Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update --deep --newuse world fails to update all packages

2008-02-23 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik wrote: I did emerge --update --deep --newuse world and it says: Calculating world dependencies... done! Auto-cleaning packages... No outdated packages were found on your system. But it seems like it is wrong about No outdated packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge failure

2008-02-23 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Corbin wrote: I'm getting this failure on numerous ebuilds during the umerge. I'm at a loss to explain it. Any ideas? cut--- /tmp/binpkgs/dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27/temp/environment: line 265: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean -p output looks weird

2008-04-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.23-r8 protected: none omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.24-r4 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected:

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse jerky when burning CD

2008-04-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: The mouse cursor is very jerky and somewhat unresponsive when I'm burning a CD on my laptop. Can I make a software change to fix that? top shows over 50% of the CPU is idle. - Grant Maybe you need to enable CONFIG_PREEMPT in your

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging vte

2008-05-18 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Relson wrote: When I run emerge vte I get an access violation, just like bug #219211 x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 ACCESS VIOLATION during compilation describes. The bug report recommends run python-updater when updating to python 2.5 It's

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

2007-07-21 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! Any idea why emerge --depclean wants to remove app-shells/bash-completion-config? It it needed by some installed packages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ -- equery depends app-shells/bash-completion-config [ Searching for

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sync error

2007-10-15 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefán István wrote: At least according to 'top' a 'sed' commands are running for 21minutes, and I can hardly imagine what it is doing for such a long time. I also tried to upgrade python with the 'emerge --nodeps -1v python' command, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean and cross-foo/gcc

2007-10-19 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Barkalow wrote: I've been doing a lot of --depclean lately, and I've run into something odd. emerge --depclean cross-avr/gcc wants to remove all 3 versions, but it's in my world file. On the other hand, emerge --depclean doesn't want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean and cross-foo/gcc

2007-10-19 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Barkalow wrote: According to the man page, --prune will remove the old version that I want to keep. I want to have 3.4.4-r1 and (currently) 4.2.2, but I don't care about 4.1.2. When 4.2.3 comes out, I'll want that instead of 4.2.2. The

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync fails with CacheCorruption

2007-10-22 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py, line 31, in mirror_cache try:entry = src_cache[x] File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/metadata.py, line 32, in __getitem__ return flat_hash.database.__getitem__(self, cpv)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

2007-10-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Greetings, gentoo-users, I see a problem with emerge on my notebook. Whenever I try to emerge something, it starts off like: # emerge -1 libsexy Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild Manifests...

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

2007-10-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Emerging (1 of 1) x11-libs/libsexy-0.1.11 to / and then just hangs there, doing nothing. That's right where it attempts to obtain a lock on the required files in ${DISTDIR}. If that's on nfs and nfs isn't behaving

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse 3.3

2007-10-31 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: Hello, Does anyone know about any eclipse 3.3 ebuilds anywhere? It seems to be available in the java-experimental overlay: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/browser/java-experimental/dev-util/eclipse-sdk Zac -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay? Re: eclipse 3.3

2007-11-01 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: Is this the best(current) guide to follow? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds This guide tell you to copy of the files sub-dir: cp /usr/portage/dev-util/eclipse-sdk/files

Re: [gentoo-user] Elibc GNU userland...

2007-11-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pk wrote: Hi, Yesterday I made an emerge --sync and was afterwards treated to this (emerge -DupN): These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2007g

Re: [gentoo-user] unlink ACCESS VIOLATIONs

2007-12-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Brown wrote: Source compiled. --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --- LOG FILE = /var/log/sandbox/sandbox-gnome-base_-_gnome-desktop-2.20.1-27301.log unlink:/usr/share/xml2po/docbook.pyc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread Zac Medico
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? The installer initramfs is created by genkernel. I use it myself to generate an

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-27 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Sanders wrote: Don't think so. And don't run - emaint -f world. It'll remove it and any updates won't occur. Here's my list of what it want to take out of the world file - 'app-emulation/crossover-office-bin' has no ebuilds available

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2006-01-01 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter wrote: | On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:53:18 -0500, Peter wrote: | For right now, I have reiser handling /mnt/src, and I'll leave this | alone for a while. Don't know if performance will improve. It _might_ | since the act of syncing will force a read

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2006-01-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter wrote: | On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 19:00:17 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: | Actually, portage-2.1 has seen an improvement in this area. In addition, | I have written a patch that obsoletes the metadata transfer. That's | right, no metadata transfer

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync timeouts

2006-01-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Closson wrote: | Hello, | | When I have not sync'd in over a month or so and when I ran: | | emerge --sync | It basically shows the motd of the remote rsync server and then times out. | I have let it run for a bit and try multiple servers

Re: [gentoo-user] portage overlay question

2006-01-03 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paweł Madej wrote: ~ I have tried line as below but then portage losed distfiles dir at all | | #DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles /usr/local/portage/distfiles | Unfortunately, the multiple DISTDIR feature is not currently available (though it is

Re: [gentoo-user] portage overlay question

2006-01-04 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paweł Madej wrote: | | !!! No write access to write to /usr/portage/distfiles. Aborting. | | Is the only resolution of this problem giving /usr/portage/distfiles dir | write permissions for all? | | I'll add that user from i try making ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] portage overlay question

2006-01-04 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paweł Madej wrote: | Zac Medico wrote: | You should have done `ls -ld /usr/portage/distfiles/.locks`. | | I'm able to reproduce that problem here. It seems that portage | automatically changes the group id on ${DISTDIR} (when run as root

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:10:38 +, Tom Martin wrote: | | To the portage developers, how could this be handled? Perhaps emerge | could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then | automatically unmerge the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: | Thanks for the reply Neil but I don't have a fast connection. Just a 64kbps | connection. If I follow GRP way then first I'll have to download a live CD, | then the GRP Packages and then undergo the whole process of downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-12 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: | On Thursday 12 January 2006 13:04, Zac Medico wrote: | Well, you can't convert the 32 bit userland directly to 64 bit. However, | you can run the 32 bit userland with a 64 bit kernel. For example, you can | borrow the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: | Got the kernel and modules. Systems boots fine, just that I don't have X. This | probably is expected as there might not be the necessary modules installed? | | Will be starting a 64bit install anytime now. Thanks for the tip

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild makin problem

2006-01-18 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Yarmish wrote: Guys! What reasons of a message path.ebuild does not exist could be when I'm trying to emerge a custom created ebuild with emerging by path? Sry for silly question but I'm new to the world of ebuild making. Thank you in

Re: [gentoo-user] Sandbox access violation

2006-01-19 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikhail Yarmish wrote: Hello guys, I'm trying to write an ebuild for xmms plug-in, but always get an error during of emerging it. Here it is: --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --- LOG FILE =

Re: [gentoo-user] Java SDK 1.5

2006-01-20 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: On 1/20/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if Java SDK 1.5 (blackdown, sun, anyone) will be available soon through portage? It is available now, but you have to unmask it. If you do, you should

Re: [gentoo-user] Java SDK 1.5

2006-01-20 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: I was already reading the faq when i received your anser :) It seems this can be done, but not without certain risks. It's pretty safe if you keep blackdown-jdk-1.4 as the system vm (for building packages) and use

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --buildpkgonly world won't go: kde metapackage problem?

2006-01-22 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Persson wrote: The reason I want to avoid installing straight away is because I'm doing a kde upgrade this time (3.4.3 to 3.5) and want to avoid a broken desktop Generally, this isn't a problem because kde slots allow multiple versions of

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Persson wrote: Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When the script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it doesn't seem to return anything. For instance test -f

Re: [gentoo-user] update-eix has memory problems

2006-02-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, update-eix won't work anymore: If I try to start it, it prints Reading Portage settings .. and starts gobbling up memory at an amazing rate. At a memory usage of about 770MB (according to top) the process stops with

Re: [gentoo-user] A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv

2006-02-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: I have an account on a gentoo machine but no root privs. Is there some allowance using emerge to install software in ~/ Though I have no experience with it, there's a Prefixed Portage that you may be able use:

Re: [gentoo-user] portage error?

2006-02-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael W. Holdeman wrote: emerge -uvDa world suddenly yeilds this: Calculating world dependencies -Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 3254, in ? if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File /usr/bin/emerge, line

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for python module

2006-02-10 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikhail Yarmish wrote: Guys, How to make right ebuild for a python module part which needs to be installed in kde/lib? If I use PYTHON_MODNAME= I'll get Access Violation. The Access Violation means that the ebuild tried to modify something

Re: [gentoo-user] portage cache question

2006-02-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Covington, Chris wrote: Hi all, I've recently built a new gentoo box and I noticed that the emerge --sync is lightning fast compared to an emerge --sync on the older boxes, even though both the new and older boxes are up to date and have almost

Re: [gentoo-user] portage cache question

2006-02-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zac Medico wrote: You can delete the whole cache with `rm -rf /var/cache/edb/*`. Actually, that's wrong, please don't do that. It's `rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/*`. Sorry. :) Zac -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] portage cache question

2006-02-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gogiel wrote: Zac Medico wrote: Zac Medico wrote: You can delete the whole cache with `rm -rf /var/cache/edb/*`. Actually, that's wrong, please don't do that. It's `rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/*`. Sorry. :) Zac Oops. I've already

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided syntax

2006-03-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm currently trying to get thru an emerge -vuD world but having various things crop up. Some I thought were handled long ago like this overlooking what is in package.provided: rsnapshot-1.2.2 bacula-1.48.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax

2006-03-07 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: The example for package.provided syntax in `man portage` shows categories like this: app-backup/rsnapshot-1.2.2 app-backup/bacula-1.48.5 app-editors/emacs-cvs-24 Ok, I'm a little gun shy to post this now but I'm still

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Keyboard

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
--- Hendré Claassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm new to the Linux world and have chosen Gentoo as my weapon of choice. After compiling my kernel, and rebooting into my new Gentoo system, the keyboard seized to function. I have compiled the USB Human Interface option into the

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
--- Sad Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a linux based prog to add files to an iso image? There are windows based ones but thats a route I'd rather not go down. Thanks in advance -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list An iso filesystem is read only AFAIK but you

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
I was under the impression that the iso filesystem is read only. Of course, you could mount the iso on a loop and create a new iso from those files. If I create an iso with mkisofs -udf then I am able to mount -t udf -o loop,rw but there is no extra space on the filesystem to add files. I use

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw support to the iso9660 driver ;-) --- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay - it was a good idea in theory. However, he can mount it, copy it somewhere, modify it and then create an iso of the changes. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ryan

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping source

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
--- cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pardon the slightly naive question. I would like to study the c and cpp source on the packages I am emerging. I *think* they are removed after compilation. I say I *think* as I was looking in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find them. How

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-21 Thread Zac Medico
--- Sad Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been able to mount the iso on /mnt/loop and copy the files. I have added my file and created a new iso. My difficulty now is to make it bootable. I have followed the link posted by Bill but the end bit about creating a bootable cd does not

Re: [gentoo-user] last problem OpenOffice not working from user acct.

2005-05-21 Thread Zac Medico
--- rob3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Root or su can start OO easily with ooffice command. But it doesn't work as a user. I keeps sending the error message that the setup is aborted. Who knows what this means, but its irritating, having to go back in to user directory and chowning and

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Menus in KDE

2005-05-21 Thread Zac Medico
--- cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have my Gentoo system booting and running KDE, than you very much. Now is the time to understand how menus are added to the task bar. I wonder how new programs, such as kdevelop, just emerged are added to the menu. I know how to create a task bar

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
--- Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have purchased a new MB and processor. I will be transitioning from a regular Athlon to an Athlon64. Since I am not upgrading my hard drives, I plan to upgrade the OS as follows: 1. Boot from the latest Gentoo live CD. 2. chroot

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
--- Antonino Sabetta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want a 64 bit userland then you should start over with an AMD64 stage. So you mean that whenever the hardware platform changes are so substantial (as in this case), one should install the system from scratch? Please, bear with me,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
By new config (AMD64) do you mean change CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu to CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu ? Sounds like a bad idea. --- Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you boot from the livecd, chroot and emerge the system using the new config (AMD64), recompile

RE: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
--- Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. While admittedly extreme, shouldn't setting the new architecture work, if you recompile the entire system? Is this one of those should-work-in-theory-but- don't-try-this-at-home kind of things? I know there are some packages, like

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
--- Emmanuel Durin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Athlon64 processors can execute 32 bits instructions. But you can't use 32 bits executables with 64 bits libraries (or contrary), and this will append while recompiling your system (when a library used by emerge or gcc will be recompiled), so it

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-27 Thread Zac Medico
--- Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Then delete directories - bin, sbin, lib, sys, etc, opt. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes.xml?part=2chap=4#doc_chap3 You could recycle the old directories as a 32-bit chroot environment. That could come in handy if you want

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Core 64/Intel

2005-05-28 Thread Zac Medico
--- Jonathan Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The standard kernel should do fine. As far as the system is concerned Sure but what about 64 bits? CMIIW but new intel processors with EM64T are supposed to be x86_64 compatible, right? That would mean that the gentoo AMD64 project applies here.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Core 64/Intel

2005-05-28 Thread Zac Medico
--- Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jonathan Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The standard kernel should do fine. As far as the system is concerned Sure but what about 64 bits? CMIIW but new intel processors with EM64T are supposed to be x86_64 compatible, right? That would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-30 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry but I looked inside the content of a tbz2 file and didn't find that it has any references to the /var/db directory. The data not inside the tar archive. It's appended onto the end of the tbz2 file. You know it's there because if you unzip

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In This case, how would one determine what IUSE values were used for the package said package then? How can one use to view this data? #!/usr/bin/python import sys if len(sys.argv)!=2: print usage: %s tbz2 file % sys.argv[0]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: answer the 2nd question I have regarding the + or - and whether the USE flag is in USE? This should do the trick: #!/usr/bin/python import sys if len(sys.argv)!=2: print usage: %s tbz2 file % sys.argv[0] sys.exit(1) sys.path =

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if I understand it correctly, what is being done is XPAK will take the USE flags from the system which compiled the binary and then sort of make a comparison with the USE flags for that particular package and work from there? Am I right?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool.. nice script by the way. I'm gonna include that in Edition 3 (July) of the MyOSS Magazine (http://mag.my-opensource.org) as Tips and Tricks. (crediting you of course) Oh it's really nothing. Glad I could help. ;-) Zac

Re: [gentoo-user] Good diagram app

2005-05-31 Thread Zac Medico
--- Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am in need of an application like Visio. I tried messing with dia, but it's still far from what I need, for it lacks lots of useful features. What program do the list recommend? Hi Bruno, Don't miss the Grumpy Editor's guide to

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD drive not found on new AMD64 system

2005-06-03 Thread Zac Medico
--- Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NFORCE3-250: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. snip ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe ! Hi Michael, Does your DVD drive still work with the livecd? If so you probably don't need to replace the drive. I ran a search for

Re: [gentoo-user] svgalib: Cannot open /dev/svga Is svgalib_helper module loaded?

2005-06-03 Thread Zac Medico
--- Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a tutorial for svgalib this morning. I've always been fascinated by graphics programming, but never found a tutorial that was simple enough for me to follow in the beginning. I liked this tutorial. Hi Michael, Sounds like fun.

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-03 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to upgrade my gentoo box but the partition where /var/tmp resides is too full. So I tried making a symbolic link to another disk which had a lot of space, but then gentoo refused to compile, giving me permission errors. Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] deadkeys in OpenOffice

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some problems with deadkeys in OO. In every other application the deadkeys works fine (like Kmail) to enter chars like åäö. But in OO nothing happens when i try to enter a special char (¨ + a to create a ä). Hi Dan, I never use

Re: [gentoo-user] Mac-like automounting?

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I want to know if its possible under linux to have mac-like automounting, e.g. that when i insert a CDROM/usb stick/a removable device it will automatically pop-up on the desktop as an icon which i can then access. The closest i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Charles Trois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem now is that Gentoo does not boot: I get the message Cannot open root device sda11 or unknown-block(0.0). Please append a correct root= boot option. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 D [04/Jun/2005:14:54:36 -0400] [Job 6] renderer return value: 127 D [04/Jun/2005:14:54:36 -0400] [Job 6] renderer received signal: 127 D [04/Jun/2005:14:54:36 -0400] [Job 6] Process dying with The renderer

Re: [gentoo-user] Watch out folks!!! (Bug #95050 appears deadly!!!)

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: localhost root # emerge -pv system /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory localhost root # emerge sync /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared

Re: [gentoo-user] difficulty installing gentoo on AMD sempron

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Zac, I was having the same problem and this fixed it for me. It makes me wonder why was this necessary? The bootstrap script probably works fine with the 2005.0 portage snapshot. Apparenly there's a bug when the script upgrades the

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- ««Omega21»» [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. Right now, Im typing this in webmail because none of my Mozilla products are working right. And now that I think of it, Gaim is doing the same thing. What happens is: I start the program (firefox // thunderbird // gaim) After what

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- ««Omega21»» [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. Right now, Im typing this in webmail because none of my Mozilla products are working right. And now that I think of it, Gaim is doing the same thing. What happens is: I start

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- ««Omega21»» [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I figured it out. Here is my output: bash-2.05b$ firefox \No running windows found /home/omega21/.gtk_qt_engine_rc:62: error: unexpected character `{', expected character `}' /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 547: 16841 Segmentation

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to find ebuild info?

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, Over the past few months since my first gentoo install, I have yet to discover how do I find out the current state of masked ebuilds. I.e., I'm looking for 1) why are they masked, and 2) any known issues with the build. Read

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname

2005-06-05 Thread Zac Medico
--- smoke3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, suppose you lost /bin/hostname... what could you do in order to make it available again? You can use equery from the gentoolkit package: equery belongs /bin/hostname sys-apps/net-tools Zac

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with emerg sawfish

2005-06-05 Thread Zac Medico
moonspollo wrote: libtool: compile:specify a tag with '--tag' make: ***[rep-types.lo] error 1 make: ***waiting for unfinished jobs libtools: compile: specify a tag with '--tag' make: ***[rep-gtk.lo] error 1 !!! error: x11-libs/rep-gtk-0.18 failed. !!! function src_compile, line47,

Re: [gentoo-user] difficulty installing gentoo on AMD sempron

2005-06-05 Thread Zac Medico
--- Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sat, 04 Jun 2005 18:54:21 -0700 (PDT) Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Zac, I was having the same problem and this fixed it for me. It makes me wonder why was this necessary

Re: [gentoo-user] busybox/e2fsprogs compile error

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Bogo Mipps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: e2fsprogs/Makefile make[1]: *** No rule to make target `.config`, needed by `include/config.h`. Stop I'm guessing that maybe you are using USE=savedconfig improperly which requires you to provide your own .config? Look in the ebuild: if use

Re: [gentoo-user] [NEWBIE] Repeating error updating Evolution

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 14:54 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: These sandbox violations happen all too frequently. You should raise a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org. For the time being, however, just do: FEATURES=-sandbox emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] question about dropped incoming packets

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Below is the one line (iptables' log)of my /var/log/messages: -- Jun 6 11:55:45 concord Dropped incoming: IN=ppp0 OUT=eth0 SRC=212.42.96.15 DST=192.168.0.250 LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=61 ID=18896 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=110

Re: [gentoo-user] foomatic build(rebuild) broken

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Stoian Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -a foomatic-db-engine USE=-sandbox emerge foomatic-db-engine See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91516 Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel

Re: [gentoo-user] foomatic build(rebuild) broken

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Stoian Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -a foomatic-db-engine Oops, thats FEATURES=-sandbox __ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/shadow syntax

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Hans Hvelplund Odborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I've seen many answers like this on different mailinglist archives and everyone seems to have an opinion of their own regarding this. So I'd like to see documentation of some sort. Example

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I set xorg.conf monitor scan rates for S-Video/TV output?

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have two machines (my laptop and a Pundit-R) that both have S-Video outputs which I would like to run X over to do MythTV with talking to TVs. Both machines are ATI-based. The Pundit-R is set up to use the S-Video output instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I set xorg.conf monitor scan rates for S-Video/TV output?

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. Tried it but same results, other than the Alt-Ctrl-+ stuff doesn't sequence anymore. (As expected.) Here's what's in the (I hope) relavant sections. I was assuming my monitor refresh rate choices were bogus: Section Monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So access to a camera via USB Mass Storage is preferred over gphoto2? - Grant Gphoto2 is for cameras that don't support USB Mass Storage. If USB Mass Storage is supported then use that instead. modprobe usb-storage dmesg | grep sd mount -t vfat

Re: [gentoo-user] fix_libtool_files.sh failed

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Luigi Pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I try to emerge cdk (a dependency fot licq) and received this error: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3-20050110/crtendS.o: No such file or directory make: *** [libcdk.la] Error 1 !!! ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: foomatic build(rebuild) broken

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stoian Ivanov wrote: Wow it is possible to have two consoles? Will you be so kind and tell me how do I start/switch to second one? BTW Is it possibe to have three of them or am I asking too much? outside X use Alt-F1 , Alt-F2

Re: [gentoo-user] gthumb GTK error

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh, I logged out of root and I can run gthumb as a normal user just fine. Not as root though. Weird. That's normal. See the man page for xhost. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM,

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
--- Mats Lidell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: I have rebooted since the emerge so there must be something else. Following up on my own posting but after some investigation it seems like my emerge is confused. If I do emerge -up world there is nothing that needs to be updated

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Open Office toolbar

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
--- James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Sorry about this post, as I'm desperate for suggestions as to where to get answers; hours of googling and noodling with ooffice leave me with a simple problem, which just may be KDE relatedthat I cannot figure out? Maybe an upgrade of

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
--- Claus Ladekjær Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is, that another version of gentoo (1.4) connects immediately where as my present version takes about one minute. So I really miss to know what is wrong about my configuration! Hope somebody could give an advice!

Re: [gentoo-user] Turn off monitor

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
--- John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:31:59PM +0200, Peter De Zutter wrote: Hi John screensave on terminals setterm blank 0 Greetz Peter In KDE -- Control Center -- Peripherals -- Display On the Power Control tab, set monitor to power off

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf bin does not exist

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
--- reg hughson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had xpdf installed for some time but haven't used it for a couple of weeks so don't really know which version caused me the problem...I now notice that the xpdf executable that used to be in /usr/bin no longer exists. I did a search

Re: [gentoo-user] busybox

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
Norberto Bensa wrote: What is not mentioned is the motivation to replace sash with busybox. So my question is: why? I don't know about sash but busybox is very very cool. It's a complete userland in one executable! Check it out: http://busybox.net Zac

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-07 Thread Zac Medico
--- Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to disagree. I think if he follows what you proposed, it might break the package. He could, however, unmerge the package and install directly from sources a version that he knows for sure doesn't lag this much.

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