[tslug] Gentoo is b0rken

2004-02-28 Thread Robert Dickerson
Hey, So, I was booting into gentoo yesterday and, instead of my beautiful desktop, I got an error message informing me that Nautilus couldn't be started (I'm using gnome 2.4). XServer starts up ok, and I can login with the GUI, I just can't make it to a normal desktop. Well, thought I,

[tslug] Re: Ftp

2004-02-28 Thread Ian Monroe
Nathaniel Green wrote: Is ftp one of the limited services on campus? I'm getting 10 KB/s from a server which claims d/l speeds of over 400 KB/s. Bleh. Nate Not in my experience. I don't have more or less success with FTP then I do HTTP, which is to say, sometimes I get pretty slow speeds but

[tslug] Re: Gentoo is b0rken

2004-02-28 Thread Ian Monroe
I guess my first suggestion is to see if someone is having a similar problem at forums.gentoo.org, and if you can't find someone, post your message there. So many people read those forums, occasionally you can get some good help. Try reemerging python to fix your emerge issues. Um, wait.

[tslug] Re: Gentoo is b0rken

2004-02-28 Thread Ross Day
... And this brings me to my big issue: when I say something like emerge sync or emerge gnome or emerge [anything] I get a Segmentation Fault. This is a problem. One of my Gentoos would do this when there was a problem with the filesystem. Silly ReiserFS had screwed up. :-( Do file system