Re: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread alex stone
Thank you gentlemen. That gives me something to chase. The help is appreciated. Alex. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.au wrote: have here (pentium-mmx) into a firewall/router. I tried a live cd, with the intent of building up a 32bit chroot in my big box

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS error when printing from GTK+ print dialog

2009-04-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Morten Holt writes: When I try to print from a program using the GTK+ print dialog, e.g. Firefox og Evince, i get the following line: Request from localhost using invalid Host: field ::1 [...] The problem seems to have startet after a recent upgrade of CUPS. I hope anybody has an idea on

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 13:45 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Michael Sullivan writes: On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 18:03 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I don't know what resolution default is.It doesn't say. How do I find out? Try

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

2009-04-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Monday 20 April 2009 01:03:59 Liviu Andronic 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/? That's

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 usual screen

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

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your root filesystem (after first checking the contents). Or into

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade error

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
김무성 writes: For installing vmware My kernel version is 2.6.24-gentoo-r5. But I have no source files. So I downloaded source files. But that’s version 2.6.27-gentoo-r8. When I installed vmware, it told me kernel version and kernel source files’ version no match. I have to kernel upgrade.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it when my keyboard became dead. It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X that cannot read the keyboard. I couldn't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 3200 woes [solved, sort of]

2009-04-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: On Montag 13 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with ATI Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now? [...] a) the drivers you tried are acient All newer ones did not compile. I think. I tried so

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel Troeder writes: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 05 April 2009 21:45:16 Daniel Troeder wrote: When updates hit the portage tree, that are known to cause problems to lots of people - why not tell that directly after the --sync? Unfortunate

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon woes

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: I already have the hal USE flag set. I added evdev to INPUT_DEVICES, and tried again with and without existing xorg.conf. No real change - X starts

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon woes

2009-04-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Monday 13 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with ATI Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now? [...] I'm out of ideas now. Do you have any advice? A friend also has trouble with her Radeon X1550 card

[gentoo-user] Radeon woes

2009-04-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Dear Gentooers, I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with ATI Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now? I tried all sorts of ati-drivers, most (if any) did not compile. But that was because of tuxonice-2.6.29, so I downgraded to the stable

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] Installing outside of Portage cruft removal

2009-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant wrote: I'd like to install the latest miro from their nightlies and that means installing manually without an ebuild. I've always avoided this because I don't want files spread across my system without an easy way to remove them. I've also always wanted to set up a good cruft removal

Re: [gentoo-user] problems running doxygen from cron

2009-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Dirk Uys wrote: I have a problem when running doxygen from a cron job. It seems like doxygen is simply aborting at an arbitrary point during execution. I tried to search on the internet, but could not find anything similar reported. [...] My cron entry is 45 * * * * /home/user/script.sh

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs blocking question

2009-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Geralt wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: You don't need to remove anything, just let portage handle the block for you. Blocks marked with a b (instead of a B) can be handled by recent portage releases. are you sure that his works in this

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:47:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: for I in $(seq 1 15) ; do If you're using bash or zsh,you can speed this up with for I in {1..15}; do You can even use C style: for (( i=1; i = 15; i++ )); do Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] if I unmerge XYZ...

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew Gaydenko writes: Is there a way to predict which dependecies will be unsatisfied at case of unmerging some package without real unmerging? emerge --depclean -pv XYZ Wonko

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Speaking of md5sum/shasum, do you know some tool that adds data redundancy? I heard dvddistaster does this, but I guess it is limited to DVDs. No, it is not. It would be great fo find a general data redundancy tool. emerge dvdisaster and see if it suits

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I apologize if it is a duplicate). I don't think so. If anyone has any ideas at all about how to go about fixing/mounting this, I will

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

2008-11-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant wrote: If it doesn't start I'm locked out of the remote system. You may be interested in : /etc/init.d/sshd reload I get: # /etc/init.d/sshd reload * Reloading sshd ... No /usr/sbin/sshd found running; none killed. [ ok ] /etc/init.d/ssh zap should do it. If

Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

2008-11-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: I'm wondering if anyone has a good way to convert a large hierarcy of directories populated with FLAC files to a new set of directories using mp3 instead? The FLAC directory contains something like 2 files so I need the converted structure to replicate the original.

Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-05 Thread Alex Schuster
James Homuth writes: Apparently a later version of Portage will correct it, but if you're running 2.1.4.5 you're probably fixing it manually. That's been my experience anyway. On the PC I am writing this, portage 2.2 had no trouble with this update. But on another, which was upgraded to

Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-05 Thread Alex Schuster
KH writes: To be on the save side of gentoo :-) quickpkg ss com_err e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs Yeah, that saved me some trouble. imho quickpkg is a good idea whenever changing something which ist part of system. Or you can put buildyspkg into your FEATURES list in make.conf. Then, whenever

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: Having a second install is a reasonable idea. I suppose I can probably install that remotely but I cannot test it remotely (AFAIK) without someone handy to choose the right line in the grub menu... You can use the grub-set-default command to boot another than the default

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying KDE-4

2008-10-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:15:34 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: That was a good idea, one that I ought to have thought of but didn't. Unfortunately, it's made no difference at all. Emerge -upDvN world still gives the same block: [...] To recap, the only version of qt

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying KDE-4

2008-10-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Repost the output of your emerge command using the -t option. Tip: tricky blockers often require that you post the output of 'emerge -t'. Otherwise all we know is THAT you have a block and no way to determine WHY it's happening. If you are going to post emerge output,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM: Keyboard problems after X update

2008-10-18 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: I'm in the middle of a world update, but X stuff seems to be updated now. The problem is that the keyboard does not work as before. I think the solution was to upgrade xorg-server. I thought it had already been upgraded along with all the other X stuff, but it wasn't. 420 packages

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM: Keyboard problems after X update

2008-10-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Jean-Marc Beaune writes: Did emerge told you to update some config files? Sure, LOTS. Especially in /usr/share/X11/xkb, which is now added to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. But everything has been updated already using dispatch-conf. Wonko

[gentoo-user] KDM: Keyboard problems after X update

2008-10-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I'm in the middle of a world update, but X stuff seems to be updated now. The problem is that the keyboard does not work as before. It's a german keyboard. Here are expected keys, and the results: ß \ ö [ ä ] ü @ Keys like @ (Alt-Gr q), | (Alt-Gr ) and ~ (Alt-Gr +} do not work at

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of portage - segfault testing

2008-10-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: motion keeps segfaulting on me, I've been over it with the motion list, and we're down to this: [quote] i've checked with a gentoo user in #motion channel wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/motion/motion-3.2.10.1.ta r.gz tar xfvz motion-3.2.10.1.tar.gz cd

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Alexander Puchmayr writes: On Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2008, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I had one of this freezes today. Simply killed X using CTRL+SYSREQ+K and got back a console with error messages. Have you tried the SYSREQ keys? How does this work? I've tried it but I didn't get this

[gentoo-user] expat... once again

2008-10-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Yes, there are still gentoo machines out there running libexpat-1, and I am upgrading one now. I survived several of those upgrades yet, but those were PCs I had better access to, and where a huge revdep-rebuild was no big problem. But this machine here is slow, and I do not have

Re: [gentoo-user] expat... once again

2008-10-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Robert Bridge writes: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:19:48 +0200 Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [my personal expat upgrade trick] Stupid idea, but would the current ~ portage now make the whole upgrade a lot easier with FEATURES=preserve-libs ? Oh. Yes. The new portage. Sorry, I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman

2008-10-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Erik Hahn wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 05:24:27PM -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does software rot when it's unmaintained or why is that a problem? No, but it develops incompatibilities over time... So far, it works fine. +1 If

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerge hal

2008-10-08 Thread Alex Schuster
M. Sitorus writes: Hello, i'm having trouble emerging hal. Emerge stops with this error: make: *** [all] Error 2 * * ERROR: sys-apps/hal-0.5.9.1-r3 failed. [...] I have been trying to following: 1. revdep-rebuild 2. re-emerge expat 3. emerge the current hal

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror

2008-09-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: On Wednesday 17 September 2008, kashani wrote: Vaeth wrote: Could you please use a mail client which insert correctly the fields In-Reply-To ans Reference ? Thanks for the hint, I was not aware of this. But unfortunately, it appears that it is not

Re: [gentoo-user] [getting on-topic I think] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: kashani wrote: Dale wrote: [Google stores emails forever, reads them, may combine the data with your google searches, can create user profiles] But isn't this true of any ISP or email host? No! I guess about all of them have privacy statements that do not allow this. If

Re: [gentoo-user] boost, vte, gnumeric get stuck in python-updater

2008-08-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Grant wrote: On the two systems I've updated to python-2.5, boost, vte, and gnumeric appear as python-updater emerges no matter how many times I emerge them. Does anyone know why this happens? I'm not sure if this is related but may be worth a try. Quoted from another

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] updatedb/locate - reasons to use

2008-07-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Beau Henderson writes: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there (emerge/revdep-rebuild/other portage tools related) situations when fs db creating is useful? I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] media-video/totem-2.20.3 Access violation

2008-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Ivan Alden wrote: When I run a revdep-rebuild or emerge totem I get an access violation error when the system tries to compile totem. Anyone knows what could be wrong? Thanks Source compiled. --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --- LOG FILE =

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] (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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] Konqueror crashes with latest flash

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: When I go to http://www.speedtest.net the flash content does not show (just a white frame in its place) and if I close konqueror I get a signal 11 sigserv. This is what the terminal shows: [...] Rebuilding flash, nspluginviewer and konqueror has not fixed this, neither has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I'm interested in what I might run into. So far it looks like it would be ALMOST as easy as symlinking ksh to bash in /bin. Uh, this sounds scary :) The two big things I see that will cause that not to work are lots of calls to `print' and that bash does not

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I was really just saying that syntax at my low level of usage is largely interchangeable but for the cases I mentioned. So it makes switching scripting shells from ksh93 to bash pretty smooth

Re: [gentoo-user] fails to emerge app-office/openoffice-2.3.1

2007-12-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Rumen Yotov writes: Vasiliy G Tolstov написа: package app-office/openoffice-2.3.1 NOT merged Detected file collision(s): /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/ru_RU.aff /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/ru_RU.dic [...] Put '-collision-protect' in FEATURES in /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run binary packages

2007-12-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I've emerged firefox-bin and skype successfully, but neither will run with very similar errors: Do these threads help? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-583184.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-565649.html http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182248

[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?

2007-11-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Sven Köhler writes: Samba 3.0.24 works like charm. Just switched back to it. But watch out, it has a huge security problem: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-29.xml Wonko -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Teng Wang writes: Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what should I do to recover? With a litle luck,

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems that the

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild issues

2007-11-12 Thread Alex Schuster
James writes: Upon a routine upgrade, I followed up with revdep-rebuild -p. The problem is the system wants to rebuild versions of packages that are very old. 'equery depengs package reveals that nothing is dependent of the first few packages. [...] I'm open to suggestions as to how to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: The background of the image looks green to me (0, 255, 0), but identify claims it's white. Is there a way I can know for sure without having to go through all the RGB codes? The convert created BMP's won't open in gimp Strange. I suggest asking the experts on

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-10 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the same problem and I was trying to solve it few weeks ago, after almost two weeks of searching and compiling I substituted =~ with expr: - orig use with ~= : # if [[ test =~ .* ]]; then echo ok; fi - alternative use with expr : # export TEST_VAR=test #

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong writes: The situation: I have some bash scripts written. The scripts contains a lot of string comparisons. Perhaps my code was buggy before, perhaps it was not, but the change Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now forces string matching,

Re: [gentoo-user] Huge problem

2007-10-21 Thread Alex Schuster
'*._cfg*' should return nothing then. Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles

2007-10-20 Thread Alex Schuster
the install manually. Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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