Re: [gentoo-user] Curious emerge behaviour.

2008-07-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008 schrieb ext James Homuth: Will the package itself be removed at some point? And if so, I'm assuming Portage will take care of killing it from my system at that point? No, why should it? You have to tell it to do so. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs

[gentoo-user] RE: Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-03 Thread Adam Carter
Thanks everyone for your feedback. I'm trying firefox-bin now, and it seems stable. I guess this means that my .mozilla stuff isnt the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-07-03 Thread Norman Hakim
NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 12:44 AM On Thursday 03 July 2008, Norman Hakim

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-07-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, all dvds use UDF, ISO9660 is a cd fs Wrong: UDF is just one filesystem amongst others and ISO-9660 is a general standard. In special: Video DVD players do not even need to understand UDF at all. They just search the first 1000 sectors for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-07-03 Thread Dale
Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote: 2008/7/2 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote: Dirk, Sorry, I had misunderstood. But believe it or not, that way works fine for me. I insert a cdrom and gets automatically (or automagically maybe) mounted. I do not know, maybe is something about

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: intentionally broken media

2008-07-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some years ago, the Music Mafia did start to sell defective disks that look similar to CDs, but this is a different story. Yep, I recently had an dvd which didn't play on my notebook, couldn't read a

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious emerge behaviour.

2008-07-03 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/7/3, James Homuth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Will the package itself be removed at some point? And if so, I'm assuming Portage will take care of killing it from my system at that point? Newer versions of portage, will take care of those standard blockers themself.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools - [I'm done with this crap]

2008-07-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, as far as I can tell you need medical attention. Please, from now on do not annoy me with unwanted e-mail containing advertisements of cdrtools or information about the attacks against you. You ddid by accident remove cdrtools instead of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-03 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:24:49PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it? That is how I found FF2, and why I initially switched to Galeon. But when Firefox-3.0-r2 came out I gave FF another try, and I don't regret it at all. FF3 is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: where is emacs-cvs-23.0.60 ?

2008-07-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:08:11 -0500 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see mention of emacs-cvs-23.0.60 is several places including bugs.gentoo.org, but I can't find it in portage. I am running 23.0.50 now with success. What ever is the most

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-07-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Aaron Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those still searching for background on this topic to try and understand the effects and discussions of the GPL vs CDDL licensing in other distros and how this may affect your use on Gentoo, you may find the respective articles on wikipedia

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-07-03 Thread Norman Hakim
Hi, I've tried to add this line /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0 and this is the output: bash: /dev/cdrom: Permission denied If i mount it manually it is ok,no problem at all. I have no idea how i want to solve this problem. Regards, Norman --

[gentoo-user] Snort

2008-07-03 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've installed Snort and BASE on my Gentoo server, which is also my the network router, by following http://lurker.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Snort. It's generated a fair number of alerts over the last few weeks so it looks like it's working. But how

[gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm a bit dissatisfied with the way umask and filesystem permissions work and I'd like to know if a) this is due to misunderstanding on my part and/or b) there is a clean workaround I'm unaware of. Let's say I have a system with various users working on some sensible data. Therefore I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-07-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Norman Hakim wrote: Hi, I've tried to add this line /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0 and this is the output: bash: /dev/cdrom: Permission denied What command produced this error, and what user did you run it as? (whoami will tell you this

[gentoo-user] help

2008-07-03 Thread Erik Ohrnberger
help -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools - [I'm done with this crap]

2008-07-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, as far as I can tell you need medical attention. Please, from now on do not annoy me with unwanted e-mail containing advertisements of cdrtools or information about the attacks against you.

[gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-03 Thread Pawel K
Hello I have 4 GB of ram and a Intel Core 2 Duo E4500. I compiled the kernel as follows: Processor family   Core 2/newer Xeon Subarchitecture Type   PC-compatible High Memory Support   Off All my remaining packages are compiled as 32 bit binaries. The last switch causes my system to see less

[gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've installed grub with for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (10sec) to come from Grub loading Stage1.5 to Grub loading, please wait... and then another 10sec

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm a bit dissatisfied with the way umask and filesystem permissions work and I'd like to know if a) this is due to misunderstanding on my part and/or b) there is a clean workaround I'm unaware of. Let's say I have a system with

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-07-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Dale wrote:  From what I recall, it takes hal and one other program to automount a CD, DVD, etc.  I use hal and ivman myself.  I think supermount or something like that was another way but if I recall correctly supermount has sort of fell off the map. supermount was

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-07-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Norman Hakim wrote: What desktop do you use? I'm betting it's either gnome or kde -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- I'm using gnome desktop When you insert a CD, do you get an icon on the desktop that you can double click? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-07-03 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
2008/7/3 Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I've tried to add this line /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0 and this is the output: bash: /dev/cdrom: Permission denied If i mount it manually it is ok,no problem at all. I have no idea how i want to solve this

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2008-07-03 Thread Jason Messerschmitt
certainly don't need any help with verbosity, do you? On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Erik Ohrnberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: help -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-03 Thread Dale
Pawel K wrote: Hello I have 4 GB of ram and a Intel Core 2 Duo E4500. I compiled the kernel as follows: Processor family Core 2/newer Xeon Subarchitecture Type PC-compatible High Memory Support Off All my remaining packages are compiled as 32 bit binaries. The last switch causes my

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:52:29 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm a bit dissatisfied with the way umask and filesystem permissions work and I'd like to know if a) this is due to misunderstanding on my part and/or b)

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:49:45 -0700 (PDT), Pawel K wrote: AFAIK kernel does not need High Memory Support in case of 64 bit CPUs. What's wrong with my kernel config ? Maybe it does not run as a 64 bit CPU ? That's the most likely case, because the HighMem option doesn't even appear on a 64 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2008-07-03 Thread Hal Martin
Erik Ohrnberger wrote: help Certainly, where/in what do you require it? -Hal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious emerge behaviour.

2008-07-03 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 03 July 2008 06:40:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: Anyone else having this particular problem? Is it a compatibility issue with either coreutils or mktemp? I'm assuming removing the one will eliminate it, but if it's a needed package I'd rather not chance it. Any info on this one would

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-03 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 03 July 2008 16:49:45 Pawel K wrote: AFAIK kernel does not need High Memory Support in case of 64 bit CPUs. Correct. What's wrong with my kernel config ? Maybe it does not run as a 64 bit CPU ? The config for an x86_64 kernel doesn't have a high memory support option, you've

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Pawel K [EMAIL PROTECTED]: High Memory Support   Off You made you box to only see ~950MB :) From menuconfig: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G: Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 gigabytes of physical RAM. Symbol: HIGHMEM4G [=y] Prompt: 4GB Defined at

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008, Pawel K wrote: Hello I have 4 GB of ram and a Intel Core 2 Duo E4500. I compiled the kernel as follows: Processor family   Core 2/newer Xeon Subarchitecture Type   PC-compatible High Memory Support   Off All my remaining packages are compiled as 32 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've installed grub with for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done My knowledge of bash is less than rudimentary, therefore I am not sure what this does - can you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools - [I'm done with this crap]

2008-07-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, as far as I can tell you need medical attention. Please, from now on do not annoy me with unwanted e-mail containing advertisements of cdrtools or information about the attacks against you.

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-07-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, libcdio had an illegal license change: the authors took a lot of the code from cdrtools and claim that their code (e.g. derived from cdda2wav)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: intentionally broken media

2008-07-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: a friend of mine is lawyer and music producer. I'm trying to convince him to admonish those companies which intentionally sell broken products ... would be nice if he'd really do this :) Joerg, do you feel confident enough in the area to

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-07-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdd2wav is directly writing to the audio device ? IMHO not good idea: you're bound to the devices cdda2wav supports, requires it to be ported to each single audio interface you want to use (not just platform specifics, but also things like audio

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
Neil Bothwick wrote: That's the most likely case, because the HighMem option doesn't even appear on a 64 bit system. He runs on 32 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:40:01 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list! I'm a bit dissatisfied with the way umask and filesystem permissions work and I'd like to know if a) this is due to misunderstanding on my part and/or b) there is a clean workaround I'm unaware of. Let's

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2008-07-03 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
2008/7/3 Erik Ohrnberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: help That is a nice song from The Beatles [1] =) Regards, Richard. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ibX3TejlZE -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-03 Thread Dale
Hi folks, After getting the mailing list working I did some techy shopping. I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large files. I used Kbackup to create a tarball of my data. K3b gives me a error saying the file is to large. I did some googling and searched around on the forums,