[gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-16 Thread John J. Foster
I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every emerge command

[gentoo-user] gnome-terminal compile failure during world update

2008-03-13 Thread John covici
spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-07 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:28:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Just for interest, what are the Hz settings on host and guest? Guest - Gentoo - now set at 250Hz and working just fine Host - XP Professional SP2 - I don't have a clue. How do I find out? Thanks, festus -- Alan McKinnon alan

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:25:59PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: Hi all - it's been awhile This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration went fine. I normally leave the VM running when I walk away from

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:25:59PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: Hi all - it's been awhile This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration

[gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-05 Thread John J. Foster
Hi all - it's been awhile This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration went fine. I normally leave the VM running when I walk away from the machine, but when I return, time is way off. Shutting down Gentoo the

Re: [gentoo-user] vesa-tng not working with kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
OK, thanks I will check this out. on Tuesday 02/19/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:24:52 -0500, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I compiled gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r2 -- however the vesa-tng seemed to disappear -- its in the .config

[gentoo-user] vesa-tng not working with kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
is that I can't find the vesatng in the .config, but if I go into make menuconfig its there, so can someone explain why things are not working properly for 2.6.24? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici

Re: [gentoo-user] vesa-tng not working with kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 02/19/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:24:52 -0500, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I compiled gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r2 -- however the vesa-tng seemed to disappear -- its in the .config, but for some reason I am getting

RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
kernel version. You can do this with eselect kernel list and then eselect kernel set -Original Message- From: John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 19 februari 2008 12:28 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel

[gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] strange ethernet behavior with Superjmicro mb and Gentoo

2008-02-13 Thread John covici
I must do such a thing? If I don't do the rmmod and modprobe the dual port card is still recognized, but the mb one is not.. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] switching CPU's -- what strange things do I need?

2008-01-25 Thread John covici
for any assistance. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] switching CPU's -- what strange things do I need?

2008-01-25 Thread John covici
on Friday 01/25/2008 Andrey Falko([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Jan 25, 2008 10:00 AM, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. I right now have my CCFLAGS set to CFLAGS=-O2 -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe -- now I am getting one of those new Intel e8400 CPU's and so I have two questions

[gentoo-user] gnome-session no longer starts after updating world

2007-12-12 Thread John covici
/Xorg.0.log, so I have no idea how to trouble shoot this at all. I am using nvidia drivers 100.14.19 and gentoo sources of 2.6.21-r4. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici

RE: [gentoo-user] gnome-session no longer starts after updating world

2007-12-12 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 12/12/2007 Marzan, Richard non Unisys([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John, I remember having the same problem before and I believe that deleting the appropriate .gnome and .gnome2 directories would fix the problem. I'm not sure why this happens or why this solution worked

RE: [gentoo-user] gnome-session no longer starts after updating world

2007-12-12 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 12/12/2007 Marzan, Richard non Unisys([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote -Original Message- From: John covici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:59 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] gnome-session no longer starts

[gentoo-user] unable to install php-docs

2007-12-09 Thread John covici
on how to fix this? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] unable to install php-docs

2007-12-09 Thread John covici
on Sunday 12/09/2007 John covici([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hi folks. On an update I was doing today I ran into this error while trying to install phpdocs -- here is the fragment: Install php-docs-20071125-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/app-doc/php-docs-20071125-r1/image/ category app-doc

[gentoo-user] Problems emerging xorg-docs and several other packages

2007-12-09 Thread John covici
? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit

2007-12-08 Thread John covici
I unmaks it anyway and if not, how can I get past this one? Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit

2007-12-08 Thread John covici
on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici ??: Sorry if this is a duplicate -- II never got it back, so I am sending it again. Hi. I was trying to do an emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world and got the following error: !!! All

Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit

2007-12-08 Thread John covici
on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On (08/12/07 18:46) Daniel Pielmeier wrote: John covici schrieb: on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici ??: Sorry if this is a duplicate -- II never got it back, so I am sending

Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit

2007-12-08 Thread John covici
on Saturday 12/08/2007 Daniel Pielmeier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici schrieb: on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On (08/12/07 18:46) Daniel Pielmeier wrote: John covici schrieb: on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit

2007-12-08 Thread John covici
on Saturday 12/08/2007 Daniel Pielmeier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici schrieb: on Saturday 12/08/2007 Daniel Pielmeier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici schrieb: on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On (08/12/07 18:46) Daniel Pielmeier wrote

[gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread John covici
a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread John covici
on Saturday 10/27/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:35:05 -0400 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens is that when I use this a computer on my local network has intermittent connection problems -- it connects to google just

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread John covici
on Saturday 10/27/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:23:44 -0400 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Saturday 10/27/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:35:05 -0400 John covici

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread John covici
on Saturday 10/27/2007 Daniel Pielmeier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici schrieb: Exactly where did you put your mtu -- I don't see it in the possibly options in /etc/conf.d/net.example for the pppd options. It is in the Section INTERFACE HANDLERS: # Some users may need

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread John covici
going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-10-08 Thread John Blinka
to the default run level. 3) Repeated steps 1) and 2) for each additional program I wanted to add the the default run level. Everything seems to work fine now. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-28 Thread John Blinka
On 9/25/07, Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:07:04AM -0400, John Blinka wrote: Did as you suggested. softscripts.old reappeared and no change in inability to start nfs automatically, or by hand. Hm, does `rc default` give you and output

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-25 Thread John Blinka
better. John

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-24 Thread John Blinka
On 9/23/07, Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:37:36PM -0400, John Blinka wrote: - ls -lA /var/lib/init.d/ [snip] drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 13:16 softscripts.old That shouldn't be there. Normally, that directory is created and later removed

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-23 Thread John Blinka
a comment that its large enough to have a noticeable gravitational pull... That was good! John

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-22 Thread John Blinka
I'm using 3 or 4? John

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-22 Thread John Blinka
that should be /etc/init.d/nfsmount start. /etc/init.d/nfs is for nfs server. I''m confused by your answer, because tobey is the server, and /etc/init.d/nfs fails on tobey. Perhaps I don't understand something - wouldn't be the first time! John

[gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-21 Thread John Blinka
? As always, thanks for your help! John Blinka

[gentoo-user] Problem mounting USB Drive/MP3 PLayer

2007-09-12 Thread John covici
it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Strange behavior when booting with softlevel=single

2007-08-12 Thread John covici
strange problem when a script in the default level starts another process which I then have to kill manually. Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Friday 10 August 2007 04:59:08 John covici wrote: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --color=n  --verbose --nospinner This is nit-picking but usually (99% of all cases) --verbose isn't needed with --info. Hence `emerge --info

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Friday 10 August 2007 05:59:32 John covici wrote: checking whether to compile the browser plugins... yes checking which gecko to use... configure: error: Gecko firefox not found Either disable

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Friday 10 August 2007 17:30:54 John covici wrote: configure:23040: checking whether to compile the browser plugins configure:23058: result: yes configure:23064: checking which gecko to use configure:23093: error

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Friday 10 August 2007 17:30:54 John covici wrote: And now here is the relevant section of the config.log file. configure:23040: checking whether to compile the browser plugins configure:23058: result: yes

[gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-09 Thread John covici
=env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal UUCPLOCK=/var/lock/LCK.. VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia VMHANDLE=sun-jdk-1.4 XARGS=xargs -r _=/usr/bin/emerge -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-09 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Norberto Bensa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrito: checking whether to compile the browser plugins... yes checking which gecko to use... configure: error: Gecko firefox not found Either disable nsplugin _or_ emerge firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mp3 player can't be mounted

2007-07-05 Thread John covici
it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Dell XPS M1710 and Sound

2007-06-17 Thread John covici
/asound.state was something called PlayBack Master Switch which was false when it came iand is now true and that brought up sound. Hope this helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

2007-06-13 Thread John Blinka
On 6/7/07, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:55:45 -0400 John Blinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sshd doesn't start nfs doesn't start rsyncd doesn't start Are those being started (i.e. tried to) at boot? Is it just fail then for you? There should

Re: [gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

2007-06-13 Thread John Blinka
xinetd | default Since all of those daemons depend on network: Are there network settings for interfaces that fail on boot up? Network works fine. Does that mean: No there are no failing network related things on boot up? Yes, that's what it means. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

2007-06-13 Thread John Blinka
shouldn't matter. It's also the same as all my other normal Gentoo boxes, so unlikely to be the source of the problem. John

[gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

2007-06-07 Thread John Blinka
for problems? John Blinka

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

2007-06-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:35:18AM -0700, 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

[gentoo-user] Updating eix bombs

2007-06-06 Thread John J. Foster
Yesterday morning while updating world I got the following errors during the emerge of app-portage/eix: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -o update-eix update-eix.o varsreader.o global.o setmask.o database/libdatabase.a portage/libportage.a

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating eix bombs

2007-06-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:41:09PM +0200, Vaeth wrote: I resynced this morning, but nothing has changed. Resync once more. The patch was included in the tree today without a revbump. Thanks you so much Vaeth! festus -- It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with yelp while doing --update world

2007-06-04 Thread John covici
on Monday 06/04/2007 Stefan Onken([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2007 schrieb John covici: checking whether we have a gtk 2 gecko build... configure: error: This program needs a gtk 2 gecko build Do you have any idea what is wrong? Mozilla did compile successfully

[gentoo-user] Problem with yelp while doing --update world

2007-06-03 Thread John covici
-- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] madwifi-ng upgrade installs wireless-tools; why?

2007-06-02 Thread John Blinka
wireless-tools, everything works fine and I can connect. Why does emerge want to install wireless-tools? What can I do to prevent wireless-tools from being installed? Thanks for your help. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] madwifi-ng upgrade installs wireless-tools; why?

2007-06-02 Thread John Blinka
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159006 You could of course downgrade to 0.9.3-r2. Thank you for a simple and direct answer! John

[gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

2007-06-01 Thread John Blinka
think I'm using WEP encryption ? Thanks for any and all ideas. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

2007-06-01 Thread John Blinka
On 6/1/07, Naga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 14:08:16 John Blinka wrote: Hi, all, I have been using wireless successfully for about a month, until I upgraded madwifi-ng last night. [...] Thanks for any and all ideas. reemerge wpa_supplicant I did that. It didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

2007-06-01 Thread John Blinka
On 6/1/07, Naga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 14:08:16 John Blinka wrote: rc-scripts: WEP key is not set for NETGEAR - not connecting Just a sugestion change the name. There might be other NETGEAR units in the area. Excellent idea. Try and add proto=WPA or do a scan

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread John covici
not know this for a while, but it comes in handy -- also you can log the whole thing if you set PORTAGE_LOGDIR -- for the full details look at make.conf.example in /etc . -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici

[gentoo-user] Problem configuring ppp forpppoe

2007-05-24 Thread John covici
UUCPLOCK=/var/lock/LCK.. VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia VMHANDLE=sun-jdk-1.4 XARGS=xargs -r _=/usr/bin/emerge -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start X after a few months of updates

2007-05-22 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:03:23PM -0500, deface wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers#Module_Requirement_Mismatch On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:52 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: Hi, My system had been happily chugging along with X and KDE running for a few months nonstop. Every

[gentoo-user] Can't start X after a few months of updates

2007-05-21 Thread John J. Foster
Hi, My system had been happily chugging along with X and KDE running for a few months nonstop. Every Saturday I'd run an update world. But, I never restarted X and obviously never rebooted. Yesterday we had a 3 hour power outage that my UPS couldn't keep up with, and when I finally got power

[gentoo-user] udev net persistent rules

2007-05-02 Thread John covici
the kernel, hence the need for the reboot) I am pretty sure you can do /lib/udev/write_net_rules and that will create the file which you then can fix the mac addresses in the file. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-16 Thread John covici
on Monday 04/16/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:43:40 -0400, John covici wrote: Well, what I mean by portage thinks is that its still looking for updates from the ebuilds in the no longer available overlays -- if I do emerge --update --deep world I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-16 Thread John covici
on Monday 04/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Monday 16 April 2007 11:41:01 John covici wrote: Well, what I mean by portage thinks is that its still looking for updates from the ebuilds in the no longer available overlays -- if I do emerge --update --deep

[gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-15 Thread John covici
a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-15 Thread John covici
on Monday 04/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Monday 16 April 2007 00:44:57 Rostislav wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John covici wrote: Hi. I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I deleted them using layman -d portage still thinks

Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?

2007-04-14 Thread John covici
to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] overlays being ignored by portage

2007-03-27 Thread John covici
at all. Very strange. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] overlays being ignored by portage

2007-03-27 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 03/27/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:16:20 -0400, John covici wrote: I am using layman and at a point I had no overlays under layman and now I have added two but portage is ignoring them. I have at the end of /etc/make.conf source

Re: [gentoo-user] overlays being ignored by portage

2007-03-27 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 03/27/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tuesday 27 March 2007 12:41:40 John covici wrote: I am using layman and at a point I had no overlays under layman and now I have added two but portage is ignoring them. I have at the end of /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] overlays being ignored by portage

2007-03-27 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 03/27/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:08:37 -0400, John covici wrote: So what makes you think portage is ignoring them? Well, two things, -- I was trying to emerge a package which had a higher version in the overlay and which I had

Re: [gentoo-user] overlays being ignored by portage

2007-03-27 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 03/27/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:48:40 -0400, John covici wrote: This would also happen if your package.keywords entry was incorrect. eix, after running update-eix, should indicate overlay packages, even when they have the same

[gentoo-user] java in mozilla

2007-03-26 Thread John covici
/features_spam.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] java in mozilla

2007-03-26 Thread John covici
on Monday 03/26/2007 Mauro Faccenda([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Monday 26 March 2007 10:40, John covici wrote: As I understand it you have to put a link in your mozilla-firefox/plugins directory to /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.13/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so or whatever version

[gentoo-user] problem with usb card reader with gentoo

2007-03-25 Thread John covici
'/lib/udev/hal_unmount' failed I have every possible support in the usb mass storage device as well. Can someone tell me what is happening here? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [gentoo-user] layman overlays

2007-03-22 Thread John covici
on Thursday 03/22/2007 Nelson, David J([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote -Original Message- From: John covici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2007 05:47 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] layman overlays Hi. I have a problem with the gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage?

2007-03-21 Thread John covici
all gnome packages to their experimental versions? Thanks. On 3/21/07, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Tuesday 03/20/2007 Daevid Vincent([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/ http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=gnome Latest listed

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage?

2007-03-21 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 03/21/2007 purple([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote emerge -NDuva world?? nope, this completely ignores the overlays -- it does have [1] and [2] at the end each followed by the name of an overlay directory, but it never gets any ebuilds from either of them. On 3/21/07, John covici

RE: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage?

2007-03-21 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 03/21/2007 Nelson, David J([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote -Original Message- From: John covici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 March 2007 10:30 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage? nope

[gentoo-user] layman overlays

2007-03-21 Thread John covici
Hi. I have a problem with the gnome-experimental layman overlay package -- where shold I write to get some help on this one? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage?

2007-03-20 Thread John covici
there is already a feature freeze on gnome 2.18, so if it can be done, it would be appreciated here. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread John covici
it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread John covici
on Friday 03/16/2007 Etaoin Shrdlu([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Friday 16 March 2007 09:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:23:20 -0400, John covici wrote: Hi. I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have discovered that the files in /etc/cron.d are not being

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread John covici
on Friday 03/16/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:06:53 -0400, John covici wrote: And if I take the entries out of cron.d and put them into crontab they are executed correctly and this is why I asked the question. Ignore my previous reply, whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using gnomeas non-root user

2007-03-14 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 03/14/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:09:23 -0400, John covici wrote: Hi. If I try to log in using gdm as a non-root user, it logs me in, but does not even run gnome-session. If I run that by hand, it runs some things, but if I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using gnomeas non-root user

2007-03-14 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 03/14/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:25:12 -0400, John covici wrote: I checked the .gconf and .gnome2 and even the .gnome2_private, but it looks OK to me. I even put a session file in the users .gnome2 directory changing the current

[gentoo-user] Problem using gnomeas non-root user

2007-03-13 Thread John covici
=xargs -r _=/usr/bin/emerge Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread John covici
its easy to miss such things. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] package seems to block itself

2007-03-10 Thread John covici
. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] package seems to block itself

2007-03-10 Thread John covici
- From: John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:25:45 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] package seems to block itself Hi. I seem to have a strange situation where a package block itself or that is the way it seems. If I try to do emerge

[gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit

2007-03-09 Thread John covici
fool portage into thinking I have mozilla-2.0 or whatever when I don't have such a beast? Thanks for all your help. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit

2007-03-09 Thread John covici
on Saturday 03/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Saturday 10 March 2007 03:06:37 John covici wrote: OK, I have a couple of problems with what is considered a dependency -- I don't want gnopernicus, but its a dependency of gnome-base -- any way to fool portage that I

Re: [gentoo-user] fooling portage a bit

2007-03-09 Thread John covici
on Saturday 03/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Saturday 10 March 2007 03:59:46 John covici wrote: OK, I have a couple of problems with what is considered a dependency -- I don't want gnopernicus, but its a dependency of gnome-base -- any way to fool portage

[gentoo-user] why does emerge libstdc++ want to install gcc-3.3.6-r1?

2007-03-03 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I have 5 up-to-date gentoo machines, all of them running gcc-4.1.1-r3. On 4 of them, emerging libstdc++ proceeds as one might expect, just installing the current version of libstdc++ for gcc-4.1.1. But the 5th machine does something quite different. Why? On the 5th machine emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] why does emerge libstdc++ want to install gcc-3.3.6-r1?

2007-03-03 Thread John Blinka
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: [SNIP] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161953 Thanks for the pointer. That helped me solve the problem. Not elegantly, but adequately. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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