[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 15 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 08:38 -0500, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 August 2008 14:36:58 Dale wrote: Somewhat still on the same subject since I am still cleaning. Anyway to clean out unneeded files in /etc? I'm thinking

[gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! After last syncing 'emerge -pvDuN world' ends with messages shown below. How to resolve this conflict *safely*? I don't want to experiment with fs-related packages :-) Andrew = [ebuild N] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.0 USE=nls 476 kB [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:55:42 -0500, Dale wrote: Even if this script said something belonged to nothing installed, I would still check to make sure it was safe to delete. That is what the script does, qfile -o file only outputs anything if file does not belong to a package. -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:20:49 +0430, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the difference between du and df is about 640 - 188 = 452 MB. and df is showing that my root is full 2.4 times more than du. There is another possibility that no one seems t have mentioned. You may have files hidden inside a mount

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Sonntag, 17. August 2008 09:52:57 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: After last syncing 'emerge -pvDuN world' ends with messages shown below. How to resolve this conflict *safely*? I don't want to experiment with fs-related packages :-) What worked fine for me: emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:55:42 -0500, Dale wrote: Even if this script said something belonged to nothing installed, I would still check to make sure it was safe to delete. That is what the script does, qfile -o file only outputs anything if file does not belong to

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Sunday 17 August 2008, Heiko Wundram wrote: === Am Sonntag, 17. August 2008 09:52:57 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: After last syncing 'emerge -pvDuN world' ends with messages shown below. How to resolve this conflict *safely*? I don't want to experiment with fs-related packages

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Sonntag, 17. August 2008 10:08:46 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: === On Sunday 17 August 2008, Heiko Wundram wrote: === Am Sonntag, 17. August 2008 09:52:57 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: After last syncing 'emerge -pvDuN world' ends with messages shown below. How to resolve this conflict

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Graham Murray
Heiko Wundram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What worked fine for me: emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err sys-fs/e2fsprogs emerge --oneshot -v sys-fs/e2fsprogs Be *very* careful about doing that. wget (amongst other packages) uses libcom_err, so you will not be able to fetch any

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Sunday 17 August 2008, Heiko Wundram wrote: === ... Why 'oneshot' option is used? So that you don't record sys-fs/e2fsprogs in the world set. It's pulled in as a dependency from the system set anyway (that's why the --unmerge will tell you that you're unmerging a system

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Sunday 17 August 2008, Graham Murray wrote: === Heiko Wundram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What worked fine for me: emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err sys-fs/e2fsprogs emerge --oneshot -v sys-fs/e2fsprogs Be *very* careful about doing that. wget (amongst other

Re: [gentoo-user] mov to dvd

2008-08-17 Thread Mick
On Saturday 16 August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:38:31 +0100, Mick wrote: Is there a way to convert a .mov file to be playable by a dvd player? media-video/tovid Thanks Neil! :) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Duplicate ca certs

2008-08-17 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am getting mixed up with update-ca-certificates. It reports that I have duplicates: = # update-ca-certificates Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certsWARNING: SPI_CA_2006-cacert.pem does not contain a certificate or CRL: skipping

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 17 August 2008 06:55:42 Dale wrote: Even if this script said something belonged to nothing installed, I would still check to make sure it was safe to delete.  I also keep backups of not only my whole system but also a separate backup of /etc, just in case I edit something badly. I

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Sonntag, 17. August 2008 10:40:38 schrieb Graham Murray: Heiko Wundram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What worked fine for me: emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err sys-fs/e2fsprogs emerge --oneshot -v sys-fs/e2fsprogs Be *very* careful about doing that. wget (amongst other

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Graham Murray
Heiko Wundram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cannot reproduce this here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % ldd /usr/bin/wget linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb8088000) libssl.so.0.9.8 = /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0xb8025000) libcrypto.so.0.9.8 = /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0xb7ee6000)

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate ca certs

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 10:39 +0100, Mick wrote: Hi All, I am getting mixed up with update-ca-certificates. It reports that I have duplicates: = # update-ca-certificates Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certsWARNING:

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! After last syncing 'emerge -pvDuN world' ends with messages shown below. How to resolve this conflict *safely*? I don't want to experiment with fs-related packages :-) Andrew =

[gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread econti
Hi all, even if I have been using gentoo for 2 years surely I know to be a newbie again. ;-( Yesterday, upgrading the portage and after an emerge -NDpvu world I received the following massage: Calculating world dependencies / !!! The following installed packages are masked: -

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:07 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: The best way to resolve this, I've found is to put the following into your /etc/portage/package.mask file. =sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.0 =sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.0 I masked them because some things depend on com_err, and that is

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 14:20 +0200, econti wrote: So I went to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214265 to fix but I understood absolutely nothing. :-( Could anyone explain to me in which manner I should use the bug page of gentoo? I really don't understand your question, but I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:00 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: It doesn't handle filenames with spaces, I tried with find /etc -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} \; that works with spaces, but has awful performances, so that's completely unusable on /usr. BTW I also tried to remove false

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Paul Colquhoun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 07:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the difference between du and df is about 640 - 188 = 452 MB. and df is showing that my root is full 2.4 times more than du. Normal... Next to

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sunday 17 August 2008 08:29:29 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 14:20 +0200, econti wrote: So I went to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214265 to fix but I understood absolutely nothing. :-( Could anyone explain to me in which manner I should use the bug page of

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 11:09 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: Isn't there also the option of leaving the existing package installed until the bug is fixed? If the package is currently working for him (the bug may be in some section of the program he seldom uses or it may only rear its head

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 17 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:00 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: It doesn't handle filenames with spaces, I tried with find /etc -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} \; that works with spaces, but has awful performances, so that's completely

[gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread gentoo_steve
I've a Netgear DG834G router - and I connect two machines to it using Ethernet... one Gentoo; one Windows... it works reasonably well... I hit a snag when downloading a large file from Gentoo - for example a multi-meg portage archive. At such times, the Windows PC seems to be given a rather

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a straightforward way to make my Gentoo box 'play fair' and not hog 100% of the bandwidth? If your router doesn't give you bandwidth and/or traffic shaping control, you can drop some packets. For example, the following rule will accept up to 50 packets

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread Steve
Norberto Bensa wrote: Is there a straightforward way to make my Gentoo box 'play fair' and not hog 100% of the bandwidth? If your router doesn't give you bandwidth and/or traffic shaping control, you can drop some packets. For example, the following rule will accept up to 50 packets per

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sunday 17 August 2008 16:32:11 Steve wrote: Norberto Bensa wrote: Is there a straightforward way to make my Gentoo box 'play fair' and not hog 100% of the bandwidth? If your router doesn't give you bandwidth and/or traffic shaping control, you can drop some packets. For example, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone else have this problem? Yes, everyone using TCP :) You can read Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control for more info (http://lartc.org/). Snappy answer... but I'm pretty sure I've never seen this before - on a wide range of OS and network

[gentoo-user] Roland Puntaier ist außer Haus.

2008-08-17 Thread Roland Puntaier
Ich werde ab 18.08.2008 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 30.08.2008.

[gentoo-user] Re: df and du difference

2008-08-17 Thread Platoali
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2008 01:18:21 Paul Colquhoun wrote: Actually, there is one more way to hide a file from du If there is a file in the /var directory *BEFORE* the /var partition is mounted onto the directory, then du won't find it, but df will know about