Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
The last line will delete the .old files you just created when it
syncs /usr/portage/profiles.
Nice catch! Thank you.
Changed the directory for the old files to /var/portage/profiles. That
should be safe.
echo "Save old use.desc"
mkdir -p /var/portage/pr
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
The -pv output of emerge shows this. A flag that was not available in your
current version but it available in the one you are installing, will be
colored yellow and postfixed with '%'.
Great. So something like the following in my cron.daily/portage.update
Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote:
Roy Wright wrote:
This has me wondering if there is a utility to help manage the use
flags. I'd like
to know:
* Which use flags I have set that are not used by anything I have
installed.
* Which use flags are deprecated.
* Which use flags ar
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF. There should be an ebuild in
bugzilla; but it's trivial to install. It's not a X application, but
it /is/, despite the name, a wizard that does all of the "heavy lifting"
for you.
Just tried acidrip which is mplayer bas
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Plus, it's /completely/ trivial to add -* to your USE or (using the great
euse tool) euse -D . Or, for those type A personalities out
there, tweak your /etc/portage/package.use.
Another tool is ufed (use flag editor). Nicely combines flag name, set
state, a
eth1 so I'm having to start it with
/usr/sbin/dhcpd eth1
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To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dhcpd question
/etc/conf.d/net:
config_eth1=( "dh
/etc/conf.d/net:
config_eth1=( "dhcp" )
HTH,
Roy
CR Little wrote:
How do you setup dhcpd to default start on eth1 vs eth0?
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Joseph wrote:
I just noticed that the PHP5 has been marked stable.
Are the any instruction on how to upgrade from PHP4 to PHP5
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml
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krgn wrote:
hey,
I have tried to configure TwinView for my laptop and whatever comes
(projector, crt etc..) and everything seems good except, and that is a
bit annoying, that the desktop (xfce-panel..) is on the wrong screen,
i.e. not on my Laptop display but on the second one. That is a bit sh
Ernie Schroder wrote:
I tried all this a while back and it used too much cpu. It slowed my
XP2400/1gigRAM system down to unacceptable levels. Has this been corrected in
KDE 3.5.x?
Try enabling the backingstore as suggested on the wiki. That solved the
slowness problem
for me. I'm running
Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Sunday 05 February 2006 20:33, Peter Ruskin wrote:
No, I just got transparency working too (thanks to your post) and
I'm seeing exactly the same as you are. Avoid resizing when
transparency/shadows are enabled is my advice.
Update: Control Centre -> Desktop ->
Howdy,
Played around and got Transparency working with KDE 3.5.1. In the past
it had been extremely slow. This time I found:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency
which proved to be very useful (THANK YOU to the author(s)). I was missing:
Option "backingstore" "true"
f
Simon Kellett wrote:
Chan Min Wai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Why The [Account Setting] And [Preference] is Under the [Edit] Menu
Where on the windows build it is under the [Tools] Menu.
Any Idea?
It is the difference between what someone considers "standard" for
Windows vs. Unix. (
Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
Beau E. Cox wrote:
Hi -
I try:
# emerge -uD world -p
...
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10]
OK. So I do it:
# emerge -uD world
[SUCCESS]
Now I check again:
# emerge -uD world -p
...
Calculating w
Richard Fish wrote:
On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way
through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up
around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed do
Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote:
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Hi all,
I just updated kde to 3.5.0.
One thing I noticed with Kate is that when I type in konsole: kate
somefile, it spawns another kate process and not reuse the already
running kate.
This used to happen with 3.4.
Richard Fish wrote:
On 12/22/05, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
'dev-db/mysqltool' has no ebuilds available
'dev-java/htmlparser' has no ebuilds available
'media-libs/divx4linux' has no ebuilds available
What I'm not sure about i
Howdy,
Updated portage today and it gave me a warning that there are
problems in my world file:
Calculating world dependencies
!!! Problems have been detected with your world file
!!! Please run emaint --check world
So ran the check:
royw-gentoo ~ # emaint --check world
Checking world for prob
Daniel Heemann wrote:
Add the user to the plugdev group.
That worked!
Thank you,
Roy
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Howdy,
Just upgraded KDE to 3.5 and have a minor problem.
When I start KDE with a SM memory card installed
in my USB reader, a removable media icon shows on
the desktop. If I remove the memory card, the icon
goes away. If I reinsert it, then the icon reappears
and I get the "A new medium has
Thank y'all. Tried phpMyAdmin and it worked like a charm!
Back to rails...
Thanks again,
Roy
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Howdy,
Finally completed the gcc 3.4.4 upgrade and thought I'd pass along a few
hard learned lessons.
I run a mostly stable system updated almost daily. The sync is
ran as part of cron.daily.
Lesson #1, turn off cron portage scripts prior to multi-day emerge.
Got bit by some Sun java package
Howdy,
I'm playing with Ruby On Rails but am severely SQL challenged.
I'd like to just create some simple tables (integers, strings, dates).
I've been trying to find a MySQL frontend that works. The
closest is mysql administrator, except the SQL generated
doesn't work. Kexi errors when trying t
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
After upgrading gcc I did the safer post-installation,
emerge -e system
emerge -e world
The first went fine. The second died after about 300 emerges and
printed
making executable: /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-1.1.so.3.0.5
>>> Completed installing gtkhtml-1.1.10-r1 into
glen martin wrote:
note the lack of apache. Now:
# emerge --pretend --verbose apache
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] net-www/apache-2.0.55 +apache2 -debug -doc +ldap
-mpm-leader -mpm-peruser -mpm-prefork -mpm-threadpool
Daevid Vincent wrote:
Okay I'm beyond annoyed.
Every day at around 3:00AM is when cron stops working until I reset it
manually.
What actually causes the cron.daily stuff to run?! How can I disable it
temporarily??
/etc/crontab only removes some touched files it looks like
"You had me at EHLO
John Dangler wrote:
Roy~
Thanks for the reply. I actually used genkernel to make the kernel. I used
'genkernel all'. That's why I'm a little confused as to why this didn't
take effect. The previous kernel was also built with genkernel and didn't
have any problems.
Regards,
JD
I'm about
John Dangler wrote:
hrmm...
I recompile the new kernel, before rebooting, I run module-rebuild list...
and get one entry - "=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4"
So, I reboot the new kernel, and get no Ethernet, no wireless, no sound,
nonvidia, and the vga mode is wrong. (the grub entry is a
John Dangler wrote:
Holly~
Thanks for the reply. It seems fairly straightforward. From reading this,
I would think that running module-rebuild populate would be the first task.
Add/Del package would be for building discriminate versions of a kernel
(presumably for locating problems or just te
/dev for
nvidia.
Any help is appreciated.
TIA
-tracy
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From: Roy Wright
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 3:07 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV
message
One word. mouse
You probably need to change /d
One word. mouse
You probably need to change /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice
in xorg.conf.
HTH,
Roy
Richard Fish wrote:
Budd, Tracy wrote:
Ok. I removed the /dev/.devfsd and now UDEV works, but now I am getting
an
X windows error. "... Screens found but none have a usable
configuration."
I tr
Budd, Tracy wrote:
Whenever I boot up my machine, I get a message to the effect "The Gentoo
system initialization scripts have detected that your system does not
support DEVFS or UDEV..." I have included all of the appropriate kernel
options and emerged UDEV, hotplug, etc. per the Handbook. Anyo
Boot off of LiveCD, chroot, start repairing...
When I've hosed my system, I go back to the Gentoo Handbook:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml
to get into the chroot.
Then look in the logs (/var/log/*) for hints...
Always a good idea to dispatch-conf, revdep-rebuild, revd
Dave Oxley wrote:
I have just downgraded udev to 068-r1 and my server now boots again.
I'm about to do the same with my other Gentoo machine. The only thing
the 2 machines have in common is that they both have SATA drives, so I
wonder if this is causing the new udev a problem.
Dave.
Dave Ox
Matthew R. Lee wrote:
On Sunday 16 October 2005 19:04, Zac Medico wrote:
Matthew R. Lee wrote:
libhal.c 644 : Error connecting to system bus: Failed to connect to
socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
Are you sure that the dbus service is running? You shou
Richard Fish wrote:
Looking through /sbin/rc, gentoo will disable udev if any of the
following are true:
1. RC_DEVICES is set to "devfs".
2. The kernel command line contains "noudev".
3. The kernel version is less than 2.6.0.
4. /sbin/udev does not exist or is not an executable file
5. The f
gentuxx wrote:
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Hi all,
I went to do my routine "emerge -Duptv world" and it came back with
devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether
John Jolet wrote:
On Thursday 06 October 2005 20:52, Matthias Langer wrote:
Joe Menola wrote:
On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote:
I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition,
because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be grea
Holly Bostick wrote:
That's almost it--
1) copy the ebuild and /files folder to your overlay
(/usr/local/portage/media-sound/aumix/, assuming that your
PORTDIR_OVERLAY is /usr/local/portage);
2) copy the patch to the /files folder in the overlay folder with the
other aumix patches;
3) edit th
Howdy,
With Holly's praise of fvwm-crystal I thought I'd give it a try.
But then I hit bug 89594 with aumix. The sound team provided
a patch, aumix-2.8-autoconf.patch, which will create the two
missing config files (they didn't fix the ebuild because it works
on their systems). Now I'm trying t
Alex wrote:
On Saturday 03 September 2005 17:14, Roy Wright wrote:
Any ideas?
Probably they're pulled as a dependency from a 3.4.1 kde-package.
run:
# equery depends kde-base/arts
# equery depend kde-base/kdelibs
# equery depend kde-base/kwin
and try to find what's pu
Howdy,
I have my system set up to sync every night then send me a notification
message.
I then examine what has changed and decide when to do the emerge.
For the past week, emerge -uDNv world has been toggling arts, kdelibs,
and kwin.
What I mean is that if 3.4.1 is installed then it upgrades
Harry Putnam wrote:
Followin a well overdue emerge world -u I have no network on reboot.
The pieces seem to be there, although I'm not sure I remember what all
goes into it.
/etc/conf.d/net has the eht0 address and gateway address but its not
getting set on bootup.
I can ifconfig and route it
Howdy,
Just curious if there is a utility to help cleanup package.keywords.
Mainly it would be nice to remove testing packages from package.keywords
when the packages are marked stable.
TIA,
Roy
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Harry Putnam wrote:
Well according to the installed docu.. there is supposed to be:
From the `Usage' html page: (Note the last item)
Now run bbgallery to create the galleries. Without any parameters it
will use the following default values:
* Look for images in the default directory
*
Holly Bostick wrote:
Harry Putnam schreef:
First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies.
I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently
not made it to the server.
I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and
web gallery s
Try the "Bookmarks Synchronizer" firefox plugin. Works for me... :-)
HTH,
Roy
krzaq wrote:
Is there a way to export a whole profile (including bookmarks, saved
passwords, extensions, themes) in Mozilla Firefox?
I want to export my Firefox profile to two machines: windowsXP and
another gent
Michael Sullivan wrote:
Yesterday I got my external DVD-RW/CD-RW drive in. I
added dvd use flags to /etc/make.conf and issued
"emerge uDN world". The first package in the emerge
is xcdroast, which is good because that's what I use
to write CDs (and DVDs if I can get this to work.)
emerge wan
Rumen Yotov wrote:
Hi Roy,
Just guessing here but seems you have SATA drives not IDE, don't
use/know much about SATA yet ;) but maybe this have something to do with
the error on activating DMA, from the logs your hard-disk *is* using
UDMA-133 & PIO4 ?
Could check BIOS-settings, other thoughts he
Rumen Yotov wrote:
Hi,
First thing to do is to make sure you have support for your mobos'
chipset into kernel-config.
Then emerge/install hdparm and have a customized '/etc/conf.s/hdparm' file.
Ex.(mine):
hda_args="-d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64" // this is for my hard disk
all_args="-d1"
Joseph wrote:
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:03 -0600, Joseph wrote:
I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it
support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1
It will not let me.
Was the limit set by the manufacture?
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I think the issue might b
David Morgan wrote:
On 09:47 Fri 29 Jul , Roy Wright wrote:
Howdy,
Anyone else getting the following error on jpeg-mmx-0.1.6?
How about https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100555 or
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100647 ?
It should be fixed now anyway, so next time
Howdy,
Anyone else getting the following error on jpeg-mmx-0.1.6?
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share
--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--include-dir=/usr/include/jpeg-mmx
emerge --pretend --changelog
will display the change log(s). I usually do
emerge -uDNv world -pl
then if I like it, just delete the -pl to do the merge.
Have fun,
Roy
Myk Taylor wrote:
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>I think if you're using Gentoo, there is an assumption th
Thanks for the extension (checking for ewarn & eerror). I'm
still getting a handle on gentoo ;-)
I borrowed a portage.cron script from off of this list and run
it under cron.daily. One of my changes to the script is to run
einfo (I also pull down the files so they are ready for compile
after I r
You are probably building it into the kernel and trying to load it
as an alsa module. Do one or the other.
I.e., if you want it built into the kernel, then remove it from
/etc/modules.d/alsa
#options snd-intel8x0 index=0
If you want it as a module, then set CONFIG=SND_INTEL8X0=M in
/usr/src/linu
Here's a perl script to display the einfo lines of packages to
be merged. Just run it with the same options you will use for
emerge. Example:
einfo -uDN world >einfo.txt
emerge -uDN world
less einfo.txt
You will probably want to save the output to refer to after
emerging.
Enjoy,
Roy
#!/
Howdy,
I have two machines that are regularly moved between two sub-nets.
One a gentoo desktop, the other (boo hiss) that sorry excuse for an
operating system laptop. Now the two subnets are my hardware VPN
at home, and the office. Both machines need DHCP. I also have a third
box (gentoo) at h
I followed these directions. Works nicely.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Local_Rsync_Mirror
Have fun,
Roy
Kurt Guenther wrote:
>I have serveral machines that all update from a mirror. Is there a
>portage cache that would allow a single machine to fetch updated
>packages and let itself and ot
Howdy,
I've tried every search permutation I can think of without luck so am
hoping someone here might have a good reference.
I'm working on a java app where I'd like to be able to accept Thunderbird
attachments as XDnD drops. Thunderbird attachments are dropped as x-moz-url
mime types that are
Another option is to just compile the framebuffer into the kernel.
That's what I did.
Graphics support:
[*] Support for frame buffer devices
<*> VESA VGA graphics support
VESA driver type (vesafb-tng) --->
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) VESA defau
Howdy,
I've been lurking on the grub threads here while trying to get grub
working for the past couple of months.
Let's skip my trials with w2k on s/w raid (that os is now archived ;),
lilo on a USB memory stick, 30+ hours of research, trials, errors, and
reboots.
The directions for creating a
Howdy,
Just had a weirdy. I was emerging unison on my home server. I was lazy
and instead of walking the 6 feet to do it from the console, I just opened
a konsole from my workstation. Got the following error:
386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o .libs/gdk-pixbuf-scan gdk-pixbuf-scan.o -rdynamic
../gdk-pixb
) version. To downgrade, remove the entries from
the package.keywords file.
HTH,
Roy
Fernando Meira wrote:
> Will this way prevent an emerge -uD world to downgrade the KDE version?
>
> Thanks,
> Fernando
>
> On 6/15/05, *Roy Wright* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
>
First unmask the top level package, example:
echo "kde-base/kdebase-meta ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
Then just run this script, example:
unmask.pl kdebase-meta
You might want to save a copy of package.keywords then compare the
two for sanity before emerging.
Have fun,
Roy
Janne
I left the default java as blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01 so emerging doesn't
break, then set my Eclipse up to run using sun-jdk-1.5.0.03
(/usr/bin/eclipse-3 -vm /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.03/bin/java). I usually launch
my programs via a script and for now just specify the jre in the script.
BTW, 1.5 offers a re
system
default.
Thank you,
Roy
Neil Bothwick wrote:
>On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:31:52 -0500, Roy Wright wrote:
>
>
>
>>OK, I give. How do you configure media?
>>I tried:
>>* Add New | Web SideBar Module
>>** Name = Media
>>** URL = media:/
>>But thi
OK, I give. How do you configure media?
I tried:
* Add New | Web SideBar Module
** Name = Media
** URL = media:/
But this gives a "An error occurred while loading media:/; Malformed URL
media:/."
when clicked.
TIA,
Roy
Neil Bothwick wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:36:23 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
>
Howdy,
Over the past few months since my first gentoo install, I have
yet to discover how do I find out the current state of masked
ebuilds. I.e., I'm looking for 1) why are they masked, and 2) any
known issues with the build.
I can look up the package on packages.gentoo.org, but can't
find this
The shutdown problem is because /sbin/halt is missing. Emerging baselayout
restored /sbin/halt.
Have fun,
Roy
Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
>On Saturday 04 June 2005 12:49 am, Roy Wright wrote:
>
>
>>Howdy,
>>
>>I'm seeing an interesting change in behaviour betw
Howdy,
I'm seeing an interesting change in behaviour between 3.4.0 and 3.4.1.
When told to turn off or reboot the computer, KDM now exits to a console
login prompt instead of shutting down. Any ideas?
Overall 3.4.1 is feeling more stable. The only seg faults have been on
shutdown. Konqueror wo
in /boot/grub/grub.conf, did you change your kernel root?
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
HTH,
Roy
Gentoo Linux Mailing List Client wrote:
>yeah I did that as well.
>grub is not the problem as far as I can tell.
>I get the boot menu just fine.
>my system stops when it tries to (re
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