[gentoo-user] Stuck in XDM

2007-04-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
provide no way to reboot. Going to root via su is not wonderful either, as execution /sbin/shutdown -r does really strange things until it finally gets clobbered I'd like to clean this up: I'd like kdm, and I'd like a menu entry for rebooting. Advice? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole system. And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up. ++ kevin On 4/28/07, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I had it configured for KDM

[gentoo-user] Emerge logs no longer being mailed

2007-04-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
error log PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save mail PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=[EMAIL PROTECTED] localhost And everything else is commented out (uses defaults). I'm running postfix, which appears to be working, and forwards my local mail to that same mail URI: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What should I be looking for? -- Kevin

[gentoo-user] Bitten by bug #172860

2007-03-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This seems to be a common bug. There's a patch (manual edit) already available. How do I emerge after patching the ebuild to avoid checksum problems? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about gparted

2007-03-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 3/25/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Questions about gparted': 1) It complains about being unable to open /dev/nbd1 throught (sic) /dev/nbd16; I have no idea what these are. Block

[gentoo-user] Questions about gparted

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
and a message associated with all of my xfs partitions. The message reads fatal error -- couldn't initialize XFS library. But I emerged gparted with the xfs use flag, and libxfs is also emerged. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Portage elogs no longer getting through

2007-03-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
). Shouldn't I still get these messages? -- Kevin O'Gorman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Notices from portage

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I used to (briefly) get notices from ebuilds when I emerged them. Somewhere along the line that stopped, and I have forgotten where it was configured. Anybody got a quick hint? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

2007-01-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
diagrams? Example: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~kogorman/453/projects/2/06f453-A2-stack.png Which is a bit blurry, even though I've tried to keep the pixels aligned. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo I have /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el note the 'p' vs. the 't' -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
of the ebuild or Makefile may be damaged. I wonder: 1) how that slipped through 2) how I can fix it. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/31/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 00:00, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Hey, Jerry, wanna make a project team? I woulda done Python if I had thought it was gonna get big. It now seems like that would be a good idea. Care to: 1) share your code? 2

[gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
; print /ul\n; print /body\n; -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/30/06, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:20:18 -0500 Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:03, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: There's a lot of HTML documentation on my computer, but it's wonderfully hard to find and use compared to man pages because

[gentoo-user] VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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

[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/bin/vmware-config.pl

[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. Suddenly, it complains that it's

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 PROTECTED] wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/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
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

[gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, 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

[gentoo-user] Vmware player startup error message

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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

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 figure out what Postfix knows and where

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 worrying about Postfix, but has quickly escalated. I

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

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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

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 is obsolete (or I'm blocking Javascript, which is false

[gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades

2006-11-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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 never ever use. -- Kevin

[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
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, PhD -- gentoo

[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
, 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
8a 77 ec-f5 77 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

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

2006-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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 # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

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

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
); if (isprint(i)) printf( print); if (ispunct(i)) punctf( punct); if (isspace(i)) printf( space); if (isupper(i)) printf( upper); if (isxdigit(i)) printf( xdigit); printf(\n); } return 0; } -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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 the macros from ctype.h fails to compile? You

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 Andresen Why would this need a GNU

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

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

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 reminds me that it has unsent mail

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

2006-09-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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] Strident message from mysql on emerge

2006-09-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
?) 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] Recommend an HTML/CSS editor?

2006-09-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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

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

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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] Re: Re: What is up with the new domainname situation?

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
hope the documentation was clear for those common cases. -- 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, 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/make.conf, but it gets ignored

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 I do emerge -aDvu world, it wants to emerge

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 head. I can't get the ATI module compiled in. I thought I

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 know if the binary would help? ++ kevin You

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

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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

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

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
that apache starts after vmware? -- 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 actual emerge, and now the driver does not exist

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

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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
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
-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-08-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. 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

[gentoo-user] Emergence killed my connectivity

2006-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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] 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 gateway=() something new? Routes are set with routes_

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-08-15 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 messages will ever be warning ME that I

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 so it doesn't look like a peremptory command I have

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 message from portage to the developer

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 (check first to see that there isn't already one

[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

[gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-07-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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 also have problems when printing as a plain

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 also have problems when printing as a plain

[gentoo-user] Honey, I broke my CUPS

2006-07-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
(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. Sigh. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs CUPS-Set-Default AuthType Basic Require user @SYSTEM Order deny,allow /Limit Limit CUPS-Authenticate-Job Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM Order deny,allow /Limit Limit All Order deny,allow /Limit /Policy -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user

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 a couple of years. It serves print

[gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
: 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

[gentoo-user] Eclipse not building for me

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. treat portage # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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. It seems to be saying I should know

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 get saved somewhere? take a look to enotice

[gentoo-user] Message from gtk+ ebuild:

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
The old gtkrc is available through the new Gentoo gtk theme. WARN: postinst Older versions added /etc/X11/gtk/gtkrc which changed settings for all themes it seems. Please remove it manually as it will not due to /env protection. -- 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 bad I'm so clueless. I seem to keep finding

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] wrote: Open to debate. I'd think it's

[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
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 O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[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, but /etc/init.d

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
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 says it stopped the server, but /etc/init.d/cupsd

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'm in continual crisis mode

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 I'm done teaching summer school

[gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack?

2006-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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

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

2006-07-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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 to salvage

[gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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] 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. I have a recent backup

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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

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

2006-06-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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

2006-06-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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] wrote: I would guess

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 hope will further inspire you: Nope, all

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 packages I've been trying to re-emerge

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 configure: error: installation

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 21 -Richard PS. Please post further replies in plain

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 dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy virtual

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 up here: + append-ldflags -ldl + [[ -z

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 emerge in its place.kde-meta?And what

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

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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

[gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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] 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 werecausing some of the dependency trouble, and got carried away with emerge --prune, which I guess is just as broken

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

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

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 emerges, but have since been pruned from

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 of all objects cannot be known

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 That was a bit more productive:Yeah, but I still don't

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