On Sat, May 14, 2005 6:49 pm, Charles Read said:
I just installed Gentoo on my PBG4, it is 1000MHz and about a year old. I
used genkernel to make my kernel so according to the ALSA Howto on
Gentoo.org I should have sound support. I have made sure that my USE
variable contains 'alsa' but
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:32:18 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I finally just unmerged syslog-ng and reemerged it, but it still had the
same error.
unmerging a package does not remove its config files in /etc, you need to
remove /etc/syslog-ng before emerging it again.
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I would have thought this was easy, but I've looked around and can't find
a program that will send IMs from a script. I need to be able to send
alerts to people from a monitoring program.
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Invertebrates make no bones about it.
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:35:26 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
use perl or die();
I think I'd prefer the latter option :(
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Your lack of organisation does not represent an
emergency in my world.
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room o
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* Starting MythTV Backend ...
[ ok ]
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203906
It's harmless, but will go away with a baselayout update.
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To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is
half empty. To the engineer, the glass
for a couple of days.
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Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.
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a fifo, can vlc handle that?
mkfifo mystream
mencoder [...] -o - | tee video.mkv mystream
streamapp mystream
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Quark! Quark! Beware the quantum duck!
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not install a full IM
client on this box.
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Bother, said Pooh, as the EEC outlawed his favourite sized honey pot.
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licence, for companies that want to use
it in a closed source package.
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Welcome to the world of Windows Vista. Stay a while -- stay foooreveeer.
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dirty increase the
number of potential developers?
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COMMAND: A suggestion made to a computer.
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is to send an email to their mobile
phone.
That's already in use, I was looking for an alternate to your
alternate :)
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Room service? Send up a larger room.
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:27:03 + (UTC), Thufir wrote:
http://marc.info
I prefer:
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/topics
What's wrong with http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ ?
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Scientists decode the first confirmed alien transmission from
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Daisy Duke shorts would never go out of fashion.
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=!kde-base/kdesdk:kde-4 etc. dependency
syntax which doesn't allow messages I don't see how (if you see a
possibility I'm missing say so).
I don't, I was merely asking if it was possible. I take it your answer is
a no :(
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Access denied--nah nah na nah nah!
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:34:51 +0800, Shaochun Wang wrote:
As the title.
Bugzilla, of course :)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201093
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The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:58:59 +, José Pedro Saraiva wrote:
I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM,
How? Have you run memtest?
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Phasers don't kill people...Unless you set them too high.
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version lying around, as well as 3.5.8?
Or it something else trying to pull it in, what does --tree tell you?
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Top Oxymorons Number 3: Working vacation
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:39:41 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
BIG thanks! And a Hansa draught will be ready for you if you ever
visit Namibia. ;-)
I may just take you up on that ;-)
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Bother said Pooh when C4 postponed B5
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:33:04 -0600 (CST), list-catcher wrote:
I just bought a via vb7001
Good luck with getting the CN700 graphics to work stably :(
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Things which must be shipped together as a set, aren't.
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back on 3.5 for now.
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WinErr 002: No Error - Yet
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Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE!
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:33:07 +1100, Dave Oxley wrote:
How do I prevent a --depclean from trying to delete my KDE 3.5 though?
grep '^kde-base' /var/lib/portage/world | sed 's/\(.*\)/~\1-3.5.8/'
/var/lib/portage/world
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Suborbital Ballistic-Propulsion Engineer
Not Exactly
, the openchrome drivers are very
unstable on mine.
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Jimi Hendrix's modem was a Purple Hayes.
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. Is ssmtp working correctly? Try
echo -e To: Me\nSubject: ssmtp test\n\nssmtp test | /usr/sbin/ssmtp
youraddress
If it fails, check /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, particularly the mailhub
setting.
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Windows Error #10: Insufficient money spent in hardware.
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as soon as you get
the the doctor's :(
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SCORE! Monkeys: one. Humans: zero.
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:39:51 + (UTC), James wrote:
ideas?
fsck. If that fails, copy off the data you can and reformat, the
filesystem is screwed.
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You shall know the truth, and you shall freak.
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. You'll end up with a byte
for byte copy of your broken filesystem. If fsck won't fix it, backup,
reformat, restore is the only safe fix.
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To whom the gods destroy, they first teach Windows...
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~/.kde*.
You shouldn't need to do that. I found when I went back to KDE 3.5
(because Claws Mail wasn't working) that it reset the .kde symlink to
point to .kde3.5 again.
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This tagline SHAREWARE. Send .
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on /var. Reformat the original filesystem and reverse the process.
Either way, once I build a new firewall, I'm going to copy it
to CF and be done with these old ide drives.
Use a suitable filesystem, or the flash memory will die very quickly,
especially if you put /var on it.
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used the should word and trusted it. Tut, tut. Bad boy.
I used the word, but it's up to the reader how much they trust it. I'm
just using it as a potential get-out clause ;-)
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It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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partioning
scheme). But, I'm open to suggestions here.
JFFS2, or budget on replacing the cards every couple of months.
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First Law of Laboratory Work:
Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass.
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:07:17 +0200, ionut cucu wrote:
I'm still on claws-mail-3.0 and it works on my kde,
If I move the .claws-mail directory, it start fine, so it must be
something in my settings that KDE 4.0 objects to.
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Engineers do it with less resistance
is 3.5.8 qhich is why 3.5.7-r6 is blocking.
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Why marry a virgin? If she wasn't good enough for the rest of them, then
she isn't good enough for you.
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the answer to this? AFAIK, these directories do not exist on
Gentoo. What should I do? Do I need to create symlinks to somewhere
in /etc? Please advise...
The default works AFAIR, but portage would take care of it for you anyway.
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Genius is 99% inspiration and 2% arithmetic
konqueror command.
Konqueror is part of kdebase, so you'll find the source somewhere in
there.
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Where the system is concerned, you're not allowed to ask `Why?'
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=( aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd )
fallback_route_eth0=( blah )
See /etc/conf.d/net.example
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The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten per cent of its
capacity ... the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:23:50 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:
gcc-4.1.2 was already emerged earlier but running gcc
--version reveals 3.4.6, so I ran
#emerge -aC =sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r2
gcc-config is set to use 3.4.6, which you have just removed. Run
gcc-config to fix this.
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to include it in kprinter, but I
tried kprinter someurl and it couldn't handle HTML.
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There are some micro-organisms that exhibit characteristics of both
plants and animals. When exposed to light they undergo photosynthesis;
and when the lights go out, they turn into animals
before
printing. Kprinter should be able to do this using the same libraries as
Konqueror uses.
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You shall know the truth, and you shall freak.
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system.
That's not the case with VMware Workstation.
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Virus detected, delete Windows? (Y/n).
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:21:36 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels.
It's working on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 here.
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Monday is the root of all evil!
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When you said you wanted to live in sin, I didn't know you meant sloth
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:16:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
First step would be eix-sync which is
failing with only a message
problems running time emerge --sync
Run emerge --sync directly so you can see the actual error message.
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Top Oxymorons Number 45: Resident alien
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:13:26 -0200, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote:
GUI = Graphical User Interface
Really? You don't say! ;-)
PS Please don't top post. Flow of text messes up it does. Harder reading
makes much.
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Bother, said Christopher Robin, as Pooh got out the vaseline
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 02:31:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;).
Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI?
Konsole :)
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Feature : BUG with seniority.
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:12:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Oh wait, what year did you say it was again?
MMIIX
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Every time I jump on the bandwagon all its wheels fall off.
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/openexr-1.5.0 emerge -uav world
which will sort out the correct versions of everything for you.
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Illiterate? Write today for free help.
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in Windows even more of a pain,
doubling the number of reboots needed :(
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Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl mistakes.
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thought the point of the question was to avoid waiting for the GRUB menu
to appear.
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It's the year 2000. Where are all the flying cars? I was promised flying
cars!
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.
Is the host on a wired or wireless network? I found bridged wouldn't work
over wireless, so I use NAT on my laptop.
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I am McCoy of Bo...Damnit! I'm a doctor, not a collective!
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:48:14 + (UTC), James wrote:
Verifying ebuild Manifests...
!!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found:
/usr/portage/sys-apps/busybox/busybox-1.4.1-r2.ebuild
Wait a couple of hours and sync again. If it still happens, file a bug
report.
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of those with a
recent security issue was packages.gentoo.org. That was a hole in the
code, nothing to do with the underlying OS.
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most
/categories
The error message is quite explicit, All is not a recognised category,
you need to create a symlink to the package in $PKGDIR/sys-devel then do
emerge -K1 =sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1
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One-seventh of life is spent on Monday.
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(this is metadata added by portage). Once things are working again,
re-emerge them properly.
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The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique,
unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.
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offers nothing more fancy than a basic
web-browser.
Is there anything like this already available?
DSL should come fairly close.
Dillo doesn't work with the online banking sites, and many others, that I
tried.
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If it ain't broke, wait a day or two!!
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into the init process, thsi service
log extra info which make the startup log looks ugly.
Have you set RC_VERBOSE=yes in /etc/conf.d/rc?
Please don't top post.
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top
show?
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Standard: (n., adj.) a design target which manufacturers may embellish,
improve upon, or ignore as they wish, so long as it can be used profitably
in their advertising.
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On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:14:02 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote:
I sometimes forget that some people actually use XP as an alternate OS
XP is a valid alternate OS... to Vista :)
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Bother, said Pooh, as Smurfette got dressed.
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:42:52 +, Stroller wrote:
I don't immediately see an ebuild for it, which seems a little
disappointing
There's an ebuild in the hollow overlay and also one on bugzilla.
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Bald spot? No -- solar panel for brain power
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:01:30 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
Thanks for the help. I'm updating rhythmbox via layman now. Not sure
why evolution-data-server is a dependency though.
it's required by totem-pl-parser for some reason:
Do you have the eds USE flag set?
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, not the running one.
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Memory Map - A sheet of paper showing location of computer store.
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; this is because they
do not affect the installed package for users who already managed to
compile it. Small documentation fixes are also usually not grounds for a
new revision.
IOW - If the ebuild installs basically the same code, there is no need to
force everyone to recompile.
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PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf to, say, /usr/portage/local then
mkdir -p /usr/portage/local/net-misc/wicd, copy the ebuild to that
directory then do
ebuild /usr/portage/local/net-misc/wicd/wicd-1.3.8-r1.ebuild manifest
and emerge it in the usual way.
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If God had intended Man
. The binary version clashes too much with KDE.
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Self-explanatory: technospeak for Incomprehensible undocumented
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of the learning process :P
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Bother, said Pooh, as Satan laid his soul to waste.
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it have anything to do with the Russian legal system, as
everything is taking place in the US, where everybody gets as much
justice as they can afford.
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Octal: (n.) a base-8 counting system designed so that one hand may count
upon the fingers of the other. Thumbs are not used
#Make_A_Sparse_File_to_create_portage_in
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In an atomic war, all men will be cremated equal.
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Death is proven to be 99.9% fatal to all laboratory rats.
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. The
important point is that giving a directory matces all files in that
directory, whereas * omits those beginning with a . in most people's
shells.
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Strangely enough, Data finds himself relating to Heavy Metal.
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never use cd ~ when cd is only half the typing :)
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What colour is a chameleon on a mirror?
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it without at least pointing out the
potentially serious consequences.
To the OP, it is possible that the Firefox archive was updated and you
still have an older one in $DISTDIR. Try deleting your copy and emerging
again. You could also try using a different mirror.
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F*ck it said
to protect against malicious
corruption.
I also remember why I hate this mailing list and usually just mark all
read.
That is safer that advising people to override portage's security
precautions.
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Paranoia: A healthy understanding of the nature of the universe.
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when it tries to thread it if there are unread
I have no such problem here, but I have Claws set to show only unread
messages.
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of
documentation available to help fix problems, I find it difficult to
think of a problem not involving dense smoke or horrible grinding noises
that is best fixed with a reinstall.
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Real women don't have hot flashes, they have power surges.
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/source /dest
will return no output if the two copies are identical.
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes!
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a
version of Python?
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If you cannot fix it, feature it.
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each day you could easily have missed it.
The testing ebuilds are for just that, it is only by people using them
and reporting problems that those problems are kept out of the stable
tree. If you are not prepared to deal with the occasional problem,
running a testing system is not for you.
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This is not the same. Python is slotted and it appears that your system
has, or at least needs, 2.3 and 2.4 so run the command it tells you to to
see what blocks what.
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Beware of low-flying butterflies.
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in the context of software branches.
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Oxymoron: Reagan memoirs.
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.
% eix -c -e coreutils
[I] sys-apps/coreutils ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/01/08): Standard GNU file utilities
% qlist coreutils | grep mktemp
/usr/share/man/man1/mktemp.1.bz2
/bin/mktemp
/usr/bin/mktemp
It's certainly there on this box, and the other ~amd64 and ~x86 boxes I
have.
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using
Even so, I would quickpkg it first, just in case you accidentally remove
too much.
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New sig wanted good price paid.
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but with 4.0.1 also
installed. Which version(s) do you have?
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How do a fool and his money GET together?
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://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml ?
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I have a spelling checker, it came with my Pea See;
It helps me too correct Miss Steaks eye mite knot sea.
I ran these versus threw it, yew mae bee pleased too no
Its word prefect in every weight; my spell cheque tolled me sew
/modules/input//mouse_drv.so: undefined symbol:
miPointerGetMotionEvents
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module mouse (loader failed, 7)
You probably need to re-emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
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Any sufficiently advanced
you had a risk, afterwards an
issue.
No, you have a problem, or, as the motivators like to put it, an
opportunity!
I'm with stroller on this, the real meaning of issue has been subverted
by spin doctors so they can say problem without using the word problem.
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NOTICE
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:15:36 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
It seems that fish has been broken in KDE 3.5 for at least a couple of
months,
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145123
It appears to fail with kernel =2.6.21
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Oxymoron: Reagan memoirs.
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eix has long since supplanted esearch on my systems. It is faster and
doesn't need to update its database to be aware of changes to your
installed packages.
PS Please don't top-post on this list.
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If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
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-drivers-1.0.8774)
So again, how can I get this driver back since it seems to be missing
from portage now?! *sigh*
nvidia.com suggests using 96.43.05 but if you want 1.0.8774 you can
download it from the archive section of that site and install it
manually.
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As a computer, I find
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:38:40 -0600, Dale wrote:
Someone sent this person a message about this the other day. Is there
no way to unsubscribe them until they get this sorted out so we don't
get a truly useless message?
File a bug report.
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Shatner, when the wig fell
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:14:02 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
nvidia.com suggests using 96.43.05
And, as I already posted twice now...
I emerge again, and it gives me 96.43.05.
Now when I start X, I have
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:23:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Could that same kind soul please repost the info? And if possible the
same for AMD?
Run lshw and look at the width value for the CPU.
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If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
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to ask
if they are true :)
and why do you think these rumors go around.
Some people have nothing better to do.
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Borg -- James Borg -- licensed to assimilate.
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:08:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
So please, think twice before hitting that reply button.
Whoops, too late :)
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Remember that the Titanic was built by experts, and the Ark by a newbie
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you'll know it has been
done properly.
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I've been fishing with Salvador Dali, he used a
dotted line and caught every other fish.
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:15:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Whoops, too late :)
You have street cred. We'll forgive you. But only this time.
Next time, we break your knees. Capiche?
No thanks, it hurt enough the last time I broke them :(
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Virus detected, delete Windows
hardship to run emerge world,
it's not as if you have to recompile each individual program manually.
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Electric chairs are period furniture: they end a sentence
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build error,
Please post the output before this, that contains the actual errors.
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If the pen is mightier than the sword, and a picture is worth a thousand
words, how dangerous is a fax?
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symlink was
pointing to the wrong directory, so the kernel module will have been
built for that version, not your current one. Make sure the symlink is
correct and re-emerge nvidia-drivers.
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... ebius tagline. This is a moebius tagline. This is a mo ...
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Modesty Becomes You. Try It More Often.
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