[gentoo-user] Emerge -puv really slow?

2008-06-15 Thread Paul Sobey
For the last couple of weeks I've noticed that emerge -puv world takes an absolute age on my machine (currently at 5 mins and counting), while the cpu gows to 100%. The little emerge rotator bar that spins while it calculates dependencies moves extremely slowly. Is there any known bug that

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -puv really slow?

2008-06-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Paul Sobey schrieb: For the last couple of weeks I've noticed that emerge -puv world takes an absolute age on my machine (currently at 5 mins and counting), while the cpu gows to 100%. The little emerge rotator bar that spins while it calculates dependencies moves extremely slowly. Is there

[gentoo-user] Re: emerging eric

2008-06-15 Thread James
alain.didierjean at free.fr writes: I could'nt emerge eric-3.7.2 (a python IDE) which depend on PyQt with qscinttilla support... Any specific USE flag for that? Has anyone succeeded in getting eric to work? Well, I just tried it. It emerged 7 packages on an amd64 based system, with no

[gentoo-user] How to boot into single user mode

2008-06-15 Thread Peter Wood
Hi all, I have a kernel generated with genkernel and do need the initramfs because I am using lvm and luks. Now I am trying to create a second entry in grub.conf that lets me boot into single user mode in an emergency. Of course, adding 1 or single on the kernel line does not work together

Re: [gentoo-user] How to boot into single user mode

2008-06-15 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
,--- Peter Wood writes: | Hi all, | I have a kernel generated with genkernel and do need the initramfs | because I am using lvm and luks. Now I am trying to create a second | entry in grub.conf that lets me boot into single user mode in an | emergency. | Of course, adding 1 or single on the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to boot into single user mode

2008-06-15 Thread Matt Harrison
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:50:58PM +0530, Ashish Shukla ??? wrote: ,--- Peter Wood writes: | Hi all, | I have a kernel generated with genkernel and do need the initramfs | because I am using lvm and luks. Now I am trying to create a second | entry in grub.conf that

[gentoo-user] disks order

2008-06-15 Thread pat
Hello, Is it possible to define disk order for the USB disks? For example I have external disk A and external disk B and I want to bundle disk A always with /dev/sdd and disk B always with /dev/sde. Thanks a lot Pat -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] disks order

2008-06-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2008 schrieb pat: Hello, Is it possible to define disk order for the USB disks? For example I have external disk A and external disk B and I want to bundle disk A always with /dev/sdd and disk B always with /dev/sde. You can use udev to give them any names you like, see

Re: [gentoo-user] disks order

2008-06-15 Thread Justin
Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2008 schrieb pat: Hello, Is it possible to define disk order for the USB disks? For example I have external disk A and external disk B and I want to bundle disk A always with /dev/sdd and disk B always with /dev/sde. You can use udev to

Re: [gentoo-user] disks order

2008-06-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2008 schrieb Justin: Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2008 schrieb pat: Hello, Is it possible to define disk order for the USB disks? For example I have external disk A and external disk B and I want to bundle disk A always with /dev/sdd and disk B

Re: [gentoo-user] disks order

2008-06-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:51:23 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: You can also use the UUID to mount it, which let you distinguish between the different usb devices. I always find it easier to remember names I have chosen myself, instead of some 40 char long random string. Additionally, the

[gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison

2008-06-15 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
Hi Gentoo users I am just curious which distribution have the most packaged Open Source software. It seems to me this is Gentoo. Is there a good comparison (numbers, statistics, etc)? cheers Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] disks order

2008-06-15 Thread pat
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:41:29 +0200, Justin wrote Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2008 schrieb pat: Hello, Is it possible to define disk order for the USB disks? For example I have external disk A and external disk B and I want to bundle disk A always with /dev/sdd

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 2007.0

2008-06-15 Thread Mark Shields
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi...I have one problem,after boot my Gentoo liveCD,after i chose to boot for the kernel and hardware,after the gui appeared and also progress bar until it finished boot the system,suddenly my monitor goes to standby

Re: [gentoo-user] How to boot into single user mode

2008-06-15 Thread Peter Wood
Matt Harrison wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:50:58PM +0530, Ashish Shukla ??? wrote: ,--- Peter Wood writes: | Hi all, | I have a kernel generated with genkernel and do need the initramfs | because I am using lvm and luks. Now I am trying to create a second |

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison

2008-06-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:27:39 +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: I am just curious which distribution have the most packaged Open Source software. It seems to me this is Gentoo. Is there a good comparison (numbers, statistics, etc)? How would you measure it? Number of packages wouldn't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -puv really slow?

2008-06-15 Thread Paul Sobey
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Paul Sobey schrieb: For the last couple of weeks I've noticed that emerge -puv world takes an absolute age on my machine (currently at 5 mins and counting), while the cpu gows to 100%. The little emerge rotator bar that spins while it calculates dependencies moves

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison

2008-06-15 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
On 06/15/2008 08:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: How would you measure it? Number of packages wouldn't work, because distros split up packages differently. Most accurate would be number of upstream projects cheers Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison

2008-06-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:12:02 +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: How would you measure it? Number of packages wouldn't work, because distros split up packages differently. Most accurate would be number of upstream projects Yes it would, but calculating it would be a fair old task. --

Re: [gentoo-user] How to boot into single user mode

2008-06-15 Thread Peter Wood
Matt Harrison wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 02:43:42PM -0400, Peter Wood wrote: Hi, Thanks for both replies. The thing that bugs me about the softlevel option is that the computer apparently enters into the default runlevel first before switching to single. If I do not want to have any

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting printers at a remote site

2008-06-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Mick, Thanks for the great write up. I really appreciate it. On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Check first that you allow connections on port 631 at your dad's firewall from your mom's IP/MAC address (nmap or nc your dad's address from your mom's

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting printers at a remote site

2008-06-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP DesertFlower ~ # lpstat -a lpstat: Forbidden DesertFlower ~ # This was a permissions issue in cupsd.conf on the print server. I had the allow/deny stuff out of order. So much for thinking I can follow directions. I

[gentoo-user] MPX in gentoo

2008-06-15 Thread Pupino
Hi all, I was trying to get MPX, (the multi pointer X http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/ ) , working but I get no result. Anyone knows if it's already in the latest xorg-x11 (7.3) or just in the git of xorg? And parhaps does anyone know a guide to install/configure it? Thanks in advance to all.

Re: [gentoo-user] disks order

2008-06-15 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: So, if I use Hitachi disk in box and Seagate disk in box, I'll be able to define their order in both ways? (udev and UUID). Define the order is not the real problem. The problem is to be able to mount the file-systems to the correct mount points. Both ways can

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 00:58 -0300, luis jure wrote: El Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:17:42 -0600 Conway S. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: In my version of Claws, this only works for News folders, not for regular mail folders. Am I missing something? Are you using Gmane or some such mail/news

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 08:16 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 13. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Iain Buchanan: 1. find email from list 2. click email address in to field (new email to that recipient is created) 3. write subject 4. write email 5. send or (in KMail, given that one

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:38:34 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Let me get this striaght: Claws will change your from account depending on what mail folder you're in when you hit new? If so, I switching to claws! From: and To: if you want, signatures too. -- Neil Bothwick Madness takes its

Re: [gentoo-user] htaccess file

2008-06-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 00:31 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have in my main htaccess file the following condition, is it still needed: -code # The following makes adjustments to the SSL protocol for Internet # Explorer browsers IfModule mod_rewrite.c RedirectMatch permanent

[gentoo-user] Re: HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-15 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:38:34 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me get this striaght: Claws will change your from account depending on what mail folder you're in when you hit new? Yep. If so, I switching to claws! Welcome aboard. :) -- »Q« Kleeneness is next to

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 2007.0

2008-06-15 Thread Norman Hakim
Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi...I have one problem,after boot my Gentoo liveCD,after i chose to boot for the kernel and hardware,after the gui appeared and also progress bar until it finished boot the

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 2007.0

2008-06-15 Thread Mark Shields
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi...I have one problem,after boot my Gentoo liveCD,after i chose to boot for the kernel and

[gentoo-user] Claws-mail (was: Re: HIJACKING THREADS)

2008-06-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 19:13 -0500, »Q« wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:38:34 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me get this striaght: Claws will change your from account depending on what mail folder you're in when you hit new? Yep. If so, I switching to claws!

[gentoo-user] Re: Detecting printers at a remote site

2008-06-15 Thread Francesco Talamona
I don't have nc and so far cannot find what package might contain it. nc is in net-analyzer/netcat Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r4, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun May 18 08:04:58 CEST 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.92 Bogomips Total aemaeth --

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting printers at a remote site

2008-06-15 Thread Mick
On Sunday 15 June 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Mick, Thanks for the great write up. I really appreciate it. You're welcome. :-) On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Check first that you allow connections on port 631 at your dad's firewall from your mom's

Re: [gentoo-user] How to boot into single user mode

2008-06-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Peter Wood: If I use real_init=/bin/bb, things work howvever. Although you're all alone on that machine then it's _not_ single user mode. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 16. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Iain Buchanan: Who uses KDE nowadays anyway ;) /me does. Whenever I tried Gnome or XFCE in the past, they have been deinstalled again faster than I could spell their names :-) If I need something slim and fast, I take FVWM. :-) Bye... Dirk --