Re: [gentoo-user] su issues

2004-01-19 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:35:33 -0700 Dan Egli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there some trick to using Gentoo's su command? In the past on any > unix system I've used I could su to root with su -. Then when I enter > the root password I become root. But on my gentoo box every time

Re: [gentoo-user] su issues

2004-01-19 Thread Simon Lamb
The user in question that is running the su command needs to be a member of the Wheel user group. Cheers Simon On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 19:35, Dan Egli wrote: > Is there some trick to using Gentoo's su command? In the past on any > unix system I've used I could su to root with su -. Then when I ent

Re: [gentoo-user] su issues

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew Ross
Your user account needs to be a member of the group wheel (gid 10 under Gentoo Linux, gid 0 under FreeBSD) in order to su to the root user. You can check group membership this using the "id" command. This is an additional security measure taken, I believe from *BSD (I might be wrong about that)

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:11:33 +0100 Manuel Pérez López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My AMD without 'nptl' USE flag, and with glibc 2.3.2-r9, run OK too. fun thing is, nptl will -not- work on "x86" only on ~x86 due to dependencies. Known fact and not a bug. //Spider -- begi

Re: [gentoo-user] su issues

2004-01-19 Thread George Abraham
U have to add yourself to the "wheel" group. Then "su" would work for you and you can become root with su Regards, George Abraham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 20:38:53 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > It seems odd that a few people are having problems with the 232r9 glibc. I > just rolled it out on three machines, 1 amdXP, 1 amdMobile an old k6-2 and a > k6-3 systems and no errors. All running 2.6.1 kernels, NPTL and the latest

[gentoo-user] su issues

2004-01-19 Thread Dan Egli
Is there some trick to using Gentoo's su command? In the past on any unix system I've used I could su to root with su -. Then when I enter the root password I become root. But on my gentoo box every time I run su I get: su: Permission denied Sorry. Huh? Permission denied? Whats up with this? A

Re: [gentoo-user] regenerating messages from emerge

2004-01-19 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 04:41, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 19:25, rd wrote: > > I have turned on portage logging to solve this problem. > > > > -rdg/TacticalJack > > Uh...sounds cool. How does one turn on portage logging? Set PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage in make.conf (or some oth

Re: [gentoo-user] modem keeps hanging up

2004-01-19 Thread LoneStar
Linux Gentoo wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:46:24 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: :-) there is plenty of dirs u can look too, but the most proper on should be /var/log/ which is standard log dir Of course I though of that as soon as I sent the email. I have lo

[gentoo-user] arts-1.1.5 emerge failure

2004-01-19 Thread Matt Garman
I don't know if this warrants a bug report or not... but I'm trying to do an "emerge -vUuD world" and it is failing on the arts-1.1.5 package: ... checking if STL implementation is SGI like... no checking if STL implementation is HP like... no configure: error: "no known STL type found - did you

[gentoo-user] gtk2 (was Re: MozillaFirebird Font Issues)

2004-01-19 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Doug Gorley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eamon Caddigan wrote: > >>Second, I just upgraded to 0.7-r1 from 0.6.1, and the font used for the >>menu bar and bookmarks has changed. I don't care for this serif font, >>and I can't figure out how to reset it in the options. I don't believe >>my GTK2 theme

Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird Font Issues

2004-01-19 Thread Doug Gorley
Eamon Caddigan wrote: Hi, I'm having a couple issues with fonts in MozillaFirebird. First, I've never been able to use some of the truetype fonts with Mozilla. The fonts in '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype' are never presented in the list of available fonts in the configuration window, althoug

RE: [gentoo-user] GPRS

2004-01-19 Thread Ani Adarsh
I just got gprs working with gentoo just a week ago .. u have to compile the usbserial module and loading that would give u a device /dev/usb/tts/0 which u can use as ur modem port in whatever u use to connect ... The rest of the modem initialization stuff and all are depending on ur phone and t

[gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird Font Issues

2004-01-19 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Hi, I'm having a couple issues with fonts in MozillaFirebird. First, I've never been able to use some of the truetype fonts with Mozilla. The fonts in '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype' are never presented in the list of available fonts in the configuration window, although TrueType fonts in *ot

Re: [gentoo-user] MSN not connecting on gaim

2004-01-19 Thread LoneStar
Ani Adarsh wrote: hello , My MSN stopped working in gaim the last couple of days anyone else has this problem ? I searched the web and found no mention of the problem Im using gaim 0.75 cheers Ani I beleive M$ has been changing it's protocols for MSN of late. I use Trillian on my WinXP

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng watching

2004-01-19 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Bryce wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to check for information pumped out of syslog? like > in var or something. I need help restarting a program that throws lots of > errors to syslog's virtual terminal. And i want to find a way to > automatically restart it. One thing I

[gentoo-user] readcd conflicts?

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, xcdroast was working. I then installed dvdrtools as well as some other stuff for +R+RW drives and xcdroast stopped working. Wizard linux # xcdroast ** (xcdroast:6673): WARNING **: Invalid readcd version 1.11a15 found. Expecting at least version 1.11a34 Start xcdroast with

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when emerge cannot d/l a needed file?

2004-01-19 Thread LoneStar
Neal Lippman wrote: So, my questions are: 1) why isn't that file available? I can access it fine in my web browser, so I know the site is up and the file is there. Since the wget command (via ps) shows the --passive-ftp modifier to wget, made me assume wget is trying to retrieve the file via ft

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE urls and fonts

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Donald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Donald wrote: | Also, I have a font size problem I cannot figure out. If I run Mozilla in KDE | the fonts in the menu and all are small and ugly. But if I run Mozilla in | Gnome the fonts look normal. I can't find a way to make the fonts the sam

RE: [gentoo-user] regenerating messages from emerge

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 19:25, rd wrote: > I have turned on portage logging to solve this problem. > > -rdg/TacticalJack Uh...sounds cool. How does one turn on portage logging? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Donald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Ruskin wrote: | Looks to me like it's working but you're not seeing the effect | immediately as I do. Do you see the changes after logging out of KDE | and logging in again? Yes, after much trickery with getting the apply button to appear, pushin

RE: [gentoo-user] regenerating messages from emerge

2004-01-19 Thread rd
I have turned on portage logging to solve this problem. -rdg/TacticalJack On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 09:32, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Look at the ebuild in > > /var/db/pkg/dev-perl/perlsomething/perlsomething.ebuild > > > > - -- > > Mike Williams > > Thanks Mike. That was the path I took on my own.

[gentoo-user] kde-base/arts-1.1.5 bug?

2004-01-19 Thread Neal Lippman
Well, trying to emerge -u world, and getting stuck now on kde-base/arts-1.1.5. It gets to the point of looking for STL, and says: checking if STL implementation is GI like... no checking if STL implementation is HP like... no configure: error: "no known STL type found - did you forget to install

RE: [gentoo-user] What to do when emerge cannot d/l a needed file?

2004-01-19 Thread Gentoo Lists
My answers: 1) Not sure, I've had the same problem but since I am using a 2.6.1 kernel I don't need it. 2) use emerge -i gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5.patch.bz2. This will insert the package name into the DB making your machine think it is installed and doesn't need to be downloaded. Emerge --help if

Re: [gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-19 Thread LoneStar
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 02:25, Greg Donald wrote: The apply button does indeed become active when I change an individual menu item. But then when I press it, there is no effect, the menus are not saved. Looks to me like it's working but you're not seeing the effect imm

Re: [gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 02:25, Greg Donald wrote: > What is a duff?  You mean broken? Yes (as in Duff's beer if you watch The Simpsons). > > The apply button does indeed become active when I change an > individual menu item.  But then when I press it, there is no effect, > the menus are not saved.

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 18:05, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 01:53, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > Works here too on dual AMD 1.9 system. > > > And here, on two KT600 boxes with Athlon XPs, one of which has rebooted > without problems. Yes, I've run emerge sync and built a bunch of stuf

Re: [gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Donald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Ruskin wrote: | Forget root! As a nornal user, right-click on the K-menu and select | Menu Editor. Select a sub-menu like Applications to expand it, then | select a menu item, e.g. KOrganizer. Place your cursor at the end of | the Name field an

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 01:53, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Works here too on dual AMD 1.9 system. > And here, on two KT600 boxes with Athlon XPs, one of which has rebooted without problems. -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r20

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Works here too on dual AMD 1.9 system. Jerry McBride wrote: On Monday 19 January 2004 04:43 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage and also most appl

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng watching

2004-01-19 Thread Bryce
Does anyone know of a way to check for information pumped out of syslog? like in var or something. I need help restarting a program that throws lots of errors to syslog's virtual terminal. And i want to find a way to automatically restart it. any and all help is greatly appreciated. bryce -

Re: [gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 01:37, Greg Donald wrote: > Peter Ruskin wrote: > | You only run it as root to edit root's menus.  It works fine here: > | > | $ ll `which kmenuedit` > | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3796 Jan 15 19:38 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/kmenuedit > > Yes, I said that.  Do you know how to edit the men

[gentoo-user] What to do when emerge cannot d/l a needed file?

2004-01-19 Thread Neal Lippman
So I'm not quite sure what to do here. Last night I did an emerge sync; emerge -pu world and there was a whole long list of things that needed to be emerged (including a bunch of ghome libraries to be installed as new installs, even though I run KDE and don't run gnome...I wonder what I have ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 19 January 2004 04:43 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello > > This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I > updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage > and also most applications. > > Do NOT perform this update until bug 38

Re: [gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Donald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Ruskin wrote: | You only run it as root to edit root's menus. It works fine here: | | $ ll `which kmenuedit` | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3796 Jan 15 19:38 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/kmenuedit Yes, I said that. Do you know how to edit the menu otherwise, as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?

2004-01-19 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Andrej Kacian wrote: I tried that in the first place. Nor unicode neither efont-unicode helped. I also tried some others, but to no avail. (That's why I'm asking here) Humm... I don't think I've emerged anything special and my gucharmap shows most of the characters just fine (except fo

[gentoo-user] Installation fails in bootstrap.sh

2004-01-19 Thread Scharf Yuval
Hi, I'm trying to install Gentoo. When executing bootsrap.sh while emerging texinfo I get the message after my signature. I tries changing the CFLAGS but it didn't help. I saw that the "{standard input}" lines does not appear if I don't use -pipe. Can someone tell me how to fix/workaround it. T

Re: [gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 19 Jan 2004 21:45, Greg Donald wrote: > I can't seem to edit my KDE menu with kmenuedit. > > If I run kmenuedit as my normal user, I can edit items but cannot > find a way to save my edits. The 'apply' button is grayed out. So I > assume I > > must run it as root? All my attempts are f

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystem corruption: looking for an understanding

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 14:59, gabriel wrote: > i tried to emerge perl on my desktop box yesterday and it failed with this > error: > > error: there appears to be a FILE SYSTEM CORRUPTION. a file that is listed as > existing is not capable of being stat'd. if you are using an experimental > ker

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?

2004-01-19 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:31:03 +0200 Tommi Pirinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrej Kacian wrote: > > >Hi, what do I need installed in order for gucharmap to display exotic > >characters properly instead of displaying their code in a rectangle? > > > >I assume there will be separate package for

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop install hanging on first boot

2004-01-19 Thread Aaron Walker
Roy Kidder wrote: I'd love to hear what your results are with the Broadcom chip running in 802.11g mode with the linuxant solution. I've been looking for public (or "public") wi-fi in my area of the world that supports 802.11g, but haven't found any. Seems everyone hopped on the public wi-fi bandw

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?

2004-01-19 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Andrej Kacian wrote: Hi, what do I need installed in order for gucharmap to display exotic characters properly instead of displaying their code in a rectangle? I assume there will be separate package for each unicode character class (latin-a, latin-b, hebrew, ...). emerge --search font Then yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?

2004-01-19 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:46:55 -0500 Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrej Kacian wrote: > > Hi, what do I need installed in order for gucharmap to display exotic > > characters properly instead of displaying their code in a rectangle? > > > > I assume there will be separate package for

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel depression

2004-01-19 Thread Wes Chow
Oh, another tip... I had some reiserfs issues with a gentoo-sources kernel once when I compiled it with gcc 3.2. I believe that 2.95 is the only officially supported compiler, so if you want to minimize the chance of obscure bugs, use that. Wes On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:18:34PM -0500, Wes Chow

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel depression

2004-01-19 Thread Wes Chow
I've been using the vanilla 2.4.24 kernel with the -uv1 patchset and it's been great: http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/2.4.24-updates/00README The -uv series patchset is bug fixes only, no features or optimizations. Wes On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:09:07AM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Gerh

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Manuel Pérez López
El Martes, 20 de Enero de 2004 00:40, Ian Truelsen escribió: > I have been running it for a while now on a couple of machines without > problem, but something seems to have killed one of my machines after the > update. I can only imagine that this is a USE problem. The only other > difference betwe

RE: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
> hmmwell, i dont use really aggressive USE flags or CFLAGSi'll > take the plunge and let ya all know how it goesi guess that's what > the liveCD is for huh? ;) > Brendan, Please keep in mind that I haven't built portage, python or anything real critical. I've been building some DV

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and kernel 2.6 question

2004-01-19 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:25:05 -0500 Bill Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay. However, when I load the alsasound script I get a series of > > errors of which this one is representative: > > > > * Loading snd_emu10k1 > > FATAL: Module snd_emu10k1 already in kernel. > > > > I know they are

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:42:26 -0500 Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > Hello > > > > This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to > > me. I updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke > > python, portage and also most appl

RE: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
> > I did have a semi-big problem yesterday with an emerge of perl > continually > > corrupting a specific file and causing an fsck. I was unable to use many > > apps for a day without perl. That's fixed now. > > how'd you fix that? i have the exact-same problem. I had a copy of 2.4.20-r(somethin

RE: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Brendan Sullivan
hmmwell, i dont use really aggressive USE flags or CFLAGSi'll take the plunge and let ya all know how it goesi guess that's what the liveCD is for huh? ;) On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 17:48, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that > > occurred to me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread gabriel
On January 19, 2004 06:48 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > I did have a semi-big problem yesterday with an emerge of perl continually > corrupting a specific file and causing an fsck. I was unable to use many > apps for a day without perl. That's fixed now. how'd you fix that? i have the exact-same probl

Re: [gentoo-user] can't send emails to hotmail.com and other accounts (qmail server)

2004-01-19 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am Getting this errors. ¿whats wrong with my qmail server? i don't have problems with all domains. First Error Hi. This is the qmail-send program at localhost. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver you

RE: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
> > This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that > occurred to me. I > > updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke > python, portage > > and also most applications. > > > > Do NOT perform this update until bug 38619 [1] has been worked out. > > > > Dhruba. > > > > [1] ht

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Brendan Sullivan
yeah, thanks...i had JUST started emerging a bunch of stuff (including glibc) and hit ^C *real* quicki've had enough of glibc messing up my linux box =0P On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 16:21, Greg Donald wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > | This i

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and kernel 2.6 question

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Donald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Roberts wrote: | Don't listen to my advice, I have never actually gotten alsa to | work, but... It's not that hard, what specific problems did you have? | In 2.6, there are two ways of setting up ALSA. | First, compile it in the kernel, in which c

Re: [gentoo-user] modem keeps hanging up

2004-01-19 Thread Bill Roberts
On 00:26 Tue 20 Jan , Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > david stevenson wrote: > >On Monday 19 January 2004 10:45 pm, Linux Gentoo wrote: > > > >I had this sort of problem and fixed it by changing ISP. And now use ADSL. > >But I have seen long discussions on other mailing lists (suse) for them it >

Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows

2004-01-19 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 01:21, Greg Donald wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Krikket wrote: > | Okay, I finally got to the point of installing Xwindows. > | > | I get to the point where I run the xFontServer and... > | I run "rc-update add xfs default", "/etc/init.d/xf

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage and also most applications. Do NOT perform this update until bug 38619 [1] has been worked out. Dhruba. [1] http:

Re: [gentoo-user] modem keeps hanging up

2004-01-19 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
david stevenson wrote: On Monday 19 January 2004 10:45 pm, Linux Gentoo wrote: I had this sort of problem and fixed it by changing ISP. And now use ADSL. But I have seen long discussions on other mailing lists (suse) for them it was posible to fix by changing modem init strings. yes, by init str

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and kernel 2.6 question

2004-01-19 Thread Bill Roberts
On 12:43 Mon 19 Jan , Ian Truelsen wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:56:00 + > Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Monday 19 January 2004 19:37, Ian Truelsen wrote: > > > With the alsa modules now built into 2.6, should

Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Donald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Krikket wrote: | Okay, I finally got to the point of installing Xwindows. | | I get to the point where I run the xFontServer and... | I run "rc-update add xfs default", "/etc/init.d/xfs start", without a | problem, but get a file not found error when I

[gentoo-user] problem in kde-3.2.0_rc1

2004-01-19 Thread Manuel Pérez López
Hello everyone: When I compile kdelibs-3.2.0_rc1, this is a frecuently error: Error: Problems running dot. Check your installation! How can I solved it? Thanks -- --- Cordiales saludos Manuel Pérez López [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ieduca.net/ Gentoo Linux: P

[gentoo-user] can't send emails to hotmail.com and other accounts (qmail server)

2004-01-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. I am Getting this errors. ¿whats wrong with my qmail server? i don't have problems with all domains. First Error Hi. This is the qmail-send program at localhost. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the follow

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Collin Starkweather
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 15:21, Greg Donald wrote: > Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > | This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I > | updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage > | and also most applications. > | > | Do NOT perform this updat

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Donald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Walker wrote: | What if we did!?!?!? | | I havent rebooted yet so I havent noticed anything funky.. I emerge'd it | this morning ;( | | what should I do? Well, if you take advice from the peanut gallery, I'd say don't reboot and wait for the new v

Re: [gentoo-user] Install questions

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Donald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Sherman wrote: | Ok, tried to install about three times so far...all unmitigated disasters. I | run into the same problem every time, following the same routing. I follow | the Gentoo Handbook Installation Instructions to the letter, using | stage

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 safe to use despite oops?

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Donald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Paynter wrote: | You also need to re-sync (if you haven't already since you | downloaded the first patch) otherwise you get download errors, since | the new patch differs in size and checksum from the original. | | Very bad to have two patches with

Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows

2004-01-19 Thread Barry Marler
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:05:23 -0500 (EST) Krikket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I finally got to the point of installing Xwindows. > > I get to the point where I run the xFontServer and... > I run "rc-update add xfs default", "/etc/init.d/xfs start", without a > problem, but get a file not fo

[gentoo-user] Xwindows

2004-01-19 Thread Krikket
Okay, I finally got to the point of installing Xwindows. I get to the point where I run the xFontServer and... I run "rc-update add xfs default", "/etc/init.d/xfs start", without a problem, but get a file not found error when I try "startx". I know xfs is running, because I get the message that i

Re: [gentoo-user] Install questions

2004-01-19 Thread gabriel
On January 19, 2004 05:49 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: > # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bash/bin well if that's not a typo, then there's your problem. it should be: # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash and make sure that you mounted /proc beforehand as well: mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot mount /dev/ /mnt/gentoo/boot

Re: [gentoo-user] modem keeps hanging up

2004-01-19 Thread david stevenson
On Monday 19 January 2004 10:45 pm, Linux Gentoo wrote: > It's got to be modem related or something with my configuration. There > are config files in /etc/ppp but I don't know what I'm doing in those > yet. I'm gonna have to hunt down some documentation on those. I had this sort of problem and

[gentoo-user] filesystem corruption: looking for an understanding

2004-01-19 Thread gabriel
i tried to emerge perl on my desktop box yesterday and it failed with this error: error: there appears to be a FILE SYSTEM CORRUPTION. a file that is listed as existing is not capable of being stat'd. if you are using an experimental kernel, please boot into a stable one, force an fsck, and e

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing Lists

2004-01-19 Thread Adam McLeod
Hi Eric, Try subscribing to one at a time. I had trouble when I tried to subscribe to a few gentoo lists at once, but if I wait until one list is confirmed before I subscribe the next list it works. If that doesn't work, then I don't know why, I got on all the lists I wanted. Adam. On Mon, 20

[gentoo-user] Install questions

2004-01-19 Thread Roger Sherman
Ok, tried to install about three times so far...all unmitigated disasters. I run into the same problem every time, following the same routing. I follow the Gentoo Handbook Installation Instructions to the letter, using stage2-athlon-xp. My problem happens every time I get to 5.d. Configuring the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 safe to use despite oops?

2004-01-19 Thread Eric Paynter
Collin Starkweather said: > Thanks to everyone who replied. The new version works just great. > > The process was > > # back up your /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-gentoo-rc5/.config > rm /usr/portage/distfiles/gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5.patch.bz2 > # next step not strictly necessary but made me feel m

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?

2004-01-19 Thread Aaron Walker
Andrej Kacian wrote: Hi, what do I need installed in order for gucharmap to display exotic characters properly instead of displaying their code in a rectangle? I assume there will be separate package for each unicode character class (latin-a, latin-b, hebrew, ...). Don't know if this is the answer

Re: [gentoo-user] modem keeps hanging up

2004-01-19 Thread Linux Gentoo
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:46:24 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > Linux Gentoo wrote: > > snip > > > Ok, dumb question here, but do you know what log files I should be > > looking for? I check 'man wvdial' and it doesn't mention any log > > files. > > I looked in /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Aaron Walker
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage and also most applications. Do NOT perform this update until bug 38619 [1] has been worked out. Dhruba. [1] http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] Using lirc

2004-01-19 Thread EvgGad
Jayson Garrell wrote: I will set mine up, tonight after work. And post the results, success or failure. Jayson ok, I be waiting :) -- Best regards, EvgGad -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Using lirc

2004-01-19 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 14:31, EvgGad wrote: > I know that mine works, I tried it under offtopic xp :) , but I can't > get work it under linux... :( I will set mine up, tonight after work. And post the results, success or failure. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Using lirc

2004-01-19 Thread EvgGad
Jayson Garrell wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 13:48, EvgGad wrote: Hello! I've such question, is here anyone using lirc with homemade ir receiver? I have made the reciver, although I have not connected it yet. I am sure it will work though, very simple device. I have a Logitech/AST remote th

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Donald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: | This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I | updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage | and also most applications. | | Do NOT perform this update until bug 38

Re: [gentoo-user] Using lirc

2004-01-19 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 13:48, EvgGad wrote: > Hello! > I've such question, is here anyone using lirc with homemade ir receiver? I have made the reciver, although I have not connected it yet. I am sure it will work though, very simple device. I have a Logitech/AST remote that works with lirc. The ho

Re: [gentoo-user] error compiling kdelibs-3.1.4

2004-01-19 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Mark S Parrish wrote: Greetings! I am trying to compile kdelibs-3.1.4 and I get an error which apparently has to do with QT. The error had to do with some undefined symbols which I was able to show by the following command. I had the same problem in past, but do not remember how exactly I solve

Re: [gentoo-user] Garmin E-Trex and Linux

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Greg A. Bur wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:28:05 -0600 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greg A. Bur wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:12:29 -0600 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently got a Garmin E-Trex handheld GPS navigation device. There is a program you can get for Window

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 safe to use despite oops?

2004-01-19 Thread Collin Starkweather
On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 22:49, Eric Paynter wrote: > Collin Starkweather said: > > I'm getting a kernel oops from gentoo-sources kernel > > 2.4.22-gentoo-r5. > > There are two versions of r5. The first had an oops. If you synced > before Friday, try re-sync, re-emerge, and re-build the kernel and >

Re: [gentoo-user] arts wants libstdc++-devel - why i need a devel package?

2004-01-19 Thread Thomas Mayer
On Monday 19 January 2004 21:42, you wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 19 January 2004 18:24, Thomas Mayer wrote: > > this appears to be caused by a version mismatch between gcc and glibc > > (been googleing around, the hint was not related to Gentoo, though). >

Re: [gentoo-user] Garmin E-Trex and Linux

2004-01-19 Thread Greg A. Bur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:28:05 -0600 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg A. Bur wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:12:29 -0600 > > Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>>I recently got a Garmin E-Trex handheld GPS navigatio

[gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] Mailing Lists

2004-01-19 Thread Marc Redmann
Hi Eric, > Are the other mailing lists , /Members/ only? As far as I know, you can subscribe to all the lists and none of these lists are "Members only". For example I am currently on the gentoo-desktop and gentoo-desktop-research lists and there was no problem subsribing to these lists. Maybe yo

Re: [gentoo-user] modem keeps hanging up

2004-01-19 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Linux Gentoo wrote: snip Ok, dumb question here, but do you know what log files I should be looking for? I check 'man wvdial' and it doesn't mention any log files. I looked in /etc /etc/ppp and /root for anything that looked like a log file, but no such luck. :-) there is plenty of dirs u can

[gentoo-user] emerge blocked by autoconf

2004-01-19 Thread Kurt Guenther
tumbleweed portage # emerge -pv /usr/portage/dev-util/subversion/subversion-0.35.1.ebuild These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] dev-lang/swig-1.3.19 +java -guile +python -tcltk -ruby +perl [blocks B ] =sys-devel/autoconf-2.5

[gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage and also most applications. Do NOT perform this update until bug 38619 [1] has been worked out. Dhruba. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.

[gentoo-user] kmenuedit

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Donald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't seem to edit my KDE menu with kmenuedit. If I run kmenuedit as my normal user, I can edit items but cannot find a way to save my edits. The 'apply' button is grayed out. So I assume I must run it as root? All my attempts are failing: | su -c

[gentoo-user] Using lirc

2004-01-19 Thread EvgGad
Hello! I've such question, is here anyone using lirc with homemade ir receiver? -- Best regards, EvgGad -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN solution

2004-01-19 Thread Christopher Fisk
>> I've been using CIPE for VPN'ing between Linux systems as well as for >> remote Windows users to log into the company network through a Linux >> firewall running CIPE. It's easy to set up, very reliable and quite >> fast, and offers a Windows port as well for those who haven't seen the >> light

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo on a laptop

2004-01-19 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Sunday 18 January 2004 17:02, Roy Kidder wrote: > I was able to get the wifi working. The laptop came with a 54g chip > onboard, but I bought an SMC card that I had found online cheap and > did a little research on. When I got the SMC card, I downloaded the > source (actually, the really interes

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition size recommendations

2004-01-19 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Monday 19 January 2004 05:44, Braden wrote: > On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 12:18 PM, LoneStar wrote: > > Braden wrote: > >> Actually, you can remount partitions without rebooting to change > >> the read only status to read-write. e.g. > >> > >> mount -o remount,rw /usr > >> > >> ...or what

[gentoo-user] Mailing Lists

2004-01-19 Thread Eric G Ortego
Are the other mailing lists , /Members/ only? I have sent several subscribe requests to the other lists but have only gotten subscribe conformation requests from gentoo-users and gentoo-announce. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and kernel 2.6 question

2004-01-19 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:56:00 + Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 19 January 2004 19:37, Ian Truelsen wrote: > > With the alsa modules now built into 2.6, should I load the snd_* > > modules with the alsasound init script o

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