Re: [gentoo-user] ALT/GR (Right ALT) as an RETURN?
Dan Farrell pisze: On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:32:47 +0100 Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mateusz Mierzwinski pisze: Ok, I don't know what's going on, but My laptop have issue - when I press ALT/GR (Right ALT) it works like RETURN, executes applications, sends messages by Kadu. What's wrong? I've try control panel in KDE, but this wont work in regionals settings. Periphernals Keyboard also don't work. My keyboard is OK because in commandline everything is OK. Any suggestions? No, just questions: 1) what kind of keyboard do you use 2) what kind of keyboard setting do you use at the console 3) What is your keyboard setting in X Can you answer these? I'm using standard laptop keyboard with windows key (some kind like generic-101/102 keys). In console i use standard settings (don't change anything because I don't need Polish keyboard in konsole). My Xorg setting of keyboard: Section InputDevice IdentifierKeyboard1 Driverkbd Option AutoRepeat 500 30 Option XkbRulesxorg Option XkbModelpc105 Option XkbLayoutpl EndSection -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VNC viewer in listening mode
On Saturday 2 February 2008, Mick wrote: Hi All, Would you know if krdc can work in listening mode (like the traditional vncviewer can?). If krdc won't cut it, then should I emerge vnc or tightvnc? Which is better? I'm only interested on the viewer part to connect to a remote WinXP machine which is seating behind a firewall. AFAIK, both realvnc and tightvnc clients can run in listen mode. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently
Kevin O'Gorman pisze: On Feb 3, 2008 3:15 PM, Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman pisze: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it silently fail. I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing. Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing. Does anybody want to help me guess? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD Try to change name of directory in Your home - .gaim to someelse. Next try to start pidgin. If it fails, then run emerge --sync emerge pidgin -va (set flags for things you need) and next try to run again. If renaming of .gaim catalog help's then this is incompatibility of configure files or some archives. Try to experiment. IF somethings happend, wrote here. Mateusz M. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list renaming .gaim to dot.gaim makes no difference. I did not re-emerge it, but found that it works if I'm the root user. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD You should get pidgin in Your group. Set correct rights to app and libs. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
Alan McKinnon pisze: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? Graphical user interface / frontend - as You like ;). I've been using portato for curious, but there's nothing like console experience ;). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Friday 01 February 2008 17:03:49 Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:47 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 01 February 2008 13:21:38 Michael Sullivan wrote: Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? Of what? I'm running app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.4.56528 with no problems. -- Rgds Peter app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2 Maybe it'd be worth trying vmware-server instead? -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VNC viewer in listening mode
On Monday 4 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: AFAIK, both realvnc and tightvnc clients can run in listen mode. I must add that, depending on the VNC server installed on the windows box, listening mode might not work correctly. For example, I remember that, with both realvnc 4 and ultravnc on the server, the listening client on linux was not working. I had to use realvnc 3.3.7 both for the server (windows) and the client (linux). However, that was some time ago, and things hopefully have changed now. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Feb 3, 2008 6:49 PM, Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:44:26 + Robert Stockdale IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped... Well first off setarch was replaced with util-linux, so you can nuke setarch. Same case with mktemp in that coreutils replaced it. The others I'm not positive of. OK, I've got it pared down to some degree. These few block programs in portage are still preventing a world update and I don't believe I can remove them without destroying my system. They are: [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) [blocks B ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r10) [blocks B ] sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_rc (is blocking sys-apps/makedev- 3.23.1) Total: 617 packages (568 upgrades, 5 downgrades, 35 new, 9 in new slots, 3 blocks), Size of downloads: 2,090,644 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied) Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/sabayon I'm thinking that there must be a way to hold back the upgrade on these last three files in order to permit the portage upgrade. When I do emerge -pv portage I get: java bob # emerge -pv portage These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2 [1.2.18.1] 232 kB [0] [ebuild U ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 [2.0.1-r5] USE=-bindist -gmp -test 151 kB [0] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.1 [2.1.3.4-r1] USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl* 361 kB [0] *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p33 [3.2_p15-r1] USE=nls -afs -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla 2,564 kB [0] [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) Total: 4 packages (4 upgrades, 1 block), Size of downloads: 3,306 kB Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage So it looks like the important one to look at is: sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash-3.2_p33) So if I could prevent the update to bash then portage should update. Is this correct? How would I do this? Thank you, Bob
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
Robert Stockdale IV wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 6:49 PM, Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:44:26 + Robert Stockdale IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped... Well first off setarch was replaced with util-linux, so you can nuke setarch. Same case with mktemp in that coreutils replaced it. The others I'm not positive of. OK, I've got it pared down to some degree. These few block programs in portage are still preventing a world update and I don't believe I can remove them without destroying my system. They are: [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash-3.2_p33) [blocks B ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r10) [blocks B ] sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_rc (is blocking sys-apps/makedev-3.23.1) Total: 617 packages (568 upgrades, 5 downgrades, 35 new, 9 in new slots, 3 blocks), Size of downloads: 2,090,644 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied) Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/sabayon I'm thinking that there must be a way to hold back the upgrade on these last three files in order to permit the portage upgrade. When I do emerge -pv portage I get: java bob # emerge -pv portage These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2 [1.2.18.1 http://1.2.18.1] 232 kB [0] [ebuild U ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 [2.0.1-r5] USE=-bindist -gmp -test 151 kB [0] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.1 http://2.1.4.1 [2.1.3.4-r1] USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl* 361 kB [0] *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p33 [3.2_p15-r1] USE=nls -afs -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla 2,564 kB [0] [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash-3.2_p33) Total: 4 packages (4 upgrades, 1 block), Size of downloads: 3,306 kB Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage So it looks like the important one to look at is: sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash-3.2_p33) So if I could prevent the update to bash then portage should update. Is this correct? How would I do this? Thank you, Bob He wrote this earlier. Quoting his reply: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) emerge --sync, there is a later version of portage in the tree that bash does not block So hopefully if you sync again that will fix that. Hopefully nothing else will pop up tho. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
[blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash-3.2_p33) emerge --oneshot --nodeps portage and then a normal emerge portage [blocks B ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r10) I think somebody has mentioned this before ksync is part of the new kdelibs so unmerge it to merge the new kdelibs. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde-expat-upgrading.xml [blocks B ] sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_rc (is blocking sys-apps/makedev-3.23.1) Not 100% sure but you can try the same as above for portage: emerge --oneshot --nodeps baselayout emerge baselayout Then hopefully you are ready for a world update! By the way that are the reasons you have chosen Sabayon over the original Gentoo? Just curios. Regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Monday 04 February 2008, b.n. wrote: Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? Graphical User Interface. Usually compared to a CLI, Command Line Interface. I know, I had my tongue very firmly in my cheek when I made that post :-) I can't imagine how one would run portage in a GUI - to me it's very much a command line job -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, b.n. wrote: Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? Graphical User Interface. Usually compared to a CLI, Command Line Interface. I know, I had my tongue very firmly in my cheek when I made that post :-) I can't imagine how one would run portage in a GUI - to me it's very much a command line job Well, I emerged porthole just to see what it looks like. Well, It's there. I then went to a command line to see what was really going on. O_O eix is sort of growing on me tho. I wonder when they will replace it with something else?? Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] VIM Issue
When I type for example vim test.cxx all it does is send it to the next line and just stays there blinking and nothing at all. I've recompiled it, still nothing. I've emerge -C vim. Then compiled it and it did nothing. Any idea what broke vim? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
GUI = Graphical User Interface On 2/4/08, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 :) -- Neil Bothwick Feature : BUG with seniority. -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] VIM Issue
On Feb 4, 2008 7:53 AM, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I type for example vim test.cxx all it does is send it to the next line and just stays there blinking and nothing at all. I've recompiled it, still nothing. I've emerge -C vim. Then compiled it and it did nothing. Any idea what broke vim? What happens when you press i? Based on what you describe; nothing will happen; you remain in the bash shell. Try emerge gentoolkit revdep-rebuild Also what version of vim? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
Hi All, Kevin's previous message alerted me to the fact that Gaim has been deprecated. Sure enough I see this: [D] net-im/gaim Available versions: [M] 1.5.0 [cjk debug eds gnutls krb4 nas nls perl silc spell tcl tk] Installed versions: 1.5.0(00:46:02 08/15/07)(nls perl spell -cjk -debug -eds -gnutls -krb4 -nas -silc -tcl -tk) Homepage:http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ Description: GTK Instant Messenger client However, when I try to update world nothing comes up to tell me that Gaim is no more: # emerge -upDv world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB Last I recall, portage would tell you that a particular package is no longer in the tree and ask you to unmerge it. What's up here? Some additional info: == # less /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep net-im/gaim # # less /etc/portage/package.mask | grep -i net-im/gaim # # emerge -pDv gaim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy gaim have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - net-im/gaim-1.5.0 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Olivier Crete [EMAIL PROTECTED] (08 Dec 2007) # Remove gaim and its plugins (now its called pidgin) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. # emerge -pDv pidgin These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-python/pyrex-0.9.4.1 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-python/dbus-python-0.80.2 USE=-test 443 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/gst-plugins-good-0.10.6 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] net-im/pidgin-2.2.1 USE=dbus gstreamer ncurses nls perl spell -bonjour -debug -doc -eds -gadu -gnutls -groupwise -gtk -meanwhile (-networkmanager) -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr 8,674 kB Total: 4 packages (4 new), Size of downloads: 9,117 kB == -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
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. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Christopher Robin, as Pooh got out the vaseline. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On 4 Feb 2008, at 11:29, Dale wrote: ... eix is sort of growing on me tho. I wonder when they will replace it with something else?? I've been using eix for a while am really comfortable with it. Replacement would seem to be WELL overdue, by my previous experiences with Gentoo tools. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream? It has been renamed to Pidgin in 2007 to prevent some legal issues with AOL and their AIM product. From Michael Sullivan's comment shall I assume that you also did not see the portage warning about Gaim-over (pun intended) or perhaps you never had Gaim installed? Anyone else who can confirm that they have Gaim installed but not seen the portage warning? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Monday 04 February 2008, Dale wrote: eix is sort of growing on me tho. I wonder when they will replace it with something else?? You've only just found eix You must have bandwidth issues :-) :-) eix is the best thing to hit portage since portage. Or maybe paludis. I find gentoo virtually unusable without eix -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Monday 04 February 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 4. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? A GUY who lost his ` mutter mutter grumble grumble These kids with their new-fangled contraptions. I'd just gotten the hang of W now they want me to switch to X. They say it's New! Improved! Better! and uses some weird thing called a mouse. Bloody rodents. Oh wait, what year did you say it was again? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VNC viewer in listening mode
On Monday 04 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Monday 4 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: AFAIK, both realvnc and tightvnc clients can run in listen mode. I must add that, depending on the VNC server installed on the windows box, listening mode might not work correctly. For example, I remember that, with both realvnc 4 and ultravnc on the server, the listening client on linux was not working. I had to use realvnc 3.3.7 both for the server (windows) and the client (linux). However, that was some time ago, and things hopefully have changed now. Hmm tried it with vncviewer -listen from a Knoppix 5.0 DVD and could not connect from the remote MSWindows machine. It could well be incompatible versions I guess. Thanks for pointing this out. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
On Monday 04 February 2008, Mick wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream? It's been dead for some time since AOL had a hissy fit over the name. The new gaim is now called pidgin. It's not a new product really, just a version bump that is a name change. It was hard masked in portage very recently. Unfortunately for gaim users, the upgrade consists of unmerge gaim, merge pidgin, import settings. OK, I can surely do that, but shouldn't portage warn me about Gaim being hard masked? Is my portage borked, or is this behaviour no longer valid/expected? No, there's nothing wrong with your system. Portage will allow you to have an installed package that isn't in the tree anymore as a copy of the ebuild is in /var somewhere. Maybe if you set verbose logging it will alert you but this isn't an error. If it were, people would be forced to remove stuff everytime some dev masked a package on a whim. Remerging gaim is another story, then portage will correctly tell you that it can't do the update. In short, your gentoo is working correctly as designed. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] core-2 advise
On Monday 04 February 2008, James wrote: If so, and I wanted to convert this machine to 64 bit Gentoo OS, then I'd just edit the make.conf : CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu to CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and 'emerge -e world' Previous posts on this list indicate that there is no upgrade path from 32 to 64 bit. The correct method is to reinstall. Apparently it's not as simple as emerge -e world as that would involve building a 64 bit toolchain and system libs with a 32 bit compiler, which doesn't work. If I have the details wrong, I'm sure someone will come along soon and correct me. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
On 2/4/08, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream? It has been renamed to Pidgin in 2007 to prevent some legal issues with AOL and their AIM product. From Michael Sullivan's comment shall I assume that you also did not see the portage warning about Gaim-over (pun intended) or perhaps you never had Gaim installed? Anyone else who can confirm that they have Gaim installed but not seen the portage warning? -- I can; and I'm the OP. I don't know where the warning would have been seen; generally there's so much stuff that any particular item has to really push to be noticed. But at that time, all ewarn and einfo messages were being mailed to me, but I don't remember seeing this. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
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 :) -- Neil Bothwick Feature : BUG with seniority. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
Stroller wrote: On 4 Feb 2008, at 11:29, Dale wrote: ... eix is sort of growing on me tho. I wonder when they will replace it with something else?? I've been using eix for a while am really comfortable with it. Replacement would seem to be WELL overdue, by my previous experiences with Gentoo tools. Stroller. Yea, when I got sort of used to etcat, they replaced it with eix. I just recently started to really using eix a fair bit. I suspect they are getting a new thing ready. Sort of keep me confused ya know. ;-) Oh well, at least it keeps getting better. LFS would be fun for sure. We'd be writing scripts like crazy. LOL Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: core-2 advise
Juul Spies sjakie at ouweouwe.nl writes: Alan McKinnon schreef: Indeed reinstall is the best method of upgrading. I'm also not familiar with details but apparently it is not as easy as changing CHOST en remerge world. Thanks guys, I guess it'll have to wait for now. James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] core-2 advise
Alan McKinnon schreef: On Monday 04 February 2008, James wrote: If so, and I wanted to convert this machine to 64 bit Gentoo OS, then I'd just edit the make.conf : CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu to CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and 'emerge -e world' Previous posts on this list indicate that there is no upgrade path from 32 to 64 bit. The correct method is to reinstall. Apparently it's not as simple as emerge -e world as that would involve building a 64 bit toolchain and system libs with a 32 bit compiler, which doesn't work. If I have the details wrong, I'm sure someone will come along soon and correct me. Indeed reinstall is the best method of upgrading. I'm also not familiar with details but apparently it is not as easy as changing CHOST en remerge world. -- Juul Spies -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VIM Issue
On Feb 4, 2008 10:00 AM, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vim-7.1.213 and revdep-rebuild shown no breakage Here somethings you can try: ls -lah `which vim` make sure the output is: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.4M Nov 15 01:25 /usr/bin/vim Find a vim binary somewhere, extract it, and see if it runs correctly. You have Gentoo default /etc/vim/vimrc? Do you have your own .vimrc? If yes, delete the .vimrc file and try again. Recompile with different USE flags. What does emerge -pv vim say? You might want to contact vim devs. On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 08:46 -0500, Andrey Falko wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 7:53 AM, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I type for example vim test.cxx all it does is send it to the next line and just stays there blinking and nothing at all. I've recompiled it, still nothing. I've emerge -C vim. Then compiled it and it did nothing. Any idea what broke vim? What happens when you press i? Based on what you describe; nothing will happen; you remain in the bash shell. Try emerge gentoolkit revdep-rebuild Also what version of vim? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo Firewall UPNP
I would like to be able to fully participate in Torrents for downloading ISO, such as the Gentoo ISOs. However, since my gentoo/iptables firewall currently is not forwarding any ports to my client systems, so I appear as a torrent leech - I'd like to try to change that. I'm using kTorrent under Gentoo/KDE, which supports interfacing via UPNP to enable specific forwarding, which I would like to try to take advantage of for security reasons. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_UPnP_with_IPTables I noticed the URL above on how to do UPNP via linux-igd, but I'm not sure that's what I want. I searched emerge for UPNP and saw a number of packages in the list. I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience (good/bad/otherwise) on setting up a Gentoo-based ipTables Firewall for UPNP, or what packages people might recommend for it. While I am mostly concerned with having kTorrent work on my Gentoo Desktop, I might also be interested in using BitTorrent on a Win2k Laptop too - I don't know if it supports UPnP or not (possible), but if it was easy to support, I might be inclined to. (If not, no big loss.) So I'd welcome thoughts on that as well towards the above questions. TIA, Ben -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream? It's been dead for some time since AOL had a hissy fit over the name. The new gaim is now called pidgin. It's not a new product really, just a version bump that is a name change. It was hard masked in portage very recently. Unfortunately for gaim users, the upgrade consists of unmerge gaim, merge pidgin, import settings. OK, I can surely do that, but shouldn't portage warn me about Gaim being hard masked? Is my portage borked, or is this behaviour no longer valid/expected? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] VIM Issue
okay heres my use flags [ebuild R ] app-editors/vim-7.1.213 USE=acl bash-completion gpm nls perl python vim-pager vim-with-x -cscope -minimal -ruby 8,876 kB ls -lah 'which vim' returned no such file or directory whereis vim returns /usr/bin/vim /usr/share/vim I removed the /etc/vim/vimrc and still no luck. On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:04 -0500, Andrey Falko wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 10:00 AM, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vim-7.1.213 and revdep-rebuild shown no breakage Here somethings you can try: ls -lah `which vim` make sure the output is: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.4M Nov 15 01:25 /usr/bin/vim Find a vim binary somewhere, extract it, and see if it runs correctly. You have Gentoo default /etc/vim/vimrc? Do you have your own .vimrc? If yes, delete the .vimrc file and try again. Recompile with different USE flags. What does emerge -pv vim say? You might want to contact vim devs. On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 08:46 -0500, Andrey Falko wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 7:53 AM, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I type for example vim test.cxx all it does is send it to the next line and just stays there blinking and nothing at all. I've recompiled it, still nothing. I've emerge -C vim. Then compiled it and it did nothing. Any idea what broke vim? What happens when you press i? Based on what you describe; nothing will happen; you remain in the bash shell. Try emerge gentoolkit revdep-rebuild Also what version of vim? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VIM Issue
vim-7.1.213 and revdep-rebuild shown no breakage On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 08:46 -0500, Andrey Falko wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 7:53 AM, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I type for example vim test.cxx all it does is send it to the next line and just stays there blinking and nothing at all. I've recompiled it, still nothing. I've emerge -C vim. Then compiled it and it did nothing. Any idea what broke vim? What happens when you press i? Based on what you describe; nothing will happen; you remain in the bash shell. Try emerge gentoolkit revdep-rebuild Also what version of vim? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 04 February 2008, b.n. wrote: Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? Graphical User Interface. Usually compared to a CLI, Command Line Interface. I know, I had my tongue very firmly in my cheek when I made that post :-) Ops. My irony sensors must be badly broken today. Probably spending nights writing a badly procrastinated ph.d. thesis does not help. :) I can't imagine how one would run portage in a GUI - to me it's very much a command line job Well, on Debian-like systems I absolutely *love* Synaptic. To me, it's what a user-friendly package manager should look like. I have only very little experience with Portage GUIs. Problem, it seems, is that there isn't one single project where people is focused (Kuroo, Porthole, and now Portato which I didn't know). The Portage CLI is fine with me, but I'd like to know about the GUI options. They can always be handy. (On my wild dreams, once I thought to write a Python-based FUSE filesystem abstracting Portage. I did never ever went further than the very early planning phase, mostly because FUSE documentation was a nightmare. I'd like to know what people think of it,anyway.) m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:47:28 + Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 February 2008 13:21:38 Michael Sullivan wrote: Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? Yes. I posted pretty much the whole session to the list. app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2.59824 is what I installed. (BTW, I started the thread. Perhaps you can find the post where I show what I ran into in your mail storage or some online archive.) Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, b.n. wrote: Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? Graphical User Interface. Usually compared to a CLI, Command Line Interface. I know, I had my tongue very firmly in my cheek when I made that post :-) I can't imagine how one would run portage in a GUI - to me it's very much a command line job Well, I emerged porthole just to see what it looks like. Well, It's there. I then went to a command line to see what was really going on. O_O eix is sort of growing on me tho. I wonder when they will replace it with something else?? Dale :-) :-) I like Porthole just to look at the big picture, not to install, remove, or anything. It is a great tool to see what you have installed, what you might like to install, and look at the ebuilds. Just another tool. -- Edward A Mihalow Jr Mudbug Computers and Networks Gentoo! Linux Registered Linux User#225662 New Orleans,LA -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
On 2/4/08, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:11 +, Mick wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream? It has been renamed to Pidgin in 2007 to prevent some legal issues with AOL and their AIM product. From Michael Sullivan's comment shall I assume that you also did not see the portage warning about Gaim-over (pun intended) or perhaps you never had Gaim installed? Anyone else who can confirm that they have Gaim installed but not seen the portage warning? I have gaim installed, and I use it every day, but I haven't seen any warnings from portage. Will pidgin be able to read my ~/.gaim/* files? Yes. But be aware that if you keep logs of your IM and chat traffic, that the first time pidgin starts will take a LONG time. But when it's over, you will have everything, or at least I did. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:11:55PM +, Mick wrote: From Michael Sullivan's comment shall I assume that you also did not see the portage warning about Gaim-over (pun intended) or perhaps you never had Gaim installed? Anyone else who can confirm that they have Gaim installed but not seen the portage warning? Yes, I can confirm that. emerge --search gaim brings up * net-im/gaim [ Masked ] Latest version available: 1.5.0 Latest version installed: 1.5.0 Size of files: 5,979 kB Homepage: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ Description: GTK Instant Messenger client License: GPL-2 I do know about the pidgin/gaim thing from reading this mailing list. But even in my recent emerge --update --deep world the fact that gaim is hardmasked was not mentioned. For example, emerge --pretend --update --deep world only mentions the following [10:55 AM]wwong ~ $ emerge --pretend --update --deep world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-libs/db-1.85-r3 [1.85-r2] [ebuild U ] mail-client/mutt-1.5.16 [1.5.13-r1] USE=-qdbm% -sidebar% -smtp% [ebuild U ] app-emulation/wine-0.9.46 [0.9.8-r1] USE=xml%* -dbus% -hal% [ebuild U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r1 [1.0_rc1-r2] USE=a52%* mp3%* pnm%* quicktime%* srt%* -amrnb% -amrwb% -cddb% -cdio% -ftp% -ladspa% -md5sum% -mp2% -nemesi% -pulseaudio% -radio% -rar% (-ssse3) -teletext% -tivo% -vidix% -zoran% VIDEO_CARDS=-mga% -s3virge% -tdfx% -vesa% [ebuild U ] media-sound/lilypond-2.10.33 [2.5.2] USE=-debug% -emacs% -profile% [ebuild U ] x11-wm/enlightenment-0.16.8.10 [0.16.8.8] Only if I directly specify emerge gaim or emerge --emptytree world will it show the warning that All ebuilds that could satisfy gaim have been masked. W -- Willie W. Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:11 +, Mick wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream? It has been renamed to Pidgin in 2007 to prevent some legal issues with AOL and their AIM product. From Michael Sullivan's comment shall I assume that you also did not see the portage warning about Gaim-over (pun intended) or perhaps you never had Gaim installed? Anyone else who can confirm that they have Gaim installed but not seen the portage warning? I have gaim installed, and I use it every day, but I haven't seen any warnings from portage. Will pidgin be able to read my ~/.gaim/* files? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mick wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: It was hard masked in portage very recently. Unfortunately for gaim users, the upgrade consists of unmerge gaim, merge pidgin, import settings. OK, I can surely do that, but shouldn't portage warn me about Gaim being hard masked? Is my portage borked, or is this behaviour no longer valid/expected? No, there's nothing wrong with your system. Portage will allow you to have an installed package that isn't in the tree anymore as a copy of the ebuild is in /var somewhere. Maybe if you set verbose logging it will alert you but this isn't an error. If it were, people would be forced to remove stuff everytime some dev masked a package on a whim. Remerging gaim is another story, then portage will correctly tell you that it can't do the update. In short, your gentoo is working correctly as designed. Thanks Alan, I can remember though that XMMS (and other packages) were flagged up as hard masked/not in the tree by Portage. Am I right? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] core-2 advise
Hello, We have one gentoo system running 32bit gentoo: CFLAGS=-march=prescott -O2 -pipe CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu cpuinfo: vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7100 @ 1.80GHz Is the 64bit gentoo stable(recommended) on this core-2 arch? If so, and I wanted to convert this machine to 64 bit Gentoo OS, then I'd just edit the make.conf : CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu to CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and 'emerge -e world' Since I'm recompiling everything I wanted to use -fomit-frame-pointer could I just and that to the CFLAGS without issue? or Is there a wiki with some more details on the conversions that I should follow? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Monday 04 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: 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. Yoda, is that really you? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 08:14 +, Mick wrote: Hi All, Kevin's previous message alerted me to the fact that Gaim has been deprecated. Sure enough I see this: [D] net-im/gaim Available versions: [M] 1.5.0 [cjk debug eds gnutls krb4 nas nls perl silc spell tcl tk] Installed versions: 1.5.0(00:46:02 08/15/07)(nls perl spell -cjk -debug -eds -gnutls -krb4 -nas -silc -tcl -tk) Homepage:http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ Description: GTK Instant Messenger client However, when I try to update world nothing comes up to tell me that Gaim is no more: # emerge -upDv world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB Last I recall, portage would tell you that a particular package is no longer in the tree and ask you to unmerge it. What's up here? Some additional info: == # less /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep net-im/gaim # # less /etc/portage/package.mask | grep -i net-im/gaim # # emerge -pDv gaim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy gaim have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - net-im/gaim-1.5.0 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Olivier Crete [EMAIL PROTECTED] (08 Dec 2007) # Remove gaim and its plugins (now its called pidgin) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. # emerge -pDv pidgin These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-python/pyrex-0.9.4.1 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-python/dbus-python-0.80.2 USE=-test 443 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/gst-plugins-good-0.10.6 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] net-im/pidgin-2.2.1 USE=dbus gstreamer ncurses nls perl spell -bonjour -debug -doc -eds -gadu -gnutls -groupwise -gtk -meanwhile (-networkmanager) -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr 8,674 kB Total: 4 packages (4 new), Size of downloads: 9,117 kB == Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream? It has been renamed to Pidgin in 2007 to prevent some legal issues with AOL and their AIM product. Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream? It's been dead for some time since AOL had a hissy fit over the name. The new gaim is now called pidgin. It's not a new product really, just a version bump that is a name change. It was hard masked in portage very recently. Unfortunately for gaim users, the upgrade consists of unmerge gaim, merge pidgin, import settings. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Monday 04 February 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: [blocks B ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r10) I think somebody has mentioned this before ksync is part of the new kdelibs so unmerge it to merge the new kdelibs. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde-expat-upgrading.xml Maybe I should explain a bit more in detail how the OP should fix this, as finding kde blockers between the -meta and monolithic ebuilds is not a cut and dried process. First, I assume he has read the emerging KDE howto on the gentoo docs site, and understands the difference between -meta ebuilds, monolithic ebuilds and package ebuilds. There's not much to indicate which is which except that the -meta ebuilds have -meta in their name. Over time I have learned which are the packages distributed by kde.org and now recognize them by name. The monolithic ebuilds must then be the same without the -meta name. So, everything else is probably a package ebuild. Golden rule: You cannot mix these types, you must use one or the other. To determine blockers, there's no command I know of that does eg equery blocks package so I resort to good old grep: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep -r ksync /var/portage/kde-base/*/*ebuild | grep kdelibs /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7-r1.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7-r2.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7-r3.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.8.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.8-r1.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.8-r2.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.8-r3.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync So, kdelibs will not install along with ksync. Now to determine what installs ksync: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends ksync [ Searching for packages depending on ksync... ] No results. Bugger. That means I don't have ksync installed, so equery can't find the info for me. Time to search the tree (this is slow). So one cup of coffee later: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends -a ksync [ Searching for packages depending on ksync... ] app-pda/syncekonnector-0.3_pre20060117 (=kde-base/ksync-3.5*) app-pda/syncekonnector-0.3.2 (=kde-base/ksync-3.5*) kde-base/kdepim-meta-3.5.5 (~kde-base/ksync-3.5.5) kde-base/kdepim-meta-3.5.6 (~kde-base/ksync-3.5.6) OK, Now we are getting there. kdepim-meta will install all sub-packages of kdepim. syncekonnector (probably part of kdepim-meta too) will also install ksync. Plus, kdepim (monolithic) will install all the same files as kdepim-meta, but not as individual packages. On to solutions for the OPs problem: Don't merge ksync, do merge kdepim. Convert to the -meta ebuilds and emerge ksync. This last is a lot of effort but worth it. I did it by running eix kde and listing what I had, unmerge the monolithic ebuilds and merge the corresponding -meta ones. It's an iterative process, I had to go back and find more stuff to unmerge once or twice. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)
On Sunday 03 Feb 2008 20:50:47 Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:44:59 +0100 Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for their respective input. From the information provided, I've assembled a short Gentoo Wiki Tip [1]. Regards, Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Reboot_to_Windows_(using_grub) Thanks; I've been wanting to do this for months now, but failed to write up a coherent message to the list. Now I can finally reboot with ease and walk away, without having to mess with quickly switching grub (being impatient and having a short attention span, similar as they may be, are, in conjunction, quite an obstacle for multi-booters ;) ) I was thinking, though; wouldn't it be possible to just switch back and forth each boot? Have grub set windows as the default when it boots linux and linux as the default after booting windows, and you can just switch back and forth by rebooting - no grub-set-default required. However, this would be appropriate only for people who want to reboot into the other OS every time they reboot. info grub Look for savedefault. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] VIM Issue
On Feb 4, 2008 2:35 PM, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay heres my use flags [ebuild R ] app-editors/vim-7.1.213 USE=acl bash-completion gpm nls perl python vim-pager vim-with-x -cscope -minimal -ruby 8,876 kB Try ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=-vim-with-x emerge -1 vim (remove vim with x use flag). ls -lah 'which vim' returned no such file or directory whereis vim returns /usr/bin/vim /usr/share/vim I removed the /etc/vim/vimrc and still no luck. On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:04 -0500, Andrey Falko wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 10:00 AM, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vim-7.1.213 and revdep-rebuild shown no breakage Here somethings you can try: ls -lah `which vim` make sure the output is: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.4M Nov 15 01:25 /usr/bin/vim Find a vim binary somewhere, extract it, and see if it runs correctly. You have Gentoo default /etc/vim/vimrc? Do you have your own .vimrc? If yes, delete the .vimrc file and try again. Recompile with different USE flags. What does emerge -pv vim say? You might want to contact vim devs. On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 08:46 -0500, Andrey Falko wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 7:53 AM, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I type for example vim test.cxx all it does is send it to the next line and just stays there blinking and nothing at all. I've recompiled it, still nothing. I've emerge -C vim. Then compiled it and it did nothing. Any idea what broke vim? What happens when you press i? Based on what you describe; nothing will happen; you remain in the bash shell. Try emerge gentoolkit revdep-rebuild Also what version of vim? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Monday 04 February 2008, b.n. wrote: On my wild dreams, once I thought to write a Python-based FUSE filesystem abstracting Portage. I'm confused by this. Portage is already a filesystem, why would you want to abstract a filesystem as a filesystem...? I can't see the point -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Monday 04 February 2008, Dale wrote: Oh well, at least it keeps getting better. LFS would be fun for sure. We'd be writing scripts like crazy. LOL Gentoo: Build your own kit car! Just need spanners! LFS: Build your own spanners to build your own kit car! Oh, and you need to design it yourself. We'll sell you the sheet metal for the body though :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:21:49PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I routinely read $PORT_DIR/profiles/packages.mask after a sync to check what has changed recently and do something about it before it bites me in the ass Last rites and removals are also announced in GWN/GMN. W -- Willie W. Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
On Monday 04 February 2008, Mick wrote: Remerging gaim is another story, then portage will correctly tell you that it can't do the update. In short, your gentoo is working correctly as designed. Thanks Alan, I can remember though that XMMS (and other packages) were flagged up as hard masked/not in the tree by Portage. Am I right? Yes, XMMS was abandoned upstream a long time ago as unmaintainable. It's hard masked or removed in portage now. I seem to recall way back then some related ebuilds spitting out elog messages that xmms was going away. If I have the story right, portage does not yet support news items that would alert users of stuff like this (paludis does though) after a sync. So the devs are stuck with messages in related ebuilds. I routinely read $PORT_DIR/profiles/packages.mask after a sync to check what has changed recently and do something about it before it bites me in the ass -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:12:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Oh wait, what year did you say it was again? MMIIX -- Neil Bothwick Every time I jump on the bandwagon all its wheels fall off. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Monday 04 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:12:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Oh wait, what year did you say it was again? MMIIX You bugger you. Now I have to dig back 25 years in memory to high school Latin classes to decode that. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Konqueror-3.5.8 Go menu
Hi all, I've broken Konqueror. Again. Sometime after emerging kde-4 I accidentally ran konqueror from my regular user account without noticing that kde4 was in the PATH before kde-3.5.8, and it ran the new one. As a result, my .kde dir in ~ got a little scrambled :-( All seems fine except for the Go menu in Konqueror. This used to have useful stuff like pre-configured ssh connections, removeable media and other stuff. Now it has two entries only - History and Most Often Visited. I have no idea how to put the complete list back. dbus, hal are running, and kde was compiled with the correct flags for this. Anyone know where to look to fix this? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VIM Issue
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:35:42 -0600 keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay heres my use flags [ebuild R ] app-editors/vim-7.1.213 USE=acl bash-completion gpm nls perl python vim-pager vim-with-x -cscope -minimal -ruby 8,876 kB ls -lah 'which vim' returned no such file or directory ' is not the same as ` Brian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] openexr vs. ilmbase
I went to update my system (emerge world -vuDNp) and noticed a block by openexr (being updated) on ilmbase (new package). So, I was wondering what they are and which one I should be using. media-libs/openexr-1.6.1 [1.4.0a] Update! media-libs/ilmbase-1.0.1New! media-libs/openexr-1.5.0 blocking ilmbase-1.0.1 URL: http://www.openexr.com/ I noticed they are both ILM (Industrial Light Magic) file format stuff, and that OpenEXR split back in December 2006 into three packages: ilmbase 0.9, OpenEXR 1.5, OpenEXRViewers 0.9. And then in August everything upgraded to 1.0, 1.6, 1.0 respectively; with a further update in October to 1.0.1, 1.6.1, 1.0.1 respectively. So okay - openexr 1.4.0a needs to be removed and openexr 1.6.1 installed instead with ilmbase 1.0.1 also installed, no? But then why is emerge wanting to install openexr 1.5 too? But what's the best way to do the update? I could just unmerge (emerge -C) openexr and then do the update, and remerge openexr afterwards if need be. Or is there a better way? TIA, Ben -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OO and slot 5500
I use openoffice on two systems and one has developed a dialog box that says /home/$[user]/slot:5500 is unavailable. Cancelling causes the requested document to open normally. This happened back a few weeks ago after some updates (but by the time I noticed it, it was too late tell which ones). OO wasnt one of the updates and its otherwise fine. I just upgraded to 2.3.1.2 and its still there. anyone have any clues where to look? BillK -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VIM Issue
On Feb 4, 2008 8:59 PM, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay sorry. Now this is what it shows. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.6M 2008-02-04 05:24 /usr/bin/vim That looks good.I just realized I goofed on on telling how to remove the vim with X use flag.do this: USE=acl bash-completion gpm nls perl python -cscope -minimal -ruby -vim-pager -vim-with-x emerge -1 vim This will remerge vim with the same useflags I have. On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:19 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:35:42 -0600 keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay heres my use flags [ebuild R ] app-editors/vim-7.1.213 USE=acl bash-completion gpm nls perl python vim-pager vim-with-x -cscope -minimal -ruby 8,876 kB ls -lah 'which vim' returned no such file or directory ' is not the same as ` Brian -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VIM Issue
okay sorry. Now this is what it shows. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.6M 2008-02-04 05:24 /usr/bin/vim On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:19 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:35:42 -0600 keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay heres my use flags [ebuild R ] app-editors/vim-7.1.213 USE=acl bash-completion gpm nls perl python vim-pager vim-with-x -cscope -minimal -ruby 8,876 kB ls -lah 'which vim' returned no such file or directory ' is not the same as ` Brian -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)
On Feb 3, 2008 3:57 PM, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/02/08 00:19: I've installed cups and hplip I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, which I usually run as a Postscrpt printer. What have I missed? hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i got it back from the DiskSavers, along with the data on a new USB external drive. Copying over the cups config files just magically made the printer work locally. That's enough for now. I'm still struggling with a host of issues, so I'm going to ignore the fact that I have no idea what keeps my CUPS working. I think I've got cron backing up to that USB drive nightly -- using rsync it takes about an hour for all partitions, unattended. Beats the blazes out of hovering over the DVD drive. And i'm pretty sure I won't end up in the same fix again. But I've still got to get the LPD service going, not to mention apache, vmware, ntp and gaim/pidgin. And I have a day job. I'll get around to it. Real Soon Now. Glad to hear that you're up and running, and thanks for the timely reminder to do a backup! 8-) Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip The contents of /etc/hp/hplip.conf and the output of: hp-check - and - hp-probe -bpar would also be interesting. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list It's gonna take a day or so to get all that. I'm in the midst of one of those monster recompiles now, and working on apache. Did I mention I have a day job? :o) Thanks for the help. I did find that hplip was compiled without the parport flag. Since local printing on the parallel port is now working without it, I wonder what it does? Thanks, and I'll get that info when I have things a bit more stable. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently
On Feb 4, 2008 12:50 AM, Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman pisze: On Feb 3, 2008 3:15 PM, Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman pisze: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it silently fail. I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing. Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing. Does anybody want to help me guess? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD Try to change name of directory in Your home - .gaim to someelse. Next try to start pidgin. If it fails, then run emerge --sync emerge pidgin -va (set flags for things you need) and next try to run again. If renaming of .gaim catalog help's then this is incompatibility of configure files or some archives. Try to experiment. IF somethings happend, wrote here. Mateusz M. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list renaming .gaim to dot.gaim makes no difference. I did not re-emerge it, but found that it works if I'm the root user. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD You should get pidgin in Your group. Set correct rights to app and libs. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list I'm not clear on what that means. I don't think I'm going to fool around with file permissions on an installed package. In any event, it turns out that after I ran pidgin as root, it started to work for me as a user too. Go figure. I'm not gonna mess with it. I'm going on to the other things that still don't work. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
[gentoo-user] [OT] Display card advice needed
I have been given a superb Iiyama 24' Vision Master Pro display (considered too bulky for the office it was in). I have to buy a new graphics card able to plug it in. It must: - be able to display 2048x1536 at 87Hz - be able of 3d acceleration - use, as much as possible, an Open Source driver - not be too expensive ($120) Advices experiences welcome. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
