Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

2007-06-14 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Thursday 14 June 2007, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: I cannot emerge --sync my system anymore, as this brings out the try running `emerge --metadata` it will restore the portage cache in /var/cache/edb/dep Rudmer following error : Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

2007-06-14 Thread Kent Fredric
On 6/14/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070614 Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: I cannot emerge --sync , as this brings out the following error : Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most recent call last): -- snip -- OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo in the workplace

2007-06-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IE will never work in wine. That's total crap. Every version of IE (even IE 7 to some extent) works with wine. ies4linux is a fine example, showing that you're totally wrong. I don't believe the devs plan to support it either. Even more crap. Alexander Skwar

[gentoo-user] RE: Gentoo in the workplace

2007-06-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
Sartorelli, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ken, So what do other people do when they need to use ActiveX? Use Windows. Is there any work arounds etc? Nope. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] M$ Excel document converter

2007-06-14 Thread Sabyasachi Ghosh
Not sure about command line, but how about web based converters? (like docs.google.com ). It can open and save both MS office and OpenOffice formats. On 6/13/07, Aleksey Kunitskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any command line converters from M$ Excel to any *nix readable format(i.e.

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

2007-06-14 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
Many thanks for your kind answers. I have tried to emerge --metadata, too, and the result is just the same. localhost ~ # emerge --metadata Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 5530, in ? retval = emerge_main() File /usr/bin/emerge,

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

2007-06-14 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Thursday 14 June 2007, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: Many thanks for your kind answers. I have tried to emerge --metadata, too, and the result is just the same. localhost ~ # emerge --metadata Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade, no sound.

2007-06-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 June 2007, Dale wrote: Hi, I upgraded my kernel the other day and now I have no sound at all. I have checked Alsamixer and Kmix to make sure it is not muted and it appears to be turned up there. This is lspci: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo in the workplace

2007-06-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IE will never work in wine. That's total crap. Every version of IE (even IE 7 to some extent) works with wine. ies4linux is a fine example, showing that you're totally wrong. Agreed. It's more correct to say that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo in the workplace

2007-06-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 June 2007, Sartorelli, Jason wrote: Hi there, This is possibly already answered elsewhere, however I've trolled through google to no avail. I've upgraded my work machine from a Windows 2000 machine to Gentoo (running on a Dell GX520) with VMware running XP, Vista, 2000. Most

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade, no sound.

2007-06-14 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2007, Dale wrote: Hi, I upgraded my kernel the other day and now I have no sound at all. I have checked Alsamixer and Kmix to make sure it is not muted and it appears to be turned up there. This is lspci: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

2007-06-14 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
On 6/14/07, Rudmer van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, then it really looks like your filesystem is screwed... what filesystem are you using? and have you tried to do a fsck on it? It is ext3 filesystem ; I have executed fsck on it, which reported no errors. It looks like the fs is out of

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

2007-06-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Jean-Baptiste Mestelan writes: I have manually deleted a lot of files from /var/cache/edb/dep, but the offending ones can neither be removed nor renamed. (Was I all right, in manually butchering /var/cache/edb/dep ?) The fact that the remaining files contain strange characters is puzzling,

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Installers for Blizzard Products

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:25:29 +1200 Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/14/07, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, guys I hope some of you won't find this message too much spam-alike. Today I accidentally found there is a petition on-line [1]. It represents a request to

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

2007-06-14 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Thursday 14 June 2007, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: On 6/14/07, Rudmer van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, then it really looks like your filesystem is screwed... what filesystem are you using? and have you tried to do a fsck on it? It is ext3 filesystem ; I have executed fsck on

Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

2007-06-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Arnau Bria writes: could someone explain me what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix output? I did not find it in eix man page.. $ eix -c claws-mail [D] mail-client/claws-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/05/07 - 2.6.1): Claws-Mail is an email client (and news reader) based on GTK+ It is

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

2007-06-14 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
On 6/14/07, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you mv the dep directory to another name, and re-create it with emerge --metadata? Hey, this worked !!! I could not touch the files in /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/ but I could mv at an above level : mv /var/cache/edb/dep

[gentoo-user] Real Time kernel patch

2007-06-14 Thread James
Hello, Here is a fairly detailed article about RT on the 2.6 kernel series: http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903277 My question to those using any of the low-latency options in a 2.6 based kernel are: 1. Which sources do you start off with. 2. Any patches you apply 3

Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

2007-06-14 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:58:23 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: Arnau Bria writes: could someone explain me what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix output? I did not find it in eix man page.. $ eix -c claws-mail [D] mail-client/claws-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/05/07 - 2.6.1): Claws-Mail is

Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

2007-06-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 June 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: hi, could someone explain me what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix output? I did not find it in eix man page.. $ eix -c claws-mail [D] mail-client/claws-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/05/07 - 2.6.1): Claws-Mail is an email client (and news reader)

Re: [gentoo-user] Real Time kernel patch

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/14/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Here is a fairly detailed article about RT on the 2.6 kernel series: http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903277 My question to those using any of the low-latency options in a 2.6 based kernel are: 1. Which sources do you

[gentoo-user] Re: Real Time kernel patch

2007-06-14 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: 1) Install layman 2) Hook yourself up to the pro-audio overlay 3) Emerge rt-sources 4) Enjoy If you need info on how to set up the configuration either write back here or contact me directly off line. Hello Mark, I'm building up a system now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Real Time kernel patch

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/14/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: 1) Install layman 2) Hook yourself up to the pro-audio overlay 3) Emerge rt-sources 4) Enjoy If you need info on how to set up the configuration either write back here or contact me directly off

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers text corruption problem.

2007-06-14 Thread Grant Edwards
All of the recent ati-drivers seem to have a bug that corrupts contents of some scrolling text windows. It looks like this: http://www.visi.com/~grante/fglrxbug.png Has anybody else seen this issue or know what to do about it? Older versions of the driver that didn't have that bug won't

Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-14 Thread Roy Wright
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: That helps some, but in net-firewall I'm finding a lot of unstable packages, and no really good idea which ones will be the best for a personal firewall, let alone which ones are best supported upstream so this doesn't happen to me again. So I'm interested in

[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on Dell Servers

2007-06-14 Thread Mick
Guys, has anyone installed a gentoo LAMP on: Dell Server: == Base Unit: Dual Core Xeon Processor 5050,2x2MB Cache, 3.00GHz, 667MHz FSB, PE 1950 (222-2398) Processor: Information,No Second Processor (311-1193) Memory: 4GB 667MHz (4X1GB), Dual Ranked

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on Dell Servers

2007-06-14 Thread kashani
Mick wrote: Guys, has anyone installed a gentoo LAMP on: Dell Server: == If yes, what are the gotchas, in terms of kernel config, hardware, etc? I have never installed a 64bit system yet, so I guess that'll be another thing to read on. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade, no sound.

2007-06-14 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Thursday 14 June 2007, Dale wrote: Thanks for the info but I build everything in the kernel. I never liked modules. I suspect that something did change about the kernel though. I may just stick with the older kernel for now and try another version later. Still open to ideas though. If

Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

2007-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
070614 Arnau Bria wrote: what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix output? I did not find it in eix man page.. Someone else has answered this, but I have a couple of related questions: what does [I] mean ? and where are these letters documented ? Does anyone know ? --

Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

2007-06-14 Thread Andrea Bona
I think that [I] means that the package is already installed. Maybe here you will find something related: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly#Understanding_Portage.27s_Formatted_and_Colored_Output Bye Andrea On 6/15/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070614 Arnau Bria

Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

2007-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
070615 Andrea Bona wrote: 070614 Philip Webb wrote: what does [I] mean ? and where are these letters documented ? I think that [I] means that the package is already installed. Yes, that seems intuitive matches experience; it's part of Eix (not Portage) doesn't seem actually to be

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers text corruption problem.

2007-06-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:17 +, Grant Edwards wrote: All of the recent ati-drivers seem to have a bug that corrupts contents of some scrolling text windows. It looks like this: http://www.visi.com/~grante/fglrxbug.png wow, never seen that and I've used most versions of ati-drivers up

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers text corruption problem.

2007-06-14 Thread grante
In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:17 +, Grant Edwards wrote: All of the recent ati-drivers seem to have a bug that corrupts contents of some scrolling text windows. It looks like this: http://www.visi.com/~grante/fglrxbug.png wow, never seen that and