[gentoo-user] vmware-server error log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Everyone, I have been at this for a week now, going from amd64 to x86. I still want to use 2.6.30-r5. When trying to build vmware-server this is the error I am presented with: /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server error log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey William, Thanks again for your help I have attached the complete build log file. I know with the layman overlay vmware-server 2 is easily done but I woule rather vmware-server 1x. I know there are a few pathces for this I just want to make sure after shcking with you guys what I should do.

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server error log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Now for the real build log (oops) vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2.ebuild Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server error log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Arghhh to early in the morining here in Toronto. This is the build.log build.log Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Guys, I really apperciate your help but as it sits I am unable to compile vmware-server 1.x or XEN. I have attached the build log. Basically I know I can larman the new version of vmware-server2 but I heard it is a clunker. I really need to get virtual servers up on the server before I get

[gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and vmware-server build.log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I have been at this for a week, and I am stumped. Trying to emerge vmware-server 1.0.9 using x86 environment and 2.6.30 kernel. I gave up on amd64 earlier this week please help. Attached is the build.log Thanks In Advanced! Ninus. build.log Description: Binary data

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Group, I do not meean to be persistent regarding this problem but I am unable to emerge vmware-server or xen. the error I am experioencing is attached at a the build.log. Environment: x86, 2.6.30-r5 Your Help is Greatly Appreciated, Ninus build.log Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: error compiling virtual box

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Walt, Thank you for your response, I know that there is a number of patches out there but I just want to know which one to use. Surely someone has vmware-server 2 or XEN, or Virtual box running off of the 2.6.30-r5 kenrel. I know that I can uise layman and emerge vmware-server 2 the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Do any of the emulators work with 2.6.30r5 kernel? I am not bound to only vmware, what about XEN, VirtualBox etc... Thanks In Advnaced, Ninus.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Neil, I tried to compile virtualbox using intructions here http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VirtualBox;. And it was unsuccesful, I have attached the build.log Regards, Ninus. build.log Description: Binary data

[gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I have a fresh isntall x86 and I am trying to emerge vmware-server 1.0.9, and I am presented with the follwoing: * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options... * CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS: is not set when it should be. * Please check to make sure these options are

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Stefan, I figured that much, I am in .config - Linux Kernel v2.6.30-gentoo-r5 Configuration right now and I cannot find CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS. Where the hell is this things. Thanks In Advanced! Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I moddified the CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS paramter and when trying to emerge vmware-server I am presented with another error: * * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile *

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I moddified the CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS paramter and when trying to emerge vmware-server I am presented with another error: * * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile *

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
I emerged vmware-modules with no problem but still have a hard time with vmare-server: * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3723: Called linux-mod_src_compile *

[gentoo-user] vmware-server error

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Everyone, I emerged vmware-modules with no problem but still have a hard time with vmare-server: * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3723: Called

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I am having no luck at all trying to emerge vmware-server 1.0.9 using kernel .30 r5. I know vmware 2 can be instlled easily using layman but I do not want that clunker on this 16 core server. The show must go on... what is my safest bet XEN? I need an emulator that can handle

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
I was thinking XEN how will that par up compared to virtualbox?

[gentoo-user] Recompile Gentoo Environemnet

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, what emerge parameters recompiles everything in my gentoo environment afer changing use flags emerge --update --deep --*newuse* world? I issued a emerge -e world and I saw it was installing 450 things so I ctrl+c the process, did I kill everything. Anyhow I would like to

[gentoo-user] error compiling virtual box

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I am recieving the following message when trying to compile virtualbox. I receieved the same error when trying to compile vmwareserver * * ERROR: app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-1.6.6-r1 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile *

[gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type 'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction for the installation of the

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hell Sir, Thank You for your response, I did add it after I sent the original message, chrooted, mounted, and copied over trhe new bzimage file to the /boot partition. Now I am getting special device dev/sda1 does not exist when trying to issue a mount /boot Thanks In Advnaced, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Thank you all for your help, im an idiot everything works perfect. The only problem I am having is that when xdm is loading I am using nvidia-drivers, xdm loads and nothing works no keyboard etc... I am almost there xorg.conf looks ok, modprobe nvidia with no issues. I cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
I am using a Dell D820 ICH7 family, I am chking to see if appropriate modules have been selectd in the kernel right now. Reagrds, Ninus.

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Exactly! In console everything is find. but when I issue startx my keybaord and mouse are non functional. I did remerge xf86 mouse and keyboard and still nothing. I looking into xorg.conf. Regards, Ninus

[gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I got gnome to fire with some problems: 1) startx startx gnome but rc-update add xdm default starts xdm: ~/.xinitrc: exec gnome-session /etc/conf.d/xdm: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm That is not my problem, the reason why I am almost getting blue in the face is because when I issue a

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
dbus is running yes. Please Help :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
hald is running too

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
When I do a: rc-update add xdm default Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought I know its the right username password. Regards, Ninus.

[gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no direcotry message when I log in using console. Regards, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
I was considering something as is pointed out at the following link: http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-a-loadbalanced-mysql-cluster-with-mysql5.1 Regards, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Sir, ~/.xinitrc: exec gnome-session /etc/conf.d/xdm: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm Thank You For Your Response, I did do that. I had Gnome fireed up and working fine, then I am not sure what was it I did that now it fires up using startx but nothing works, my session is not loaded etc.. Thanks In

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
oops I did mean gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
I just created a new user and the home firecotry is fine. However my root user has no home. I did not rename it and /dev/sda3 is mounted. I tries useradd -m root, I am getting useradd:user root exists. fstab - dev/sda3/ ext3 noatime Thanks in Advnaced, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
oops, i'm stupid, I tries to login xdm using root, I saw this was possible using gnome so I figures what the heck. So that is fine (not being able to login xdm using root). But I still have a problem in regard to gnome not being able to work. Firefox does not start, nothing starts not even

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Yes of course Now when I fire up gnome, I see nothing on my desktop and nothing is working (cannot open console, or firefox etc..). I When I load gnome I see: please contact your system administration to resolve the follwoing issue: could not resolve the address xml:readwrite:d/.gconf in the

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Ok I just created a new user and gnome works fine, but with my root it is getting the errors described above.

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Yes for sure, hmmm but its broken an I want to fix it. I have logged into X using root just earlier today and now when I log into console using root I get the No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/. I would like to fix this. fstab is as per the gentoo documentation. Regards, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
oops. I think trying to fiz my original problem of gnome+root, I invented a new one root console + error message (No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/). This is not an error root has /root not home so when someone logs into console using root this message will always show? Sorry about that

[gentoo-user] Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait) Just a few porblems with this fresh install: When logging into gnome I presented with the follwoing messagebox: There was an error starting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Walt, Thank you so much for your response, I am sitting behind the machine right now. (I know we are not suppose to but I just want it to be working as expected) Basically when using root user and logging into console I get my first suspicious message, No direcotory, logging in with HOME=/,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
That does not fail. I can cd /root/Desktop perfectly. What I decided to do is a fresh install to see where it was that I went wrong. fstab and mtab looked ok. I did load the live cd, mounted and chrooted over and saw that echo $HOME did return /root. If I do not make mistakes I will not learn.

[gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-02 Thread Nick Khamis
We are looking to set up a cluster that uses MySQL, UltraMonkey and yours truly Gentoo. Where best to check first then the group of the O.S. of choice. Anyone have any feedback, comments, advice etc... please send them this way. We are looking to set it up for free as in beer so which MySQL

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-02 Thread Nick Khamis
The database cluster will be the backend to our own Customer Relation Management System that needs to be scaled to size and performance. In terms of what is and not is avail in the portage tree can we not just build 5.1 from binary source how hard is this lb_curses etc The problem with MySQL 5

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters

2009-09-02 Thread Nick Khamis
I should also point out that we are interested in load balancing and high availability. Regards, Ninus.

[gentoo-user] Down By The River I Shot My Gentoo

2009-09-01 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone. Long time user not the first time fu_ _ up. I emerge --umerrge e2fsprogs because I was trying to emerge gnome-light. Anyhow I forgot to emerge e2fsprogs now I am recieving the libbkid.s0.1 cannot open error message. proc mounting proc [oops] at bootup. Can I fix this without

[gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-01 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone. I am trying to update-python and I am stuck at checking for working mkstemp. for ever, what should I do.. This is a fresh install AMD64. Thanks in Advanced, Ninus.

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-01 Thread Nick Khamis
I did not change CHOST just CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS as per the manual. h Regards, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-10 Thread Nick Pappin
Not a problem -- W. Nick Pappin On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Dave dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I had the LSI driver loading as a module. I recompiled the kernel and made it monolithic, put in the raid and other drivers in that way and rebooted. It is working

Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-09 Thread Nick Pappin
Do you have the lsi fusion kernel driver installed? -- W. Nick Pappin On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Dave dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Thanks for your reply. I did change the type of the partitions on both disks to fd linux raid autodetect. When i rebooted in to the live CD i

Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-08 Thread Nick Pappin
has a point when you ran fdisk did you change the partition type to auto detect raid. -- W. Nick Pappin On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:07:04 -0400, Dave wrote: Upon reboot i'm seeing mdadm trying to detect the two disks

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to install www-misc/rekonq-9999 (kde-testing) because of git error

2009-05-25 Thread Nick Cunningham
Its been a while since ive used paludis, but do you have the folder permissions set correctly? Normally paludis will (or it used to anyway) complain loudly when the permissions werent set correctly. If they are set correctly what happens when you try to pull the git repo manually? - Nick 2009/5

Re: [gentoo-user] portage bug?

2009-05-17 Thread Nick Fortino
, but make sure to do a full search, as there are misunderstandings of depclean all over b.g.o. Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-10 Thread Nick Fortino
would recommend against running it as a script, but rather do the steps individually (also, if you aren't running amd64, be sure to change the architecture of the binaries you are downloading). Read this line as typical warnings of your mileage may very etc. Nick #Version 0.2, written by Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver

2009-04-10 Thread Nick Fortino
/xscreensaver gnome-extra/gnome-screensaver x11-misc/xlockmore ) ) so either gnome-screensaver or xlockmore will be pulled in to compensate. Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem

2009-04-04 Thread Nick Fortino
to do here, but I won't post it since I'm not terribly sure. Someone with more expertise could help here, but I suspect either method 1 or 2 will work. Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving this block

2009-03-21 Thread Nick Fortino
is installed as part of this upgrade, and then the block is resolved. The output of equery list -p gail should tell you if gail-1000 is masked for some reason. Unmasking gail-1000 should resolve the block, but why it is masked in the first place is rather a mystery. Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving this block

2009-03-21 Thread Nick Fortino
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 21/03/09 Nick Fortino said: It seems like you are reading the message correctly, but you are focusing on the wrong part. The problem here is gail, not gtk+. What should happen is gail-1000 is installed as part of this upgrade, and then the block is resolved

Re: [gentoo-user] Find ebuilds that use a flag

2009-03-13 Thread Nick Fortino
might have Listening to your hard drive grind away should convince you it's doing what you want. It should also convince you to use eix. Either way you do it, media-video/keno is the only one Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed

2009-01-28 Thread Nick Cunningham
be useful (im not saying anything about paludis before any flamewars start, just wanting to rule out the package manager as a cause). It looks like its failing on something to do with webkit maybe, so try rebuilding webkit first? Just some ideas to get you started :) - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo mail server

2009-01-27 Thread Nick Cunningham
emerging). Of course, all these things wont stop you causing breakages, but if you work cautiously and have some idea of what your doing then gentoo does work very well as a server. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync kde-base/

2009-01-27 Thread Nick Cunningham
, there may have been something on the forums too that helped trim the tree down aswell so theres no harm in searching there. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-27 Thread Nick Cunningham
explaining how to work around it and get mysql working so amarok2 builds ok. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync kde-base/

2009-01-27 Thread Nick Cunningham
that if you try this it is totally unsupported and will likely get you flamed/ignored/laughed at if you encounter problems :) - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Nick Cunningham
it, it was very raw (you'll lose data/formatting when converting). Paul I believe if you build OO from source using portage you get GO-OO, however if you use OO-bin you just get the plain OO package. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange local connection requests from my laptop

2009-01-25 Thread Nick Cunningham
this, however i dont recall if transmission has this option. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

2009-01-23 Thread Nick Cunningham
of useful programs to install, and then updated them all to build from ~ARCH and use the funtoo portage tree. My only problem now that im figuring out is how to use the script in the sysrescd repo to combine the x86 and amd64 cds into one unified final cd. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

2009-01-21 Thread Nick Cunningham
believe theres a qt-copy in the THE overlay, although i havent had a chance to confirm it. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Nick Cunningham
from baselayout 1 they may not be automatically added to the right runlevels. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] how to start thunderbird/firefox in a different language?

2009-01-20 Thread Nick Cunningham
-localization.xml It may not fix your problem but it should help you at least ensure your system is setup correctly for the languages you want to use. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Nick Cunningham
on the gentoo forums and the wiki i think for setting up binpkg hosts. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Nick Cunningham
(and especially low RAM) machine is ill-advised and can often be the cause of build failures as OO is well known to require a lot of RAM and hdd space while it compiles. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash only works once

2009-01-20 Thread Nick Cunningham
with my hardened kernel settings? - Grant That looks suspiciously like its to do with your hardened setup. I too have 64bit FF and 64 flash working nicely here, so glad to be done with nspluginwrapper, which barely ever worked for me anyway :( - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Anxiousness? [was:Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?]

2009-01-20 Thread Nick Cunningham
of well tested packages from ARCH, or the chance to get newer packages, but with a chance of bugs and potential breakage by using ~ARCH. Im a happy ~ARCH user myself, and have been for a long time, however i do stick to using plain ARCH on my little server just to keep it stable and happy. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout and openrc issues from inside a vserver

2009-01-19 Thread Nick Cunningham
have to add them to /etc/portage/package.keywords aswell as i think they are still ~ARCH only. If you not sure whats needed then emerge the program autounmask and that will add all the entries (including any dependancies) automatically. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout and openrc issues from inside a vserver

2009-01-19 Thread Nick Cunningham
migration guide or you risk severely hosing your system! http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-14 Thread Nick Cunningham
the 0.9.3 ebuilds attached to bugzilla [1], however if your feeling brave the live - ebuilds do work quite well. - Nick [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232036

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-13 Thread Nick Cunningham
solution is to move to the new gecko-mediaplayer which is built for firefox 3 and is the successor to mplayer-plugin. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge question: What's with the @?

2009-01-13 Thread Nick Cunningham
imagine once portage 2.20 goes stable we'l see great set adoption. An easy way to see what sets are available is to use the emerge --list-sets command. -Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge question: What's with the @?

2009-01-13 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/13 Chris Lieb chris.l...@gmail.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Cunningham wrote: 2009/1/13 Chris Lieb chris.l...@gmail.com mailto:chris.l...@gmail.com I've noticed lately on the ML that people have been talking about using package sets

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge question: What's with the @?

2009-01-13 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/13 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Chris Lieb chris.l...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Cunningham wrote: 2009/1/13 Chris Lieb chris.l...@gmail.com mailto:chris.l

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-09 Thread Nick Cunningham
like sourceforge that may cause you problems. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Nick Cunningham
of baselayout (and openrc if you run ~arch). For reference xdm should be the 2nd to last (or thereabouts) script to run, normally just before local. (also, are you sure this is X starting and not just a framebuffer splash?) - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Nick Cunningham
! rc_parallel=NO Ideally you want it set to NO to ensure everything starts when it is meant to. Hopefully one of these suggestions will help, if not the next idea is to move to openrc if your not already as that may help, although there is some risk involved in the upgrade. - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Nick Cunningham
read the migration guide and follow it to the letter otherwise you risk being left with an unbootable system: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml - Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd uses fake MAC address

2008-10-25 Thread Nick Stinemates
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:34:36PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 25 Oktober 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Nick Stinemates wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 02:07:20AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: My router has big problems assigning the correct IPs to Gentoo boxes

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd uses fake MAC address

2008-10-24 Thread Nick Stinemates
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 02:07:20AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: My router has big problems assigning the correct IPs to Gentoo boxes. If the NIC in the box has a MAC address of, say, 01:00:12:11:41:49:1e, dhcpd reports something else to router: ff:42:54:59:20:00:1c:21:e0:42:c2 Why is

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com - Needs your help!

2008-10-23 Thread Nick Pappin
I would second all of this I use gentoo-wiki almost everyday and it is killing me that it isnt up. I think this would be a great service if we can give it to the community. -- W. Nick Pappin IT Staff Latah Federal Credit Union 208.874.4394 On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Steven Susbauer

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-20 Thread Nick Pappin
well could you use wget to get the files because they have a built in rate limiter so you can say 120K or whatever Nick On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:21:48 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I should upgrade to the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] adding python module

2008-04-25 Thread Nick Stinemates
directory to the $PYTHONPATH. To see what that is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $PYTHONPATH /usr/lib/portage/pym Next option is to put it in /usr/lib/python2.4(or 2.5)/site-packages Last, but certainly not least, put the python module in your python projects root directory -- Nick Stinemates

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SSH port forwards behind restrictive firewall

2008-02-18 Thread Nick Stinemates
? I don't have a direct answer, but it depends on the configuration of the firewall. You can analyze for content and you can also allow all traffic. -- == Nick Stinemates ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://nick.stinemates.org AIM: Nick Stinemates MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with qt? Almost ALL masked or keyworded now.

2008-02-18 Thread Nick Stinemates
for a while so I assume it needs qt3 but yet KDE 4.0 needs qt4 if I understand correctly. What's the best thing to do here? Thanks Dale :-) :-) Are you sure you didn't unmask your qt package using /etc/portage/package.keywords and install the wrong version? -- == Nick Stinemates

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox mplayerplug-in problem

2007-12-10 Thread Nick
-nl -pl -pt_BR -ru -se -zh_CN * media-libs/win32codecs [R 20071007-r2] target -real Does anyone have any suggestions? Perhaps if nothing comes to light in the next few days you could open a bug report? Good luck, Nick -- GPG Key : www.njw.me.uk/nick.gpg.asc GPG Key ID

[gentoo-user] Removing a nuissance message regarding FreeFontPath on exitting X

2007-11-27 Thread Nick
; fixing. Evidently it doesn't do a very good job of fixing, as the message appears every time. I tried mkfontcache etc to no avail, and was wondering if anyone else experiences this, what it means, and how to stop it complaining? Thanks for any advice / clues. Nick -- GPG Key : www.njw.me.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question

2007-10-06 Thread Nick
bet for the firmware route, which I'd recommend (AFAIK breaking css is illegal under the dmca anyway, so I can't see this as being a much bigger legal issue than playing any encrypted DVD under Linux). IANAL, of course. If in doubt, move to Finland. -Nick Can't find rpcl.org

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question

2007-10-05 Thread Nick
breaking css is illegal under the dmca anyway, so I can't see this as being a much bigger legal issue than playing any encrypted DVD under Linux). IANAL, of course. If in doubt, move to Finland. -Nick -- GPG Key : www.njw.me.uk/nick.gpg.asc GPG Key ID: 04E4653F GPG Fingerprint: 9732 D7C7 A441 D79E

Re: [gentoo-user] playing mms with totem

2007-09-03 Thread Nick Rout
)(-a52 -debug dvd -ffmpeg -flac gnome -hal -lirc -mad -mpeg nsplugin -nvtv ogg -seamonkey -theora vorbis -xulrunner -xv) Homepage:http://gnome.org/projects/totem/ Description: Media player for GNOME -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Nick Rout -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Can't compile eix

2007-07-28 Thread Nick Rout
I have a much abused gentoo system on which I was trying to update eix. I get quite a few errors and i am not sure how far back up the output to go. Heres the last bits anyway. Can anyone tell me what I can do to fix that? ../../src/search/redundancy.h:37: error: syntax error before `,' token

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-20 Thread Nick
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:50:04AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Nick wrote: So, I'm planning to run sudo emerge --sync and sudo glsa-check -f new from a cron job, perhaps once a week. I can set up the sudoers part all fine, but is there anything I should

[gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-19 Thread Nick
, perhaps once a week. I can set up the sudoers part all fine, but is there anything I should watch out for / consider when running these maintenance tools from a cron job? Thanks, -Nick -- GPG Key : www.njw.me.uk/nick.gpg.asc GPG Key ID: 04E4653F GPG Fingerprint: 9732 D7C7 A441 D79E FDF0 94F6

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