces svn with http:// The testing svn seems to have some new USE-flags 'webdav-neon' Try downgrading to stable to see if it works. Some wild guesses here but HTH. USE=-webdav-neon works here -- Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: svn broken?

2008-05-04 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: USE=-webdav-neon works here Hm. I have enabled boths webdav-something USE flags -which were disabled- and now it works. Thanks everyone! Norberto This message was sent using IMP,

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Hello all!

2008-05-04 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
Ask a question and you'll be answered. But first look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Main_Page ! It has tons of tips! ;) 2008/5/4, Akselii [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello all, this is my first time trying these lists, and i found them quite handy already. Any tips or tricks for me? Sorry for off-topic!

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk threading disabled at compile time

2008-05-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 May 2008, luis jure wrote: hello list, recently i began having problems when trying to run gaupol, a subtitle editor. it fails thus: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/gaupol, line 18, in module import gaupol.gtk File

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Virtualbox-ing existing WinXP

2008-05-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Akselii wrote: On 5/4/08, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: If you copy it to a VM, you are running it on different hardware. The MS profit-protection system will kick in, requiring you to reactivate it for the VM hardware. This isn't to

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk threading disabled at compile time

2008-05-04 Thread luis jure
El Sun, 4 May 2008 19:30:25 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I assume that you have tried the basics like /usr/sbin/python-updater and revdep-rebuild -X -v -p ? hi, thanks for your answer. yes, i did that, and i did recompile pygtk several times and a few other packages that i could

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Virtualbox-ing existing WinXP

2008-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 4 May 2008 19:47:13 +0100, Mick wrote: I assumed (wrongly) that since it is the same physical hardware and the same partition image it will not ask me to re-register it. But it's not the same hardware, you are now running it on the VB virtual hardware. -- Neil Bothwick Smoking Can

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jil Neil, Thanks for the really great information! I'm going to give this a try today. It strikes me that to test my backup I could create a chroot on the very system I'm backing up. (Or some other system.) I

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk threading disabled at compile time

2008-05-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 4 May 2008 08:49:23 -0300 luis jure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ebuild doesn't have an USE option for threads, and when it compiles i see the option --enable-threads flashing by, so i guess pygtk *should* have threads enabled. any ideas? best, lj Hi, You might want to try this:

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-04 Thread Mark Shields
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jil Neil, Thanks for the really great information! I'm going to give this a try today. It strikes me that to test my backup I could create a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Virtualbox-ing existing WinXP

2008-05-04 Thread Tim
Mick wrote: On Sunday 04 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 4 May 2008 19:47:13 +0100, Mick wrote: I assumed (wrongly) that since it is the same physical hardware and the same partition image it will not ask me to re-register it. But it's not the same hardware, you are now running it on

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look into what's called a stage 4 backup: http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/GNU/Linux_System_Backup_Script_(stage4) I've had to actually use it once, and it worked fine. It already excludes the appropriate files:

[gentoo-user] using a HD with bad sectors

2008-05-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I have two 2.5in HD's, one 60Gb with a heap of bad sectors currently used in external Hd enclosure, and one 100Gb which seems in good condition, currently in my laptop. I'm upgrading my laptop, and I'd like to turn the old one into a myth frontend or something similar, so I want to put

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look into what's called a stage 4 backup: http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/GNU/Linux_System_Backup_Script_(stage4) I've had to actually

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Hello all!

2008-05-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 18:34 +0300, Akselii wrote: Hello all, this is my first time trying these lists, and i found them quite handy already. welcome! Any tips or tricks for me? yes, don't be put off by answers that you don't expect, or that seem stupid! Sorry for off-topic! -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-04 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:12:08PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) I'm having trouble figuring how to best run tar. I end up with files at the wrong level every time so far. Assume I first mount a partition that's empty, and then mount a partition I want to save that contains a number of system

[gentoo-user] Apache status

2008-05-04 Thread Adam Carter
I'm running Apache 2.2.8 and want the status info, so i need to add Location /server-status SetHandler server-status Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from .foo.com /Location But, in httpd.conf IfDefine INFO LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so /IfDefine So what's the syntax to

Re: [gentoo-user] using a HD with bad sectors

2008-05-04 Thread deface
Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I have two 2.5in HD's, one 60Gb with a heap of bad sectors currently used in external Hd enclosure, and one 100Gb which seems in good condition, currently in my laptop. I'm upgrading my laptop, and I'd like to turn the old one into a myth frontend or something

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache status

2008-05-04 Thread deface
Adam Carter wrote: I'm running Apache 2.2.8 and want the status info, so i need to add Location /server-status SetHandler server-status Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from .foo.com /Location But, in httpd.conf IfDefine INFO LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so /IfDefine So