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] 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 > This is making me think there is some kind of java or plugin problem, > since .jar files are essentially java libr

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... >

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? (Som

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 co

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 > Relaying denied. Please > verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try > again." Sounds like you need to check your SMTP Authentication

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] 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) Yep! -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia # pgp0Vwl6JMMo0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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 happe

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

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] 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 d

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 Window

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. C

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] 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

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 use

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?

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 sess

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] Phantom libcap?

2005-10-09 Thread John Myers
On Friday 07 October 2005 10:05, Ed Jabbour wrote: > emerge -uDvp world listed net-libs/libcap as upgrading from 0.8.3-r1 to > 0.9.3. However, the Gentoo database has no such animal, but rather > sys-libs/libcap. Locally, eix libcap also lists only > sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r5. The net-libs "versio

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 t

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

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

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] 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] 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:i

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

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 l

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, n

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice: emerge --resume

2005-04-23 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 05:01, Kurt Guenther wrote: > Just checking if I'm missing something. I resumed a merge that ran > over night and it appears to start from the beginning again. As this > merge won't complete in the 10 hrs I give it, is there some other trick > I can play? FYI: emerge --

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with libhistory.so.4 after update

2005-04-10 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 10 April 2005 10:48, Marten Karl wrote: > actual packages the starting message of apache says, that libphp5.so has a > problem to load libhistory.so.4. I had this problem a while back. re-emerge mod_php. pgpSJAaNYEl0M.pgp Description: PGP signature