Re: [gentoo-user] downgrading gcc

2009-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 20 April 2009 02:05:35 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 19 April 2009 22:18:24 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> 2) Should I expect any problems with the system if I do > >> > >> emerge -e system > >> emerge -e system [OPTIONAL] > >> emerge -e world > > > > Why would you want to d

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use newer version of a package ?

2009-04-19 Thread Thomas Chef
Thanks for the help ! It worked perfect. On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:08 PM, KH wrote: > KH schrieb: > > > > > > > =media-sound/rosegarden-1.7.3 ~x86 > > > > The first / you wrote is missing! > > > > kh > > > Well sometimes I am just too slow ;-) > Alan was first! > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-19 Thread Vasya Volkov
Liviu Andronic пишет: On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Vasya Volkov wrote: Thanks. But audacity writes to me that it doesn't recognize my wav format. Maybe I have really different form of this format? How can I get informatin about format of my files? `file music.wav' Here: 01.

Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

2009-04-19 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: > > On 20 Apr 2009, at 00:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> ... >>> Start-up messags: >>> ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/rmnologin': Permission denied >> >> That's a very unusual location for init scripts. Did you put them there, >> instead of in the more usual /etc/init.d/? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

2009-04-19 Thread Stroller
On 20 Apr 2009, at 00:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Start-up messags: ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/rmnologin': Permission denied That's a very unusual location for init scripts. Did you put them there, instead of in the more usual /etc/init.d/? I have that file on my systems. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean-up after latest updates

2009-04-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:45:56AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > One of the things xinit does is look for the variable XSESSION. If set, it > will read the contents of it and try and run that as an X session. There are > no real pluses and minuses to either way. If you admin a huge box with many

Re: [gentoo-user] downgrading gcc

2009-04-19 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 19 April 2009 22:18:24 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> 2) Should I expect any problems with the system if I do >> >> emerge -e system >> emerge -e system [OPTIONAL] >> emerge -e world >> > > Why would you want to do this? > > Do you suspect a toolchain API/ABI bre

[gentoo-user] baselayout slot issue, portage wants to downgrade everything

2009-04-19 Thread darren kirby
K, no idea what's going on. This is a hardened server, just synced a moment ago: - # emerge -puD system These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild NS ] sys-devel/libtool-1.3.5 [1.5.26] 527 kB [0] [ebuild UD] sys-apps/k

Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

2009-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 20 April 2009 01:03:59 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello all, > I have a (nasty) issue with the system start-up, and probably with > corrupted file-system. On start-up, I get several error messages (see > below). I suspect I started having these messages after Gentoo crashed > once, but I cou

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 20 April 2009 01:10:41 Andreas Claesson wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > It is the BIOS that require the bootable flag. > > Some BIOSes seem to only boot from USB if there is a bootable partition > on it. OK, that makes sense -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] downgrading gcc

2009-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 19 April 2009 22:18:24 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Is downgrading gcc allowed within the same major version? If I > wanted to downgrade my gcc from 4.3.2 to 4.1.2 then: It's not a problem. If it were, there would be no point in allowing multiple versions as it would not be possible t

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread Andreas Claesson
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:10:34 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? This was it. It all works now. That is ... weird To the best of my knowledge, nothing in Linux pays any attention to the state

[gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

2009-04-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello all, I have a (nasty) issue with the system start-up, and probably with corrupted file-system. On start-up, I get several error messages (see below). I suspect I started having these messages after Gentoo crashed once, but I couldn't recall the actual circumstances. The problem is that, for e

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Vasya Volkov wrote: > Thanks. But audacity writes to me that it doesn't recognize my wav format. > Maybe I have really different form of this format? How can I get informatin > about format of my files? > `file music.wav' -- Do you know how to read? http://www.

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:10:34 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: > > Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? > > This was it. It all works now. That is ... weird To the best of my knowledge, nothing in Linux pays any attention to the state of the bootable

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge media-libs/libprojectm-0.99-r1

2009-04-19 Thread Dale
John P. Burkett wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> John P. Burkett wrote: >> >>> Alan, >>> Thank you very much for your diagnosis and suggestion. Having no >>> experience downgrading packages, I'm not certain how to implement the >>> proposal to downgrade ftgl. The approach I tried is the following

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge media-libs/libprojectm-0.99-r1

2009-04-19 Thread John P. Burkett
Dale wrote: > John P. Burkett wrote: >> Alan, >> Thank you very much for your diagnosis and suggestion. Having no >> experience downgrading packages, I'm not certain how to implement the >> proposal to downgrade ftgl. The approach I tried is the following: >> I created a /usr/portage/package.mask

[gentoo-user] Genlop -f not quite right.

2009-04-19 Thread Dale
Hi, I renamed my old emerge log file to .old1 to get off to a fresh start with the log file. It was getting pretty large. Anyway, to figure out how long something takes to emerge, I use this command and get this response: r...@smoker / # genlop -f /var/log/emerge.log.old1 -c using logfile /var/

Re: [gentoo-user] downgrading gcc

2009-04-19 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Is downgrading gcc allowed within the same major version? If I > wanted to downgrade my gcc from 4.3.2 to 4.1.2 then: > > 1) Do I simply choose 4.1.2 using gcc-config? > > 2) Should I expect any problems with the system if I do > > emerge -e system > emerge -e system

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-19 Thread Vasya Volkov
Marc Joliet пишет: Am Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:09:00 +0400 schrieb Vasya Volkov : Liviu Andronic пишет: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Vasya Volkov wrote: Hello. Can you suggest some simple program which can make these functions: 1).ape,.cue splitting 2)converting flac/ape/wa

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-19 Thread Vasya Volkov
Liviu Andronic пишет: On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Vasya Volkov wrote: Audacity doesn't support .wav file format. I mean it doesn't convert .wav to mp3, ogg, etc... Soundconverter strange programm. I tried to convert my wav files to mp3 with it and size of files that I get was 20 Mb and

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge media-libs/libprojectm-0.99-r1

2009-04-19 Thread Dale
John P. Burkett wrote: > > Alan, > Thank you very much for your diagnosis and suggestion. Having no > experience downgrading packages, I'm not certain how to implement the > proposal to downgrade ftgl. The approach I tried is the following: > I created a /usr/portage/package.mask file containing t

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-19 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Dale wrote: > >> >> Before downgrading, let me see how to fix cmake. That way if you have >> the same issue, I can tell you what I did to fix it. I don't think >> downgrading is recommended. >> >> I also had trouble with kernels I built u

[gentoo-user] downgrading gcc

2009-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Is downgrading gcc allowed within the same major version? If I wanted to downgrade my gcc from 4.3.2 to 4.1.2 then: 1) Do I simply choose 4.1.2 using gcc-config? 2) Should I expect any problems with the system if I do emerge -e system emerge -e system [OPTIONAL] emerge -e world Thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: 'g-cpan -u' error

2009-04-19 Thread Grant
> I'm not very familiar with g-cpan and I just realized I should be > running 'g-cpan -u' along with 'emerge --sync'.  When I run 'g-cpan > -u', the last chunk of output is: > > Warning: prerequisite version 0 not found. > Could not eval ' >            package ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version; >      

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge media-libs/libprojectm-0.99-r1

2009-04-19 Thread John P. Burkett
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 19 April 2009 18:13:19 John P. Burkett wrote: >> glConsole.cc:50:23: error: FTGL/FTGL.h: No such file or directory >> In file included from glConsole.cc:51: >> /usr/include/FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h:29:5: warning: #warning This header >> is deprecated. Please use from

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Dale wrote: > I am now pretty sure this is a gcc issue.  My emerge -ev world is almost > done

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-19 Thread Denis
I would like to thank everyone who responded for taking the time and explaining ways how my goal can be accomplished. I did look into how a patch may be written, but basically, in my case, I just needed to tweak a couple constants in the Rasmol source code. I haven't educated myself on how to patc

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-19 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Dale wrote: > >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> I am now pretty sure this is a gcc issue. My emerge -ev world is almost done and while I slept my sound started working

[gentoo-user] 'g-cpan -u' error

2009-04-19 Thread Grant
I'm not very familiar with g-cpan and I just realized I should be running 'g-cpan -u' along with 'emerge --sync'. When I run 'g-cpan -u', the last chunk of output is: Warning: prerequisite version 0 not found. Could not eval ' package ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version; no stri

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> >>> I am now pretty sure this is a gcc issue.  My emerge -ev world is almost >>> done and while I slept my sound started working again.  As far as I can >>> tell, everything i

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-19 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Dale wrote: > >> >> I am now pretty sure this is a gcc issue. My emerge -ev world is almost >> done and while I slept my sound started working again. As far as I can >> tell, everything is working again. I think I'm going to wait a while

[gentoo-user] Frox iptables ftp proxy

2009-04-19 Thread D.H.
I'd like to set up an ftp proxy on my home firewall so I can scan for viruses using clamd. I found frox. Which looks like it will do what I want. I've pretty much used the default install which makes frox listen on 127.0.0.1:2121. But, I'm not sure the firewall rules are working right. eth1 is

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? This was it. It all works now. Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge media-libs/libprojectm-0.99-r1

2009-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 19 April 2009 18:13:19 John P. Burkett wrote: > glConsole.cc:50:23: error: FTGL/FTGL.h: No such file or directory > In file included from glConsole.cc:51: > /usr/include/FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h:29:5: warning: #warning This header > is deprecated. Please use from now. There's your error. I

[gentoo-user] No profile selected, unable to utilize --use-old

2009-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Seems that after emerging any version of gcc I see this message No profile selected, unable to utilize --use-old I must have made an incorrect assumption that gcc-config -l which lists profiles was the profile that was being discussed here but I have 4.3.2 selected and still got this message at t

[gentoo-user] Failed to emerge media-libs/libprojectm-0.99-r1

2009-04-19 Thread John P. Burkett
On a x86 machine I am having difficulty emerging media-libs/libprojectm-0.99-r1 When I did "emerge -D -uav world" the response included the following lines: * Messages for package app-text/poppler-bindings-0.10.5-r1: * You need to rebuild everything depending on poppler, use revdep-rebuild * M

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:12:16 -0500, Dale wrote: >>> >>> >>> I was using gcc 4.3 but switched back to gcc 4.1.  I'm not a developer and I don't feel right about filing a bug since I can't really tell

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2

2009-04-19 Thread John P. Burkett
Alex Schuster wrote: > John P. Burkett writes: > >> Doing "PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage emerge -D -uav world" on my amd64 >> machine elicits a response that ends as follows: > [...] >> * Detected file collision(s): >> * >> * /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so >> * >> * Searching all

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2

2009-04-19 Thread John P. Burkett
Gregory Shearman wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > > Completed installing ati-drivers-8.552-r2 into >> * >> * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... >> * >> * Press Ctrl-C to Stop >> * >> * x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 >> * /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2

2009-04-19 Thread Alex Schuster
John P. Burkett writes: > Doing "PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage emerge -D -uav world" on my amd64 > machine elicits a response that ends as follows: [...] > * Detected file collision(s): > * > */usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so > * > * Searching all installed packages for file coll

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-19 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:12:16 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >> >>> I was using gcc 4.3 but switched back to gcc 4.1. I'm not a developer >>> and I don't feel right about filing a bug since I can't really tell them >>> what is broke but something is wron

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 18:03 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome > > > was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last > > > night, and now she can't get her usu

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use newer version of a package ?

2009-04-19 Thread KH
KH schrieb: > > > =media-sound/rosegarden-1.7.3 ~x86 > > The first / you wrote is missing! > > kh > Well sometimes I am just too slow ;-) Alan was first!

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use newer version of a package ?

2009-04-19 Thread KH
Thomas Chef schrieb: > I want to use Rosegarden, and the latest stable version (according to > www.rosegardenmusic.com) is 1.7.3 > > But when I use emerge rosegarden I only get version 1.5.1 ? > > I tried to create a /etc/portage/package.keywords: > =/media-sound/rosegarden-1.7.3 ~x86 > > But th

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-19 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:09:00 +0400 schrieb Vasya Volkov : > Liviu Andronic пишет: > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Vasya Volkov > > wrote: > > > >> Hello. > >> Can you suggest some simple program which can make these functions: > >> 1).ape,.cue splitting 2)converting flac/ape/wav to ogg

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Vasya Volkov wrote: > Audacity doesn't support .wav file format. I mean it doesn't convert .wav to > mp3, ogg, etc... Soundconverter strange programm. I tried to convert my wav > files to mp3 with it and size of files that I get was 20 Mb and more (same > with wav

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

2009-04-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > You can use "convert" from imagemagick to resize to thumbnail size and > save as a different file format. > I knew about "convert", but I was looking for smth batch, and it's imagemagick's mogrify [1]. For personal use, I defined in emelFM2's

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-19 Thread Vasya Volkov
Liviu Andronic пишет: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Vasya Volkov wrote: Hello. Can you suggest some simple program which can make these functions: 1).ape,.cue splitting 2)converting flac/ape/wav to ogg mp3 etc. 3)cutting parts of audio files? Please with overlay if one there is.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use newer version of a package ?

2009-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 19 April 2009 10:12:17 Thomas Chef wrote: > I want to use Rosegarden, and the latest stable version (according to > www.rosegardenmusic.com) is 1.7.3 > > But when I use emerge rosegarden I only get version 1.5.1 ? > > I tried to create a /etc/portage/package.keywords: > =/media-sound/rose

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use newer version of a package ?

2009-04-19 Thread ms
Thomas Chef wrote: I want to use Rosegarden, and the latest stable version (according to www.rosegardenmusic.com) is 1.7.3 But when I use emerge rosegarden I only get version 1.5.1 ? I tried to create a /etc/portage/package.keywords: =/media-sound/rosegarden-1.7.3 ~x86 But this doesnt seem to

[gentoo-user] How to use newer version of a package ?

2009-04-19 Thread Thomas Chef
I want to use Rosegarden, and the latest stable version (according to www.rosegardenmusic.com) is 1.7.3 But when I use emerge rosegarden I only get version 1.5.1 ? I tried to create a /etc/portage/package.keywords: =/media-sound/rosegarden-1.7.3 ~x86 But this doesnt seem to help: # emerge --upda

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 19 April 2009 03:33:18 Denis wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of > molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic > sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored > in a header file with

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean-up after latest updates

2009-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 19 April 2009 05:18:25 Walter Dnes wrote: [snip] > 2) I go through /var/log/portage/elog after updates, and check for > warnings. I got the following with xinit-1.0.8-r4 > > > WARN: postinst > > If you use startx to start X instead of a login manager like gdm/kdm, > > you can set the

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-2.24.1 failed

2009-04-19 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:50:28 + Hung Dang wrote: > Hi all > I can not build gnome-base/gnome-keyring because it could not find > libtasn1-config script. > Any suggestion? > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266554 /loki_val

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2

2009-04-19 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Completed installing ati-drivers-8.552-r2 into > * > * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... > * > * Press Ctrl-C to Stop > * > * x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 > */usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so > * > * Package 'x11-dr