Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:40 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/11/05, Myk Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think if you're using Gentoo, there is an assumption that if it's new (and acceptably stable), I want it. Maybe I'm different but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, James wrote: Is there a script to update workstation systems, automatically, say 10 minutes after booting? How best to do this? I run this in my servers at 3am (they sync off a local rsync server, similar to your setup): http://www.panhorst.com/glcu/ -- Aj. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs Problem

2005-07-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Sebastien Morand wrote: BHi everybody, I got the following error with emacs: pyrenees:~ $ emacs Fatal error (6).Aborted I tried to compile by mself with the same flag emacs and didn'get any problem and it works fine, so why do I get a problem when using Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] K8N Neo4 and skge

2005-07-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:27 -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote: New to gentoo! Welcome to a new world of learning! I have gentoo amd64 loaded and the forcedepth drive is detecting the first network card. Both the default skge and the sk98lin manually downloaded from SysKonnect will load

[gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting

2005-07-12 Thread Jarry
Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on a small server in full sw-raid1 setup, using info in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml I have a similar setup with /boot / and swap on md. After creating md's I continued with installation using info in

[gentoo-user] MySQL doc [updated]

2005-07-12 Thread Chris White
I've updated the MySQL doc here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html It contains the fixes that have been suggested to me, as well as a note on the SELECT field FROM table form of the SELECT statement. Thanks for the input recieved! Chris White pgpG6PeaPIM26.pgp Description: PGP

[gentoo-user] Re: MySQL doc [updated]

2005-07-12 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 18:22, Chris White wrote: I've updated the MySQL doc here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html It contains the fixes that have been suggested to me, as well as a note on the SELECT field FROM table form of the SELECT statement. Thanks for the input

[gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Why doesn't mplayer let me compile with win32codecs? It doesn't pull down win32codec as a dependency and having that USE flag in the CLI as well as on make.conf doesn't make a difference. I still can't get -win32codecs to +win32codecs Comment? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-12 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:12:33 +0800 Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't mplayer let me compile with win32codecs? It doesn't pull down win32codec as a dependency and having that USE flag in the CLI as well as on make.conf doesn't make a difference. I still can't get -win32codecs

Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-12 Thread Martin S
On 11/07/05, Myk Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1I think if you're using Gentoo, there is an assumption that if it's new(and acceptably stable), I want it. That's hardly in line with Gentoos choice policy. Gentoo isn't about imposing someone elses

Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-12 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 19:35, Martin S wrote: On 11/07/05, Myk Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think if you're using Gentoo, there is an assumption that if it's new (and acceptably stable), I want it. That's hardly in line with Gentoos

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-12 Thread David Morgan
On 18:12 Tue 12 Jul , Ow Mun Heng wrote: [ebuild N] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7 -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext +X [SNIP] (-win32codecs) -xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid +xvmc 0 k grep win32 /etc/make.conf USE=acl acpi dvd minimal aac apache2 win32codecs ssl mmx xine \

Re: [gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound

2005-07-12 Thread Szabo Bence
2005-07-11, h keltezéssel 20.22-kor Bob Sanders ezt írta: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:10:34 +0200 Szabo Bence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I haven't got any sound too. I emerged all the alsa things, and when I alsaconf tries to start the sound I get this: Loading driver... * Loading

RE: [gentoo-user] DHCP-based eth0 startup failure.

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 17:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, all. Suffered power outtage yesterday. Not much of a big deal as the ups brought the system down on battery... That's the good news. The bad news is that, upon system boot, my dhcp- based eth0 interface no longer

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
and last run this daily on the server to keep it current? emerge -uDva world repcacheman I forgot to mention that if your primary system is using the http replicator then it shouldn't be necessary to run repcacheman after each emerge. Repcacheman will a) ensure that packages retrieved via

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM, Fluxbox and display 0

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Many Thanks Cyrille, it solved the problem, now... WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FILE DOING IN MY HOME DIR? *lol* (answer delayed due to a fried power supply) Thanks to all who replied too... On 7/7/05, Cyrille Damez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Tuesday 05 July 2005 13:30, vous avez écrit : Ok, I'll

[gentoo-user] Can't login using KDM

2005-07-12 Thread Yuval Scharf
Hi, I'm using KDE 3.4. Since few days ago I can't login using KDM. The login process can't pass the initializing peripherals stage. I can see that there are two processes running kded (one of the is the father of the other) which I can't kill. After rebooting the machine I can login once and

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCD with rdiff-backup?

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
I am using rdiff-backup for my full system backups. Of course, it would be annoying if I had to use it to do a full restore. I would need a LiveCD with rdiff-backup on it. I am assuming the gentoo install cd's dont have this. I have looked at knoppix, it is not on those. Any ideas? Sure,

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting

2005-07-12 Thread Kurt Guenther
I did a similar setup, but I used Linux raid-1 rather then the software raid. If I remember right, I tried the software raid, but I think you made it further then I did. I couldn't get the software raid working under the live CD. Sorry, no help other then to recommend Linux raid instead of the

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread James
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: OK on the local rsync server I added this to automate the daily 30 1 * * * root emerge sync Unless you want to receive the daily email full of all kinds of funky characters, I'd redirect the output from emerge to a file. On my boxen I call

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread James
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: and last run this daily on the server to keep it current? emerge -uDva world repcacheman I forgot to mention that if your primary system is using the http replicator then it shouldn't be necessary to run repcacheman after each emerge.

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting

2005-07-12 Thread Jarry
Kurt Guenther wrote: I did a similar setup, but I used Linux raid-1 rather then the software raid. Pardon for my ignorance, but what do you mean with Linux raid-1 rather than the software raid??? Is it not the same? Or do you mean some hw-raid? BTW, I'm already on the track of my problem:

Re: [gentoo-user] K8N Neo4 and skge

2005-07-12 Thread Vernon A. Fort
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:27 -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote: New to gentoo! Welcome to a new world of learning! I have gentoo amd64 loaded and the forcedepth drive is detecting the first network card. Both the default skge and the sk98lin manually downloaded

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-12 Thread Zac Medico
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Why doesn't mplayer let me compile with win32codecs? It doesn't pull down win32codec as a dependency and having that USE flag in the CLI as well as on make.conf doesn't make a difference. I still can't get -win32codecs to +win32codecs Comment? The use flag is called

Re: [gentoo-user] no ogg support in juk?

2005-07-12 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 02:25, sabato 09 luglio 2005, Norberto Bensa ha scritto: Luigi Pinna wrote: What can I do? Compile it with +arts arts is bugged! I disable arts because it freeze my computer. Another solution? I cannot understand the relation from arts and the ogg files (they are 2 different flags)

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login using KDM

2005-07-12 Thread Zac Medico
Yuval Scharf wrote: Hi, I'm using KDE 3.4. Since few days ago I can't login using KDM. The login process can't pass the initializing peripherals stage. I can see that there are two processes running kded (one of the is the father of the other) which I can't kill. After rebooting the

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread James
A. Khattri ajai at bway.net writes: Is there a script to update workstation systems, automatically, say 10 minutes after booting? How best to do this? I run this in my servers at 3am (they sync off a local rsync server, similar to your setup): http://www.panhorst.com/glcu/ This looks

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
OK but can't I do that with a simple mode to the /etc/crontab ?: 30 1 * * * root emerge sync 21 ? Yes, but I do a little more in my script and want the pieces to be synchronized. As you saw in the script not only do I emerge sync but I also update the eix and esearch databases (both are

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
I guess I have to run emerge sync and emerge -uD world on each client still, but they use the http replicator instead of gentoo servers for both updating the portage/rsync files and downloading the distfiles (via the http replicator)? In the case of distfiles and sync's, you're still

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread James
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: OK but can't I do that with a simple mode to the /etc/crontab ?: 30 1 * * * root emerge sync 21 Yes, but I do a little more in my script and want the pieces to be synchronized. As you saw in the script not only do I emerge sync but I also

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs Problem

2005-07-12 Thread Sebastien Morand
Did you try rebuilding glib and/or gtk? Yes I do. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat

2005-07-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Rudmer van Dijk schreef: Holly: eix is probably not it, since it looks like it does not show the availability of the package (masked+keyword), but thanks for the suggestion! Rudmer Actually, it most certainly does; keyworded packages are shown in brown with a ~ in front, masked

[gentoo-user] konqueror+flashplugin+alsa

2005-07-12 Thread rodrigo ahumada
hi Is there some trick to make the flash plugin in konqueror to use alsa? i have sound in firefox by using aoss, but in konqueror there is an external program: nspluginviewer, and i tried to rename it and made an script that runs aoss nspluginviewer-oss but then konq. hangs. thanx.

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat

2005-07-12 Thread Tom Wesley
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:26:14 +0200 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rudmer van Dijk schreef: Holly: eix is probably not it, since it looks like it does not show the availability of the package (masked+keyword), but thanks for the suggestion! Rudmer Actually, it most

FOLLOWUP: [gentoo-user] K8N Neo4 and skge

2005-07-12 Thread Vernon A. Fort
Vernon A. Fort wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:27 -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote: New to gentoo! Welcome to a new world of learning! I have gentoo amd64 loaded and the forcedepth drive is detecting the first network card. Both the default skge and the sk98lin

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP-based eth0 startup failure.

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel da Veiga
What's the dhcp server? A router or a computer? I had the same problem, my router refused to give me the dhcp response upon reboot, rebooting the router itself solved the problem, its like the router refuses to give dhcp right after the lease of the client. Maybe check the configuration of the

[gentoo-user] Re: where is the functionality of etcat

2005-07-12 Thread James
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Holly: eix is probably not it, since it looks like it does not show the availability of the package (masked+keyword), but thanks for the suggestion! Actually, it most certainly does; keyworded packages are shown in brown with a ~ in front, masked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: where is the functionality of etcat

2005-07-12 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Holly: eix is probably not it, since it looks like it does not show the availability of the package (masked+keyword), but thanks for the suggestion! Actually, it most certainly does; keyworded packages are shown in brown with a ~

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread James
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: Thanks for the scripts and help! I'll take this under consideration. My purpose in extending automated updates, is to be able to manage a large number of embedded gentoo devices in the future. Roll-back and Recovery mechanism will be added

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
Thanks for the scripts and help! That's what we're here for ;-) When I roll out a new TCP/IP based data-logger (hopefully this fall) it'll take sensor inputs and control a few outputs. No humans will use the devices for anything other than interfacing sensors and collecting data. As with

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login using KDM

2005-07-12 Thread Simon Windsor
Hi Check the permissions on /dev/null If these are not crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jul 11 19:32 /dev/null then please run env-update source /etc/profile etc-update All the best Simon On Tuesday 12 July 2005 16:23, Zac Medico wrote: Yuval Scharf wrote: Hi, I'm using KDE 3.4.

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting

2005-07-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Jarry wrote: Pardon for my ignorance, but what do you mean with Linux raid-1 rather than the software raid??? Is it not the same? Or do you mean some hw-raid? Some motherboards claim to have RAID built-in but really it is software RAID in the BIOS. Linux's software RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting

2005-07-12 Thread Richard Fish
A. Khattri wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Jarry wrote: Pardon for my ignorance, but what do you mean with Linux raid-1 rather than the software raid??? Is it not the same? Or do you mean some hw-raid? Some motherboards claim to have RAID built-in but really it is software RAID in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs Problem

2005-07-12 Thread Sebastien Morand
What I did to get it working is really bad ... I compile it by my self (without any patch) and juste replace the binary ... in the system no comment :) but it works ... On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Sebastien Morand wrote: BHi everybody, I got the following error with emacs: pyrenees:~ $

[gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue

2005-07-12 Thread José Pedro Saraiva
Hello, I'm quite desperate and have tried just about anything to understand my issue. I'll try to explain it... I connect to the net through eth0 and have a masquerading through eth1 to my other computers, using shorewall. My server never had any problems of this kind and all was fine until a

[gentoo-user] OpenOfficeWriter: wee small fonts

2005-07-12 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi all, recently I did some changes like updating x.org to and building some custom kernels to get low latencies for audio work. Today, I started OpenOfficeWriter, and I only got wee small fonts. When setting the font size to 96 and zomming the document to 200% the text still appears in a

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOfficeWriter: wee small fonts

2005-07-12 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, Today, I started OpenOfficeWriter, and I only got wee small fonts. When setting the font size to 96 and zomming the document to 200% the text still appears in a size like 9px on the screen. sorry for the traffic, but I just noticed that it mainly happened for some fonts (including

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login using KDM

2005-07-12 Thread Gregorcy
Check etc-update to see if there any config files that need to be updated. Simon Windsor wrote: Hi Check the permissions on /dev/null If these are not crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jul 11 19:32 /dev/null then please run env-update source /etc/profile etc-update All the best Simon

[gentoo-user] Mounting USB Storage Devices

2005-07-12 Thread Matthias Schweinoch
Hi all, I'm running Gentoo 2005.0 with an up-to-date portage tree, and I'm having some trouble getting an external USB harddisk running. My kernel is a 2.6.11-gentoo-r9. I have compiled USB support and SCSI support into the kernel. When I attach the harddisk via USB, the following output is

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Storage Devices

2005-07-12 Thread busby
Hi all, I'm pretty much out out ideas, and I'd welcome any suggestions. Sincerely, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Mine always show up as /dev/sda etc so I load mine as mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb_disk /djb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound

2005-07-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:48:01 +1000 Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you loaded the newly-compiled alsa driver modules for your sound card, run alsaconf and unmuted the mixer via alsamixer? Holly Hi again - I tried # emerge -s alsa and got loads of output. Would you know what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PHP and PEAR

2005-07-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Catalin Trifu wrote: $ emerge PEAR-PEAR Install PEAR-PEAR-1.3.5 into /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.5/image/ category dev-php /usr/portage/eclass/php-pear.eclass: line 47: pear: command not found !!! ERROR: dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.5 failed. !!! Function

Re: [gentoo-user] nptl

2005-07-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, LostSon wrote: Hey I would like to use nptl and did not use it as a use flag when installing my gentoo system. When adding this to my use flags what other packages would i have to compile to get use of nptl ?? Thanks I thought there were two nptl-related USE flags - the

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOfficeWriter: wee small fonts

2005-07-12 Thread Ian K
Christoph Eckert wrote: Hi, Today, I started OpenOfficeWriter, and I only got wee small fonts. When setting the font size to 96 and zomming the document to 200% the text still appears in a size like 9px on the screen. sorry for the traffic, but I just noticed that it mainly happened

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Storage Devices

2005-07-12 Thread Zac Medico
Matthias Schweinoch wrote: Hi all, I'm running Gentoo 2005.0 with an up-to-date portage tree, and I'm having some trouble getting an external USB harddisk running. My kernel is a 2.6.11-gentoo-r9. I have compiled USB support and SCSI support into the kernel. When I attach the harddisk

[gentoo-user] New MySQL doc (update 3)

2005-07-12 Thread Chris White
Added a bazillion spell fixes, also a list of places to find GUI frontends for MySQL: Thanks goes to my mom, my dad, my family for all their support I'd also like to thank the academy for their hard effort Philip Webb for tolerating my odd grammar/spelling/logic Bruce Wolk for the same And most

RE: [gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound

2005-07-12 Thread Richard Watson
At this stage I'm doing # emerge --update --ask --deep --verbose --newuse --tree world as setting alsa on is asking quite few items to want to recompile. OK, stop where you are. Hands off the 'Enter' key ;-) Hi Holly - To late ... I'd already hit enter ... When I looked at my system

[gentoo-user] GPRS - Anyone aware of any packages which do this?

2005-07-12 Thread Michael Haan
I guess what I'm trying to figure out is what exists either in gentoo-space specifically, or linux-space generally (in that order) for working with GPRS. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-12 Thread daniel
On July 12, 2005 05:12 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Why doesn't mplayer let me compile with win32codecs? It doesn't pull down win32codec as a dependency and having that USE flag in the CLI as well as on make.conf doesn't make a difference. I still can't get -win32codecs to +win32codecs Comment?

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 11:47 +0100, David Morgan wrote: On 18:12 Tue 12 Jul , Ow Mun Heng wrote: [ebuild N] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7 -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext +X [SNIP] (-win32codecs) -xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid +xvmc 0 k grep win32 /etc/make.conf USE=acl acpi dvd

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:48 -0400, daniel wrote: On July 12, 2005 05:12 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Why doesn't mplayer let me compile with win32codecs? It doesn't pull down win32codec as a dependency and having that USE flag in the CLI as well as on make.conf doesn't make a difference. I

Re: [gentoo-user] ogle and mplayer

2005-07-12 Thread Canek Peláez
Isn't ogle unsupported? I suppose it has to do with Xv, but I don't know really. Anyway, I'm pretty sure ogle is unsupported. Canek On 6/26/05, luis jure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: something funny is happening here with ogle and mplayer: i start X, run ogle, open a dvd, and it plays ok.

[gentoo-user] Can Apache Proxy for a NAT'ed web-server

2005-07-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I'm sure this can be done. I know about mod_proxy and mod_proxy_html and it's functions as a reverse proxy. But the thing is my current understanding of these mod_proxy is it's suitable only for servers which are in the internal network and has names such as www.example.com - external IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-12 Thread Patrick Audley
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 02:12, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Why doesn't mplayer let me compile with win32codecs? It doesn't pull down win32codec as a dependency and having that USE flag in the CLI as well as on make.conf doesn't make a difference. I still can't get -win32codecs to +win32codecs amd64?

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting

2005-07-12 Thread Richard Fish
Jarry wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Just an FYI, the md driver does not create sysfs entries and thus udev does not create device nodes if autodetection is not performed by the driver. Autodetection is not performed if either: 1. The md driver is a module (not a problem according to