Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:33:03 -0500, Dale wrote: Now that worked. Where are we told about that dot? I still don't see it on the man page. It has examples in there but no dot on the end. Tar needs to be given files or directories to include, you didn't and that's why it refused to make an

[gentoo-user] sun-j2me Problem

2009-05-01 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I am using sun-j2me for developing a mobile application that's supposed to download some data via http to work with it. It works on my Nokia however in the Emulator I get the message 'Application wants to use airtime' and if I confirm this, nothing happens. Anybody had a similar experience? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:44 -0500, Dale wrote: I try to keep a up to date stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in and create a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:33:03 -0500, Dale wrote: Now that worked. Where are we told about that dot? I still don't see it on the man page. It has examples in there but no dot on the end. Tar needs to be given files or directories to include, you didn't and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Xavier Parizet
Dale a écrit : Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:33:03 -0500, Dale wrote: Now that worked. Where are we told about that dot? I still don't see it on the man page. It has examples in there but no dot on the end. Tar needs to be given files or directories to include, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Daniel Troeder wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:44 -0500, Dale wrote: I try to keep a up to date stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Xavier Parizet wrote: Dale a écrit : Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:33:03 -0500, Dale wrote: Now that worked. Where are we told about that dot? I still don't see it on the man page. It has examples in there but no dot on the end. Tar needs to be given files or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 01 May 2009 03:04:05 -0500, Dale wrote: Tar needs to be given files or directories to include, you didn't and that's why it refused to make an empty archive. Since -C chnges to the directory you want to backup, you use . to tell it to backup the (now) current directory. Would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 01 May 2009 03:04:05 -0500, Dale wrote: Tar needs to be given files or directories to include, you didn't and that's why it refused to make an empty archive. Since -C chnges to the directory you want to backup, you use . to tell it to backup the (now) current

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 1) Better use -cjvpf (f) takes an argument (the filename of that tar to be crated) so it must be at the end. That's why I usually use tar -cjvp -f blabla.tar.bz2. I always seperate options that take an argument from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 30 Apr 2009, at 20:44, Dale wrote: I try to keep a up to date stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in and create a stage 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 1) Better use -cjvpf (f) takes an argument (the filename of that tar to be crated) so it must be at the end. That's why I usually use tar -cjvp -f blabla.tar.bz2. I always seperate

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 30 Apr 2009, at 20:44, Dale wrote: I try to keep a up to date stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in and

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:57 -0500, Dale wrote: How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 1 May 2009, at 10:26, Joerg Schilling wrote: ... Does gnu tar really did copy star behavior and now allows to use -C in extract mode? Surely gtar should not emulate star's behaviour? Surely it is only correct to emulate the

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2009, at 10:26, Joerg Schilling wrote: ... Does gnu tar really did copy star behavior and now allows to use -C in extract mode? Surely gtar should not emulate star's behaviour? Surely it is only correct to emulate the behaviour of some original Unix tar (without prefix, s- or

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2009, at 10:38, Dale wrote: ... Well, I do something like this. Once every few months I extract that stage4 tarball to /mnt/gentoo. I then mount my portage partition to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage. I then mount proc and chroot in. Then I do a emerge -uvDN world to update everything,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

2009-05-01 Thread Grant
X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now I get: Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Xlib: connection to localhost:10.0 refused by server

[gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

2009-05-01 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 01 May 2009, Grant wrote: $ ssh -Y 192.168.10.1 The authenticity of host '192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

2009-05-01 Thread Grant
$ ssh -Y 192.168.10.1 The authenticity of host '192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/home/grant/.ssh/known_hosts). I think the problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

2009-05-01 Thread Grant
$ ssh -Y 192.168.10.1 The authenticity of host '192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/home/grant/.ssh/known_hosts). I think the problem is

[gentoo-user] Unavailable package

2009-05-01 Thread alain . didierjean
For the last 15 days, every call to : # emerge -uDp world returns Failed to emerge dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0.10, Log file: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0.10/temp/build.log' * Messages for package dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0.10: * Fetch failed for

Re: [gentoo-user] Unavailable package

2009-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 01 May 2009 18:38:45 alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: For the last 15 days, every call to : # emerge -uDp world returns Failed to emerge dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0.10, Log file: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0.10/temp/build.log' * Messages for package

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 1 May 2009, at 10:38, Dale wrote: ... Well, I do something like this. Once every few months I extract that stage4 tarball to /mnt/gentoo. I then mount my portage partition to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage. I then mount proc and chroot in. Then I do a emerge -uvDN world to

[gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-01 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
There is a shot of my screen (1.4MB, look at bottom and right panels): http://gaydenko.com/tmp/shot01.png which I get periodically after few hours working under KDE - at some moment crazy things happen :-) There is very long software chain from kernel video driver (intel in my case for

[gentoo-user] Anyone running gnome on ~amd64?

2009-05-01 Thread walt
I'm asking because gnome is working perfectly on my ~x86 machine but not on my ~amd64. The problem is that gnome-settings-daemon and pulse audio are crashing during startup, i.e. they appear as defunct processes once gnome is up and running. It's a bit like the bug a few months ago where the

Re: [gentoo-user] iplayer-dl / get-iplayer Was: Re: Internet radio?

2009-05-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 30 January 2009, Stroller wrote: On 30 Jan 2009, at 19:38, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Stroller wrote: If anyone knows of an overlay which tracks iplayer-dl, BTW, please let me know. I don't know of an overlay and have not used iplayer-dl for some months now.

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: There is a shot of my screen (1.4MB, look at bottom and right panels): http://gaydenko.com/tmp/shot01.png which I get periodically after few hours working under KDE - at some moment crazy things happen :-) There is very

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running gnome on ~amd64?

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:51 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I'm asking because gnome is working perfectly on my ~x86 machine but not on my ~amd64. The problem is that gnome-settings-daemon and pulse audio are crashing during startup, i.e. they appear as defunct processes once gnome is up

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-01 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Saturday 02 May 2009 00:11:50 Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: There is a shot of my screen (1.4MB, look at bottom and right panels): http://gaydenko.com/tmp/shot01.png which I get periodically after few hours working under

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-01 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Saturday 02 May 2009 00:11:50 Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: There is a shot of my screen (1.4MB, look at bottom and right panels): http://gaydenko.com/tmp/shot01.png which I get periodically after few hours working under

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: On Saturday 02 May 2009 00:11:50 Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: There is a shot of my screen (1.4MB, look at bottom and right panels):

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: On Saturday 02 May 2009 00:11:50 Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: There is a shot of my screen (1.4MB, look at bottom and right panels):

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: Only good side-effects. GUI performance in NX What is that NX? :-) A very fast remote desktop, way faster than RDP or VNC. Check out www.nomachine.com is _much_ faster, and all of the corruption problems are completely

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-01 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Only good side-effects. GUI performance in NX What is that NX? :-) is _much_ faster, and all of the corruption problems are completely gone. It used to a lot of unnecessary redraws which seems to be gone now, too. I have seen no bad side-effects so far. But it is using CVS Qt code so your

[gentoo-user] trouble with alsa sound

2009-05-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have two machines desktop (x86_64) and laptop (i686), both with HDA Intel. On the laptop all is well. On the desktop playback is fine, but recording is not, e.g., when using skype my son cannot hear me, but I can hear him. On the (working) laptop alsa mixer shows two (stereo) volumes, capture

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with alsa sound

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I have two machines desktop (x86_64) and laptop (i686), both with HDA Intel. On the laptop all is well. On the desktop playback is fine, but recording is not, e.g., when using skype my son cannot hear me, but I can hear

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with alsa sound

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I have to use 6stack-digout on mine. Oops, that should have said 6stack-dig

[gentoo-user] Was man hier schreibt, man findet es überall!

2009-05-01 Thread Nicolas Richter
Hallo, ich habe gerade gesehen: http://www.google.ch/search?hl=deq=%22Nicolas+Richter%22+gentoobtnG=Suchemeta= Warum werden denn die Beiträge über das ganzen Internet verstreut, daß habe ich jetzt nicht gewusst daß man das überall auf der welt sehen kann, auf ganz vielen verschiedenen seiten

Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS connection through usb

2009-05-01 Thread Simon
You do NOT need PPP, but you do need a fairly recent kernel (= 2.6.27 at least, not sure of the details). You need at least CONFIG_USB_RNDIS_WLAN as m or y. With udev and 'm' things work mostly automatically on the linux side. On the phone you enable advanced networking (or else you will see

Re: [gentoo-user] Was man hier schreibt, man findet es überall!

2009-05-01 Thread Boris Fersing
Hi Nicolas, erstens : hier wird's normalerweise English gesprochen. ;) zweitens : Diese Mailing Liste ist eine öffentliche Mailing Liste, d.h. was hier gepostet wird, kann man ohne Anmeldung an dieser Liste lesen. Es gibt mehrere Website die diese Mailing Liste referenzieren : diese Sogenannte

Re: [gentoo-user] Was man hier schreibt, man findet es überall!

2009-05-01 Thread Nicolas Richter
Hi, erstens : hier wird's normalerweise English gesprochen. ;) sorry! ;-) zweitens : Diese Mailing Liste ist eine öffentliche Mailing Liste, d.h. was hier gepostet wird, kann man ohne Anmeldung an dieser Liste lesen. Es gibt mehrere Website die diese Mailing Liste referenzieren : diese

Re: [gentoo-user] Was man hier schreibt, man findet es überall!

2009-05-01 Thread Boris Fersing
2009/5/2 Nicolas Richter cybernik...@gmx.de: Hi, erstens : hier wird's normalerweise English gesprochen. ;) sorry! ;-) zweitens : Diese Mailing Liste ist eine öffentliche Mailing Liste, d.h. was hier gepostet wird, kann man ohne Anmeldung an dieser Liste lesen. Es gibt mehrere Website die

[gentoo-user] Re: Was man hier schreibt, man findet es überal l!

2009-05-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
(English: This thread is about the OP not knowing that this is a public mailing list.) Nicolas Richter wrote: Hallo, ich habe gerade gesehen: http://www.google.ch/search?hl=deq=%22Nicolas+Richter%22+gentoobtnG=Suchemeta= Warum werden denn die Beiträge über das ganzen Internet verstreut, daß

Re: [gentoo-user] Was man hier schreibt, man findet es überall!

2009-05-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Nicolas Richter wrote: Hallo, ich habe gerade gesehen: http://www.google.ch/search?hl=deq=%22Nicolas+Richter%22+gentoobtnG=Suche meta= Warum werden denn die Beiträge über das ganzen Internet verstreut, daß habe ich jetzt nicht gewusst daß man das überall auf der welt

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running gnome on ~amd64?

2009-05-01 Thread Ivan Kanakarakis
I use Gnome on ~amd64 and everything is working fine. I don't use pulse audio, just alsa. I also had those issues with x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.35 as Paul said. Other than that I can't think of something right now. Are all packages well? `revdep-rebuild` returns no problems ? 2009/5/1

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2009, at 19:33, Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: ... I'm confusled. :/ Why do you update the stage 3, rather than simply creating the stage 4 from your current functioning system? Well, that will be next on my list. I do make backups of my system but having the stage4 would be

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2009, at 20:49, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: There is a shot of my screen (1.4MB, look at bottom and right panels): http://gaydenko.com/tmp/shot01.png which I get periodically after few hours working under KDE - at some moment crazy things happen :-) There is very long software chain

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 1 May 2009, at 19:33, Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: ... I'm confusled. :/ Why do you update the stage 3, rather than simply creating the stage 4 from your current functioning system? Well, that will be next on my list. I do make backups of my system but having the

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: I don't understand how this creates a stage4 of your system. How EXACTLY are you creating the stage4, please? What guide are you following? When I have in the past created a backup stage4 (which I have to admit I've never needed to test), I have used a stage4.exclude file

[gentoo-user] 32 Bit Libraries (Was Adobe Air and TweetDeck)

2009-05-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I followed http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on-gentoo-linux to get the SDK installed and attempted to run TweetDeck 0.25. It starts but I get a lot of errors. Has