Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Roger Mason
Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale writes: Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the boot runlevel? Looking at the init script it seems like if the

[gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-11 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the server uses tcpwrapper. rpcinfo -p on the server shows: beryl rmason # rpcinfo -p program vers proto port 102 tcp111

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:19:11 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the server uses tcpwrapper

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 11 April 2008 13:49:11 Roger Mason wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the server uses tcpwrapper. Do you have the option to run

[gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-04-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Has anyone else run into this: emerge virtual/emacs [snip] Unpacking m4-1.4.11.tar.lzma to /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.11/work unpack m4-1.4.11.tar.lzma: file format not recognized. Ignoring. Source unpacked. Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.11 ... !!! ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-28 Thread Roger Mason
Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW: if you don't actually *need* NFS, but just some network filesystem, you might want to try 9P. I finally got this solved with some help from this list. Your comment about the 9P filesystem is interesting as I'm somewhat interested in an operating

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-04-28 Thread Roger Mason
Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: !!! ERROR: sys-devel/m4-1.4.11 failed. I looked on bugzilla, where it was suggested to run: emerge -1 app-arch/lzma-utils I did that but the error on m4 persists. If anyone has a workaround, please pass it on. Thanks, Roger First try to do rm

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
dany2a [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You've got to update portage first, looks like you have an older portage version, that cannot handle lzma. Had the same prob and updating portage was the fix (besides installing lzma-utils). emerge -a1 portage That was it. Thanks very much. Cheers, Roger

[gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Roger Mason
Hi, I'm building a system using a 2006.0 minimal install disk and following the (current) installation docs. I got to the part where it is suggested I upgrade portage. However, there is a blocker: (chroot) livecd / # emerge -p --oneshot portage These are the packages that would be merged, in

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Roger Mason
Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: emerge -O bash and Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So, first try this: emerge -1a =app-shells/bash-3.2_p17-r1 Well, in the end I decided to play very straight and use a more up-to-date install CD. I'm currently installing from 2008.0_beta2,

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-07-01 Thread Roger Mason
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, in the end I decided to play very straight and use a more up-to-date install CD. I'm currently installing from 2008.0_beta2, so far without any problems. For the record, this turns out to be a fairly straightforward blocker. A recent version

[gentoo-user] pango fails to build

2008-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, I'm trying to install firefox-bin on a new (to me) machine. pango-1.20.3 is a depenency that, unfortunately fails to build: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe -Wall -o .libs/pangox-view viewer-render.o viewer-x.o viewer-main.o viewer-pangox.o pangox-view.o

Re: [gentoo-user] pango fails to build

2008-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On AD 2008 July 04 Friday 01:02:39 PM -0230, Roger Mason wrote: /usr/lib/libcairo.so: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' Did you try revdep-rebuild, or even just remerging cairo? I rebuilt cairo several times and revdep-rebuild says

[gentoo-user] diskless booting

2007-09-28 Thread Roger Mason
:98:4f 00:01:03:ce:52:a8, ARP, length 42: arp who-has 192.168.0.3 tell 192.168.0.2 I'm not sure what information is needed to help debug this, but if anyone is willing to assist I'll provide whatever is required. Thanks, Roger Mason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-09-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:03:59 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The client boot process hangs, with the following dialog between the server (192.168.0.2, 00:04:75:77:98:4f) and client (192.168.0.3, 00:01:03:ce:52:a8) repeated three

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-10-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was going to suggest you avoid pxegrub, but I guess you figured that out for yourself. I'm almost certain to get stuck so I'll probably be back asking again. Let me know. Well, I had it working on Friday but over the weeekend I

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting

2007-10-02 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:57:05 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I had it working on Friday but over the weeekend I tinkered some more with pixegrub and broke it again. Now pxelinux won't work either. I've attached my

Re: [gentoo-user] doing minimall install from a pc within a lan

2007-10-02 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Rafael, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ¿how can i connect to the pc which booted from the livecd to continue the install without moving from my main gentoo workstation? (ssh livecd from my pc does not work even after startin sshd in the remote machine where i

[gentoo-user] nfs server problem

2007-10-03 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I installed a vanilla 2.6.20 kernel in order to (eventually) run kerrighed. The kernel boots fine but the nfs server won't start and I see this in the logs: Oct 3 07:34:40 lowalbite rpc.statd[103835]: Version 1.1.0 Starting Oct 3 07:34:41 lowalbite nfsd: last server has exited Oct 3

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs server problem

2007-10-03 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:54:30 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed a vanilla 2.6.20 kernel in order to (eventually) run kerrighed. The kernel boots fine but the nfs server won't start and I see this in the logs

[gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-03 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to use rsync to back up my home directory on mymachine to another machine (backup_machine) using a cron job. This is the crontab entry (in rmason's crontab): 0,15,30,45 * * * * rmason /usr/bin/rsync -av /home/rmason backup_machine:mymachine_rmason The logs on

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Richard, Richard Ruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try adding -e ssh to your rsync command. Search for -e in the rsync man page for an example. === This is the crontab entry (in rmason's crontab): 0,15,30,45 * * * * rmason /usr/bin/rsync -av /home/rmason

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dirk, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Samstag, 3. November 2007 schrieb Roger Mason: Hello, I'm trying to use rsync to back up my home directory on mymachine to another machine (backup_machine) using a cron job. Which cron? vixie-cron This is the crontab entry

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Steve, Steve Dommett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 04 November 2007, Roger Mason wrote: Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately that did not work, the same error ocurs. This may not be applicable, but I run rdiff-backup from cron on many machine with no problems at all. It uses

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Ralph, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have done a similar thing at work, except what I do is first create an ssh tunnel, then rsync to the locally listening port. Works perfectly. In my setup the remote server is running an SSH server which is not accessible directly. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-05 Thread Roger Mason
Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have passwordless ssh between mymachine and backup_machine and the rsync command in the crontab runs perfectly from the command line. Does someone know what else needs to be done to get this (seemingly simple!) task to work

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh [solved]

2007-11-05 Thread Roger Mason
W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have passwordless ssh between mymachine and backup_machine and the rsync command in the crontab runs perfectly from the command line. Does someone know what else needs to be done to get this (seemingly simple!) task to work

Re: [gentoo-user] tftp config problem (ltsp)

2007-11-06 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Sean, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I set up diskless booting recently but I'm by no means an expert, so take my comments with plenty of salt. Below is my in.tftpd file. # /etc/init.d/in.tftpd # Path to server files from # Depending on your application you may have to change this. #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Roger Mason
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any other ideas? Maybe I need to 'reemerge' something? timezone-data? Cheers, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] X forwarding

2007-11-09 Thread Roger Mason
Hi, I wish to forward X from machine B to machine A via ssh. Machine A is running an X server. On machine B I have in sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes On machine A I have in ssh_config: ForwardX11 yes I can ssh from A to B without problems but when I try to start a simple application: B ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-09 Thread Roger Mason
Hi James, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I I re-emerge 'timezone-data' and just wait until spring to see if there is a problem? Here is the procedure I used last spring (you'll need to set the TIMEZONE according to your location: (1) Sync. (perhaps not required if portage is fairly up to

Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding [fixed]

2007-11-09 Thread Roger Mason
Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: one thing I have done in the past is turn up ssh in debug mode: /usr/sbin/sshd -p 23 -d then in another terminal ssh -p 23 $host Your suggestion gave me the idea to run sshd with strace, the output of which lead me here:

Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-08 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Randy, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have tried both the ipp and lpd devices to no avail. Just FYI, IPP is the Internet Printing Protocol and it is used to print to a device on another machine, so that's why it didn't work for you here :) Yes, I finally

[gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to set up a printer using CUPS. I have worked my way through the printing guide but cannot get a test page to print from the printers tab of the cups configuration page. I turned up the logging level to debug2 and am seeing this in the logs: d [07/Dec/2007:16:00:26 -03-30]

Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Billy, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: see if this helps http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2005/12/24/wheres-my-parport0/ Bingo!. For the record, I built ppdev and lp as modules, modprobe'd them and now everything works. Thanks very much. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

2009-02-20 Thread Roger Mason
Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams simpler (compared to a touchpad or the little dit that sits between the g,h, and b keys on a laptop). So if anyone knows of a laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal GNU screen

2009-04-06 Thread Roger Mason
Ward Poelmans wpoel...@gmail.com writes: I've got a problem running screen in a gnome-terminal: all the usual keystroks (for example: ^a c) don't work. When i press ctrl+a d, i just get a d on the terminal. Screen works perfectly when i start it in a xterm. I haven't got a clue where to

Re: [gentoo-user] usb wacom tablet

2006-01-25 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Robert, Robert Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:38 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: Hello, [snip] Can anyone suggest what may be wrong? Thanks, Roger Mason It doen't look like you have USB HID turned on in your kernel. Here is what I have for the USB portion

Re: [gentoo-user] pango fails to build [solved]

2008-07-08 Thread Roger Mason
Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install firefox-bin on a new (to me) machine. pango-1.20.3 is a depenency that, unfortunately fails to build: On a hunch I changed CFLAGS from -mtune=pentium4 to -march=i686 and did emerge -e world. Now pango compiles without any problem

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc trivial issue (i'm sure)

2008-08-02 Thread Roger Mason
Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have scp all distcc config files to all hosts, One possibility is that you forgot to edit each /etc/conf.d/distccd file to _listen_ on its own IP address. HTH, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync, ssh, multiple directories

2005-06-24 Thread Roger Mason
Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how can I rsync various directories in one line (using ssh) ? I'm looking for something like [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/pupeno/[dira|dirb|dirc] that works. Thanks. Try unison - it's in portage. I just started using it and so-far so-good. HTH, Roger Mason

Re: [gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14 fails during emerge

2005-10-16 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 15 October 2005 17:08, Roger Mason wrote: jade: error while loading shared libraries: libosp.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory emerge app-text/opensp Peter Thank you Peter. That lead me to a solution

[gentoo-user] ccache disabled

2005-11-15 Thread Roger Mason
readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev xml2 xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY What must I do to get ccache working? Thanks, Roger Mason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache disabled

2005-11-15 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Nagatoro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try and put the FEATURES lines into one. FEATURES=ccache distcc otherwise the last will cancel all others. This proved to be the fix. Thanks to all who replied. Roger Mason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] openssh-4.2_p1 fails (zlib)

2005-11-23 Thread Roger Mason
know of a workaround? Thanks, Roger Mason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Roger Mason
Joseph, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that Latex is set by default to A4 paper size and margins are located in different file. But what file? -- #Joseph Have you looked in the latex source file? The page size and margins could be getting set there. It should be in the

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Joseph, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 00:38 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: When you ran texconfig did you configure GLOBAL SETTINGS under dvips? Alan Does the latex database needs to be refresh? I run on this in google: Refresh the filename database, by

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Joseph, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:14 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: Have you looked in the latex source file? The page size and margins could be getting set there. It should be in the document preamble, i.e. before the \begin{document} command. HTH

Re: [gentoo-user] [Off Topic] screen configuration...

2007-02-24 Thread Roger Mason
Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to use screen, but my emacs-afflicted fingers automatically type control-a to go to the beginning of the line in my shell - which is somewhat unfortunate for screen. I too am an emacs user. I have escape \ as the first line of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

2007-03-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Albert, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A good solution would be a tool that actually indexes files in the background, and perhaps automatically when a file is changed/added/removed. And not just text in files but also other kinds of metadata. And when I click that

[gentoo-user] daylight savings time

2007-03-02 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, My home province (Newfoundland Labrador) has, in its infinite wisdom, decided to adopt daylight savings time from 11 to 04 November, rather than the more common dates in April October. Can someone tell me what I need to do to accommodate this change, if anything? Thanks, Roger --

Re: [gentoo-user] daylight savings time

2007-03-03 Thread Roger Mason
Thanks everyone. I'll report back on the outcome on D-day (March 11). Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Where is the TIMEZONE variable?

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Michael, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I feel really stupid having to ask this here, but in what file is the TIMEZONE variable set? My PC clock is set by ntp and it's not being updated for DST. Wherever the variable is, it's not set. I never updated it becuase I heard

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after DST change

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Mason
Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure, if you are living in California, that you set your timezone to Canada/Newfoundland... though admittedly, I don't know the TZ rules in Canada. Did they too change their DST dates? Newfoundland did. Presumably rest of Canada did so as well.

[gentoo-user] g95 ebuild

2007-03-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to get some fortran code to compile using gfortran but unfortunately it does not recognise the %val() construct. There is a bug about the issue on b.g.o. I have looked in vain for a g95 ebuild - does anyone here have one? Failing that, the code certainly used to compile using

Re: [gentoo-user] g95 ebuild

2007-03-15 Thread Roger Mason
Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have looked in vain for a g95 ebuild - does anyone here have one? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102199 Thanks Bo, don't understand how I missed it. Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-11 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need sometimes need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to be recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to be entered twice. The problem has bee present for some time and I have noted the following: (1) I see the

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-11 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Benno, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need sometimes need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to be recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to be entered twice. The problem has bee

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Benno, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need sometimes need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to be recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to be entered twice

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Arturo, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Benno Schulenberg wrote: Are it certain keys (like the 's') that have the problem? Are it [...] single-user maintenaince mode? Does it happen when running from a liveCD? I'd add: Does it happen on memtest86 I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-15 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Benno, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But you don't need to do this as you've already found that the problem is in bash and it's related to something in the environment. If the PS1 didn't fix it, try with either just --norc or just --noprofile to try and narrow things down

[gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being: io scheduler deadline registered (default) I have tried booting with

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Andrew, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: === On Tuesday 01 May 2007, you wrote: === Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try to boot

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
David Snider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being: io

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-02 Thread Roger Mason
Thomas Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had the exact same issue last month with some new hardware, booting with noacpi or noapci (can't really remember) did the trick... Once I was installed and had a 2.6.20 kernel, I had no other issues. For what it's worth, in 99.9% of cases, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-02 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dale, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wish I could get DSL of any kind out here but it is not available yet. The last upgrade we got on our phone service is when we got off the party line system. That's where 3 or 4 people share the same phone line. Yea, that old. They

[gentoo-user] blender crashes X

2007-06-26 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I compiled blender 2.43 and have tried to work through this introductory tutorial: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Modeling_a_Simple_Person. Blender crashes X windows when I try the extrusion exercise. This behaviour is reproducible on the two machines I have tried

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail

2007-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I want the latest and greatest version of claws-mail in /etc/portage/package.keywords I have: mail-client/claws-mail Should'nt that be mail-client/claws-mail ~x86 ? HTH, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail

2007-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why assume that everyone runs x86? If you don't specify an arch in package.keywords, if defaults to ~whatever-arch-you-have-in-make.conf Thanks, learned something new. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 starting yet not starting

2006-10-24 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Weird problem. On my server net.eth0 isn't starting, yet it is. During boot it goes through the normal routine, it starts net.lo and everything, however, then it goes into runlevel 3 and then all my services fail (apache, sshd, ddclient, etc),

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client doesn't start

2006-11-05 Thread Roger Mason
encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:FE:EC:4C inet addr:192.168.1.105 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 I may be leading you astray, but that IP address looks like one for a private net. Is ntp-client looking on that private net for a time-server? Roger Mason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] [OT] external monitor

2006-11-09 Thread Roger Mason
for the lcd are wrongly sized for the monitor, and vice versa. Is there any way to have 1280x800 on the lcd and (simultaneously) 1280 x 1024 on the external monitor/projector? Thanks, Roger Mason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external monitor

2006-11-10 Thread Roger Mason
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/9/06, Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to have 1280x800 on the lcd and (simultaneously) 1280 x 1024 on the external monitor/projector? First, make sure you have xinerama in USE. If not, add it, and do an emerge --newuse

Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time

2006-11-10 Thread Roger Mason
? i.e. not as a module. Roger Mason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external monitor

2006-11-13 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Richard, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/9/06, Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to have 1280x800 on the lcd and (simultaneously) 1280 x 1024 on the external monitor/projector? First, make sure you have xinerama in USE. If not, add it, and do

[gentoo-user] offline runlevel

2006-11-15 Thread Roger Mason
anyone help? Thanks, Roger Mason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] offline runlevel

2006-11-15 Thread Roger Mason
Flophouse Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible that there are still some services set to start in the boot runlevel that would be more appropriate in the default or offline runlevel? Joe Well, the only script in boot that looks promising is net.lo: I had considered removing it from

Re: [gentoo-user] offline runlevel

2006-11-16 Thread Roger Mason
Devon Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And, I'll second Richard, emerge ifplugd dcm Thanks Richard Joe Devon, ifplugd is working perfectly for me. Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] hal startup messages

2006-12-21 Thread Roger Mason
i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz GNU/Linux Has anyone any idea how to fix this? Thanks, Roger Mason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hal startup messages

2006-12-21 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dale, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: Hello, I'm seeing these messages when hal starts: Did you upgrade recently? May need to do a etc-update or whatever you use to update your config files. Worth a try. Dale Yes, I tried that already - no luck :-( I

Re: [gentoo-user] hal startup messages [solved]

2006-12-23 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I upgraded to the ~x86 versions then reverted to those given in my original post. I ran revdep-rebuild afterwards and verified that nothing further needed rebuilding by running revdep-rebuild -p, which reported everything as being consistent

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dale, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it

[gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-27 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful catastrophe. This is the output of emerge on the machine in question: emerge -pv gcc These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello again, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca writes: I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful catastrophe. Can someone confirm that I'll be able to use gcc 4.3 for the specific application that needs

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Mark, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: So the main question is what sort of language (and possibly programming environment) should a complete novice look at to get his feet wet with GUI programming. I'd like something fairly light - performance probably won't be a huge problem -

Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca writes: I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful catastrophe. This is the output of emerge on the machine in question: The compilation finally completed. It only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hi, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: On 06/28/2009 08:54 PM, Roger Mason wrote: [...] I followed the info presented at the end of the installation Did you read the Gentoo documentation about upgrading GCC? If not, now's the time :) This is what it says: # emerge -uav gcc (Please

Re: [gentoo-user] list of emerged programs?

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, James j...@nc.rr.com writes: Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? Listing /var/log/portage with appropriate options to ls may work. Cheers, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Alex, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Roger Mason writes: If there is something else that I need to do then I did not see it in the upgrade guide, so please, will someone enlighten me? No, your steps worked fine for me. What is your $PATH? (echo $PATH) I have /usr/i486

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions [solved]

2009-06-30 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Alex, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Looks good to me. Finally, what is the PATH in /etc/profile.env? According to the order of your gcc paths, I guess it has /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc- bin/4.1.1:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2 in it, while only the second one should be

[gentoo-user] libtermcap

2009-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to compile (outside portage) a program that needs libtermcap. I installed libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 but that seems not to provide it (I looked with 'find'). How can I install libtermcap? Thanks, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] libtermcap

2009-07-05 Thread Roger Mason
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes: Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: How can I install libtermcap? if you like a real libtermcap, check for libxtermcap that comes with the schily source consolidation: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/ Many thanks Joerg

[gentoo-user] xset fp+ fails

2009-07-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I have a new install (not an upgrade) of xorg-server (1.5.3-r6) and xorg-x11 (7.2), to which I added xset (1.04) so I can add a font path. The fonts in question are in ~/AMRITA/SITE/fonts/TrueType. When I run xset fp+ fonts/TrueType from ~/AMRITA/SITE I get the following error: xset:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xset fp+ fails

2009-07-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello walt, walt w41...@gmail.com writes: Do you have a fonts.dir in that directory? If not, you need to run mkfontdir in that directory. Yes: ~/AMRITA/TEST $ ls ../SITE/fonts/TrueType/ -l total 572 -rw-r--r-- 1 rmason rmason 88408 Apr 19 2003 dour45w.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 rmason rmason 80676

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xset fp+ fails

2009-07-08 Thread Roger Mason
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: Hm. Well, I have only two more thoughts (which is three times my usual number :o) I had a thought once, but I've forgotton what it was. Have you tried using an absolute path for that directory? Unfortunatly it makes no difference. The word SITE suggests

[gentoo-user] apache https setup

2009-07-17 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to set up an apache https server. I keep getting Page Load Error when trying to connect. I'm using apache 2.0.58. I've generated certificates, worked my way through various problems and apache starts OK, asking me for the passphrase for the certificate, but it is not serving

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start on intel iMac

2009-11-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello David, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes: 2009/11/6 Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca: I have an intel iMac Core 2 Duo with an ATI radeon HD 2400 XT video card.  I have not been able to get X working. I'm also running on an apple machine (macbook), so I might be able to help. My video

[gentoo-user] sound on intel imac

2009-11-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I have a 20 inch aluminum imac: uname -a Linux pyrope 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #9 SMP Sat Nov 14 14:04:55 NST 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux The sound card is listed by lspci as: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac [solved]

2009-11-18 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Daid, Thanks for your reply. daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes: # emerge alsa-util alsa oss ...and alsa-utils I should go to sleep... After my post I knuckled down and worked systematically through the model= options for ALC883/888 and ALC882/885, having gleaned from the internet

[gentoo-user] eth1 won't start

2009-11-27 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, I have a machine[1] into which I installed a second NIC. It is identified by lspci as: 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 10) The driver, 8139too, is compiled as a module and loaded by udev. After booting, lsmod says: 8139too

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