[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry. I should have started that a number of the failures have come while doing revdep-rebuild. One seemingly large problem is that revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages that are no longer in portage so you have to remove those from the rebuild or

[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the revdep-rebuild guys should (could?) include -X if it's the right thing to do? They do. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] usb suspend bug for mouse?

2007-09-13 Thread Thufir
On 9/12/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:23:52 -0700 Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a run of the mill USB optical mouse which has worked fine for several years. Recently it started stalling , hanging or freezing from gentoo. Haven't yet tried a

RE: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:37 PM I've been messing with a standard x86, middle of the road Gentoo machine for over two days now. There must be 20 or 30 packages that won't build. Frustrating. Most of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:57:35 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: Another 4 million ebuild.log files to parse and act upon after every update. Those of us wishing to spend their time more usefully have portage email the important bits instead of trying to read the files manually :-/ -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 13 September 2007 05:58:16 Dan Farrell wrote: berkdb = sys-libs/db. apr-util is slotted and 0.9.12 is in a different slot than 1.2.8. this might give you some idea of what packages might be effected by the nontrivial update of db: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends db [

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 13 September 2007 05:41:59 Mark Knecht wrote: This latest emerge pass seems to be working better. I did have to skip a couple of packages though. I'll go back and see if I can catch them with revdep-rebuild when it hopefully finishes up in the next hour. [...] db2omf: Could not

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 13. September 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:57:35 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: Another 4 million ebuild.log files to parse and act upon after every update. Those of us wishing to spend their time more usefully have portage email the important bits instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daevid Vincent wrote: I wonder what am I hanging on to Gentoo for (since my first install in 2004). I REALLY love the theory behind it. I REALLY think/thought it has potential. I REALLY love the customization. So ask yourself what customizations you made in Gentoo that you can't make in

[gentoo-user] sarg reports with squidguard

2007-09-13 Thread bijayant kumar
Hello to all, I have configured sarg and squidGuard, but not able to create sarg reports of squidGuard logs. When i am creating reports it is not showing user's IP address in the reports. Please help me to create sarg reports with the squidGuard logs. I am not able to understand what is to be

[gentoo-user] -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs for Xen

2007-09-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo#TLS_and_CFLAGS states, that '-mno-tls-direct-seg-refs' is to be added to the CFLAGS. Do I need this flag on my dom0, or just on my domU's? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] sed does not work on profile 2006.1

2007-09-13 Thread Kerry
When I try execute sed on Gentoo, I get -bash: /usr/bin/sed: No such file or directory error message. I tried installing binary version sed-4.1.5, and still the same result. Here is the output of strace -f -F -v sed command: execve(/usr/bin/sed, [sed], [MANPATH=/usr/local/share/man:/us...,

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:46:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Those of us wishing to spend their time more usefully have portage email the important bits instead of trying to read the files manually :-/ elogv/elogviewer claws-mail does it for me :) -- Neil Bothwick And what else

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:32:40 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The above command will show all installed packages that *may* [1] depend on any installed version of sys-libs/db... Isn't that kind of the point, though? If you can't install the slotted version you need, the

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't build pango

2007-09-13 Thread Jean-Philippe Caruana
Marzan, Richard non Unisys a écrit : Try emerge --sync...Then visit http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-575655.html The first post worked for me. Do what it asks and then re-emerge world. Then revdep-rebuild. thanks ! this worked for me. to sum up : emerge -u1 expat emerge -1 gettext

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't build pango

2007-09-13 Thread Jean-Philippe Caruana
Jean-Philippe Caruana a écrit : Marzan, Richard non Unisys a écrit : Try emerge --sync...Then visit http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-575655.html The first post worked for me. Do what it asks and then re-emerge world. Then revdep-rebuild. thanks ! this worked for me. to sum up : emerge

RE: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
Really?...Portage can do that? because I would like to get portage on my system to do that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:00 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-13 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 9/12/07, Lee Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: This link tells nothing - it was from the first time I installed Gentoo on the new laptop. This time I *did* configure sata into the kernel. So *that* is not the issue. And I'm not *that* stupid that I would repeat a

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:05:57 -0500, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: Really?...Portage can do that? because I would like to get portage on my system to do that. Step 1: Stop top posting Step 2: Read /etc/make.conf.example, the part about PORTAGE_ELOG -- Neil Bothwick Protect your software

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting USB Drive/MP3 PLayer

2007-09-13 Thread forgottenwizard
The point here is, it works. If anything it seemed slightly faster, but considering I'm not too worried, I'll leave it as-is. On 23:03 Wed 12 Sep , Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello forgottenwizard, Alright, I've got it. It doesn't mount via sda anymore, but by uba. Either way, it works.

[gentoo-user] Re: Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

2007-09-13 Thread James
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto please.no.spam.here at gmail.com writes: Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts If you have some corrosion, or scale build up, alcohol may not work. For tougher

[gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

2007-09-13 Thread Daevid Vincent
I've posted this about two months ago without any replies. I've been googling and trying things, but still can't get this to work like it used to. I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the

[gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion

2007-09-13 Thread James Colby
All - Does anyone know if there is an upgrade path from Beryl to Compiz-Fusion. I am currently running Beryl on my laptop and would like to try out the new Compiz-Fusion. Do I need to unmerge the Beryl packages before I install Compiz-Fusion? Thanks for any help that you may be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion

2007-09-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:47 -0400, James Colby wrote: All - Does anyone know if there is an upgrade path from Beryl to Compiz-Fusion. I am currently running Beryl on my laptop and would like to try out the new Compiz-Fusion. Do I need to unmerge the Beryl packages before I install

Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

2007-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
070913 Daevid Vincent wrote: I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the physical console that doesn't. There is a provision somewhere to disallow root logins, so that mb your problem rather

RE: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:35:50 -0500, Neil Bothwick wrote: Step 1: Stop top posting Step 2: Read /etc/make.conf.example, the part about PORTAGE_ELOG Sure will. Thanks Neil. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] desktop zoom

2007-09-13 Thread Martins
Hi, I wonder is there a such tool like point and move around desktop/window and get zoomed picture in separate window? I think i saw something but cant recall to get right kayword. pls. hint me if any. martins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: metacity Woes[solved? you let me know]

2007-09-13 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
Surprisingly, it did not destroy my settings. The background and everything was still there. -Original Message- From: Moshe Kamensky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:02 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: metacity Woes[solved? you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: metacity Woes[solved? you let me know]

2007-09-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 16:02 -0400, Moshe Kamensky wrote: Hi, Thanks for the help. The problem for me with this approach is that it happens on a machine that I manage for my father on different continent. I am afraid that if I do this all the settings for the desktop will disappear, he

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion

2007-09-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 20:33 -0400, James Colby wrote: Thanks, I used the above procedure and it compiled and runs well. The only complaint that I have is that I have no windows decorations unless I open up a shell and manually execute emerald . Any ideas on how to get emerald to run on

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion

2007-09-13 Thread Whitt Madden
have you looked at the wiki page on gentoo? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_compiz-fusion Your answer might be there. On 9/14/07, James Colby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:37:48PM -0500, Whitt Madden wrote: I will second Albert's message. I didn't unmerge Beryl, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion

2007-09-13 Thread James Colby
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:37:48PM -0500, Whitt Madden wrote: I will second Albert's message. I didn't unmerge Beryl, and unlike Albert I did have some issues. On 9/13/07, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:47 -0400, James Colby wrote: All - Does

Re: [gentoo-user] How to know current state of LCD

2007-09-13 Thread kou yu
I haven't merge X yet:( On 9/13/07, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kou yu wrote: I can turn on/off LCD by using vbetool vbetool dpms on/off But I can not find a way to know the current state of LCD. on? or off? Is there any method, command or something else to indicate the state

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-13 Thread Colleen Beamer
Lee Davis wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: This link tells nothing - it was from the first time I installed Gentoo on the new laptop. This time I *did* configure sata into the kernel. So *that* is not the issue. And I'm not *that* stupid that I would repeat a previous mistake. I truly thing

[gentoo-user] getting GMT to use DST

2007-09-13 Thread Mat Harris
Hi All, I have had a machine running for a little while without many problems, until I tried to use ntp to keep my clock in sync. I have got my /etc/localtime and my /etc/conf.d/clock to reflect my GMT location, yet all timeservers I try to sync to put me an hour behind. I am in the UK and

Re: [gentoo-user] getting GMT to use DST

2007-09-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 04:55 +0100, Mat Harris wrote: Hi All, I have had a machine running for a little while without many problems, until I tried to use ntp to keep my clock in sync. I have got my /etc/localtime and my /etc/conf.d/clock to reflect my GMT location, yet all timeservers I