Re: [gentoo-user] preserved lib question

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I have some preserved libs that just don't want to go away. I've ran emerge @preserved-rebuild several times to no avail. I think the problem is with portage not recognizing that one of the libraries is

[gentoo-user] (Slightly OT) A question about Wikis (maybe)

2008-10-21 Thread gentoo_steve
I'm considering a project, and am keen not to end up re-inventing the wheel. I'm looking to use collaborative techniques to put together a 'knowledge base'... I require: * Collaborative editing to grow the number of 'records' held. * For the 'records' (pages) to be of a standard form - so that

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 October 2008 16:33:24 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: after a nice person on this list gave me a good tip, I was able to (and I still do) have root on raid1 without initrd/ramfs crap. commandline: root=/dev/md1 md=1,1,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 nopat nmi_watchdog=0 md auto assembling

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying KDE-4

2008-10-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 October 2008 13:08:30 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Unmerge x11-libs/qt-4.3.3 and try again. If you want to be on the safe side do a quickpkg =x11-libs/qt-4.3.3 before. The new qt-4.4.x split ebuilds can not live alongside the non split ebuild. I ran quickpkg and emerge -C on qt-4.3.3,

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp transfer dies

2008-10-21 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Any idea why this happens: 150 Ok to send data. 100% |***| 224 MiB 46.74 KiB/s

Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure

2008-10-21 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j1 I tried both MAKEOPTS=-j1 and #MAKEOPTS=-j1, with +gnome and -gnome, to no avail; it errors at the same spot: GNUmakefile:964: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. I will post below the configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure

2008-10-21 Thread Fabrice Delliaux
Le Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:21:37 +0200, Liviu Andronic a écrit : GNUmakefile:964: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. Can you please upload this Makefile somewhere and give us a link for download ? Something in your build environment is probably interfering with some variables defined in

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp transfer dies

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Bridge
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:21:49 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Any idea why this happens: 150 Ok to send data.

Re: [gentoo-user] usb webcam

2008-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:58:07 -0600 (MDT), RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: Anyway on with the webcam problems i have emerged gspcav1 and loaded the module # lsmod Module Size Used by gspca 620752 0 but the cameras are still only detected as usb devices and no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: progress everywhere !

2008-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:23:23 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Build time is coming down I see. The first time I build OOo (on a 686 amd) it took 12 hours. Now I get similar to you - 2h14 On some of my machines it still takes 12+ hours. OOo 3 builds faster than 2.4. 1h40 vs 2h45 on my

Re: [gentoo-user] progress everywhere !

2008-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:52:24 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Thanks: Xulrunner is a big pkg in itself, but it seems unavoidable. It is entirely avoidable, by setting USE=-nsplugins. If you want to view documents in Firefox, you would already have xulrunner installed, so there's no problem there

Re: [gentoo-user] how to word-wrap using a pipe?

2008-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:19:31 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, 'fold' looks promising... I've been using this one for years and it does exactly what it says. -- Neil Bothwick Used Iraqi rifles for sale: Dropped once, never fired... signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] openoffice 3.0 problem

2008-10-21 Thread Michael George
Yesterday I saw that openoffice 3.0 was unmasked for amd64 so I built and installed it. It seemed to work fine on a couple test documents that I opened, but then I ran into a problem with the one which has my household expense spreadsheets. I opened it and the data on one of the sheets was there

[gentoo-user] TexLive language list

2008-10-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I want to use the (e)plain format. For that I need a command \lanuage=number Where can I find which number corresponds to which language? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp transfer dies

2008-10-21 Thread Mick
2008/10/21 Robert Bridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:21:49 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Any idea why this happens:

[gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection

2008-10-21 Thread Grant
I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just slow. Would something like mutt be an improvement? Any other recommendations? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just slow. Would something like

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection

2008-10-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-10-21, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just slow. Would something like mutt be an

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection

2008-10-21 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:05AM -0700, Grant wrote: I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just slow. Would something like mutt be

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world failing with No module name libxml2

2008-10-21 Thread Arttu V.
Sorry for the slow reply. I was expecting more people interested in sharing their insights into updating old, ancient-grade dinosaur systems. :) On 10/20/08, Brian Wince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the -I ignores the versions of packages installed and just fixes packages broken by a python

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection

2008-10-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:05AM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just slow. Would

[gentoo-user] Another Abiword build failure

2008-10-21 Thread Erik Hahn
I'm unsuccesfully trying to compile app-office/abiword-2.6.4. The error is a different one than in the other thread, though. I hope somebody of you has a clue what's wrong and how I can fix it. Thanks in advance, -Erik Relevant output: -ed -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0

[gentoo-user] xinerama USE-flag needed for KDE 4.1 and xrandr?

2008-10-21 Thread Fabian Köster
Hi everybody, I would like to setup a dual-head desktop using X.org 7.4 and KDE 4.1.2. I successfully achieved to configure my dual-head setup using xrandr. Basically it looks like this: xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --left-of LVDS The VGA-0 screen's resolution is 1680x1050, the

[gentoo-user] Re: SPAM-MED Re: [gentoo-amd64] openoffice 3.0 problem

2008-10-21 Thread Michael George
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:13:52PM +0200, Beso wrote: 2008/10/21 Michael George [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yesterday I saw that openoffice 3.0 was unmasked for amd64 so I built and installed it. It seemed to work fine on a couple test documents that I opened, but then I ran into a problem with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Openttd

2008-10-21 Thread Arttu V.
On 10/21/08, András Csányi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Few weeks ago I reinstalled my desktop and now I want to play with openttd but I wonder this package is masked. I saw the version of this package int the portage is 0.5.3 but on the openttd's website the latest stable version is 0.6.3. So I

Re: [gentoo-user] Openttd

2008-10-21 Thread András Csányi
2008/10/21 Arttu V. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/21/08, András Csányi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Few weeks ago I reinstalled my desktop and now I want to play with openttd but I wonder this package is masked. I saw the version of this package int the portage is 0.5.3 but on the openttd's website

RE: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-21 Thread Liebich, Wolfgang
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:24:11 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag 20 Oktober 2008, Conway S. Smith wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:54:20 +0200 Wolfgang Liebich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, SNIP the howtos on gentoo-wiki worked well for me. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying KDE-4

2008-10-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Peter Humphrey schrieb am 21.10.2008 11:07: On Monday 20 October 2008 13:08:30 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Unmerge x11-libs/qt-4.3.3 and try again. If you want to be on the safe side do a quickpkg =x11-libs/qt-4.3.3 before. The new qt-4.4.x split ebuilds can not live alongside the non split

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection

2008-10-21 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:42:04PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-10-21, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whatever and

[gentoo-user] python 2.6 and python-updater

2008-10-21 Thread David Relson
build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/dev-python:setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1:20081021-133932.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1/temp/environment

[gentoo-user] Installing packages for old Python version

2008-10-21 Thread Peter Wood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am trying to install Plone which depends on Python 2.4. Portage installs Python 2.4 in a slot in addition to Python 2.5 which my system uses as a default. Plone also depends on 2 other packages (Python-Imaging and Python-Elementtree). However,

[gentoo-user] ssmtp logs?

2008-10-21 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Hello all have been trying to figure out how to use ssmtp as i need to get email off my system Linux huang 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Sun Oct 19 06:11:05 Local time zone must be set--see zic i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux. Seems there is no mail command must be a package i

[gentoo-user] about wireless networking

2008-10-21 Thread Tom
/etc/conf.d/net settings #Wireless with WPA_SUPPLICANT modules=(wpa_supplicant) wpa_supplicant_eth1=(-Dwext) config_eth1=(192.168.2.119 netmask 255.255.255.0) routes_eth1=(default via 192.168.2.1) #dns_servers_eth1=(192.168.2.1) /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf settings

Re: [gentoo-user] rsh failed

2008-10-21 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag 21 Oktober 2008 05:09:38 schrieb ext Chuanwen Wu: The permission of /home/wcw is 755, and /root is 700. Looks good, but what about ~/.rhosts? 192.168.0.7 wcw 192.168.0.7 root BTW: Did you restart xinetd