Re: [gentoo-user] Numpad keys behaving strange after system-wide update

2008-08-03 Thread Roy Wright
Mark David Dumlao wrote: Hi, I noticed my numpad keys stopped working after doing a system update. The thing is I can't pinpoint what exacly I changed since I did an emerge -uDnav world. I'm sure its some file somewhere... Pressing numpad keys in X doesnt seem to produce results or nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Python blockage problem.

2008-08-03 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 18:24:32 -0400 David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 02 August 2008 05:54:35 pm Qian Qiao wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:14 PM, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: python-updater says it is blocked by an old version of python. Yet I have an up-to-date

[gentoo-user] Sharing of wine drives between different users of same machine

2008-08-03 Thread Mark David Dumlao
After an (in?)convenient crash of a particular operating system which I have dual-booted with Gentoo for a while; I am going to reinstall it. My main issue though, for that particular operating system is that the shared c_drive of different wine users was shared there, and it annoys me that

Re: [gentoo-user] Numpad keys behaving strange after system-wide update

2008-08-03 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Roy Wright schrieb am 03.08.2008 08:10: Mark David Dumlao wrote: Hi, I noticed my numpad keys stopped working after doing a system update. The thing is I can't pinpoint what exacly I changed since I did an emerge -uDnav world. I'm sure its some file somewhere... Pressing numpad keys in X

[gentoo-user] unable to compile cups while doing world update

2008-08-03 Thread John covici
support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/net-print:cups-1.3.7-r1:20080803-104657.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-print/cups-1.3.7-r1/temp/environment'. I even

[gentoo-user] Re: unable to compile cups while doing world update

2008-08-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
John covici wrote: Hi. I was doing a world update on my laptop and I was trying to compile ghostscript, but in the middle of doing that -- it compiled cups and the compile of cups is not working. Try cups-1.3.8. This should build fine with GCC 4.3.1 (at least it does here.)

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1 ebuild

2008-08-03 Thread Rev. Ferris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did it already. I solved emerging first qt and when it finished with its depends (about 12 qt libraries) I tried to install kde again; it worked. After about 20 compiling hours, I can try now my new desktop! Thanks a lot, Luigi Am Samstag, 2.

[gentoo-user] Re: unable to compile cups while doing world update

2008-08-03 Thread John covici
on Sunday 08/03/2008 Nikos Chantziaras([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici wrote: Hi. I was doing a world update on my laptop and I was trying to compile ghostscript, but in the middle of doing that -- it compiled cups and the compile of cups is not working. Try cups-1.3.8. This

[gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several partitions to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass. 1. How could one reasonably

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread b.n.
Alan E. Davis ha scritto: Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several partitions to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass.

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 3. August 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several partitions to ~/ in an effort

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man mount, also google for 'bind' mounting. Thank you. That was it. IN answer to another query, as to why not symlink, I cannot point to a particular behavior, but I have found that symlinks do not behave in

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Josh Cepek
Alan E. Davis wrote: Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several partitions to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass.

[gentoo-user] tovid/todisc and USE variables

2008-08-03 Thread dhk
How do you find out what USE variables a build can have? I recently got a new disk and reinstalled everything. Now tovid doesn't seem to work and I think it's because I don't have all the USE variable that I use to have. The problem I'm having with tovid is it runs very slow and never

Re: [gentoo-user] tovid/todisc and USE variables

2008-08-03 Thread Dale
dhk wrote: How do you find out what USE variables a build can have? emerge -pv tovid will do that. eix should do that as well. The only USE variable I saw was tk. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)

[gentoo-user] Apache2 bandwidth limiting help needed

2008-08-03 Thread Jayson Smith
Hi all, I've been using MOD_BW, but for some reason it's stopped working. Don't know why, everything's configured properly. So I was going to try MOD_CBAND. When I have it installed, E.G. '-D CBAND' in the Apache2 options, trying to go to my website results in a 403 Forbidden error. This

[gentoo-user] Why does emerge -auvND world wants to install old gentoo-soruces?

2008-08-03 Thread Grant Edwards
I've got gentoo-sources 2.6.25-r7 installed, and that's the only verions of the kernel sources that I have installed. Suddenly (starting today) emerge -auvtND world wants to install an older version of gentoo-sources (2.6.25-r6), and I can't figure out why: # emerge --search gentoo-sources

[gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-03 Thread Dale
Hi, I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? The reason why I want to do this? Well, sometimes I forget to use the -1 option

[gentoo-user] what qt package?

2008-08-03 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I'm doing a clean up of my system, getting rid of stuff I never use. Some time ago, for reasons I can't remember, I installed a qt development package which provided Qt linguist, Qt designer and Qt assistant. I want to unmerge them but I can't remember, or figure out which package they're from.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-03 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Dale schrieb am 04.08.2008 00:18: Hi, I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? The reason why I want to do this? Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] what qt package?

2008-08-03 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Matthew R. Lee schrieb am 04.08.2008 00:28: I'm doing a clean up of my system, getting rid of stuff I never use. Some time ago, for reasons I can't remember, I installed a qt development package which provided Qt linguist, Qt designer and Qt assistant. I want to unmerge them but I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 4. August 2008, Dale wrote: Hi, I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? The reason why I want to do this? Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-03 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 04.08.2008 00:18: Hi, I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? The reason why I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-03 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 4. August 2008, Dale wrote: Hi, I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? The reason

Re: [gentoo-user] what qt package?

2008-08-03 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Sunday 03 August 2008 18:51:43 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Matthew R. Lee schrieb am 04.08.2008 00:28: I'm doing a clean up of my system, getting rid of stuff I never use. Some time ago, for reasons I can't remember, I installed a qt development package which provided Qt linguist, Qt

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-03 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 04.08.2008 00:18: Hi, I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? The

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Josh Cepek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Personally I'd suggest using LVM for this ++ 1) ++ 2) ++ 3) You can easily migrate between hard drives while the system is online by moving LV's from one Physical Volume (PV) (eg: a hard disk) to another. --!! Have you ever tried that? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Norberto and Josh: Thank you for the suggestion. It's on the back burner. I have the space to experiment with it now. I have balked for the time being on basis of, partly, my need to be able to swap drives in and out, and have it clear in mind which partitions belong to what. Also my main