Re: [gentoo-user] Masked baselayout = no console colors

2005-06-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: I updated to the masked baselayout and now there is no coloring of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # in the console. Could this be a feature? You probably upgraded bash at the same time. With the new baselayout those colours are set in /etc/bash/bashrc: if [[ -f /etc/DIR_COLORS ]] ; then

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive space low, buildpkg to blame?

2005-06-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: vmware is telling me I'm low on space for /tmp. My hard drive must be filling up and I suspect FEATURES=buildpkg which has been on for a while. What is the best way to find out if those packages are taking up all of my space? Best one I've found is x11-misc/xdiskusage

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked baselayout = no console colors

2005-06-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: The code in my bashrc that seems to correspond with the above code is a bit different so I tried commenting it out and adding your's. I then ran env-update and 'source /etc/profile' but still no colors. Should I post my bashrc? Maybe it wasn't updated properly because my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-17 Thread Holly Bostick
+0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Indeed it is as long as you remember to update-eix after an esync (or emerge sync). Gotta put that in as a cron job or something-- or is there a better way to keep the index current? I run this script as a cron job in the early hours #!/bin/bash emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] portage keywords

2005-06-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Martins Steinbergs schreef: hi, im wondering how to avoid packages from upgrade or downgrade, at last found that ati-drivers-8.14.13 compile with kernel vanilla 2.6.11.11 and it would be good that this pair stays as is while --update world. Martins Well, the ATI drivers won't be

Re: [gentoo-user] portage keywords

2005-06-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Martins Steinbergs schreef: ATI has a policy of not supporting -rc or unreleased/unstable kernels. i tried with vanilla 2.6.12-rc6 - no luck. fglrx wont compile. Yes, that's what I said-- ATI does not support -rc kernels. But the 2.6.12 final release is now in Portage, and it might compile

Re: [gentoo-user] portage keywords

2005-06-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Harald Arnesen schreef: Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the 2.6.12 final release is now in Portage How can 2.6.12 be in portage when the latest versions on kernel.org are 2.6.11.12 and 2.6.12-rc6 ? Sorry, my mistake --misread both the eix output *and* the kernel.org page

Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?

2005-06-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Walter Dnes schreef: Going through some old backup CDs, I found a few obscure DOS games and Chessmaster 3000 (I still have the original install floppies!). I don't want to have to dual-boot or dedicate a machine to them. What are the recommended emulators to use under Gentoo? The DOS

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI radeon drivers/config

2005-06-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Martins schreef: hi, did a lot of googling, read a lot of howtos, but still strugling to get ATI work perfect. could someone send me working conf files for xorg and kernel and /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 to row by row check thanx in advance Martins my pci: # lspci

[gentoo-user] What's wrong with my locales?

2005-06-15 Thread Holly Bostick
I've been trying to get my locales straightened out. I want to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ISO8859-15) as my default encoding. I originally followed the Gentoo Localization Guide and defined the following locales in /etc/locales/build: en_us/ISO-8859-1 en_US.ISO-8859-15/ISO-8859-15 en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:52:37 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Checking GLSA 200506-01 The following updates will be performed for this GLSA: sys-devel/binutils-2.16-r1 (2.16.1) which it has already re-emerged twice, and yet still reports the same vulnerability

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: OK, I'm following both of you so far. Yes, I do have 'multislot' for binutils. I admit it was just guesswork on my part; I read the USE flag description, thought about automake and autoconf, thought that binutils sounded like the kind of system

Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with my locales?

2005-06-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Zac Medico schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: I've been trying to get my locales straightened out. I want to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ISO8859-15) as my default encoding. I originally followed the Gentoo Localization Guide and defined the following locales in /etc/locales/build: en_us/ISO-8859-1

Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with my locales?

2005-06-15 Thread Holly Bostick
understand what I said Hope it helps On 16:21 Wed 15 Jun, Holly Bostick wrote: Thank you also, the only problem is that I don't actually have an ~/.xinitrc, and would have to do some research in order to create one. The fact that I seem to be mostly OK without one also makes me more nervous about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:52:44 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: 1) I thought java 1.5 wasn't there because it was not found by emerge -s java emerge -s jre emerge -s blackdown emerge -av eix Not only is eix much faster than emerge -s but it also shows

[gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:21:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Indeed it is as long as you remember to update-eix after an esync (or emerge sync). Gotta put that in as a cron job or something-- or is there a better way to keep the index current? I run this script

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman schreef: I'm having trouble with the Java Forums site, because Firefox cannot deal with a certificate it gets. Try the login link on http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=57 or any of the other fora. If somebody can point me to the place to report Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well as mailx). As far as sending the email

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well as mailx). As far as sending the email

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: So my questions are: 1) Am I supposed to have 4 versions of binutils in the first place? Do you have USE 'multislot' or 'multitarget' for binutils? If so, then looking at /usr/portage/eclass/toolchain-binutils.eclass it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Wade Brown schreef: So far I've been able to run eclipse, azureus, and mozilla java with no problems using the latest sun-jdk, but do be warned several programs are expected to fail building. I use a variation on this; my system jre and jdk are blackdown-1.4.2, but azureus really really

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync only installed and dependence packages with portage.

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Qian Qiao schreef: Hi, As the title suggested, I've got a box with very limited disk space, is it possible to sync only the packages currently installed and their dependencies with the portage tree and leave out the rest? TIA. -- Joe Hi, I don't think so, but I don't think it makes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rc.conf is very short now?

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: I think PROTOCOLS was voted off the island. Watching a bit too much Survivor/Big Brother/The Real World (any city)/The Farm/The Bus/Temptation Island/Expeditie Robinson/Celebrity Survivor/Idols/American Idols/America's Next Top Model lately? :D Holly --

Re: [gentoo-user] Reboot when GRUB starts

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Colin schreef: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Colin wrote: /boot/grub/grub.conf === default 0 timeout 10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r9 root (hd0,0) kernel=/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hde3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap vga=0x31B Shouldn't that be:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Zac Medico schreef: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Here's what it looks like: treat 1.5-bundles # emerge -av sun-jdk sun-sdk-docs These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.5.0* have been masked. !!! One

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Internationalization [Gnome]

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Rafael Fernández López schreef: Hi ! Everything worked perfectly, until I right-clicked on an audio/video file and clicked on Properties - Audio/Video tab. I'm spanish, all Gnome is compiled with LINGUAS=es and everything is in spanish. I've some folders like Música that means Music and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Zac Medico schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: You also have to echo to /etc/portage/package.keywords-- both packages are twice-masked. So in addition to the above: echo dev-java/sun-jdk ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo dev-java/java-sdk-docs ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman schreef: As I pointed out before, I already did those. Again, here are 'cat's of the files, which nevertheless do not allow an emerge: treat 1.5-bundles # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords app-office/gnucash quotes dev-java/sun-jdk ~x86 dev-java/sun-jre-bin ~x86 treat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman schreef: Thanks, I *did* miss that. Unfortunately, it doesn't fix the problem. Below, I try an emerge, then dump the files again. Maybe I missed two things? Yes. You've unmasked (in /etc/portage/package.unmask) a specific version of the docs (1.4.99, because you used an =

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Zac Medico schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Yes. You've unmasked (in /etc/portage/package.unmask) a specific version of the docs (1.4.99, because you used an = sign, and a version number). However, you're trying to install version 1.5.0 whatever, which you have not unmasked. That's what

Re: [gentoo-user] music.raw?

2005-06-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: I've discovered that whenever I run monsterz the file is created. I don't know why. monsterz is a python script, so I opened it up in vi and searched for the string music.raw but did not find it in /usr/games/monsterz. Maybe something the pygame module or python

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: My network updates its software every night at midnight. There was a problem with a couple of blocking packages night before last, so I unmerged the two blocking packages and did the emerge -avuD world in a screen. Now they're done and I can no longer su - to root

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Walter Dnes schreef: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:17:06PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote PAM is an *optional* dependency; you can compile the program -pam and PAM is an *OPTIONAL PROGRAM*; build your system with... [m450][root][~]cat /etc/portage/package.mask sys-libs/pam Yes, I know

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with emerge

2005-06-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Tim Igoe schreef: Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi all I am having some problem with emerge, I had emerged bootsplash, then I discover in this list that for newer kernels we should use splashutils, then I unmerged bootsplash and emerged splashutils, now I am trying to update my system and I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-11 Thread Holly Bostick
-notification-Message: Mail Notification is already running It claims to be already running, but I don't see it anywhere on the panel. I have a notification area applet running, but it's not showing me anything... On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 11:22 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: If you don't have any mail

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrxconfig

2005-06-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Shields schreef: after you emerged ati-drivers, did you modprobe the driver and/or add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x (where x is your minor version, e.g. 4 or 6, as in 2.4 or 2.6)? I just replaced my ati card, so I'm not sure what the module name is. Unsurprisingy, the

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with emerge

2005-06-11 Thread Holly Bostick
YoYo Siska schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Tim Igoe schreef: Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi all I am having some problem with emerge, I had emerged bootsplash, then I discover in this list that for newer kernels we should use splashutils, then I unmerged bootsplash and emerged splashutils

Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?

2005-06-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Govind Chandra schreef: Just installed Gentoo 2005.0. cdrecord -scanbus says there are issues with kernel 2.5 and newer. Is there any way of writing CDs in Gentoo 2005.0? Govind Of course there is... don't you think you'd have heard about it if none of us could write CD's and DVDs?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CDRW media source

2005-06-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: Does anyone have a good online source for cheap and reliable CDRW media? - Grant I'm very fond of Opus Supplies, but again they only are available to you if you're in Western Europe (and shipping gets fairly pricey if you're not in NL or BE): www.opus.nl Holly --

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge curiosity

2005-06-09 Thread Holly Bostick
reg hughson schreef: As shown below, why wouldn't emerge -u world pick up the update available for gdm? Actually, I think it is probably because it is not listed in /var/lib/portage/world so I guess I am actually wondering why it wouldn't be listed there? Obviously my system knows

Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?

2005-06-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Rob schreef: At 10:35 AM 6/9/2005, Rob wrote: At 04:50 AM 6/9/2005, you wrote: Govind Chandra schreef: Just installed Gentoo 2005.0. cdrecord -scanbus says there are issues with kernel 2.5 and newer. Is there any way of writing CDs in Gentoo 2005.0? Govind Of course there

Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?

2005-06-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Rob schreef: At 10:55 AM 6/9/2005, you wrote: --- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: procedure, that is, use an ide atapi interface, only it didn't work out for me the first time. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Hi Rob, What do you mean it didn't work out? More specific

Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?

2005-06-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Rob schreef: At 10:55 AM 6/9/2005, you wrote: --- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: procedure, that is, use an ide atapi interface, only it didn't work out for me the first time. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Hi Rob, What do you mean it didn't work out? More specific

Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?

2005-06-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: so the correct syntax to access my burner would be cdrecord dev=0,0,0 whatever comes after that. The whole /dev/hdc thing is just not correct (it's dev= whatever). Check the man page for more info. Actually Holly, both methods should work

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware problem

2005-06-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Bill Six schreef: Hi, This isn't a Gentoo related problem, but a hardware one (I know next to nothing about hardware). First of all I have a Micron computer with a floppy drive, DVD-read drive (/dev/hdc), CDR drive (/dev/hdd), a master harddrive (/dev/hde), and a slave harddrive

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error Bad interpretor

2005-06-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Ognjen Bezanov schreef: Zac Medico wrote: --- Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I set the portage_tmpdir in my make.conf file, and have tried emerging some packages. But there is a problem, because i keep getting errors no matter what I emerge, the error looks like this:

Re: [gentoo-user] fix_libtool_files.sh question

2005-06-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: I've run into a problem trying to emerge gnome-vfs on one of my systems. It complains about libstdc++.la but there is a bug report that indicates running fix_libtool_files.sh will fix it. How do I know which old-gcc-version to use? - Grant It's in the error message. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] A better USE flags documentation?

2005-06-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Colin schreef: I've been Gentooing for some time now, but there are still USE flags that confound me. Like ftp and ssl, for instance--do you need those to make FTP/HTTPS connections in a web browser, or are those flags just for incoming connections, as with FTP/Web servers? If a USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] esd or arts, sound daemon howto

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Eckert schreef: Even if you're not running KDE you can install arts standalone and start it via any login script. Dunno where esound can get started. rc-update in other words, rc-update add esound default . Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
fire-eyes schreef: When performing an emerge -pv world on an x86 server, I got this today: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-libs/pam-0.78 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Shields schreef: I'd highly recommend you don't add ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 to your make file, as this will cause your system to emerge with all ~x86 (testing/unstable) packages upon next emerge. Add this to your /etc/portage/package.keywords: =sys-libs/pam-0.78 then emerge -pv again. I

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: The discs that won't mount do play in a CD player just fine. Any ideas? Are these then regular Redbook audio CDs you've burned? Those don't need to be mounted. Just put them into the drive, open your media player of choice and play them as you would a 'retail' audio CD. Holly --

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Mats Lidell schreef: Kurt Guenther wrote: I had started a quest to remove evolution, by removing a few evolution packages, that might have caused the problem with the not-complete-gnome-to-2.10 update. But as I said the update probably removed all clues since it reinstalled evolution for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] meta-question: how can I receive the messages that I send to the ML?

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Antonino Sabetta schreef: I'm popping Gmail too, with KMail, but do see my own posts. My fault, sorry :( I set up a filter in Thunderbird to move every message sent by me in the sent folder (so that when I send a msg with gmail via web, I also have a copy of it in my sent folder locally).

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-06-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael W. Holdeman schreef: On Sunday 05 June 2005 10:39 pm, Robert G. Hays wrote: [digest-mode reply] ... my PC is next to my boyfriend's. ... Holly, do you have any idea how many hearts (just about including mine, at this point!) you just broke with that statement? big grin Ya here

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-05 Thread Holly Bostick
schreef: I think I figured it out. Here is my output: bash-2.05b$ firefox \No running windows found /home/omega21/.gtk_qt_engine_rc:62: error: unexpected character `{', expected character `}' /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 547: 16841 Segmentation fault $mozbin $@ firefox-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-05 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: Remove the root (hd0,1) line. That should (I hope) let you boot gentoo from the floppy. Arrrgh! Now when I choose Gentoo from the menu: Booting 'Gentoo' kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue... You might want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: 2) try a different KDE theme via GTK-QT. I had a lot of problems with Liquid, but Plastic is much simpler and might work fine. This is what worked. I am now using krisp, as opposed to Metal4kde. Glad to hear it. Krisp is pretty nice (I liked it too

Re: [gentoo-user] svgalib: Cannot open /dev/svga Is svgalib_helper module loaded?

2005-06-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: I found a tutorial for svgalib this morning. I've always been fascinated by graphics programming, but never found a tutorial that was simple enough for me to follow in the beginning. I liked this tutorial. It provided source code for a simple c program that just

Re: [gentoo-user] svgalib: Cannot open /dev/svga Is svgalib_helper module loaded?

2005-06-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 16:44 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Michael Sullivan schreef: I found a tutorial for svgalib this morning. I've always been fascinated by graphics programming, but never found a tutorial that was simple enough for me to follow in the beginning. I

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Ognjen Bezanov schreef: I am trying to upgrade my gentoo box but the partition where /var/tmp resides is too full. So I tried making a symbolic link to another disk which had a lot of space, but then gentoo refused to compile, giving me permission errors. So im asking, how can you use

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl Upgrade Problem

2005-06-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Watson schreef: Hi - I'm trying to upgrade portage. My existing version of perl comes up as a block. When I tried to remove the package I received a warning about damaging the system. Can anyone tell me if it's OK to proceed. Output below. Thanks a lot, Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user [SOLVED!]

2005-06-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: Hi, I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as a user (works fine as root). After my partial success, I did the following 1) a revdep-rebuild 2) upgraded back up

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Gysin schreef: maxim wexler wrote: Yes, thanks, emerge --sync is awesome! But must it run so long? I started more than an hour ago and it's still churning away. I noticed it started another server(went from Xeon to P4) and kept on going. Does it know enough to stop? Is it repeating

[gentoo-user] It's baaaaack...! (Python 2.4.1)

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi all, I seem to have painted myself into a corner, and hope that someone can see a way out before I repeat my previous mistakes. The short version is that, after my previous thread about removing an extra version of Python (2.4.1 when I already had 2.3.5 installed), Portage now wants to

Re: [gentoo-user] It's baaaaack...! (Python 2.4.1)

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 31 May 2005 17:06:55 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: The short version is that, after my previous thread about removing an extra version of Python (2.4.1 when I already had 2.3.5 installed), Portage now wants to re-emerge Python 2.4.1, and I can't seem to prevent

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Andreas Karlsson schreef: Hi, KDE 3.4.1 was released today: http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.4.1.php I am compiling it right now. Just a little question regarding aRTS. I compiled into 3.4.0 but now I have decided to dump it. Could there be any problem compiling with

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: On Tue, 31 May 2005, Bruno Lustosa wrote: Hello. I am in need of an application like Visio. I tried messing with dia, but it's still far from what I need, for it lacks lots of useful features. What program do the list recommend? Take a look at Inkscape.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: But isn't emerge --sync a different command from the more traditional emerge sync ? In An Intro to Portage it's emerge --sync and if that fails, emerge-websync but that failed too. 1) What is the speed of your Internet connection? Slightly faster than I

[gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi, I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as a user (works fine as root). The splash screen comes up, but only 2 icons show in the progress bar before the splash disappears-- Sessions, and Window

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Antonino Sabetta schreef: Andreas Karlsson wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: Andreas, I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa switch. Since I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with alsa+dmix+arts, can you explain how do you

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 31 May 2005 14:51:49 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: Whoa! IIRC splashimage is optional. Can somebody weigh in here? Yes, it is optional, and worth disabling if you have problems. GRUB will bail out with no error message if you set an incorrect path for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Chris Woods schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Hi, I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as a user (works fine as root). [...] I had this problem pretty persistently for a long time. I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: And which OS are you choosing from the menu again, maxim (assuming you get to a menu)? Or does this affect all OSes in your menu? no choice. After grub-install I get the Grub loading stage1.5 Grub loading, please wait... message(white text,black bg). To get back

Re: [gentoo-user] CFS Howto

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Shawn Singh schreef: Hey all, I was attempting to encrypt my home directory using the CFS Howto as my guide, but I am not getting far at all... When trying to emerge cfs, I'm getting the following message: convert usr # emerge app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14 Calculating dependencies !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /etc/portage/profile/package.provided Where to look to learn about the required syntax? man portage :) Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to delete messages from server in Kmail

2005-05-30 Thread Holly Bostick
askar ... schreef: I see. Very sad. Do other mail clients like sylpheed-claws or thunderbird support this feature? askar Sorry, askar, just got around to checking this. YES, Thunderbird does support this feature: (translated from Dutch, may not be exact, but should be close enough)

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.4.1?

2005-05-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Volker Armin Hemmann schreef: On Monday 30 May 2005 12:11, Jan Meier wrote: Anyone have an idea when this show goes on the road? There is actually no release announcement at kde.org. Strange that there is a ebuild for that. Greets Jan well, it is usuall, that the ebuilds are ready,

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging extra python

2005-05-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Ow Mun Heng schreef: On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 18:07 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Jason Stubbs schreef: On Thursday 26 May 2005 23:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:24:28 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Now of course I know that Portage depends on Python, and I certainly don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-30 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: Hello everyone, on my former main box, K6-II, 500MHz I've managed to get to startx and, since grokking dialup, am web-surfing. Here's the issue: when Firefox opened up the first time it invited me to upgrade which I did by clicking the link provided. But now when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-05-30 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: It no longer tells me that it cannot find tux but it still says that port 631 is aready in use and dies. Creighton I would first open the CUPS administration web interface (http://localhost:631 in your web browser) and see if the printer had some stuck jobs in

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-05-30 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Holly Bostick wrote back: It no longer tells me that it cannot find tux but it still says that port 631 is aready in use and dies. I would first open the CUPS administration web interface (http://localhost:631 in your web browser) and see

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Ciaran McCreesh schreef: On Sat, 28 May 2005 12:43:49 -0500 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Besides the /opt vs. /usr problem, I don't like how I have to | delete /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom everytime baselayout (?) is updated, | since the correct place (and the one I use)

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-05-28 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: None of the other logs have anyhting that jumps out at me, but this would imply that cupsd is dying because my machine is naming itself tux and cups cannot determine that means Localhost here. Any gurus know how I should go about fixing this? Creighton

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike Owen schreef: On 5/25/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? Also I

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Thu, 26 May 2005 10:24:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: For changing series, I definitely prefer to look at the kernel config anyway, to see what options the series' patches have added, but for upgrading within the same series, if nothing has really changed, it's nice

[gentoo-user] Unmerging extra python

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Yes, I've done something dopey. Checked the forums but didn't see anything helpful before the fact, as it were. The short version is that an program I emerged from overlay wanted Python 2.4 (I have 2.3.5 already). The Python dep was installed in a new slot, but the program wouldn't compile

Re: [gentoo-user] sylpheed-claws and GTK2+ ?

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 24 May 2005 15:41:16 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: At this time, the GTK2 version is not useful to me without either a plugin that is not yet available, or changing my mail system from POP3 to IMAP, and I hate GTK1 (it's just too ugly for me and I try to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging extra python

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Jason Stubbs schreef: On Thursday 26 May 2005 23:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:24:28 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Now of course I know that Portage depends on Python, and I certainly don't want to mess up Portage, so how do I get rid of this version of Python (or how do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging extra python

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Jason Stubbs schreef: On Friday 27 May 2005 01:07, Holly Bostick wrote: Jason Stubbs schreef: On Thursday 26 May 2005 23:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:24:28 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Now of course I know that Portage depends on Python, and I certainly don't want to mess

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging extra python

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Jason Stubbs schreef: Okay. So no countdown during --pretend as well as using slot checks. Care to open a bug so I don't forget please? :) Regards, Jason Stubbs http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94131 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94132 Glad to be of service :-) . Holly

[gentoo-user] Odd behaviour from azureus-bin

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
This is probably an upstream issue (if it is an issue), but I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this. I have azureus-bin 2.3.0.0 installed from the ebuild, and I run it under KDE 3.4.0. I have blackdown set as the system Java VM, but I use java-config to change the user VM to Sun before

Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Brett I. Holcomb schreef: Who's doing the porting and where do we get them. Some time ago I wanted to get some of the games and all the links pointed to Loki who was no more. Loki may be no more, but the Loki Installer is alive and well, and quite able to save one's bacon, using either

Re: [gentoo-user] sylpheed-claws and GTK2+ ?

2005-05-24 Thread Holly Bostick
raptor schreef: i see there is a port of sylpheed-claws to gtk2+, but dont see an ebuild for it ? Does anyone used this version, is it already functional ? do u have some ebuild ? Can it coexist with the older version ? thanx alot in advance Yes there is an ebuild (1.99), it's just

Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-24 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Some of us are just lucky G. I gave up ATI after the Mach 64! Unfortunately, we all can't just go out and upgrade - I know that for sure! Thank you for the excellent summary - this will be filed away and when I find time I'll go visit these sites. I did use

[gentoo-user] [OT]Any multi-gnome-terminal users here (GUI-related question)?

2005-05-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi, Just wondering if anyone might know what's the deal here, as the docs on the MGT site don't seem to be helping, nor the MGT ML archives. I'm running MGT under KDE, because GNOME is broken (again, don't ask, no idea). I love MGT, but it is an (as always, hideously unnatractive) GTK 1

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome-light

2005-05-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Gustavo Varela schreef: When I do emerge gnome-light this error appears, any idea of a solution??? snip make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src/lib/howl' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx setup

2005-05-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: but could you tell me how to see what is in my path and how to add to it? To see what your current PATH is: echo $PATH To add to the PATH for the current session: export PATH=/additional/path:$PATH (I think; make sure that's right-- ok, it is right, but maybe without the

[gentoo-user] Changing user's Java VM

2005-05-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, ho-- So I used java-config to switch the user's (my) Java VM from blackdown to Sun (blackdown is only 1.4.2 but Azureus prefers 1.5). I don't want to change the whole system VM (because I'm a big chicken). But anyway, when I switch VMs with java-config, I get this message: $ java-config

Re: [gentoo-user] adding/removing services

2005-05-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Cheryl Homiak schreef: At the end of emerges I'm getting something about a couple of programs saying it isn't adding the to services because some other program, a program that is no longer even merged, is providing that function. I did actually delete the old and add the new in rc-update

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