Re: [gentoo-user] Why gpm?

2005-09-10 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 18:00 +0200, Jes__s Garc__a Crespo wrote: Hi! I don't understand why gpm was included in the Gentoo base system. It was not in there before and I didn't find information about the reasons. But I could tell you my case: I installed Gentoo in my dedicated server in EEUU (I

Re: [gentoo-user] server deployment

2005-09-10 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 14:29 -0500, John Jolet wrote: We're in the process of transitioning from 32-bit Redhat (7 I think) web/app servers to 64-bit gentoo web/app servers. One concern I've got is from a security standpoint, normally you don't deploy webservers with development tools on

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client starting before net.eth0

2005-09-09 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 14:08 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: What determines the order that things in rc-update (/etc/init.d) start? I run ifplugd, and I notice that (as the title says), ntp-client is starting before net.eth0 and therefore can't find the pool.ntp.org site (of course). Look at

Re: [gentoo-user] other packages

2005-09-09 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 17:45 -0400, John Dangler wrote: I have found an add-in for gimp called GAP (animation). It is a zipped tar file. How can I add this to my gentoo install? (I'm not sure why it wasn't on portage, but, being fairly new to gentoo, I can't imagine what has to be done to a

Re: [gentoo-user] CD burning with full filenames

2005-08-22 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 07:54 -0700, Grant wrote: Hello, does anyone know how to make an ISO and then burn it to a CD with the full filenames preserved? I tried specifying Joliet and Rock Ridge but the output from mkisofs looks like the filenames are being altered. AFAICR none of the available

Re: [gentoo-user] where is changlog for Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-12 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 13:41 +0600, askar k wrote: Hello! I can't find changelog for Gentoo 2005.1 on its site. Thanks, askar There isn't one, AFAIK. Not much has changed to the profile, anyway. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] from 2005.0 to 2005.1

2005-08-11 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 13:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 8/10/05, Craig Zeigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the developers bothered to write stuff like that for every package (most of them have changelogs BTW) Gentoo would be like Debian.. years between releases -- Yeah, true. Besides,

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge Evolution+eds with debug information?

2005-08-08 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:15 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: I can not get any sensible debug information from bug-buddy. So how do I re-emerge evo and eds with debug symbols? Try USE=debug CFLAGS=-g emerge -1 evolution evolution-data-server. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Error Emerging Liferea 0.9.2

2005-07-29 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 03:56 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: ui_feedlist.o(.text+0x227d): In function `ui_feedlist_dbus_connect': : undefined reference to `dbus_bus_acquire_service' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [liferea-bin] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM not bringing up log in screen

2005-07-16 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 23:05 -0600, George Roberts wrote: About a month or so ago I lost the ability to use my GDM to log in. I can log in using XDM which has to be called from the command line. When my system is booting it loads gdm, but when it finishes booting instead of starting X, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-14 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 10:53 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:48 -0400, daniel wrote: On July 12, 2005 05:12 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Why doesn't mplayer let me compile with win32codecs? It doesn't pull down win32codec as a dependency and having that USE flag in the CLI as

Re: [gentoo-user] system update

2005-07-14 Thread Edward Catmur
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:58 -0500, Qv6 wrote: I am currently running kde-3.3, and do not want to have both 3.3 and 3.4 on the box. How can I update kde or any other app and not have the old version still installed. Update kde as usual, then # emerge -av --depclean Make sure that portage

Re: [gentoo-user] error when emerge -e system etc-update source /etc/profile

2005-07-10 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 10:10 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am a gentoo noob. When I run the command emerge -e system etc-update source /etc/profile, the make reported the following error: make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4.20050319/work/narrowc/c++' cd

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet

2005-07-10 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:51 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. It keeps complaining that The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet. I have emerged gnome-light, gnome-audio, gnome-alsamixer, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Generic What installed this?

2005-07-08 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 15:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/8/05, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi ho, What program do I run to determine what emerge operation installed something on the system, in this specific case /etc/init.d/serial? I guessed it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 03:30 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Don't forget to add sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9 to /etc/portage/package.mask. Better would be to change profile to a 2.4 kernel profile. If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/... you will see that (probably) under your current

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as sudo goes). Which means

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge question

2005-07-05 Thread Edward Catmur
You need to set -qt, not -kde. On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 17:27 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi I want to emerge PHP to my box, a 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 but a want to emerge it without x11 support. When I type emerge -p -v php I got this message: These are the packages that I would merge, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem unmasking packages

2005-07-03 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:13 +0200, Philip Lawatsch wrote: Hi, I'd like to unmask (-*) certain versions of a package (gcc). I'd like to keep the defaults for everything but I'd like to unmask gcc-4.0.1_pre* I've already tried to unmask ~sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1_pre20050616 -* and also

Re: [gentoo-user] Different Slots for ebuilds

2005-07-03 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:19 +0200, Philip Lawatsch wrote: Hi, another problem I've just run into: I'd like to have gcc 3.4.x, 4.0.1_pre* and 4.1.* installed at the same time. However all gcc-4.* versions do not seem to use different slots (eg one 4.0.* and one 4.1.* slot). Is there any

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation problem: gcc

2005-06-10 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 12:44 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory run binutils-config -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fix_libtool_files.sh question

2005-06-09 Thread Edward Catmur
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 15:51 -0700, Grant wrote: 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? It should

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA broke WINE build?

2005-05-28 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 19:57 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: In file included from /usr/include/alsa/asoundlib.h:48, from alsa.h:23, from audio.c:63: /usr/include/alsa/conf.h:189: error: parse error before struct audio.c: In function `wodPlayer': audio.c:1720:

Re: [gentoo-user] Error when running ethereal through ssh tunneled X11

2005-05-23 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 11:07 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: When I ssh into one of my servers, using X11 tunneling, then su - to root, then try to run ethereal the following happens: # ethereal The program 'ethereal' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome problem

2005-05-21 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 17:33 -0700, Bill Six wrote: Hi, My computer was accidently shut down uncleanly while running Gnome. When it was restarted, the icons on the desktop won't show, when you right click on the desktop no options are presented, and the background image doesn't show.

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping source

2005-05-20 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 17:38 -0700, cfk wrote: I would like to study the c and cpp source on the packages I am emerging. I *think* they are removed after compilation. I say I *think* as I was looking in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find them. How do I go about keeping the

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to build anything - libtools error?

2005-05-18 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 22:06 -0400, Chris Woods wrote: configure:2385: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer conftest.c 5 i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory Use gcc-config to set up the symlink to as. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

2005-05-15 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 06:46 -0700, Grant wrote: Good catch. I get this last: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/edb/dep//usr/portage/sys-devel/.update.25322.bison-1.875d' What do you think I should do? rm -r /var/cache/edb/dep should do it; portage will then

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 07:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --oneshot --update --deep --newuse world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.6.3 [2.6.0] -accessibility -debug

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with updating gcc

2005-05-13 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 07:56 -0600, Kumar Golap wrote: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1/work/build using mt-frag gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory *** The command '/usr/bin/gcc -o conftest -O2 -march=pentium3 conftest.c' failed. *** You must set the

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix problem w/o network

2005-05-12 Thread Edward Catmur
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 12:17 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote: I also haven't figured out *how* the net dependency is provided. The postfix iniscript explicitely contains provide mta, but very few scripts use this provide keyword, especially not net.* On my previous SuSE system, if I went

Re: [gentoo-user] libtoolize hoseage

2005-05-11 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 18:07 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: *** Gentoo sanity check failed! *** *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! *** *** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.16, ltmain.sh = 1.5) *** Please run: libtoolize --copy --force if appropriate, please contact the

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.2.1.1: Mail and Contacts features showing, others not

2005-05-10 Thread Edward Catmur
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 09:49 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 09:15 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:43 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: Eh, looks like I found the problem. On STDOUT when starting evolution: evolution-2.2:6552): evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -C package doesn't clean up /etc/ config files

2005-04-28 Thread Edward Catmur
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 16:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Is this a feature or a bug? It seems that emerge -C will not remove any altered files from /etc/ once it has been changed. This really leaves some cruft in my /etc/ Is this due to config-protect or is it something else?? No, portage will

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to nautilus Scripts??

2005-04-28 Thread Edward Catmur
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 16:35 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Is There such a thing left?? it used to be that we can select a file, right click on it and then select which script we want to execute it with. The location is ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts, if you had them anywhere else. However, see

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.* masked by: profile

2005-04-27 Thread Edward Catmur
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 22:19 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: On April 26, 2005 03:20 am, quoth Edward Catmur: Switch profile to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 or similar. How do I do that? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml#instructions -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.* masked by: profile

2005-04-26 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 22:00 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 (masked by: profile) -

Re: [gentoo-user] OT prefixing Line numbers in codes for printing

2005-04-26 Thread Edward Catmur
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 11:22 +0900, Steve B wrote: On an even more off topic note.. anybody know how use some nifty CSS or similar to take a block of text (code) and automaticly add line numbers? I guess I could use PHP but was looking for a CSS type style. Nice idea, but I don't think the

Re: [gentoo-user] rdesktop

2005-04-25 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 21:20 +0300, Adi wrote: We've recently installed an Oracle database on 9i on RedHat ES 3. I was curious if there's a way to connect via Remote Desktop from a Windows machine to the Linux Server. If that's impossible VNC will do. I know KDE has something like krfb, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.10???

2005-04-25 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 17:08 -0700, timothy johnson wrote: Any idea on when this will be available? On avg how long does it take things to make it to become an ebuild? It's (mostly) there; the only question is when it'll be unmasked. In my /etc/cron.daily/emerge.sync: sed -i -e '/Gnome-2.10

Re: [gentoo-user] download dynamic generated file using wget or curl

2005-04-21 Thread Edward Catmur
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 17:45 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: I want to download some jpg's whose URL is as http://some.site/show.php?id=100. In firefox, the downloaded filename is correctly as somefile.jpg, but if I download it using wget or curl, the downloaded file name is show.php?id=100,

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: multiple versions of same package

2005-04-20 Thread Edward Catmur
Generally if two versions of an ebuild have the same SLOT, then they will conflict in some way (normally by installing files with the same name) and so having one installed will break the other. Which packages are you trying to install? On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 14:20 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: multiple versions of same package

2005-04-20 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 16:16 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to build a package called sipXphone. It requires glib-2.4.2, but most of my current packages require glib-2.6.3 (the latest version). requires glib-2.4.2 sounds unlikely. Presumably you mean that it doesn't compile

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS printing

2005-04-18 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:33 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: foomatic-configure -s cups -p Canon-imageRunner_330s -n Canon -c smb://steffi/Canon\ iR2270\/iR2870\ PCL6 -d hpijs Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3427. lpadmin:

Re: [gentoo-user] xbindkeys

2005-04-18 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:34 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: I don't know about launching it sitewide, but starting xbindkeys automatically per user is very easy. If you use eg xfce, just put a link to it in ~/Desktop/Autostart. For kde or gnome there are specific places to make a link.

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS printing

2005-04-18 Thread Edward Catmur
To configure CUPS for SAMBA, run the following command: ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb ENTER I do not have samba installed. Will I need a further USE flag? Will I need to reemerge everything after the USE flag changes (See the empty ''Advanced'' tab in

Re: [gentoo-user] bash script question, strange grep

2005-04-18 Thread Edward Catmur
then I want to cut out the files which don't contain the string 'NOIADM'. So I did: for i in `cat /tmp/iadmos` ; do egrep -lv 'NOIADM' $i ; done which gave me all 28 file name. I wondered about it, so I tried: for i in `cat /tmp/iadmos` ; do egrep -l 'NOIADM' $i ; done which gave

Re: [gentoo-user] libwxgtk2.2

2005-04-17 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 23:15 +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote: I need to install wxgtk2.2 because I have one program that uses it. But the package found in portage is wxgtk2.4. The old ebuilds (earliest is 2.2.9) are still accessible via the gentoo viewcvs:

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

2005-04-15 Thread Edward Catmur
On 15:39 Fri 15 Apr , Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:27:17 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid module. After upgrading a kernel you need to boot into console mode and reinstall the drivers.

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf problem

2005-04-08 Thread Edward Catmur
Then checked the stato of /usr/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp and realised as it's a binary it contains some weird lines like: 1. line: /etc/config-archive/usr/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp Later line: == I thought it was dispatch-conf inserted this lines :-( Currently I'm emerge xorg-x11 (-B) again