Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Short question: What determines how the Go menu in Konqueror is > > > populated? > > > > have you fiddled with: > > > > right-click (on t

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> > Neil even proposed ALT + >> > SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and >> > unmounted. >> >> Which might or might not work. But note that I was also talking >> about ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Master - Slave MySQL Database Server

2008-04-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > Is there a step by step guide to set up Master - Slave MySQL Database > Server on Gentoo > AFAIK there is no such howto (I assume you mean "Replication" when you say Master x Slave setup). Maybe cause MySQL has

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread luis jure
El Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:12:15 +0200 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > My experience with vmware itself (I use vmware-player and that known > website that creates images, I don't remember the url) is a lot > smoother. However I never tried to run a system already installed on > another parti

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Hal Martin
Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:19:36 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> Folks, keep in mind why I asked this question in the first place. >>> My power supply was frying and I needed a VERY fast shutdown. >>> >> >> I'd shutdown and stay shutdown until I could replace

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread b.n.
Michael Higgins ha scritto: On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:10:20 -0300 luis jure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello list, [8<] i found a few pages on the net explaining how to install vmware on gentoo, but i'm not clear about those issues. thanks for any hint. http://archiver.mailfighter.net/gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:10:20 -0300 luis jure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hello list, [8<] > > i found a few pages on the net explaining how to install vmware on > gentoo, but i'm not clear about those issues. thanks for any hint. http://archiver.mailfighter.net/gentoo-user/2008/January/1

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:58:22 -0600, darren kirby wrote: > > Just don't try to do E or I over an SSH connection. It kills the SSH > > daemon and you can't reboot the box. You can guess how I learned that > > one :( > > Ha. Hopefully the machine wasn't too far away physically. Yards, fortunately

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 22:06:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > That's for the K-menu, I'm looking to populate Go on Konqueror's menu > bar, which is something else entirely. Does it reappear if you create a new user? -- Neil Bothwick Portable: Survives system reboot. signature.asc Description:

[gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread luis jure
hello list, i bought i laptop with windows xp pre-installed. i shrunk the windows partition to install my gentoo linux, which is what i normally use. but the machine is still dual boot. several years ago (8-9) i tried a 30-days demo version of vmware and it was quite efficient running windows i

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:19:36 -0500, Dale wrote: Folks, keep in mind why I asked this question in the first place. My power supply was frying and I needed a VERY fast shutdown. I'd shutdown and stay shutdown until I could replace the PSU. PSUs are cheap, the compo

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:19:36 -0500, Dale wrote: > Folks, keep in mind why I asked this question in the first place. My > power supply was frying and I needed a VERY fast shutdown. I'd shutdown and stay shutdown until I could replace the PSU. PSUs are cheap, the components a dying one can take w

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:57:21 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Yesterday our MythTV backend server crashed 4 times. It > hung completely killing X, etc. and I was in need of a good way to > bring the machine down. You have X and a keyboard on your MythTV backend? There's no way I could shut mine down qu

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

2008-04-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > So this depend on the Video Bios of your card and you maybe can't do > anything about it! > > Although 1280x1024 should normally work and i guess you use this > resolution for your Desktop. How do you generate your initrd? Which card > do you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:28:29 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > But nobody proposed _not_ to run ALT + SysRq + U, Neil even proposed > > ALT + SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and > > unmounted. > > Just don't try to do E or I over an SSH connection. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Alan McKinnon: > > Thanks for answering, only one so far? > > That's for the K-menu, I'm looking to populate Go on Konqueror's menu > bar, which is something else entirely. > > Anyone know? Or is my question so way out there that no-one knows? I've often found that the answer to these so

Re: [gentoo-user] Master - Slave MySQL Database Server

2008-04-02 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > hi, > > Is there a step by step guide to set up Master - Slave MySQL Database > Server on Gentoo By "Master - Slave" do you mean a server and a client? These may help: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-howto.xml http://gentoo-wiki.com/MySQL

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Short question: What determines how the Go menu in Konqueror is > > populated? > > have you fiddled with: > > right-click (on the taskbar menu button) -> > [Panel Menu] -> > [Configure Panel]

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: > >> Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>> By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit >

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: > > > > > > > Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >>> By the way the safest

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish >>> should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved "sort of")

2008-04-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:27 -0600, Ted Ozolins wrote: Having followed your recommendations I found thet : emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I tried, Unless you tell it otherwise, emerge always tries to operate on the latest version of a pac

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved "sort of")

2008-04-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:27 -0600, Ted Ozolins wrote: Having followed your recommendations I found thet : emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I tried, Unless you tell it otherwise, emerge always tries to operate on the latest version of a pac

Re: [gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
El mié, 02-04-2008 a las 19:45 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann escribió: > On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: > > Hi > > > > I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for > > it? or does where i read for it? > > it is in the cvs-tree (or is it s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > Neil even proposed ALT + > > SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and > > unmounted. > > Which might or might not work. But note that I was also talking > about applications being in a corrupted state (the datab

Re: [gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: > Hi > > I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for > it? or does where i read for it? it is in the cvs-tree (or is it subversion)? http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/www-servers/apache/?hid

Re: [gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo schrieb: Hi I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for it? or does where i read for it? thanks in advance http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/www-servers/apache/?hideattic=0 Take a look here 2.0.63 is not there but 2.0.61

[gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: >> Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: >> >> You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. >> > >> > You're not? I thought that

Re: [gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
El mié, 02-04-2008 a las 18:48 +0200, Lundgren escribió: > Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: > > Hi > > > > I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for > > it? or does where i read for it? > > > > thanks in advance > > > > If you want a version that old, you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish > >>> should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). > >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Lundgren
Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: Hi I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for it? or does where i read for it? thanks in advance If you want a version that old, you have to build it from source. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
Hi I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for it? or does where i read for it? thanks in advance -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ps2pdf /undefinedfilename but only when run from perl -- NEVER MIND

2008-04-02 Thread felix
Criminy. Turned out to be a race condition and the file truly did not exist yet; insufficient testing showed the false correlation which made it seem like it was caused by dashes in the file name. But the error message didn't help -- NO SUCH FILE would have been better than "undefined". --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-02 Thread ionut cucu
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:09:27 -0500 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:46:49 + (UTC) > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Pongracz Istvan gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > > I've got several boxen that need to be installed so I was hoping > > > > to test drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Steven Lembark
Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish >>> should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). >>> >> Since I wanted to shutdown instead of reboot, it would be ALT + S

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Nvidia drivers

2008-04-02 Thread Steven Lembark
>> Maybe hell will also freeze over on that day. More likely pigs will floss... -- Steven Lembark +1 888 359 3508 Workhorse Computing 85-09 90th St [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woodhaven, NY 1142

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved "sort of")

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:27 -0600, Ted Ozolins wrote: > Having followed your recommendations I found thet : > emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I > tried, Unless you tell it otherwise, emerge always tries to operate on the latest version of a package. You need "eme

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:28:29 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > But nobody proposed _not_ to run ALT + SysRq + U, Neil even proposed > ALT + SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and > unmounted. Just don't try to do E or I over an SSH connection. It kills the SSH daemon and you can't

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2

2008-04-02 Thread tecnic5
What I'd check: Make sure dm-mod is either part of the kernel or, if it's a module, make sure it's loaded during start-up. Make sure lvm init script is executed on start-up. Take a look at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml HTH, Abraham when i reboot the gentoo box all the lvm settings are

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But nobody proposed _not_ to run ALT + SysRq + U, Neil even proposed ALT + > SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and unmounted. > There is actually a Wikipedia page that recommended remembering the w

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: > Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: > >> You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. > > > > You're not? I thought that's the purpose of the whole thing? > > It's mo

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: > >> You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. > > You're not? I thought that's the purpose of the whole thing? It's more like pulling the plug, isn't it? At least none of the shutdown

[gentoo-user] LVM2

2008-04-02 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi when i reboot the gentoo box all the lvm settings are gone, I have followed the below steps http://pastebin.com/d52c219ba Please let me know if I am missing something Thanks and Regards Kaushal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved "sort of")

2008-04-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Alan McKinnon wrote: Please post the output of revdep-rebuild -p -i Do these various packages require specifically gstreamer-0.8? If so, that is a bug and should be rpeorted at b.g.o. In general, unmerging gstreamer-0.8 will cause other things linked to it to now not work, so I reckon you w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: > You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. You're not? I thought that's the purpose of the whole thing? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 4706

[gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any potential harms to the hardware / system in case one > tends to abuse (i.e. use more often than necessary) of this command? You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. Because of this, filesystem and/or applications might get corru

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish > > should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). > > > > Since I wanted to shutdown instead of reboot, it would be ALT + SysRq + S + > U + O then

Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0" ????

2008-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > > To fix: unmerge the existing openmotif, merge the new one > >   But, but, but... isn't the whole point of "--update --world" to > *UPDATE* to the latest available version?  Why is it that openmotif > requires *MANUALLY* deleting the old version, wh

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Nvidia drivers

2008-04-02 Thread James
Gregory Shearman gmail.com> writes: > It looks like the kernel devs are trying to update references to the include > asm files and the nvidia devs are yet to catch up. Maybe one day nvidia will > release its driver specs and save itself a lot of trouble and money building > catchup linux driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-04-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 14:25:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > One of the things I don't like about black background is that on all > monitors the background seems to "crowd" the glyphs -- the markings seems > more slender than when the colors are reversed. That's odd - I get exactly the converse impr

Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0" ????

2008-04-02 Thread Walter Dnes
I had interpreted the error message to read that some other package required <= openmotif-2.3.0 On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:53:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > What's confusing about that? The reason is in the ebuild for > x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0-r1 where it's configured to not co-exist with

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes on Suspend to Disk ( hibernate )

2008-04-02 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Kahle wrote: | Hi, | | for a couple of days now, no idea how it started, my X-Server crashes | when coming back from suspend to disk. I use kernel 2.6.25-rc6, | xorg-server 1.4.0.90 and coming back from suspend to ram works | perfectly. There i

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Short question: What determines how the Go menu in Konqueror is > populated? have you fiddled with: right-click (on the taskbar menu button) -> [Panel Menu] -> [Configure Panel] -> [Menus] -- Crayon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0" ????

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:40:44 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I figure that an older version of program x should > not be considered as a "block" to a newer version of program x. Isn't > that the whole point of "--update"? It is, but the way portage updates packages is to install the new version and t

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes on Suspend to Disk ( hibernate )

2008-04-02 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Martin wrote: | Thomas Kahle wrote: | | Hi, | | | | for a couple of days now, no idea how it started, my X-Server crashes | | when coming back from suspend to disk. I use kernel 2.6.25-rc6, | | xorg-server 1.4.0.90 and coming back from suspend to

[gentoo-user] Master - Slave MySQL Database Server

2008-04-02 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
hi, Is there a step by step guide to set up Master - Slave MySQL Database Server on Gentoo Thanks and Regards Kaushal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] vmware virtual disk expanded but invisible in VM

2008-04-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Apr 2008, at 06:23, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... This is reason 1 of many that LVM should always be used. lol! Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list