RE: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Networking Gentoo as guest on vista

2008-05-01 Thread Daevid Vincent
> -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 7:12 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Networking Gentoo as guest on vista > > I'm hoping some of you here have run gentoo on a

Re: [gentoo-user] origin of kernel module: scsi_wait_scan.mod ??

2008-05-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2008 schrieb ext de Almeida, Valmor F.: > Hello, > > I am compiling a vanilla-sources 2.6.24.4 kernel (2008.0_beta2 minimal > install) and no matter what I do to disable scsi support I end up with a > scsi module (scsi_wait_scan.mod) after compilation. When looking at the > .c

RE: [gentoo-user] New eth.0/openrc setup - I'm confused

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
> # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart > * ERROR: net.eth0 has been stopped by something else > > # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start > * WARNING: net.eth0 has already been started > > meantime netstat indicates no changes at all.. eth0 is up throughout. Do this; /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop - verify the int

RE: [gentoo-user] compiling a module after the fact

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
> I thought I remembered someway to compile a single module after the > fact that didn't involve recompiling everthing... but just now I > entered the usr/src/linux directory and edited .config adding the > sshfs FUSE module. > > when I ran `make' I see it grinding thru the whole thing again. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireshark won't run except as root (Solved but Why is this)

2008-05-01 Thread Brandon Mintern
Have you logged out and back in since becoming a member of the wireshark group? A quick way to test without having to log out and back in would be to Ctrl-Alt-F2 (or whatever) over to a virtual terminal and log in there, and then try to run the command. If that works, of course, you just need to lo

[gentoo-user] Hooray for Gentoo CD developers

2008-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
I must say once again I'm deeply impressed and thankful for the folks at Gentoo. My Windows Vista laptop has taken a dump. I'm reasonably sure the hardware is OK but like everything M$ you pile on driver after driver, virus protection and firewalls, junk after junk after junk, and finally the darn

[gentoo-user] Updated ebuild; bypassing manifest check

2008-05-01 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Following the instructions here, I tried to create an updated ebuild for mozilla-thunderbird-bin. The newest version is 2.0.0.14; current ebuild is 2.0.0.12. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild Everything worked fine until I tried to update the hashes in the manifest, ebuild

RE: [gentoo-user] Wireshark won't run except as root (Solved but Why is this)

2008-05-01 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- >From: Bob Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:03 AM >To: Gentoo-user List >Subject: [gentoo-user] Wireshark won't run except as root > I've emerged wireshark, and made myself a member of both the wireshark > group, and the tcpdump group,

[gentoo-user] Re: New eth.0/openrc setup - I'm confused

2008-05-01 Thread reader
Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So what is the correct procedure here? > > Did you try > > # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 zap It has no effect whatsoever: root # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 zap * Manually resetting net.eth0 to stopped state (In fact it is not stopped I can ping www.gentoo)

Re: [gentoo-user] SMB protocol for Krusader

2008-05-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 2. Mai 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > Hello Gentoo users, > > I'm trying to enable smb:// support for Krusader. Searching the net I got a > solution: I have to emerge kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves. (on Ubuntu I had to > install a very similarly named package to do this). > > But unfortunate

Re: [gentoo-user] SMB protocol for Krusader

2008-05-01 Thread Sandro Hannemann
Sorry, I hit the send button by accident. I think all you have to do is to enable the samba USE flag when emerging kde. You can append the line: kde-base/kdebase samba to /etc/portage/package.use to accomplish that -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SMB protocol for Krusader

2008-05-01 Thread Sandro Hannemann
Just the "samba" USE flag when emerging kde. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] SMB protocol for Krusader

2008-05-01 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
Hello Gentoo users, I'm trying to enable smb:// support for Krusader. Searching the net I got a solution: I have to emerge kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves. (on Ubuntu I had to install a very similarly named package to do this). But unfortunately doing this isnt a good idea, because: lapitopi gyuszk #

Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED

2008-05-01 Thread Michael George
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:12:19PM +0200, Wolf Canis wrote: > Michael George wrote: > | > | It was /etc/man-conf. A change in the NROFF definition caused the > | problem. Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change, > | so I ran etc-update this time and found it. > | > | Hopefull

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 May 2008 22:41:23 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-) > > You were very clear. Some time ago, I offered you a Hansa Draught for > some help if you ever happened to come to Windhoek. That offer is > void now, and I'll drink the pint myself. Tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re-appearance of `waiting for lock' bug?

2008-05-01 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 23:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I've seen similar messages a few times on my boxes recently, but each > time the emerge got going again after a short while. So I never really > bothered finding out exactly what is going on. I believe portage recently switched to using p

Re: [gentoo-user] New eth.0/openrc setup - I'm confused

2008-05-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After updating to 2008 pkgset after merging openrc I lost the > net.eth0 link.. I see other have seen this and even at least 2 bug > reports but the cure is said to be recreating by hand. > > I find that not to work... DETAILS: > > Fi

[gentoo-user] New eth.0/openrc setup - I'm confused

2008-05-01 Thread reader
After updating to 2008 pkgset after merging openrc I lost the net.eth0 link.. I see other have seen this and even at least 2 bug reports but the cure is said to be recreating by hand. I find that not to work... DETAILS: First, net.lo is itself a symlink to /lib/rc/sh/net.sh, so I'm creating a sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 May 2008 15:13:27 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote: > > I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if > > it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things. > > Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-) You were ver

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to > > current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. > > > > Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so > > far m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re-appearance of `waiting for lock' bug?

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ctrl-C to kill the emerge and > > rm /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/.udev-120.portage_lockfile > > Egad and how many times have done that in other situations... > > I tried emerge -vC udev followed by emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: checking for.....

2008-05-01 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are expecting autoconf to actually do something sane when it runs??? > > Har har. > You must be new here. hehe... no not new... you'd never know it by the questions I ask but I've been running linux since redhat 3 series circa 1995-6 or so. I proba

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 May 2008 15:13:27 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote: > > I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if > > it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things. > > Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-) Hey, watch i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Brandon Mintern wrote: > I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if > it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things. Hey Neil, Looks like we caught one - a big fish this time :-) :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com --

[gentoo-user] Re: re-appearance of `waiting for lock' bug?

2008-05-01 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ctrl-C to kill the emerge and > rm /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/.udev-120.portage_lockfile Egad and how many times have done that in other situations... I tried emerge -vC udev followed by emerge -v udev No help Its just udev-120 that does this. Before

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current > 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. > > Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far > makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all t

Re: [gentoo-user] re-appearance of `waiting for lock' bug?

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > waiting for lock on > /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/.udev-120.portage_lockfile > > And has been there a good while. > > Looking at the bugs I see it mentioned but says it was fixed quite > sometime ago. > > Any suggestions of how to get past this ite

[gentoo-user] re-appearance of `waiting for lock' bug?

2008-05-01 Thread reader
updating from an old 2006 pkg based install to latest 2008 and have gotten pretty far along... right now emerging udev in an emerge -vuDN system command. The emerge is hung at: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-fs/udev-120 [087-r1] USE="(-selinux)" 0 kB Total: 1 pac

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about items on the main menu

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 21:33 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:25 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I looked it up and found the file. The Exec line was > > gnome-cups-manager. Should gnome-cups-manager have some visible GUI, > > because it doesn't. When I run it at the ter

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about items on the main menu

2008-05-01 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:25 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I looked it up and found the file. The Exec line was > gnome-cups-manager. Should gnome-cups-manager have some visible GUI, > because it doesn't. When I run it at the terminal prompt, it just gives > me a blinking cursor until I Cntrl+

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package is not actually installed [SOLVED]

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:22 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 01 May 2008 14:12:38 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > I unmerged gtk-doc and ran my command again. Now it wants to install > > gtk-doc, but it's still blocked: > > > > catherine ~ # emerge -av =gtk+-2.12.9-r2 > > > > These a

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about items on the main menu

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:00 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2008/5/1 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In gnome-2.20.3, how would I find out what Main > > Menu->System->Administration->Printing tries to run? And where would > > errors from attempting to run it be dumped to? When I run

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package is not actually installed

2008-05-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 01 May 2008 14:12:38 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I unmerged gtk-doc and ran my command again. Now it wants to install > gtk-doc, but it's still blocked: > > catherine ~ # emerge -av =gtk+-2.12.9-r2 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 May 2008 15:13:27 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote: > I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if > it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things. Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Just got a new car for my wifeGreat Trade!

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about items on the main menu

2008-05-01 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/5/1 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In gnome-2.20.3, how would I find out what Main > Menu->System->Administration->Printing tries to run? And where would > errors from attempting to run it be dumped to? When I run it, it fails > silently. You can try to find out which desktop fi

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-01 Thread Brandon Mintern
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current > 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. > > Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far > makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway t

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling a module after the fact

2008-05-01 Thread Jason Messerschmitt
yes On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:14 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I remembered someway to compile a single module after the > fact that didn't involve recompiling everthing... but just now I > entered the usr/src/linux directory and edited .config adding the > sshfs FUSE module. > > when

[gentoo-user] compiling a module after the fact

2008-05-01 Thread reader
I thought I remembered someway to compile a single module after the fact that didn't involve recompiling everthing... but just now I entered the usr/src/linux directory and edited .config adding the sshfs FUSE module. when I ran `make' I see it grinding thru the whole thing again. Is that normal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Brandon Mintern
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:06 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Brandon Mintern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Call me old school, but that method never takes me more than a few > > minutes to do. I am also someone in the vim camp. It fires up quickly > > Unless you are updating a vmappliance

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package is not actually installed

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 14:25 -0400, John covici wrote: > on Thursday 05/01/2008 Michael Sullivan([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > I'm trying to install a package that is being blocked by a package that > > portage claims is not even installed: > > > > catherine ~ # emerge -av =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1

[gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-01 Thread reader
In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all those answers somewhere so whatever test is done for each li

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread reader
"Brandon Mintern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Call me old school, but that method never takes me more than a few > minutes to do. I am also someone in the vim camp. It fires up quickly Unless you are updating a vmappliance built on old (even for 2006) 2006 pkgs to current 2008 pkgs. I know thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Brandon Mintern
My cleanup routine pretty much involves running vim on /var/lib/portage/world and going down the list. If I see something I definitely don't need, I remove that line. If I see something that I don't remember what it was, in another terminal (just an ALT-TAB away) I run "esearch package-name". After

[gentoo-user] Blocking package is not actually installed

2008-05-01 Thread John covici
on Thursday 05/01/2008 Michael Sullivan([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > I'm trying to install a package that is being blocked by a package that > portage claims is not even installed: > > catherine ~ # emerge -av =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -fomit-frame-pointer switch

2008-05-01 Thread Justin
James schrieb: Justin j-schmitz.net> writes: As the wiki says I cannot seem to find this reference in any of the wikis I use for Gentoo, perhaps a url so I can read more? http://gentoo-wiki.com/CFLAGS#-fomit-frame-pointer signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: -fomit-frame-pointer switch

2008-05-01 Thread James
Justin j-schmitz.net> writes: > As the wiki says I cannot seem to find this reference in any of the wikis I use for Gentoo, perhaps a url so I can read more? > -fomit-frame-pointer tells gcc to omit frame pointers, freeing up an > additional register on the CPU. This is mainly useful on x86

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch of profile messed up eix-test-obsolete

2008-05-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 May 2008 18:52:20 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > Today I made the "mistake" of upgrading my profile from > default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop to > default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop and it messed up eix & > eix-test-obsolete. > Before the change of profile the output was clean. > Any su

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -fomit-frame-pointer switch

2008-05-01 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: | | But in order to avoid recompiling all of those packages (for now) | I can just add it to my CFlags and wait a few months, as another option? Yes, there shouldn't any problems appear. | | Or is there real peril with this approach to sl

[gentoo-user] origin of kernel module: scsi_wait_scan.mod ??

2008-05-01 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, I am compiling a vanilla-sources 2.6.24.4 kernel (2008.0_beta2 minimal install) and no matter what I do to disable scsi support I end up with a scsi module (scsi_wait_scan.mod) after compilation. When looking at the .config file I see CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_

Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED

2008-05-01 Thread felix
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:12:19PM +0200, Wolf Canis wrote: > Michael George wrote: > | > | It was /etc/man-conf. A change in the NROFF definition caused the > | problem. Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change, > | so I ran etc-update this time and found it. > | > | Hopeful

[gentoo-user] Blocking package is not actually installed

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm trying to install a package that is being blocked by a package that portage claims is not even installed: catherine ~ # emerge -av =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] -fomit-frame-pointer switch

2008-05-01 Thread Justin
James schrieb: Hello, On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the executables will be recompile (willing to wait) or do I have to rebuild system (all packages) or such to switch? James As the wiki says SNIP

Re: [gentoo-user] -fomit-frame-pointer switch

2008-05-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 01 May 2008, James wrote: > Hello, > > On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's > CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the > executables will be recompile (willing to wait) > or do I have to rebuild system (all packages) or such to switch? No

[gentoo-user] Re: -fomit-frame-pointer switch

2008-05-01 Thread James
Wolf Canis googlemail.com> writes: > > > James wrote: > | Hello, > | > | On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's > | CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the > | executables will be recompile (willing to wait) > | or do I have to rebuild system (all p

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
dany2a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You've got to update portage first, looks like you have an older portage > version, that cannot handle lzma. Had the same prob and updating portage was > the fix (besides installing lzma-utils). > emerge -a1 portage That was it. Thanks very much. Cheers, Ro

[gentoo-user] Wireshark won't run except as root

2008-05-01 Thread Bob Young
I've emerged wireshark, and made myself a member of both the wireshark group, and the tcpdump group, but still wireshark refuses to capture packets if executed as a non root user. The error message is: "Couldn't run dumpcap as a child process: Permission denied." A little research indicated that

Re: [gentoo-user] -fomit-frame-pointer switch

2008-05-01 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: | Hello, | | On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's | CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the | executables will be recompile (willing to wait) | or do I have to rebuild system (all packages)

[gentoo-user] Switch of profile messed up eix-test-obsolete

2008-05-01 Thread Dan Johansson
Today I made the "mistake" of upgrading my profile from default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop to default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop and it messed up eix & eix-test-obsolete. Here's a part of the output from eix-test-obsolete: --8< Installed packages with a versio

[gentoo-user] -fomit-frame-pointer switch

2008-05-01 Thread James
Hello, On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the executables will be recompile (willing to wait) or do I have to rebuild system (all packages) or such to switch? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED

2008-05-01 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael George wrote: | | It was /etc/man-conf. A change in the NROFF definition caused the | problem. Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change, | so I ran etc-update this time and found it. | | Hopefully this will be helpful for

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> All kde all gnome all xorg for example, before update world. > > It seems fine in theory, but every time I've done it in real life I get > into deep dependency trees that take more time to sort out than simply > emerging world first. > > The trouble s

[gentoo-user] Question about items on the main menu

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
In gnome-2.20.3, how would I find out what Main Menu->System->Administration->Printing tries to run? And where would errors from attempting to run it be dumped to? When I run it, it fails silently. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > vi was written by Bill Joy > Bill Joy wrote lots of good stuff in BSD > Our favourite OS owes a lot to BSD > using vi pays homage to those magnificent BSD'ers of old I second all the vi accolades. I like the fact that Bill Joy was horribly drunk when

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking ]SOLVED]

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi,I dl from skype.com and with gcc4~ IT WORKS! > thanks > g I seem to remember having something similar. I think it was one of the 2.0.0 versions - 48? 63? Could never get it to work. Eventually I just put an old ebuild in my overlay and used that

Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0_beta2: no make.defaults in 2008.0 profile ?

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > Hi, > > I just gave 2008.0_beta2 Minimal a try and there is no make.defaults > file in the profile directory > > /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 > > However there is a make.defaults file inside > /usr/port

[gentoo-user] 2008.0_beta2: no make.defaults in 2008.0 profile ?

2008-05-01 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hi, I just gave 2008.0_beta2 Minimal a try and there is no make.defaults file in the profile directory /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 However there is a make.defaults file inside /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux Is this how it should be? Thanks, --

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking ]SOLVED]

2008-05-01 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi,I dl from skype.com and with gcc4~ IT WORKS! thanks g -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED

2008-05-01 Thread Michael George
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:20:44AM -0400, Michael George wrote: > I noticed today that my man pages aren't displaying correctly. Whenever > I view one, I see the ESC codes rather than seeing bold fonts, etc. > > I don't remeber when I last used man and it displayed correctly, but I > can check ba

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-05-01 Thread Gavin Seddon
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: as per your original post. I recommend you upgrade gcc to version 4.1.2 thanks, However I need gcc 3~ for some critical software. If I change to 4 'it' won't recompile. I suppose I could alternate profiles as required. I had

[gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right

2008-05-01 Thread Michael George
I noticed today that my man pages aren't displaying correctly. Whenever I view one, I see the ESC codes rather than seeing bold fonts, etc. I don't remeber when I last used man and it displayed correctly, but I can check back 2 weeks this evening. I have tried several terminals (xterm, gnome-ter

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > as per your original post. I recommend you upgrade gcc to version > > 4.1.2 > > I've altered gcc to 4 now I get > 'skype > Floating exception did you run env-update and either source /etc/profile or log out/log in first? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > as per your original post. I recommend you upgrade gcc to version > > 4.1.2 > > thanks, > However I need gcc 3~ for some critical software.  If I change to 4 > 'it' won't recompile.  I suppose I could alternate profiles as > required. I had that wit

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-05-01 Thread Gavin Seddon
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, I used revdep-rebuild --SEARCH_DIRS /opt with no luck. How do I check it to enable /opt? thanks g revdep-rebuild will not solve your problem. It only fixes problems where binaries used to link to other files that are no lo

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-05-01 Thread Gavin Seddon
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, I used revdep-rebuild --SEARCH_DIRS /opt with no luck. How do I check it to enable /opt? thanks g revdep-rebuild will not solve your problem. It only fixes problems where binaries used to link to other files that are no lo

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > I used revdep-rebuild --SEARCH_DIRS /opt > with no luck. How do I check it to enable /opt? > thanks > g revdep-rebuild will not solve your problem. It only fixes problems where binaries used to link to other files that are no longer there. It

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-05-01 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I used revdep-rebuild --SEARCH_DIRS /opt with no luck. How do I check it to enable /opt? thanks g -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-05-01 Thread Gavin Seddon
Mick wrote: 2008/4/30 Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: skype /opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /opt/skype/skype) /opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.4' n

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine audio problem

2008-05-01 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Danis Petkakis wrote: > hello there i try to play .mkv files with kaffeine but there is no > sound...when i play some .avi files the sound is proper...also when i play > .mkv files with vlc sound is also ok...what might be the problem and i > don't have any sound in .mkv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 May 2008 10:30:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > What a horrible suggestion, not only does it use vi - three > > > times! - but it ends with a goto! > > > > Here's a much more horrible thing: In which way does the > > suggestion, horrible

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [2] vi /var/lib/portage/world > > What if I emerge -vC all I know I don't want. > > All kde all gnome all xorg for example, before update world. It seems fine in theory, but every time I've done it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 May 2008 10:30:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > What a horrible suggestion, not only does it use vi - three times! - > > but it ends with a goto! > > Here's a much more horrible thing: In which way does the suggestion, > horrible as it is, depart from reality? Your reality must be

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging R and tcltk

2008-05-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 May 2008 10:28:06 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Moving slightly off-topic, it would have been nice if portage had told > you that you were trying to use an unsupported USE flag in a more > obvious way than the simple yellow 'tcltk%' it currently gives. It's > very easy to miss that in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:17:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > [2] vi /var/lib/portage/world > > Edit at will with sense of abandon > > vi /etc/make.conf > > Edit where appropriate > > vi /etc/portage/* > > Fearlessly

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging R and tcltk

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, John P. Burkett wrote: > > eix reveals that the required USE flag is in fact "tk" > > Thanks, Alan!  Changing the USE flag from tcltk to tk, as you > suggested, was the key to getting R to find tcltk. After making that > change, doing "emerge -C R" and "emerge R" was enough