On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 10:50, Tiago Lima wrote:
Hi,
I have my / 9Gb partition full after emerging a large number of packages...
What can I safely remove? I think my /var/tmp is responsible... with 2.5Gb...
and with openoffice I guess...
Setting AUTOCLEAN=yes will help minimise the diskspace
Hi,
I recently changed my cron daemon from vcron to fcron (via vixie-cron).
Now with every emerge I get the following output:
* Caching service dependencies...
* Service 'fcron' already provide 'cron'!;
* Not adding service 'vcron'...
* Service 'fcron' already provide 'cron'!;
* Not
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When trying to emerge -u world fam seems to be required. When fam
emerges I get:
g++ { global: .libs/libfam.ver
g++: { global:: No such file or directory
g++: no input files
and terminates.
Any ideas?
There is a bug with the
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 10:45, Mike Williams wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
The init scripts for both vcron and vixie-cron are still in /etc/init.d.
emerge won't remove them as /etc is CONFIG_PROTECT'd (CONFIG_PROTECTED ?)
Just delete them and run depscan.sh.
I thought it
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 16:31, Timothy Grant wrote:
I got a similar though not identical error the first couple of times I
tried to build it. I did a sync and discovered a newer version of
autoconf, merged that, then merged KDE and all was good.
What version of automake? I use KDE too. I've found
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi. I am trying to emerge fam-2.7.0 (a gnome 2.4 dependancy) in a fresh
gentoo 1.4 x86 installation. I just finished doing a successful 'emerge
system'. I then tried to emerge gnome-2.4.2, and I get the following build
error while emerging
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 07:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have installed a D-Link DBT-120 usb bluetooth adapter, with seems to be working
fine.
Dmesg:
BlueZ Core ver 2.2 Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Qualcomm Inc
Written 2000,2001 by Maxim Krasnyansky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BlueZ HCI USB driver
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 15:49, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
Hi,
I emerged
net-www/mozilla-firebird
but have no clue how to run it.
The command you want to run is MozillaFirebird.
Should I emerge
net-www/mozilla-firebird-bin
instead?
Not unless you want to install the
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 17:25, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
Thanks.
How can I modify /etc/env.d to get the correct /etc/ld.so.conf
once I run env-update?
Add the path to the LD_PATH variable in /etc/env.d/00basic then run
env-update
That should fix your problem.
--
Cheers
Dg
--
[EMAIL
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:32, Mike Williams wrote:
Why would you forward the virus onto anyone, when you are immune?
I think he meant that if he got an email with the virus and then
forwarded that email - and its attachment - onto a Windows user. Rather
than have the worm spread by itself.
Now
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:42, David Gethings wrote:
Same for me too. Also have problems with my LDAP server.
Sorry. LDAP problem is that evolution does auto expand email address in
to field. But will find email address if manually searched for.
No idea what the problems are, or even
OK. I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.1 but so far have been
unsuccessful in getting my Speedtouch 330 ADSL modem to work.
Get good news is I think I've finally worked out what the problem is and
just need confirmation that my plan will work.
During my near frantic debugging to work out how
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 16:04, Krikket wrote:
Err, any thoughts on what I did wrong, and how I can fix it? (For
hopefully obvious reasons, I'd like to avoid doing the install from square
one...)
Assuming you installed from a CD here is how you can change your
grub.conf file:
boot from CD
mount
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 16:01, Kurt Guenther wrote:
I did an emerge portage and recieved this:
IMPORTANT: 1 config files in /etc need updating.
I read the emerge --help config which was interesting, but didn't tell
me how to resolve this.
I ran etc-update, and it looks like it did some
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:05, Jason Stubbs wrote:
Hi all,
Basically I would like a definitive answer on the best way to set up fonts.
Most recent sources I have read point to fontconfig and
specifically /etc/fonts/local.conf in Gentoo. I have installed all fonts in
media-fonts as well as
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:05, Jason Stubbs wrote:
Hi all,
Basically I would like a definitive answer on the best way to set up fonts.
Most recent sources I have read point to fontconfig and
specifically /etc/fonts/local.conf in Gentoo. I have installed all fonts in
media-fonts as well as
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:06, Jason Stubbs wrote:
xfs is included in xfree. you should just need to run /etc/init.d/xfs start.
however, does that have any issues with fonts that use fontconfig? i believe
xfs has been depracated in favour of fontconfig...
No. For X to use xfs you must add
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:55, Daniel Drake wrote:
I tried this configuration, and when starting X, it says:
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
Yes.
in /etc/X11/fs/config hash out no-listen = tcp
then in /etc/conf.d/xfs change XFS_PORT=-1 to XFS_PORT=7100
restart
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 16:04, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
If blender were to have a lot of dependencies, how would you keep the ~x86
versions from being installed (assuming blender would run with the x86
versions)?
If I understand your correctly; installing with ~x86 will only pull in
the
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 16:38, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
No, my concern is that a bunch of system packages may be upgraded as well to
testing version when doing this (maybe not for blender, but when using
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86). I don't want the compiler, gettext, autoconf or
anything else
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 17:24, Kathy Wills wrote:
Hopefully someone else can help you there. I couldn't figure it out. I
needed the static ip addresses anyway for samba to work properyly for
printer and file sharing on my little home network.
I presume you have domainname running:
# rc-update
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 17:22, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Is there a way to determine how much a tape can hold without physically taking the
tape
out of the drive and looking at the label? The following is dmesg output about my
tape
drive (and SCSI CD-ROM).
scsi0 : Initio INI-9X00U/UW SCSI
Hi,
I'm using prelink. Everytime I update prelink I get a number of messages
like the following:
prelink: /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: Could not parse
`/usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: error while loading shared
libraries: libxpcom.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:32, Kim Ingemann wrote:
You can add directories to ldcache by changing /etc/ld.so.conf and
running ldconfig afterwards.
Well I checked /etc/ld.so.conf and it said:
# ld.so.conf autogenerated by env-update; make all changes to
# contents of /etc/env.d directory
so I
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:52, Bill Roberts wrote:
MozillaFirebird and certain libraries will not prelink. Don't
really know the issues involved. There is some info in
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml
I saw nothing specific about MozillaFirebird in that how-to. However it
did remind
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:01, Larry Augschöll wrote:
but anacron need a system cron like vcron. Or do you start anacron manually?
Well I start cron via the usual rc method.
--
Dg
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:02, Rob2 wrote:
I have vixiecron installed in my system. I have also created a root
crontab. What is the purpose of the /etc/crontab?
I don't remember cron doing anything until I made my root crontab. Is
/etc/cron just a template?
IIRC /etc/crontab is a system
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:38, Tiago Lima wrote:
Could it be from a /etc file?
I remember etc-updateing some files but dont know them by hard...
If it is then the best was to check is to have a look at /etc/passwd.
This file has all/most the info needed to login at that user.
Have a look and see
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 10:54, Michele Alzetta wrote:
Hallo,
ever since I've updated do rsync 2.6.0 I get a very quick screenfull message about
SSL options which flies by during boot, and also any time I add or remove a
net-related service from default runlevel.
Note that rsyncd has NOT
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 12:07, Daniel Schroeter wrote:
How can I find out what blocks kde 3.1.4 or needs 3.1.2? There is nothing in
the package.mask
One way would be to pretend to install KDE 3.1.4 and see what blocks
(package appears with a red B). Check the output from the following
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 12:49, Daniel Schroeter wrote:
There seems to be nothing that blocks! When I emerged kde-3.1.4 a month ago
there was no problem too.
morpheus root # emerge -Dp /usr/portage/kde-base/kde/kde-3.1.4.ebuild
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 15:06, raptor wrote:
it seems that bash completion does not work if there is some text before emerge ..
like this :
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge -p neTAB
I agree with you that it would be nice if tab completion worked under
this situation. Your best bet to get this
Hi,
I would have thought that app-pda/synce (and associated ebuilds) would
have made use of the pda USE flag. However they do not. For example:
master app-pda # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -Dvp app-pda/synce
app-pda/synce-kde
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 13:54, mathieu perrenoud wrote:
I guess that since those applications are designed to be used for pdas, they
don't need to be specifically told to be compiled for pdas. In the same way
that I don't think that kde-base uses the kde flag.
Yes I guess that does seem
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 13:39, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote:
Is there a way to reduce the sizes of logfiles? For example my fetchmail
logfile weighs around 50+ MB now.
Lets say I would like to limit some logfiles to only keep the logs 30
days, how would I do that?
In .fetchmailrc for example?
As a
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:23, Goran Kavrecic wrote:
I have installed the Gentoo 1.4 on my desktop pc, then added gnome,
openoffice, evolution, ...
After some days I realized that the displayed time is 1 hour ahead of
the localtime and the one set in BIOS. I linked CET to /etc/localtime
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:54, Goran Kavrecic wrote:
Thanks. You were almost right. It's tzselect(first offers regions, that
countries ... you meant that?), like on RH. It doesn't help except that
comfirmed that CET is the right timezone. It proposes how to set this on
a user basis, but not on
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 14:12, Oliver Lange wrote:
Eric Paynter wrote:
Gentoo by default sources .bashrc from .bash_profile which is, of
course, why I asked what shell he is using. If .bashrc isn't
getting run, then perhaps he has a different shell without
realizing it.
Or perhaps he
Hi,
I know a number of threads on the forums have been devoted to this
topic: I searched through most if not all of them.
With their help I've almost managed to get the ADSL modem working. As
far as I can tell the problem lies with installing the microkernel. The
logs output the following:
Dec
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:30, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote:
I want to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 to 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 as
recommended. I used genkernel when I installed the kernel the first
time. Should I use genkernel also when I upgrade?
You certainly can. If you do then you will need
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:37, David Gethings wrote:
If you wish to change the kernel config use 'genkernel --config'. If not
then just run 'genkernel'.
Sorry, forgot to mention. If you do not run genkernel with --config then
it does a 'make oldconfig'. AFAIK this is just basic config that comes
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 12:30, Helder Rossa wrote:
hi,
I want to clear all partitions of my HDD and then put the data of the
partitions that I have now in those new partitions. I'm wondering if it
is possible.
basically I want to redefine my HDD partitions without re-installing all
the
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:44, Spider wrote:
Well, if that's the case, may I suggest flac ? ( emerge flac ).
OMG! Why have I not heard of this codec before! This is exactly what
I've been looking for!
Thanks Spider! Now I have to re-rip my CD collection. ;)
Cheers
Dg
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:59, Helder Rossa wrote:
hummm...
just tar / untar the partitions?!!
- boot from a cd;
- tar the parttions;
- create / edit parttions;
- untar the stuff to the partition i want;
- install bootloader.
think I'm not forgetting nothing.
- and that's it?!!
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 20:57, Vano Beridze wrote:
I switched to gentoo because I wanted faster and customized system.
Gentoo is highly customizable. But that does not guarentee a faster
system. The intricate web of hardware spec, application, comuter usage
and gcc flags is a complex one.
There
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 13:11, Jason Stubbs wrote:
On Friday 28 November 2003 22:03, Simon Cahuk wrote:
How must I start pppd for using it for on-demand dialing?
I don't know what capi is but all your basic options are
in /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0. After that just run rc-update add net.ppp0
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:17, Stephen Boulet wrote:
Python is built with tkinter by default if you have the tcltk use variable
(which will cause the latest version of tk to be emerged).
Try this:
$ python
Python 2.3.2 (#1, Nov 19 2003, 07:54:28)
[GCC 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo Linux
Hi,
I'm looking for the Tkinter lib for Python. So far my 'emerge search's
have not born any fruit. Does anyone know what ebuild this lib is in. Is
it even in an ebuild?
Yes I have done an 'emerge sync' within the last 24 hours.
Cheers
Dg
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:49, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
Opps. my mistake.. I should have read it better.. There isn't one.. :)
Let me crawl back in my hole..
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=Tkinter
Most things python, are in dev-python..
Thanks Jeffery. You've managed to get
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 17:30, Mike Williams wrote:
I think you need to set the tcltk USE variable for it to be built along with
python
USE=tcltk emerge python
I'll check that when I get home.
Cheers
Dg
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 14:36, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
'emerge --help | grep color' gives me nothing. Also, neither of those options, or a
few
variations on them, work.
Have you tried setting your TERM type to one that doesn't support
colour? That should stop all output being colourised (other
Every time I do an 'emerge sync' I get the following error message:
** Skipping packages. Run 'fixpackages' or set it in FEATURES to fix
the
tbz2's in the packages directory. Note: This can take a very long
time.
So I run 'fixpackages' and sure enough it fixes stuff. And sure enough
it
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 16:24, Luke Davison wrote:
David,
Is there an ebuild of Tkinter? emerge search tkinter finds nothing.
Did you add tcltk to your USE variables before emerging?
# emerge tcl tk python
I've emerged these ebuilds, but I'm not sure about the USE vars (PC at
home via
Hi,
Is there an ebuild of Tkinter? emerge search tkinter finds nothing.
emerge search python finds plenty, but nothing I think is relevant.
Cheers
Dg
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 16:17, David Gethings wrote:
Hi,
Is there an ebuild of Tkinter? emerge search tkinter finds nothing.
emerge search python finds plenty, but nothing I think is relevant.
Apologies. I have no idea how my mail became part of a current thread?
Cheers
Dg
--
[EMAIL
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:15, Michel Bellemare wrote:
Hi,
I followed carefully the instructions given in the doc to enable my video card
to work in gentoo.
But when i start the X server, i've got this error message
NV:could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (no such file or directory)
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:49, Peter Ruskin wrote:
WTF is all this crap?
Now hang on! That's a bit strong!
Your html is not exactly welcome here. Can you tell?
And nor is that attitude!
This user has made 2 previous posts. Neither previous post mentioned
that this user should not use HTML
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 14:44, Frank R Callaghan wrote:
100% YES, 75% gentoo 25% RH ( I had a lot of trouble geting WinTV working so
I'm a little worried about convering that system to gentoo)
I have to maintain lots of windoze crud systems at work - but don't have to
use one ;) linux
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:30, Erwin Lang wrote:
we have about 15 servers in our company, and I'm not interested in downloading
the same packages from the internet for each server. If anybody knows a
better way of solving this problem, please let me know.
thank you!
I've been thinking along
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:48, Selentek 24331-03 wrote:
default * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1 - I down't know what is this.
That is you default route. It is the route your PC uses to send traffic
to your Cisco.
Is it right to ping 192.168.1.12 from 5.5.5.2 ?
If you are pinging from the PC that
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 06:15, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote:
Anyone know a diff program that you can skip # lines at the beginning
of each files? Googling for diff is about worthless...
The following Perl script should do what you want:
#!/usr/bin/perl
($line, $file1, $file2) = @ARGV;
open F,
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 10:41, Selentek 24331-03 wrote:
On 10:30 Mon 20 Oct , David Gethings wrote:
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:48, Selentek 24331-03 wrote:
default * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1 - I down't know what is this.
That is you default route. It is the route your PC uses to send
OK, tell me to RTFM if you like, however I have read the doc on the
gentto website regarding emerge and have not found an answer.
I know that a 'emerge -uDp world' will list all the packages I need to
install/update. Does 'world' include 'system' or do I need to do that
seperately?
Secondly,
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 23:49, Carlos wrote:
Hey people,
How could I set limits on how much CPU, memory, procs, that my users can run?
Have you had a look at http://www.rsbac.org/? This seems to do what you
want. Gentoo has a kernel source for it called rsbac-sources.
And also, can
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:44, Roberto Padovani wrote:
hi all!
i found another wierd problem with the binary installation of KDE from CD2.
i usually do everything with sources, but i don't really want to let my laptop
take fire with the overall gentoo compiling process.
that's why i'm using
65 matches
Mail list logo
