Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff

2006-01-07 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:37, Holly Bostick wrote: No. I don't actually use colordiff standalone, so no reason. I did, however, have an (unnecessary) alias around etc-update, which I have now removed, allowing it to rely solely on its sudo entry. But since I don't have any updates to diff

Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:03, darren kirby wrote: Hello all, I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as Xorg, and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an xterm anymore. I seem to recall this happening to me years ago, but I do not remember the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:18, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:04 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 08:50:31 -0800 Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One other thing - if you're using a 64-bit machine, you'll need to run - mplayer-bin test.mpg to see

Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:05, Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2006-01-08 13:03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as Xorg, and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an xterm anymore. I seem to recall this happening

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 17:49, Iain Buchanan wrote: can eix do the following (taken from esearch --help) snip Yep! -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia # pgp0Vwl6JMMo0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 18:50, Benjamin Fritzsche wrote: While were on the subject: is there something like esync for eix? (show me the differences after a emerge sync/eix-update?) eix-sync -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia # pgpSfs72pn0qp.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-12 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 12 January 2006 13:54, Dale Kirkley wrote: An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 whatever email address I am trying to send to Relaying denied. Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try again. Sounds like you

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-12 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 12 January 2006 18:45, Tom Smith wrote: Well, if they're /not/ mutually exclusive, another question that comes up is... If a program is compiled with sse or sse2 support on a Pentium II, will the program run slower than it otherwise would? (Some of the programs I have are

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-13 Thread John Myers
On Friday 13 January 2006 07:45, Francesco Riosa wrote: Tom Smith wrote: Well, if they're /not/ mutually exclusive, another question that comes up is... If a program is compiled with sse or sse2 support on a Pentium II, will the program run slower than it otherwise would? (Some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-13 Thread John Myers
On Friday 13 January 2006 14:24, Trenton Adams wrote: On 1/12/06, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 January 2006 18:45, Tom Smith wrote: Well, if they're /not/ mutually exclusive, another question that comes up is... If a program is compiled with sse or sse2 support

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-13 Thread John Myers
On Friday 13 January 2006 19:00, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/13/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [pid 3564] open(/usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/comm.jar, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE snip This is making me think there is some kind of java or plugin problem, since .jar files are essentially java

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-11 Thread John Myers
On Friday 10 February 2006 20:05, Iain Buchanan wrote: are you sure? At least for fdisk, (and maybe for 'file' as well) this will just show what you've told the partition it is. 'file' determines filetypes primarily by looking for 'magic numbers' within the file, so 'file' should indeed

Re: [gentoo-user] rp-pppoe start on boot?

2005-04-27 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 21:15, Peet Grobler wrote: Christoph Eckert wrote: |Which would be the correct way to do this with gentoo? | | rc-update add SERVICENAME default | rc-update del SERVICENAME default Ah, I presume rc-update add net.ppp0 default would work... nope, rp-pppoe, not

Re: [gentoo-user] kde kwifimanager

2005-04-28 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 28 April 2005 22:35, LostSon wrote: Hello I seem to be having a problem with Kwifimanager when i try to run it i get error while loading shared llibraries: libiw.so.28 from my googling and looking around this lib is in wireless-tools i recompiled this package and still no luck,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups + Samba weird message

2005-04-29 Thread John Myers
On Friday 29 April 2005 06:11, Mark Knecht wrote: On 4/29/05, Chris Ong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, After I emerge samba and cups.. i got this message * Caching service dependencies... * Services 'samba' and 'cupsd' have circular * dependency of type 'iuse';

Re: [gentoo-user] About runlevel's

2005-05-11 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 May 2005 09:50, Pere Gentoo wrote: What about this way: I've seen it on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_create_a_run_level # mkdir /etc/runlevels/noxdm # rc-update add x noxdm(add all services from the default runlevel except xdm) Modify /etc/inittab id:3:initdefault:

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc usefalgs

2005-09-25 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 25 September 2005 05:39, Holly Bostick wrote: Matthias Langer schreef: I'm woudering about the effect of the following useflags for sys-devel/gcc: gtk, multislot, vanilla Does anybody know what they do ? Vanilla and multislot are pretty obvious, not quite sure what gtk does in

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

2005-09-30 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 07:46, Dave Nebinger wrote: Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ? The easiest way is not to bother. Use a local dns server to provide host lookups. I believe on the gentoo wiki you'll find a setup for a caching dns proxy where the most

Re: [gentoo-user] translucency bork

2005-10-24 Thread John Myers
On Friday 14 October 2005 01:34, Jorge Almeida wrote: Anyone knows a workaround? (Don't tell me to file a bug, because I don't know how to do that...) Um, file a bug! You must learn! hint: http://bugs.kde.org/ pgpa5x3I12ODn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ethereal weirdness

2005-11-01 Thread John Myers
On Monday 31 October 2005 07:43, James wrote: unset: adns snmp and kerberos are all in blue. Does this mean they are optional? I have not found documents on this color coding with various gentoo tools. Any documental wisdom on discerning these various color coded words in a terminal session?

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 02:19, Fernando Meira wrote: So, there are some missing libraries and others causing conflicts.. don't know if that was caused by the power-down, or something while updating was running, but how can I fix this? Should I reemerge some packages? If so, which ones? try

Re: [gentoo-user] BUG in glibc????

2005-11-01 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 30 October 2005 13:54, capsel wrote: is it a bug in glibc or in my code? Probably not a bug in glibc. I'm 99% sure that there are no bugs that obvious in printf or strcmp. glibc is absolutely the most tested code in a GNU/Linux system, aside from the kernel itself, seeing as it is

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-03 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 03 November 2005 15:13, Denis wrote: Running df shows that /usr partition is at 18% use. However, running du gives more input/output errors... First, I would back up all your data immediately. You have filesystem corruption or hardware failure. And if you have hardware failure, you

Re: [gentoo-user] how to find if a program is using a particular /dev device?

2005-11-18 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 17 November 2005 23:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a custom device driver in /dev/ that can only be used by one program at a time. Since the device is /dev/ttyUSB0, I can see if anyone is using it by: ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep ttyUSB0 Is there a utility or other

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-18 Thread John Myers
On Friday 18 November 2005 10:37, Michael Sullivan wrote: Being fairly inexperienced with C++ I have no idea what this means. Is this a problem with my program or with my system. Is there a way to fix it? Can anyone at least explain to me what it means? Probably an error in your program.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 20 November 2005 19:18, 張韡武 wrote: Hello. So far openoffice is the only application that I know that could not directly export PS format, or print to a 'generic PS printer'. I am having a lot of troubles trying to generate PS file for my documents. Usually I have to go to a Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a debugging binary

2005-09-05 Thread John Myers
On Monday 05 September 2005 15:32, Alex Bennee wrote: Hi, I keep getting crashes when exiting evolution so I thought I'd have a go at generating a decent debugging build so I can submit a bug report. I thought the best thing to do would be re-emerge evolution with debugging enabled:

Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent (and logrotate frequency)

2005-09-17 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 17 September 2005 20:11, C. Beamer wrote: Hi all, When I installed Gentoo, I chose syslog-ng as my system logger. It was suggested that I install logrotate to prevent my logfiles from becoming unmanagageably large. On my desktop system, my /var/log/messages starts October 19,

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter

2005-09-17 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 17 September 2005 21:47, Walter Dnes wrote: Can you check the jumpers on the drive? In the old days, there were just master and slave. Now there's a 3rd option cable select, which may be abbreviated as CS. It works automagically with Windows but it does *NOT* work with linux.