Hi all - it's been awhile
This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by
http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration
went fine. I normally leave the VM running when I walk away from the
machine, but when I return, time is way off. Shutting down Gentoo the
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:25:59PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote:
Hi all - it's been awhile
This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by
http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration
went fine. I normally leave the VM running when I walk away from
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote:
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:25:59PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote:
Hi all - it's been awhile
This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by
http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:28:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Just for interest, what are the Hz settings on host and guest?
Guest - Gentoo - now set at 250Hz and working just fine
Host - XP Professional SP2 - I don't have a clue. How do I find out?
Thanks,
festus
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alan
I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme
slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also
previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not
really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every
emerge command
Chris, Strong and Emil - most excellent suggestions, and I'd love to try
them out as soon as someone helps me get portage working again!
Thanks,
festus
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Please !!!
This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile
all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it.
Pointers and links greatly appreciated.
TIA,
festus
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 07:22:41PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote:
I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:29:57AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600, John J. Foster wrote:
This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile
all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it.
You could unpack a stage 3 tarball
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:05:54AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:05 -0600, John J. Foster wrote:
You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy
the portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed
and working, you could use
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:16:40PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:16:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Also have a look at the physical device the pv lives on. Do the device
size and the pv data about it's size match?
This isn't a size problem, in that case lvresize
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:53:27AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big
USB hard drivesbut that's what works well for me.
ditto - very easy, very efficient
John
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:41:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What options are out there?
My personal favorite is
app-crypt/gnupg
John
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Good evening all,
3 days ago I rebuilt my system to use gcc-3.4.4-r1. I first used
gcc-config to change to the new compiler, and then ran emerge -aev system,
followed by emerge -aev world. All went extremely well, I thought. Today
I noticed that courier-imap has failed to start. (The only reason
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:43:40PM -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote:
On Friday 23 December 2005 18:22, John J. Foster wrote:
Good evening all,
3 days ago I rebuilt my system to use gcc-3.4.4-r1. I first used
gcc-config to change to the new compiler, and then ran emerge -aev system,
followed
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:43:12PM -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote:
On Friday 23 December 2005 19:38, John J. Foster wrote:
What is the correct syntax for starting manually? What should I be
looking for?
I've never used courier/imap, but if you look in the init file
(in /etc/init.d
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:06:03PM +0100, Christoph Gysin wrote:
Just run:
/usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-imapd-ssl.rc
//garbanzo/root # /usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-imapd-ssl.rc
gives the following 2 new processes, but no connection still.
//garbanzo/root # ps aux|grep courier-imap
root
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:22:23PM -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
Good evening all,
3 days ago I rebuilt my system to use gcc-3.4.4-r1. I first used
gcc-config to change to the new compiler, and then ran emerge -aev system,
followed by emerge -aev world. All went extremely well, I thought
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:58:11AM -0700, Lares Moreau wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 23:14 +0800, gentoo user mail list wrote:
I need somebody, HELP, not just anybody, Help.
When I was younger so much younger then today...
I never needed anybody's help in any way...
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:20:48PM -0600, John Jolet wrote:
one called poke and peekworks on all unixes I've found so
far. pretty inexpensive, but not free. peek allows you to watch,
and the poke part lets you take over. or you can use vnc with a
particular argument to share the
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:40:57PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS,_HAL,_KDE_media:/
Neil, have you tried that link, even after removing the trailing :/
festus
--
I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer gods than
you do. When you
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:19:33PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:08:58 -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS,_HAL,_KDE_media:/
Neil, have you tried that link, even after removing the trailing :/
I pasted it from Konqueror, so yes
Good evening all,
I've been running mrtg for the last few months or so collecting data on
different network ports around the house. I also use Wildblue satellite
service as my ISP (out in the boonies, but works pretty darn well). They
just changed their FAP to a rolling 30 days, and I started
Good afternoon,
I'm looking for recommendations for a wireless print server with a
minimum of 1 USB2.0 port and 1 parallel port. I currently have a Linksys
WRT4GS router running openWRT Linux firmware. I've looked at the Linksys
WPS54G WPS54GU printer servers, but can't determine, and can't find
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:46:39AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
On 2/6/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for recommendations for a wireless print server with a
Networked gentoo server with cups? This is a gentoo list after all...
Richard - My apologies, I should have
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:35:35PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote:
Please let us know what you find on the wireless front, although I
suspect that it ain't going to be cheap, especially if your printer is
of the CAPT/GDI variety (mind you, it doesn't look as if it is).
Proprietary printer
Good evening,
I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both
Firefox OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden
folders and/or files. Also, in Firefox the only columns available in the
File dialog boxes are Name and Modified. I know size was there in
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:59:19AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
John J. Foster schreef:
Good evening,
I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both
Firefox OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden
folders and/or files.
For firefox
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 12:55:05PM +, Peter Ruskin wrote:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=384087highlight=filepicker+kde
Thank you, thank you, thank you - just what I wanted
festus
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I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer gods than
you do. When you
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:40:31PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
At this point, I'd really like to take this theoretical discussion off the
the general user list; I doubt many users will be interested. I haven't
done any coding work on this proposal or even began writing a GLEP, so
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:11:08PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Absolutely not. If there's one thing we've established over the years,
it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue
what's best for them in terms of package stability.
Excuse me my friend, but I
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:11:02AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:29:52 -0500 John J. Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:11:08PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| Absolutely not. If there's one thing we've established over the
| years, it's
Just wondering if anybody is using this device, and what their
experience with it is. Possibly in conjuction with their TeraStation
Home Server.
Thanks,
festus
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I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer gods than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:07:32AM +, Rohit Sharma wrote:
Apologies in advance for this quick question which isn't about Gentoo
per se, but is about work on Linux.
Is there a command [hint man command shall do] which I can use to
resize an image? I have 200 of them in a directory which I
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:32:54AM -0500, Dale wrote:
For me, I have the following biggies:
Inbox: ~660
Gentoo-dev: ~13,000
Gentoo-user: ~27,000
Kde-linux list: ~3,000
LVM: ~2,200
Hey Dale - just out of curiosity, why do you store mailing lists when
they're all available online?
festus
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:42:04PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-10-21, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now.
The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker.
Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whatever and
I seem to remember ssh'ing into an old Gentoo box and having the window
title change to the currently executing command. For instance, when
emerging something that had 10 packages, the title would show something
like
emerging (4 of 10) perl_something_or_other
I'm not sure whether I was using
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:58:36PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:11 PM, John J. Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to remember ssh'ing into an old Gentoo box and having the window
title change to the currently executing command. For instance, when
emerging
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:56:39PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
I've been monkeying around with a vmware appliance of gentoo.2008.0
from July. Downloaded from bagvapp.com.
It fired right up inside vmware running on winXP with no problems.
But now updating I'm finding I cannot get a newer
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:56:06PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:56:39PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
However my attempts consistently break out with the message:
/dev/sda3 is an invalid device
Try appending noapic
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:32:26AM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
I think you're missing the point. I never asked the community to
change its rules. I'm only saying that these particular rules were
invisible, and there's no way to find out about it, and that's going
to be a problem for any
In trying to extend a volume I get the following error:
mockingbird ~ # lvextend -v -L400G /dev/vg00/data
Finding volume group vg00
Archiving volume group vg00 metadata (seqno 22).
Extending logical volume data to 400.00 GB
Creating volume group backup /etc/lvm/backup/vg00 (seqno
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:44:38PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 20:31:33 John J. Foster wrote:
In trying to extend a volume I get the following error:
mockingbird ~ # lvextend -v -L400G /dev/vg00/data
Finding volume group vg00
Archiving volume group
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:53:02PM +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2009 19:31:33 schrieb John J. Foster:
In trying to extend a volume I get the following error:
mockingbird ~ # lvextend -v -L400G /dev/vg00/data
Finding volume group vg00
Archiving volume
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:59:49PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
Good afternoon,
I feel that it is time to move to Gentoo. After a few years of RH,
Fedora and Suse, I want better and more precise control over my system.
My problem, maybe, is that I only have a 28.8 modem connection
Good afternoon,
Well..
Last night I attempted to resize a few partitions from my Suse install
to make room for Gentoo. I booted off a Knoppix CD, ran qtparted to
resize /dev/hda2 (/boot, it wasn't mounted), and rebooted to do some
other work. Didn't boot. Instead brought me to a grub prompt
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:17:43PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
I don't know how painless these are...it will depend on your level of
comfort with grub and disaster recovery from Knoppix, but my suggestions
are:
1. If you can set the partition table back _exactly_ as it was before
(don't use
Good afternoon,
I had intended on starting my conversion from Suse 9.1 to Gentoo over
the weekend, but the weather turned out to be way to nice to remain
indoors.
But in my planning stages I realized I have a bit of a longer learning
curve than I initially anticipated. So, I'm going to remedy
Good afternoon all,
During the last few days I've managed my first Gentoo install. I now
have pretty much everything I need.
Gentoo base
fetchmail
mutt
ssh
kde
still working on courier
...
One of the finest learning experiences I can remember. The decision to
walk away from Suse was not easy,
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 06:23:52PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
Good evening,
Having only dialup at home forced me to bring my machine to work for a
new installation. That all worked fine over a few days. My problem now
is that I'm unable to get dialup to connect properly. I have only ever
Good afternoon,
While working in X, my monitor automatically shuts off after 10 minutes
idle. That is expected behavior. However, I've found my increasingly
working only at a console. Right now the screen just blanks. Is it
possible to have it power off after a certain idle time?
Thanks,
John
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:31:59PM +0200, Peter De Zutter wrote:
Hi John
screensave on terminals
setterm blank 0
Greetz
Peter
In KDE -- Control Center -- Peripherals -- Display
On the Power Control tab, set monitor to power off after 10 minutes, or
whatever. This is the behavior I want
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:34:13AM -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone can recommend a well-supported inkjet printer for using with
Linux?
HP Deskjet 5550 works just fine
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It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a
clearer picture of reality than
Please, please don't include a 65 line signature.
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Good evening,
I've been fighting the install of OOo rc3 for a few days now. Everything
is fine until running revdep-rebuild, which wants to re-install the OOo
I just installed. I remember having trouble with various binary packages
before, including OOo, which I always solved, or hid, by NOT
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:49:28PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
On 10/16/05, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is anybody else seeing revdep-rebuild weirdness with the latest OOo's,
rc2 and rc3?
Yes, I too have the same problems, mostly it would seem, with some
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:35:55PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
Well the only thing I can think is emerge -C openoffice-bin. But that has
other side-effects that you may like even less than a non-clean run of
revdep-rebuild :-)
Yeah - I guess that would teach that stinking
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:37:45AM -0500, Paul Varner wrote:
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 05:58 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
051016 John J. Foster wrote:
I've been fighting the install of OOo rc3 for a few days now.
Everything is fine until running revdep-rebuild,
which wants to re-install
Good morning all,
I've been running the binary versions of oo for about three months now,
while waiting for v2.0 to become stable. It looks pretty close to me.
I'd very much like to run the regular build procedures, but am quite
worried about what the pulling in of Gnome dependencies will do do
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 12:58:30AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Well, I just emerged openoffice today (had been using the -bin). I
found you also have to turn off the eds use flag if you really want to
avoid any gnome dependancies. With eds, OOo can use the
evolution-data-server as an
Good afternoon,
I have the following 2 entries in /etc/conf.d/local.start
# Record system restart
echo System restart on `date +%F` at `date +%R` /var/log/reboot.log
# Send email notification that the system just restarted
date|mutt -s 'System restarted' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The first one
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:14:59AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:48:43 -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
I tried changing this to
/usr/bin/date | /usr/bin/mutt -s 'System restarted' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and get the same segmentation fault.
Isn't mutt overkill
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:47:55PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 08:16:07 -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
I did note something I consider quite odd, though. While rebooting,
local.start runs right _before_ inittab starts to bring the system to
runlevel 3.
That's odd
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:16:07AM -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
I did note something I consider quite odd, though. While rebooting,
local.start runs right _before_ inittab starts to bring the system to
runlevel 3.
A couple thing here.
rc-status shows /etc/init.d/local as part
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:14:28AM -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:16:07AM -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
I did note something I consider quite odd, though. While rebooting,
local.start runs right _before_ inittab starts to bring the system to
runlevel 3
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:52:20PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
If the same command works in a terminal, it could be a difference in the
environment. The first thing I would try is running source /etc/profile
right before the mutt call.
No go. Just for review, here's a few lines from
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 08:16:44AM +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote:
source /etc/profile
/usr/bin/date | /usr/bin/mutt -s System restarted [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now, the error message
Error sending message, child exited 1 ().
/etc/conf.d/local.start: line 15: 19174 Done
/usr/bin/date
Good evening all,
Just before I had to kill-file a thread earlier today, I saw mention of
emerge --security
Running this on my system produces:
//garbanzo/root # emerge --security
!!! Error: --security is an invalid option.
This is with portage-2.0.51.22-r3. Is this an option in an upcoming
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:07:19AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:07:51 -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
//garbanzo/root # emerge --security
!!! Error: --security is an invalid option.
This is with portage-2.0.51.22-r3. Is this an option in an upcoming
version?
It's
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:57:27PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Also, the KDE clock has a (IMO a very annoying) feature that will
change the timezone it displays in response to the scroll wheel. So
I never knew of that feature till you just mentioned it. I think
that's pretty cool!
John
--
If
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:20:12PM -0600, kashani wrote:
The last top posting/html thread was 3 weeks ago... so yes it's time
for another Keep Gentoo leet thread. Gentoo isn't about pain, it's
about getting work done. Anything, and I mean *anything*, that allows me
to spend less
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:20:15PM -0600, Dale wrote:
Now wvdial, it dials out, then sits for a minute, then disconnects with
the error that my password is wrong, which is crap because it is
correct. I only got wvdial to work once on another rig. It has never
worked on this one though.
Good afternoon,
I have a Linksys WRT54GS router running openWRT firmware that gets its
IP via DHCP from my ISP. That's all working fine. I also have an account
with dyndns.org that is supposed to get updated when my IP changes. This
is where I've screwed something up because it's wasn't. I think
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:14:43PM -0500, Jeff wrote:
Hey all.
Just a quick one - where can I find the USE flag compendium?
For convenience, try emerging profuse.
John
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:07:22PM -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote:
I have a Linksys WRT54GS router running openWRT firmware that gets its
IP via DHCP from my ISP. That's all working fine. I also have an account
with dyndns.org that is supposed to get updated when my IP changes. This
is where I've
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:22:23PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
Also possible. Certainly there's nothing /wrong/ with running emaint
--check world. I only wanted to point out that this error could also be
a false positive.
Simple question here, but what is emaint? No trace of it on my
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:46:07PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
portage-2.0.53, I have it on my laptop running ~x86, but not on my
desktop running x86.
running it without arguments give:
Currently emaint can only check and fix problems with one's world
file. Future versions will integrate
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:09:45PM -0500, Thomas Lingefelt wrote:
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Hash: SHA256
Hi. I'm looking for a portable (Linux, *BSD, Mac, Win) way to carry
around encrypted files on a USB drive. I would like for the
encryption/decryption to be transparent to me,
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:26:46PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Are my mails to the list getting to anyone else? I'm not seeing them
myself, and I wanted to make sure they weren't disappearing into the
ether. I checked that I could email myself directly, so I don't think
it's a
Anyone else having trouble with the format (^M's) in Ennis' email?
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:29:16AM -0500, McCaffrey, Ennis wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 7:35 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Hi,
My system had been happily chugging along with X and KDE running for a
few months nonstop. Every Saturday I'd run an update world. But, I never
restarted X and obviously never rebooted. Yesterday we had a 3 hour
power outage that my UPS couldn't keep up with, and when I finally got
power
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:03:23PM -0500, deface wrote:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers#Module_Requirement_Mismatch
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:52 -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
Hi,
My system had been happily chugging along with X and KDE running for a
few months nonstop. Every
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:35:18AM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
That helps some, but in net-firewall I'm finding a lot of unstable
packages, and no really good idea which ones will be the best for a
personal firewall, let alone which ones are best supported upstream so
this doesn't
Yesterday morning while updating world I got the following errors during
the emerge of app-portage/eix:
i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -o
update-eix update-eix.o varsreader.o global.o setmask.o
database/libdatabase.a portage/libportage.a
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:41:09PM +0200, Vaeth wrote:
I resynced this morning, but nothing has changed.
Resync once more. The patch was included in the tree today
without a revbump.
Thanks you so much Vaeth!
festus
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It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a
Good afternoon,
For about the past 10 days I've been having problems with gst-plugins.
I'm in a constant upgrade/downgrade loop, and am not really sure what
brought me to this state. The only _major_ changes have been adding ~x86
for kde and amarok.
//garbanzo/home/festus emerge -puvDNt
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:30:52PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
Good afternoon,
For about the past 10 days I've been having problems with gst-plugins.
I'm in a constant upgrade/downgrade loop, and am not really sure what
brought me to this state. The only _major_ changes have been adding
The following script is run as part of a nitely cron job.
//garbanzo/home/festus cat /usr/bin/emerge_sync.sh
#! /bin/bash
## /usr/bin/emerge_sync.sh
# Sync now
/usr/sbin/eix-sync 21
glsa-check --test all 21 | mailx -s GLSA check on $(hostname)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
emerge world --update --deep
Good afternoon,
I solved my problem of a few days ago by adding
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AuthPass=PASSWORD
to /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. This was related to my ISP now requiring SMTP
AUTH for mail. But I'm concerned about the security implications of
having this in a world-readable file. If this was only
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:37:20AM +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote:
How bout using msmtp? It's lightweight and is well documented (?).. To
use it change the value of sendmail in your .muttrc to this:
I'm reading the manual right now, and will probably try it tonight.
Farhan Ahmed
P.S: Give
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 05:48:41PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:37:20AM +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote:
How bout using msmtp? It's lightweight and is well documented (?).. To
use it change the value of sendmail in your .muttrc to this:
I'm reading the manual right
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:20:00AM +, Mick wrote:
Thanks, I've had a look and it seems to be work-in-progress. When it
becomes stable I may have a go.
I've been running White Russian RC3 for 9 months - zero problems.
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It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:09:41PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote:
On 5/11/06, Rasmus Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:35:46PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote:
has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and
then has it auto emerge the packages it needs to
Good morning all,
I usually run
//garbanzo/root # emerge -pv depclean
followed by
//garbanzo/root # revdep-rebuild -p
after all world updates, and rarely have any issues at all. This is a
stable x86 system, except for kde, mutt, amarok and their dependencies.
For about a week now,
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 07:31:14PM +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote:
John J. Foster wrote:
//garbanzo/root # revdep-rebuild -p
...
broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/lib-org-w3c-dom.la
(requires /usr/lib/libgcj.la)
broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/lib-org-xml-sax.la
Good afternoon,
This has been discussed over and over in this list, but I am unable to
find any references that make sense to me. Could someone please explain
the different ways that you can specify an atom in package.mask?
I currently have
app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:14:41PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:44:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
I currently have
app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords
app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r2 is currently installed
I would like to be able to mask
Kris Kerwin wrote:
Hi folks,
Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image:
extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball,
without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option
somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel
Good morning all,
About 10 days ago we had a lightning strike very nearby that fried our
electric utilities transformer and my APC RS800 UPS. This in turn caused
my system to crash. When I brought it back up, all CMOS settings had been
lost. After setting what I could remember (no, I didn't
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote:
snip
after this:
hwclock -wu
to get your hardware clock right. Without u if your hw clock is running in
local time.
snip
But all that shows in the /var/log/ntp.log is
12 Jun 09:05:46 ntpd[19515]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
It probably terminated right
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:52:59PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote:
The following output is what /var/log/ntp.log looks like after issuing the
following 2 commands:
#/etc/init.d/ntpd stop
#ntpd -n
12 Jun 14:16:02 ntpd[8885]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
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