Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2007-01-01 Thread Jigme Datse
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I just tried to upgrade some wikis from 1.4.15 (to 1.5.8, 1.6.8, 1.7.1) and ran into trouble: while trying access the wiki, I get an query error - seems the database layout has changed. How can I update it ? I ran into a similar problem in one of my updates

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

2007-01-01 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 17:25 -0800, Alan wrote: Did you compile with the dvd and xine use flags? I believe that xine is needed for DVD menus. DVD yes, xine no. I'm recompiling right now, and I did a sync and it's upgrading to a newer version as well, so we'll see what happens! Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mike Myers wrote: (snippage) I'm not trying to suggest that Gentoo should go to a binary distro or anything like that. I'm just wondering why there isn't some kind of update management system to like, differentiate minor updates like firefox 1.5.0.5 http://1.5.0.5 to firefox 1.5.0.7

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:01:25 -0600, Mike Myers wrote: I've recently began experimenting with Debian and noticed their updating system is exactly like what I was asking about. Basically, there's package updates, and then there's distro updates. Why is it unreasonable for Gentoo to have

[gentoo-user] A bash query ...

2007-01-01 Thread Dave S
I know that /dev/null redirects standard output , and that 2 /dev/null redirects standard error Is there an expression that redirects standard output and standard error - at present I am using the ungainly /dev/null 2 /dev/null Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2007-01-01 Thread Strong Cypher
did you configure manually your ip for testing before starting net.eth0 ??? in this case, try ifconfig eth0 down and /etc/init.d/net.eth0 if work fine, just add it to default profile rc-update add net.eth0 default just an explanation: ifconfig do up on network card, so net.eth0 try up too

Re: [gentoo-user] A bash query ...

2007-01-01 Thread Strong Cypher
just try /dev/null they redirect all input (standard, error, user define) to dev-null have fun 2007/1/1, Dave S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know that /dev/null redirects standard output , and that 2 /dev/null redirects standard error Is there an expression that redirects standard output and

Re: [gentoo-user] A bash query ...

2007-01-01 Thread Graham Murray
Dave S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there an expression that redirects standard output and standard error xxx /path/file -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

2007-01-01 Thread Strong Cypher
Just for DVD on linux I suggest to try other player xine-ui is the best for me ! so :) Totem miss lot's of option I think (like audio parameter, mplayer plugins ...) so ... try xine-ui have fun 2007/1/1, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 17:25 -0800, Alan wrote: Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-01 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Richard, Marco, if you suspect this at all, you can set RC_COLDPLUG=no in /etc/conf.d/rc to completely disable module loading by udev. actually the variable is set that way with RC_COLDPLUG=no. I've tried with similar USB drives, and the behaviour is the same. I've tried to blacklist

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-01 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, On 1/1/07, Strong Cypher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are your kernel version ? (uname -a) What are your kernel package ? (gentoo-sources ???) So perhaps a bug with a kernel you install recently I have so hardware, that bug awfully with certain version of kernel, and do hang up after a

Re: [gentoo-user] A bash query ...

2007-01-01 Thread Strong Cypher
just take care of something they only work on bash sh need your first solution and tsch ... I don't know but it's not this at all 2007/1/1, Dave S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 01 January 2007 11:09, Strong Cypher wrote: just try /dev/null they redirect all input (standard, error, user

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2007-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:28:44 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: BTW, I like your program but its package search sure seems slow. If you only wanted to index files from portage-installed packages, you could read the CONTENTS files in /var/db/pkg instead of scanning the filesystem. Limiting it to

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs nvidia-legacy-drivers

2007-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:04:00 + (UTC), Konstantinos Agouros wrote: is there a way von x86 that I can keep nvidia-drivers and a emerge -uDp world does not come up telling me that this is blocking the legacy-drivers package? Are you saying that you have nvidia-driver installed but not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ wants to install xorg-server

2007-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:23:07 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: By reading the virtualx.eclass file, I really wonder what this is necessary for. Why is an X server needed to build gtk ? Clearly it is not needed, otherwise it wouldn't be optional. -- Neil Bothwick There's more to life than sex,

Re: [gentoo-user] libGl.so.1 / prelinking

2007-01-01 Thread Strong Cypher
do you need opengl extension ? 2006/12/31, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 31 December 2006 11:39, Strong Cypher wrote: do you use a proprietary drivers ? like ati or nvidia ? Nope, OSS drivers. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2

Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2007-01-01 Thread Strong Cypher
a good command to see what free mem you have is free or free -m the second line indicate the reaminging real ram they stay ex: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 3546 2005 1540 0436

Re: [gentoo-user] A bash query ...

2007-01-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 10:49 +, Dave S wrote: I know that /dev/null redirects standard output , and that 2 /dev/null redirects standard error Is there an expression that redirects standard output and standard error - at present I am using the ungainly /dev/null 2

Re: [gentoo-user] libGl.so.1 / prelinking

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 January 2007 14:04, Strong Cypher wrote: do you need opengl extension ? Yes. Well, I can live with 20 - 30 binaries not pre-linked. Just wondering because libGl hasn't given that trouble before. At leat, I didn't notice it. ;-) Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE:

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a long while. Problem is it tells me that at least for one binary no ebuild exists but it doesn't tell me which binary. Bummer! How do I find out? Uwe -- A

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
Hi, On Monday 01 January 2007 15:16, Uwe Thiem wrote: revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a long while. Problem is it tells me that at least for one binary no ebuild exists but it doesn't tell me which

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/1/07, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it useful, this is my lsmod: ohci_hcd 21636 0 uhci_hcd 24648 0 ehci_hcd 33160 0 I seem to recall that loading multiple USB controller drivers can cause problems on some systems. You might try

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
Uwe Thiem wrote: Problem is it tells me that at least for one binary no ebuild exists but it doesn't tell me which binary. Bummer! How do I find out? Hmmm, I'd try something like this: for i in /usr/bin/*; do equery b $i /dev/null || echo $i done pgpYggHcXbK7U.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-01 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 09:01:22AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/1/07, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it useful, this is my lsmod: ohci_hcd 21636 0 uhci_hcd 24648 0 ehci_hcd 33160 0 I seem to recall that loading multiple USB

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-01 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Tuesday, 2 January 2007 3:13, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 09:01:22AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/1/07, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it useful, this is my lsmod: ohci_hcd 21636 0 uhci_hcd 24648 0 ehci_hcd

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-01 Thread Strong Cypher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ohci and uhci is for via / intel ... in kernel configuration they give info, that depends of your computer they is another section for firewire I think it's better to make a kernel with just your material configure in it, nothing more, and no module

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 01 January 2007 08:16, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a long while. Problem is it tells me that at

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 01 January 2007 15:16, Uwe Thiem wrote: revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a long while. Problem is it tells me that at least for one binary no ebuild exists but it doesn't tell me which binary.

Re: [gentoo-user] working with overlays

2007-01-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 22 December 2006 20:09, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo once said (or was it someone else?) he had such a script.  If so, Bo, please post the script. You may be referring to this post: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/164432/focus=164437 -- Bo Andresen

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 01 January 2007 10:01, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...': On 1/1/07, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it useful, this is my lsmod: ohci_hcd 21636 0 uhci_hcd 24648 0 ehci_hcd

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2007-01-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jigme Datse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I ran into a similar problem in one of my updates of it. I am currently running 1.68, and was running 1.4 and may have gone through the 1.5 series. There is documentation on the mediawiki site at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading

Re: [gentoo-user] libGl.so.1 / prelinking

2007-01-01 Thread Strong Cypher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oh I remember, I had this problem few month ago ... so they is a solution You absolutly need to remove ntpl for xorg-server and mesa Try : USE=-ntpl emerge -DNupv world to see what package are concerned, so if only xorg, add it to make.conf if

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2007-01-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 31 December 2006 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 12/31/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 00:00, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Hey, Jerry, wanna make a project team? I woulda done Python if I had thought it was gonna get big. It now seems like that

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Strong Cypher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 you could do this emerge sync emerge -DNu world emerge -a depclean so ... revdep-rebuild -pv = liste still long ?? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) - WinPT 1.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin + razor - learning

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas Rösner
Graham Murray wrote: Thomas Rösner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Spamassassin has an autolearn hook, but I don't know if the razor/pyzor/etc. plugins use it, or if it's only used by the bayes engine. I'd like to know, though, so why don't you ask on a Spamassassin ML and report back here? ^^

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-01 Thread Aniruddha
I totally agree to neil's assessment. Mike certainly has point that Debian is more mature in some aspects (is has been around since '93). That being said it is lacking so much in other departments that for me it is no serious alternative to Gentoo (difficulty installing source packages not in

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 January 2007 16:57, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Hi, On Monday 01 January 2007 15:16, Uwe Thiem wrote: revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a long while. Problem is it tells me that at least for one

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 January 2007 19:15, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 01 January 2007 08:16, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin + razor - learning

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas Rösner
Thomas Rösner wrote: Graham Murray wrote: Thomas Rösner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Spamassassin has an autolearn hook, but I don't know if the razor/pyzor/etc. plugins use it, or if it's only used by the bayes engine. I'd like to know, though, so why don't you ask on a Spamassassin ML and

Re: [gentoo-user] libGl.so.1 / prelinking

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 January 2007 19:52, Strong Cypher wrote: Oh I remember, I had this problem few month ago ... so they is a solution You absolutly need to remove ntpl for xorg-server and mesa Try : USE=-ntpl emerge -DNupv world to see what package are concerned, Interesting. Will try that tomorrow.

Re: [gentoo-user] working with overlays

2007-01-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 20:09, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo once said (or was it someone else?) he had such a script.  If so, Bo, please post the script. You may be referring to this post: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/164432/focus=164437 Ah,

Re: [gentoo-user] A bash query ...

2007-01-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dave S wrote: Is there an expression that redirects standard output and standard error - at present I am using the ungainly /dev/null 2 /dev/null The following two commands: man bash /^REDIRECT Or more directly: man bash /two formats Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 22:16:46 +0200 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 01 January 2007 19:15, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 01 January 2007 08:16, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be

[gentoo-user] DieHard ? ( hardens against memory errors)

2007-01-01 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Anyone using this on a hardened box (e.g. to augment a precompiled, non-ssp binary, such as OOffice)? http://www.diehard-software.org/ (Emery Berger, UMass) DieHard completely prevents particular memory management errors from having any effect (these are double frees and invalid frees). It

[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

2007-01-01 Thread Sven Köhler
I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). it's not portage! it's rsync!!!

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 22:13:27 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I eventually let revdep-rebuild build the packages in random order until it hit one it couldn't. It turned out an old faac version was the culprit. After unmerging and re-emerging faac, revdep-rebuild was able to clean up my system. The

[gentoo-user] Announcement: Two Projects

2007-01-01 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, I happened to write two small tools in Ruby: HwAdapt -- A hardware profile manager for your laptop http://opensource.bertram-scharpf.de/sites/hwadapt/ Cropmail -- Mail delivery agent; sort and filter mail http://opensource.bertram-scharpf.de/sites/cropmail/ May they be

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 01 January 2007 15:24, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': One can list binaries known to portage with: cat /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS | grep /usr/bin/ If that's compared to /usr/bin/*, orphaned binaries can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-01 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Mike Myers wrote: On 12/31/06, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Mike Myers wrote: I just wanted to add something to the original post. I've recently began experimenting with Debian and noticed their updating system is exactly like what I was asking about.

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 January 2007 08:22, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 01 January 2007 15:24, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': One can list binaries known to portage with: cat /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS | grep /usr/bin/ If

Re: [gentoo-user] When could XGL support my video card ATI Radeon M300??

2007-01-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 31 December 2006 07:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was interested in 3D desktop of XGL, but my video has not been supported till now... This is the info of my card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon Mobility M300] So, is there a hope for me to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Once again - Can't build Blender

2007-01-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 31 December 2006 04:09, frank wrote: Hi, I've posted this former After the start of the blender bulid (after the sources are unpacked) I have to (from another shell): cp /var/tmp/portage/blender-2.41-r1/work/blender/extern/bFTGL/include/*

[gentoo-user] acpi battery events, Sony FS740

2007-01-01 Thread »Q«
I'm nearly a complete newbie to power management. I've been reading and tinkering for the past three days. I'm not sure I know enough to explain my problem clearly, but I'll be glad to try to clarify or post more info if you can steer me a bit. I have a Sony Vaio FS740 laptop, and I have power

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2007-01-01 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/1/1, Strong Cypher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: did you configure manually your ip for testing before starting net.eth0 ??? Thank you!Believe me,I have tried your advice.But the problem is still there. Now ,I have find out the cause.It's still the problem of configuration of the kernel. I find a

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource

2007-01-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 01 January 2007 05:52, Alan E. Davis wrote: On 12/31/06, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is an excellent idea! For starters you can use euse: # euse -i useflagname I already use euse. It is really helpful. The short descriptions of the USE flags are often

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2007-01-01 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Here is the hardware of my machine which I got it from Windows: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon (TM)CPU 3.0GHz Intel(R) Xeon (TM)CPU 3.0GHz(双核) Disk driver: HP LOGICAL VOLUME SCSI DISK DEVICE Ethernet: HP NC7782 Gigabit server Adapter Video card: RAGE XL PCI Family 2007/1/1, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chuanwen