Re: [gentoo-user] How can I force net.ath0 to use a certain channel?

2007-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:24:01 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Am I the dick? > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172766 Jakub can be a little "terse" at times. -- Neil Bothwick The Borg assimilated my race & all I got was this T shirt. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I force net.ath0 to use a certain channel?

2007-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:38:34 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > > preup() { > > if [ ${IFACE} == "ath0" ] && /etc/init.d/net.eth0 --quiet > > status then > > return 1 > > fi > > } > > > > This will prevent ath0 starting if eth0 is connected. > > Thanks Neil for the help, unfort

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:55:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Partial "df" output before unmerging a bunch of kernels > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 11726996 7325372 4401624 63% / > > > Partial "df" output after unmerging a bunc

Re: [gentoo-user] recompile in a halted OOO emerge...

2007-03-31 Thread Mick
On Friday 30 March 2007 09:14, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:45:41 +0800, Jed R. Mallen wrote: > > i terminated openoffice emerge in the middle of a compile. > > Ctel-~Z to paudse it wold have been better, unless you had to reboot. > > > can i continue from where i left off? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] File not listed in Manifest

2007-03-31 Thread Mick
On Thursday 29 March 2007 21:11, Zac Medico wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Anyway, resyncing did not fix it. > > > > Any more ideas? > > It's fixed in cvs now. The fix will trickle down to all the mirrors > pretty soon. Thanks Zac, problem solved. -- Regards, Mick pgpVeaxdiNyWm.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] recompile in a halted OOO emerge...

2007-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:14:13 +0100, Mick wrote: > Is keepwork deleted after the compile successfully completes? No, that's why it's called keepwork. It has two main uses, providing developers with logfiles after an apparently successful install and filling up users' hard drives :) It's easier to

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-03-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 31 March 2007 00:55:10 Walter Dnes wrote: > Having gotten rather tired of doing this > manually... again... I went into /etc/portage/package.mask and added > > >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 > > It won't hurt me now, but is there anything that might depend on newer > kernels? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-03-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 31. März 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > Partial "df" output before unmerging a bunch of kernels > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 11726996 7325372 4401624 63% / > > > Partial "df" output after unmerging a bunch of kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-03-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 31. März 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 31 March 2007 00:55:10 Walter Dnes wrote: > > Having gotten rather tired of doing this > > manually... again... I went into /etc/portage/package.mask and added > > > > >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 > > > > It won't hurt

[gentoo-user] OpenVZ vs VServer...

2007-03-31 Thread Jarry
Hi, is there anyone having experiences with both OpenVZ and VServer? I'd be interested in comparing them, concerning their features, stability, security, overhead penalty, etc. I would like to use either one or the other for my small server (already excluded vmware/xen as being to heavy-weight f

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-03-31 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, I'm having a problem. I had Gentoo installed on my laptop. I hadn't updated in in some time, so attempted to do that. I kept getting an error message - something about glibc and compatibility. I couldn't resolve it, so decided to start from scratch - no big problem, since I like doing

[gentoo-user] P.S. AND Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-03-31 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, I'm having a problem. I had Gentoo installed on my laptop. I hadn't updated in in some time, so attempted to do that. I kept getting an error message - something about glibc and compatibility. I couldn't resolve it, so decided to start from scratch - no big problem, since I like doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-03-31 Thread b.n.
Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > besides critical bug fixes, security fixes and driver updates? IMHO masking never kernels is a really bad idea. Why? I upgrade my kernel once in a blue moon -that is, when I need to because of new features I need, because of incompatibility with current s

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-03-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 31. März 2007, b.n. wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > > besides critical bug fixes, security fixes and driver updates? > > > > IMHO masking never kernels is a really bad idea. > > Why? because of: - filesystem bugs (2.6.17 and XFS for example) - security problems (local

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant emerge gnome on my P4 box?

2007-03-31 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 31 March 2007 16:38:02 Jesper Taxbøl wrote: > I have tried emerging gnome on my P4 box, to do some programming work > in Eclipse. > > My box fails when emerging gnome. The specific package that fails is orbit. > > I have attached my make.conf and the build log from orbit. From the buil

[gentoo-user] Weird high-level question about an ad-hoc wiki-like database

2007-03-31 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I am looking for a client-server package (preferably with the server on gentoo from portage) which provides something which is vaguely like CRM... but in reverse - and for personal as opposed to corporate use. One requirement is for it to act as an address book that will allow me to associate: Co

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-03-31 Thread Mick
On Saturday 31 March 2007 13:49, Colleen Beamer wrote: > I got to the > point where I chroot'd and started the kernel compile. The compile > starts and then, the laptop shuts off on me. On initial start with the > Stage 3 install CD, I started using 'gentoo dopcmcia nolvm2 agpgart > acpi=on', bu

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I force net.ath0 to use a certain channel?

2007-03-31 Thread Mick
On Friday 30 March 2007 22:38, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Thanks Neil for the help, unfortunately it didn't seem to work for me... > > locutus conf.d # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start > * Starting ath0 > * Running preup function > /etc/conf.d/net: line 10: if: command not found > /etc/conf.d/n

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I force net.ath0 to use a certain channel?

2007-03-31 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 30 March 2007 23:38:34 Daevid Vincent wrote: > Thanks Neil for the help, unfortunately it didn't seem to work for me... > > locutus conf.d # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start > * Starting ath0 > * Running preup function > /etc/conf.d/net: line 10: if: command not found > /etc/conf.d/

Re: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai

2007-03-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
In the last episode, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: BS> BS> Personally, I use Kubuntu on my laptop and have never had a reason to BS> change root's password from the default. Even on my Gentoo desktop, I use BS> sudo (and my user password) 100x more often than su/login and the root BS> password.

[gentoo-user] Ridiculous amount of borkage in portage

2007-03-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi Am I the only one seeing a ridiculous amount of borkage in Gentoo this week? So far I have had gcc, perl, perl-dependent packages, autogen and some other packages fail on me this week. Jeff -- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature canno

Re: [gentoo-user] Ridiculous amount of borkage in portage

2007-03-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: > Hi > > Am I the only one seeing a ridiculous amount of borkage in Gentoo this > week? So far I have had gcc, perl, perl-dependent packages, autogen and > some other packages fail on me this week. > > yes, you are. Have you filed bugs? -- gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] Ridiculous amount of borkage in portage

2007-03-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
In the last episode, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: HV> On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: HV> > Hi HV> > HV> > Am I the only one seeing a ridiculous amount of borkage in Gentoo this HV> > week? HV> yes, you are. HV> HV> Have you filed bugs? No, for the simple reason that I first wanted

Re: [gentoo-user] Ridiculous amount of borkage in portage

2007-03-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
In the last episode, Jeff Rollin wrote: JR> In the last episode, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: JR> HV> On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: JR> HV> > Am I the only one seeing a ridiculous amount of borkage in Gentoo this JR> HV> > week? JR> HV> yes, you are. JR> HV> JR> HV> Have you filed

[gentoo-user] Bitten by bug #172860

2007-03-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This seems to be a common bug. There's a patch (manual edit) already available. How do I emerge after patching the ebuild to avoid checksum problems? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bitten by bug #172860

2007-03-31 Thread Daniel Iliev
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > This seems to be a common bug. There's a patch (manual edit) already > available. > How do I emerge after patching the ebuild to avoid checksum problems? > > ++ kevin > emerge --digest / -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bitten by bug #172860

2007-03-31 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > This seems to be a common bug. There's a patch (manual edit) already > available. > How do I emerge after patching the ebuild to avoid checksum problems? > > ++ kevin > I THINK emerge --digest will work. Try with -p first though, just in case. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- w

Re: [gentoo-user] Bitten by bug #172860

2007-03-31 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 01 April 2007 03:41:38 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > This seems to be a common bug. There's a patch (manual edit) already > available. How do I emerge after patching the ebuild to avoid checksum > problems? An unofficial guide for patching a package in an ebuild: http://dev.gentoo.org/~maste

[gentoo-user] xterm settings with utf-8 unicode

2007-03-31 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, Sometimes I use an xterm in cygwin to login to gentoo boxes and I have problems with font display. For instance I see in the cygwin xterm: src/ports/Mod4_initdt.f90:1: warning: unused variable â src/ports/Mod4_initdt.f90:1: warning: unused variable â when I should see src/ports/Mod4_i

[gentoo-user] depscan.sh?

2007-03-31 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi all Somehow when updating the system the file /sbin/depscan.sh has gone missing - please advise as to how to get it back! TIA Jeff PS I have already run equery belongs /sbin/depscan.sh - no luck. -- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for natur

Re: [gentoo-user] depscan.sh?

2007-03-31 Thread Dale
Jeff Rollin wrote: > Hi all > > Somehow when updating the system the file /sbin/depscan.sh has gone missing - > please advise as to how to get it back! > > TIA > > Jeff > > PS I have already run equery belongs /sbin/depscan.sh - no luck. > It is part of baselayout. So emerge -1v baselayout sh