Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:43:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives? qdepends -Q pkgname qdepends is part of portage-utils. -- Neil Bothwick Windows: just another pane in the glass signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi I'm running a stable gentoo installation and getting a block on vmware-player: [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.0.118166 [2.0.5.109488] 61,559 kB [ebuild N] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 478 kB [blocks B ] >=app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 (is blocking app

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-12 Thread Noven
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:02:18 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Noven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:19:33 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Noven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:03:55 Kevin O'Gorman wro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Noven<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you re-run vmware-config.pl? That will recompile modules for your system.You have unmerged vmware-modules before doing this? Now that I've unmerged everything, where would that be? Self-installed soft

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/11/13 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> emerge -pv --depclean atom > > I realize cryptic answers are the ultimate in cleverness and show > massive sophistication but how is this used to show dependencies to > some specific package. > > Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in > general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? I use it fairly often still, but d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Noven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:19:33 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Noven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:03:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Allistar <[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
Harry Putnam wrote: Daniel Pielmeier<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: emerge -pv --depclean atom I realize cryptic answers are the ultimate in cleverness and show massive sophistication but how is this used to show dependencies to some specific package. Maybe a little more detail would keep my l

[gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives? > > dep from app-portage/udept just got recommended to me, but I don't > know it's trustworthiness either. Looks promising .. thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? >>> I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of null >>> output. So I no longer trust it fully. At leas

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

2008-11-12 Thread Grant
>>> >> If it doesn't start I'm locked out of the remote system. >>> > >>> > You may be interested in : >>> > /etc/init.d/sshd reload >>> >>> I get: >>> >>> # /etc/init.d/sshd reload >>> * Reloading sshd ... >>> No /usr/sbin/sshd found running; none killed. [ ok ] >> >> That is scary. Can you do eq

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt + gnupg

2008-11-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/11/08 Matthias Bethke said: > Do you have "set pgp_use_gpg_agent=yes" in your muttrc? Works fine here, > though I don't remember what I changed in the last year when gpg started > to need the agent, if anything. If that's not it, I can just mail you my > config as well... Hmm. If I use that

Re: [gentoo-user] rerouting buttons in X

2008-11-12 Thread Andrey Vul
Andrey Vul A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 16:24, Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Andr

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

2008-11-12 Thread Andrey Falko
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> If it doesn't start I'm locked out of the remote system. >> > >> > You may be interested in : >> > /etc/init.d/sshd reload >> >> I get: >> >> # /

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

2008-11-12 Thread Andrey Falko
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If it doesn't start I'm locked out of the remote system. > > > > You may be interested in : > > /etc/init.d/sshd reload > > I get: > > # /etc/init.d/sshd reload > * Reloading sshd ... > No /usr/sbin/sshd found running; none ki

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

2008-11-12 Thread Grant
>> If it doesn't start I'm locked out of the remote system. > > You may be interested in : > /etc/init.d/sshd reload I get: # /etc/init.d/sshd reload * Reloading sshd ... No /usr/sbin/sshd found running; none killed. [ ok ] # /etc/init.d/sshd restart * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ] - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

2008-11-12 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:05:20AM -0800, Grant wrote: > If it doesn't start I'm locked out of the remote system. You may be interested in : /etc/init.d/sshd reload -- Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:04:52 Harry Putnam wrote: With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? I use it fairly often still, but do notice I g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Harry Putnam schrieb am 12.11.2008 23:43: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:04:52 Harry Putnam wrote: >>> With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in >>> general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? >> I use it fa

[gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:04:52 Harry Putnam wrote: >> With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in >> general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? > > I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of n

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt + gnupg

2008-11-12 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Michael, on Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:39:59AM -0500, you wrote: > Now I run gpg-agent in my .xsession, with the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable being > inherited by Mutt, but signing email doesn't work, as gpg says there's no > secret key available. Do you have "set pgp_use_gpg_agent=yes" in your muttrc

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 12, 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > wouldn't call it stupid though. FHS compliance is a good thing (I'm a > > sysadmin so I really appreciate when things can be easily located > > universaly). > > why? the FHS is a stupid standard. Why is following stupid standards a good > thing?

Re: [gentoo-user] Crossdev won't go away

2008-11-12 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Peter, on Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:50:32AM +, you wrote: > I'm still having a bit of bother with crossdev. If I emerge -upDvtN world I > get this warning (omitting the N makes no difference): > > !!! The following installed packages are masked: > - cross-i686-pc-linux-gnu/linux-headers-2.6.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 23:11:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > why? the FHS is a stupid standard. Why is following stupid standards a good > thing? What next? LSB compliance - because it is great to be broken by > definition? Why is FHS stupid? I haven't read it fully since 2006 but at the t

Re: [gentoo-user] rerouting buttons in X

2008-11-12 Thread Andrey Falko
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My laptop (ASUS M50VM-B2) has no dedicated Home, End, PageUp, and > PageDown buttons. > Is there a way to force it if numlock is disabled then map the keys > from numpad 7,1,9,3 to Home,End,PageUp,PageDown? > > Basically, ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:23:33 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Got that part fixed what about this: > From emerge -vuDNpt system > > [...] > > [nomerge ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2 [1.4.2] > [nomerge ] x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.10.5 USE="-debug > -minimal" [0] [blocks b ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:15:33 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > a quick grep of man emerge and man portage on `ignore' and on `block' > > didn't turn up such an option. > > As I said, I use paludis. I was only told that emerge also has this > option, just last week (or was it the week before?) on

Re: [gentoo-user] Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:04:52 Harry Putnam wrote: > With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in > general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of null output. So I no longer trust it fully. At lea

Re: [gentoo-user] understanding --depclean

2008-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:13:00 -0600, Dale wrote: > > That may have been the case some time ago, but depclean is much safer > > now. Notice that the warning at the start of its output has > > disappeared now? > That is true but let's say a person updates python but forgets or > doesn't know, to r

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > On November 12, 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > I had something similar on my first try: > > > > > > kde-4 went into /usr > > > kde-3 went into /usr/kde/3.5 > > > > > > And bizarre weird errors kept happening. I remerged all of kde-4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:23:33 Harry Putnam wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just install the latest portage. It has a block breaking function. Then > > upgrade e2fsprogs like described a few douzend times on this ml and in > > the forums. Remove all the acient

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:31:52 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > On November 12, 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > I had something similar on my first try: > > > > > > kde-4 went into /usr > > > kde-3 went into /usr/kde/3.5 > > > > > > And bizarre weird errors kept happening. I remerged all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 20:20:40 schrieb Harry Putnam: > > As I said, I use paludis. I was only told that emerge also has this > > option, just last week (or was it the week before?) on this list. > > Sorry, didn't mean to jam you about it... Oh, I didn't understand it as such, just wanted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 21:36:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > What if I ran the --depclean before updating world. Would that help > > me get rid of some junk before updating it with `world'? > > no, it would completly fuck up your s

[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just install the latest portage. It has a block breaking > function. Then upgrade e2fsprogs like described a few douzend times > on this ml and in the forums. Remove all the acient video drivers > you don't need anyway. After that, most blocks sho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From the output you gave, I would suggest that you > > > > 1) update portage to the latest (evantually keyword masked) version. This > > should be able to ignore blocks. > > > > 2) Adjust your VIDEO_C

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 12, 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > I had something similar on my first try: > > > > kde-4 went into /usr > > kde-3 went into /usr/kde/3.5 > > > > And bizarre weird errors kept happening. I remerged all of kde-4 with > > USE="kdeprefix" to put it back into /usr/kde/4.1 and all the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 12, 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:31:41 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of > > sudden konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more, but I'm sure > > something else was

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:31:41 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of > > sudden konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more, but I'm sure > > something e

[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just install the latest portage. It has a block breaking function. Then > upgrade e2fsprogs like described a few douzend times on this ml and in the > forums. Remove all the acient video drivers you don't need anyway. After > that, > most bloc

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:31:41 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of sudden > konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more, but I'm sure something else > was broke too) stopped launching hinting that there is a CS

[gentoo-user] Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable?

[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From the output you gave, I would suggest that you > > 1) update portage to the latest (evantually keyword masked) version. This > should be able to ignore blocks. > > 2) Adjust your VIDEO_CARDS, I don't think you have that many cards plugged > into y

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Michele Schiavo
I did it last week. in some place untar che last stage3-xxx mount --bind proc, dev, usr/portage, passwd, group ecc copy inside current make.conf, make.profile chroot inside the new stage. when finish i make a big tar of everyone in the new chroot. reboot with live cd, move all my old system in /

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] Many thanks for the other useful info I've snipped > > >> [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc > >> ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc" is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) > >> [block

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] thanks for the other useful info I've snipped > > > 4) update world with the "ignore blocks" option turned on (don't know > > which that is, since I use paludis). > > a quick grep of man emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
"Andrey Falko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > lspci should show you what video card you have. Look for VGA or something > like that. For example on my system: Thanks... I didn't see your post in time and posted a never mind after banging away with google and unearthing that info.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> and you need all the videodrivers? I am sure not. So remove them and set >> VIDEO_CARDS in makec.conf. > > A light just went off over my head. For mnths, maybe yrs... I've > wondered why so many x11 drivers would get installed. > > OK, but a quick goog

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Andrey Falko
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] Many thanks for the other useful info I've snipped > > >> [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc > ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc" > >> is blocking x11-base/xor

[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 20:11:33 schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> a quick grep of man emerge and man portage on `ignore' and on `block' >> didn't turn up such an option. > > As I said, I use paludis. I was only told that emerge also has this option, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 20:11:33 schrieb Harry Putnam: > a quick grep of man emerge and man portage on `ignore' and on `block' > didn't turn up such an option. As I said, I use paludis. I was only told that emerge also has this option, just last week (or was it the week before?) on this l

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 19:49:47 schrieb Andrey Falko: > It sure looks like a mess :). However nothing that can't be cleaned up I > think. No reason for a full-quote, though. > You need to manually downgrade to qt-4.3.5 because strigi depends on a 4.3 > version of it. No, you don't, beca

[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] thanks for the other useful info I've snipped > 4) update world with the "ignore blocks" option turned on (don't know which > that is, since I use paludis). a quick grep of man emerge and man portage on `ignore' and on `block' didn't turn up such

[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Many thanks for the other useful info I've snipped >> [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc" >> is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) [blocks b ] >> x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga ("x11-drivers/xf86-video

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

2008-11-12 Thread Grant
>> After updating to the latest stable x86 openssh and merging config >> files on my remote system, I get: >> >> # /etc/init.d/sshd restart >> * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ] >> >> There is nothing in /var/log/sshd/current. Does anyone know what I should >> do? > > You could stop the sshd process

[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
"Dan Wallis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The blocks regarding sys-fs/e2fsprogs, sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs, > sys-libs/ss and sys-libs/com_err were discussed recently on this list. > Basically you need to: > > emerge -f e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs > emerge -C com_err ss e2fsprogs > emerge -1 e2fsprogs

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 12, 2008, Peter Alfredsen wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of > > sudden konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more, but I'm sure > > something else was broke

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated. And I haven't > followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little > baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or > something causing 16 different

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 18:58:10 schrieb Harry Putnam: > I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated.  And I haven't > followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little > baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or > something causing

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

2008-11-12 Thread Dan Wallis
On 12/11/2008, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After updating to the latest stable x86 openssh and merging config > files on my remote system, I get: > > # /etc/init.d/sshd restart > * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ] > > There is nothing in /var/log/sshd/current. Does anyone know what I should >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated. And I haven't > followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little > baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or > somethi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Dan Wallis
On 12/11/2008, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated. And I haven't > followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little > baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or > something causing 16 d

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > > I have my grub menu set up with 2 kernel choices; one points > to/vmlinuz and the other points to /vmlinuz.old, that way i don't ever > have to edit anything. Comes in handy if the new kernel blows up :) > > > I too have two entries. One for the current kernel and one f

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto compile Xgl on Gentoo (to have dual seat box)

2008-11-12 Thread b.n.
noro kamen ha scritto: > Hi, > > I have dual head nvidia card and like to make dual seat gentoo box. > (i.e. two people can work simultaneously, using their own monitor+mouse+kbd) > > I met these problems: > 1. one X window server can work only with one mouse, kbd and VGA card > 2. nvidia driver

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of > sudden konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more, but I'm sure > something else was broke too) stopped launching hinting that there is > a CSS vers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> So boot your existing Gentoo setup as usual, then follow the handbook to >> install on the new disk. You do not have to boot from a live CD to >> install Gentoo, and suitable working Linux environment will do the job, >> and

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! >> >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: >> >>> - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use >>> anything other than grub these days?) >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:51:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > So boot your existing Gentoo setup as usual, then follow the handbook >> > to install on the new disk. You do not have to boot from a live CD to >> > install Gentoo, and suitable working Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > >> - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use >> anything other than grub these days?) >> > > Yes. I use LILO. My lilo.conf traces its ancestry back to m

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

2008-11-12 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 17:37:29 Grant wrote: > After updating to the latest stable x86 openssh and merging config > files on my remote system, I get: > > # /etc/init.d/sshd restart > * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ] > > There is nothing in /var/log/sshd/current. Does anyone know what I should > d

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing lyx-1.6.0

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 15:11:08 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > What's your experience ? Works fine for me. Bye... Dirk

[gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

2008-11-12 Thread Grant
After updating to the latest stable x86 openssh and merging config files on my remote system, I get: # /etc/init.d/sshd restart * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ] There is nothing in /var/log/sshd/current. Does anyone know what I should do? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] understanding --depclean

2008-11-12 Thread Dale
KH wrote: > Dale schrieb: > >> Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> >> >>> I'm new to gentoo, and I recently changed my USE flags, so I ran >>> >>> emerge -p --depclean >>> >>> to see what it suggests removing. >>> >>> Along with many others, I see >>> >>> dev-lang/python >>> selected: 2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] understanding --depclean

2008-11-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:08 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >> Be very careful with --depclean. It can really mess up something if you >> are not watching close. >> > > That may have been the case some time ago, but depclean is much safer > now. Notice that the warning at th

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k in the kernel - where is it?

2008-11-12 Thread Grant
>>> Could you post the output of lspci, please? I have stability >>> problems with >>> madwifi on my system, so if you've got the same wlan chipset >>> I would give it a try also (with 2.6.27, then). >> >> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg >> NIC (rev 01) >

[gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

2008-11-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Hi everybody, I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of sudden konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more, but I'm sure something else was broke too) stopped launching hinting that there is a CSS version mistmatch blah-blah-blah. Path to CSS suggested that 4.1.3

[gentoo-user] Howto compile Xgl on Gentoo (to have dual seat box)

2008-11-12 Thread noro kamen
Hi, I have dual head nvidia card and like to make dual seat gentoo box. (i.e. two people can work simultaneously, using their own monitor+mouse+kbd) I met these problems: 1. one X window server can work only with one mouse, kbd and VGA card 2. nvidia driver doesn't allow to run two X servers on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:51:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > So boot your existing Gentoo setup as usual, then follow the handbook > > to install on the new disk. You do not have to boot from a live CD to > > install Gentoo, and suitable working Linux environment will do the > > job, and an existin

[gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So boot your existing Gentoo setup as usual, then follow the handbook to > install on the new disk. You do not have to boot from a live CD to > install Gentoo, and suitable working Linux environment will do the job, > and an existing Gentoo installation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:03:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > If you're installing to a new disk, do a standard Gentoo install to > > that disk, but do it from your working setup instead of the live CD > > environment. Your existing installation has all the tools you need to > > build a new setup i

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use > anything other than grub these days?) Yes. I use LILO. My lilo.conf traces its ancestry back to my original Linux installation, SuSE 5.3. Why

[gentoo-user] Testing lyx-1.6.0

2008-11-12 Thread alain . didierjean
I have been very disappointed by lyx-1.6.0 as it seemingly misses some features (and files): - no icons for the toolbars - no config files for displaying lyx files as dvi, postscript or pdf - no conversion files Did I miss something, or v.1.6.0 has still to be completed ? What's your experience ?

[gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you're installing to a new disk, do a standard Gentoo install to that > disk, but do it from your working setup instead of the live CD > environment. Your existing installation has all the tools you need to > build a new setup in a chroot. I'm havin

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 - Problems with vhosts

2008-11-12 Thread Gololo
Hello again, I followed the solution you propposed and I got this error in the error_log of apache: Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden: /home/protel/gololo/public_html/ Plus I got a "403 Forbidden" in the browser". So I ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 - Problems with vhosts

2008-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:13:51 +0100, Gololo wrote: > Ok, thanks for the quick answer. I will try this in a second, but, just > a couple of questions. Please do not top post. > 1) DocumentRoot "/home/group1/user1/public_html" > >Should I write there the same path there? I mean,

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 - Problems with vhosts

2008-11-12 Thread Gololo
Ok, thanks for the quick answer. I will try this in a second, but, just a couple of questions. 1) DocumentRoot "/home/group1/user1/public_html" Should I write there the same path there? I mean, should I write the path to the public_html directory both in DocumentRoot and in Dire

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:35:32 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Rather, I'd like to build up a newly installed gentoo to the point > where it has all the stuff I want. But do it inside a vmware virtual > machine. > > I'm trying to keep my working desktop in place until such time as the > vmware gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/11/12 Garry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > tar -cvzpf - ./bin ./boot ./dev ./etc ./lib ./lost+found ./media ./mnt ./opt > ./proc ./root ./sbin ./sys ./usr ./var | ssh -p8889 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cd > /mnt/gentoo; tar -xzpf -" > > Unfortunately the symbolic links all came out as 0 byte files (no

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Garry Smith
Dirk Uys wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I should know how to do this but so many changes have happened recently and I haven't done anything like this for a very long time. My desktop version of gentoo is pretty far out of date. And I think th

Re: [gentoo-user] understanding --depclean

2008-11-12 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Michael P. Soulier < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to gentoo, and I recently changed my USE flags, so I ran > > emerge -p --depclean > > to see what it suggests removing. > > Along with many others, I see > > dev-lang/python >selected: 2.4.4-r13 > prot

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 - Problems with vhosts

2008-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:59:59 +0100, Gololo wrote: > Now I have a user who adquired a domain (let's say: www.example.com) and > wants to redirect it to his user folder. For this, I edited the file: > 00_default_vhost.conf > It looks like this: > > --

Re: [gentoo-user] understanding --depclean

2008-11-12 Thread KH
Dale schrieb: > Michael P. Soulier wrote: > >> I'm new to gentoo, and I recently changed my USE flags, so I ran >> >> emerge -p --depclean >> >> to see what it suggests removing. >> >> Along with many others, I see >> >> dev-lang/python >> selected: 2.4.4-r13 >>protected: none >>

Re: [gentoo-user] understanding --depclean

2008-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:08 -0600, Dale wrote: > Be very careful with --depclean. It can really mess up something if you > are not watching close. That may have been the case some time ago, but depclean is much safer now. Notice that the warning at the start of its output has disappeared now?

[gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 - Problems with vhosts

2008-11-12 Thread Gololo
Hello list, I have a problem here with apache and vhosts that I hope you can help me to solve. I have apache 2.2.6 running in a box called myserver.university.edu I start apache with the following options: APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D USERDIR -D PHP5" With USERDIR active, users can use: http