Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 04:04 + schrieb ext Grant Edwards: > I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional > installation step to populate the /dev directory when using > recent stage3 snapshots? One usually bind-mounts /dev, /proc and /sys into the chroot, like mount --b

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

On 2009-01-21, Grant Edwards wrote: > I noticed the same thing in the install I did a few days ago. > Later in that install grub failed to install and after > rebooting, my /dev directory was missing just about everything. > > Here's the /dev directory in the chroot'ed environment I got > using s

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Norberto Bensa wrote: > BTW, do you know where's qt-copy in portage/layman? I've added > qting-edge and kde-crazy, but neither have it. I guess it is @qt-all-live-kde in qting-edge, isn't it?

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Norberto Bensa wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: >> On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >>> >>> wrote: >>> > don't try the beta, try qt-copy ;) >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> wrote: >> > don't try the beta, try qt-copy ;) >> >> Ohhh... Let's try that then :) > > if there are bugs with kde that a

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > don't try the beta, try qt-copy ;) > > Ohhh... Let's try that then :) if there are bugs with kde that are caused by qt, qt-copy should always be your first stop. That is the p

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > don't try the beta, try qt-copy ;) Ohhh... Let's try that then :) Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > a) why do you want to install 4.5 beta? > don't try the beta, try qt-copy ;) > To see if it solves a nasty bug in systray when composite is enabled. > > > b) why don't you jus

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > a) why do you want to install 4.5 beta? To see if it solves a nasty bug in systray when composite is enabled. > b) why don't you just uninstall the phonon stuff? Oh. I'll try that. Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Hello list, > > well. I couldn't resist and I emerged kde4.2 with something like this: > > sudo emerge @kdebase > > Now I want to upgrade Qt to 4.5beta but (see below) > > Is there any obvious way to solve this that can't see because it's 2AM >

[gentoo-user] No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

I'm doing an install using the quick-install doc and this weeks stage3 snapshot, and I find I can't use scp or ssh once I've chroot'ed. Is that normal? livecd linux # scp 192.168.2.4:/usr/src/linux/.config . PRNG is not seeded I noticed the same thing in the install I did a few days ago. Lat

[gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

Hello list, well. I couldn't resist and I emerged kde4.2 with something like this: sudo emerge @kdebase Now I want to upgrade Qt to 4.5beta but (see below) Is there any obvious way to solve this that can't see because it's 2AM and need some sleep or are @sets _evil_ ? And before you jump and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-21, Paul Hartman wrote: > >>> (I believe my OOo emerge >>> just passed hour 31). It would be interesting to know how much >>> further it's got to go >> >> Latest OOo 3.0 source compile for me took 1hr 34 minutes on my >> dual-cor

[gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On 2009-01-21, Paul Hartman wrote: >> (I believe my OOo emerge >> just passed hour 31). It would be interesting to know how much >> further it's got to go > > Latest OOo 3.0 source compile for me took 1hr 34 minutes on my > dual-core E6600 overclocked to 3ghz with 8 gigs of RAM :P I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:48:00 pm Grant Edwards wrote: > Of course that's not be the same > thing as "practical" for some machines (I believe my OOo emerge > just passed hour 31). It would be interesting to know how much > further it's go to go, but as long as it's done in a week or so > that'll be

[gentoo-user] Re: how to start thunderbird/firefox in a different language?

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:18:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: > For ease of use, there is also a firefox add-on called "locale switch" > that automates the process. Both "Locale Switcher" and "Quick Locale Switcher" should work with both Thunderbird and Firefox.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-21, Dale wrote: > >> It's funny, I have read a lot of people complain that the binary is the >> same way but compiling from source works. Interesting. The reason I >> was told I should compile my own is because it was more stabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices >> (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB >> suspend, which I do, but it keeps telling me constantly. How can I >> te

[gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On 2009-01-21, Dale wrote: > It's funny, I have read a lot of people complain that the binary is the > same way but compiling from source works. Interesting. The reason I > was told I should compile my own is because it was more stable than the > binary. The first time I tried installing OOo,

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices > (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB > suspend, which I do, but it keeps telling me constantly. How can I > tell if: > > A) USB suspend is actually on or not > B) powertop

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: > > On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > > > Hi list: > > > > > > I need some help with my memory. > > > > > > Recently when I quit the X server,

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: > On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > > Hi list: > > > > I need some help with my memory. > > > > Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the > > sys log: > > > > Jan 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

s3b4sm4gr1 wrote: > > > > You should consider using LXDE as DE, which is designed for low memory > and CPU usage... > > I'm currently using it on a Celeron Coppermine @ 600Mhz with 256 of > PC133 RAM and it goes fine, among with abiword, gnumeric and > claws-mail for the office work, consonance for

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old >> machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron >> Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI >> FX6200 video board instead of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's > got a decent hard drive (160GB).

Re: [gentoo-user] Anxiousness? [was:Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:36:58 +0100 "b.n." wrote: > Mark Knecht ha scritto: > > >The one thing I would respectfully suggest is that you carefully > > build your own portage overlay. My experience with Gentoo over the > > last few years is that there is a _anxiousness_ in the portage > > maint

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > Hi list: > > I need some help with my memory. > > Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the > sys log: > > Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found > > and on the TTY where I issued X init,

[gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

Hi list: I need some help with my memory. Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the sys log: Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found and on the TTY where I issued X init, a similar message is shown, but the message is not echoed in

Re: [gentoo-user] Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to >> port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts. >> However, it doesn't seem to ever

Re: [gentoo-user] Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to > port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts. > However, it doesn't seem to ever stop them. I'm using sshd with this > setting: > > MaxAuthTries

Re: [gentoo-user] Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

On Tuesday 20 January 2009, 22:33, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to > port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts. > However, it doesn't seem to ever stop them. I'm using sshd with this > setting: > > MaxAuthTries

Re: [gentoo-user] Anxiousness? [was:Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?]

I'm a total ~ARCH user, just because part of me really loves the joys of debugging. Honestly, on the rare occasion that something doesn't work, I've found a lesson is best learned when it is necessary. So in short, a bug is just a chance to learn to do something slightly differently. Anyw

[gentoo-user] Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

Hi, After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts. However, it doesn't seem to ever stop them. I'm using sshd with this setting: MaxAuthTries 3 in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config So, why does it allow unlimited faile

Re: [gentoo-user] Anxiousness? [was:Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?]

2009/1/20 Paul Hartman > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, b.n. wrote: > > Mark Knecht ha scritto: > > > >>The one thing I would respectfully suggest is that you carefully > >> build your own portage overlay. My experience with Gentoo over the > >> last few years is that there is a _anxious

Re: [gentoo-user] Anxiousness? [was:Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, b.n. wrote: > Mark Knecht ha scritto: > >>The one thing I would respectfully suggest is that you carefully >> build your own portage overlay. My experience with Gentoo over the >> last few years is that there is a _anxiousness_ in the portage >> maintainer area

Re: [gentoo-user] Anxiousness? [was:Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?]

Mark Knecht ha scritto: >The one thing I would respectfully suggest is that you carefully > build your own portage overlay. My experience with Gentoo over the > last few years is that there is a _anxiousness_ in the portage > maintainer area to move newer revisions of software into portage > q

[gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

Hi, As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB suspend, which I do, but it keeps telling me constantly. How can I tell if: A) USB suspend is actually on or not B) powertop is doing anything when I press "U"

[gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On 2009-01-20, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:32:02 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with >> 256mb may be futile :) > > Not if he's got plenty of swap, it'll just run even slower. > Expect a new Debian release before OOo finishes

[gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On 2009-01-20, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Don't know if this is possible with portage, I switched to > paludis a long time ago. However, with paludis, one can setup > several environments, each with a different set of USE flags, > CFLAGS, etc., where each will be installed into a different > root di

[gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On 2009-01-20, s3b4sm4gr1 wrote: > You should consider using LXDE as DE, which is designed for low memory and > CPU usage... I'll take alook at LXDE. I use XFCE on all my other machines, so I was hoping to get by with in on this machine (which is primarily for use by somebody else). > I'm curr

[gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On 2009-01-20, Paul Hartman wrote: >> I believe he means that generally speaking, trying to build OO from source >> on a low-end (and especially low RAM) machine is ill-advised and can often >> be the cause of build failures as OO is well known to require a lot of RAM >> and hdd space while it co

Re: [gentoo-user] Share hard drive for multiple users -> SOLVED

Thanks all of you for quick replies. I follow Dirk's suggestion and all users can be able to use the share hard drive now. Have a good day Hung Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2009 18:16:47 schrieb Hung Dang: > >> Hi all, >> I need to mount a new hard drive formatted in ext3

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash only works once

>> Flash used to work perfectly, but now it only works once between >> netscape-flash emerges. When I emerge netscape-flash, open firefox, >> and visit youtube.com, it works. But if I then close firefox, re-open >> it, and visit youtube.com, flash doesn't work. If I re-emerge >> netscape-flash i

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2009 19:42:47 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > Not if he's got plenty of swap, it'll just run even slower. Expect a new > Debian release before OOo finishes building :) LOL, can't imagine that it compiles _that_ slow ;-) Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:32:02 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with 256mb may > be futile :) Not if he's got plenty of swap, it'll just run even slower. Expect a new Debian release before OOo finishes building :) -- Neil Bothwick Dream as if y

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:10:11 +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > What are the permission supposed to be for the /usr/share/config > directory? 755 here, on my ~amd64 and ~x86 machines, but 700 on my x86 MythTV frontend. This directory belongs to several packages, so would have been created by the first inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Share hard drive for multiple users

Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2009 18:16:47 schrieb Hung Dang: > Hi all, > I need to mount a new hard drive formatted in ext3 to /mnt/C such that > multiple users can use it. > However, all users can only read the data from the share drive > Any suggestion? > > Below is my fstab configuration: > /dev/sd

Re: [gentoo-user] Share hard drive for multiple users

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:24:10 -0800, Andrey Falko wrote: > Do you have rw permission set to the contents of the the formatted > harddrive? For example, if you want the whole thing to be rwx, do > chmod 777 /mnt/C/* -R. I personally, would do this: > > find /mnt/C -type d | xargs chmod 777 > find /

Re: [gentoo-user] Share hard drive for multiple users

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Hung Dang wrote: > Hi all, > I need to mount a new hard drive formatted in ext3 to /mnt/C such that > multiple users can use it. > However, all users can only read the data from the share drive > Any suggestion? > > Below is my fstab configuration: > /dev/sda1

[gentoo-user] Share hard drive for multiple users

Hi all, I need to mount a new hard drive formatted in ext3 to /mnt/C such that multiple users can use it. However, all users can only read the data from the share drive Any suggestion? Below is my fstab configuration: /dev/sda1 /mnt/C ext3 rw,auto,noatime,defaults 0 1 Thanks Hung

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash only works once

2009/1/20 Grant > >> Flash used to work perfectly, but now it only works once between > >> netscape-flash emerges. When I emerge netscape-flash, open firefox, > >> and visit youtube.com, it works. But if I then close firefox, re-open > >> it, and visit youtube.com, flash doesn't work. If I re-

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash only works once

>>> Flash used to work perfectly, but now it only works once between >>> netscape-flash emerges. When I emerge netscape-flash, open firefox, >>> and visit youtube.com, it works. But if I then close firefox, re-open >>> it, and visit youtube.com, flash doesn't work. If I re-emerge >>> netscape-fl

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

Grant Edwards wrote: I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's got a decent hard drive (160GB). I was w

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash only works once

>> Flash used to work perfectly, but now it only works once between >> netscape-flash emerges. When I emerge netscape-flash, open firefox, >> and visit youtube.com, it works. But if I then close firefox, re-open >> it, and visit youtube.com, flash doesn't work. If I re-emerge >> netscape-flash i

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql 5.1

On 1/14/09, Marcin Niśkiewicz wrote: > Hello > Is it known when mysql version 5.1 will be available in portage for amd64 > (stable)? I don't know if we on the *user* list really can know about the devs' decisions. Maybe gentoo-dev list or irc channel could give better answers? AFAIK the devs rare

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2009 17:46:06 schrieb Grant Edwards: > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009/1/21 Volker Armin Hemmann > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > > > wrote: > > > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote: > > >> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann > > >> > > >> > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant E

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote: > >> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann > >> > >> > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > > I'm in the process of inst

[gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

On 2009-01-20, Paul Hartman wrote: > Maybe a compromise would be a short "you should do the following steps > now" message suffixed with a "for more information, follow this link > (to a bug/forum post) that explains why". I filed the bug yesterday using the original wording with the first sugge

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash only works once

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Grant wrote: > Flash used to work perfectly, but now it only works once between > netscape-flash emerges. When I emerge netscape-flash, open firefox, > and visit youtube.com, it works. But if I then close firefox, re-open > it, and visit youtube.com, flash doesn

[gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On 2009-01-20, Alejandro wrote: > "installing ooo from source is unsupport" How is this? Maybe > you missundertand i think he run emerge openoffice and not > openoffice-bin Yes, that's what I meant. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Am I in Milwaukee?

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's >

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote: >> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old >> > > machine. It's an old HP Pav

[gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On 2009-01-20, Paul Hartman wrote: > My biggest suggestion for a slow machine is: distcc I'm not too concerned about build times for large packages. The machine isn't going to be connect to a network and once it's in a "working" state won't be doing much emerging. Secondly, I've never had much

[gentoo-user] netscape-flash only works once

Flash used to work perfectly, but now it only works once between netscape-flash emerges. When I emerge netscape-flash, open firefox, and visit youtube.com, it works. But if I then close firefox, re-open it, and visit youtube.com, flash doesn't work. If I re-emerge netscape-flash it starts workin

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Nick Cunningham wrote: > > > 2009/1/20 Alejandro >> >> >> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann >>> >>> On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old >>> > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz C

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote: > 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann > > > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > > > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > > > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions

2009/1/20 Dirk Uys > Hi > > What are the permission supposed to be for the /usr/share/config directory? > > On my system only root had access to this directory causing kdm to > fail when it tries to run /usr/share/kdm/Xsession. I fixed the error > by changing the permission with chmod a+rx /usr/s

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009/1/20 Alejandro > > > 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann > >> On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old >> > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron >> > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PC

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions

090120 Dirk Uys wrote: > What are the permission supposed to be for the /usr/share/config directory? I have : root:501 root> ls -l /usr/share ... drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 112 2008-10-11 15:33 config HTH -- ,, SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] how to start thunderbird/firefox in a different language?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:55:58PM +0800, Penguin Lover zhangwe...@realss.com squawked: > zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ LANG=en_US abiword > > However this method doesn't work for firefox and thunderbird. Both > always starts in German (note German is the last, a.k.a. least preferred > language for me,

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI > > FX6200 video board instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old >> machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron >> Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI >> F

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009/1/20 Paul Hartman > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI > > FX6200 video board instead

[gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions

Hi What are the permission supposed to be for the /usr/share/config directory? On my system only root had access to this directory causing kdm to fail when it tries to run /usr/share/kdm/Xsession. I fixed the error by changing the permission with chmod a+rx /usr/share/config. Are /usr/share/confi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 19 Jan 2009, at 20:36, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2009-01-19, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >>> I would favor the original (with Alan McKinnon's change). It is >>> somewhat wordy but this issue has caused several users grief and the >>> (admit

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's > got a

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:53 AM, John Smith wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, John Smith wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. >>> >>> I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when >>> clicking the "

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem

Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, John Smith wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. >> >> I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when >> clicking the "Create a new virtual machine" button. It gives no error >> n

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, John Smith wrote: > Hello, > > I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. > > I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when > clicking the "Create a new virtual machine" button. It gives no error > nothing it just quits the program.

[gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's got a decent hard drive (160GB). I was wondering if there were

Re: [gentoo-user] how to start thunderbird/firefox in a different language?

zhangwe...@realss.com schrieb: > Hello. I have > > zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ grep --invert-match ^# /etc/locale.gen > > zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8 > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > > For most applications, I can start it in any language I wish to use. > e.g. if I want to start abiword in en_US, I ca

[gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem

Hello, I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when clicking the "Create a new virtual machine" button. It gives no error nothing it just quits the program. The user is in the vmware group. Everything seems to work fine ex

Re: [gentoo-user] how to start thunderbird/firefox in a different language?

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:55:58 +0800 zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: > I checked that I do have thunderbird installed with linguas_en_US (see > below emerge output). If it is installed with that language version, > it should be able to run in that language version. How can I start > thunderbird in en_U

Re: [gentoo-user] how to start thunderbird/firefox in a different language?

2009/1/20 > Hello. I have > > zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ grep --invert-match ^# /etc/locale.gen > > zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8 > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > > For most applications, I can start it in any language I wish to use. > e.g. if I want to start abiword in en_US, I can do this: > > zhan

[gentoo-user] how to start thunderbird/firefox in a different language?

Hello. I have zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ grep --invert-match ^# /etc/locale.gen zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 For most applications, I can start it in any language I wish to use. e.g. if I want to start abiword in en_US, I can do this: zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ LANG=en_US ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Append string on Kernel builds

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:43:56 -0600, rea...@newsguy.com wrote: > I like to use that and put `-$MYHOST' as string. I wondered if there > is any way to set a numericly incrementing string. Maybe some trick > syntax that can go in that spot? cd /usr/src/linux echo "-${MYHOST}-" >localversion1 ln -s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

On 19 Jan 2009, at 20:36, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-19, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I would favor the original (with Alan McKinnon's change). It is somewhat wordy but this issue has caused several users grief and the (admittedly repetitive) original wording makes it very clear what must

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3 fails to emerge

2009/1/19 Dirk Heinrichs : > Am Montag, den 19.01.2009, 14:12 +0100 schrieb ext Justin: > >> > MAKEFLAGS, not CFLAGS. >> > >> > >> MAKEFLAGS? Do you mean MAKEOPTS? Or am I missing another nice variable >> to set? > > Yes, MAKEOPTS. I think we got it know :-) Thank you all, this had me on the ropes

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

2009/1/19 Dave Jones : > Mick wrote on 19/01/09 11:31: >> Unfortunately mine is not as easy: >> == [snip ...] >> == >> >> I am running vlc-0.9.8a which is the only one available. How could I >> go about this? >> > > I had a similar p

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange dependency of kopete-3.5.9 on qt-4*

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I suspect kopete-4.x got pulled into your emerge and it slipped past your > radar. But then OP should see kdelibs-4 installed (?)

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange dependency of kopete-3.5.9 on qt-4*

On Monday 19 January 2009 17:33:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 19 January 2009 18:51:50 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Something odd is going on again. > > I suspect kopete-4.x got pulled into your emerge and it slipped past your > radar. Quite possible. > Does grep -r "kopete" /etc/portage/* >

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

Nickolas Fortino schrieb: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:11 AM, KH > wrote: > > Daniel Pielmeier schrieb: > > 2009/1/19 KH >: > > > >> This link was great help for me. Told me everything and how to >

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:11 AM, KH wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier schrieb: > > 2009/1/19 KH : > > > >> This link was great help for me. Told me everything and how to read the > >> blocker. So I did: > >> > >> #emerge -avC qt-4.3.3 > >> #emerge -DuavN world (This installed qt-4.4.2) > >> > >> But now

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:36:58 -0800, Nickolas Fortino wrote: > using --with-bdeps=y would certainly work (and in the interest of full > disclosure is what I do), but it shouldn't be necessary. > Having emerge --depclean remove build dependencies should be ok. > Afterwards, emerge -avuDN world sho

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

2009/1/20 KH : > > Hi, > > yes I had the blocker when running emerge -DuavN world . I unmerged > qt-4.3* and ran emerge -DuavN world again. That brought in the qt-4.4.2. > Tho investigate further: > > equery d x11-libs/qt > [ Searching for packages depending on x11-libs/qt... ] > app-crypt/pinentry

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

Daniel Pielmeier schrieb: > 2009/1/19 KH : > >> This link was great help for me. Told me everything and how to read the >> blocker. So I did: >> >> #emerge -avC qt-4.3.3 >> #emerge -DuavN world (This installed qt-4.4.2) >> >> But now I do have a problem. When I run >> >> #emerge --depclean -av >

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

2009/1/19 KH : > > This link was great help for me. Told me everything and how to read the > blocker. So I did: > > #emerge -avC qt-4.3.3 > #emerge -DuavN world (This installed qt-4.4.2) > > But now I do have a problem. When I run > > #emerge --depclean -av > > I receive the following output: > [sn