Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ibook g3 wpa woes

2008-01-27 Thread Lars Weiler
* stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08/01/27 11:28 -0500]: Is this because the airport card I have just doesn't support WPA? That's the reason. This old card supports only WEP128. Regards, Lars -- Lars Weiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-171-1963258 Gentoo Linux PowerPC : Developer Instant Messaging

[gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
Hey guys! Yesterday I found this article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Speed_up_decompression_with_pbzip2 and was very happy, because I'm an owner of an Q6600. So I tried to reproduce the benchmark from the wiki article but got that bad results: test # time *bzip2* -d -kf linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 schrieb Justin: Yesterday I found this article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Speed_up_decompression_with_pbzip2 and was very happy, because I'm an owner of an Q6600. So I tried to reproduce the benchmark from the wiki article but got that bad results: So my

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 10:58 +0100, Justin wrote: Hey guys! Yesterday I found this article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Speed_up_decompression_with_pbzip2 and was very happy, because I'm an owner of an Q6600. So I tried to reproduce the benchmark from the wiki article but got that bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
Yes it is! But a question at this point: Where can I find the Enhanced Real Time Clock Support or is it gone in the 2.6.23? Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 schrieb Justin: Yesterday I found this article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Speed_up_decompression_with_pbzip2

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 schrieb Justin: But a question at this point: Where can I find the Enhanced Real Time Clock Support or is it gone in the 2.6.23? Run make menuconfig and use the search function (/). HTH... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

[gentoo-user] What's the position on Chrony?

2008-01-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
I want to run chrony on my servers for their smooth correction of system time. I have a few questions, however. 1. Is chrony accurate on P4 and AMD chips? Is it really a useful improvement on ntpd? I remember from a few years ago that its developer used to have to change his code every

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
I did but without success. Thats why im asking!! Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 schrieb Justin: But a question at this point: Where can I find the Enhanced Real Time Clock Support or is it gone in the 2.6.23? Run make menuconfig and use the search function

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? Justin schrieb: Hey guys! Yesterday I found this article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Speed_up_decompression_with_pbzip2 and was very happy, because I'm an owner of an Q6600. So I tried to reproduce the benchmark from the wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
Google is my friend: Device Drivers --- Character devices --- M Enhanced Real Time Clock Support Justin schrieb: I did but without success. Thats why im asking!! Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 schrieb Justin: But a question at this point:

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Justin wrote: Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? Can this top-posting stop, please? Interleave, and snip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting Benno -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 11:40 +0100, Justin wrote: Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? I fear, no easy one. Of course, since emerge is just a python script, you could rewrite it but 7z-syntax isn't compatible with bzip2 or gnu-tar so it will be some work. I also tried to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Walter, On Jan 27, 2008 3:55 PM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:39:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote CFLAGS=-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer The -march option may or may not invoke mmx, sse, sse2, etc in the CFLAGS line but it definitely does

[gentoo-user] (no subject)

2008-01-27 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
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Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread ionut cucu
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:55:59 -0500 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:39:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote CFLAGS=-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer The -march option may or may not invoke mmx, sse, sse2, etc in the CFLAGS line but it definitely does

[gentoo-user] diff command for images

2008-01-27 Thread Erik
I need to find the difference between images (like the text-file diff command, but for RGBA images). I tried compare A.png A.png difference.png. This should obviously produce some kind of blank image because A.png and A.png are the same file, but for some weird reason the produced difference.png

[gentoo-user] glxgears segfaults as user, works as root

2008-01-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, on with my ati-drivers 8.452.1 woes! This time, glxgears fgl_glxgears will segfault as root. FPS is bad for GL stuff. When I run glxgears in sudo, it works! I've checked groups and permissions on /dev/dri/card0 and whatever I can think of, but nothing jumps out at me. Google is not

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the position on Chrony?

2008-01-27 Thread Mark Shields
On Jan 27, 2008 5:53 AM, Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to run chrony on my servers for their smooth correction of system time. I have a few questions, however. 1. Is chrony accurate on P4 and AMD chips? Is it really a useful improvement on ntpd? I remember from a few

Re: [gentoo-user] (no subject)

2008-01-27 Thread Mark Shields
Read the website where you subscribed and read the header of all gentoo-user mailing list mails, and you will find this tidbit: List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send a mail to that to unsubscribe. On Jan 27, 2008 7:06 AM, Christel Dahlskjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unsubscribe --

Re: [gentoo-user] diff command for images

2008-01-27 Thread Elias Probst
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 14:54:15 schrieb Erik: I need to find the difference between images (like the text-file diff command, but for RGBA images). I tried compare A.png A.png difference.png. This should obviously produce some kind of blank image because A.png and A.png are the same file,

Re: [gentoo-user] diff command for images

2008-01-27 Thread Erik
Elias Probst skrev: Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 14:54:15 schrieb Erik: I need to find the difference between images (like the text-file diff command, but for RGBA images). I tried compare A.png A.png difference.png. This should obviously produce some kind of blank image because A.png and

Re: [gentoo-user] (no subject)

2008-01-27 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 27 January 2008 07:06:59 am Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: unsubscribe NO! -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008, Justin wrote: Thats a good point. Now it worked really fast. But then the questions is why should I use pbzip2 for decompression with portage? I think most tarballs are packed only with the normal compression algorithm! The WIKI articel pretends a gain of speed

[gentoo-user] Gentoo didn't work with ati sapphire 2400

2008-01-27 Thread Fabio
There is no way to start the live cd.. i also write in a lot of forum, and so on, but nothing seems to work.. what should i do? thanks Fabio -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo didn't work with ati sapphire 2400

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
Fabio schrieb: There is no way to start the live cd.. i also write in a lot of forum, and so on, but nothing seems to work.. what should i do? thanks Fabio Thats a problem of the live CD on several video cards! But you can still do the gentoo way of installing the OS and start with an

Re: [gentoo-user] audio gone!

2008-01-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:06:50PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: ... [blocks B ] =app-admin/eselect-1.0.3 (is blocking app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3) emerge --unmerge eselect-opengl eselect emerge --oneshot eselect eselect-opengl -- Yan Can Cook and George Lucas have a

[gentoo-user] Trying to automate HTML --- pdf

2008-01-27 Thread felix
I am trying to automate converting a URL into a pdf file. These web pages include javascript and fancy formatting, so the simple minded converters just don't cut the ice. My next plan was to hack up a real browser so it would take two command line args, the URL and the print file, render the

Re: [gentoo-user] diff command for images

2008-01-27 Thread Jens Krahe
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 schrieb Erik: I tried compare A.png A.png difference.png. This should obviously produce some kind of blank image because A.png and A.png are the same file, but for some weird reason the produced difference.png has recognizable content! Try compare -metric AE A.png

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to automate HTML --- pdf

2008-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:06:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is there either a DCOP command to wait for a URL to be loaded or a DCOP command like openURL which waits? I can't see one, but it sounds like it would be useful enough to file a bug report requesting one. A DCOP command to

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to automate HTML --- pdf

2008-01-27 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 27 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dcop konqueror-6352 'konqueror-mainwindow#1' openURL 'http://slashdot.org' dcop konqueror-6352 html-widget2 print true There's a bit more than that, since widget names change, but a simple perl program handles it easily (so far!).

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 27 January 2008 18:29:56 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Why not an universal wrapper script ? maybe something like:     magic-uncompress [-t format] [-c] [-o output] input     This script could try to find out the input format automatically (the optional -t parameter allows to explicitly

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo didn't work with ati sapphire 2400

2008-01-27 Thread Dale
Justin wrote: Fabio schrieb: There is no way to start the live cd.. i also write in a lot of forum, and so on, but nothing seems to work.. what should i do? thanks Fabio Thats a problem of the live CD on several video cards! But you can still do the gentoo way of installing

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to automate HTML --- pdf

2008-01-27 Thread felix
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:56:59PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: However, the following (admittedly *really* kludgy and quick-and-dirty) method *seems* to work: Oh geez, I LOVE it! I will play with it, it just might do the trick. It's sure not what I had been expecting, but if it works

Re: [gentoo-user] diff command for images

2008-01-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:54:15PM +0100, Penguin Lover Erik squawked: I need to find the difference between images (like the text-file diff command, but for RGBA images). I tried compare A.png A.png difference.png. This should obviously produce some kind of blank image because A.png and A.png

Re: [gentoo-user] glxgears segfaults as user, works as root

2008-01-27 Thread Strong Cypher
hi, what groups of /dev/dri*/* ??? Is your user in video group ? Did you add dri section in Xorg.conf ? with mod 666 ? It's the lastest version ? Try update with portage.keyword ... perhaps this version sucks ? See ya 2008/1/27, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, on with my

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 11:40 +0100, Justin wrote: Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? I fear, no easy one. Of course, since emerge is just a python script, you could rewrite it but 7z-syntax isn't compatible with

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo didn't work with ati sapphire 2400

2008-01-27 Thread Fabio
Dale wrote: Or use some other bootable CD like Knoppix. The best way to install Gentoo is the old way. You will learn a lot about Linux that way too. If you just have to, you can install some binary based OS like Mandriva on a separate drive and use it to install from then erase Mandriva

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
Enrico Weigelt schrieb: * Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 11:40 +0100, Justin wrote: Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? I fear, no easy one. Of course, since emerge is just a python script, you could rewrite

Re: [gentoo-user] diff command for images

2008-01-27 Thread Ralf Stephan
You could also try the pamarith comand of the netpbm package. It has both -subtract and -difference ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-01-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm rebuilding a broken gentoo, taken down by hard drive failure. Most things are working well, but printing just won't go. Attpempts to print are accepted, but not printed. lpstat -t shows the attached printer is disabled. Re-enabling only works until the next job is submitted. It has

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo didn't work with ati sapphire 2400

2008-01-27 Thread Dale
Fabio wrote: Dale wrote: Or use some other bootable CD like Knoppix. The best way to install Gentoo is the old way. You will learn a lot about Linux that way too. If you just have to, you can install some binary based OS like Mandriva on a separate drive and use it to install from then

[gentoo-user] Solid with Networkmanager Support

2008-01-27 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i'm trying to get Networkmanager support in KDE, but i cannot compile kde-base/solid with networkmanager use flag. It seems like portage just filters the flag, as it is in braces... emerge output shows USE=bluetooth (-networkmanager) -test Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 13:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008, Justin wrote: Thats a good point. Now it worked really fast. But then the questions is why should I use pbzip2 for decompression with portage? I think most tarballs are packed only with the normal

Re: [gentoo-user] (no subject)

2008-01-27 Thread ionut cucu
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:03:53 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2008 07:06:59 am Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: unsubscribe NO! PLEASE can I build the unsubscription krotofotoplucker kit this time? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

2008-01-27 Thread sean
I recently removed compiz-fusion after playing with it for a while. I thought I had removed all bits but revdep-rebuild wants to emerge emerald again. How can I best trace what package is trying to pull emerald again? Thanks Sean --

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

2008-01-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Add -pv --tree to the emerge command and look at the hierarchy. Probably can do it through equery but I'd have to look up the command myself so I'll leave that to you. Hope this helps, Mark On Jan 27, 2008 12:04 PM, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently removed compiz-fusion after playing

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

2008-01-27 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:04:42 -0500 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently removed compiz-fusion after playing with it for a while. I thought I had removed all bits but revdep-rebuild wants to emerge emerald again. How can I best trace what package is trying to pull emerald again?

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

2008-01-27 Thread Justin
sean schrieb: I recently removed compiz-fusion after playing with it for a while. I thought I had removed all bits but revdep-rebuild wants to emerge emerald again. How can I best trace what package is trying to pull emerald again? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

2008-01-27 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Add -pv --tree to the emerge command and look at the hierarchy. Probably can do it through equery but I'd have to look up the command myself so I'll leave that to you. Hope this helps, Mark On Jan 27, 2008 12:04 PM, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently removed

Re: [gentoo-user] Solid with Networkmanager Support

2008-01-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 27 January 2008 20:03:32 Thomas Kahle wrote: i'm trying to get Networkmanager support in KDE, but i cannot compile kde-base/solid with networkmanager use flag. It seems like portage just filters the flag, as it is in braces... emerge output shows USE=bluetooth (-networkmanager)

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML --- pdf

2008-01-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-01-27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firefox doesn't print to pdf, however. It'll print to postscript, and ps2pdf has always worked well for me. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I represent a at

Re: [gentoo-user] Depgraph failure WAS audio gone!

2008-01-27 Thread maxim wexler
--- Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:06:50PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: ... [blocks B ] =app-admin/eselect-1.0.3 (is blocking app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3) emerge --unmerge eselect-opengl eselect emerge --oneshot eselect

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to automate HTML --- pdf

2008-01-27 Thread felix
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:26:33PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-01-27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firefox doesn't print to pdf, however. It'll print to postscript, and ps2pdf has always worked well for me. I had some problems with some of the more complex web

[gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-27 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am sure that someone has asked this before, but a cursory look doesn't bring anything up. I am going through some logs and I cannot understand what the time was when certain events took place: [1200806556] SERVICE ALERT: router.xxx [1200806576] SERVICE ALERT:

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-27 Thread Greg Bowser
Hi, Those dates are in a format called unix timestamps, which represent the number of seconds since the unix epoch (Jaunuary 1st, 1970). You can get the current unix timestamp via the date command (date +%s). As far as any command-line utility to convert them,I leave that to Google. However, most

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Jan 27, 2008 9:55 PM, ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True as that is, is think it's kind a of the point. I have been using mplayer to see movies since k7-2(I think it as a k7-2 don't remember for sure). I've seldom got the error about CPU being to slow and always it was another

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up after overdue -uD world

2008-01-27 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Well I went ahead and applied Willie's suggestion for eselect to foomatic, which I don't use anyway and this time emerge -uD world looks like a go. There's one 'Fetch Restriction' but a little wiki tell's me this will be taken care of in due course. Thank's to Iain suggestion to fetch

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-27 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 January 2008, Greg Bowser wrote: Hi, Those dates are in a format called unix timestamps, which represent the number of seconds since the unix epoch (Jaunuary 1st, 1970). You can get the current unix timestamp via the date command (date +%s). As far as any command-line utility to

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread ionut cucu
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:28:35 +0900 Mike Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Jan 27, 2008 9:55 PM, ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True as that is, is think it's kind a of the point. I have been using mplayer to see movies since k7-2(I think it as a k7-2 don't remember for sure).

Re: [gentoo-user] Depgraph failure WAS audio gone!

2008-01-27 Thread Dale
maxim wexler wrote: --- Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:06:50PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: ... [blocks B ] =app-admin/eselect-1.0.3 (is blocking app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3) emerge --unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up after overdue -uD world

2008-01-27 Thread Dale
maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, Well I went ahead and applied Willie's suggestion for eselect to foomatic, which I don't use anyway and this time emerge -uD world looks like a go. There's one 'Fetch Restriction' but a little wiki tell's me this will be taken care of in due course. Thank's

[gentoo-user] change raid device for existing array

2008-01-27 Thread Thanasis
I have an existing software raid1 array of two disks, /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2, which has always been /dev/md0 until now. In the same way there is another device (/dev/md1) also raid1 for /dev/sda6 and /dev/sdb6. I want to repartition the disks, without booting from livecd, so I will do it a disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Jan 28, 2008 7:55 AM, ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:28:35 +0900 Mike Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Jan 27, 2008 9:55 PM, ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True as that is, is think it's kind a of the point. I have been using mplayer to

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:18:26PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote The output of `grep flags /proc/cpuinfo` is: flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni

Re: [gentoo-user] simple web server with content negotiation feature

2008-01-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:20:10 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 January 2008, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello all. I am looking for a web server for my static website in-developing projects. I just want the basic features and easy-to-configure. However what I mean basic looks

Re: [gentoo-user] kompozer and arphicfonts

2008-01-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:30:23 +0100 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zhang Weiwu wrote: | | Now I just switch back to Gentoo and discovered, well, I am not sure | but looks a bit lag behind on updating portage. I only noticed two | examples:

[gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I just did an emerge -uDN on my system, followed by revdep-rebuild and emerge --depclean. When rebooting, my system did not come up because of missing things like /sbin/rc. Argh! Good thing I had a backup, after copying some files back the system was up again, and I could go to bed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-27 Thread deface
It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any baselayout, not just the version you are stating. *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is *** WARNING *** recommended to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-27 Thread Dale
deface wrote: It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any baselayout, not just the version you are stating. *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is *** WARNING ***

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

2008-01-27 Thread deface
Not sure how far behind he was w/ the baselayout. It may have been removed from portage, and him masking it blocked. although he says he had recently installed it. but yes, it sounds as though something else went wrong. On Jan 27, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Dale wrote: deface wrote: It sounds