Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:18:29 +0200, Catalin Trifu wrote: I just had a terrible experience with upgrading to bash-3.1. It breaks the rc-scripts (especially rc-daemon.sh and eth.lo) so you are left without network. emerge --sync again. Bash 3.1 has been

[gentoo-user] Blocking package... How do I fix it?

2005-12-22 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, My daily update has run into a blocking package. How do I best resolve this? Thanks, jules snip ## omc-2 ~ # emerge -vauDN world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package... How do I fix it?

2005-12-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/22/05, Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My daily update has run into a blocking package. How do I best resolve this? Thanks, jules Hey Jules emerge -C openmotif and then do you emerge world and afterward emerge openmotif if it wasnt emerged again during the energe

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package... How do I fix it?

2005-12-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Jules Colding schreef: Hi, My daily update has run into a blocking package. How do I best resolve this? Thanks, jules snip ## omc-2 ~ # emerge -vauDN world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package... How do I fix it?

2005-12-22 Thread Jules Colding
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 11:51 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: On 12/22/05, Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My daily update has run into a blocking package. How do I best resolve this? Thanks, jules Hey Jules emerge -C openmotif and then do you emerge world and

[gentoo-user] artsd segfaults and emerge noatun fails

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Kintzios
I decided to update my KDE through an emerge -uDpv world and two thinks happened. The emerge failed with the following error and also artds segfaults everytime I logon (it won't initialise). Trying to start artsd manually also fails. This is the emerge error:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags, command line and packages.use

2005-12-22 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Well, after testing your scripts (and modifying the one Boyd posted), still mkpkguse.sh got exactly what I needed, in fact, I just redirected its output to package.use, because it was clean and right (I double checked). Thanks to everyone who helped me, and specially Richard for this cool script

[gentoo-user] Gaim without gnome lib

2005-12-22 Thread ddup1
hi, actually i installed gaim with no gnome support (i have 1.4 gaim version), but since 1.5 gaim still want gnome lib ? why USE=-gnome dont works as before ? what about of incoming 2.0 ? i dont want install a lot of lib that gnome depend on and that dont know really does. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of New Java Packages.. Why?

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:42:37 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Also, I seem to also be pulling in a lot of new Java packages, (actually, all these are being pulled in by rhino - FLOSS Javascript?) Anyone knows why?? As is posted to this list several times a day, use the --tree option to find out what

Re: [gentoo-user] Gaim without gnome lib

2005-12-22 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: hi, actually i installed gaim with no gnome support (i have 1.4 gaim version), but since 1.5 gaim still want gnome lib ? why USE=-gnome dont works as before ? USE=-gnome *does* work as before; it's likely that your problem is related to a new USE flag: emerge -pv

Re: [gentoo-user] my echanges script

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:05:49 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: I have a small perl script, 'echanges', that determines the latest timestamp for installed packages; I find it very helpful to determine what my daily cron of 'emerge -uD world' has done. Leaving aside the obvious comments about the

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:53:34 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: bash-3.1-r1 isn't hard masked anymore. Is it now safe to upgrade to bash v3.1? It seems so, I've just upgraded and rebooted without incident. -- Neil Bothwick Puns are bad, but poetry is verse... signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Gaim without gnome lib

2005-12-22 Thread ddup1
erf im stupid :D, thx for answer i will use -v option more often ^^ On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:04:00PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: hi, actually i installed gaim with no gnome support (i have 1.4 gaim version), but since 1.5 gaim still want gnome lib ? why

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags, command line and packages.use

2005-12-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/22/05, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, after testing your scripts (and modifying the one Boyd posted), still mkpkguse.sh got exactly what I needed, in fact, I just redirected its output to package.use, because it was clean and right (I double checked). Actually, I just

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:53:34 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: bash-3.1-r1 isn't hard masked anymore. Is it now safe to upgrade to bash v3.1? It seems so, I've just upgraded and rebooted without incident. Ah, great to hear - I was too much of a chicken to try it myself

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:26:52 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: It seems so, I've just upgraded and rebooted without incident. Ah, great to hear - I was too much of a chicken to try it myself :) I have buildpkg in FEATURES, so even if an upgrade prevents booting, I only have to boot from a live

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 10:04 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:45:24 +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: It would be cool if you could list every package based on when it was installed... so the stuff that is *reall* old can be freshened by a re-installation (with whatever my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] web based imaage manipulation, slide show etc

2005-12-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 07:18 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been googling around for a tool or suite that will allow the user to remotely manipulate images as in generate dynamic html pages of slide shows of directories of pics, or even organize a herd of images into categories of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Error when trying to bootstrap compiler

2005-12-22 Thread Shawn Singh
Hmmm...in that case I may not bother to do the stage 1 install. Thanks for the input. I'll be sure to holler if I have other questions. Shawn On 12/21/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/21/05, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, A couple days ago my main box died so I'm

[gentoo-user] Kitchensync, Ksync, Multisynk

2005-12-22 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
Hi There! Can anyone here shed some light on the connection between these three apps? I'm working on getting my iPAQ (3970) to sync with KDE. And it is working now with syncekonnector which is now in portage. It just suddenly worked after I played around a bit with these things. I Just don't

[gentoo-user] Radio Frequency Kill Switch

2005-12-22 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Hi all, I have this message: ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is on Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work I don't see anything with that name in /etc/conf.d/wireless nor as a kernel option :( Anyone can explain what it is? tia, --

[gentoo-user] snacc

2005-12-22 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
I was holping to find snacc ( that is a gnu tool for ASN.1 ) on portage tree. How can I find this file on portage tree if it exists ? thanks, Allan -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Radio Frequency Kill Switch

2005-12-22 Thread Christian Heim
On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:52, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is on Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work It's refering to an switch on your _case_ of the notebook, which turns wireless on or

Re: [gentoo-user] Radio Frequency Kill Switch

2005-12-22 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 22 décembre à 17:02:52 Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:52, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: | | ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is on | Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work |

Re: [gentoo-user] Radio Frequency Kill Switch

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Crute
On 12/22/05, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 22 décembre à 17:02:52 Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:52, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: | | ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is on | Kill switch must

[gentoo-user] Superloader works but doesn't

2005-12-22 Thread daniel
I've having considerable trouble with writing to a simple tape drive and I'm hoping that someone here has some experience with it: I'm using a Quantum Superloader, so I've installed mtx to manipulate the tapes. This part works without issue. Load the tape from slot #3: # mtx -f /dev/sg2

Re: [gentoo-user] Radio Frequency Kill Switch

2005-12-22 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 22 décembre à 17:25:26 Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | On 12/22/05, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Le 22 décembre à 17:02:52 Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | | | On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:52, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: | |

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags, command line and packages.use

2005-12-22 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 12/22/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/22/05, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, after testing your scripts (and modifying the one Boyd posted), still mkpkguse.sh got exactly what I needed, in fact, I just redirected its output to package.use, because it was

RE: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 December 2005 19:16 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:53:27 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using

[gentoo-user] Is there a net-setup equivalent in portage?

2005-12-22 Thread Peter
I recently had to reconfigure my network. I did it by hand, no big deal. But I really wanted to use the net-setup program that is on the install and livecd disks. Is this app ONLY in the livecd-tools package? Do I need to emerge that in order to get the tools? Or, does it reside in a different

[gentoo-user] Influencing mount options of hal/udev/gnome-volume-manager/pmount?

2005-12-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! When I connect my camera via USB with my PC, it gets mounted like this: /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=winnt,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=077,iocharset=utf8) I dislike shortname=winnt and iocharset=utf8 and would like to add sync. How to do that? Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a net-setup equivalent in portage?

2005-12-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 22 December 2005 11:46, a tiny voice compelled Peter to write: I recently had to reconfigure my network. I did it by hand, no big deal. But I really wanted to use the net-setup program that is on the install and livecd disks. Is this app ONLY in the livecd-tools package? Do I need

[gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-22 Thread El Nino
Dear gentoo friends, i want to network 12 pcs. so can any body advice me for a good technology(wireless or wired??).price is not a problem, so what will be the best technology among wireless wired? please show me why its the advantages. if you can give me a hardware list for a wireless network

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-22 Thread Oliver Friedrich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Nino wrote: Dear gentoo friends, i want to network 12 pcs. so can any body advice me for a good technology(wireless or wired??).price is not a problem, so what will be the best technology among wireless wired? For me, wired is better all

[gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

2005-12-22 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, I recently did update my machine (didn't do so for a year mehide :) . It is likely that I messed up some things because I'm still not that familiar with portage/emerge as I should be, but I call this learning by doing ;-) . Today I'd ask for help concerning adsl. My machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Superloader works but doesn't

2005-12-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/22/05, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've having considerable trouble with writing to a simple tape drive and I'm hoping that someone here has some experience with it: I'm using a Quantum Superloader, so I've installed mtx to manipulate the tapes. This part works without issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-22 Thread Antoine
Oliver Friedrich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Nino wrote: Dear gentoo friends, i want to network 12 pcs. so can any body advice me for a good technology(wireless or wired??).price is not a problem, so what will be the best technology among wireless wired? maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] nscd; what am I doing wrong?

2005-12-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Walter Dnes wrote: But ping -c 4 google.com sends traffic to 192.168.123.254 port 53 each time, even if only 30 seconds apart. This was confirmed by running tcpdump -n dst port 53 in another console and watching the output. Same thing here. But apparently ping somehow bypasses the cache,

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd segfaults and emerge noatun fails

2005-12-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/22/05, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to update my KDE through an emerge -uDpv world and two thinks happened. The emerge failed with the following error and also artds segfaults everytime I logon (it won't initialise). Trying to start artsd manually also fails.

Re: [gentoo-user] nscd; what am I doing wrong?

2005-12-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/22/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: But ping -c 4 google.com sends traffic to 192.168.123.254 port 53 each time, even if only 30 seconds apart. This was confirmed by running tcpdump -n dst port 53 in another console and watching the output. Same

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-22 Thread El Nino
my answers showing on bellow..., On 12/23/05, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Friedrich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Nino wrote: Dear gentoo friends, i want to network 12 pcs. so can any body advice me for a good technology(wireless or

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/22/05, El Nino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my answers showing on bellow..., On 12/23/05, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Friedrich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Nino wrote: Dear gentoo friends, i want to network 12 pcs. so can any

Re: [gentoo-user] nscd; what am I doing wrong?

2005-12-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/22/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apparently ping somehow bypasses the cache, because when doing several wgets on a single domain, only the first time a DNS query is sent out. Interesting. It doesn't happen on my system. Even stranger, a 'ping

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-22 Thread Stroller
On Dec 22, 2005, at 6:54 pm, El Nino wrote: maybe some more info about what you want and your situation... are you in an office? Café? office (2 floors) Can you drill through walls? yes! Are they all in the same room? no, several rooms(7) + 2 floors Why are you networking them?

[gentoo-user] baselayout prob?

2005-12-22 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
After emerge -uvDa world yest on my ~x86 system. It now just stops after applying the default route with my wireless card. It will NEVER go farther. If I do the interactive thing, and just not start anything that will start net.eth1 boot it up and start them by hand using /etc/init.d/xxx start

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:26:56 -, Michael Kintzios wrote: If you get a minute, a detailed wiki howto would be useful for some of us. :-) A minute, where can I get one of those? Is it in portage? :-( -- Neil Bothwick Eagles may soar, but Wombles don't get sucked into jet engines

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:22:24 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: find /var/db/pkg -name '*.ebuild' ! -newer /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1/gcc-3.4.* to find all packages compiled before your last compiler update. There's also app-portage/genlop, quite nice for doing various things:

Re: [gentoo-user] Influencing mount options of hal/udev/gnome-volume-manager/pmount?

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:31:02 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: like this: /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=winnt,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=077,iocharset=utf8) I dislike shortname=winnt and iocharset=utf8 and would like to add sync. How to do that? You need

[gentoo-user] installing /usr/portage/games*

2005-12-22 Thread James
Hello, I've got a gentoo machine for kids (actually several), who have requested more games. Although there are many games installed, I poked around and found these dirs under /usr/portage: dev-games games-action games-arcade games-board games-emulation games-engines games-fps games-kids

Re: [gentoo-user] Superloader works but doesn't

2005-12-22 Thread daniel
On Thursday 22 December 2005 13:30, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/22/05, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've having considerable trouble with writing to a simple tape drive and I'm hoping that someone here has some experience with it: I'm using a Quantum Superloader, so I've installed mtx to

[gentoo-user] Best way to install RPMs on Gentoo

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
I've got a couple of RPM-based programs to install (there's also an option to install their .deb equivalent). What is the best way to install the RPMs on Gentoo? I personally prefer apt from Debian but couldn't find that in Portage. The only thing I was able to locate with rpm. The main thing

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
bash-3.1-r1 isn't hard masked anymore. Is it now safe to upgrade to bash v3.1? It seems so, I've just upgraded and rebooted without incident. I just did a emerge sync and then emerge world. Bash v3.1 was emerged a reboot later and my scripts were broken. Bleh! Back to Bash v3.0 -- Ryan

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
Just for fun, why would one want to emerge an unstable bash? Is there some feature that I have to have? On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:18, a tiny voice compelled Ryan Viljoen to write: bash-3.1-r1 isn't hard masked anymore. Is it now safe to upgrade to bash v3.1? It seems so, I've

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:22:24 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: find /var/db/pkg -name '*.ebuild' ! -newer /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1/gcc-3.4.* to find all packages compiled before your last compiler update. There's also app-portage/genlop,

[gentoo-user] Re: snacc

2005-12-22 Thread reader
Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was holping to find snacc ( that is a gnu tool for ASN.1 ) on portage tree. How can I find this file on portage tree if it exists ? Look at emege man page. Partiularly `emerge -s' But you might like `esearch' better. Its on the portage tree

[gentoo-user] Re: Backups

2005-12-22 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:26:56 -, Michael Kintzios wrote: If you get a minute, a detailed wiki howto would be useful for some of us. :-) A minute, where can I get one of those? Is it in portage? :-( I've heard that package `just works' on

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/22/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for fun, why would one want to emerge an unstable bash? Is there some feature that I have to have? It wasnt on purpose I assure you, I only notice after the emerge world was complete. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say

Re: [gentoo-user] Kitchensync, Ksync, Multisynk

2005-12-22 Thread Chris White
On Friday 23 December 2005 00:46, Benjamin Fritzsche wrote: Hi There! Basically, OpenSync will replace all of the above, so that shouldn't be of much worry :P. What is needed is Kitchensync and syncekonnector (I was the one who put that in the tree, then fixed its broken-ness).

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Ernie Schroder schrieb: Just for fun, why would one want to emerge an unstable bash? Is there some feature that I have to have? The point is, that it is in the unstable Gentoo tree. And people that have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in make.conf will install this. Alexander Skwar --

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:32:43 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: Just for fun, why would one want to emerge an unstable bash? Is there some feature that I have to have? No, but I run pure ~arch systems. When I updated world on my iBook, a bash update was included, so I let it run. I then rebooted and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:37:35 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: genlop is really nice, I use it all the time, but I don't think it has an option to find all packages installed after a particular package. It would be a nice variation on the --date option. Isn't the output in chrono order?

[gentoo-user] uninstall orphaned packages?

2005-12-22 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Updated portage today and it gave me a warning that there are problems in my world file: Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world So ran the check: royw-gentoo ~ # emaint --check world Checking world for

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to install RPMs on Gentoo

2005-12-22 Thread Philip Webb
051222 Tom Smith wrote: What is the best way to install the RPMs on Gentoo? You could try 'app-arch/rpm2targz', then install by hand in /usr/local . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] nscd; what am I doing wrong?

2005-12-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:07:12PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote Everything looks ok. Could you try: strace -f -o /tmp/strace.out ping -c 4 www.google.com I uncommented most of nscd.conf and rebooted, but still no luck. I don't know the attachment policy here, so I'm putting the stack trace

Re: [gentoo-user] Superloader works but doesn't

2005-12-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/22/05, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sadly, the same effect. The drive isn't even making any noise. It's hard to be sure anything is happening at all, but I'm guessing that the long wait before the error is the process of writing to the end of the tape. Sorry, I misread your original

Re: [gentoo-user] Superloader works but doesn't

2005-12-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/22/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I recall, Unit Attention from a tape drive means hardware failure. This could be as simple as needing to be cleaned, or putting the wrong type of media in it. You _do_ have DLT1 tapes, right (and not SDLT or DLTIV)? Not doing very well

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:37:35 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: genlop is really nice, I use it all the time, but I don't think it has an option to find all packages installed after a particular package. It would be a nice variation on the --date

[gentoo-user] Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Peter
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:47:53 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: I'm getting a failed dependencies error indicating that there are a number of failed deps. I think I know what some of them are but have no idea which Gentoo packages the others can be installed from. Here's the error that rpm -ivh

[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to install RPMs on Gentoo

2005-12-22 Thread Peter
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:48:38 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: I've got a couple of RPM-based programs to install (there's also an option to install their .deb equivalent). What is the best way to install the RPMs on Gentoo? I personally prefer apt from Debian but couldn't find that in Portage. The

[gentoo-user] problem with openoffice2 and menu fonts

2005-12-22 Thread Giulio
Hi everybody, I'm new on gentoo... I've a font problem is openoffice2: I've compiled the source but the fonts of the menu are all extremely big (if I open the File menu it convers almost all the screen). There'is a way to reduce the fonts of the menu or an option to give to emerge during the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
VMware isn't an option. I'll be using Win4Lin Pro as a Windows Terminal Server. I got a two month eval license from them as we will be upgrading from their kernel-based Win4Lin Terminal Server 3.0 software. I don't think VMware can do anything like this, can it? Peter wrote: On Thu, 22

Re: [gentoo-user] Kitchensync, Ksync, Multisynk

2005-12-22 Thread Robin
The question is that when is OpenSync going to be stable... And part of portage ? On 12/22/05, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 00:46, Benjamin Fritzsche wrote: Hi There! Basically, OpenSync will replace all of the above, so that shouldn't be of much worry

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Peter
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:39:29 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: VMware isn't an option. I'll be using Win4Lin Pro as a Windows Terminal Server. I got a two month eval license from them as we will be upgrading from their kernel-based Win4Lin Terminal Server 3.0 software. I don't think VMware can do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
Actually, Pro IS the server product... What makes them different is the license code. They haven't officially released the Terminal Server product yet in that they're not officially advertising it. What I've got is the initial release of Pro. And if you look at the User Manual for Pro, you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Dale
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 23:47, Tom Smith wrote: Here's the error that rpm -ivh Win4Lin... generates: error: Failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by Win4LinPro-6.2.5-01 ... Well, of course! This is Gentoo - no rpm hell here! What you need is rpm -ivh

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 22, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Dale wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 23:47, Tom Smith wrote: Here's the error that rpm -ivh Win4Lin... generates: error: Failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by Win4LinPro-6.2.5-01 ... Well, of course! This is Gentoo - no rpm

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-22 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 22, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Lares Moreau wrote: office (2 floors) Can you drill through walls? yes! Are they all in the same room? no, several rooms(7) + 2 floors Why are you networking them? sharing Internet + other normal data sharing stuff What sort of traffic do you expect

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
Dale wrote: I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed so maybe I am missing something. Why not do a emerge win4lin and be done with it? Why does it have to be a rpm install when it is in portage? Like I said, maybe I'm missing something here. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -p win4lin These

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Dale
Tom Smith wrote: Because the Portage Win4Lin is at version 5--the Netraverse version is at 6 and includes additional Pro utilities that provide the Terminal Server functionality, among other things. Maybe some poor soul, Tom Smith maybe ;, can ask them to update the thing to version 6?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi reader - At 2005-12-22, 11:37:35 you wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:22:24 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: find /var/db/pkg -name '*.ebuild' ! -newer /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1/gcc-3.4.* to find all packages compiled before your last

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
I understand that anyone with ~x86 in make.conf would get an upgrade like that. I used to run one box bleeding edge but had a portage/perl issue about a year and a half ago that took a couple days to fix. That cured my need for the latest and greatest of everything. Now, I run a few ~x86 apps

Re: [gentoo-user] Kitchensync, Ksync, Multisynk

2005-12-22 Thread Chris White
On Friday 23 December 2005 10:58, Robin wrote: The question is that when is OpenSync going to be stable... And part of portage ? To answer that, the KitchenSync part of KDE will utilize OpenSync as a means of communicating with different devices. However, it's currently being developed in

[gentoo-user] ls of /

2005-12-22 Thread Martin S
Back to Gentoo. And battling my own errors... LOL Perhaps I shouldn't have written that :) I have a problem, I can't do ls / as that produces the error: ls: .: Permission denied I can however, cd to the root directory and I can list all other directories (that I've tried anyway). So I got the

[gentoo-user] Easy way to unmerge all of KDE?

2005-12-22 Thread Dale
Hi guys, and Holly, I have a rig that I need to free up some space on the hard drive. I want to remove KDE completely. Naturally doing a emerge unmerge kde does not get the job done. What is a easy way to do this? I did a emerge -ep world | grep kde but it is one heck of a list. It's 6

Re: [gentoo-user] nscd; what am I doing wrong?

2005-12-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:18:08PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote Richard Fish wrote: What version and use flags do you have for net- [ebuild R ] net-misc/iputils-021109-r3 -doc -ipv6 -static 0 kB AOL Me too. /AOL Exact same version and flags. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In

Re: [gentoo-user] ls of /

2005-12-22 Thread Martin S
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults0 1 I still get: ls: .: Permission deniedwhen doing ls on the root directoryRegards,Martin S

[gentoo-user] /usr/bin/emerge gone!

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm not sure how, but /usr/bin/emerge is gone on my server box. How can I get it back? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/emerge gone!

2005-12-22 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (23/12/05 00:33), Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm not sure how, but /usr/bin/emerge is gone on my server box. How can I get it back? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi, file /usr/bin/emerge /usr/bin/emerge: symbolic link to `../lib/portage/bin/emerge' Rumen

Re: [gentoo-user] ls of /

2005-12-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
On 23/12/05, Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/hda1 /ext3defaults0 1 I still get: ls: .: Permission denied when doing ls on the root directory Hi Martin. I had a problem like this a while ago, except my problem was purely related to the fact that

Re: [gentoo-user] ls of /

2005-12-22 Thread Martin S
Of course, that simple.How it happened to get incorrect permissions I don't know. Thanks anyway!Martin S2005/12/23, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED]:On 23/12/05, Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/hda1 /ext3defaults0 1 I still get: ls: .: Permission denied when doing ls on the root directory

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/emerge gone!

2005-12-22 Thread Dale
Rumen Yotov wrote: On (23/12/05 00:33), Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm not sure how, but /usr/bin/emerge is gone on my server box. How can I get it back? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi, file /usr/bin/emerge /usr/bin/emerge: symbolic link to

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/emerge gone!

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 08:44 +, Rumen Yotov wrote: On (23/12/05 00:33), Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm not sure how, but /usr/bin/emerge is gone on my server box. How can I get it back? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi, file /usr/bin/emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/emerge gone!

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 00:55 -0600, Dale wrote: Rumen Yotov wrote: On (23/12/05 00:33), Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm not sure how, but /usr/bin/emerge is gone on my server box. How can I get it back? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi, file

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/emerge gone!

2005-12-22 Thread Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: emerge still works on my client box. Can I just use my client box to fetch the source code for portage and build it manually to get the files back? I tried copying /usr/bin/emerge over to my server box from my client box and using it, but it gave me an error about

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/emerge gone!

2005-12-22 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 23 December 2005 15:33, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm not sure how, but /usr/bin/emerge is gone on my server box. How can I get it back? # tar jxf ${DISTDIR}/portage-2.0.53.tar.bz2 # mkdir -p /usr/lib/portage/{bin,pym} # mv portage-2.0.53/bin/* /usr/lib/portage/pym # mv

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy way to unmerge all of KDE?

2005-12-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 23. Dezember 2005 07:12 schrieb ext Dale: I have a rig that I need to free up some space on the hard drive. I want to remove KDE completely. Naturally doing a emerge unmerge kde does not get the job done. What is a easy way to do this? I did a emerge -ep world | grep kde but