[gentoo-user] Re: where is emacs-cvs-23.0.60 ?

2008-07-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see mention of emacs-cvs-23.0.60 is several places including bugs.gentoo.org, but I can't find it in portage. I am running 23.0.50 now with success. What ever is the most recent cvs version is what will get installed if you run `emerge emacs-cvs'

[gentoo-user] Re: where is emacs-cvs-23.0.60 ?

2008-07-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which really just means the latest cvs code committed. Thank you. I had guessed something like that, but . wouldn't compile for me. I submitted a bug report via M-x report-emacs-bug and it was promptly fixed. Then . compiled and I am

[gentoo-user] emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-07 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having a time getting ksh93 to install (build error at the end) USE='static' emerge -v ksh93 The only other use flag coming up was `nls' I wasn't real eager for `static' necessarily but without `static' had already failed and I saw it was a possible flag. Also it might be handy sometime in

[gentoo-user] Unusual console input problem certain keys dead

2009-01-14 Thread Harry Putnam
I've run into a problem I've never experienced. I'll try to describe the setup first, then the phenomena: Gateway laptop core due whatever??? gentoo 2008.0 kernel-2.6.26-r1 running in a vmware app on vista home. Let me say here that This app has run well for sometime but left alone for quite

[gentoo-user] Re: Unusual console input problem certain keys dead

2009-01-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:59:17PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: Key `e' and `/' when pressed just do nothing whatever. I think there way be a bell since I see a flash when ssh'd in from and Xterm in a X session on another machine. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Unusual console input problem certain keys dead

2009-01-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: As to how I know C-v is verbatim? That came from trying to create ASCII art by hand ... :) He he... yeah thats the way thinking works... bouncing around like that. I've used C-v for years as a way to see what is actually being sent from the keyboard.. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Append string on Kernel builds

2009-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com writes: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:36:42 -0600 rea...@newsguy.com wrote: What I asked was if there is some tricky syntax I could use on that kernel setting that would do: linux-2.6.26-gentoo-$HOST-N Where N is an incremented number every time I build the kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: I'm ashamed to admit I made the most basic mistake. I compiled uvesafb as a module. Oops! Compiled it as Y instead of M and now I have a pair of Tux sitting atop my kernel

[gentoo-user] More on /sys files

2009-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm in the process of rsyncing an OS to a remote file system. when rsyncing /sys to remote /sys... I get piles of errors of the form: WARNING: devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/ACPI_CPU:00/power/wakeup failed verification -- update discarded (will try again). This is after a session failed so

[gentoo-user] Re: More on /sys files

2009-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Vladimir Rusinov vladi...@greenmice.info writes: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: What do I need to do to get remote /sys to mirror local /sys Will booting the remote... once the transfer is done cure the problem? Why do you need to sync /sys? It's

[gentoo-user] Re: Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: But I had expected Squid + module to be the answer, and no-one mentioned it. A couple of clowns mentioned OpenDNS, and DansGuardian was the only serious reply I got, so you might want to look at that, too.

[gentoo-user] Re: Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com writes: But I had expected Squid + module to be the answer, and no-one mentioned it. A couple of clowns mentioned OpenDNS, and DansGuardian was the only serious reply I got, so you might want to look at that, too.

[gentoo-user] Re: Append string on Kernel builds

2009-01-18 Thread Harry Putnam
David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com writes: How about an external tool? I use sed to fill in LOCALVERSION, e.g. V=$( date +%m%d.%H%M ) cp -p .config .config.old sed s/LOCALVERSION.*/LOCALVERSION=\$V\/ .config.old .config make vmlinux modules modules_install Ahaa ... that

[gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-29 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will have built your own. After looking at a few on google .. I'm a little surprised at the high end pricetags and

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org writes: On Friday 30 January 2009 00:06:05 Harry Putnam wrote: I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here since I'm sure some of you will be using something

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org writes: The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui. Maybe that is something some people would miss. But

[gentoo-user] Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful to that OP. I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that makes it better than ext3 or reiserfs? Is it safer journalling? Faster

[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: Depending on your usage you might see significant improvements or hardly any at all. Best way to know for sure is to try it out. Note however that on ext4 journal checksums are *on* by default (and off on ext3 iirc). So when you are comparing

[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: sense. The one that really brings something new to the Linux filesystem world will be btrfs. I've already tried some older versions of it and it looks very promising. Volumes, RAID, data integrity, etc, all integrated into the filesystem,

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org writes: Is it connected into 10/100 or 1000 (gigabit) setup? It is a gigabit setup. NFS read is about 30-34MB/s, writing is considerably slower with 15MB/s. So writing is a bit slow. But as i do not need fast storage i did not investigate. And it must be

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com writes: I know its a little OT, but I have to mention ZFS. It'll mean running Solaris or FreeBSD in order to get the best out of it, but it's worth it. I changed my fileserver from a gentoo box with software raid and lvm over to ZFS on OpenSolaris

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com writes: Are you backing up any windows boxes onto the ZFS? Is it just a matter of making it available by way of samba/cifs? I'm using it for both attached storage via ISCSI, and standard sharing on a domain via cifs. I've got backups running from linux

[gentoo-user] hwinfo build error

2009-01-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Trying to emerge hwinfo I get the error output inlined below. I see a list of warnings about undeclared this and that coming from the src files but not sure what it means. Anyone here that can recognize what the problem is? (tail of output) [...] DFORCE_POST -D_CEXPORT= -DNO_LONG_LONG -I.

[gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows

2009-01-31 Thread Harry Putnam
This list may be too good for its own good... hehe. Sorry to bring this up here but in fact the behavior I'll describe in a moment is something I've learned to love from yrs of linux us with this enabled. Including the last few yrs on gentoo. I add this into xorg.conf in one of the display

[gentoo-user] Re: hwinfo build error

2009-01-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: i10_v86.c:486: error: 'TF_MASK' undeclared (first use in this function) i10_v86.c:486: error: 'NT_MASK' undeclared (first use in this function) see bug 236449 on b.g.o. recent kernel headers renamed some things and breaks the code. a patched ebuild

[gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:38:48 -0500, ABCD wrote: To be precise, the config option CONFIG_LOCALVERSION appends a string to the end of the kernel version, which installkernel uses to place the kernel image. You can get the same effect by creating a

[gentoo-user] Gack... cups docu

2009-02-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Anyone else have trouble accessing cups documentation? Here using http://localhost:631 just fails with standard message unable to connect to server at 631. The html stuff under /usr/share/cups/html/ appears to have the href links setup so that they point to somewhere on the file system that

[gentoo-user] Re: Gack... cups docu

2009-02-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Anyone else have trouble accessing cups documentation? Here using http://localhost:631 just fails with standard message unable to connect to server at 631. The html stuff under /usr/share/cups/html/ appears to have the href links setup so

[gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: cd /usr/src/linux echo $(hostname)- localversion1 ln -s .version localversion2 will give each kernel a name with the hostname and version added. .version is automatically incremented each time you run make. I'm sorry for being so dense but that

[gentoo-user] Re: Gack... cups docu

2009-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Anyone else have trouble accessing cups documentation? Here using http://localhost:631 just fails with standard message unable to connect to server at 631. The html stuff under /usr/share

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com writes: The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML, not Richard M Stallman. Info has been around a lot longer than HTML, but I think you're largely correct. There is entirely to much made of RMS. I don't know him personally and just a

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read info? You appear to be taking a potshot, not really adding to the discussion. I know you are not incapable of installing emacs and we both know you can read info

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther: Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer What the heck is a Windows Installer? *SCNR* Thirty five reboots and several hours

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read info? You appear to be taking a potshot, not really

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es writes: El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 22:00, Harry Putnam escribió: Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com writes: The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML, not Richard M Stallman. Info has been around a lot longer than HTML, but I think

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: where? Because of the 'xemacs is even better'? Well, you are stating all the time that info is perfect for big things like bash - and then you are critizing me for stating unsupportable hard facts? Pretty ironic, don't you think?

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es writes: There should be no posts beyond this point proclaiming how tuff it is to use emacs if you have no network on a fresh install... Or having to suffer through learning info to learn emacs to ah but who knows. So you word is definitive and infallible.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Sendmail and Comcast

2009-02-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: Hi All, If any of you guys has a working sendmail configuration with Comcast I would be grateful if you could share off list. Although I have followed the instructions detailed here (except for the masquerade options) I cannot get it to work:

[gentoo-user] spontaneous reboots.. what to look for

2009-02-15 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been experiencing spontaneous reboots on one gentoo machine lately. Looking thru /var/log/messages... I see the restarts but looking above that... I'm not seeing anything I recognize as being a culprit. Its been happening for a few weeks... but I've been busy and only now digging into it (

[gentoo-user] Re: spontaneous reboots.. what to look for

2009-02-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: Reseat memory and PCI cards, etc. Consider removing for a period of time any hardware not absolutely necessary to debug the problem. (I.e. - second video card, extra disk drives, extra network adapters, etc.) Run memtest86 for a few days if you can

[gentoo-user] Re: Eeek: Apache2 lost it's CGI ability

2009-02-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com writes: I don't get much help from the logs. The access log shows that the request got an error code, 64.166.164.49 - - [15/Feb/2009:15:46:32 -0800] GET /hex-bin/board HTTP/1.1 500 542 and all that the error log says is: [Sun Feb 15 15:46:32 2009]

[gentoo-user] Re: spontaneous reboots.. what to look for

2009-02-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: Do the easy thing first. Clean your case, reseat all cards and memory modules and check all caps while doing so. Any of them deformed? The 'head' going up? Strange stuff around its feet? Congratulation, you need new hardware. Sorry to

[gentoo-user] virtualBox and Gcc

2009-02-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone tell me if there is some way to tell emerge to use a specific compiler during an emerge? I get this output during emerge of virutalbox-ose. Note that it says to use a version of gcc earlier than 4.3. Is there some way to do that without causing grief somewhere else? [...]

[gentoo-user] Re: virtualBox and Gcc

2009-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is some way to tell emerge to use a specific compiler during an emerge? [...] I guess you can just use gcc-config to change versions

[gentoo-user] [OT hardware ?] Can ram spec be tracked to different mobos

2009-03-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Anyone know if the ram sticks installed in one mobo can be tracked to see what other mobo's it will work in. I'm thinking switching out a mobo and hate to loose the 3GB ram installed in it. I don't have the spec to hand due to one machine being shut down but do have record of it on that machine

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT hardware ?] Can ram spec be tracked to different mobos

2009-03-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: On Sonntag 01 März 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: Anyone know if the ram sticks installed in one mobo can be tracked to see what other mobo's it will work in. I'm thinking switching out a mobo and hate to loose the 3GB ram installed

[gentoo-user] Re: Grep question

2009-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: Adam Carter Adam.Carter at optus.com.au writes: I need to select all the lines between string1 and string2 in a file. String1 exists on an entire line by itself and string2 will be at the start of a line. What's the syntax? I cant use -A as

[gentoo-user] Re: Grep question

2009-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Etaoin Shrdlu shr...@unlimitedmail.org writes: On Tuesday 3 March 2009, 03:10, Harry Putnam wrote: cat a | awk '/^foo/{FLAG=1}\ FLAG{print} \ /^bar/{FLAG=}' awk '/^foo/,/^bar/' a does the same :) Nice...

[gentoo-user] Gentoo nfs server:Opensolaris client; error `security mode does not match'

2009-03-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having a problem mounting a nfs share exported by my gentoo server. The client problem occurs on an opensolaris box running 2008-11 build 109. I have an ancient /etc/exports that may be way out of date... I rarely use nfs. But I've begun setting up a NAS that consists of an OpenSolaris

[gentoo-user] Yikes, replacing sata 200gb with Sata 750gb .. no bootsky.

2009-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: amd Athlon64 +3400 architecture I'm attempting to replace 2 200gb sata drives with 2 750 gb drives. All drives concerned are WD. And the 2 200gb are attached to a: Adeptec 1205sa PCI sata card (non-raid) The two existing drives have been working fine but need more room so replacing

[gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, replacing sata 200gb with Sata 750gb .. no bootsky.

2009-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Anthony Metcalf ne...@anferny.me.uk writes: Harry Putnam wrote: [...] Sounds like the bios is seeing the drives in a different order now to before, and so is trying to boot from the wrong disk Can you manually alter the order it tries disks? I can, and it is set directly to boot

[gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, replacing sata 200gb with Sata 750gb .. no bootsky.

2009-03-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Boot partition is not involved here. Its on a a different (IDE) disk. Its not on a partition actually but in the MBR of Master drive on first IDE controller. The newly

[gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, replacing sata 200gb with Sata 750gb .. no bootsky.

2009-03-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Most drives have a jumper to put them into 1.5gbps mode (rather than 3gbps mode). See if your new drives have one of those jumpers. There are pins (no actual jumper was supplied) but the only thing mentioned on the drive about using pins

[gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, replacing sata 200gb with Sata 750gb .. no bootsky.

2009-03-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: So installed jumper on 5-6 and booted up. I still get the same kind of hang at the point where the adaptec PCI card throws up a screen. Press F3 to enter configuration utility Primary channel: WDC WD200-blah 19082 MB = old 200gb

[gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, replacing sata 200gb with Sata 750gb .. no bootsky.

2009-03-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: Are you using the latest BIOS for the Adaptec card? It looks like the chipset is Silicon Image 3112A and the latest BIOS on SI's website is 4.2.84. http://www.siliconimage.com/support/ After downloading the bios upgrade and trying to figure

[gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, replacing sata 200gb with Sata 750gb .. no bootsky.

2009-03-29 Thread Harry Putnam
[...] Harry wrote: Also I don't see any evidence this upgrade would make the card work with those 750 drives. Paul replied: You could perhaps try giving Adaptec a call or e-mail and see if anyone there can tell you what that controller supports, since their website doesn't really say.

[gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, replacing sata 200gb with Sata 750gb .. no bootsky.

2009-03-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul, you will be relieved to know that I braved up and installed the 1205sa card on a windows machine... updated driver which may have been a waste of time and flashed both Base BIOS and SATA_raid BIOS. Apparently this card has a BIOS that is in 2 parts or maybe each on it own chip. Their are 2

[gentoo-user] Re: Another Jacked up mess on update - hal daemon

2009-04-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Since you can ssh into the system, could you remove hald from the default runlevel and reboot? I'm not sure about the keyboard and mouse after that tho. At least maybe you can get to a console. As reported in OP, I sshed in and stopped the start of hald..

[gentoo-user] Re: Another Jacked up mess on update - hal daemon

2009-04-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: But I can ssh into the box. What should I supply here to allow someone to help diagnose the problem? Recent info on hal from `qlop --list|grep hal' Sun Feb 15 10:52:16 2009 app-misc/hal-info-20090202 Sun Feb 15 10:54:45 2009 sys-apps/hal-0.5.11

[gentoo-user] Another Jacked up mess on update - hal daemon

2009-04-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Once again I find myself with a big mess following an update world. This time I was probably out of date by more than 1 mnth, probably less than 2. On first reboot the bootup proceeds well into level 3, right up to starting hal daemon. There is sets forever. Since its past the point where

[gentoo-user] Re: Another Jacked up mess on update - hal daemon

2009-04-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: On next boot, the problem with hal daemon reported above started. and you did etc-update/cfg-update after the update? Have you read the messages with elogv? Same hal versions here - no problems at all. I've completed the cfg-update

[gentoo-user] Re: Another Jacked up mess on update - hal daemon

2009-04-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: No I didn't do the update... As reported in OP, I actually wasn't done with the follup chores to an update, and shutdown from a remote due to absentminded pea brainedness. I'm doing that now via ssh. Maybe things will improve

[gentoo-user] Re: Another Jacked up mess on update - hal daemon

2009-04-05 Thread Harry Putnam
ABCD en.a...@gmail.com writes: Is it related to hal daemon problem? emerge -vuD glibc [...] usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a Completed installing glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 into /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2/image/ [snip sandbox error] That actually is completely separate,

[gentoo-user] KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Summary: What can I do to get my keyboard recognized (through a kvm switch) right at bootup. I mean like when the grub prompt comes up. Details: I've had this curious problem for some time now. Over at least several kernels but I think beginning with changing from one KVM to another a few

[gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
I've just completed first part of a fresh install. Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the highlights are: eix genkernel gentoolkit gentoolkit-dev gentoo-sources grub lynx ntp reiserfsprogs rsyslog vim

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does this somehow imply that you are trying to boot from a Reiser partition and could that be part of the problem?

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: [...] I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the second part of the boot where the

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: Something finally allows the kvm pass through to be recognized but not until I've reached the login prompt. But linux kernel isn't loaded or used in any way when grub screen comes up - grub is loading it as a last step of it's execution, so any

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: And just incase its something related to the newest kernel I've downgraded to 2.6.29-r2 and building from an old .config of 2.6.28. (not genkernel on this one) I think he was hoping that you would find something in your chroot/var/log/messages file

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: [...] Harry wrote: So if I could identify what it is in the kernel that allowes it to work at the point where the kernel takes over (login prompt), then maybe I could enable that aspect somehow inside an initramfs, and be able to have the KVM

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: If you can't access the BIOS using the KVM then the problem is hardware, not with Linux software. You mean if my keyboard through kvm can't get to bios... yea I see your point. I'll try that shortly... currently compiling an older gcc

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: Okay, the syslog is probably not one of them, so /var/log shouldn't be too populated, except for rc.log, which should be enabled specifically in /etc/rc.conf (w/ baselayout-2) or /etc/conf.d/rc - look for rc_logger line or something similar with

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:50:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the highlights are: You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:03:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has genlop installed, you can get a list with genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emerge.log Yeah thanks... I knew

[gentoo-user] emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
setup: kernel-2.6.29-r2 gcc-4.3.2-r3 procmail is one tool that is absolutely robust and I expected no trouble whatever emerging it... however the emerge is failing like as shown below. I'm not sure what to do about getline. The only useflags that come up are one I set `mbox' and one other

[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
galiza.ce...@gmail.com (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila) writes: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270551 HTH Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. Or dink around with sed inside as another poster on the bug

[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. man ebuild HTH :) Doesn't any manual

[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. man ebuild Just in case another

[gentoo-user] How to veiw absolute latest on partage without syncing

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Is there a way to veiw the very latest packages on portage without syncing my OS?

[gentoo-user] About procmail and getline

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Trying to install procmail I hit a known bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270551 And from emerge: [...] In file included from formail.c:25: formisc.h:20: error: conflicting types for 'getline' /usr/include/stdio.h:651: error: previous declaration of 'getline' was here

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} make uninstall with no rule

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com writes: I'm just now learning how to compile and install manually. I installed makemkv-1.4.1 manually and now I found an ebuild so I'd like to install the latest version via the ebuild, but I get: # make uninstall make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to veiw absolute latest on partage without syncing

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: It's not really clear why you're asking, or why you're unable to sync. If the PC has no internet connection, for instance, security updates are unimportant. Thanks for the tips... no it was something totally mundane. I wanted to see if anything

[gentoo-user] Re: How to veiw absolute latest on partage without syncing

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: You could always sync then do a emerge -uv procmail. then it would only upgrade procmail and any friends that need to be updated. That would mostly likely miss most of the other updates that you are wanting to skip for the moment. yeah... its a thought...

[gentoo-user] Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm really sorry to keep beating on this portage stuff and I guess I must be something of a dimwit since I find just about anything to do with portage and emerge that is outside `emerge -flags whatever' to be really hard to catch on to, even though (and shouldn't admit this) I've been running

[gentoo-user] Re: Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: But if you consider it a hassle, just mask the buggy version of procmail forget about the problem. Thanks... I thought of something like that but then noticed there's only one version available in portage. At that point I downloaded the

[gentoo-user] Re: Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:59:53 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Isn't there a simple way to introduce the sed run in procmail sources during emerge? man 1 ebuild ebuild /usr/portage/mail-filter/procmail configure (do-some-sed

[gentoo-user] Re: Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: man 1 ebuild ebuild /usr/portage/mail-filter/procmail configure (do-some-sed-in-/var/tmp) ebuild /usr/portage/mail-filter/procmail merge Many thanks for the tips... and hugely usefull. But: Yikes I may have jumped the gun thinking I was

[gentoo-user] Re: How to veiw absolute latest on partage without syncing

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I was thinking about NOT doing the emerge -u world part. That would skip updating everything that has updates applied on your system. Doing just a emerge -u procmail would only update procmail and the dependencies if any are needed. Keep in mind, you can

[gentoo-user] Re: Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 16:22 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i486 -pipe -fno-inline-functions2 -march=i486 -pipe -fno-inline-functions _autotst.c -o _autotst -Wl,-O1 cc1: error: unrecognized command line option -fno-inline

[gentoo-user] Re: [kde Q] Gack too man shares showing up on desktop

2006-01-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've cleared all boxes at kcontrol/Desktop/Behavior/Device icons Also the top one, Show device icons, after which the whole list greys out? Egad, don't know why I couldn't see that one until you pointed it out. That cleared the slate... thanks.

[gentoo-user] Backup device (sata hdd) best filesystem

2006-02-02 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm about to format 2 200gb sata drives and one 300gb ATA for use as recipients of all backups. This will mostly consist of rsnapshot created files. And a number of tar.gz and other compression type files maybe some ISO type files etc. I'm backing up two winxp video/sound editing machines 2

[gentoo-user] Better than equery list|grep something

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
A while back some posted a way to avoid doing: equery list|grep package to get info like version or whatever. It involved limiting what list returned by some method before it gets to grep. Anyone remember or know what it is. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Better than equery list|grep something

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: `equery list package` does the same thing Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can do equery list package name to get a list of installed Ahh, knew it was something sort of obvious but couldn't get it right. Thanks posters -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I named it vmware_script and placed it in /etc/vmware, and execute it to run vmware. It works great as long as I execute as root : chmod o+w /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate So that as a user you can execute the max_cstate command.

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the developers are currently in the process of switching to a modular X server. This is a big change which is known to break stuff. You should, however, be fine as long as you do use stable packages. See also the latest Gentoo Newsletter at

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:13:58PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: And a quite long string of package names follow including xvidtune I'm apparently using the wrong command to try to learn the dependancies. root # equery depends x11

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: xvidtune knows about all that and reports whats really going on. xvidtune is part or xorg-x11. If you have the older style, stable xorg installed you already have xvidtune: Thanks Nick that stopped this sillyness in its tracks. Egad, once again I get to

[gentoo-user] Re: So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've tried it half an hour ago with (a very old) knoppix CD. I have USB disks, I have sound, I have networking ... That said (xcuse me, I HAVE TO say that) Gentoo is far away from a distro for usage. Do not reply to this post - I'll unsubscribe immediatlely

[gentoo-user] Too many failures in update world

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Running: emerge -v -u -D --newuse world today to get up to speed with a sync and some changed use flags So far I've had two major show stopping failures. I didn't keep much about the first since it was tetex related and decided to scrub my tetex use flag until I get the update done then deal

[gentoo-user] Re: Too many failures in update world

2006-02-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I don't use doxygen and I haven't got it installed neither. Well it seems that there is a bug on that code. Check bugzilla and see if that's only yours or if it happened to someone else. You could add this version of doxygen to

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