Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-29 Thread dhk
On 04/29/2010 06:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 00:43:41 dhk wrote: >> While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran "mke2fs /dev/sda1" >> instead of "mke2fs /dev/hda1". When I realized the mistake (about 2 >> seconds later) I

[gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-29 Thread dhk
ff or is it unrecoverable? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo via Gentoo ?

2010-04-18 Thread dhk
On 04/18/2010 12:30 PM, dhk wrote: > On 04/18/2010 10:37 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> dhk [10-04-18 16:20]: >>> On 04/18/2010 09:58 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yes, you should be able to,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo via Gentoo ?

2010-04-18 Thread dhk
On 04/18/2010 10:37 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > dhk [10-04-18 16:20]: >> On 04/18/2010 09:58 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, you should be able to, installing Gentoo is basically just copying >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo via Gentoo ?

2010-04-18 Thread dhk
or a stage4 install. You may want to look into that: a stage4 install. The documentation is at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4 and it looks pretty good and simple. This may be the way you want to go. dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Custom Stage4

2010-04-11 Thread dhk
On 04/11/2010 03:39 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:45:09 -0400, dhk wrote: > >> For example open office is almost 10 Gigs, > > How did that happen? It's around 290MB here, and that's before > compression. The package built when I installed it

[gentoo-user] Custom Stage4

2010-04-11 Thread dhk
to exclude that and just about everything else I installed over the years, but have it installed when I run the "emerge -uDN world" command. Thanks, dhk

[gentoo-user] bluez

2010-03-13 Thread dhk
the difference and when would one be used in place of the other two? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with xfce4 and Firefox

2010-03-12 Thread dhk
Daniel Wagener wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:29:09 -0500 > dhk wrote: > >> I don't use sound very often, but recently I noticed when I play news >> videos in Firefox there isn't any sound coming through the headphones. >> It's an Intel 32bit box wi

[gentoo-user] Sound with xfce4 and Firefox

2010-03-11 Thread dhk
topped working after an upgrade. Is this something to do with xfce4, Firefox, or something else? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Embeding a Terminal in a GTK Window

2010-03-09 Thread dhk
Damian wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:01 AM, dhk wrote: >> Is it possible to embed a terminal window in a gtk window? >> >> I want to be able to run a text program as usual, but have it wrapped in >> the GTK window so I can scroll output and other stuff to a textvi

[gentoo-user] Embeding a Terminal in a GTK Window

2010-03-08 Thread dhk
Is it possible to embed a terminal window in a gtk window? I want to be able to run a text program as usual, but have it wrapped in the GTK window so I can scroll output and other stuff to a textview. Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-14 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Friday 12 February 2010 00:58:52 dhk wrote: >>> I put /usr/bin/java back the way it was. >>> ln -s /usr/bin/run-java-tool /usr/bin/java >>> >>> I set the CLASSPATH, got it from java-config --runtime >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 12 February 2010 00:58:52 dhk wrote: >> I put /usr/bin/java back the way it was. >> ln -s /usr/bin/run-java-tool /usr/bin/java >> >> I set the CLASSPATH, got it from java-config --runtime >> export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/opt/sun-j

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 12 February 2010 00:10:06 dhk wrote: > >> My /usr/bin/java was linked to run-java-tool, don't know what that is. >> # ll /usr/bin/java >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 11 11:20 /usr/bin/java -> run-java-tool > > That

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
walt wrote: > On 02/11/2010 12:06 PM, dhk wrote: >> >> Where's a good place to set J2EE_HOME (/opt/sun-j2ee-1.3.1/) and >> JAVA_HOME? Should it be in each user's profile? If I wanted to set >> them globally for all users should they go in /etc/profile ? &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:06:50 dhk wrote: >> Another question about this. >> >> Where's a good place to set J2EE_HOME (/opt/sun-j2ee-1.3.1/) and >> JAVA_HOME? Should it be in each user's profile? If I wanted to set >> th

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: > Dale wrote: >> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>>> On Thursday 11 February 2010 15:19:57 dhk wrote: >>>> >>>>> How do I find out the missing ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
Dale wrote: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 11 February 2010 15:19:57 dhk wrote: >>> >>>> How do I find out the missing keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee? >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 15:19:57 dhk wrote: >> How do I find out the missing keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee? >> >> I tried dev-java/sun-j2ee ~amd64 java in /etc/portage/package.keywords >> and tried adding ACCEPT_LICENSE="sun-bcla-j2ee

[gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
by: missing keyword) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread dhk
Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> Possibly you installed something other than xfce4-meta? >> >> firefly ~ # emerge -ep xfce4-meta | grep xfce | grep utils >> [ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1 >> firefly ~ # > > I'm just seconding fireflys' report. I suspect xfce4 expects y

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread dhk
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Hi, Gentoo, >> >> The Subject: just about says it all; following the instructions in "The >> Xfce Configuration Guide", I did >> >># emerge -avt xfce4-meta >> >> followed by >> >>$ echo "exec startxfce4" > ~/.xi

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all hard-links and soft-links?

2010-02-03 Thread dhk
th. find -L -type l I would recommend testing these in /tmp or in a subdirectory first before running them from /. dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a usb Demo Disk

2010-01-25 Thread dhk
Kyle Bader wrote: >> Is there a way to install a program that runs on Gentoo on a usb stick? >> I would like to be able to booted to the usb stick and run the program >> in a Gentoo environment? Basically I would like to make a demo disk >> with the program and just enough of the OS so it works.

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-25 Thread dhk
ltime. I found my bios time was not right, I forget why, but I would set the time in the bios and after rebooting it was wrong again. I think I was sync'ing the time with hwclock and since I was only six hours off it eventually cleared up overnight. Also check /etc/conf.d/clock and make sure you don't have anything unusual in there. dhk

[gentoo-user] Making a usb Demo Disk

2010-01-25 Thread dhk
somewhere between making a liveusb and stage 4. Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins

2010-01-07 Thread dhk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 07 January 2010 02:33:14 dhk wrote: >> When do I need gstreamer? When I run the "emerge --search >> @media-plugins/gst-plugins" command I get a lot of results and I have no >> idea what I need to install for what I want to do. >

[gentoo-user] gst-plugins

2010-01-06 Thread dhk
n. Anyone know how I find out which one I need? I pretty sure I need a gst-plugin, but not sure. Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown

2010-01-04 Thread dhk
José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > Hello. > > When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system > does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then > the XFCE session is closed. > > Unable to perform shutdown > error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determ

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 'Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap'

2009-12-11 Thread dhk
Is evdev complied into your kernel? It should be. Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I emerged xorg-server-1.6.5-r1, as well as > x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.0, xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0, > xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0 and xf86-input-evdev-2.3.1 and now I can't get > past the xdm login screen. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I solve "emerge @preserved-rebuild" loop?

2009-12-08 Thread dhk
gt; revdep-rebuild won't help you here, as the binaries are not broken. It will > only confirm internal consistency once preserved-rebuild appears to have > sorted itself out. > > I have the same problem, but the "emerge -av1 util-linux" has blocking issues with sys-fs/e2fsprogs. Whenever I remove sys-fs stuff I usually regret it. dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-08 Thread dhk
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 06:36:25PM -0500, dhk wrote > >> I started hald and rebuilt the drivers: startx still fails. > > I've hard-masked hal and dbus (and pam) in /etc/portage/package.mask > and X runs OK. > > From your messages, I

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread dhk
David wrote: > dhk wrote: > >> I hate to ask . . . how do I recompile all drivers? >> >> > > This should do it; > emerge $(qlist -C -I x11-drivers/) -1av > > also make sure hald is running; > rc-update show > > do you have support for evdev incl

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread dhk
Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 12/4/2009 2:39 PM, dhk wrote: >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:52 -0500, dhk wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread dhk
walt wrote: > On 12/04/2009 11:39 AM, dhk wrote: >> ... >> I also ran "set opengl set ati" but that didn't make a difference, now I >> don't know how to reverse that cammand. > > I think you mean "eselect opengl set ati", don't you?

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread dhk
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:52 -0500, dhk wrote: > >> I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors saying >> no ati, vesa, fbdev modules and then no windows. > > Please post the actual error messages. > > The follow

[gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-03 Thread dhk
but the clean install fails. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 3.5.4 crashes

2009-11-12 Thread dhk
walt wrote: > On 11/12/2009 05:18 AM, dhk wrote: >> Recently I updated firefox to 3.5.4 and now it crashes on some web pages >> that use java script... > > Can you give some example pages? Are those crashes 100% reproducible? > > > Yes they are 100% reproducible.

[gentoo-user] firefox 3.5.4 crashes

2009-11-12 Thread dhk
time xulrunner was updated and there was some blocking with a library which was unmerged and then reemerged. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk

[gentoo-user] Emerging app-text/spellutils-0.7 fails

2009-10-30 Thread dhk
Below is the output from the failed emerge of app-text/spellutils-0.7 . The error is an access violation, but I don't know why. It seems to be the /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/spellutils.mo file but that file doesn't exist. # ls -l /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/spellutils.mo ls: cannot ac

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with a fetch restricted (must be manually downloaded)

2009-10-15 Thread dhk
Dale wrote: > dhk wrote: >> Can someone explain the procedure for the installing software that has a >> fetch restriction? >> >> Whenever I get the "F" for fetch restricted (must be manually >> downloaded) I can't get the build right. Usua

[gentoo-user] emerge with a fetch restricted (must be manually downloaded)

2009-10-14 Thread dhk
penjnlp and net-misc/icaclient . Thanks, --dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-13 Thread dhk
Anton Bobov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:58:56 -0400, dhk wrote: >> When I run alacarte I get the following error. >> >> $ alacarte >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in >> main() >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-13 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: > Anton Bobov wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:13:04 -0400, dhk wrote: >>> After the last update when I got Gnome 2.26 Most everything the the main >>> application menu was gone. I right clicked on the main app panel and >>> selected "Edi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-12 Thread dhk
Anton Bobov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:13:04 -0400, dhk wrote: >> After the last update when I got Gnome 2.26 Most everything the the main >> application menu was gone. I right clicked on the main app panel and >> selected "Edit Menus" and after making

[gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-12 Thread dhk
e window doesn't even come up. How can I fix this? Does anyone know the command line for "Edit Menus"? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick

2009-10-07 Thread dhk
Mick wrote: > What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in > fdisk: > === > Disk /dev/sda: 1010 MB, 1010826752 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread dhk
Marco wrote: > Hi all, > > after emerge --sync && emerge --update world --deep my keyboard (in X) > does not work anymore. Since I am switching to slim after boot, I > cannot even change to a console with Ctrl-Alt-F1. I guess something > went wrong with the Xorg-update. > > I am now using a live-

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool

2009-10-06 Thread dhk
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, dhk wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, dhk wrote: >>>> I recently ran a make clean on a C/Gtk program I'm developing and now >>>> can't run ./configur

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool

2009-10-06 Thread dhk
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, dhk wrote: >> I recently ran a make clean on a C/Gtk program I'm developing and now >> can't run ./configure to rebuild it. It looks like all my libtool links >> are broken. There were links to the followin

[gentoo-user] libtool

2009-10-06 Thread dhk
I recently ran a make clean on a C/Gtk program I'm developing and now can't run ./configure to rebuild it. It looks like all my libtool links are broken. There were links to the following files, but now those files don't exist. /usr/share/libtool/ltmain.sh /usr/share/libtool/config.sub /usr/shar

[gentoo-user] Icons on the xfce4 Desktop

2009-09-19 Thread dhk
I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something happened where the icons disappeared. When I go to the Desktop folder I can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again or they are displayed but off the screen. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-30 Thread dhk
Stroller wrote: > > On 29 Jun 2009, at 13:53, dhk wrote: >>>> ... >>>> What do I do at this point to communicate with the device? >>> >>> Are you sure the device should appear as a mass storage device? That >>> appears to be what you'

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-29 Thread dhk
Dale wrote: > Stroller wrote: >> On 29 Jun 2009, at 12:48, dhk wrote: >> >>> I have a wireless hand held scanner that is temporary connected with a >>> usb cable. I would like to embed Gentoo on it, but I don't know the >>> mount. How can I find th

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-29 Thread dhk
Stroller wrote: > > On 29 Jun 2009, at 12:48, dhk wrote: > >> I have a wireless hand held scanner that is temporary connected with a >> usb cable. I would like to embed Gentoo on it, but I don't know the >> mount. How can I find the device? >> >&

[gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-29 Thread dhk
I have a wireless hand held scanner that is temporary connected with a usb cable. I would like to embed Gentoo on it, but I don't know the mount. How can I find the device? > lsscsi # just shows the scsi hard drive. > cat /proc/partitions # just shows the eide and scsi partitions. > lsusb # This

[gentoo-user] Bluetooth Setup

2009-06-10 Thread dhk
until then I'd like to be able to stop whatever is doing it. 2) The sdpd process, I don't know why it didn't get installed and if that's causing me problems. The documentation to setup bluetooth seemed easy, I don't know why it didn't work. Thanks, --dhk

[gentoo-user] CUPS and Lexmark x7675

2009-05-26 Thread dhk
I have a Lexmark x7675 printer connected to my network. When trying to add a printer through the cups interface, Lexmark doesn't appear in the list of manufactures. Will this printer work with CUPS/Gentoo (amd64)? How can it be set up? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes

2009-05-24 Thread dhk
Robin Atwood wrote: On Saturday 23 May 2009, dhk wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM, dhk wrote: Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been hoping the problem woul

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes

2009-05-23 Thread dhk
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM, dhk wrote: Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been hoping the problem would get fixed, but it hasn't been yet. For example I can n

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes

2009-05-21 Thread dhk
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM, dhk wrote: Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been hoping the problem would get fixed, but it hasn't been yet. For example I can n

[gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes

2009-05-20 Thread dhk
Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been hoping the problem would get fixed, but it hasn't been yet. For example I can not even go to ebay ( http://www.ebay.com ), the page flashes and then firef

Re: [gentoo-user] Kino Crashes Opening Files

2009-05-15 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: dhk wrote: I originally posted this question to the kino group. The chain of emails is below. The problem is that kino crashes when opening a file, clicking on a folder that has a video file in it, or when passing it in on the command line. I removed and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kino Crashes Opening Files

2009-05-15 Thread dhk
Saphirus Sage wrote: dhk wrote: I originally posted this question to the kino group. The chain of emails is below. The problem is that kino crashes when opening a file, clicking on a folder that has a video file in it, or when passing it in on the command line. I removed and reinstalled kino

[gentoo-user] Kino Crashes Opening Files

2009-05-15 Thread dhk
1.3.3 file is causing a problem somehow. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk Dan Dennedy wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:54 AM, dhk wrote: Dan Dennedy wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:08 AM, dhk wrote: dhk wrote: Carl Karsten wrote: On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:27 AM, dhk wrote: I don't edit video very

[gentoo-user] USB barcode scanner

2009-05-03 Thread dhk
I have a 2-dimensional usb bar code scanner that I'm trying to get working ( This is the exact one if interested: http://www.barcodesinc.com/metrologic/ms1690.htm ). It scans, but nothing gets displayed. How can I get the focused window/terminal to understand that the device should be treated

[gentoo-user] gdb error

2009-03-29 Thread dhk
When using gdb I get the following error as soon as I hit gtk_init() in may main. (gdb) 60gtk_set_locale (); (gdb) 61gtk_init(&argc, &argv); (gdb) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Error while reading shared library symbols: Cannot find new threads: generic error Cann

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird Message Filter Script

2009-03-28 Thread dhk
Is there a way to execute a script after a message filter moves an email to a folder? Right now, when I have the message select, I have to View->Message Source and then save it in another directory. Then my program strips off the email header and parses the xml. What I want to do is automati

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-25 Thread dhk
Walter Dnes wrote: After a few more minutes of looking at the bug list, it appears that it's caused by the stable build being rusty. Given the references to "lib64" in your output, I assume you're running on amd64. Is that correct? If so, a quick-n-dirty workaround might be to add the follow

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-24 Thread dhk
Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 03:25:05PM -0400, dhk wrote It looks like the bugreport at... http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263562 is identical to yours. No solutions proposed yet. But do check that URL daily. It's the most likely place to find a fix to your pr

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-21 Thread dhk
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 05:44:04PM -0400, dhk wrote revdep-rebuild is flagging rhythmbox as requiring libtotem-plparser.so.10 . After the last upgrade all I have installed in /usr/lib64/ is libtotem-plparser.so.12 . Should I just make a link or do I need to install an older

[gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-13 Thread dhk
revdep-rebuild is flagging rhythmbox as requiring libtotem-plparser.so.10 . After the last upgrade all I have installed in /usr/lib64/ is libtotem-plparser.so.12 . Should I just make a link or do I need to install an older version? or should I wait for a rhythmbax update? Other similar files in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge Error

2009-03-12 Thread dhk
Justin wrote: > dhk schrieb: > >> - app-text/poppler-bindings-0.10.4 (Change USE: +cairo) > > > This line tells you what to do: > > reemerge poppler-bindings with USE="cairo" > That worked, Thanks.

[gentoo-user] emerge Error

2009-03-12 Thread dhk
All, After sync'ing yesterday and getting a whole bunch of packages evince had problems and gnome never got installed. Today after sync'ing I get the following which doesn't make sense to me. Can someone help. # emerge -uDNp world !!! CONFIG_PROTECT is empty These are the packages that would be

[gentoo-user] Telxon

2009-03-05 Thread dhk
Is it possible to put Gentoo on a Telxon gun? If so, how would I go about doing it? Thanks, dave

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning Out /usr/portage/distfiles/

2009-02-22 Thread dhk
Rodrigo Lazo wrote: > dhk writes: > >> Is there an emerge command or something to 1) clean out >> /usr/portage/distfiles/ for all but the most recent version of the >> packages installed and 2) to clean it out completely? >> >> Thanks, >> > > ecl

[gentoo-user] Cleaning Out /usr/portage/distfiles/

2009-02-22 Thread dhk
Is there an emerge command or something to 1) clean out /usr/portage/distfiles/ for all but the most recent version of the packages installed and 2) to clean it out completely? Thanks, dave

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and fontconfig

2008-08-12 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: I recently started using tovid again and it seems to be having a lot of problems with the programs it uses. The last time I used it was in November and all worked well. First there was a problem with libGL.so.1, it didn't seem to be on my system. ldd `which mplayer` sa

[gentoo-user] mplayer and fontconfig

2008-08-10 Thread dhk
I recently started using tovid again and it seems to be having a lot of problems with the programs it uses. The last time I used it was in November and all worked well. First there was a problem with libGL.so.1, it didn't seem to be on my system. ldd `which mplayer` said it wasn't found. Af

[gentoo-user] tovid/todisc and USE variables

2008-08-03 Thread dhk
How do you find out what USE variables a build can have? I recently got a new disk and reinstalled everything. Now tovid doesn't seem to work and I think it's because I don't have all the USE variable that I use to have. The problem I'm having with tovid is it runs very slow and never finis

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

2008-07-18 Thread dhk
Sebastian Günther wrote: * Andrew Tchernoivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15.07.08 01:41]: Are the characters on the screen readable? I had this problem too, along with the black grub screen. If they aren't - try adding vga=0x31B to your grub.conf Why should that help with grub? Did not found any h

Re: [gentoo-user] boot error - udevd-event

2008-06-21 Thread dhk
Ward Poelmans wrote: 2008/6/21 dhk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: udevd-event[3796]: node symlink: rename(/dev/fb.udev-tmp, /dev/fb) failed: Is a directory Check your udev rules. I think he tries to make a symlink to /dev/fb but it's a directory so he can't. Ward I looked in /etc/ud

[gentoo-user] boot error - udevd-event

2008-06-21 Thread dhk
The following message is displayed on boot. The system works fine despite the message, but I'd still like to know what the cause is and fix it. udevd-event[3796]: node symlink: rename(/dev/fb.udev-tmp, /dev/fb) failed: Is a directory Any ideas? Thanks, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

2008-06-19 Thread dhk
Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:54:28 Florian Philipp wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot partition, copied the new bzimage across, along with .config and system.map. I

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp/sendmail file collision

2008-06-09 Thread dhk
Chema Alonso wrote: dhk escribió: I want to install sendmail, but when ssmtp is installed a file collision with mailer.conf is detected. ssmtp was also installed previously with -mailwrapper in the USE and has since been unmerged. The problem started when taking -mailwrapper out of the

[gentoo-user] ssmtp/sendmail file collision

2008-06-09 Thread dhk
I want to install sendmail, but when ssmtp is installed a file collision with mailer.conf is detected. ssmtp was also installed previously with -mailwrapper in the USE and has since been unmerged. The problem started when taking -mailwrapper out of the ssmtp USE variable. The emerge trace for

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

2008-06-08 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:24:22 +, dhk wrote: 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list. The /var/lib/portage/world doesn't have cvs in it either. This isn't a B

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

2008-06-08 Thread dhk
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:24:22 +, dhk wrote: 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list. The /var/lib/portage/world doesn't have cvs in it either. This isn't a Blocking proble

[gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

2008-06-06 Thread dhk
Two problems along the same line. After doing an "emerge -C cvs ssmtp" and "revdep-rebuild --ignore" it seems that there are still traces of the two programs around. 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list. The /var/l

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting CFLAGS for a single build

2008-05-29 Thread dhk
Alex Schuster wrote: Anthony Metcalf writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Um, I meand -nostrip, as I wrote in the example below. But I just tried for myself - I see the -g2 (multiple times), but after building, stripping takes place, even with the one-time FEATURES=-nostrip emerge -1 libxml2 approach:

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting CFLAGS for a single build

2008-05-28 Thread dhk
I tried it, but I still can't step into the libxml2 library functions. Thanks, Dave Alex Schuster wrote: dhk writes: Does this mean the source was removed after the emerge? If so how can I keep the source. Try adding "nostrip" to your FEATURES. Also I like the idea

[gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

2008-05-24 Thread dhk
Two problems along the same line. After doing an "emerge -C cvs ssmtp" and "revdep-rebuild --ignore" it seems that there are still traces of the two programs around. 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list. The /var/l

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting CFLAGS for a single build

2008-05-24 Thread dhk
u can use the "/etc/portage/env/category/package" to declare environment variables for specific packages... 2008/5/25 Erik Ruotsalainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:02:50AM +, dhk wrote: How can I modify the CFLAGS before emerging a package? I want to add -

[gentoo-user] Setting CFLAGS for a single build

2008-05-24 Thread dhk
How can I modify the CFLAGS before emerging a package? I want to add -g2 to the compile of libxml2 so I can step through their functions. If I add -g2 to CFLAGS in make.conf it will do it for all packages which is not what I want. Thanks, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

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