Open Office Install

2011-03-08 Thread Rem P Roberti
While trying in install Open Office the install choked at one point and I received this error message: snip Entering /usr/tmp/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/OOO330_m20/sw/uiconfig/layout Entering /usr/tmp/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/OOO330_m20/sw/qa/unoapi Entering

Printer Offline

2011-03-05 Thread Rem P Roberti
I have a printer, which was installed and is working under CUPS, that seems to go offline of its own accord. And when that happens I have found no other option than to reboot. I know, I know...you should never have to reboot, but that's the only thing that seems to work. When I check out

Re: Printer Offline

2011-03-05 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2011.03.05 14:40:56 +, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Rem P Roberti wrote: I have a printer, which was installed and is working under CUPS, that seems to go offline of its own accord. And when that happens I have found no other option than to reboot. I know, I know...you

Webkit-gtk2 upgrade

2011-02-27 Thread Rem P Roberti
When I attempt to upgrade Webkit-gtk2 the upgrade chokes with this message: CC WebKit/gtk/tests/Programs_unittests_testwebview-test_utils.o CCLD Programs/unittests/testwebview CC WebKit/gtk/tests/Programs_unittests_testkeyevents-testkeyevents.o CCLD

Cups upgrade failure

2011-02-21 Thread Rem P Roberti
Can someone give me a heads up on why this portupgrade failed. Here is the error message I received: tor -o rastertoescpx rastertoescpx.o -L. -lcupsdriver \ -lcupsimage -lcups -pthread -lm -lcrypt cc: Internal error: Segmentation fault: 11

Re: Cups upgrade failure

2011-02-21 Thread Rem P Roberti
Can someone give me a heads up on why this portupgrade failed. Here is the error message I received: tor -o rastertoescpx rastertoescpx.o -L. -lcupsdriver \ -lcupsimage -lcups -pthread -lm -lcrypt cc: Internal error: Segmentation fault:

Re: Stuck

2011-02-15 Thread Rem P Roberti
NOTE: Slightly OT, but figured it was worth the post. As a side-note, the config-file will be cleaned up before being embedded into the kernel. Meaning config -x `sysctl -n kern.bootfile` will rarely ever match the config that was used to generate the kernel in the first place.

Redux

2011-02-14 Thread Rem P Roberti
I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come of it. In the process of going through an update (I finally got that sorted out) all of my partitions were renamed. Here they are: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on

Re: Redux

2011-02-14 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:38:28 -0800, Rem P Robertir...@remdog.net wrote: I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come of it. In the process of going through an update (I finally got that sorted out) all of my partitions were renamed. Here they are: Filesystem

Re: Redux

2011-02-14 Thread Rem P Roberti
I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come of it. In the process of going through an update (I finally got that sorted out) all of my partitions were renamed. Here they are: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted

Re: Stuck

2011-02-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 02/13/11 09:01, Robert Huff wrote: Rem Roberti writes: This is a new one for me. I decided to do a manual update on my 8.1 box, starting with csup. Buildworld went fine, as did buildkernel. However, when I tried to install the new kernel installkernel choked with an error message

Re: Stuck

2011-02-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
Rem Roberti writes: This is a new one for me. I decided to do a manual update on my 8.1 box, starting with csup. Buildworld went fine, as did buildkernel. However, when I tried to install the new kernel installkernel choked with an error message telling me that it could not

Re: Stuck

2011-02-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
Remove all the *.symbols files (if you're not going to be debugging). Build with makeoptions DEBUG=-g commented out of your kernel config. (my root filesystem has 70M used. On amd64, no less) I knew that I asked a dumb question when I asked where to find the kernel config. OK...I

Re: Stuck

2011-02-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
I'm back in business, and the update finished without any more problems. However...the output of df is now really strange: root@ /etc: df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/label/rootfs0 507630326732 140288

Re: Stuck

2011-02-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 02/13/11 10:44, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:31:24 -0800, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: Getting rid of all those .symbols files made a big difference. Where do I locate the kernel config file? It is /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NAME or /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/NAME

Re: Why can't I install icu?

2011-02-04 Thread Rem P Roberti
Le Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:15:09 -0800, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net a écrit : Icu is a necessary dependency for Gimp, but I can't get it to install. I checked UPDATING and it states that icu4 is now deprecated, and one should install /devel/icu. But when I try to do that the file that is

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Rem P Roberti
Now that I understand how to get a scanner working, if there are any photographers out there who are using scanners with FreeBSD for negatives or slides I would love to hear a recommendation. I have an Epson V500, but it is unsupported, and the only scanner that I have that is supported is an

Re: Why can't I install icu?

2011-02-04 Thread Rem P Roberti
*NO* he's refering to the _locale_, not the timezone. They're totally separate and unrelated concepts. Locale is a means for specifying a bunch of national/regional things. like what the currency symbol (dollar-, pound-, euro-, yen-, whatever-sign) is, whether one uses ',' or '.' for marking

Re: Why can't I install icu?

2011-02-04 Thread Rem P Roberti
Try again, with a clean build, after having made sure that you've removed all remnants of the earlier icu versions; and make a transcript of the build: pkg_delete -fv icu2-* icu-* script /tmp/icu.log make -C /usr/ports/devel/icu deinstall clean install exit If the problem still occurs, then

Running Xsane as user

2011-02-03 Thread Rem P Roberti
Boy, this kind of problem has been following around lately. When I attempt to start Xsane as user I get an error message telling me No device available. One of the help options states that the permissions for the device file may not allow its use---try as root. Naturally, when I start the

Re: Running Xsane as user

2011-02-03 Thread Rem P Roberti
Boy, this kind of problem has been following around lately. When I attempt to start Xsane as user I get an error message telling me No device available. One of the help options states that the permissions for the device file may not allow its use---try as root. Naturally, when I start the

Scanner recommendation

2011-02-03 Thread Rem P Roberti
Now that I understand how to get a scanner working, if there are any photographers out there who are using scanners with FreeBSD for negatives or slides I would love to hear a recommendation. I have an Epson V500, but it is unsupported, and the only scanner that I have that is supported is an

Why can't I install icu?

2011-02-03 Thread Rem P Roberti
Icu is a necessary dependency for Gimp, but I can't get it to install. I checked UPDATING and it states that icu4 is now deprecated, and one should install /devel/icu. But when I try to do that the file that is downloaded is icu4c, and the install goes along until it chokes with this error

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-02 Thread Rem P Roberti
I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it the first time as root, when I should have opened as user. At any rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get this message: opera: $HOME set to /root. Use -personaldir if you do not want to use

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-02 Thread Rem P Roberti
Just wanted to mention that Flash works fine for me with native Opera and the opera-linuxplugins port. So did you install linux-Opera from the port? I haven't run linux-Opera on FreeBSD in a while (I run it in Linux:), so I don't recall - is the binary called opera or linux-opera? Jud

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-02 Thread Rem P Roberti
When you run whereis linux-opera as root, what is the result ( other than the port directory)? Jud whereis linux-opera linux-opera: /usr/local/bin/linux-opera /usr/local/man/man1/linux-opera.1.gz /usr/ports/www/linux-opera Rem ___

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-02 Thread Rem P Roberti
Right place, so all I can figure is when you initially ran it, the .opera or .linux-opera folder, whichever it is, was put in /root instead of /home/$USER. Looking as root or super-user, got such a folder in /root? Jud Nope...that was the weird thing. There was nothing in /root that

Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it the first time as root, when I should have opened as user. At any rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get this message: opera: $HOME set to /root. Use -personaldir if you do not want to use

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it the first time as root, when I should have opened as user. At any rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get this message:

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
Could you post your environment variables? btw. how do you login / start x? (eg login in the console and use startx, or using any login manager like xdm, kdm, gdm, slim...) Armin On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: I installed linux-opera, and I

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net mailto:remeg...@comcast.net wrote: I log in directly from the console using 'startx'. And I hate to sound really ignorant, but I'm still pretty much a newbie and not sure where the environment variables are found

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
I always start x as user. I learned early on not to make the mistake of starting X as root. I use Fluxbox with X, and had a terminal window open there with root invoked for that window. That's when I first tried to open linux-opera. Naturally, it opened fine, but will

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? No. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not be the target of mail

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? No. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not be the target of mail

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
However, one *could* bypass the incorporation process and find a way to write the system messages DIRECTLY into Thunderbird's user mail storage, but I think that would be a crazy idea. :-) Agreed! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
In attempting to install /usr/ports/print/dvips I got the error message that dvips is an interactive port, and I can't remember how to handle that. Could I please get a heads up there. Thank you. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2010.08.31 12:34:21 -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: In attempting to install /usr/ports/print/dvips I got the error message that dvips is an interactive port, and I can't remember how to handle that. Could I please get a heads up there. Thank you. OK...I commented out the 'batch' entry

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2010.09.01 01:11:46 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:54:28 +0100, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: For printing from mutt, I use the following in ~/.muttrc set print_command=a2ps -1 ~/mail.ps; gv ~/mail.ps Obviously, that views the postcript file first then I

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
Brother! Muttprint is now working fine. The problem: the printer was offline! Now, before you go accusing me of being a complete dufus, let me say that I had no way of knowing that that condition existed. The printer itself indicated that it was online---no problem. What happened is that

System mail

2010-08-30 Thread Rem P Roberti
At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Panic or deadlock with Intel graphics

2010-08-27 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/27/10 03:12, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2010 05:55:42 Rem P Roberti wrote: In an attempt to diagnose why my Thinkpad R51 completely locks up when trying to access X I have done the following. I built a debugging kernel, with KDB, DDB, WITNESS, INVARIANT*, AND DIAGNOSTIC

Panic or deadlock with Intel graphics

2010-08-25 Thread Rem P Roberti
In an attempt to diagnose why my Thinkpad R51 completely locks up when trying to access X I have done the following. I built a debugging kernel, with KDB, DDB, WITNESS, INVARIANT*, AND DIAGNOSTIC in addition to *BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. None of these things have yielded any progress in isolating

Re: Panic or deadlock with Intel graphics

2010-08-25 Thread Rem P Roberti
In an attempt to diagnose why my Thinkpad R51 completely locks up when trying to access X I have done the following. I built a debugging kernel, with KDB, DDB, WITNESS, INVARIANT*, AND DIAGNOSTIC in addition to *BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. None of these things have yielded any progress in

Msmtp

2010-08-24 Thread Rem P Roberti
Anyone using msmtp as an smtp client? I have Comcast as an ISP and am unable to achieve authentication. The weird thing is that I saved my .msmtprc file from a previous installation where it worked just fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Xorg Redux

2010-08-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
Thanks to the list X11 is now running perfectly on my desktop; not so on my Thinkpad R51. Here's what's happening. I installed xorg on this new 8.1 installation, and have run the xorg configure program, copying the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11 as xorg.conf. I have both hald and dbus

Re: Xorg Redux

2010-08-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/23/10 09:21, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote: Thanks to the list X11 is now running perfectly on my desktop; not so on my Thinkpad R51. Here's what's happening. I installed xorg on this new 8.1 installation, and have run the xorg configure program

Re: Xorg Redux

2010-08-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_configconfig=xconfiglaptop=12947 Here is the xorg.conf that was created by Xorg -configure:

Re: Xorg Redux

2010-08-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/23/10 10:51, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 1:44 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_configconfig=xconfiglaptop=12947 Here

Re: Xorg Redux

2010-08-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/23/10 10:59, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 1:51 PM, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 1:44 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action

Re: Xorg Redux

2010-08-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/23/10 12:14, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 3:08 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote: Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver intel VendorName Intel Corporation BoardName 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device

Re: Xorg Redux

2010-08-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/23/10 12:11, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote: I forgot to mention that previous to my installing 8.1 I had PCBSD 8.1 installed just to check it out (no likee), and the PCBSD installer had no problem configuring X. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy

Re: Xorg Redux

2010-08-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/23/10 14:34, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote: I forgot. The version of PCBSD that I had installed on the Thinkpad was the legacy version. The latest version, PCBSD 8.1, won't install. The screen goes blank and the computer freezes, just as happens when

Re: Xorg Redux

2010-08-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/23/10 15:31, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 5:51 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: On 08/23/10 14:34, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote: I forgot. The version of PCBSD that I had installed on the Thinkpad was the legacy version. The latest version, PCBSD 8.1, won't

Re: Xorg Redux

2010-08-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/23/10 16:33, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 7:01 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Ok, one quick question. When your screen goes blank, can you [ctrl][alt][fN] to a different TTY, where N is anything between 2-7? I'm curious about the machine's state when you start X. No, when the screen goes

Re: Xorg Redux

2010-08-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/23/10 16:59, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 7:53 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: First, let's try the vesa thing. Eureka! I changed Driver to vesa in both of the Device sections and X now loads. I doubt that vesa is the ideal entry in the configuration, but at this point I'm not going

msmtp/comcast

2010-08-22 Thread Rem P Roberti
Anyone using msmtp with Comcast? I have in the past used this in conjunction with Mutt, but can't get it to work now. Here is my .msmtprc: accountdefault host smtp.comcast.net from my email address authon user user name password my passwrd port587

Thinkpad Wireless

2010-08-22 Thread Rem P Roberti
I just acquired an IBM Thinkpad R51 on which I have installed 8.1 Release. I have scoured the handbook and tried a number of different combinations in /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf to get the wireless working, but so far with no luck. Can anyone give me a heads up on getting wireless

Re: Thinkpad Wireless

2010-08-22 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 8/22/10 8:12 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: I just acquired an IBM Thinkpad R51 on which I have installed 8.1 Release. I have scoured the handbook and tried a number of different combinations in /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf to get the wireless working, but so far with no luck. Can

Re: Thinkpad Wireless

2010-08-22 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 8/22/10 11:00 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Thanks for your help so far. Yes, I have looked at the handbook section on wireless, and as a matter of fact I installed 8.1 on an ancient Compaq Presario (6GB HD!) and was able to configure the Atheros wireless pci card so that the computer works

Re: Thinkpad Wireless

2010-08-22 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 8/22/10 11:28 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Yep, it was a typo. OK...iwi0 is now showing up in the ifconfig output. I shall make the (hopefully) appropriate entries in /etc/rc.conf and see what happens. Good to hear. Good luck! Regards, OK...here's what is happening now. I have put

Re: Thinkpad Wireless

2010-08-22 Thread Rem P Roberti
In what timeframe from the boot? I suspect WPA was still in the authentication process. My Toshiba's wireless card would take a few seconds (roughly 10) before authenticating. You are no doubt right...WPA was probably still in the authentication process. Clearly, everything is working

External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Rem P Roberti
I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus: mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not write to it. What is necessary to implement in order to be able to write to an external hard drive? Rem

Re: External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Rem P Roberti
from a Windows-based node. Also, read the man file for mount_ntfs, it will explain more. -- Ryan On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote: I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus: mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not write

Re: External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Rem P Roberti
Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net пишет: I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus: mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not write to it. What is necessary to implement in order to be able to write to an external hard drive? Rem

Can't remove or move file

2010-08-20 Thread Rem P Roberti
This is a new one for me. I converted a YouTube selection using youtube_dl and the file that was created was named -elDeJaPWGg.flv. When I try to rename it, or delete it, I get an error message thus: root@ ~: rm -elDeJaPWGg.flv rm: illegal option -- e usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ...

Re: Can't remove or move file

2010-08-20 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/20/10 09:06, Mark Tinguely wrote: Rem P Roberti wrote: This is a new one for me. I converted a YouTube selection using youtube_dl and the file that was created was named -elDeJaPWGg.flv. When I try to rename it, or delete it, I get an error message thus: root@ ~: rm -elDeJaPWGg.flv

Re: Can't remove or move file

2010-08-20 Thread Rem P Roberti
No switch with either the rm or mv command works. What is actually going on here? From the man page: NOTES The rm command uses getopt(3) to parse its arguments, which allows it to accept the `--' option which will cause it to stop processing flag options at that point.

Printing from Thunderbird

2010-08-20 Thread Rem P Roberti
I have Thunderbird installed on my new 8.1 box, and although I am able to print from within the program, the only way I can do it is to type the whole print command from within the print window. In my case that means typing: lpr -PPhotoshop7760 I have tried to figure a way of

Re: Printing from Thunderbird

2010-08-20 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:23:46 -0700, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: I have Thunderbird installed on my new 8.1 box, and although I am able to print from within the program, the only way I can do it is to type the whole print command from within the print window. In my case that

Re: Printing from Thunderbird

2010-08-20 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/20/10 21:35, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 08/20/2010 11:29 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Ah-ha! In my case I am using the bash shell, and I believe the syntax that is needed for the .bashrc is different than what is used in your csh.cshrc. Any idea where I can find the appropriate syntax

Re: Printing from Thunderbird

2010-08-20 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/20/10 22:01, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:44:37 -0700, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: On 08/20/10 21:35, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 08/20/2010 11:29 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Ah-ha! In my case I am using the bash shell, and I believe the syntax that is needed

Re: Printer Installation

2010-08-17 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/17/2010 12:05, Rem Roberti wrote: Hi all. I'm having problems installing a printer on a new 8.1 installation. I want to do this sans CUPS and via lpd. lpd is enabled in my /etc/rc.conf. Here is my printcap: lp|photosmart:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\

Re: Printer Installation

2010-08-17 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/17/2010 12:29, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:05:05 -0700, Rem Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: I seem to recall that there could be a path problem with lpr if CUPS is installed and one tries to use lpd, but I've forgotten how to deal with that, if indeed that is the

Failed port upgrade

2009-12-25 Thread Rem P Roberti
When running portupgrade the process is choking when it comes to consolekit. Here is the error message: gmake[2]: *** [libgirepository_1_0_la-gfield.lo] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/tmp/usr/ports/devel/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.6.7/girepository' gmake[1]:

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-24 Thread Rem P Roberti
I hope you won't see something like % cd mnt/poly mnt/poly: Not a directory. % file mnt/poly mnt/poly: cannot open `mnt/poly' (Bad file descriptor) That is exactly what I saw, and nothing worked to try and fix the problem. So, as I indicated in an

What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to /. But if I try and cd to /home from there the system tells me home:Not a directory. What happened, and what can I do

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.12.23 17:45:38 +, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to /. But if I try

.Xdefaults file

2009-12-22 Thread Rem P Roberti
On my desktop box I settled on an xterm font and font size by experimenting thus: xterm -fa 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono' -fs 10 I went through a number of fonts until I settled on the one I liked most. Then I created an .Xdefaults file in my home directory which included: Xterm*faceName

Re: .Xdefaults file

2009-12-22 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.12.22 18:03:00 +, Jamie Griffin wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:38:19AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: rendered correctly, but I can't get X to read the .Xdefaults file. ideas on why .Xdefauts works on the desktop box but not the laptop? Could it be that you need to make sure

Re: .Xdefaults file

2009-12-22 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.12.22 22:05:10 +, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:38:19AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: On my desktop box I settled on an xterm font and font size by experimenting thus: xterm -fa 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono' -fs 10 I went through a number of fonts until I

Gnome-terminal

2009-12-21 Thread Rem P Roberti
Gone back to trying to get gnome-terminal to work. So far...no joy. When I try to load the program I get this error message: ERROR:terminal-app.c:1445:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app-system_font_desc != NULL) Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) Can someone give me a heads up on this.

What's up with gnome-terminal?

2009-12-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
Still no joy trying to get gnome-terminal to work. Now when I try to load it I get this error message: ** ERROR:terminal-app.c:1445:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app-system_font_desc != NULL) Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) Funny thing is that a year or so ago I used to use gnome-terminal on

Re: What's up with gnome-terminal?

2009-12-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.12.01 19:16:10 +, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Still no joy trying to get gnome-terminal to work. Now when I try to load it I get this error message: ** ERROR:terminal-app.c:1445:terminal_app_init

Re: What's up with gnome-terminal?

2009-12-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.12.01 17:43:08 +, Jason wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:40:04PM -0800, Rem P Roberti thus spake: On 2009.12.01 19:16:10 +, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Still no joy trying to get gnome-terminal to work

Re: What's up with gnome-terminal?

2009-12-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.12.01 17:52:24 +, Jason wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:50:07PM -0800, Rem P Roberti thus spake: On 2009.12.01 17:43:08 +, Jason wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:40:04PM -0800, Rem P Roberti thus spake: On 2009.12.01 19:16:10 +, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Dec 1

Re: What's up with gnome-terminal?

2009-12-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.12.01 20:57:03 +, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: I use portmaster, but you can use a host of utilities for this. portmaster -r gnome-terminal I would start with that. OK...tried

Removing installed packages

2009-11-28 Thread Rem P Roberti
In trying to upgrade CUPS on a new 7.2 installation (CUPS was installed via sysinstall) the upgrade choked, and then I saw in UPDATING that print/cups has been split into multiple ports, and that in order to upgrade you must first remove the installed version. What is the best way to do that?

Re: Gnome Terminal

2009-11-27 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.11.27 10:42:55 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Friday 27 November 2009 05:11:41 Rem P Roberti wrote: There was a time when I ran gnome-terminal from within Fluxbox. On my new 7.2 installation I have installed gnome-terminal, but can't get it to work. When I try to bring it up from

Gnome Terminal

2009-11-26 Thread Rem P Roberti
There was a time when I ran gnome-terminal from within Fluxbox. On my new 7.2 installation I have installed gnome-terminal, but can't get it to work. When I try to bring it up from the command line from within Fluxbox I get this error message: Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting As usual,

Re: MUA questions

2009-11-25 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.11.26 00:27:15 +, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:28:05PM -0800, Rem Roberti wrote: Basically, I am using Mutt as my MUA, and I have either getmail or fetchmail configured to receive my POP3 mail from Comcast, which is via mail.comcast.net. I am using msmtp

Re: printer hp officejet pro k8600

2009-02-17 Thread Rem P Roberti
then i untar it and try ./configure and i get configure: error: cannot find libjpeg support however using make search key=libjpeg (or libjpg) i couldn't find it. even though this post seems to suggest that it exists somewhere i seem to be a bit closer now. according to this post:

Re: printer hp officejet pro k8600

2009-02-17 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.02.17 20:22:46 +, prad wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:44:18 -0800 Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: If there is forget about hplip. Download the ppd and plug it in via the cups localhost page. that's what i did the first time. You do have to make sure that you

Re: printer hp officejet pro k8600

2009-02-17 Thread Rem P Roberti
These are the four files that I have installed: foomatic-db-20070124_2 Foomatic database foomatic-db-engine-20070124,1 Foomatic database engine foomatic-db-hpijs-1.4 Foomatic data for the HPIJS printer drivers foomatic-filters-3.0.2_4 Foomatic wrapper scripts thank rem!

Re: printer hp officejet pro k8600

2009-02-17 Thread Rem P Roberti
Do you have devfs.rules in your /etc directory that has this contained within: [system=10] add path 'unlpt*' mode 0660 group cups add path 'ulpt*' mode 0660 group cups add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups There is a whole permissions thing that has to be correct or cups

Mixer resets

2009-02-15 Thread Rem P Roberti
I use a ham radio program (fldigi) that needs to have the sound card tweaked from time to time. I started out just doing it from the command line via mixer. After a while I installed gmixer because having a graphical interface made things go a lot quicker. But I discovered that every time I

Re: Mixer resets

2009-02-15 Thread Rem P Roberti
line via mixer. After a while I installed gmixer because having a graphical interface made things go a lot quicker. But I discovered that every time I invoked gmixer it reset the vol to 0:0. It continues to do that, and I'm wondering if anyone else has that experience with gmixer.

Re: gtkpod permissions problem

2009-02-09 Thread Rem P Roberti
I have installed gtkpod for use with my Nano, but I'm having a problem when trying to add files. The Nano is mounted at /mnt/ipod, and when I try to add a file I get a message similar to this: Transfer of 'Petite Fleur' failed. Error opening

gtkpod permissions problem

2009-02-08 Thread Rem P Roberti
I have installed gtkpod for use with my Nano, but I'm having a problem when trying to add files. The Nano is mounted at /mnt/ipod, and when I try to add a file I get a message similar to this: Transfer of 'Petite Fleur' failed. Error opening '/mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/Music/F00/gtkpod795096.mp3'

Re: gtkpod permissions problem

2009-02-08 Thread Rem P Roberti
Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net writes: I have installed gtkpod for use with my Nano, but I'm having a problem when trying to add files. The Nano is mounted at /mnt/ipod, and when I try to add a file I get a message similar to this: Transfer of 'Petite Fleur' failed. Error opening

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