[gentoo-ppc-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 97 (633-634)

2009-09-04 Thread Don Schabel
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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory

2009-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 23:56:49 Alan E. Davis wrote: This is my personal working directory, under git control to carry it around between computers on a flash drive. Now stripped of git. I am reluctant to send it along, but I could send a tarball to someone who is willing to check on

[gentoo-user] How to have init-scripts 'wait' for other servers

2009-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi all, Does anyone know if an existing method to have init-scripts on server A wait for a service on server B to be started? Reason for this: I have one server containing all the databases, one that operates as a NAS and the DNS is running on server 3. In order for the different machines to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to have init-scripts 'wait' for other servers

2009-09-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:51:14AM +0200, Penguin Lover J. Roeleveld squawked: Does anyone know if an existing method to have init-scripts on server A wait for a service on server B to be started? I have no idea if this would work or not. But have you tried writing a init script that does

Re: [gentoo-user] How to have init-scripts 'wait' for other servers

2009-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 04 September 2009 11:23:09 Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:51:14AM +0200, Penguin Lover J. Roeleveld squawked: Does anyone know if an existing method to have init-scripts on server A wait for a service on server B to be started? I have no idea if this would work or

Re: [gentoo-user] How to have init-scripts 'wait' for other servers

2009-09-04 Thread Carlos
J. Roeleveld a écrit : Hi all, Does anyone know if an existing method to have init-scripts on server A wait for a service on server B to be started? Reason for this: I have one server containing all the databases, one that operates as a NAS and the DNS is running on server 3. In order for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep trouble

2009-09-04 Thread econti
Tim Jones ha scritto: Post #2 from Mr. McKinnon is the question. If, as it sounds like, you didn't let revdep-rebuild go ahead and reemerge those packages itself, but rather you reemerged them yourself, then I believe you will need to `revdep-rebuild -i` (see manpage) to see if it has any other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep trouble

2009-09-04 Thread Dale
econti wrote: Tim Jones ha scritto: Post #2 from Mr. McKinnon is the question. If, as it sounds like, you didn't let revdep-rebuild go ahead and reemerge those packages itself, but rather you reemerged them yourself, then I believe you will need to `revdep-rebuild -i` (see manpage) to see if

Re: [gentoo-user] How to have init-scripts 'wait' for other servers

2009-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 04 September 2009 12:44:33 Carlos wrote: J. Roeleveld a écrit : Hi all, Does anyone know if an existing method to have init-scripts on server A wait for a service on server B to be started? Reason for this: I have one server containing all the databases, one that operates

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2009-09-04 Thread Cinder Cinder
Wow! I made it! I'm in! Just installed my first Gentoo (Phew!). Its cool! I'm up to part 2 of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook Working With Gentoo and I've managed to install a few things, namely vim, links, and xorg-server (As per the Xorg server Configuration Guide) in addition the some

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 04 September 2009 13:47:51 Cinder Cinder wrote: Wow! I made it! I'm in! Just installed my first Gentoo (Phew!). Its cool! I'm up to part 2 of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook Working With Gentoo and I've managed to install a few things, namely vim, links, and xorg-server (As per the

[gentoo-user] rdesktop cannot work on awesome 3

2009-09-04 Thread Xi Shen
Hi, i am using gentoo amd64, awesome 3. after i started X, i use rdesktop myserver, to connect to my windows xp machine, but the command just hangs. nothing happens. have i missed anything? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-09-04 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 04 September 2009 13:47:51 Cinder Cinder wrote: Wow! I made it! I'm in! Just installed my first Gentoo (Phew!). Its cool! I'm up to part 2 of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook Working With Gentoo and I've managed to install a few things, namely vim, links, and

[gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta

2009-09-04 Thread Cinder Cinder
Sorry Joost, but when I redirct the output of emerge to a file with Code: # emerge -va --update --deep world emerge-va-update-deep-world ... only two lines are written Code: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! I tried putting this

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

2009-09-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:33:55 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta

2009-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 September 2009 15:09:08 Cinder Cinder wrote: Sorry Joost, but when I redirct the output of emerge to a file with Code: # emerge -va --update --deep world emerge-va-update-deep-world ... only two lines are written Code: These are the packages that would be merged, in

[gentoo-user] USE flags confusing on emerge gimp

2009-09-04 Thread Harry Putnam
After some resent discussion here of USE in thread: Subject: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox I'm a little confused by what I see when investigating the emerge of gimp (wrapped for mail). Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] media-libs/babl-0.0.22 USE=-mmx

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags confusing on emerge gimp

2009-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 04 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: After some resent discussion here of USE in thread: Subject: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox I'm a little confused by what I see when investigating the emerge of gimp (wrapped for mail). Calculating dependencies...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta

2009-09-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:40:48PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: Copy paste from the screen into a mail or try with -pv instead of -av. -a waits for user input and can screw around with STDOUT Also, try adding 21 to your redirect to send STDERR to the file too. I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags confusing on emerge gimp

2009-09-04 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:25:59 -0500, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: After some resent discussion here of USE in thread: Subject: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox I'm a little confused by what I see when investigating the emerge of gimp (wrapped for mail).

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-04 Thread Stroller
On 3 Sep 2009, at 22:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:51:04 Stroller wrote: Relay through your ISP. Using Postfix this is /etc/transports (and `postmap /etc/postfix/ transport` and restart Postfix) If you have any influence at ucla.edu tell them how much their policy

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags confusing on emerge gimp

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: After some resent discussion here of USE in thread: Subject: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox I'm a little confused by what I see when investigating the emerge of gimp (wrapped for mail). Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-09-04 Thread David
Cinder Cinder wrote: Wow! I made it! I'm in! Just installed my first Gentoo (Phew!). Its cool! I'm up to part 2 of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook Working With Gentoo and I've managed to install a few things, namely vim, links, and xorg-server (As per the Xorg server Configuration Guide) in

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg output

2009-09-04 Thread Hung Dang
Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Hung Danghungp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, After I upgrade to the later version of xorg-server, dmesg output is full of debugging input event messages. It is inconvenient when I want to see what is going on with my computer. Below is

[gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

2009-09-04 Thread Jim Cunning
I am trying to install KDE 4.2 or 4.3 on a stable KDE 3.5.10 system, following the guidelines in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml, and the emerge fails with the following blocks: --- [blocks B ] net-wireless/bluez-libs

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

2009-09-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 4. September 2009 schrieb Jim Cunning: I am trying to install KDE 4.2 or 4.3 on a stable KDE 3.5.10 system, following the guidelines in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml, and the emerge fails with the following blocks:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

2009-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 September 2009 19:32:15 Jim Cunning wrote: I am trying to install KDE 4.2 or 4.3 on a stable KDE 3.5.10 system, following the guidelines in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml, and the emerge fails with the following blocks:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't detect printer hp 840c on parallel port

2009-09-04 Thread Urs Schuetz
On 04/09/09, vasya wrote: Hi. Here some problem - can't connect printer hp 840c on parallel port LPT1. Necessary kernel modules I've enabled. But CUPS by foomatic db or hplip by their own drivers can't detect this printer. Hplip tells me that error: No device selected/specified or

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 September 2009 17:23:15 Stroller wrote: You may be in a slightly exceptional position in that the bandwidth cost - of syncing to Spamhaus and the additional DNS lookups - may be prohibitive. UCLA are not. Whatever the proportion of legitimate mail this policy rejects, this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta

2009-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 September 2009 16:42:40 Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:40:48PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: Copy paste from the screen into a mail or try with -pv instead of -av. -a waits for user input and can screw around with STDOUT Also, try adding 21

[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 Stefan G. Weichinger
Nick Khamis schrieb: * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options... * CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS: is not set when it should be. You have to recompile your kernel after setting the parameter CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS=y with make menuconfig in /usr/src/linux or genkernel --menuconfig

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] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-04 Thread Stroller
On 4 Sep 2009, at 21:49, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 04 September 2009 17:23:15 Stroller wrote: ... Every other solution out there has this one little problem that people seem to ignore. Per RFC, if you accept the connection and the mail, you will deliver it. That's what it says. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Xavier Parizet
Nick Khamis a écrit : 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. To search for a specific CONFIG_ in the kernel config, on make menuconfig, type '/' key to

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] Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I recently stumbled upon an LWN article that mentioned Con Kolivas is working on a new kernel scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs called BFS: http://lwn.net/Articles/350100 Well, I've tried it. I wrote my experiences with it here: http://lwn.net/Articles/350820 If you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I recently stumbled upon an LWN article that mentioned Con Kolivas is working on a new kernel scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs called BFS: http://lwn.net/Articles/350100 Well, I've tried it. I wrote my experiences with

Re: [gentoo-user] Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Volker Armin Hemmannvolkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I recently stumbled upon an LWN article that mentioned Con Kolivas is working on a new kernel scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs called BFS:  

[gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/05/2009 02:43 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I recently stumbled upon an LWN article that mentioned Con Kolivas is working on a new kernel scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs called BFS: http://lwn.net/Articles/350100

[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

Re: [gentoo-user] Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Volker Armin Hemmannvolkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I recently stumbled upon an LWN article that mentioned Con Kolivas is working on a new kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/05/2009 03:06 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: well, and your workload asks for rt. But rt also means overhead, reduction of performance. So why cater for 1 in a thousand system and punish the other 999? There are lots of people mentioning interactivity problems on their Linux machines

[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 Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: I was thinking XEN how will that par up compared to virtualbox? I don't know. I never tried xen and I try to stay away from it.

[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 *

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile Gentoo Environemnet

2009-09-04 Thread Dale
Nick Khamis wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile Gentoo Environemnet

2009-09-04 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:29:46 + Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, what emerge parameters recompiles everything in my gentoo environment afer changing use flags emerge --update --deep --*newuse* world? I personally use emerge --newuse

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile Gentoo Environemnet

2009-09-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:29:46 + Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, what emerge parameters recompiles everything in my gentoo environment afer changing use flags emerge --update --deep --*newuse* world? I personally use emerge --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y --ask

[gentoo-user] How to get an old ebuild

2009-09-04 Thread Jim Cunning
I am currently running kernel 2.6.25-r7 and have an emerge that fails because it can't find a Makefile for the kernel. I somehow no longer can run genkernel, or emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r7. I would rather not upgrade my kernel at this point--how can I find/emerge this slightly

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server error

2009-09-04 Thread Xi Shen
i am using vmware-server 2.0, and it works fine. i think you should use 2.0, too. and i think you should post the log, instead of the error message, so maybe some one can help you. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Nick Khamissym...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Everyone, I emerged vmware-modules with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta

2009-09-04 Thread Cinder Cinder
--- alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:51:02 +0200 On Friday 04 September 2009 16:42:40 Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2009

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-04 Thread Xi Shen
xen requires your cpu support hardware virtulization. and i only heard it support windows, but i do not know how well it supports. if you like vmware, why do not try vmware-server 2.0. it is in the overlay, and it works very well for me. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Volker Armin