Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Eray Aslan
On 15.11.2009 13:45, Mick wrote: On Saturday 14 November 2009 16:53:24 Alex Schuster wrote: I assume you are using logrotate, and have the /etc/logrotate.d/kernel file? I guess the 'compytruncate' is misspelled and should be 'copytruncate'. And 'endscript' is used after using 'prerotate' or

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Graham Murray
Eray Aslan eray.as...@caf.com.tr writes: - No need to logrotate with time based filenames. Hence, no need to kill -HUP the syslog daemon. No missed logs. But you still need some system (eg tmpwatch) to delete old log files otherwise the disk will (eventually) fill with log files.

[gentoo-user] amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1? I get errors like this whenever amarok updates the collection: amarok: [ERROR!] GREPME MySQL query failed! No database selected on INSERT INTO images SELECT * FROM images_temp;

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @ world - @preserved-rebuild - @preserved-rebuild - what next?

2009-11-16 Thread Erik
Alan McKinnon skrev: On Saturday 14 November 2009 01:13:06 Neil Bothwick wrote: However, it did get to the point where it was complaining about two packages and the number of files to be rebuilt went (IIRC) 52, 50, 50, so I decide since it was rebuilding 50 packages the 2nd 3rd times it

[gentoo-user] dev-util/kdevplatform-0.9.96 fails

2009-11-16 Thread Erik
Installing (2 of 4) dev-util/kdevplatform-0.9.96 * checking 432 files for package collisions * This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other * packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq * owners / filename` to identify the installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-16 Thread Jacques Montier
Dale a gentiment tapote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: I suspect a missing useflag

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/kdevplatform-0.9.96 fails

2009-11-16 Thread Christian Panten
Hi Erik, I had the same collisions. Unmerge kdevelop using emerge -C kdevelop do the update und remerge it. Best regards Christian Am Montag 16 November 2009 schrieb Erik: Installing (2 of 4) dev-util/kdevplatform-0.9.96 * checking 432 files for package collisions * This package will

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 16 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Dale a gentiment tapote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/kdevplatform-0.9.96 fails

2009-11-16 Thread Graham Murray
Erik esi...@gmail.com writes: Installing (2 of 4) dev-util/kdevplatform-0.9.96 [snip] * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/lib/kde4/kdevdocumentview.so

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Eray Aslan
On 16.11.2009 10:08, Graham Murray wrote: Eray Aslan eray.as...@caf.com.tr writes: - No need to logrotate with time based filenames. Hence, no need to kill -HUP the syslog daemon. No missed logs. But you still need some system (eg tmpwatch) to delete old log files otherwise the disk

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:05:18 +0200, Eray Aslan wrote: - No need to logrotate with time based filenames. Hence, no need to kill -HUP the syslog daemon. No missed logs. Then how do you get the server to use the new logfile names each day/week? You only need to send a SIGHUP to the server

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-16 Thread Arnau Bria
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:29:09 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, In my experience, various nvidia-drivers just seem to not work with my system, no matter how many times I rebuild and recheck things. I have a whole bunch of versions masked. Looking back, I never seemed to have a problem with

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-16 Thread Dale
Jacques Montier wrote: Oups sorry... :-) , here it is : USE=X a52 aac acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv java jpeg kde ldap

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord fails to burn dvd

2009-11-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: To find the reason for the following Impossible because illegal error situation: Executing 'test unit ready' command on Bus 0 Target 6, Lun 0 timeout 40s CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: fatal

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

2009-11-16 Thread Fernando Antunes
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nelis Botha nelis.bo...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Eray Aslan
On 16.11.2009 14:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:05:18 +0200, Eray Aslan wrote: - No need to logrotate with time based filenames. Hence, no need to kill -HUP the syslog daemon. No missed logs. Then how do you get the server to use the new logfile names each day/week?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dell XPS16 for Christmas?

2009-11-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I have been thinking of buying this laptop and was looking at the Gentoo Wiki which shows relatively good hardware compatibility, except for the radeon card which is now an older offering:

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Saturday 14 November 2009 16:53:24 Alex Schuster wrote: Something like that, I never used logrotate by myself. See the man page for more information. Hmm ... how do you keep your log files under control? I am using app-admin/metalog (http://metalog.sourceforge.net/) as

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Jarry
Alex Schuster wrote: SUBJECT: Cron r...@obelix test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons error: kernel:9 unknown option 'compytruncate' -- ignoring line error: kernel:12 unknown option 'endscript' -- ignoring line -- I assume you are using logrotate, and have the

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 November 2009 17:55:51 Eray Aslan wrote: On 16.11.2009 14:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:05:18 +0200, Eray Aslan wrote: - No need to logrotate with time based filenames. Hence, no need to kill -HUP the syslog daemon. No missed logs. Then how do you

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Something like that, I never used logrotate by myself. See the man page for more information. Let me ask: how do you deal with /var/log/wtmp? I think it does not go through syslog, and even it it does, it is not easy to process it whit that

[gentoo-user] fsck + emerge = crash

2009-11-16 Thread Loupy
Hey all, I got a power here, which after I had to run fsck... well there where some troubled Inodes and I choosed yes to repair them. So far so good, system booted well, but now I cannot emerge anything at all. emerge --info tells me as normal user: emerge: incomplete set configuration, missing

[gentoo-user] Re: amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-16 Thread Doug Hunley
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:24, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1? I haven't had any issues w/ amarok 2.2.0 and mysql 5.0.84-r1 (once I figured out how to get amarok to _not_ use the embedded mysql) -- Douglas J

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 16 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1? yes $ eix -e amarok Installed versions: 2.2.0(4)(20:08:42 15/11/09)(cdda ipod linguas_en_GB mp3tunes mtp opengl semantic-desktop -aqua -daap -debug -lastfm

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1? Sort of. I get errors like this whenever amarok updates the collection: amarok: [ERROR!] GREPME MySQL query failed! No database selected on INSERT INTO images SELECT * FROM images_temp;

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Neil Walker
Alex Schuster wrote: I just let it grow and grow and grow... on my server, which is running Gentoo for seven years now, it has 27,000 entries, and is at 24 MB. Wow! Do you even need a server? It can't be doing much. My servers top that in a few hours. ;) Be lucky, Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck + emerge = crash

2009-11-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:01 +0100, Loupy wrote: Hey all, I got a power here, which after I had to run fsck... well there where some troubled Inodes and I choosed yes to repair them. So far so good, system booted well, but now I cannot emerge anything at all. [...] well, what would you

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck + emerge = crash

2009-11-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 November 2009 21:16:29 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:01 +0100, Loupy wrote: Hey all, I got a power here, which after I had to run fsck... well there where some troubled Inodes and I choosed yes to repair them. So far so good, system booted well, but now I

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 November 2009 22:09:11 Neil Walker wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: I just let it grow and grow and grow... on my server, which is running Gentoo for seven years now, it has 27,000 entries, and is at 24 MB. Wow! Do you even need a server? It can't be doing much. My servers top that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 November 2009 21:26:02 Doug Hunley wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:24, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1? I haven't had any issues w/ amarok 2.2.0 and mysql 5.0.84-r1 (once I figured out how to

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck + emerge = crash

2009-11-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 16 November 2009, Loupy wrote: Hey all, I got a power here, which after I had to run fsck... well there where some troubled Inodes and I choosed yes to repair them. So far so good, system booted well, but now I cannot emerge anything at all. emerge --info tells me as normal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 16 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 16 November 2009 21:26:02 Doug Hunley wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:24, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1? I haven't had any issues w/ amarok

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Walker writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I just let it grow and grow and grow... on my server, which is running Gentoo for seven years now, it has 27,000 entries, and is at 24 MB. Wow! Do you even need a server? It can't be doing much. My servers top that in a few hours. ;) It's a

[gentoo-user] lxappearance and commonbox-styles?

2009-11-16 Thread Marcus Wanner
I installed lxde and am really liking it (stabilization soon? install went without a hitch...). I also installed commonbox-styles because I didn't really like the default theme, so I installed commonbox-themes and commonbox-themes-extra. I opened lxappearance and tried to switch to one of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 00:22:57 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 16 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 16 November 2009 21:26:02 Doug Hunley wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:24, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone here successfully use

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 November 2009 21:40:42 Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1? Sort of. I get errors like this whenever amarok updates the collection: amarok: [ERROR!] GREPME MySQL query failed! No database

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-16 Thread Neil Walker
Alan McKinnon wrote: I have to ask - what the blazes are those servers doing??? :-) HTTP, SMTP and IMAP, mostly. ;) Be lucky, Neil http://www.easy-ebay.com

Re: [gentoo-user] scrollback using framebuffer

2009-11-16 Thread Maxim Wexler
CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=256 Identical to mine. I have no settings for scrollback on the kernel command line,