Re: [gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-22 Thread Alex
. greetz alex -- We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID controller

2009-02-15 Thread Alex
Mick wrote: Hi, Hi All, I am thinking of installing Gentoo on a Dell box with this RAID controller: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/RAID/PERC5/en/UG/HTML/chapter1.htm Has anyone got experience with this hardware? What will I need to include in the kernel? Will I need any

Re: [gentoo-user] ot dvd authoring

2007-03-09 Thread Alex
which not worked by me, is to create an animated menu. thanks in advance no problem at all greetz alex -- * IMPORTANT: 217 config files in /etc need updating We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage date

2007-03-09 Thread Alex
I want, but I don't know how to find it... is there any way? newer versions of portage write an logfile in /var/log/emerge.log There you can see when the last sync was. Another way is to look at the timestamps of the files in /usr/portage. Look for the newest one ;-) greetz alex

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
are bigger and faster. Please correct my, if I'm not right. Thanks. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: ...to delete contents of /var/tmp/portage/. ? I run out of resources ;) thank you very much for any helpful reply in advance! mcc Yes you can, if you're not emerging something. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
a lot less time to compile with -Os compared to -O3. The time I need to compile isn't my problem, and if it would, I think I could easy use -O0 ;) BTW, is gcc 4.1 faster than 3.4? I've some benchmarks about gcc4, but not compared with 3.4. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Alex
! Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Alex
Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Thu, 25 May 2006 10:40:26 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: You have to do experiments. It depends heavily on your application mix. Yes, that would be the best, but I'm wondering how, because e.g. time bzip2 -9 foobar wouldn't be helpfull

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-26 Thread Alex
Alex wrote: Now I'm emerging -e world with -Os. When it is finished, I'll mail you the results. Hi, now I have a -Os-system and it isn't faster. So now I'll emerge the whole system again, but with -O3. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-13 Thread Alex
not in the documentroot) greetz alex -- * IMPORTANT: 217 config files in /etc need updating -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file

2005-08-20 Thread Alex
On Friday 19 August 2005 15:18, Grant wrote: sort -u links.txt | xargs -n 1 -i{} sh -c 'for i in {}; do wget -c $i break; done' How about this instead, $ wget -ci links.txt It always did the job for me :) -- Cheers, Alex. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file

2005-08-20 Thread Alex
but i can't be much of a help, my bash scripting knowledge is limited... -- Cheers, Alex. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file

2005-08-22 Thread Alex
package, so it might be downloaded after-all :) Those error could be some bad urls in the ebuilds. Just a guess, I don't know... -- Cheers, Alex. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
/MFM/RLL support ---[*] IDE Taskfile Access boot with your new kernel and enjoy your movies ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpo1qB3cnILR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
-- Cheers, Alex. pgpxFMIMNbQNu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcpdump warning in emerge world -u output

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
to do anything, it's not a problem. QA notices are addressed to ebuild developers. :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpHHC9ZykwUY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
on settings-- xine engine options -- media--expert options tab -- dvd.raw_device ) Also if you have upgraded from a pre-1 xine-lib you should have removed your old configurations. Well your xine.log looks normal (too me) Sorry but I cant be of more help here... Good Luck :) -- Cheers, Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
... -- Cheers, Alex. pgpKYBBI0d6B0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
On Sunday 28 August 2005 21:33, Makurin Roman wrote: В сообщении от Понедельник 29 августа 2005 04:22 Alex написал(a): On Sunday 28 August 2005 19:56, Nick Rout wrote: also, does mplayer still play dvd's? or a previous version of xine-lib? I tryed both xine-lib-1.1.0(my previous

Re: [gentoo-user] How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
with # - one DEPEND atom per line - relational operators are not allowed - must include a version . . . . == -- Cheers, Alex. pgp1Wuoz2CIGV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
to a newer one only if you see it pulled as a dependency. Just enter the latest version available in portage and you should be ok for a long time :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpIO3m3MtbGm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
On Monday 29 August 2005 12:32, Ric de France wrote: Any suggestions on what could be the problem? Any comments greatly appreciated. Is it the same as this one? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103860 -- Cheers, Alex. pgpqHbxniI6qX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
for the fix to be synced into portage. :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpxN9LJKQsZF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
On Monday 29 August 2005 16:51, Michael Kintzios wrote: What's the appropriate way to format a floppy with FAT using Linux, so that it can be used in M$Windoze without the need of a native re-formatting? # mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0 -- Cheers, Alex. pgphQj8fBbRIL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-31 Thread Alex
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 06:06, Makurin Roman wrote: The problem has gone with xine-lib-1.1.0-r2 :-) Yay! :) the devs know better ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgp11riY59DLC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-31 Thread Alex
headers. -- Cheers, Alex. pgp0FbrYaGhUB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge toggling arts, kdelibs, kwin between 3.4.1 and 3.4.2

2005-09-03 Thread Alex
package.keywords. HTH :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpcaLgdfz3XX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is man-pages-de package installed?

2005-09-03 Thread Alex
-nls /etc/portage/package.use Indeed :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpZ8pa9VOp22.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is man-pages-de package installed?

2005-09-03 Thread Alex
a dependency in /etc/portage/package.provided (if they don't exist create them :) ) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpeuYGqVN1Cs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive?

2005-09-05 Thread Alex
encounter problems because of that you can bypass it by adding the following lines in your grub.conf map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) This will (virtually) swap your hard drives. -- Cheers, Alex. pgp62JKxMwwxr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-05 Thread Alex
On Monday 05 September 2005 23:06, John Dangler wrote: Or, does anyone have another recommendation for cd/dvd graphical frontend in gnome? How about gnomebaker? it's in portage. I've used it a bit and it looked pretty good (though not as good as k3b :) ) -- Cheers, Alex. pgp6tbFHWFnlT.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-06 Thread Alex
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 13:35, John Dangler wrote: where do I get eix? # emerge eix ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpFOR7XMpdKt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-08 Thread Alex
this, as from 0.30 I think, with eix-sync. :) but as Nick said those are the tools of the devil and not the way real Gent'men should do it ;) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpA4ShLOigtD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] jack-audio-connection-kit-0.100.0 ??

2005-09-09 Thread Alex
, you no longer need to ebuild /long/path/balh.ebuild digest wow thanx for that :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgp3DwrmtHlAW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] instalation and mount cdrom

2005-09-09 Thread Alex
On Friday 09 September 2005 02:49, Alvin ONeal Jr wrote: mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/cdrom this should be: # mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -- Cheers, Alex. pgpVcQBTNcBWY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update whole system and all applications

2005-09-09 Thread Alex
On Friday 09 September 2005 08:34, pat wrote: What I have to do to update everything within my Linux box ??? emerge --update --deep --newuse world --update --deep will check the whole dependency tree for updates and --newuse will include the packages whose USE-flags changed -- Cheers, Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update whole system and all applications

2005-09-09 Thread Alex
On Friday 09 September 2005 09:12, Frank Schafer wrote: # emerge --update --deep --newuse world # emerge --depclean # revdep-rebuild yeap, that would be the coplete prosedure :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpnqy1uOGLK5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk image

2005-09-10 Thread Alex
. You can take a look at a recent thread called Copying between hard drives potential newbie question. There was a discussion there about the same thing :) HTH -- Cheers, Alex. pgpNTAVfv3WH8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] apache/php: chroot?

2006-07-24 Thread Alex
be chrooted like bind? should work without any problems, like the most of the other standard internet services. try and have a look ;-) greetz alex -- * IMPORTANT: 217 config files in /etc need updating -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Hello All

2010-07-16 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all small testing mail Greeting's alex -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMQGJHAAoJEB8n+SuWCkjv96IIALzEF5v5CP5lUpY+i8XugXcN

Re: [gentoo-user] Hello All

2010-07-16 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Welcome :D Yeahr, some question. How good is Gentoo for a Samba AD environment? I want to install my Gentoo at the work, and for my Data i have to connect to AD. How good will work this with a Gentoo : ? Greetings Alex -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Hello All

2010-07-19 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 16.07.2010 20:18, schrieb Neal Hogan: I'd start a new thread ;-) Thank you, and that me now what to me? xD Greeting -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] Hello All

2010-07-20 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 19.07.2010 16:38, schrieb Neal Hogan: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:19 AM, alex a...@sourcegarden.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 16.07.2010 20:18, schrieb Neal Hogan: I'd start a new thread ;-) Thank you

[gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
/portage/package.use, /etc/make.conf I've read about some issue with 64 bit System, so maybe someone has an idea? Greeting from Germany Alex -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.11.2010 13:09, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Apparently, though unproven, at 14:00 on Monday 01 November 2010, alex did opine thusly: Hi, i need win32codes to play some Videos and i try it now for some days. I installed the codes already

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.11.2010 13:44, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Apparently, though unproven, at 14:32 on Monday 01 November 2010, alex did opine thusly: Am 01.11.2010 13:09, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Apparently, though unproven, at 14:00 on Monday 01 November 2010

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.11.2010 14:13, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Apparently, though unproven, at 14:51 on Monday 01 November 2010, Harry Putnam did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: [...] What shell are you using? What is the output

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Run 32bit mplayer with win32codecs in a 32bit chroot Some other question to this, you mean doing a chroot32? Is there great different between chroot32 and a normal chroot doing it? Greetings from Germany Alex -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install mplayer/vlc with win32codecs

2010-11-01 Thread alex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.11.2010 15:10, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:58 on Monday 01 November 2010, alex did opine thusly: Run 32bit mplayer with win32codecs in a 32bit chroot Some other question to this, you mean doing a chroot32

Re: [gentoo-user] usb error log spam

2010-11-04 Thread alex
Make sure you have the line HALD_VERBOSE=no in /etc/conf.d/hald. -- Fatih is the only one there. Greeting Alex -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJM0sIPAAoJEB8n+SuWCkjv9VoH

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge dev-python/python-dateutil-2.1 failed (compile phase)

2012-08-14 Thread Alex
On 08/14/2012 02:49 AM, Cinder wrote: I'm at a loss, as to how to solve this problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated # emerge --info '=dev-python/python-dateutil-2.1' Portage 2.1.10.65 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.3.8-gentoo x86_64)

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread Alex
simply put a appropriate ln command at the end of these scripts. Sure not the best solution, but if you only have a few machines it is good and simple enough. -- regards alex

Re: [gentoo-user] Openssl 1.0.1c/d have serious issues?

2013-05-23 Thread Alex
-- regards alex

[gentoo-ppc-user] Emerge yaboot troubles

2005-12-16 Thread Alex Decker
here? - Alex -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-27 Thread Alex Schuster
/etc/init.d/runscript.sh /sbin/depscan.sh /sbin/functions.sh /sbin/rc /sbin/rc-update /sbin/runscript /sbin/runscript.sh /sbin/start-stop-daemon /sbin/update-rc /usr/sbin/MAKEDEV Alex -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: deface wrote: It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any baselayout, not just the version you are stating. *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is ***

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Kirkwood writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Of course I did that. emerge --depclean showed me (along many other things) two installed baselayouts, one to remove, the current one to keep. And most of the things were kept, like man pages, but some essential files were not. Looking

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Jerry McBride writes: I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. And secondly, you only get to use it for 30 days... the vmware workstation evaluation copy that is. Right, but you can use the

[gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up when rebooting after an emerge -e world. Do you see any possibility for that? I followed the guide at

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-01-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Dan Farrell writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up when rebooting after an emerge -e world. Do you see any possibility for that? Absolutely

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

2008-02-01 Thread Alex Schuster
maxim wexler writes: Configuring qca-tls ... Verifying Qt 3.x Multithreaded (MT) build environment ... fail Unable to find Qt mkspecs. Please set QTDIR manually. Perhaps you need to install Qt 3 development utilities. You may download them either from the vendor of your operating system

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

2008-02-01 Thread Alex Schuster
maxim wexler writes: --- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler writes: I guess you need Qt version 3 for that, which is not onstalled, according to your emerge output: emerge -a \qt-4 localhost ~ # emerge -a \qt-4 ^^ what

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Liviu Andronic writes: I was wondering if anyone knew how (whether) it is possible to set temporary options to grub. [...] Basically, I would like to issue a command (restart with a certain grub temporary setup change), go make myself a cup of tee and come back and see the Windows login

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-02-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Eric Martin writes: Dan Farrell wrote: You might consider building packages but not installing them -- I think could use --buildpkgonly (aka -B) to achieve this end. If the world emerge with a -B flag finishes successfully, I think that means all packages were built and you are ready to

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong wrote Wonko: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:24:49PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked: I emerged -e again, this time without distcc and ccache. All compiled fine, except for media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r1 (vf_decimate.c:26: error: can't find a register in class

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-users] acpi fails with status 1

2008-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Pupino writes: I'm trying to use acpid with my gentoo laptop; it catches all events (battery, button, ac_adapter) but it can't execute the designed script, in any case. [...] the script is called and it will simply display Power button pressed at the moment. It has execution permissions and

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Uwe Thiem writes: On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted ro immediately and IF not much writing to the disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing .config

2008-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
sean writes: Unfortunately I do not have a current copy of .config. Does anyone know a less painful way of rebuilding than through make menuconfig? I have got to remember to make a backup. You may have one, try zcat /proc/config.gz. You need to have kernel option General setup - Enable acces

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Enrico Weigelt writes: All this leads me back back to the conclusion I already had about 10 years ago: *NEVER EVERY* buy Nvidia cards. (I've made the big mistake buying an notebook with NV graphics, so I even can't replace it :(() Any suggestions on which video cards to buy? I also hate the

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong writes: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs squawked: I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so that I don't get the german man pages installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Schmarck writes: I did as you described. When I now run emerge -vpt man-pages, I get: # emerge -vpt man-pages These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.78 [2.42] USE=nls LINGUAS=-cs% -da%

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble with multilib, chroot'ing, firefox-bin and other compromises (admittedly some minor). I realize I

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-03-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:20:39 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually symlink

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Kaushal Shriyan writes: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded # No idea as what is going on I can reproduce this behaviour when I rename both /dev/random and /dev/urandom. Are they perhaps both missing on your system? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Fei Liu writes: Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here is my setup /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 swap grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no problem. emerge kernel-sources

[gentoo-user] 2 dispatch-conf questions

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Question 1: We all have replace-cvs enabled in /etc/dispatch.conf, do we, because this makes it easy to re-create old config versions. But how exactly would I get back an older version of a file? I've never seen an example yet. Would s.o. like to post a little example or point to

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. How do i go ahead in fixing this issue Thanks and Regards Kaushal I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the boot runlevel? Looking at the init

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Roger Mason writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [/dev/random, /dev/urandom] Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it could fail? Some kernel option? grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: postup() syntax help

2008-04-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Remy Blank writes: Grant wrote: postup() { if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then IIRC, the equality operator is ==, not =. Both is valid in bash. I'd put a set -xv before the if statement, this way you see which statements, if any, get executed. Wonko --

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Robin Atwood writes: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using

Re: [gentoo-user] WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/

2008-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: For whatever reason (and it will be a good technical one) the only version of vmware-modules you can use is 1.0.0.15*. So, you need to: cd /etc/portage echo =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 package.use emerge -avuND world Um, make this package.mask. Oh, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] booting to grub prompt, but config works

2008-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Travis Osterman writes: I'm performing a gentoo installation and have proceeding without problem until I went to reboot. I am greeted with the grub prompt and when issuing $configfile /boot/grub/grub.confthe boot process continues without issue. The grub-install command seemed to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display

2008-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant Edwards writes: On 2008-05-09, Ian Hilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you rebuild the nvidia-drivers module? Yes. The exact same version of nvidia-drivers was being used for both kernels. Any other changes with things that could possibly influence the building of the drivers, like X

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re enter chroot install

2008-05-16 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev [...] Any of the above steps that are not necessary? Other have commented about the .../boot stuff but in dozens of times chrooting during all kinds of install situations I've never done

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano

2008-05-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Bob Young writes: Currently I'm emerging xorg, but after that finishes, I'll first try flipping the debug and spell use flags back and see what that does. It will work. I just emerged nano with debug use flag, and get the same errors as you. Should someone file a bug about this? Or is this

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting CFLAGS for a single build

2008-05-28 Thread Alex Schuster
. Alex Schuster wrote: dhk writes: Does this mean the source was removed after the emerge? If so how can I keep the source. Try adding nostrip to your FEATURES. Um, I meand -nostrip, as I wrote in the example below. But I just tried for myself - I see the -g2 (multiple times

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 superkaramba fails - KDE-3.5.9

2008-05-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: I just upgraded to KDE-3.5.9 and it went very smooth on my x86 boxes but on AMD64 box I got stuck with superkaramba Can anybody with AMD64 can comment on this error: collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [superkaramba] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory [...] We

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-06-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Robin Atwood wrote: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using

Re: [gentoo-user] single package backup

2008-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel Iliev asks: Let's say there's a new version of a given package. I'd like to make a backup, update, test and if I liked the old version better restore. What is (is there?) the Gentoo way to do that? Let's assume you upgrade from package/foo-1.0 to package/foo-1.1. You can then use

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] single package backup

2008-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: You can also add buildpkg to FEATURES, then portage will create a binary package for every package you install. It can use a fair amount of disk space, but it means you can always roll back from a broken version, even if you managed to break portage. And there's also

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
, either absolute or with some ../ in it. Alex -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant asks: Thanks guys, can you tell me how to execute this? Put it in a file and './file' I think? Should I have special stuff at the top of the file? Yes, a '#!/bin/bash', it you want top have thsi as a script. You need to make it executable, too: chmod +x file But you can also leave

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant asks: cd dir1 for i in *jpg do j = basename $i .jpg cp -u ${j}.jpg dir2/${j}_original.jpg done 'cp -u' works around the messy problem of checking if the destination file exists [...] I put the above script in a file, added the appropriate header, issued chmod,

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Roger Mason writes: I'm building a system using a 2006.0 minimal install disk and following the (current) installation docs. I got to the part where it is suggested I upgrade portage. However, there is a blocker: (chroot) livecd / # emerge -p --oneshot portage These are the packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

2008-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale is back: Now, I am just hoping to get this email back and confirm that all is working again. Oh, filed a complaint with the FCC about not having DSL too. Sort of putting a fire under ATT. ;-) 24K dial-up sucks, BIG time. Picture downloading OOo, VERRRY

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've installed grub with for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (10sec) to come from Grub loading Stage1.5 to Grub loading, please

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Alex Schuster
. Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] enable hal in kde

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Schuster
be affected only. But I would update the whole system with emerge --newuse --deep world, so all applications will benefit from HAL. Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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