Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

2005-04-27 Thread Richard Fish
Colin wrote: I found the Reiser4 emerge guide on the Gentoo forums, but that didn't work for me. Is there any way to emerge Reiser4 support into my kernel? You might have to download a kernel patch directly from www.namesys.com. If you do decide to try out reiser4, be sure to subscribe to

Re: [gentoo-user] where is my /dev/cdrom using UDEV

2005-04-27 Thread Wenju Zhang
I have try this. but the problem remains.There is not /dev/hdc at all in my machine.thankszwjOn 4/26/05, Robert S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Try this:Create a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/10- udev.rulesInsert the following in the fileBUS=pci, KERNEL=hdc, SYSFS{vendor}=0x10de, NAME=%k,SYMLINK=cdrom

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:38:14 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Depends, compiling openoffice will dump 3-4Gbytes on top of whats already there. Then the op wants to use keepalive ... The main reason my gateway goes down is I log to a mysql database, which occaisionally fills up /var (4G,

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

2005-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
~/.bashrc will be executed by every (bash) shell that is started. That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them in /etc/init.d/local.start. Not AFAIK. There are some userspace read-only utilities for ext2 (and ext3), but nothing for reiserfs. There is. Try

[gentoo-user] PAM error messsages

2005-04-27 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
with my last computer i have these error when i login, it doens't matter if its with ssh or local. The machine has no gui installed. Apr 27 09:05:47 localhost PAM-env[18418]: Unknown PAM_ITEM: DISPLAY Apr 27 09:05:47 localhost sshd[18418]: PAM pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; DISPLAY Apr 27

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.* masked by: profile

2005-04-27 Thread Edward Catmur
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 22:19 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: On April 26, 2005 03:20 am, quoth Edward Catmur: Switch profile to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 or similar. How do I do that? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml#instructions --

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-27 Thread Nick Rout
no no, I just wanted to see every package that is affected by a particular USE flag. On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 12:53 +0800, steven pan wrote: emerge -Npv package_name is it right? On 4/27/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject says it all, is there a way other than grep

Re: [gentoo-user] stripping down to base system

2005-04-27 Thread Christian Affolter
Hi, Take a look at the catalyst project which is used for building the releases. The cd's are built from a gentoo system stripped of the compiler etc. For example you will see from this file http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/docs/livecd-stage2_template.spec.txt that they unmerge a

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers and glx

2005-04-27 Thread Steve B
This occured to me when I upgraded to the 2.6.11 nitro sources... after moving back to gentoo-dev-sources (or gentoo-sources now) the problem went away. On 4/26/05, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/25/05, Robert Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this too. I believe its the

[gentoo-user] Swappiness and Virtual Memory Management

2005-04-27 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I've got a question regarding VM management in Linux. I've got 512MB of RAM on my laptop and at times it can still be slow esp when the RAM is used up and starts accessing the swap. Setting swappiness to 10 doesn't really make a difference at all. However, (what I've heard) users of FreeBSD has

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

2005-04-27 Thread James Hiscock
That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them in /etc/init.d/local.start. ...actually, you'll probably want to put them in /etc/conf.d/local.start... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] openmotif vs motif-config dependancy blockers

2005-04-27 Thread Robert Svoboda
* Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-26 22:10]: emerge -uvDa world yeilds blockers between motif-congif and openmotif today.. the same here Fix? I tried this: emerge unmerge openmotif emerge -uvD world and ended with this Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 13)

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

2005-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:06 -0400, James Hiscock wrote: That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them in /etc/init.d/local.start. ...actually, you'll probably want to put them in /etc/conf.d/ local.start... Damn keyboard, I pressed c-o-n-f and it typed init!

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on Saving random seed...

2005-04-27 Thread Jason Cooper
Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Whenever I type in shutdown now, the kernel enters runlevel 1 and starts to shut down. All of these [ ok ] just fine: * Stopping local... * Stopping fcron... * Unmounting network filesystems... * Stopping syslog-ng... * Syncing hardware clock to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Was that directed at me Bill? Sorry. I was 'concerned'about that flag because when I added it to my USE flags in make.conf (to get some part of MythTV built) it seemed that nearly every other package that used it, which had been building fine before, no longer built correctly. I choose 'aac'

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-27 Thread William Kenworthy
Thanks, just curious ... BillK On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 05:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Was that directed at me Bill? Sorry. I was 'concerned'about that flag because when I added it to my USE flags in make.conf (to get some part of MythTV built) it seemed that -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/27/05, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, just curious ... BillK Yeah, I get that. I wanted to know about a command like this since while building MythTV I added a bunch of flags to make.conf. I think I'd rather have them in package.use and effect only specific

[gentoo-user] getting hard nmasked packages

2005-04-27 Thread Eric S. Johansson
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=xorg how can I get the hard masked Xorg. notes indicate it has the ati patches i need. --- eric -- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/view.html?pg=5 The result of the duopoly that currently defines competition is that prices and service suck.

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

2005-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:33:14 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Could this not be made the default? xorg takes *hours* to emerge. After upgrading xorg, i am now left without a fontserver for all of our 30 diskless clients, which are configured to use xfs. Surely with such an important system, you

Re: [gentoo-user] getting hard nmasked packages

2005-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:37:38 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: how can I get the hard masked Xorg. notes indicate it has the ati patches i need. man portage echo =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.3 /etc/portage/packages.mask -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 1: Microsoft Works

Re: [gentoo-user] Swappiness and Virtual Memory Management

2005-04-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 11:00, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I've got a question regarding VM management in Linux. I've got 512MB of RAM on my laptop and at times it can still be slow esp when the RAM is used up and starts accessing the swap. Setting swappiness to 10 doesn't really make a difference

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

2005-04-27 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:33:14 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Could this not be made the default? xorg takes *hours* to emerge. After upgrading xorg, i am now left without a fontserver for all of our 30 diskless clients, which are configured to use xfs. Surely with such

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

2005-04-27 Thread Richard Fish
Neil Bothwick wrote: ~/.bashrc will be executed by every (bash) shell that is started. That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them in /etc/init.d/local.start. True, but the specific command he wants to run is setterm. Does that would correctly from

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

2005-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:17:31 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Restoring from backup should always be the last resort, because i backup filesystems and not packages. If i restore single files i can no longer be sure if they are still consistent with the rest of the new xorg. Using buildpkg in

Re: [gentoo-user] getting hard nmasked packages

2005-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:44:13 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: man portage echo =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.3 /etc/portage/packages.mask Isn't it package.unmask ? Yes it is. This damn keyboard is acting up again ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from

RE: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

2005-04-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
~/.bashrc will be executed by every (bash) shell that is started. That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them in /etc/init.d/local.start. True, but the specific command he wants to run is setterm. Does that would correctly from local.start? It certainly

Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-27 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, kashani wrote: IIRC it used to be in portage as of around of a year ago. You might be able to track down an ebuild of it in the old ebuilds. I'd have been able to tell you for sure but I wiped it off my last machine last month when I enforced the vim with color syntax

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on Saving random seed...

2005-04-27 Thread The Disguised Jedi
On 4/27/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) scribbled: Whenever I type in shutdown now, the kernel enters runlevel 1 and starts to shut down.All of these [ ok ] just fine: * Stopping local... * Stopping fcron... * Unmounting network filesystems...

Re: [gentoo-user] alsaconf doesn't recognize sound card, but kernel does

2005-04-27 Thread Francisco Santiago Capel Torres
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:04, Mark Knecht wrote: It may just be an oversite in alsaconf. Someone should post a bug report a the Alsa bug site and let them know to look into it. Ok, let's supose I want to debug alsaconf. I supose I have to emerge it using some debug flag. Then I want to hack

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

2005-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:55:30 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: True, but the specific command he wants to run is setterm. Does that would correctly from local.start? Yes it does, I do it myself to disable screen blanking. -- Neil Bothwick This is as bad as it can get; but don't bet on it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage corrupted? Trying to install non-existant packages

2005-04-27 Thread Calvin Spealman
I meant a terminal emulator. Just that with 99 packages, I know something won't build right. As a matter of fact, just read my next post!On 4/26/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:16:21 +, Calvin Spealman wrote: A month + with no updates, leaves lots of time at a

[gentoo-user] koffice build failing

2005-04-27 Thread Calvin Spealman
After finally fixing portage so I can run updates again, I ran into another (probably unrelated) hitch. KOffice is having some trouble compiling. I'm seeing errors that might suggest the wrong version of Image Magick is being used? Does anyone else agree? If that is the case, I don't know what

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing but trouble with Gnome-light

2005-04-27 Thread Spider
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 09:00 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, After i have installed Gnome-light 2.8.1 on a new computer i have only troubles, it started out with than new nenu items are not visible, but now if i rename a existing one it disapears also. Yep, that tends to be the case

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on Saving random seed...

2005-04-27 Thread Jason Cooper
The Disguised Jedi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On 4/27/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Whenever I type in shutdown now, the kernel enters runlevel 1 and starts to shut down. All of these [ ok ] just fine: * Stopping local...

[gentoo-user] circular dependencies

2005-04-27 Thread Jose Moreira
i have this error message after env-update: vida portage # env-update Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies... * Services 'cupsd' and 'samba' have circular * dependency of type 'iuse'; continuing... how can i solve this? thanks begin:vcard

[gentoo-user] WOT: Constricing Video Bandwith

2005-04-27 Thread James
Hello, WOT (Way Off Topic) I decided to post here (risking flames) because many of the participants here are working on video implementations. I'm focused on Bandwith Minimization for video transmission over wide area networks. Futhermore, although I still have Debian and OpenBSD systems around

Re: [gentoo-user] openmotif vs motif-config dependancy blockers

2005-04-27 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 06:13 am, Robert Svoboda wrote: * Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-26 22:10]: emerge -uvDa world yeilds blockers between motif-congif and openmotif today.. the same here Fix? I tried this: emerge unmerge openmotif emerge -uvD world and

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage

2005-04-27 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Rodolphe Rocca wrote: rm -f /usr/portage/distfiles/* no risk. Yes, there is no risk, but there are a much better solution, it's called distclean. You can search for it on forum. It is a script, which will remove the sources of packages what are NOT in portage already.

[gentoo-user] i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc broken

2005-04-27 Thread Lubos Kolouch
Hello, (after hours of googling) When I do emerge kdegraphics (but also other packages) the compilation ends with error complaining that the i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc cannot be run/located. however (installed from 2005.3 universal CD) # /usr/bin/i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc gcc-config error: Could not

[gentoo-user] cfg-update broken

2005-04-27 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
cfg-update is broken with new portage? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.9-ck3| Win4Lin 5-1-18c netraverse.com | | --

[gentoo-user] Re: A good daapd client

2005-04-27 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a good daapd client, i have tried tunesbrowser 1.6 and 2.0. 1.6 din't play anything and 2.0 plays some files but not all, and craches a lot. Does anyone on this list have experiance with a daapld client ? I've only run a

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse stalls under X after some time of inactivity

2005-04-27 Thread Thomas Drueke
Yep. :-) And appearently it's still not clear who wins... :-( (or better: GRRR ;-) ) Well I upgraded to udev now but still no better situation. Thomas Am Dienstag, den 26.04.2005, 16:10 +0200 schrieb Bastian Balthazar Bux: information is now obvious. Now even the cat /dev/input/mice does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

2005-04-27 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Neil Bothwick wrote: ~/.bashrc will be executed by every (bash) shell that is started. That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them in /etc/init.d/local.start. Not AFAIK. There are some userspace read-only utilities for ext2 (and ext3), but nothing for

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

2005-04-27 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Or don't upgrade anything at all -or- use a more upgrade-friendly system. It is considered good practice to do a dry run with emere -pv before installing any package to see what USE flags are in use and what dependencies there are. If you dont, then

[gentoo-user] rp-pppoe start on boot?

2005-04-27 Thread Peet Grobler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, New to gentoo, and this list. I recently migrated from Debian. On my old firewall (debian), I had my pppoe connection start on boot. Which would be the correct way to do this with gentoo? Regards, - -- Peet Grobler Public PGP key available from

Re: [gentoo-user] alsaconf doesn't recognize sound card, but kernel does

2005-04-27 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, I supose I have to emerge it using some debug flag. Then I want to hack the code an recompile again. it's a shell script :) . How can I do that? Is this the correct approach? Any documentation? To be honest, alsaconf needs not to be fixed but rewritten. Why? * It still can handle

[gentoo-user] KOffice version... 5?

2005-04-27 Thread Calvin Spealman
Does anyone know why portage is building KOffice version 5 right now? Last I checked, that release date was scheduled about a decade in the future, or some time around there...

Re: [gentoo-user] rp-pppoe start on boot?

2005-04-27 Thread Christoph Eckert
Which would be the correct way to do this with gentoo? rc-update add SERVICENAME default rc-update del SERVICENAME default Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Freevo + FrameBuffer + Splash

2005-04-27 Thread Ow Mun Heng
It seems that on 2005.0 install, I can't have the 3 of these together like I did when I was running on 2004.3. The difference is the usage of devpts vs udev. Since 2005.0 is udev, to get gen/fbsplash to work, I need to pass vga=7xx to the kernel command line. passing video=vesafb:ywrap,[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on Saving random seed...

2005-04-27 Thread Colin
On 4/27/05, The Disguised Jedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/27/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) scribbled: Whenever I type in shutdown now, the kernel enters runlevel 1 and starts to shut down. All of these [ ok ] just fine: * Stopping

RE: [gentoo-user] What can I safely delete from /tmp?

2005-04-27 Thread Daevid Vincent
cd /tmp rm -rf * (be VERRY BLOODY CAREFUL which dir you are in when you type this!) Wouldn't it be wiser to type rm -rf /tmp/* ;-) Or if really paranoid, rm -rfvi /tmp/* (-i for interactive, -v for verbose) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] cfg-update broken or etc-update?

2005-04-27 Thread Daevid Vincent
Did you mean etc-update?? daevid rbc # cfg-update -/bin/bash: cfg-update: command not found daevid rbc # locate cfg-update daevid rbc # daevid rbc # esearch cfg-update [ Results for search key : cfg-update ] [ Applications found : 0 ] -Original Message- From: Michael W. Holdeman

[gentoo-user] gnome-cummon useless ?

2005-04-27 Thread Antonio Coralles
Can 'emerge -p --depclean' or equery 'depends gnome-cummon' be right in saying that this package is useless to me [i'm using gnome as my desktop environment and have lot's of gnome/gtk-dependent packages installed] ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: What can I safely delete from /tmp?

2005-04-27 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cd /tmp rm -rf * (be VERRY BLOODY CAREFUL which dir you are in when you type this!) Wouldn't it be wiser to type rm -rf /tmp/* ;-) I'd go with rm -rf /tmp mkdir /tmp, since the above commands won't pick up any dotfiles in the directory. If I was

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-cummon useless ?

2005-04-27 Thread Antonio Coralles
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: Can 'emerge -p --depclean' or equery 'depends gnome-cummon' be right in saying that this package is useless to me [i'm using gnome as my desktop environment and have lot's of gnome/gtk-dependent packages installed] ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] emerge failure

2005-04-27 Thread David Corbin
While emerging libquicktime, I get this: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include/quicktime -I../include -O3 -funroll-all-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-loops=2 -falign-jumps=2 -falign-functions=2 -finline-functions -Wall -Wno-unused -Winline -c `test -f

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failure

2005-04-27 Thread Ric Messier
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, David Corbin wrote: While emerging libquicktime, I get this: Was there a question here? The relevant line is lqtplay.c:31:19: GL/gl.h: No such file or directory GL/gl.h is not in your include search path. You should find it or find out why it's missing. Ric --

Re: [gentoo-user] cfg-update broken or etc-update?

2005-04-27 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 07:35 pm, Daevid Vincent wrote: Did you mean etc-update?? daevid rbc # cfg-update -/bin/bash: cfg-update: command not found daevid rbc # locate cfg-update daevid rbc # daevid rbc # esearch cfg-update [ Results for search key : cfg-update ] [ Applications found

Re: [gentoo-user] rp-pppoe start on boot?

2005-04-27 Thread Peet Grobler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Eckert wrote: |Which would be the correct way to do this with gentoo? | | | rc-update add SERVICENAME default | rc-update del SERVICENAME default Ah, I presume rc-update add net.ppp0 default would work... - -- Peet Grobler Public PGP key

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What can I safely delete from /tmp?

2005-04-27 Thread Peet Grobler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eamon Caddigan wrote: | Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | |cd /tmp |rm -rf * (be VERRY BLOODY CAREFUL which dir you are in when you type | |this!) | |Wouldn't it be wiser to type rm -rf /tmp/* ;-) | | | I'd go with rm -rf /tmp mkdir /tmp,

Re: [gentoo-user] rp-pppoe start on boot?

2005-04-27 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 21:15, Peet Grobler wrote: Christoph Eckert wrote: |Which would be the correct way to do this with gentoo? | | rc-update add SERVICENAME default | rc-update del SERVICENAME default Ah, I presume rc-update add net.ppp0 default would work... nope, rp-pppoe, not