Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

2003-08-23 Thread Stroller
On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 11:42 pm, Terje Kvernes wrote: I've been running ~x86 on three boxes for a couple of months now, with the latest and greatest. things work surprisingly well, with some tidbits here and there requiring testes... I think you're saying it takes balls to run ~86..

Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

2003-08-23 Thread Terje Kvernes
Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > (0) By all means use mostly stable packages, but let all update > recommendations age 2 weeks before performing the updates, then do > them singly and manually watching for anomalies and recommendations. I've been running ~x86 on three box

[gentoo-user] modprobe 3c59x - fails during install

2003-08-23 Thread Ben Anderson
I'm trying to get gentoo on my laptop, so I burned the live CD. The first step is to modprobe your network card. I didn't know what to choose, so I booted up knoppix and lsmod showed me that it uses 3c59x. I boot gentoo-live back up and modprobe 3c59x, but it won't load. TIF, Ben ___

[gentoo-user] bad partition table

2003-08-23 Thread Mark Huson
I recently switched a harddrive that i use to hold data from one gentoo comp to another. When i try to mount the harddrive though it gives the standard mount error. I then tried to check the partitions and when i try to start cfdisk i get "no partition table or unknown signiture on partition tab

Re: [gentoo-user] X Window again (more update)

2003-08-23 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 August 2003 21:36, Pupeno wrote: > > _X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for tcp > > _X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for tcp > > _X11TransOpen: transport open failed for tcp/localhost:13 > > Error: Can't open displa

Re: [gentoo-user] X Window again (more update)

2003-08-23 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 August 2003 16:12, Pupeno wrote: > On Saturday 23 August 2003 15:35, Pupeno wrote: > > Not being able to solve my X window problem I'm posting it again hoping > > someone *new* has a clue of what'is wrong with this. > > I ssh to a box, w

Re: [gentoo-user] X Window again

2003-08-23 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 August 2003 16:15, Mike Williams wrote: > On Saturday 23 August 2003 19:35, Pupeno wrote: > > Not being able to solve my X window problem I'm posting it again hoping > > someone *new* has a clue of what'is wrong with this. > > I ssh to a

Re: [gentoo-user] X Window again

2003-08-23 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 August 2003 19:35, Pupeno wrote: > Not being able to solve my X window problem I'm posting it again hoping > someone *new* has a clue of what'is wrong with this. > I ssh to a box, with X forwarding enabled (I know the box works because I

Re: [gentoo-user] X Window again (update)

2003-08-23 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 August 2003 15:35, Pupeno wrote: > Not being able to solve my X window problem I'm posting it again hoping > someone *new* has a clue of what'is wrong with this. > I ssh to a box, with X forwarding enabled (I know the box works because I

[gentoo-user] X Window again

2003-08-23 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not being able to solve my X window problem I'm posting it again hoping someone *new* has a clue of what'is wrong with this. I ssh to a box, with X forwarding enabled (I know the box works because I did it from another distribution in this same compu

Re: [gentoo-user] Sendmail, no sendmail [SOLVED]

2003-08-23 Thread Tom Condon
Every now and then life interferes with my computing. It did so again this week, so I was delayed in getting back to you all. On Monday 18 August 2003 14:17, Brian Downey carved in granite: > An answer, and a couple questions: > > 1. check your /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. Make sure that > @_HOST

[gentoo-user] problem with promise pdc20378

2003-08-23 Thread Hasse Hagen Johansen
Hi I have a problem with initrd I think. I have grabbed the partly source drivers for this promise from this site http://www.antgel.co.uk/compsci/linux/promise_raid.shtml The thing I did was I started installing gentoo from the live cd, and the force loaded the driver for Suse linux provided by p

[gentoo-user] mozilla mail not working

2003-08-23 Thread Thomas Stoddard
Ever since I emerged mozilla 1.4 the mail component has stopped working. I cannot send or receive messages. I am sending this from my debian sarge. The debian mozilla package is version Mozilla Debian Package 1.0.0-0.woody.1. I have gentoo and debian setup to use a common /home. I did this so t

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2ctl start

2003-08-23 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ben Anderson wrote: Hello, since I updated everything I have been unsuccesful to get apache back up. I only had 1.3 before and now this is what I get. I need to run php and mysql as well. apache2ctl start Syntax error on line 22 of /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2-e

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on RAID box question

2003-08-23 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Kai, Thanks for your advice. The RAID-0 box is for test purpose. The RAID controller needs a driver to run but it works for Windows only. There is no driver for Linux therefore Redhat can't see a single drive but 2 drives instead. I have no idea about Gentoo and just try to test it as adv

[gentoo-user] apache2ctl start

2003-08-23 Thread Ben Anderson
Hello, since I updated everything I have been unsuccesful to get apache back up. I only had 1.3 before and now this is what I get. I need to run php and mysql as well. apache2ctl start Syntax error on line 22 of /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2-extramodules/libphp4.

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Stroller
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel HTH, Stroller. On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 12:04 pm, bob bob wrote: I'd be really interested in reading about this.. is the Dev ML archived somewhere I can get to it without having to sign up for the DEV ML ?? Actually, the devs are working

Re: [gentoo-user] GPG signature bad?

2003-08-23 Thread Christian Bartels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On August 22, 2003 10:54 am, Brian Richardson wrote: > > My GPG signature has just showed up as bad in KMail (It worked > > yesterday...). I've done a world update since then. Is my signature bad? > > Or is something else to blame? > > That was stran

[gentoo-user] emerge db and libnet problem

2003-08-23 Thread Frank Hellmuth
Hi! since a few days I find in every outpit of "emerge -Dup world" the following lines: [ebuild U ] sys-libs/db-3.2.9-r8 [4.0.14-r2] [ebuild U ] dev-perl/libnet-1.16 [1.13] If I do a "emerge libnet db" it end with >>> original instance of package unmerged safely. >>> Regenerating /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 07:11, Jason Stubbs wrote: > I guess you're right, here. In the enterprise, it's "if it is broke, fix as > little as possible", isn't it? What do the commercials do? Backport the > security fixes to previous versions to ensure minimal change? I guess that's > a good thing.

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 23 August 2003 19:54, Stroller wrote: > I don't think anyone (or at least many folks) here would argue with the > statement that Gentoo is a wonderful distro, and it's certainly getting > better all the time. But I don't believe that GLEP #14 addresses the > moving-target nature of Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

2003-08-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
I didn't mean in regard to backwards compatibility. I meant your every day bug that gets missed during testing. In your case, I think the old adage holds true: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. For me, I enjoy problem solving and a broken system is almost a delight! ;-) On Saturday 23 August 200

[gentoo-user] emerge problem in 1.4 upgrade

2003-08-23 Thread Ian Truelsen
In the process of upgrading to 1.4, the emerge of lcms died. When I try to resume, I get the following: minion etc # emerge --resume Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 13, in ? import portage ValueError: bad marshal data This also happens when I try to restart e

RE: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

2003-08-23 Thread Lionel Laratte
Very interesting link. So, I would say that the capabilities are there and just need to be communicated. Another person in this thread (Jason Stubbs, I believe) mentioned something to the effect that packages like glibc may break stuff if they are updated. Does this mean that its developers don'

Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

2003-08-23 Thread Heschi Kreinick
> I've been following this thread and it occurs to me that doing an auto > emerge world might be better handled if there was some way to --pretend > this a print a log of what would be updated. It could even be a > menu-driven process allowing you to choose what to update. Does this > sound feasi

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread bob bob
I'd be really interested in reading about this.. is the Dev ML archived somewhere I can get to it without having to sign up for the DEV ML ?? "Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we liv

Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

2003-08-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 23 August 2003 19:41, Lionel Laratte wrote: > I'm a Gentoo newbie and not a programmer or even all that experienced at > Linux. However, I am a technology manager for what it's worth. Anyway, > I've been following this thread and it occurs to me that doing an auto > emerge world might

Re: [gentoo-user] crypto-loop init order problems

2003-08-23 Thread Gareth John
Zack Gilburd wrote: Modify the localmount init script so that it depends on cryptoloop. I've tried this - the depend() function for my /etc/init.d/localmount is now: depend() { need checkfs crypto-loop after crypto-loop } and the depend() function for crypto-loop is: depend() {

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Stroller
On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 10:53 am, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2003 18:38, Stroller wrote: I think he's saying Gentoo doesn't exist in terms of outsourceable o/s support contacts. You can buy support from RedHat (and presumably SuSE) that you can't from Gentoo. Gentoo's non-s

RE: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

2003-08-23 Thread Lionel Laratte
I'm a Gentoo newbie and not a programmer or even all that experienced at Linux. However, I am a technology manager for what it's worth. Anyway, I've been following this thread and it occurs to me that doing an auto emerge world might be better handled if there was some way to --pretend this a pri

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 1.4 on a WiFi laptop

2003-08-23 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 05:01, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Martin LORANG wrote: > > I boot the Gentoo 1.4 install CD with : gentoo dokeymap dopcmcia > > Then : modprobe orinico_cs > > The modules are loaded : checked with lsmod. > > The net-setup eth0 fails because I have no eth0 device ! > > Do you ha

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 23 August 2003 18:38, Stroller wrote: > On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 1:24 am, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of > > arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux > > migration, Seibt insisted that "Linux means t

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Stroller
On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 1:24 am, Ernie Schroder wrote: SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux migration, Seibt insisted that "Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else. http://www.dis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Going from P3 to Athlon XP

2003-08-23 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
On Friday 22 August 2003 19:20, MAL wrote: > Because it looks like the only instructional difference between the two > processors is that the Athlon-XP supports 3DNow (and 3DNow2) and the P3 > does not. The application you compiled either did not use 3DNow, or you > didn't execute the part of it w

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions: site-wide search engine

2003-08-23 Thread Mark Fisher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 August 2003 7:04 am, Anupam Kapoor wrote: > Brian Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What would you suggest as a site-wide search engine? I've tried namazu > > without much success. (I can't resolve my configuration issue, and th

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on RAID box question

2003-08-23 Thread Kai Lindenberg
Hi Stephen, Am Samstag, 23. August 2003 04:13 schrieb Stephen Liu: > I am going to install Gentoo (2 CDs) on a RAID-0 box and am > uncertain whether I have to issue following command at prompt > when installation begins; > > # gentoo doataraid > > Connection of hard drives > PCI RAID controller -

[gentoo-user] tv cards and gentoo

2003-08-23 Thread Harlan
Hello, Right now I have an All-In-Wonder TV card. I know the cards works, I had it running under a different linux distrobution a while ago. I would like to have it running under gentoo; Yes, I have seen the previous, recent messages. I still don't have it running. Question 1: How do I

Re: [gentoo-user] IceWm config program

2003-08-23 Thread Jonathan Kelly
Hi, On 23 Aug 2003 04:51:05 +1000 drewbian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 13:32, Jonathan Kelly wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I was looking to install the gui IceWm configur programs icecc and > > icewm-tools. It seems to be missing "icepref" but that seems to have > > disappe

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions: site-wide search engine

2003-08-23 Thread Anupam Kapoor
Brian Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What would you suggest as a site-wide search engine? I've tried namazu without > much success. (I can't resolve my configuration issue, and the mailing list > hasn't helped.) But I'd really like *something* for searching through my > MHonArc mailin