Hello,
I started a new install some time ago. The system is running quite well so
far.
But since last week I have a strange problem.
When logged in as root on the virtual consoles the system hangs when I exit a
program that takes the whole screen, like vi or mc. Unfortunately this is not
consi
Aaron Walker wrote:
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:16, Jason Stubbs wrote:
Why delete it?
You can create a file system directly in that partition.
Ie say you type
mkfs -t xfs /dev/hda1
That would create a xfs partition on /dev/had1 overwriting your ntfs.
Grendel's right in that you don't need
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Good questions Andrew. I want to see the answers, too. I have done some research and found I'm stuck with one that burns DVD RAM only - basically useless. It appears we want R+ and R- and DVD -/+ (if I remember correctly). Some handle video DVDs and can be played on a v
Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 11:07, Christian Herzyk wrote:
This is the version I have, esearch seems to be out of date.
Make a daily cron job that does:
/usr/sbin/eupdatedb -n
Peter
Yes good idea. I only just started using it.
BTW: bugreport opend as Bug 39648
Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 08:09, Christian Herzyk wrote:
Can someone running coreutils 5.0-r5 confirm that /bin/install is a
link to /usr/bin/install?
I have coreutils-5.0.91-r4, but...
$ ll /bin/install
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jan 18 11:21 /bin/install
-> ../usr/
Hi all, I think I solved the problem, at least all is running now.
Christian Herzyk wrote:
Hello all,
I got a problem at home right now.
Booting goes well until the "Adding swap" part.
After that I get the following errors:
/sbin/rc lin 262: install: command not found
/sbin/rc lin 29
Andrey Kartashov wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:57:35AM +0100, Christian Herzyk wrote:
Hello all,
I got a problem at home right now.
Booting goes well until the "Adding swap" part.
After that I get the following errors:
/sbin/rc lin 262: install: command not found
/sbin/rc lin 29
Hi all,
as you can see from my other mail I have some problems with my Linux
install.
Unfortunately I don't have a recent backup of my data files (which are
on a seprerate volume group that seems to be fine).
I wanted to start the backup now I got my dvd-writer but now the trouble
started.
S
Hello all,
I got a problem at home right now.
Booting goes well until the "Adding swap" part.
After that I get the following errors:
/sbin/rc lin 262: install: command not found
/sbin/rc lin 299: install: command not found
ln: creating symbolic link `/mnt/init.d/softscripts.new/bootmisc` to
``/et
formats. Unfortunately the
media is really expensive.
Christian
From: Christian Herzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2004/01/13 Tue AM 03:21:56 EST
To: Gentoo_users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Software for multiformat DVD writer
Hello all,
I am going to get a DVD write
Hello all,
I am going to get a DVD writer one of the next days. It will be an LG
4081B supporting DVD+-R and RAM. Now I am thinking about the software.
Does it make sense to install dvd+rw-tools and dvdtools?
Any other recomendations (except updating k3b)?
Thanks
Christian
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Hello all,
I am running Gentoo with 2.4 kernel right now.
I would like to check out 2.6 to see how it works.
I am using lvm for all my partitions except /, /boot and swap.
As far as I can get it LVM changed a lot and when I want to merge the
lvm2 tools it is blocked by the currently installed one
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
I'm looking for a Linux alternative to Fujifilm's Finepix photo
management app. Does anyone have any suggestions? It should:
- show a thumnail view for an entire folder
- allow batch rename/rotate
- let me edit the embedded metadata (I forgot what this is called...)
Tha
Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
Hi,
after collection spam that get true, i executed sa-learn but it fails
with this command:
Cannot open bayes databases /home/istari/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie
failed:
Cannot open bayes databases /home/istari/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie
failed: File exists
Has
William Kenworthy wrote:
vim wants a newer autoconf:
export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1
emerge -u vim
autoconf support is a mess - I have one system where I keep having to
switch back and forward between versions all the time, but another
mostly, but not always wants 2.5. One day it will annoy me enough
Hi all,
my emerge -u system wants to update vim-core to 6.2-r5. The compile
stops immediately after patching with this error:
* Done with patching
>>> Source unpacked.
eutils
vim-doc
vim
make: Entering directory
`/data/dvdrip/portage/vim-core-6.2-r5/work/vim62/src'
if test ! -f configure.save;
Jeff Smelser wrote:
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 02:12 am, Christian Herzyk wrote:
>With kmail you can either have threading on or threading off. With
>threading on, it goes by the headers _and_ the time of receipt. If you
>delete messages as you read them, it might be easier to not t
Jason Stubbs wrote:
On Saturday 29 November 2003 21:52, Jeff Smelser wrote:
Trying to use kmail in thread mode, as I read the thread, on this list
actually, I have an annoying thing where when I delete a message in the
thread it wants to move the thread around because the time of the message I
Sumeet Singh Parmar wrote:
Fellers,
Is DeCSS ok to emerge or what's the deal?
Thanks,
-Sumeet
Hi Sumeet,
it is ok to use.
I got an interesting quote in my signature file from a discussion on a
german list regarding changes in german copyright laws. Translated it
goes somethin like this:
OP: W
Jason Stubbs wrote:
On Monday 17 November 2003 17:40, Chris wrote:
I finally had a chance to finish installing kde 3.2 but when I rebooted
and logged in all I got was a blank blue screen. Where could I have screwed
up?
I got (maybe) the same thing. I got put into twm or some such WM. To f
Guy Van Sanden wrote:
Thanks Matt
I have been using the Nvidia drivers for about 2 years now, but I didn't
know about the hardware acceleration option!
Cool
Guy
This is from the Nvidia readme:
Option "RenderAccel" "boolean"
Enable or disable hardware acceleration of the R
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
Hi Christian,
Am Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2003 12:19 schrieb Christian Herzyk:
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
Hi,
Am Montag, 27. Oktober 2003 20:15 schrieb Wojciech Potentas:
Hej fellows! Do anybody use any RISC processors?
Just curious :]
I
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
Hi,
Am Montag, 27. Oktober 2003 20:15 schrieb Wojciech Potentas:
Hej fellows! Do anybody use any RISC processors?
Just curious :]
I have one in a HP Apollo 715/50. It has a 50MHz Pa-Risc CPU, 64MB Ram and
2*1GB Harddiscs. The (I think it is) network port loo
Hi,
when I unmerge I get the following error near the end:
!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/[category]/[packagename].portage_lockfile
When emerge finishes there is no file of that name and the package seems
to be unmerged.
Can anyone help?
Christian
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Hello all,
I get the following error when upgrading transcode
/data/dvdrip/portage/transcode-0.6.10/work/transcode-0.6.10/ffmpeg/libavcodec/libtcavcodec.a(ratecontrol.o)(.text+0xb92):
In function `ff_rate_estimate_qscale':
/data/dvdrip/portage/transcode-0.6.10/work/transcode-0.6.10/ffmpeg/libavc
brett holcomb wrote:
Can't speak for reiserfs but XFS has been solid here for over a year
and I know people who are running a large number of business systems
(servers, etc.) on XFS.
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:23:38 -0500
"Jeffrey Smelser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, I see about once a week s
Matt Garman wrote:
Can I run two (or more) simultaneous instances of emerge? Would this
create any consistency problems or is the Portage system smart enough
to synchronize its accounting?
This has been discussed loads of times (last time 2 days ago) please
check the archives for lots of diff
Stroller wrote:
On 11 Oct 2003, at 9:58 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
On Saturday 11 October 2003 05:28 pm, SMS WebMaster wrote:
Hi
Eveytime I hear about prelink I hear about KDE
Does this mean prelink will not work with GNOME ?
I am a GNOME user and I think I will try to prelinking my system
bu
Joshua Banks wrote:
--- Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I have just tried to update world and have the following errors:-
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies /
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3" have been
gabriel wrote:
on a recent thread, someone explained how to get your linux box to read
a windows partition by compiling your kernel for vfat/ntfs support.
they then went on to explain how to set it up so that your kernel can
either (a) compile this stuff in, or (b) compile them as modules and
loa
Hi,
I figured out that spamd, when started with the -x flag uses one
database and not one for each user. I hope that is right.
If so how, or better as what user, do I have to run sa-learn zo make
sure this database is "trained"?
If the above is not correct at all, here is what I do.
I fetch mai
Joshua Banks wrote:
--- David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:16 am, Joshua Banks wrote:
try genkernel --config and then make sure the cpu settings and modules
you want are included. Would be nice if genkernel had a man page or a -h or
--help option!
Chris I wrote:
On 2003.09.05 02:36, Christian Herzyk wrote:
Hello all,
I tried to run mirc yesterday. It installed without problems, Menus
and pulldowns look good. It connects all right, but in the server
window (and in all other chat windows) I cannot read a word.
Everything is in a strange
Hello all,
I tried to run mirc yesterday. It installed without problems, Menus and
pulldowns look good. It connects all right, but in the server window
(and in all other chat windows) I cannot read a word.
Everything is in a strange script looking vagely like arabic.
Any hints what I can do?
Th
Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
well xv is enabled.
You could try running xine-check (might be xine -check or something
similar, I am not home so I cannot check).
It will check for all the needs of xine and give you warnings if
something is missing.
Christian
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Kevin Bucknum wrote:
The fastest any device will ever run on that channel will be whatever
the slowest device is. So even if you never use the CD/DVD drive,
your hard drive will be limited to the speed of the CD/DVD drive.
I don't believe this is true any more.
hda - ATA133
hdb - ATA66
Yorkshire Dave wrote:
I keep seeing people struggling to get bayes working on spamassassin, in
most cases it's due to which user runs SA versus which user owns the
database. You might have trained it as your own user but if you call it
from the MTA or globally from /etc/procmailrc it will be runni
Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 15:01, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
probably in the near future there will be KDE 3.1.3 available for
normal Gentoo users, right?
I'm just curious: what will happen when I then call an emerge kde?
Will all old settings be preserved, the old KDE sources
Frank Hellmuth wrote:
Hi,
since I've upgraded to version 0.9 k3b takes nearly 2 minutes to startup.
Started as root I'll get the splashbox, saying "scanning for devices", as
normal user even the splash screen doesn't show up. After 2 minutes
everything works normal. Before the upgrade k3b show
Hello Karl-Heinz,
I have frequent problems with pages that us JavaScript in Konq . One
such is the page www.phantasialand.de
It stops around 99% displaying the page consuming 100% of CPU. From that
point the system is getting slower and slower until it is totally
unresponsive. (I guess that tak
Paul K. Dickson wrote:
giFTcurs is GREAT:)
GiFToxic isa working for me, too. But it shows me something around
16 users online while kazaa shows 6 milion. I am not sure if it
really connects to fasttrack.
BTW I had this error, too, after a new emerge sync yesterday evening it
compile
dhouse
- Original Message -
From: "Christian Herzyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gentoo_users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 8:18 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] Courier Imap
Hello again,
here is another mail problem.
I would like to so
Thanks, I will give that a try.
Christian
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
You need to sort like this
BAD: user/test
GOOD: user.test/
Note the trailing slash.
Tom Veldhouse
- Original Message -
From: "Christian Herzyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gentoo_users"
Hello again,
here is another mail problem.
I would like to sort my mail (using procmail) into several folders of a
maildir.
Something like the following:
user
user/test
user/gentoo/
usr/somethingelse
...
procmails adds the folders new/cur/tmp to each (sub-)directory.
This works fine.
But courie
Hello,
when I installed SpamAssassin I had a look at the docs and some related
websites. I found a line that should be added to make sa-learn a central
file of the learned email instead of one for every user that uses sa-learn.
At that time I thought: Let's try it first and configure it later if
Joel Wright wrote:
Hi,
The only suggestion I can make is to flash your bios to the nvidia
default. I realise this can be a bit worrying, but so long as you save
your original bios and have a pci gfx card to use in the event of
something going wrong, there's no reason you wont be able to return to
Evangelos Arkalis wrote:
Can you send us the configuration lines for Nvidia card, of your
XF86config file? NVidia driver is very sensitive with optimizations.
Make sure to turn off any custom optimization (comment these lines)
like:
# Option "RenderAccel" "true"
disable Sidebanding and Fast Writ
Am Dienstag, 8. Juli 2003 22:00 schrieb Christian Herzyk:
> Am Dienstag, 8. Juli 2003 20:15 schrieb Frédéric COIFFIER:
> > In the kernel, the ACPI must be disabled
> >
> > Or, in lilo.conf :
> >
> > append="acpi=off"
>
> This results in an even l
will try disabling it in the kernel and reemerging the nvidia drivers,
though.
Christian
>
> Christian Herzyk wrote:
> >Hello out there,
> >
> >I 've been having trouble with nvidia drivers since the 4191 version. The
> >startup times simply are/were horrible.
Hello out there,
I 've been having trouble with nvidia drivers since the 4191 version. The
startup times simply are/were horrible. I checked lots of articles on the
forum and the postings on this list but they didn't help me (I didn't try
flashing my cards bios but I really don't want to do tha
procmail
only for spam.
I have something in mind that simply sets up a mail structure like an IMAP
(have already been thinking if this is not the solution for my problem) that
Kmail simply uses (~/Mail) or pulls over to its own directory.
Christian
>
> > -Original Message-
&
Hi all,
currently I am reading my mail with kmail. I want to use procmail/spamassassin
to sort out spam in future.
Of course I would like to use the sorting feature of procmail. I want to place
all user mails in a maildir for each user. This works really fine now but I
got trouble to read it w
Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote:
Sigh, the new vim-6.2
% gvim
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
Vim: Finished
Hi,
I am using an USB mouse that used to work fine until recently (unfortunately I
cannot say when exactly it started).
Now and then I get the following problem: I can move the mouse but none of the
clicks are working. When I switch to the console I can start gpm and the
mouse seems to work fin
help.
Christian
Corrado 'Fizban' Ignoti wrote:
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 23:01, Christian Herzyk wrote:
Hello all,
[..]
Do you know a good howto that covers the whole thing? I found some but still I
am at a loss.
Procmail, fetchmail and sendmail (or postfix) do all what you n
There are 1 or 2 init scripts to be found in the forums, though I would
like them to be added to the package.
Christian
Marius Mauch wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 00:58:27 -0500 Andrew Gaffney wrote:
I'm installing Gentoo on a friend's machine remotely. I've never set
it up before on a machine
Yes, I got that, too. It even went so far that the system was barely
usable. I downgraded again, first to the version before that (no real
change) then back to some 1.8.5 version (I think so) and now I'm fine
and running again.
Christian
PS: There is a thread in the forums, but no real solutio
Hello all,
I've got a 3 user system running here. At the moment everyone is getting their
mail with kmail.
As I want to add some anti-spam tool I want to fetch the mail "centrally" for
all users. The part with fetchmail is fine. I played around a little with
postfix and procmail but I just don'
Bill Davidson wrote:
New gentoo user here. This list is archived isn't it? I can't seem to
find them. Could someone post a link?
TIA
Bill
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Hi,
at the moment there is no archive at gentoo.org. But you can find one
at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user
Hello all,
some time ago I asked about a way to skip some packages that only have
minor release changes when doing an emerge -u world.
One of the answers was, to inject these packages and I am using the way
right now.
What I would like to know is, if ther is a way to get a list of all
injected
Alex Combas wrote:
This has been discussed before,
The fix is usually go do `opengl-update xfree` ..play the game.. and
when done go `opengl-update nvidia`
-- alex
That is not totally true. It can be hunted down to 2 different
problems. One is the nvidia thing. Though it works for some using
Carlos Molina (Net-Uno) wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:41:56 +0100
Cristiano Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Looks that reiser is more robust fs than ext3 when it works with LVM...
I should think to migrate ext3 to reiser
Reiser has the tools that do all the work for you on LVM..
Any drawbac
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 16:28, Bastux wrote:
When I launch frozen bubble, this error occurs :
[SDL Init] Segmentation fault
What can I do?
As root: opengl-update xfree
As normal user: frozen-bubble
When finished playing, as root: opengl-update nvidia
Hi,
I
Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote:
-- quoting Brett I. Holcomb --
Neverwinter Nights
Since the Linux client is a beta, you have to copy some game files
from an existing windows installation. Does anybody know another way
to get those (updated) files, because I have no acce
Matthew Kennedy wrote:
Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Friday 21 March 2003 04:49 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
Hello
I wanted to get an expert and informed consensus on what command line
interface tools are well suited to each of the following purposes which
may well mean what yo
Alec Berryman wrote:
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 20:22, Kirtis Bakalarczyk wrote:
and Neverwinter Nights in a few days.
In a few days?
http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html says the latest the
client is expected to be out is March 19th, but with the amount of times
it has been delay
Ralph F. De Witt wrote:
Arturo:
Thanks for your quick help. That cleared up the Dvd and Cdrom problems. Now I
have a problem with the floppy when trying to read a floppy I get the error:
Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: I could not determine
the filesystem type, and none w
Robert Cole wrote:
I'm having a bit of a problem switching loggers. I want to switch from
syslog-ng to metalog and when I do vcron refuses to load anymore because it
can't load syslog-ng.
I tried remerging vcron and it didn't work. So I picked another cron (dcron)
and it did work but it I stil
Hi there,
Am Donnerstag, 6. März 2003 20:48 schrieb Alan:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:41:20PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > I'm getting ready to take Gentoo_2 off line and replace mobo and
> > processor I was looking at hdd's this morning and saw Western Digital
> > 80 and 120 gig udma 133 dri
Hello all,
first of all I think the upgrade mechanism of Portage is really great.
only one thing nags me quite often.
When doing my emerge -up world a number of packages come up, but very
often it is only a -rxx-Version change. In most cases these are not
needed as nothing really new is in it
Jonathan Gill wrote:
Trying to do a world update and I get told that ispell is masked (yup it
is...or at least the emacs one.) and it cant upgrade things.
The system is a gentoo 1.4rc1 with all stable packages, no
accept_keywords used at all.
I did emerge a while back ispell, and it seems that
Bobby R. Cox wrote:
I actually had to add both lines...things that make you go h. Anyway, all is good.
Interesting though.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:32:36PM -0500, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote:
I got the same thing this morning. I'm not sure what went wrong, but portage was gone from /etc/
Kent Jantz wrote:
>Anybody get the Kvirc 3.0.0 ebuilds to run? I can emerge them just
fine but as soon as I try to run it, it segfaults on me.
>
>thanks,
>Kent
>
H Kent,
same prob here, I think it is since I updated KDE. I have it with both
the beta 1 and 2.
There are several bugreports on bug
Eric Miller wrote:
Attatched are my XF86Config, the
/var/log/XFree86.0.log, and the results of find /
-name "nvidia">find.log
My make.conf is nothing special:USE="X gtk gnome alsa
kde qt". I have both gnome and KDE included coz I use
some gtk apps. My optimizations are mild, just
CFLAGS="-mcpu
Hi,
I wanted to copy some files to a cd-r with 870MB. But using k3b I get an error
from cdrecord with error number 255 and no further explanation.
I something known that cdrecord has a problem with this big cd-rs?
Thanks
Christian
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Hello all,
There were 2 features promised for the new Konqueror: folder icons
which reflect a folder's contents and a video thumbnail generator.
Well I do not see any differences in the folder icons and no video
thumbnails.
Do I have to set these up somewhere? If so, where?
Christian
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Am Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2003 20:09 schrieb Pat Double:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> This normally means you are using modules not compiled for the kernel
> you're running. Normally modules are placed into /lib/modules/.
> I would suggest moving /lib/modules/kernel to some
Am Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2003 19:50 schrieb Fanie Smith:
> On Thursday 06 February 2003 20:43, Christian Herzyk wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I compiled a new kernel (gentoo sources 2.4.19-r10) some days ago, with
> > only slight changes to my former config.
> > M
Am Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2003 19:45 schrieb Balaji Srinivasan:
> Did you copy the generated System.map to the /boot directory as
> System.map-2.4.19-2?
> The kernel and the modules utilities use this information
Hi Balaji,
yes I did that and the end of the name is the same as with the actual ker
Hello all,
I compiled a new kernel (gentoo sources 2.4.19-r10) some days ago, with only
slight changes to my former config.
My system is running fine with the new kernel.
Now I ran a modules-update and it reports lots of unresolved symbols:
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/kernel/d
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