Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:16, "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start': > On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, > and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. > &g

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. Suddenly, it complains that it's not configured. I have run /opt/vmware

[gentoo-user] VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
dules both apparently successfully. My attempt to /etc/init.d/vmware start fails and suggests both of the above measures. This is pretty serious for me. Any suggestions? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
he FQDN by "hostname --fqdn", so the order on the line is important. Neither of these affects the results of "hostname", although I did not reboot to test the theory that this might make a difference. It seems more likely this comes from /etc/conf.d/hostname ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to see Windows graphics chars

2006-12-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
s a way to make my terminals speak a variety of encodings, but the ones I've tried don't help. Anybody out there know how to do this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/21/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/21/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with > > w

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/21/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with > worrying about Postfix, but has quickly escalated. > > I was trying to figur

[gentoo-user] Vmware player startup error message

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
cairo and vmware are installed by portage, and I'm not aware of any configuration I have done aside from the virtual machine images. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
com" BTW: it also says to set dns_domain_lo, but I have no name for my internal network, and haven't seen a reason to create one. Nevertheless, even the system calls getdomainname(2) and uname(2) return the string "(none)". What am I missing? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT "DirectPush" email and Windows Mobile 5...

2006-12-19 Thread Kevin Fullerton
On 12:53 Tue 19 Dec , Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > I apologise in advance for this question being tenuously related to > Gentoo... My justification is only that I really like my Gentoo-based > Postfix /dovecot mail-server... but I also want to push emails to a > connected Windows Mobile 5 PDA/pho

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/16/06, Boris Fersing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2006/12/16, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds. > I've tried to view a cute youTube "Code Monkey" video, but get the complaint my >flash Player plugin

[gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
loaded the latest player that Adobe offers for linux, but still get that message. about:plugins reports 3 separate versions of the plugin, and I have no idea how to clean that up, since the plugins directory contains only one. Any clues out there? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] EVMS root partition and udev, anyone?

2006-12-11 Thread Kevin Hanson
evms, but it looks like I'm going to have to punt on this. Cheers, Kevin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades

2006-11-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ve advice about how to improve that process? Would it be better to remove all but the obvious keepers? I'm not looking forward to the pains-taking process of vetting each and every one of the 231, but I don't want to be spending the time to recompile the presumed multitude that I

[gentoo-user] Reformat/repartition USB flash drive to ext2/3?

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
or xfs, say -- and allow executables and such? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gcc complains about TLS and errno; I baffled

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
n-TLS reference in /tmp/cc6urgct.o /lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value But when I try to look up TLS, all I get is a bunch of stuff about a server-to-server email security protocol. What is it talking about here, and where can I find out about it? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman

Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

2006-10-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/30/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:45, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages > involving early kde *.la files, but then it reports that > Dynamic linking on your system is co

[gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

2006-10-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
for me what package, let alone version, they belong to. Could it be that they are abandoned relic artifacts? Should I just delete them anyway? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] VMware Player incommunicado

2006-10-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
7 6f 48 1e df 00 ba" uuid.bios = "56 4d 40 49 f2 95 6a cc-99 15 43 3f c6 d5 f3 35" ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:d5:f3:35" ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0" ide1:0.startConnected = "FALSE" ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE" checkpoint.vmState = "" tools.remindInstall = "TRUE" -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Emerge -aDvu world stopped by media-sound/xmms

2006-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by "media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8" [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-video/mplayer !!! Depgraph creation failed. treat portage # -- Kevi

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx sse sse2 use flags

2006-10-12 Thread Kevin Fullerton
question is > should I enable these flags on a case by case basis or stick them in my > make.config? And if so should I use all three or just one? > Thanks in advance > Matt Yes - take a look/create /etc/portage/package.use Cheers Kevin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-10 Thread Kevin Fullerton
rocmaillog LOGABSTRACT=no VERBOSE=on FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail NL=" " :0: * ^List-Id:.*gentoo-user\.gentoo\.org $MAILDIR/gentoo-user/ Cheers Kevin On 12:09 Tue 10 Oct , Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > I'm familiar with this procmail recipe: > > -- > :0 > > * ^L

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/5/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 06 October 2006 04:32, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > gcc -Wall ctype.c -o ctype > I get > ctype.c:21: warning: implicit declaration of function 'isblank' $ gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall ctype.c -o ctype -- Bo An

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/5/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:10, "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails': > Why is it that using some of

[gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
if (isgraph(i)) printf(" graph"); if (islower(i)) printf(" lower"); if (isprint(i)) printf(" print"); if (ispunct(i)) punctf(" punct"); if (isspace(i)) printf(" space"); if (isupper(i)) printf(" upper");

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution mail reader won't give up

2006-10-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/4/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 08:01 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I sent a mail with a bad address, and it continues to haunt me. I > can't figure out a way to get evolution to just abandon it. Whenever > I quit, it remi

[gentoo-user] evolution mail reader won't give up

2006-10-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
w do I get evolution to stop nagging me about this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Strident message from mysql on emerge

2006-09-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
l about all the hundreds (thousands?) of packages I have installed. I'd like them to be a bit more helpful, and perhaps careful to state what the problem actually is, or might be. Courteous wouldn't be a bad idea either. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Apache emerge stumbles on LDAP; should I care?

2006-09-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
hat was sensible. I only vaguely understand that LDAP has to do with "directory" searches, but I don't know why I should care about that in general, or about it in reference to apache. So what do I need to know about this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Recommend an HTML/CSS editor?

2006-09-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
there's a Linux product that works reasonably well with CSS style sheets. Anybody know of one. Free is good, cheap is acceptable. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging xorg-x11

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I was under the impression my video card was too old for the binary driver. > It's built into the motherboard but reports as >ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL rev 39 > does anybody k

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging xorg-x11

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:53, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 9/17/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 16 September 2006 18:52, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > That's good to he

Re: [gentoo-user] Stray dependency on virtual/x11-7.0-r2

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Greg Bur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just switched to modular X, and got to the point where the system > comes up okay. > I have a few remaining puzzles and problems. Here's one: > > When

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging xorg-x11

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 18:52, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > That's good to head. I can't get the ATI module compiled in. I thought I > was doing the right thing following the howto when I put this in > /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: What is up with the new "domainname" situation?

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the same result as Mick. As I have static IP's and a single domain I see no point in per-interface domains, but if I used them, what in the world could I expect domainname(1) to tell me? It seems to me the most common setups are DHCP or something like mine, and I would hope the documentation was clear for those common cases. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Stray dependency on virtual/x11-7.0-r2

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the fact that a great many of them are KDE things, but KDE seems to be working just fine. What's a guy to do? Can I get away with just waiting for a while? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/16/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 17:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm trying to follow the HOWTO, but I've got a problem with ATI. > I put 'ati' in VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, but it was not picked > up in the ac

[gentoo-user] VMware and the order of init scripts

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
adjust the order of scripts so that apache starts after vmware? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ll of KDE too (presumably by making them all ~x86)? Something else? Summary: - how do I make an ATI driver - how do I make a speedo driver - how to get KDE working -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin Fullerton
sorted it out. Cheers Kevin On 11:56 Sat 16 Sep , bijayant kumar wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to login onto the remote machine. But the remote machine > donot allow me to do this. I am getting error as follows : > > bijayant # ssh -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] > OpenSSH_4.3p2,

[gentoo-user] SpamAssassin 3.1.5 out of memory

2006-09-15 Thread Kevin Fullerton
crypt dlloader dri dvd elibc_glibc fortran gdbm gnome gpm gtk input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog kernel_linux libg++ mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl postgres ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl sqlite sqlite3 ssl tcpd tk truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_i810 xorg zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Many thanks Kevin Fullerton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] I think my machine is being used for spam

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t I'd like to not be complicit in spam. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
files for things I never even knew I had, let alone how they were configured) -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] VMware player screen resolution

2006-08-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've just started using a VM built some time ago. It has just VGA screen resolution and colors (ugh!). Are there video drivers I could put in there (for Win 98 SE) that would give me something like the real estate of my modern screen? Or should I start over looking for a better VM? ++

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up multiple man pages (how?)

2006-08-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
l hiding places. However, I can't get whereis or anything else to tell me where it found them. Is there some neat way to find the locations? I'd like to figure out which ones correspond to my actual software and to ditch the others. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergence killed my connectivity

2006-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/16/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: > config_eth1=( "64.166.164.49/29 brd 64.166.164.55" ) > gateway=( "eth1/64.166.164.54" ) What's gateway supposed to do? In my net.example, there's no gateway=(). Is

[gentoo-user] Emergence killed my connectivity

2006-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
he host does not know to send reply packets to the gateway. It appears that I need to have a gateway (so my /etc/conf.d/net needs to do that) and it may need to have the "H" flag off. Can anyone else who uses a static IP setup take a look and see what I'm doing differently? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/15/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:51:00 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Removing strict from FEATURES should stop you seeing these AFAIR. > > I doubt it. All it contains right now is 'buildpkg'. Are you sure? What doe

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-08-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/13/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 14 August 2006 04:39, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > This was not the first time. It wasn't the last either -- I'm looking at a > new fresh crop. Am I then to understand that none of these mess

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/14/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:35:59 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It's a QA message from portage to the developer of the ebuild, ignore > > it. > Isn't there some way "they" could flag such messages

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-08-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/22/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> WARN: prerm >> Please upgrade your package (libmpeg3-1.5.2) to use >> toolchain-funcs.eclass > Needs to be fixed by the maintainer of the ebuild. If you feel like it, file a bug (che

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/9/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:37:05 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > A message from emerging the latest transfig reads: > Please upgrade your package (transfig-3.2.4-r1) to use > toolchain-funcs.eclass It's a QA me

[gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
A message from emerging the latest transfig reads: Please upgrade your package (transfig-3.2.4-r1) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass Why would it say that (rather than just doing it)? How would I comply (I truly have no clue)? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - How to set up

2006-07-23 Thread Kevin Parker
--- Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I have never got system messages, cron messages etc > to work in gentoo. This > really hasn't been a problem but the more progs I > have running the more I > think I should attempt to get this working. > Especially elogs. > I have ssmtp inst

[gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-07-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
to upgrade this any more than what I just did by emerging it. Anybody know what it's talking about? Anybody even know what toolchain-funcs it's talking about -- my browse through the portage tree comes up with no obvious candidate. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Honey, I broke my CUPS

2006-07-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/17/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 03:31, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > D [16/Jul/2006:19:23:15 -0700] check_quotas: requesting-user-name = 'root' > D [16/Jul/2006:19:23:15 -0700] print_job: requesting-user-name = 'root' Do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Honey, I broke my CUPS

2006-07-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/17/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 03:31, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > D [16/Jul/2006:19:23:15 -0700] check_quotas: requesting-user-name = 'root' > D [16/Jul/2006:19:23:15 -0700] print_job: requesting-user-name = 'root' Do you

[gentoo-user] Honey, I broke my CUPS

2006-07-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
es here is that the actual printer is a LaserJet 4m, with builtin postscript (Level 1, not much memory) so I might well be able to dispense with ghostscript if the pages weren't too complex. Another, of course is the PhD in my signature, given the bonehead moves I've made in the last week or so.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent CUPS "upgrade" broke my printer server

2006-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/15/06, Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There must be a good reason it isn't stable yet: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/net-print/cups On 7/15/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been running cups happily on this box for

[gentoo-user] Recent CUPS "upgrade" broke my printer server

2006-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
er deny,allow Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM Order deny,allow Order deny,allow -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Message from gtk+ ebuild:

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've got a perplexing message from the ebuild: I says there's a file/scipt/program at /etc/X11/gtk/gtkrc that I should remove. I have no such file. The message itself looks a bit garbled, so I'm wondering if I need to do anything. ++ kevin = Message begin

Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/13/06, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:02:10 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [...] > So: in plain English, is "ewarn" something I should know about? If > so, where can I read about it? If it's what I supposed it is, do > they g

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse not building for me

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried emerging eclipse. No joy. I went ~x86 on the unstable one > that matches the > version I use elsewhere, on the off chance that would work. No joy. &

[gentoo-user] Eclipse not building for me

2006-07-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ie !!! Couldn't determine VM for generation-1 !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. treat portage # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
could understand. So: in plain English, is "ewarn" something I should know about? If so, where can I read about it? If it's what I supposed it is, do they get saved somewhere? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/7/06, Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 08 July 2006 06:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > The light dawned... Gotcha! And thanks. Good! > On 7/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This looks like a helpful reply. Too b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
The light dawned... Gotcha! And thanks. On 7/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This looks like a helpful reply. Too bad I'm so clueless. I seem to keep finding that there's more homework to do about gentoo, and I never seem to have the time. So I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
; wrote: On Saturday 08 July 2006 00:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Yesterday, I emerged cups 1.2.1-r2. Now I cannot print at all. > > I use KDE, and the configuration tools cannot make a connection. > Even bare-bones init stuff doesn't work right: > /etc/init.d/cupsd stop &

[gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yesterday, I emerged cups 1.2.1-r2. Now I cannot print at all. I use KDE, and the configuration tools cannot make a connection. Even bare-bones init stuff doesn't work right: /etc/init.d/cupsd stop says it stopped the server,

[gentoo-user] Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-2459root 14336 Fri Jul 7 14:55:25 2006 treat init.d # SO: is it enabled or not? I guess I'll submit a bug, but I'd like to know if it's best to go back to cups-1.1.23-r7, which I had before, and for which I have a binary package. ++ kevin -- Kevin

Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/5/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 03 June 2006 16:11, znx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow': > On 27/05/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack?

2006-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
c -build" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild UD] dev-java/ant-core-1.6.2-r5 [1.6.5-r13] USE="doc -source" 0 kB -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it?

2006-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/2/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 02 July 2006 16:25, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > So: is there something simple I can do to make portage ignore this update > but allow unrelated ones to go through? Then I'll probably do the upgrade > when

[gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it?

2006-07-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
e I can do to make portage ignore this update but allow unrelated ones to go through? Then I'll probably do the upgrade when I'm done teaching summer school. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/25/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Killing *all* kalarm* processes required root priv. You've apparently been logged in to KDE as root once, or done other weird stuff as root. You may wish to look through /root/.kde* for things t

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/24/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Press F1, read chapters 5 and 7. ??? F1 gets generic KDE stuff, and it does not have chapters that I can see. Searching for "kalarm" doesn't do any good either. WHat am I missing? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/24/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > When I start kalarm, it does not show any items. If I add an > item, it shows, but nothing else. Have you tried refreshing alarms (under Actions)? Have tried killing all kalarm* processes an

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/24/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I just had to rebuild pretty much all of KDE. It went okay > except that all of my alarms from kalarm are gone. I had hoped > that they would be preserved like most configuration files. > &

[gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It's not anything obvious like a .kalarm file in my home dir. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
more days back then, I would have saved myself this trouble, as some wiser folks made it clear why this was bad. Odd that only the one package was clobbered by this. Oh, well... ++ kevin On 6/14/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/14/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] Emerging xinetd: big changes to config file

2006-06-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
g on just off the top of their head. Is this update actually likely to change the behavior in any ominous way? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/14/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would guess you're out of ideas then, except in desperation, I tried > looking for just part > of that: "-W1" and came up with some stuff I hop

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/14/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Done. Results attached. Sorry about the HTML. I hadn't noticed it > was turned on. And I generally oppose HTML mail. Hmm, the problem first shows

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:42:43 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > treat dev-libs # emerge -avk =glib-1.2.10-r5 > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calculating dependenc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Start digging. It completed just fine. Ok, do this and send me the result. # emerge --debug =dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 >~/glib-merge.txt 2>&1 -Richard PS.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > checking for gcc... gcc > checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 > -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -fPIC -Wl,-O1 > -ldl-Wl,-O1) works... no > configu

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Something about this is just not clicking with me.  I restored my backup to> an empty directory, chrooted to that directory, ran quickpkg on some of the > packa

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix> a problem I'm having.  These are ones that have been made for> my system during normal eme

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> Something else that might give me some more ideas: >>>> find /usr/local/portage /etc/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:00:20 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> Nope.  I checked just for "FLAGS" and got nothing.What aboutemerge --info | grep FLAG--Neil BothwickHeisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: The location o

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix> a problem I'm having.  These are ones that have been made for> my system during normal eme

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
nmask /etc/portage/profile /etc/portage/profile/package.provided [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > checking for gc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>  I am partly to blame, of course.  I got frustrated with older ebuilds that> were>  causing some of the dependency trouble, and got carried away with >  "

[gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
rsory look at the packages makes me think they're plain tar archives with no metadata.  How do I get rid of them when I'm done with them? Or must I install them using some tool that creates the metadata? ++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:39:52 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> > You use gmail, so as long as you have a desktop (twm is included with> > xorg) and a browser (firefox?) you can communicate.> This is good to hear, but it&#

[gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
main(){return(0);} [EMAIL PROTECTED] portage # This looks like an error in the last option on that command line.  Is it now obsolete?  Could I install an earlier gcc and make this ebuild use it? One way out just occurred to me: clear a partition to install that tar of the root partition, and use it to quickpkg a copy of that old glib.  Is there any simpler way? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:12:48 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> I first guess is to unmerge everything KDE, but even then, I'm not quite> sureNot everything KDE, leave arts and any other dependencies > what I should emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/11/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 11 June 2006 23:32, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> That sounds interesting, but I have no idea what to do about it.   I think> once upon a time, when I was first installing gentoo, I opted for KDE.  I> haven't do

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