Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread Strong Cypher
for better perf i use ext2 with some tweak mkfs.ext2 -I2048 -m0 /dev/myPartition I use sqlite in backend and eix for searching update the speed is now really excellent every thing could be found on wiki good luck On 3/17/08, Chris Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

[gentoo-user] sudo displays last login time

2008-03-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Since recently (I think since 2nd half of last week), when I use sudo on my ~x86, I get the last login time displayed: $ LC_ALL=C sudo ls -1 Last login: Mon Mar 17 07:12:40 CET 2008 from winnb000488 on pts/6 10001~ [...] Would

Re: [gentoo-user] Received: from unknown

2008-03-17 Thread Strong Cypher
try to push your external ip adress in your hosts file for your domain On 3/17/08, Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, When I send an email to myself, in the header information it says the following... Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received:

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread Dale
Chris Brennan wrote: SNIP First thing is first, fix portage, then if you like, contact me off list and I can help you tweak emerge so it runs a little quicker and still be safe :D No . Please share with us all how to make it faster. Is it classified top secret or something? ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde

2008-03-17 Thread Dale
Strong Cypher wrote: hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can i find the log that describe the error? the xsession-error doesn t show anything thanks I would look in /var/log/kdm.log. See if

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde

2008-03-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 16. März 2008, Strong Cypher wrote: hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can i find the log that describe the error? the xsession-error doesn t show anything thanks make sure that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-17 Thread Jan Seeger
On Sun, 16. Mar, W.Kenworthy spammed my inbox with I believe that writing a file to a single location is not the way to do this: you need to write a byte to the usb key in the same location, but need to ensure it continually changes: perhaps rotating 1's/0's. Alternatively, the concern is

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde

2008-03-17 Thread cypherstrong
I have it ok I will look in kdm.log Volker Armin Hemmann a écrit : On Sonntag, 16. März 2008, Strong Cypher wrote: hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can i find the log that describe the

[gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-17 Thread brullo nulla
Hi folks, I am finally getting through the expat update. I am currently stuck at kdelibs for what looks like a circular problem (or a linking problem). Forums and google tell me of problems with kdelibs and expat upgrade, but mostly qt3 related -this seems not to be the case. The ebuild stops

[gentoo-user] Re: sudo displays last login time

2008-03-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Since recently (I think since 2nd half of last week), when I use sudo on my ~x86, I get the last login time displayed: $ LC_ALL=C sudo ls -1 Last login: Mon Mar 17 07:12:40 CET 2008 from

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread Emil Beinroth
Hi, another thing that might help is not generating the cache at all. It appears that we can get away with what is in /usr/portage/metadata/cache. I've put -metadata-transfer into FEATURES to tell portage to skip the Generating cache stuff, and added the following to my /etc/portage/modules:

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde

2008-03-17 Thread cypherstrong
Thanks ! I don't know why I haven't found this file before ... Dale a écrit : Strong Cypher wrote: hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can i find the log that describe the error? the

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo displays last login time

2008-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 17 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Since recently (I think since 2nd half of last week), when I use sudo on my ~x86, I get the last login time displayed: $ LC_ALL=C sudo ls -1 Last login: Mon Mar 17 07:12:40 CET 2008 from winnb000488 on pts/6 10001~ [...] Would

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde

2008-03-17 Thread Dale
cypherstrong wrote: Thanks ! I don't know why I haven't found this file before ... Dale a écrit : Strong Cypher wrote: hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can i find the log that

Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 17 March 2008, brullo nulla wrote: Hi folks, I am finally getting through the expat update. I am currently stuck at kdelibs for what looks like a circular problem (or a linking problem). Forums and google tell me of problems with kdelibs and expat upgrade, but mostly qt3 related

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde, AGP seems to be off on kdm-4.0 only

2008-03-17 Thread cypherstrong
Ok I have found why kdm-4.0 don't work They doesn't support seamless login over pam even with nullpassword and nopassword activated !!! I use pamusb with a key, and login won't done without password sets ... I will ask to kde team why ... I have look in kdm.log and I have found another problem

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread John J. Foster
Chris, Strong and Emil - most excellent suggestions, and I'd love to try them out as soon as someone helps me get portage working again! Thanks, festus pgpAMIgASTf6H.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] graphic card driver status

2008-03-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm thinking about upgrading my parent's PC's graphic card because I have driver issues with their old Nvidia GF-2 MX which prevent me of using the closed source driver. Now I want to ask: What's the status of the ATI drivers? Does the free driver support 3D-acceleration on newer cards?

[gentoo-user] Kopete 3.5 and 4.0 can't be install at the same time

2008-03-17 Thread cypherstrong
I have found a problem in slot of kde 3.5 and 4.0 kopete 3.5 depends on app-crypt/qca:0 kopete 4.0 depends on app-crypt/qca:2 qca:0 block qca:2 so if I wan't kopete on kde 3.5 and 4.0 they is a problem How can I solve it ? qca:0 and qca:2 are really blocking each other ? can't we really remove

[gentoo-user] mount -t cifs doesn't accept //hostname/share?

2008-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
According to the docs at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_Samba#Using_CIFS, the following command should work: mount -t cifs //windows machine name/shared folder /mountpoint \ -o username=user,uid=uid,iocharset=cp850,dir_mode=0770,file_mode=660 That doesn't work for me. I get this error:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete 3.5 and 4.0 can't be install at the same time

2008-03-17 Thread Matthias Guede
They don't realy blocking each other: From qca-2.0.0-r2.ebuild: DEPEND= !app-crypt/qca-1.0-r3 So you can have both, qca-1.0-r3 and qca-2.0.0-r2 on your system (but not qca-1.0-r2 and qca-2.0.0-r2). But you have to unmask qca-1.0-r3 first: echo =qapp-crypt/ca-1.0-r3

Re: [gentoo-user] Received: from unknown

2008-03-17 Thread Jason Carson
try to push your external ip adress in your hosts file for your domain My static IP is 66.11.182.5 and my computer is called penguin.jasoncarson.ca so what exactly would I put in /etc/hosts? On 3/17/08, Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, When I send an email to myself, in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete 3.5 and 4.0 can't be install at the same time

2008-03-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 17. März 2008, cypherstrong wrote: ls -lh /var/db/pkg/app-crypt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 27 18. Jan 21:50 qca-1.0-r3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 29 10. Feb 19:09 qca-2.0.0-r2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 28 10. Feb 19:10 qca-ossl-2.0.0_beta3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 27 10. Feb 19:02 qca-tls-1.0-r4

Re: [gentoo-user] Received: from unknown

2008-03-17 Thread cypherstrong
Push this: 66.11.182.5 jasoncarson.ca penguin.jasoncarson.ca in your host file remove reference to jasoncarson.ca in the 127.0.0.1 lines Jason Carson a écrit : try to push your external ip adress in your hosts file for your domain My static IP is 66.11.182.5 and my computer is called

[gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-17 Thread James
dexters84 dexters84 at gmail.com writes: I believe the size of the writes can be relevant as well. Stroller. That was exactly my point. Systems based on cf card as hard drive are usually small - one function focused devices, hence there is no need for swap partition. To extend

Re: [gentoo-user] Received: from unknown

2008-03-17 Thread Jason Carson
Push this: 66.11.182.5 jasoncarson.ca penguin.jasoncarson.ca in your host file remove reference to jasoncarson.ca in the 127.0.0.1 lines ok, I tried that and it didn't work. I came across this... qmail never uses /etc/hosts to determine the IP address associated with a host name. ...Which

[gentoo-user] sandbox problems

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to udate kde-meta (actually, I think it never completely installed, but I'm doing an update now) and it won't get past the very first part, that of kde-base/libkpimidentities-3.5.8, because it gets this error: libsandbox: Can't resolve

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -t cifs doesn't accept //hostname/share?

2008-03-17 Thread Rik Koenig
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the docs at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_Samba#Using_CIFS, the following command should work: mount -t cifs //windows machine name/shared folder /mountpoint \ -o

[gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for the options, I wanted to have a option line setting but I couldn't tell if it was like PRINT_SLOTS=yes

[gentoo-user] Re: Kopete 3.5 and 4.0 can't be install at the same time

2008-03-17 Thread Strong Cypher
yes r3 works fine thanks On 3/17/08, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag, 17. März 2008, cypherstrong wrote: ls -lh /var/db/pkg/app-crypt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 27 18. Jan 21:50 qca-1.0-r3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 29 10. Feb 19:09 qca-2.0.0-r2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 28

Re: [gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 17 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for the options, I wanted to have a option line setting but I couldn't tell if it was like PRINT_SLOTS=yes

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde, AGP seems to be off on kdm-4.0 only

2008-03-17 Thread Dale
cypherstrong wrote: Ok I have found why kdm-4.0 don't work They doesn't support seamless login over pam even with nullpassword and nopassword activated !!! I use pamusb with a key, and login won't done without password sets ... I will ask to kde team why ... I have look in kdm.log and I have

Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 17 March 2008, brullo nulla wrote: What output do you get from 'revdep-rebuild -p -i' ? Here it is: Evaluating package order... Warning: Failed to resolve package order. Will merge in random order! Possible reasons: - An ebuild is no longer in the portage tree. - An ebuild is

[gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP

2008-03-17 Thread David Blamire-Brown
Hi, This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm restriction in this part of the world in any case! I have a locally attached printer on a Gentoo machine. I have a Windows XP laptop. I would like

Re: [gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for the options, Quoting from the manpage .. /etc/eixrc Global configuration file. The

[gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

2008-03-17 Thread darren kirby
Hi all, I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce 9600GT. This vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers (171.06) than is available from portage, so I will have to install it manually. I am wondering if there are any gotchas I should keep in mind before

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

2008-03-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:11 -0600, darren kirby wrote: I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce 9600GT. This vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers (171.06) than is available from portage, so I will have to install it manually. According to

Re: [gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 17 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for the options, I wanted to have a option line

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

2008-03-17 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:11 -0600, darren kirby wrote: I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce 9600GT. This vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers (171.06) than is available from portage, so I will have to install it

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo displays last login time

2008-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 17 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Since recently (I think since 2nd half of last week), when I use sudo on my ~x86, I get the last login time displayed: [snip] It's a recent pam update. I updated mine on 11

Re: [gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emil Beinroth wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for the options, Quoting

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Shields
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, David Blamire-Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm restriction in this part of the world in any case! I have a

[gentoo-user] apcupsd

2008-03-17 Thread Michael George
Today I upgraded apcupsd from 3.10.18-r1 to 3.12.4. The ebuild installs the files differently than it did and webapp-config is used for the install. When the emerge is complete, the cgi files are installed into /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin and are owned by root. There is also a directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Mar 2008, at 18:10, James wrote: ... Wear leveling is *probably* built into the IDE to CF converter carrier board? Almost certainly not, I'd have thought. Aren't those boards just dumb pin-convertors? CF cards talk IDE. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd

2008-03-17 Thread Michael George
Sorry, sorry... I just needed to point my browser to cgi-bin/multimin.cgi rather than apcupsd/multimon.cgi... On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:32:43PM -0400, Michael George wrote: Today I upgraded apcupsd from 3.10.18-r1 to 3.12.4. The ebuild installs the files differently than it did and

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread John J. Foster
Please !!! This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. Pointers and links greatly appreciated. TIA, festus On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 07:22:41PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it