Re: [gentoo-user] equery problem.

2006-06-16 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 16 June 2006 11:23 am, Paul Varner wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 21:45 -0400, David Corbin wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade my KDE stuff following the information on this wiki > > page. > > > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_KDE_3.3_to_KDE_3.4 >

[gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

2006-06-16 Thread David Corbin
While updating today, I ran out of space on /usr. Looking closer at what was being used, /usr/portage is taking about 50% of /usr. Can this be pruned somehow? David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] equery problem.

2006-06-15 Thread David Corbin
I'm trying to upgrade my KDE stuff following the information on this wiki page. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_KDE_3.3_to_KDE_3.4 When I run "equery d kde" as it suggests, I get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1639, in ? cmd.perform(local_opts) File

[gentoo-user] mysterious blocking

2006-06-15 Thread David Corbin
When i try to upgrade 'stuff', (emerge -uavD world). Emerge shows that kdenetwork is blocking some stuff. ... done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/krdc-3.5.2) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/lisa-3.5.2) [blocks B ] =kde-base/k

[gentoo-user] Debugging an ebuild

2006-04-30 Thread David Corbin
I would like to debug an ebuild that is not working for me. I've googled and not found anything terrible useful. Can anyone point me at a HOWTO or some such? When I tried to 'ebuild' a copy the ebuild outside of the /usr/protage directory, it complains that it "is not in a valid PORTDIR heir

Re: [gentoo-user] dns at startup

2006-04-16 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 16 April 2006 04:02 am, Rohit Sharma wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > I am on home ADSL and I realise that although my resolv.conf is static > [since their DNS are fixed], I should still run ntp-client _after_ the > link to DNSes is up [via my USB modem]. I am yet to ensu

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-config...

2006-04-15 Thread David Corbin
> What package is this rc-config command contained in? I don't have it on > my system, and as far as I can tell from Googling it's been obsolete > since 2004.3 in favour of rc-status. equery yields: app-admin/eselect-1.0 (/usr/bin/rc-config -> /usr/bin/eselect) rc-status seems like it's quite a

[gentoo-user] Problem emerging apache.

2006-04-15 Thread David Corbin
While I attempt to emerge apache, I get this: -- console -- checking for times... (cached) yes checking which MPM to use... configure: error: the selected mpm -- -- is not supported !!! ERROR: net-www/apache-2.0.55-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 161, Exitcode 1 end cut---

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-config...

2006-04-15 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 15 April 2006 12:14 pm, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > > On Saturday 15 April 2006 11:12 am, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > >> David Corbin wrote: > >>> "rc-config list default" yields nothing for me, but "rc-config list" > >&

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-config...

2006-04-15 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 15 April 2006 11:12 am, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > > "rc-config list default" yields nothing for me, but "rc-config list" > > yields all sorts of things, many of which are 'default'. I'm sure I must > > not

[gentoo-user] dns at startup

2006-04-15 Thread David Corbin
When I boot my latpop, ntpdate doesn't work. It fails saying there is a "temporary failure in name resolution" it cannot lookup pool.ntp.org . After my system finishes booting, "/etc/init.d/ntp-client start" works fine. The script is running nearly last from the output, and after a few other

[gentoo-user] rc-config...

2006-04-13 Thread David Corbin
"rc-config list default" yields nothing for me, but "rc-config list" yields all sorts of things, many of which are 'default'. I'm sure I must not understand something. Ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problems

2006-03-15 Thread David Corbin
On Monday 13 March 2006 12:22 am, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:43, David Corbin wrote: > > On Sunday 12 March 2006 04:28 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:16, David Corbin wrote: > > > > ntp-client is in my "default&q

[gentoo-user] subversion

2006-03-15 Thread David Corbin
Anybody have any idea when subversion 1.3 will available as an ebuild? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problems

2006-03-12 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 12 March 2006 04:28 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:16, David Corbin wrote: > > ntp-client is in my "default" run level. However, when I it runs > > at boot time, I get this error message: > > > > 12 Mar 09:06:24 ntpd[9516

[gentoo-user] ntp problems

2006-03-12 Thread David Corbin
ntp-client is in my "default" run level. However, when I it runs at boot time, I get this error message: 12 Mar 09:06:24 ntpd[9516]: cap_set_proc() failed to drop root privileges: Operation not permitted 12 Mar 09:06:26 ntpd[9561]: parent died before we finished, exiting If I run it as root m

Re: [gentoo-user] libungif?

2006-02-28 Thread David Corbin
On Monday 27 February 2006 07:16 am, Philip Webb wrote: > 060226 David Corbin wrote: > > On Sunday 26 February 2006 07:02 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > >> On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:01, David Corbin wrote: > >>> grep: /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or directory &g

Re: [gentoo-user] libungif?

2006-02-26 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 26 February 2006 07:02 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:01, David Corbin wrote: > > grep: /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or directory > > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or > > directory libtool: link: `/usr

[gentoo-user] libungif?

2006-02-26 Thread David Corbin
While emerging kdegraphics, I get the following error: D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-excep

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.

2006-02-25 Thread David Corbin
Thanks. That worked. David On Saturday 25 February 2006 12:31 pm, Max Lorenz wrote: > Hi, > > On 2/25/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > trombone dcorbin # emerge -uav portage > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > &

[gentoo-user] Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.

2006-02-25 Thread David Corbin
trombone dcorbin # emerge -uav portage These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies -!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libintl-0) -- Is there someone way I can work around this? I don't

[gentoo-user] Disappearing keystrokes....

2005-12-05 Thread David Corbin
Certain key combinations that used to work in my IDE (eclipse) no longer do. It appears to be something in the OS/X/window manager. I'm running KDE. I've looked through the Control Center and not found them assigned to anything. The two I know about are: CTRL+SPACE and CTRL+SHIFT+UpArrow.

Re: [gentoo-user] "Pin" an ebuild (mysql)

2005-11-10 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 05 November 2005 06:31 pm, David Corbin wrote: > I recently did an "emerge -uavD world" like I ususally do, and it failed > trying to upgrade mysql from 4.0 to 4.1. Well, I'd really like to need to > keep 4.0 around. Is there some way to say, don't u

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia

2005-11-07 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 06 November 2005 11:13 pm, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ? > > Yup. In /etc/conf.d/local.start > > /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh > > or > > mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0 > mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 This doesn't work for me. I

[gentoo-user] "Pin" an ebuild (mysql)

2005-11-05 Thread David Corbin
I recently did an "emerge -uavD world" like I ususally do, and it failed trying to upgrade mysql from 4.0 to 4.1. Well, I'd really like to need to keep 4.0 around. Is there some way to say, don't upgrade mysql when I "emerge -uavD world"? Even better, is there a way to have both versions of

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby's rdoc

2005-08-07 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 07 August 2005 02:11 pm, David Corbin wrote: > Is Ruby's rdoc documentation installed with the ruby ebuild? ri18 doesn't > seem to be able to find it. > I noticed that USE flags were "-doc". I assume correcting this will make things better... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Ruby's rdoc

2005-08-07 Thread David Corbin
Is Ruby's rdoc documentation installed with the ruby ebuild? ri18 doesn't seem to be able to find it. David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 31 July 2005 05:59 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:28:49 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > [blocks B ] =kde-base/k

Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift

2005-07-24 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 24 July 2005 04:56 pm, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > and worse, even if I > > uncheck "Use gestures for activating the above features" and > > APPLY, it still beeps. > > Hmm, sounds like this bug: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97425 > What version of KDE are you using now? Here 3.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift

2005-07-24 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 24 July 2005 08:58 am, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > > On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:11 pm, Michal Pronay wrote: > > > Sound like accessibility support to me. Try to take a look in > > > your kde control panel -> Regional & Ac

Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding CTRL

2005-07-24 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:11 pm, Michal Pronay wrote: > Sound like accessibility support to me. Try to take a look in your kde > control panel -> Regional & Accessibility -> Accessibility. > > M. Well, that allows me to turn off the System Bell, but I'm curious as to why it's beeping in the fir

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-24 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 24 July 2005 06:21 am, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:36:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > 050723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > LCD monitors are fixed-rate, > > > so you have to buy one that has the resolution you like > > > with CRT monitors where you buy the highest

[gentoo-user] Beep holding CTRL

2005-07-23 Thread David Corbin
Since I upgrade my system recently (notably, a KDE upgrade, but lots of other things too), I've noticed a strange beep coming. It seems to only come when I've been holding down the CTRL key for a long time ( a few seconds with no other activity). But everytime I try to reproduce it conciously,

[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 'lqtplay

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics (was Wacky Mouse)

2005-04-24 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 24 April 2005 08:45 pm, Willie Wong wrote: > > > > Now, the touch pad works, but movement is *very* slow. A full width move > > on the touchpad is about 50 pixels. I've tried playing with the various > > synaptic settigns (synclient), but I can't seem to adjust this in any way > > I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics (was Wacky Mouse)

2005-04-24 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 24 April 2005 07:36 am, Richard Fish wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > >This problem continues. I've discovered the following: > >1) The problem shows up with gpm, as well as X > >2) I can plug in a USB mouse and it works fine. > >3) If I boot into Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-23 Thread David Corbin
at's the likely hood this a hardware problem that only shows itself in Linux and not Windows? David On Monday 18 April 2005 09:39 pm, David Corbin wrote: > On Monday 18 April 2005 08:34 pm, Erik Osterholm wrote: > > On 4/18/05, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-18 Thread David Corbin
On Monday 18 April 2005 08:34 pm, Erik Osterholm wrote: > On 4/18/05, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Andreas Fredriksson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > while I don't know what's causing your specific problem, th

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-18 Thread David Corbin
On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Andreas Fredriksson wrote: > Hi, > while I don't know what's causing your specific problem, this sounds a > lot like the behavior you would see back in the day when you set the > mouse protocol to PS/2 when the mouse device was really a serial > mouse, or vice vers

[gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-17 Thread David Corbin
Today, my mouse has gone wacky. Previously I had a fine working Gentoo/X11 system on my Dell I8600. A week ago, upgraded my profile, and updated the system, including switching to udev. I had no problem for the last week, so I believe that all worked well. Today, I did another update ("emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM problem

2005-04-10 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 10 April 2005 03:36 am, Myk Taylor wrote: > A quick google search on 'Xlib: Protocol not supported by server' turned > up this link: > > http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t3241.html > > Short answer: get rid of the pertinent ~/.{x,X}* files > > Google is your friend.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM problem

2005-04-09 Thread David Corbin
m, Myk Taylor wrote: > All the scripts that kdm runs are in /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm. > Perhaps you need to look at Xsession, since that's what is run after kdm > authenticates your password. > > errors go into ~/.xsession-errors > > --myk > > David Corbin wr

[gentoo-user] KDM problem

2005-04-09 Thread David Corbin
Some time back after an emerge, I found out that logging into KDM would always fail. That is authentication appears to pass, the screen turns black, and then it brings me back to the KDM login screen. 1) What script(s) is KDM running when it authenticates a user. 2) What log files should I look

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