Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > > >>Or don't upgrade anything at all -or- use a more upgrade-friendly system. > > > It is considered good practice to do a dry run with "emere -pv" before > installing any package to see what USE flags are in use and what > depen

[gentoo-user] koffice build failing again

I'm gettting more errors from KOffice. I fixed previous errors by updating image magick (should the dependancies of koffice be updated because of that?), but I can't find so easy a solution with the following output. Anyone have a suggestion?  I think I'm still battling with the remenents of the co

Re: [gentoo-user] Pentium M and kernel module "processor.o"

Am Dienstag, 26. April 2005 12:29 schrieb Nick Rout: > threads starting here: > > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2005-January/023 >555.html > > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2005-February/02 >4205.html > > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pi

[gentoo-user] Samba start error

When Samba starts I get the error "lpstat: Unable to connect to server: Connection refused". It actually doesn't seem to affect much as I can see the shares I've created but I'm curious. Thanks, Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Laptop Internal Modem not recognised

I don't think my internal modem on my IBM laptop is being recognised at boot. I ran the following: # lspci -v (edited) 00:06.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k (rev 01) Subsystem: CIS Technology Inc Lucent Win Modem Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11

[gentoo-user] How do I get IPV6 working?

I've found out "the hard way" that IPV6 does work on the Gentoo LiveCD via my ISP, notwithstanding my IPV4-only router (must be tunneling of some sort). I'm trying to get it going on my second machine, but can't get anywhere. I assume there are some extra configuration details I need to set. I

Re: [gentoo-user] rp-pppoe start on boot?

On Wednesday 27 April 2005 21:15, Peet Grobler wrote: > Christoph Eckert wrote: > |>Which would be the correct way to do this with gentoo? > | > | rc-update add SERVICENAME default > | rc-update del SERVICENAME default > > Ah, I presume rc-update add net.ppp0 default would work... nope, rp-pppoe, n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What can I safely delete from /tmp?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eamon Caddigan wrote: | Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |>>cd /tmp |>>rm -rf * (be VERRY BLOODY CAREFUL which dir you are in when you type |> |>this!) |> |>Wouldn't it be wiser to type "rm -rf /tmp/*" ;-) | | | I'd go with "rm -rf /tmp &

Re: [gentoo-user] rp-pppoe start on boot?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Eckert wrote: |>Which would be the correct way to do this with gentoo? | | | rc-update add SERVICENAME default | rc-update del SERVICENAME default Ah, I presume rc-update add net.ppp0 default would work... - -- Peet Grobler Public PGP key avai

[gentoo-user] intel 6300esb onboard raid

Hi guys, I'm own a Intel se7210tp1-e with a onboard Intel 6300ESB Raid Controller w/ two 80GB disks Well, I'm new to this hardware RAID things. My doubt is the follow: I've booted gentoo 2005.0 live-cd and when I typed "fdisk -l" I've got two disks printed: sda and sdb Raid is enabled at BIOS a

[gentoo-user] Wine with Jack

Hi, Quick question - has anyone had any success running Windows sound apps in any version of Wine using the Jack driver? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failure

On 4/27/05, Ric Messier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, David Corbin wrote:> While emerging libquicktime, I get this:>Was there a question here?The relevant line islqtplay.c:31:19: GL/gl.h: No such file or directory GL/gl.h is not in your include search path. You should find it or f

Re: [gentoo-user] cfg-update broken or etc-update?

On Wednesday 27 April 2005 07:35 pm, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Did you mean "etc-update"?? > > daevid rbc # cfg-update > -/bin/bash: cfg-update: command not found > > daevid rbc # locate cfg-update > daevid rbc # > > daevid rbc # esearch cfg-update > [ Results for search key : cfg-update ] > [ Applic

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failure

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, David Corbin wrote: While emerging libquicktime, I get this: Was there a question here? The relevant line is lqtplay.c:31:19: GL/gl.h: No such file or directory GL/gl.h is not in your include search path. You should find it or find out why it's missing. Ric -- gentoo-user@gen

[gentoo-user] emerge failure

While emerging libquicktime, I get this: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include/quicktime -I../include -O3 -funroll-all-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-loops=2 -falign-jumps=2 -falign-functions=2 -finline-functions -Wall -Wno-unused -Winline -c `test -f 'lqtplay

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-cummon useless ?

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > Can 'emerge -p --depclean' or equery 'depends gnome-cummon' be right in > saying that this package is useless to me [i'm using gnome as my desktop > environment and have lot's of gnome/gtk-dependent packages installed] ? > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: What can I safely delete from /tmp?

Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> cd /tmp >> rm -rf * (be VERRY BLOODY CAREFUL which dir you are in when you type > this!) > > Wouldn't it be wiser to type "rm -rf /tmp/*" ;-) I'd go with "rm -rf /tmp && mkdir /tmp", since the above commands won't pick up any dotfiles in the direct

[gentoo-user] gnome-cummon useless ?

Can 'emerge -p --depclean' or equery 'depends gnome-cummon' be right in saying that this package is useless to me [i'm using gnome as my desktop environment and have lot's of gnome/gtk-dependent packages installed] ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] cfg-update broken or etc-update?

Did you mean "etc-update"?? daevid rbc # cfg-update -/bin/bash: cfg-update: command not found daevid rbc # locate cfg-update daevid rbc # daevid rbc # esearch cfg-update [ Results for search key : cfg-update ] [ Applications found : 0 ] > -Original Message- > From: Michael W. Holdema

RE: [gentoo-user] What can I safely delete from /tmp?

> cd /tmp > rm -rf * (be VERRY BLOODY CAREFUL which dir you are in when you type this!) Wouldn't it be wiser to type "rm -rf /tmp/*" ;-) Or if really paranoid, "rm -rfvi /tmp/*" (-i for interactive, -v for verbose) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Calculating Beats per Minute

Eamon Caddigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right, of course. Would you be more comfortable if I said that I'm > interested in the "mean beat period"? There are a few good algorithms > out there (since this will be running 'offline', it'll be a bit more > accurate), I was just hoping somebody mi

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on "Saving random seed..."

On 4/27/05, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > Whenever I type in "shutdown now," the kernel enters runlevel 1 and > > starts to shut down. All of these [ ok ] just fine: > > > > * Stopping local... > > * Stopping fcron... > > * Unmounting network fi

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on "Saving random seed..."

On 4/27/05, The Disguised Jedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/27/05, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) scribbled: > > > > Whenever I type in "shutdown now," the kernel enters runlevel 1 and > > > > starts to shut down. All of these [ ok ] just fine: > >

[gentoo-user] Freevo + FrameBuffer + Splash

It seems that on 2005.0 install, I can't have the 3 of these together like I did when I was running on 2004.3. The difference is the usage of devpts vs udev. Since 2005.0 is udev, to get gen/fbsplash to work, I need to pass vga=7xx to the kernel command line. passing video=vesafb:ywrap,[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] rp-pppoe start on boot?

> Which would be the correct way to do this with gentoo? rc-update add SERVICENAME default rc-update del SERVICENAME default Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] KOffice version... 5?

Does anyone know why portage is building KOffice version 5 right now? Last I checked, that release date was scheduled about a decade in the future, or some time around there...

Re: [gentoo-user] alsaconf doesn't recognize sound card, but kernel does

Hi, > I supose I have to emerge it using some debug flag. Then I > want to hack the code an recompile again. it's a shell script :) . > How can I do that? Is this the correct approach? Any > documentation? To be honest, alsaconf needs not to be fixed but rewritten. Why? * It still can handle

[gentoo-user] rp-pppoe start on boot?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, New to gentoo, and this list. I recently migrated from Debian. On my old firewall (debian), I had my pppoe connection start on boot. Which would be the correct way to do this with gentoo? Regards, - -- Peet Grobler Public PGP key available from wwwk

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Or don't upgrade anything at all -or- use a more upgrade-friendly system. It is considered good practice to do a dry run with "emere -pv" before installing any package to see what USE flags are in use and what dependencies there are. If you dont, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

Neil Bothwick wrote: >>~/.bashrc will be executed by every (bash) shell that is started. > > > That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them > in /etc/init.d/local.start. > > >>Not AFAIK. There are some userspace read-only utilities for ext2 (and >>ext3), but nothi

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse stalls under X after some time of inactivity

Yep. :-) And appearently it's still not clear who wins... :-( (or better: GRRR ;-) ) Well I upgraded to "udev" now but still no better situation. Thomas Am Dienstag, den 26.04.2005, 16:10 +0200 schrieb Bastian Balthazar Bux: > > information is now obvious. Now even the "cat /dev/input/mice" doe

[gentoo-user] Re: A good daapd client

Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a good daapd client, i have tried tunesbrowser 1.6 and 2.0. > 1.6 din't play anything and 2.0 plays some files but not all, and craches > a lot. > Does anyone on this list have experiance with a daapld client ? I've only ru

[gentoo-user] cfg-update broken

cfg-update is broken with new portage? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.9-ck3| Win4Lin 5-1-18c netraverse.com | | -- gentoo-user@g

[gentoo-user] i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc broken

Hello, (after hours of googling) When I do emerge kdegraphics (but also other packages) the compilation ends with error complaining that the i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc cannot be run/located. however (installed from 2005.3 universal CD) # /usr/bin/i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc gcc-config error: Could not ru

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Rodolphe Rocca wrote: > > rm -f /usr/portage/distfiles/* > > no risk. Yes, there is no risk, but there are a much better solution, it's called distclean. You can search for it on forum. It is a script, which will remove the sources of packages what are NOT in portage already

Re: [gentoo-user] openmotif vs motif-config dependancy blockers

On Wednesday 27 April 2005 06:13 am, Robert Svoboda wrote: > * Michael W. Holdeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-26 22:10]: > > emerge -uvDa world yeilds blockers between motif-congif and openmotif > > today.. > > the same here > > > Fix? > > I tried this: > > emerge unmerge openmotif > emerge -uvD

[gentoo-user] WOT: Constricing Video Bandwith

Hello, WOT (Way Off Topic) I decided to post here (risking flames) because many of the participants here are working on video implementations. I'm focused on Bandwith Minimization for video transmission over wide area networks. Futhermore, although I still have Debian and OpenBSD systems around me

[gentoo-user] circular dependencies

i have this error message after env-update: vida portage # env-update >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies... * Services 'cupsd' and 'samba' have circular * dependency of type 'iuse'; continuing... how can i solve this? thanks begin:vcard fn;quoted-printable:Jos

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on "Saving random seed..."

The Disguised Jedi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > On 4/27/05, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > > > Whenever I type in "shutdown now," the kernel enters runlevel 1 and > > > > starts to shut down. All of these [ ok ] just fine: > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing but trouble with Gnome-light

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 09:00 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > After i have installed Gnome-light 2.8.1 on a new computer i have only > troubles, it started out with than new nenu items are not visible, but now > if i rename a existing one it disapears also. Yep, that tends to be the c

[gentoo-user] koffice build failing

After finally fixing portage so I can run updates again, I ran into another (probably unrelated) hitch. KOffice is having some trouble compiling. I'm seeing errors that might suggest the wrong version of Image Magick is being used? Does anyone else agree? If that is the case, I don't know what vers

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage corrupted? Trying to install non-existant packages

I meant a terminal emulator. Just that with 99 packages, I know something won't build right. As a matter of fact, just read my next post!On 4/26/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:16:21 +, Calvin Spealman wrote:> A month + with no updates, leaves lots of> time a

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:55:30 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > True, but the specific command he wants to run is "setterm". Does that > would correctly from local.start? Yes it does, I do it myself to disable screen blanking. -- Neil Bothwick This is as bad as it can get; but don't bet on it. p

Re: [gentoo-user] alsaconf doesn't recognize sound card, but kernel does

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:04, Mark Knecht wrote: > It may just be an oversite in alsaconf. Someone should post a bug > report a the Alsa bug site and let them know to look into it. Ok, let's supose I want to debug alsaconf. I supose I have to emerge it using some debug flag. Then I want to hack

[gentoo-user] Re: getting hard nmasked packages

Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > Yes it is. This damn keyboard is acting up again PEBKAC get's me all the time. (Problem Exist Between Keyboard And Chair) cheers! James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on "Saving random seed..."

> On 4/27/05, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) scribbled:> > > Whenever I type in "shutdown now," the kernel enters runlevel 1 and> > > starts to shut down.  All of these [ ok ] just fine:> > >> > > * Stopping local... > > > * Stopping fcron...> > > * Unmountin

Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, kashani wrote: > > IIRC it used to be in portage as of around of a year ago. You might be > able to track down an ebuild of it in the old ebuilds. I'd have been > able to tell you for sure but I wiped it off my last machine last month > when I enforced the vim with color synt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Digby Tarvin wrote: [snip] > > I think it would be nicer if the '-C' option turned it off, and that > being invoked with the name 'vi' should cause that option to be assumed. > Likewise for any other change that I havn't stunbled over yet... > [snip] > Regards, > DigbyT > --

RE: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

> >>~/.bashrc will be executed by every (bash) shell that is started. > > > >That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them > >in /etc/init.d/local.start. > > True, but the specific command he wants to run is "setterm". Does that > would correctly from local.start? It

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

Richard Brown wrote: > On 4/27/05, Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:33:14 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: >>> >>> >>> Could this not be made the default? xorg takes *hours* to emerge. After upgrading xorg, i am now left without

Re: [gentoo-user] getting hard nmasked packages

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:44:13 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > man portage > > echo ">=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.3" >>/etc/portage/packages.mask > > Isn't it package.unmask ? Yes it is. This damn keyboard is acting up again ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguis

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:17:31 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Restoring from backup should always be the last resort, because i backup > filesystems and not packages. If i restore single files i can no longer > be sure if they are still consistent with the rest of the new xorg. Using buildpkg in F

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

Neil Bothwick wrote: >>~/.bashrc will be executed by every (bash) shell that is started. >> >> > >That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them >in /etc/init.d/local.start. > > True, but the specific command he wants to run is "setterm". Does that would correct

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

On 4/27/05, Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:33:14 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > > > > > >>Could this not be made the default? xorg takes *hours* to emerge. After > >>upgrading xorg, i am now left without a fontserver for all of our 30 >

Re: [gentoo-user] getting hard nmasked packages

Le mercredi 27 avril 2005 à 14:09 +0100, Neil Bothwick a écrit : > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:37:38 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > > > how can I get the hard masked Xorg. notes indicate it has the ati > > patches i need. > > man portage > echo ">=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.3" >>/etc/portage/packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:33:14 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > > >>Could this not be made the default? xorg takes *hours* to emerge. After >>upgrading xorg, i am now left without a fontserver for all of our 30 >>diskless clients, which are configured to use xfs. > > > Surel

Re: [gentoo-user] Swappiness and Virtual Memory Management

On Wednesday 27 April 2005 11:00, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I've got a question regarding VM management in Linux. > > I've got 512MB of RAM on my laptop and at times it can still be slow esp > when the RAM is used up and starts accessing the swap. > > Setting swappiness to 10 doesn't really make a diffe

Re: [gentoo-user] getting hard nmasked packages

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:37:38 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > how can I get the hard masked Xorg. notes indicate it has the ati > patches i need. man portage echo ">=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.3" >>/etc/portage/packages.mask -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 1: Microsoft Works pgpecSrj

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:33:14 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Could this not be made the default? xorg takes *hours* to emerge. After > upgrading xorg, i am now left without a fontserver for all of our 30 > diskless clients, which are configured to use xfs. Surely with such an important system, yo

[gentoo-user] getting hard nmasked packages

http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=xorg how can I get the hard masked Xorg. notes indicate it has the ati patches i need. --- eric -- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/view.html?pg=5 The result of the duopoly that currently defines "competition" is that prices and service suck. We

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

On 4/27/05, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, just curious ... > > BillK > Yeah, I get that. I wanted to know about a command like this since while building MythTV I added a bunch of flags to make.conf. I think I'd rather have them in package.use and effect only specific pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

John Drouhard wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:24:18 -0700 > "W. B. Maguire II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I'm really confused about this one... >> >>When I set-up my Gentoo box (maybe a year ago), I used the (now >>extinct) Desktop guide, which "strongly" suggested using the XFS >>font serv

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

Thanks, just curious ... BillK On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 05:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Was that directed at me Bill? Sorry. > > I was 'concerned'about that flag because when I added it to my USE > flags in make.conf (to get some part of MythTV built) it seemed that -- William Kenworthy <[EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

Was that directed at me Bill? Sorry. I was 'concerned'about that flag because when I added it to my USE flags in make.conf (to get some part of MythTV built) it seemed that nearly every other package that used it, which had been building fine before, no longer built correctly. I choose 'aac' when

Re: [gentoo-user] where is my /dev/cdrom using UDEV

Try $ dmeg | grep ^hd and look for the CDROM drive. If this fails, try dmesg |less and look for it in the entire output. On 4/27/05, Wenju Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have try this. but the problem remains. > There is not /dev/hdc at all in my machine. > > thanks > zwj > > > > On

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on "Saving random seed..."

Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > Whenever I type in "shutdown now," the kernel enters runlevel 1 and > starts to shut down. All of these [ ok ] just fine: > > * Stopping local... > * Stopping fcron... > * Unmounting network filesystems... > * Stopping syslog-ng... > * Syncing hardware clock

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:06 -0400, James Hiscock wrote: > > That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put > > them in /etc/init.d/local.start. > > ...actually, you'll probably want to put them in /etc/conf.d/ > local.start... Damn keyboard, I pressed c-o-n-f and it typed

Re: [gentoo-user] openmotif vs motif-config dependancy blockers

* Michael W. Holdeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-26 22:10]: > emerge -uvDa world yeilds blockers between motif-congif and openmotif today.. the same here > Fix? I tried this: emerge unmerge openmotif emerge -uvD world and ended with this Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 13

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

> That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them > in /etc/init.d/local.start. ...actually, you'll probably want to put them in /etc/conf.d/local.start... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] stripping down to base system

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 10:32 +0200, Christian Affolter wrote: > > > > The cd's are built from a gentoo system stripped of the compiler etc. > > > > For example you will see from this file > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/docs/livecd-stage2_template.spec.txt > > that they unmerge a whole l

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 12:39 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > why are you concerned? > to fix euse: > vi `which euse` > :157 > s/grep/egrep/ > :wq Thanks.. That fixed it up. Though I'm not sure why since it complained about not being able to find $PORTDIR > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1

[gentoo-user] Swappiness and Virtual Memory Management

I've got a question regarding VM management in Linux. I've got 512MB of RAM on my laptop and at times it can still be slow esp when the RAM is used up and starts accessing the swap. Setting swappiness to 10 doesn't really make a difference at all. However, (what I've heard) users of FreeBSD has

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers and glx

This occured to me when I upgraded to the 2.6.11 nitro sources... after moving back to gentoo-dev-sources (or gentoo-sources now) the problem went away. On 4/26/05, Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/25/05, Robert Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had this too. I believe its the

Re: [gentoo-user] stripping down to base system

Hi, > Take a look at the catalyst project which is used for building the > releases. > > The cd's are built from a gentoo system stripped of the compiler etc. > > For example you will see from this file > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/docs/livecd-stage2_template.spec.txt > that they unme

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

no no, I just wanted to see every package that is affected by a particular USE flag. On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 12:53 +0800, steven pan wrote: > emerge -Npv package_name > > is it right? > > On 4/27/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The subject says it all, is there a way other than > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] stripping down to base system

Take a look at the catalyst project which is used for building the releases. The cd's are built from a gentoo system stripped of the compiler etc. For example you will see from this file http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/docs/livecd-stage2_template.spec.txt that they unmerge a whole lot of pa

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.* "masked by: profile"

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 22:19 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > On April 26, 2005 03:20 am, quoth Edward Catmur: > > > Switch profile to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 or > > similar. > > How do I do that? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml#instructions -- gentoo-use

[gentoo-user] PAM error messsages

with my last computer i have these error when i login, it doens't matter if its with ssh or local. The machine has no gui installed. Apr 27 09:05:47 localhost PAM-env[18418]: Unknown PAM_ITEM: Apr 27 09:05:47 localhost sshd[18418]: PAM pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; DISPLAY Apr 27 09:05:4

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

> ~/.bashrc will be executed by every (bash) shell that is started. That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them in /etc/init.d/local.start. > Not AFAIK. There are some userspace read-only utilities for ext2 (and > ext3), but nothing for reiserfs. There is. Try rfs

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:38:14 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Depends, compiling openoffice will dump 3-4Gbytes on top of whats > already there. Then the op wants to use keepalive ... The main reason > my gateway goes down is I log to a mysql database, which occaisionally > fills up /var (4G, cu