[gentoo-user] Re: Uninstalling portage

2006-05-17 Thread Rennie deGraaf
Willie Wong wrote: 1. There's no need to send three copies of the same mail. If you didn't see it in your inbox it is because you use G-mail. Sorry about that. I set it once about six hours ago, and it hadn't shown up four hours later, so I sent it again. I assumed that it had been dropped

[gentoo-user] xorg i810/i915 mode problem (modular X)

2006-05-17 Thread W.Kenworthy
I have a new Sony Vaio laptop with a 1366x768 screen using the intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller which can be driven by the xorg i810 driver. Works fine on the laptop in this resolution. The problem I have is that many of the possible modes for this chipset return blank

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:56:46PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: I also looked for a drop-down term. Couldn't find one that I really liked, so just made a wrapper myself for aterm in fvwm using a borderless window,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-17 Thread Remy Blank
Richard Fish wrote: But the CPU is mostly native. (...) This is what makes VMWare so much faster than something that actually does emulate a processor like qemu. Just a quick note: using kqemu-1.3-pre5, qemu also executes both user and kernel code natively, and should therefore achieve about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/16/06, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: certainly gave qemu a nice speed boost. What's more annoying at the moment is the slow graphics emulation, and the fact that I cannot emulate my full screen (1920x1200) in qemu. Is VMWare able to do that, and how fast is the graphics emulation?

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 10:05, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!': Now my problem is : I have both jdk1.5 and 1.4 now. $ java-config -L [sun-jdk-1.4.2.10] Sun JDK 1.4.2.10 (/etc/env.d/java/20sun-jdk-1.4.2.10) [sun-jdk-1.5.0.06] Sun

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-17 Thread Petr Kocmid
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 00:48, leszek wrote: 2) what additional functionality would you like? (mask/unmask packages, install/remove, emerge command generator [much like nmapfe], etc) a notification applet which emerge --sync every day in the background and warn us when there is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 16:18, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)': maybe that was my misunderstading..on a brand-new opteron 64-bit...the architecture use flag i use is k8. I see no real reason to run 32-bit gentoo on a

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-17 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/17, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 10:05, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!': Find what package owns the class/jar that's giving a UnsupportedClassVersionError (you might find equery from

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-17 Thread wu chuanwen
Done! I have fix my *big* problem now and have installed tomcat! I just want to thank everybody! You know your advices are so important to me! Without your help,I can hardly fix this problem.You have let me learn a lot! Thanks! You are all nice men! -- wcw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7 and disappearing mouse device

2006-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 04 May 2006 09:02:41 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I don't want to use udev, because I would like a general solution that works for any of my usb mice (OK, I have a few at different locations :) You can use a udev rule that detects any USB mouse, but not the trackpad or stick, something

Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalling portage

2006-05-17 Thread Jonathan Chocron
Le Mercredi 17 Mai 2006 05:32, Rennie deGraaf a écrit : I am trying to build a number of minimal Gentoo images without portage installed. The approach I was taking was to build a master image with all the software that I need according to the standard Gentoo installation instructions, and

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-17 Thread Remy Blank
Richard Fish wrote: But yes, I run 1920x1200 on my laptop, and VMWare is easily capable of that resolution. It also runs quite fast at least for 2d operations. VMWare installs a custom, accelerated graphics driver for windows guests, and I am estimating it makes the graphics run at maybe 50%

Re: [gentoo-user] Spam, spam, spam

2006-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
Is there a good spam filter out there? One that is not a pain to setup and use? I use dspam, which is in portage now. It is easy to set up and can either quarantine spam mails or simply mark them with a header for later filtering. Accuracy improves dramatically after a few days of training,

[gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP

2006-05-17 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize them for running, went in,

[gentoo-user] usblp video camera don't hotplug (any more)

2006-05-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
I shelved my firewire video camera for a while, and pulled it out yesterday to do some archiving from tape to DVD. Last time I used it, I loaded some ieee1394 modules (raw1394, etc), loaded kino and away it went. But now, I noticed that nothing recognises the camera unless it is plugged in on

Re: [gentoo-user] Nightly emerge sync

2006-05-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 15 May 2006 16:51, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Can someone please point me to a reference that will show me now to configure my vixie cron to do a nightly emerge sync? I know it can be done, however I have not yet come up with the necessary instructions

RE: [gentoo-user] Nightly emerge sync

2006-05-17 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: Bo Ørsted Andresen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:09 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nightly emerge sync On Monday 15 May 2006 16:51, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Can someone please point me to a

[gentoo-user] Gnome as an X Server.

2006-05-17 Thread Kurt Guenther
I updated to the latest gnome: gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1 but, now, I can't seem to get gnome to act as an X server. This was previously done in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf by adding: [security] DisallowTCP=false RelaxPermissions=2 However, gdm.conf was renamed to custom.conf, and the values don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Sound

2006-05-17 Thread Kurt Guenther
I'm not sure this is your problem, but XMMS uses OSS by default, so you need to use the preferences to change it to ALSA. --Kurt Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi everyone, I am experiencing a real odd thing, I configured my kernel to alsa for NVIDIA AC'97 sound card, the sound options had

[gentoo-user] lvm2 emerge problem

2006-05-17 Thread Leopold Gouverneur
emerge lvm2 abort during compilation with this message: ... ../include/lvm-string.h:40: attention : 'struct dm_pool' declared inside parameter list ... wordir/.../lvm-string.h i see: ... struct pool; char *build_dm_name(struct dm_pool *mem, ^^^

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 16 May 2006 18:06:07 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: KHotkeys uses a text config file, although it's layout is even more arcane than that of xbindkeys. Where is it? ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc enjoy :) -- Neil Bothwick There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome as an X Server.

2006-05-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 15:22, Kurt Guenther wrote: I updated to the latest gnome: gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1 but, now, I can't seem to get gnome to act as an X server. This was previously done in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf by adding: gnome can not act as a X server, because it is not one! You

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Sound

2006-05-17 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
xmms is working what is not working is the gnome sound events but I will check xmms. On 5/17/06, Kurt Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure this is your problem, but XMMS uses OSS by default, so you need to use the preferences to change it to ALSA. --Kurt Allan Spagnol

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP

2006-05-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On May 16 21:38, Alexander Skwar (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: - Tabs - Easy way to paste from clipboard (I'm not talking about primary selection) You can use multi-aterm for tabs if you want, though personally I see no need to. You have 10 instantly-accessible tabs with screen,

[gentoo-user] Re: Spam, spam, spam

2006-05-17 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On May 16 19:03, JimD (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: Is there a good spam filter out there? One that is not a pain to setup and use? I'd recommend spamassassin. I've tried all of the popular spam filters, including SA, dspam, and bogofilter, including many of the plugins and smaller

[gentoo-user] Re: more CFLAG

2006-05-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, I measured the performance differences for the things I care about (compression, media encoding, and dm-crypt encryption), and ended up choosing -Os for my Core Duo system. As James says, some things run faster, other things run slower. And it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome as an X Server.

2006-05-17 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/17/06, Kurt Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I updated to the latest gnome: gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1 but, now, I can't seem to get gnome to act as an X server. This was previously done in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf by adding: Hmm, maybe cause it is NOT an X server, its a Window Manager.

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP

2006-05-17 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Sound

2006-05-17 Thread Kurt Guenther
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: xmms is working what is not working is the gnome sound events but I will check xmms. I've never seen those work. Mine our turned on as well. Sorry, no help. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome as an X Server.

2006-05-17 Thread Kurt Guenther
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 15:22, Kurt Guenther wrote: I updated to the latest gnome: gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1 but, now, I can't seem to get gnome to act as an X server. This was previously done in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf by adding: gnome can not act

RE: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP

2006-05-17 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and a fairly large genkernel. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome as an X Server.

2006-05-17 Thread Kurt Guenther
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 5/17/06, Kurt Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I updated to the latest gnome: gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1 but, now, I can't seem to get gnome to act as an X server. This was previously done in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf by adding: Hmm, maybe cause it is NOT an X

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam, spam, spam

2006-05-17 Thread michael
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Thomas Kirchner wrote: * On May 16 19:03, JimD (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: Is there a good spam filter out there? One that is not a pain to setup and use? I'd recommend spamassassin. I've tried all of the popular spam filters, including SA, dspam, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome as an X Server.

2006-05-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:23, Kurt Guenther wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 15:22, Kurt Guenther wrote: I updated to the latest gnome: gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1 but, now, I can't seem to get gnome to act as an X server. This was previously done in

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP

2006-05-17 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy A. Holmes wrote: On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo installer disk -- As such they have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome as an X Server.

2006-05-17 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/17/06, Kurt Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 5/17/06, Kurt Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I updated to the latest gnome: gnome-base/gnome-2.14.1 but, now, I can't seem to get gnome to act as an X server. This was previously done in

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

2006-05-17 Thread Grant
Sounds good to me. Could this be the same type of feature as the DMZ Port/Host: ### Static NAT Set Up an IP Address to be your Default NAT Destination. Static NAT Device or specify IP Address All unsolicited inbound traffic will be sent to the above device. Note: Static Nat and IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That certainly sounds faster than what I see in qemu. I guess I'll give VMWare a try and see how it compares. Just two more tipsfor 1920x1200 resolution, you will need to add: svga.maxWidth = 1920 to the .vmx file for your virtual machine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Lord Sauron
On 16 May 2006 15:25:58 -0500, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on a miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its ultra-accessibility. Anywhere you can just hit your key combination and *pop*

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 emerge problem

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Leopold Gouverneur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerge lvm2 abort during compilation with this message: ... ../include/lvm-string.h:40: attention : 'struct dm_pool' declared inside parameter list ... wordir/.../lvm-string.h i see: ... struct pool; char

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/16/06, Daniel Waeber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:56:46PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: I also looked for a drop-down term. Couldn't find one that I really liked, so just made a wrapper

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP

2006-05-17 Thread Teresa and Dale
Jeremy Olexa wrote: I would start with the defaults, eg. leave USE= (blank) in make.conf and then start editing package.use to modify them from there. type emerge --info to see ALL of the use flags that are being used -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-17 Thread Mick
On 17/05/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # env | grep KDE $ env | grep KDE KDEDIRS=/usr I guess that's not enough. Can I manually tweak that? (I have no ~/.profile, only ~/.bash_profile which refers to ~/.bashrc). Ah, now this makes perfect sense. I believe the old ooo-kde

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 emerge problem

2006-05-17 Thread Leopold Gouverneur
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:23:00AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 5/17/06, Leopold Gouverneur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerge lvm2 abort during compilation with this message: ... ../include/lvm-string.h:40: attention : 'struct dm_pool' declared inside parameter list ...

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-17 Thread Peter
On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:02:56 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: snip... I have often thought that would be useful, but in my mc it doesn't work. what am i missing? I know for example that if I emerge rpm it works on rpm files. What do I need to do to make it work for iso? It should be built in. As of

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-17 Thread maxim wexler
--- Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/15/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kernel panic! That's what happens. Why? Is it because it couldn't find your root device? Did it detect your hard drives correctly on boot? Or was it because it found your root, but failed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Thomas Kirchner wrote: As for copy/paste, I'll give you that. However, screen once again provides that functionality between its own windows. Yes, between its own windows. So it won't help much, if something's copied into the clipboard (eg. select text in Firefox, KNode, ... and hit Ctrl+C).

[gentoo-user] bash-3.* ignores the first press of Shift+M

2006-05-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi all, This is absurd, but when in bash-3.1_p17 I press Shift+M, the M only appears the moment I press another key. This happens both in Konsole and on a VT. And also in xterm and rxvt. It happens also in bash-3.1_p14 and bash-3.0-r14. And sash-3.7-r1. But _not_ in bash-2.05b-r11, nor

[gentoo-user] how to check dependencies for sloted apps?

2006-05-17 Thread Martins Steinbergs
hi, I decided to clean my Gentoo install and I started with 'emerge --prune --pretend' what gave me some list of apps. Then I did equery depends pkgname for each package, but problem is with sloted ones such as gtkhtml, autoconf, db and a lot from Gnome tree. How to specify (syntax) package

Re: [gentoo-user] how to check dependencies for sloted apps?

2006-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 May 2006 23:58:02 +0300, Martins Steinbergs wrote: I decided to clean my Gentoo install and I started with 'emerge --prune --pretend' Try emerge --depclean --pretend -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 23: Sweet sorrow signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 emerge problem

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Leopold Gouverneur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ebuild N] sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.05 USE=nolvm1 nolvmstatic nosnapshots readline -clvm -cman -gulm -nomirrors Anyway i think that without a previous declaration of dm_pool the compilation should abort.But since i seem to be the only one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess that's not enough. Can I manually tweak that? (I have no ~/.profile, only ~/.bash_profile which refers to ~/.bashrc). Yeah, just add the OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP setting to ~/.bashrc. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-17 Thread Mick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: On 5/17/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess that's not enough. Can I manually tweak that? (I have no ~/.profile, only ~/.bash_profile which refers to ~/.bashrc). Yeah, just add the OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP setting to

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-17 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
GUI primarily, but a console for scripting. I agree. An ncurses interface would be nice, rather than a 'command line' version. We already have 'scriptable' tools. mask/unmask would be nice, but it's not absolutely necessary install/remove is necessary ;-) emerge command generator might be

RE: [gentoo-user] gnome2_src_unpack: command not found

2006-05-17 Thread Jason Ausmus
-Original Message- From: Jason Ausmus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:16 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome2_src_unpack: command not found -Original Message- From: Jason Ausmus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge --sync

2006-05-17 Thread louis brazeau
On 5/15/06, Pablo Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13:02 Mon 15 May , Matias Grana wrote: On 10:30 Mon 15 May , Matias Grana wrote: hi; Beginning a week ago or so, I can't emerge --sync anymore. It always quits with a timeout error. Like this: receiving file list ...

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-17 Thread Daevid Vincent
I use a custom Gentoo in a VMWare on XP all the time for LAMP development. Works like a charm. Given how pokey Gentoo can be to install with all the compiling and such, perhaps you might start with a pre-configured one, and then just 'emerge -Davu world' as needed... (ps. I've not tried this one

RE: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-17 Thread Daevid Vincent
I think this is a given, but just in case... It certainly should allow me to do an 'emerge -Davu world' equivallent, and allow me to then select only the packages (or all or none) to install and of course their dependencies. It should show me the 'blocking' packages (if any), and allow me to

[gentoo-user] screen flicker

2006-05-17 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
I've yet to replace a failed power supply, so this is hypothetical for me. However, when I switched from Fedora to Gentoo I experienced some screen flcker/static, and was directed to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml. It now occurs to me that I could capture what, for example,

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
That's an uncalled-for and hateful remark, besides being disingenuous. Some of the details of masking are obscure and judging from other commentary on this list, this is intentional. Or at least somewhat prized by the local experts. I do read documentation, but I have a low tolerance for

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 20:47, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser': It should absolutely be smart enough that if a package fails to compile, SKIP IT! And move on to the next one. There is nothing more frustrating than having like 100 packages

[gentoo-user] eix gensync

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Problems: 1) As per man eix I created a 1 line file called /etc/eix-sync-overlays with an * in the only line. It is my understanding that I need to do this to get eix-sync to update for both portage and the pro-audio overlay installed using layman. 2) I try running eix to sync the overlays and

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-17 Thread daniel
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:11, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have a 30-day license to evaluate this beast, and it is not going well. I blame my own inexperience, not VMware, but it's still frustrating. As things stand, I can start my virtual machine (the current one runs Minix) only as root. I

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As things stand, I can start my virtual machine (the current one runs Minix) only as root. I can start vmware as a user, but any attempt to start my VM brings up a message about it not being able to connect to its peer (whatever that is),

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome2_src_unpack: command not found

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Jason Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, not to brow-beat the subject, but I'm kind of desperate here. I haven't been able to find anything about this at all, including in the forums. In case I haven't gotten any bites because I haven't provided enough info, let me try again...

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP

2006-05-17 Thread Jonathan Chocron
Le Mercredi 17 Mai 2006 18:01, Jeremy Olexa a écrit : Timothy A. Holmes wrote: On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo installer disk -- As such

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has gotta be the problem. Or most of it. I've been going along all this time separately mounting a /boot partition, formatted ext2 and a root partitiion, formatted reiserfs which already has a boot dir attached. Is that the one that actually

Re: [gentoo-user] how to check dependencies for sloted apps?

2006-05-17 Thread Jonathan Chocron
Le Mercredi 17 Mai 2006 22:58, Martins Steinbergs a écrit : hi, I decided to clean my Gentoo install and I started with 'emerge --prune --pretend' what gave me some list of apps. Then I did equery depends pkgname for each package, but problem is with sloted ones such as gtkhtml, autoconf, db

Re: [gentoo-user] bash-3.* ignores the first press of Shift+M

2006-05-17 Thread Jonathan Chocron
Le Mercredi 17 Mai 2006 22:44, Benno Schulenberg a écrit : Hi all, This is absurd, but when in bash-3.1_p17 I press Shift+M, the M only appears the moment I press another key. This happens both in Konsole and on a VT. And also in xterm and rxvt. It happens also in bash-3.1_p14 and