Re: [gentoo-user] Network works OK internally but can't access Internet - very frustrated

2007-02-03 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 09:26:22 +0300, Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - After a last emerge --sync I've been having trouble accessing the internet. My network interface comes up OK. I receive an address for the DHCP server (i.e. eth1 received address 192.168.0.7/24) and I can see

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo VMWare image works on Intel but not AMD. Are they not interchangeable?

2007-02-06 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:27:01 +0300, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the host CPU make a difference? I thought it was all emulated? I tried to recompile the kernel with the generic '386 CPU settings and removed all power mgmt etc, and the same issue happens. The host CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:57:19 +0300, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heat (dust bunnies/blocked fans/filters ...) bad memory Bad memory or bad motherboard. This is less likely, but also happens (saw that Thursday). Ideally, switch memory with another similar PC and see what

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:46:42 +0300, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can read german (or if you know someone who is able to translate it for you): http://hardware.thgweb.de/2007/01/15/stresstest_netzteile_2007/index.html Nice link, thanks. Re reading German: 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3.4.6 vs. 4.1.1

2007-02-14 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:47:45 +0300, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of my gentoo systems have both gcc 3.4 and 4.1 but still use 3.4 for everything except packages that just won't build with gcc 3.4. I'm curious what other people are doing. Have most people switched over to 4.1 as

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-23 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:51:20 +0300, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:34:45 -0800, Grant wrote: It occurred to me this morning that a hacker could have gained access to my system via the vmware guest OS (XP) and then deleted the contents of vmware/ to cover his

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-23 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:57:25 +0300, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It occurred to me this morning that a hacker could have gained access to my system via the vmware guest OS (XP) and then deleted the contents of vmware/ to cover his tracks. Does that sound like a possibility? Not unless

Re: [gentoo-user] selecting OS in Grub

2007-03-15 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:46:47 +0300, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. And the hardware is not new, nor is this a fresh install. I just don't know what changed... Try a different keyboard? Just in case? Try LILO. -- Andrei Gerasimenko -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:07:15 +0400, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make any sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and that's from someone who doesn't have any accessibility issues with

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:25:24 +0400, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: AG AG Do you mean www.gentoo.org? If yes: AG AG IMHO this should not be filed as a bug. The colors all over the page are AG consistent and the links, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-04 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:32:45 +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:36:49AM +0200, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: Weren't you talking about portage? In that case you should obviously file it against portage.. But yeah, any app that has a --nocolor equivalent that doesn't work

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS ...-O3 -pipe vs ...O2 no pipe

2007-04-08 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:48:07 +0400, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, I note two schools of thought on the best CFLAGS for the Pentium III processor. One suggests using -O3 -pipe, the other, -O2 without the pipe. How much difference does this make? Is the extra level of

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:10:27 +0400, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... As has been said, the installation CD does not need to be specifically a Gentoo cd, although it seems worth repeating that it _does_ have to support the same architecture. ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:50:23 +0400, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: I agree that the installation CD does not need to be specifically a Gentoo cd, but I believe that it should be always possible to use it for installation, even when workarounds are available. The only

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:08:49 +0400, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:26:23 +0400, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: I do not see how it is hard to create a minimal installation CD image every time new hardware support is added into the kernel, Then do it. Open source

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-18 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:11:21 +0400, Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: I do not see how it is hard to create a minimal installation CD image every time new hardware support is added into the kernel, or new gcc version goes stable, or new portage version goes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr

2007-05-10 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Fri, 11 May 2007 01:36:03 +0400, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:34:46 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007 12:11:34 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: No idea, but I tried it when I encountered that page and portage operations were

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-21 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sat, 19 May 2007 07:00:58 +0400, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Imo, the cyclic dep problem could be solved as thus, A depends B B depends C||A Where C is a minimalist subset of A required for building B, which is only depended on if A is not present. A is also a

Re: [gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses

2006-12-12 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:38:07 +0300, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, this is for English native speakers (British English, American English and colonial English alike). I was looking up something in my Oxford dictionary. First, I had to make sure how they indicate irregular

Re: [gentoo-user] should my computer really be able to speak russian?

2006-12-13 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:29:34 +0300, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Sims wrote: ) That paste looks HTML. Can someone confirm that it is sending as text only? I have Seamonkey set up to send text only to this list. This is a multi-part message in MIME format, that is, onepart is plain

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-19 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:27:20 +0300, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 18 December 2006 15:47, Grant wrote: I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I personally still love Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:23:25 +0300, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I, for one, would be devastated without Gentoo! I looked deep into myself and found that possibly it is fear that drives this thread. Am I not the only one with the impresion that for the last 10

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-21 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:39:46 +0300, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 18:16, Mark Knecht wrote: [SNIP] I understand that every package is out there in some repository on the web. I think Neil has pointed me toward it once or twice at least. The problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-21 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:03:26 +0300, Bryan Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 12:16:04PM +0300, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Is the non-profit organization side of Gentoo healthy? My brief Google session does not reveal anything that suggests it is not, but if somebody

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-21 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:25:01 +0300, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Files are removed from the mirrors two weeks after the last ebuild using them is removed from the tree, so if you sync every two weeks you should never suffer from missing source files (apart fro restricted ebuilds).

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-21 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:52:53 +0300, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 21 December 2006 10:43, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Files are removed from the mirrors two weeks after the last ebuild using them is removed from the tree, so if you sync every two weeks you should

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-24 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:52:55 +0300, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Gentoo, the system is updated while you are using it. This causes us users to modify whatever we're running to suit all these changes. As far as I know, Gentoo releases a Reference Platform

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:46:23 +0300, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand what you say, but I'm not sure I got my point across very well. Let's say I have a server that has various things installed like apache with the 2.0 branch, mysql with the 4.0 branch, and PHP with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-02 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:29:12 +0300, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure others will disagree, but I really think if Gentoo is going to become a cornerstone in the desktop's replacement (like for thin clients) then there should probably be an option for a binary 'version' of

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2007-01-03 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:55:50 +0300, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh,God! I can't start my machine with the livecd anymore even I have burned another livecd with livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso. The error is still all the same:coldpluging pci devices,which appears at 68%'s progress.

[gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-04 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or Bugzilla. How are they being made stable (or where in the docs is the process described)? -- Andrei Gerasimenko -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-05 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:49:30 +0300, Robert Cernansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:49:48 -0700 Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 for long time without any bugs referenced

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable - suggestion for improvement

2007-01-06 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:24:58 +0300, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:23:51 -0700 Steve Dibb wrote: I've been reading this thread as well as the earlier (July) threads (from gmane) and notice that everyone is discussing 30 days, automatic, and stabilization bugs.

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-10 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:43:26 +0300, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to switch from cable to ADSL anytime soon, and I'm trying to prepare the computer for the big change, given that there will be a time gap without internet access and that I can't expect any support whatsoever

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:37:27 +0300, qfpvajdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to convince my boss and my collegues to use Gentoo GNU/Linux at the company office for the desktop system (and maybe one day also for servers). Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix system, but

Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:45:01 +0300, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems setting the domain name of a new gentoo installation. I looked at /etc/conf.d/net.examples and tried what seemed to me what they were looking for such as DNS_LO=domain name The host name works,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

2007-01-26 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:12:41 +0300, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether you should move or not I'll leave up to you. Following ciaranm.org or even planetpaludis.org should allow you to decide for yourself... Just make sure to read the docs at paludis.org if you want to try

Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalling KDE packages

2007-01-29 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:46:56 +0300, Vlad Dogaru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, after some suggestions from the list I finally emerged KDE to give it another try. Even with 256 MiB of RAM, it works quite acceptably, save for the startup time. However, I notice it has installed all sorts of