Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-08 Thread Mats Lidell
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Funny. I have 2.4.0 for gnome-common. So from my limited understanding of emerge I guess I have some work getting the portage tree in sync. (Maybe it is time for an emerge --update --deep --newuse world !? I don't think a newuse is needed. What about gconf? is it

Re: [gentoo-user] Port 512/Comsat and Sendmail or Fetchmail hangs

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 23:12 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: The process would hang at at the input of each mail for a short (but very noticable) period while it tries to connect to port 512/comsat. /etc/services states that this port is for new-mail

[gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
I urgently need a second ethernet (RJ-45 telephone-looking type) NIC in my computer, which is about a year old, el cheapo but with USB 2.0, so decent for my needs (sorry, don't have mother board details at the moment). the local store is willing to install a SMC one for a good price. my only

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 18:00, Christoph Eckert wrote: my konqueror does not support the protocol devices. Which library am I missing? maybe emerge -pv kdebase will show you use flags which have been disabled during compile time? It doesn't really reveal anything interesting: [ebuild R

[gentoo-user] Module parameters

2005-06-08 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, To keep a networkcard in 100mbit full duplex i have put a line in /etc/modules.conf. Now hte next time this machine is rebooted will it use this parameters or must i do something extra? TIA Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2005 18:00, Christoph Eckert wrote: my konqueror does not support the protocol devices. Which library am I missing? maybe emerge -pv kdebase will show you use flags which have been disabled during compile time? It

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 21:48:29 -0700, Pingveno wrote: Is there a way I can build a CD with a Gentoo-compatible version of distcc? You could build your own Live CD, that way you get all the tools you need and you can keep the versions in sync with your other system. There is an excellent HOWTO on

[gentoo-user] New stage1 install failed (groupadd not found)

2005-06-08 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, I just redid my stage1 install. Everything went normal until I got to the emerge --emptytree world part in the handbook (section 6.d). The emerge failed when dbus-0.23-rc3 was installed. The ebuild tried to add the group 'messagebus' to the system but then I got:

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I urgently need a second ethernet (RJ-45 telephone-looking type) NIC in my computer, which is about a year old, el cheapo but with USB 2.0, so decent for my needs (sorry, don't have mother board details at the moment). the local store is

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 07:42:56 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: the local store is willing to install a SMC one for a good price. my only concern is the brand. ethernet is very well understood and I just need plain-vanilla, but I don't want to have to fiddle with anything, configuring hardware or

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:34:04 -0700 (PDT), Zac Medico wrote: In kDE 3.4 it's been replaced with media:/ and it works for me. It is not affected by USE flags. Although you will need the hal USE flag if you want to use the auto- detection/mounting feature.

Re: [gentoo-user] New stage1 install failed (groupadd not found)

2005-06-08 Thread Jules Colding
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 09:42 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I just redid my stage1 install. Everything went normal until I got to the emerge --emptytree world part in the handbook (section 6.d). The emerge failed when dbus-0.23-rc3 was installed. The ebuild tried to add the group

Re: [gentoo-user] New stage1 install failed (groupadd not found)

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just redid my stage1 install. Everything went normal until I got to the emerge --emptytree world part in the handbook (section 6.d). The emerge failed when dbus-0.23-rc3 was installed. The ebuild tried to add the group 'messagebus' to

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:36:23 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hmm... That leads to a gross inconsistency because the sidebar offers devices resulting in that error message that konqueror doesn't support the protocol devices. You're right. I suspect that this is left over from a previous installation

Re: [gentoo-user] New stage1 install failed (groupadd not found)

2005-06-08 Thread Jules Colding
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 11:10 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 01:35 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 716: 'groupadd': command not found. Can I emerge a package with groupadd and continue with my installation or should some portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Module parameters

2005-06-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: To keep a networkcard in 100mbit full duplex i have put a line in /etc/modules.conf. Now hte next time this machine is rebooted will it use this parameters or must i do something extra? AFAIK /etc/modules.conf is generated from update-modules. Edit

[gentoo-user] Can't make a local login when no LDAP server can be reached

2005-06-08 Thread Christian Poessinger
Hi, i successfully setted up some LDAP servers which are slurping, I also can login to my machines whom I told to accept LDAP useraccounts, now i found out that it isnt possible to log in locally with root when no LDAP server can be reached, for example when i remove the network cable. I can enter

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf bin does not exist

2005-06-08 Thread reg hughson
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:02:56 -0700 (PDT) Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- reg hughson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had xpdf installed for some time but haven't used it for a couple of weeks so don't really know which version caused me the problem...I now notice that the xpdf

[gentoo-user] majordomo issue

2005-06-08 Thread q-parser
Hi! I have a problem with majordomo. Everything had been ok until recently when it stopped working. The log says that user majordomo is not able to write to /usr/tmp but this folder has 777 mod set on it. I was thinking that my mail server was badly configured, however I can send and receive

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf bin does not exist

2005-06-08 Thread reg hughson
I have had xpdf installed for some time but haven't used it for a couple of weeks so don't really know which version caused me the problem...I now notice that the xpdf executable that used to be in /usr/bin no longer exists. snip You need to run motif-config before you merge

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I urgently need a second ethernet (RJ-45 telephone-looking type) NIC in my computer, which is about a year old, el cheapo but with USB 2.0, so decent for my needs (sorry, don't have mother board details at the moment). My one piece of advice is to avoid

Re: [gentoo-user] esd or arts, sound daemon howto

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Christoph Eckert schreef: Even if you're not running KDE you can install arts standalone and start it via any login script. Dunno where esound can get started. rc-update in other words, rc-update add esound default . Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread Jonathan Wright
Marshal Newrock wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I urgently need a second ethernet (RJ-45 telephone-looking type) NIC in my computer, which is about a year old, el cheapo but with USB 2.0, so decent for my needs (sorry, don't have mother board details at the moment). My one

RE: [gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc

2005-06-08 Thread Marchal Laurent
Another solution could be to run distcc in colinux on your Windows box, that's I do home. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/colinux-howto.xml Just be sure to have Windows XP Pro edition, Windows XP home doesn't work for me... Laurent Marchal -Original Message- From: Pingveno

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-08 Thread Kurt Guenther
Mats Lidell wrote: 1. The clock applet: The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet. Details: Failed to resolve, or extend '!prefs_key=/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets/applet_8/prefs;background=none:;orient=down;size=x-small;locked_down=false I'm also having

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-08 Thread Kurt Guenther
Mats Lidell wrote: 1. The clock applet: The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet. Details: Failed to resolve, or extend '!prefs_key=/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets/applet_8/prefs;background=none:;orient=down;size=x-small;locked_down=false 2. Do you

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-08 Thread Kurt Guenther
Mats Lidell wrote: 1. The clock applet: The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet. Details: Failed to resolve, or extend '!prefs_key=/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets/applet_8/prefs;background=none:;orient=down;size=x-small;locked_down=false Opened Bug

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc

2005-06-08 Thread Matthew Cline
On 6/8/05, Marchal Laurent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another solution could be to run distcc in colinux on your Windows box, that's I do home. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/colinux-howto.xml Just be sure to have Windows XP Pro edition, Windows XP home doesn't work for me...

Re: [gentoo-user] gthumb GTK error

2005-06-08 Thread Kurt Guenther
Grant wrote: To me this looks like a simple case of not being in X when trying to run an X-based application. Trying starting X (most likely you run gnome) then try to run gthumb. Huh, I logged out of root and I can run gthumb as a normal user just fine. Not as root though. Weird.

Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Tim Igoe
Mark Knecht wrote: Hello, I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. Once an hour it seems that the drive still spins up for about 1 minute. How can I find

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
fire-eyes schreef: When performing an emerge -pv world on an x86 server, I got this today: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-libs/pam-0.78 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. Once an hour it seems that the drive still spins up for about 1 minute. How can I find what's

RE: [gentoo-user] Recompiling the whole system

2005-06-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Richard Fish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I last rebuilt everything, I did it by: emerge --emptytree --pretend world \ | grep / \ | awk -F']' '{ print $2 }' buildlist.txt for x in `cat buildlist.txt`; do emerge --oneshot $x if test $? -ne 0; then echo

Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jun 8, 2005 6:27 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mark Knecht wrote: Hello, I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV frontend. I have

[gentoo-user] depclean sane?

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
How are these for depcleaning? sys-libs/lib-compat media-libs/libao sys-fs/device-mapper sys-fs/cryptsetup app-shells/sash app-text/gtkspell media-libs/t1lib app-arch/ncompress - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
To me, it's not a focus on gentopia. Gentopia is Gentoo's version of the project utopia stack (which is more GNOME specific). for example, gamin is the successor to famd which works more efficiently based on inotify. gnome-volume-manager for example works with gamin + udev + hal + dbus to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Remy. I'll investigate some of these settings. As I sat here at 6:48AM (roughly) the drive spun up again. I was watching 'top' but couldn't tell what process used more CPU. One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: SNIP Enable laptop mode always, not just when on

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling the whole system

2005-06-08 Thread Matt Place
Check out emwrap in the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-282474-highlight-emwrap.html With emwrap you can rebuild your entire system, including the toolchain, correctly. Hope it helps, I think it's great. -Matt- On 6/8/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Richard

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean sane?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How are these for depcleaning? sys-libs/lib-compat media-libs/libao sys-fs/device-mapper sys-fs/cryptsetup app-shells/sash app-text/gtkspell media-libs/t1lib app-arch/ncompress - Grant Of these only t1lib appeared in my world file. You could

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling the whole system

2005-06-08 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Your best bet is probably emerge --emptytree world. That will basically emerge the current version of world and all dependancies. Nothing will be built twice. If you have packages in world file with more versions in more slots, then only the newest

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:02 -0700, Grant wrote: To me, it's not a focus on gentopia. Gentopia is Gentoo's version of the project utopia stack (which is more GNOME specific). for example, gamin is the successor to famd which works more efficiently based on inotify.

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (please.. someone re-assure me!!) You are hereby reassured. ;-) - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Remy. I'll investigate some of these settings. As I sat here at 6:48AM (roughly) the drive spun up again. I was watching 'top' but couldn't tell what process used more CPU. you can choose to use debug more in laptop mode. #echo 1

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 6/8/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Just wanted to say this.. El-Cheapo cards will work, but may not be as full-featured or as fast throughput as the more expensive 3com cards. eg: USD6 Dlink vs USD25 3com. One Dlink I got was absolutely horrible. It will hang after a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-08 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ramón Gutiérrez wrote: go to */ect/make.conf* and add *ACCEPTS_KEYWORDS=~x86 * case sensitive -- Ramon Gutierrez no don't go, stay with us -- . These pages are best viewed by coming to my house and looking at . . my

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:58:52 -0400, Ramón Gutiérrez wrote: go to */ect/make.conf* and add *ACCEPTS_KEYWORDS=~x86 * The words sledgehammer and nut spring to mind... -- Neil Bothwick Beware of cover disks bearing upgrades. pgpqlaJMRgS41.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Remy. I'll investigate some of these settings. As I sat here at 6:48AM (roughly) the drive spun up again. I was watching 'top' but couldn't tell what process used more CPU. you

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: SNIP Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.) LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=0 SNIP Since it's a desktop machine it would seem

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Shields
I'd highly recommend you don't add ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 to your make file, as this will cause your system to emerge with all ~x86 (testing/unstable) packages upon next emerge. Add this to your /etc/portage/package.keywords: =sys-libs/pam-0.78 then emerge -pv again. On 6/8/05, Bastian Balthazar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: SNIP Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.) LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:31 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: SNIP Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.)

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:34:34 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: So: is there an easy way to find out if a package can be removed from world because it is already in there as a dependency or because of the profile? I'd like to pare world down to just the things that make a difference. Remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 08:53 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/8/05, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: SNIP Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? # (This will still disable laptop mode

Re: [gentoo-user] BootSplash

2005-06-08 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
thank you. On 6/8/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/7/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: guys I had installed splashutils and I confess I am totally lost :( . where can I find information about it ? Possibly here? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash Good

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Roy Wright
OK, I give. How do you configure media? I tried: * Add New | Web SideBar Module ** Name = Media ** URL = media:/ But this gives a An error occurred while loading media:/; Malformed URL media:/. when clicked. TIA, Roy Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:36:23 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Shields schreef: I'd highly recommend you don't add ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 to your make file, as this will cause your system to emerge with all ~x86 (testing/unstable) packages upon next emerge. Add this to your /etc/portage/package.keywords: =sys-libs/pam-0.78 then emerge -pv again. I

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread Antoine
My one piece of advice is to avoid RealTek chipsets (usually RTL-8139). These are the winmodems of the network world. Most of their processing is done by software, not in hardware. Been solid as a rock for me for ages now (is that 8139too?)... I occasionally shift dvd images around but

Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? What else is running? Maybe you can run ps -ef and show us the output? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: El-Cheapo cards will work, but may not be as full-featured or as fast throughput as the more expensive 3com cards. eg: USD6 Dlink vs USD25 3com. Speaking from the server side of the fence, we swear by Intel eepro cards. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:31:52 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: OK, I give. How do you configure media? I tried: * Add New | Web SideBar Module ** Name = Media ** URL = media:/ But this gives a An error occurred while loading media:/; Malformed URL media:/. when clicked. I just right-clicked the

[gentoo-user] emerge error Bad interpretor

2005-06-08 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hello, I set the portage_tmpdir in my make.conf file, and have tried emerging some packages. But there is a problem, because i keep getting errors no matter what I emerge, the error looks like this: ..etc/ebuild.sh ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied and yes, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc/Live CD's are Wonderfull

2005-06-08 Thread Rob
At 10:49 PM 6/7/2005, you wrote: --- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am slowly but surely rescuing my Gentoo System with the latest Live CD. It is truly a miracle to have this tool, but you need to take some time experimenting with how to use it, For example, mounting boot

Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? What else is running? Maybe you can run ps -ef and show us the output? Hi - here you go. myth11 root # ps -ef UIDPID PPID

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 June 2005 16:35, Mark Knecht wrote: myth11 root # echo 1/proc/sys/vm/block_dump myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/block_dump 0 [18:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] # echo 1 /proc/sys/vm/block_dump [18:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] # cat

[gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
I just got set up with SkypeOut and that thing is awesome. I'm not using the kde or enlightenment sound daemons. Do they just basically take some load from the CPU and put it in memory? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-08 Thread maxim wexler
'cdboot/boot/grub/stage2_eltorito' ! That should be -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito...so take the 'cdboot' off the front of that. Nope. Now I get: mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - - But I have another question: At what point does vmlinuz(under /tmp/cdboot/boot)make it

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/8/05, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My world file seems remarkably long to me at 129 lines. I know I've added some stuff, but many of these entries ring no bells in my memory. I think a big part of what has happened is that in various throes of dealing with

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean sane?

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Grant wrote: How are these for depcleaning? sys-libs/lib-compat media-libs/libao sys-fs/device-mapper sys-fs/cryptsetup app-shells/sash app-text/gtkspell media-libs/t1lib app-arch/ncompress The only two that worry me are device-mapper and cryptsetup. If you are using LVM2 or dm-crypt, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling the whole system

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Alexander Skwar wrote: Is that actually, what you used? Shouldn't it rather be: emerge --oneshot =$x Yep, you're right. Looks like I need some 'ECC' memory... ;- -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel-1.0.7664??

2005-06-08 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
My solution was to mask the package: # media-video =media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7664 =media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7664 I will try installing it again later. If all else fails, you can try this as well ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-08 Thread Kurt Guenther
Kurt Guenther wrote: Mats Lidell wrote: 1. The clock applet: The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet. Details: Failed to resolve, or extend

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean sane?

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
How are these for depcleaning? sys-libs/lib-compat media-libs/libao sys-fs/device-mapper sys-fs/cryptsetup app-shells/sash app-text/gtkspell media-libs/t1lib app-arch/ncompress - Grant Of these only t1lib appeared in my world file. You could go through the basic process

[gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
When I try to mount CDRW discs I get: mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock but other discs mount fine. Does anyone know what that is about? Maybe I'm not burning them correctly? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Christoph Eckert
I just got set up with SkypeOut and that thing is awesome.  I'm not using the kde or enlightenment sound daemons. http://www.skype.com/help/faq/linux.html »What sound system does Skype for Linux beta use? Skype for Linux beta uses OSS (Open Sound System), using /dev/dsp as its audio input

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: 'cdboot/boot/grub/stage2_eltorito' ! That should be -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito...so take the 'cdboot' off the front of that. Nope. Now I get: mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - - You typod something. Looks like you put a space between

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error Bad interpretor

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hello, I set the portage_tmpdir in my make.conf file, and have tried emerging some packages. But there is a problem, because i keep getting errors no matter what I emerge, the error looks like this: ..etc/ebuild.sh ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission

Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/8/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? What else is running? Maybe you can run ps -ef and show us the output? root 5341 1 0

Re: [gentoo-user] esd or arts, sound daemon howto

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Christoph Eckert wrote: There is an alsa plugin to allow any native alsa application to connect through the jack server. Unfortunately I've never been able to get acceptable sound quality using it this way I guess you mean bio2jack.sf.net? No, I mean 'media-plugins/alsa-jack'.

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Kevin, I don't know of an automated way to do it. I had to go through my machines by hand doing the emerge/depclean/revdep-rebuild process I outlined in an email on this subject to Grant this morning. It took me a

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
I just got set up with SkypeOut and that thing is awesome. I'm not using the kde or enlightenment sound daemons. http://www.skype.com/help/faq/linux.html »What sound system does Skype for Linux beta use? Skype for Linux beta uses OSS (Open Sound System), using /dev/dsp as its audio

[gentoo-user] is there anybody succeded with ./CA.pl -newca in Gentoo 2005.0?

2005-06-08 Thread askar ...
Hello! Is there anybody who succeded in making certificates with ./CA.pl -newca in Gentoo 2005.0? I was using universal live cd, with its stage and portage files not using emerge --sync. I followed howto guide for virtual mail system with postfix. One of the step was creating certicates with

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
Skype isn't awesome. They did it right in terms of usability. But do not forget that they are abusing you, the user, to penetrate the market with their proprietary protocol- As soon as this happened, it is likely that the Linux version disappears. Why would they remove the Linux version?

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Grant wrote: When I try to mount CDRW discs I get: mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock but other discs mount fine. Does anyone know what that is about? Maybe I'm not burning them correctly? What are you using to write these? Are they fixated? Maybe cdrecord ... -fix can help...

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: Interesting results. I don't think I'd want to remove these and I thing the system would complain a bit if I removed vim. Anyway, it was an intersting experiment. Yes, _unmerging_ anything in this list could be extremely dangerous. It might lead you to unmerge python or

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Grant wrote: When I try to mount CDRW discs I get: mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock but other discs mount fine. Does anyone know what that is about? Maybe I'm not burning them correctly? What are you using to write these? Are they

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
When I try to mount CDRW discs I get: mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock but other discs mount fine. Does anyone know what that is about? Maybe I'm not burning them correctly? What are you using to write these? Are they fixated? Maybe cdrecord ... -fix can help...

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
When I try to mount CDRW discs I get: mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock but other discs mount fine. Does anyone know what that is about? Maybe I'm not burning them correctly? What are you using to write these? Are they fixated? Maybe cdrecord ... -fix can help...

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: The discs that won't mount do play in a CD player just fine. Any ideas? Are these then regular Redbook audio CDs you've burned? Those don't need to be mounted. Just put them into the drive, open your media player of choice and play them as you would a 'retail' audio CD. Holly --

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc -audio -pad *.wav When trying to mount it actually tells me to specify the filesystem type first, then I specify vfat (it won't accept auto), then I get the superblock error. Audio cds are in cdda format. It's not a regular

RE: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc -audio -pad *.wav You cannot mount audio cd's under normal circumstances (there are some exceptions to this general rule, but you normally have to install stuff in order to get that functionality). In the case where you mentioned that you could mount an audio cd, I would

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
The discs that won't mount do play in a CD player just fine. Any ideas? Are these then regular Redbook audio CDs you've burned? Those don't need to be mounted. Just put them into the drive, open your media player of choice and play them as you would a 'retail' audio CD. Ok, but sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Grant wrote: Ok, but sometimes I have a written CDRW and I don't know what's on it. I guess I should try to mount it, if that fails, try to play it, if that fails I've got bad data? Or follow my rule...no label, treat as blank. It works in the office too! ;- -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-08 Thread Alec Shaner
Mark Knecht wrote: The typical reason for low performance AND high CPU is that the controller (in this case probably the USB interface chip) isn't enabled for DMA. It looked like you have the right drivers loaded so possibly the USB chip is not a major brand name? Sorry I didn't read earlier

-- dhcp: host name lookup failure-- or -- Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-08 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson
Now I have put -d to the argument list in /etc/conf.d/net and I get the answer. Next question: How do I tell the dhcp client where to find the host name? Tirsdag den 7. juni 2005 23:29 skrev Zac Medico: --- Claus Ladekjær Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is, that another version of

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-08 Thread Mats Lidell
Kurt Guenther wrote: Try this: emerge -p gnome-applets I found a package that was blocking the emerge (including one for gnome menus). I resolved this and emerged about 10 packages and my clock applet is running. Although, now I have a impossibly small font for my resolution (1900x1200).

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
That's why I keep my soft pen always near my CDRWs and CDRs! I even got a special one that is thin and so I write a complete description instead of Audio 1 or Data 2 *lol* Don't tell anyone, but once I spent 2 hours looking for a backup CD for my boss (had to bring all CDs home to check each

Re: -- dhcp: host name lookup failure-- or -- Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Claus Ladekj�r Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I have put -d to the argument list in /etc/conf.d/net and I get the answer. Next question: How do I tell the dhcp client where to find the host name? What hostname? The client's hostname? That normally goes in /etc/conf.d/hostname.

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-08 Thread Christian Hoenig
Hi, On Wednesday 08 June 2005 17:34, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: My world file seems remarkably long to me at 129 lines. I know I've added some stuff, but many of these entries ring no bells in my memory. I think a big part of what has happened is that in various throes of dealing with portage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Skype searches for sound daemons, but I notice it never uses them, OSS always (or the emulated OSS under ALSA), maybe will come handy in the future of development. I wouldn't worry about the Linux version dissapear, the FREE version, OH YES, just like Kazaa and its bunch of spyware. Besides, if

Re: -- dhcp: host name lookup failure-- or -- Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a dhcp client?

2005-06-08 Thread Zac Medico
--- Claus Ladekj�r Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I have no such file - /etc/conf.d/hostname With older versions of baselayout it was /etc/hostname. Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more.

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