Re: [gentoo-user] Any advice on using postgresql-{base,server} ebuilds?

2009-01-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 3. Januar 2009 04:55:13 schrieb Mark David Dumlao: I've looked around a bit and various sources, and some experimentation, seem to say that the new postgresql-{base,server}-8.3.5 ebuilds for 8.3.5 don't play well with some packages, particularly, php-5.2.8-r1 seems to be unable to

Re: [gentoo-user] nwmouse

2009-01-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 03 January 2009 09:55:33 gmail wrote: Hi! I wonder if anyone can provide a url for me to fetch *nwmouse* The issue is already stated on bugs: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251379 But I still need a working link to get the cursors.tar.gz. Thank ya! In what sense is

Re: [gentoo-user] Any advice on using postgresql-{base,server} ebuilds?

2009-01-03 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Found it. The clue was the libpq.so.4, which as Dirk said, was from an older postgresql build. I wondered why my postgres kept reporting version 4 rather than the 5 I had installed, and searched the build logs. It seems that the library information is reported by pg_config, and that my

Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.

2009-01-03 Thread Philip Webb
090102 Dale wrote: I got it installed and it did not crash. I could scroll all the way to the bottom. This seems to have fixed it. I guess I was right, it was a font problem. That was what Google came up with and they were old as the hills. Thanks for getting it fixed for me and the rest of

[gentoo-user] Question about the Live CD

2009-01-03 Thread Christian
Hi all, The 2008 Live CD, does that include Gnome 2.24? Or is KDE being used? Many thanks for any info!

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about the Live CD

2009-01-03 Thread Erik Hahn
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:51:58PM +0100, Christian wrote: Hi all, The 2008 Live CD, does that include Gnome 2.24? Or is KDE being used? Many thanks for any info! XFCE, I think. Before it was Gnome. pgpmPVrcJmiZ0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] volume buttons doesn't work

2009-01-03 Thread Pat
Hello, I've bought Dell Latitude E4300 and start to install Gentoo on it, but the volume buttons don't work. Please, could someone give me hint where I have to start to fix it? Thanks a lot Pat P.S. kernel 2.6.26-gentoo-r4, architecture amd64

[gentoo-user] fonts problem

2009-01-03 Thread Pat
Hello, I'm trying to install new system based on amd64 and there are the font problems during the installation. 1) the skype menus are blank 2) Eterm giving this error message: Eterm: Error: Unable to load font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-56-iso8859-1. Falling back on fixed

[gentoo-user] emerging app-admin/eselect-news-20080320 says unpack news.eselect-20080320: file format not recognized. Ignoring.

2009-01-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Updating this morning, I noticed that app-admin/eselect-news-20080320 says unpack news.eselect-20080320: file format not recognized. Ignoring. It goes ahead and build anyway. Is this a problem? What should I do about it? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] volume buttons doesn't work

2009-01-03 Thread Maciej Kazulak
Actually nothing's broken. It's simply not configured yet. Follow this guide: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Multimedia_Keys

Re: [gentoo-user] fonts problem

2009-01-03 Thread Maciej Kazulak
Sure you installed all the necessary font packages? Also make sure X knows about them, see /etc/X11/xorg.conf. 2009/1/3 Pat p...@xvalheru.org Hello, I'm trying to install new system based on amd64 and there are the font problems during the installation. 1) the skype menus are blank 2)

Re: [gentoo-user] Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, not working yet.

2009-01-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 04:16:29PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: I admit I have never used moto4lin before and this is my first fancy phone. I'm wanting to transfer some ring tones. What I am doing with moto4lin is to have the USB cable hooked directly to the phone. I also have a

Re: [gentoo-user] volume buttons doesn't work

2009-01-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Penguin Lover Pat squawked: I've bought Dell Latitude E4300 and start to install Gentoo on it, but the volume buttons don't work. Please, could someone give me hint where I have to start to fix it? The volume keys are not standard per se, which is why

[gentoo-user] emerge problems

2009-01-03 Thread James Stull
I switched my eselect profile from a generic gentoo system to desktop. Unfortunately I keep getting this error when I run emerge -uDNav world I tried it with the --skipfirst flag but I continue to have this problem. * One or more packages are either masked or have missing dependencies: * *

Re: [gentoo-user] Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, not working yet.

2009-01-03 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 04:16:29PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: I admit I have never used moto4lin before and this is my first fancy phone. I'm wanting to transfer some ring tones. What I am doing with moto4lin is to have the USB cable hooked directly to the

[gentoo-user] strange entries in messages

2009-01-03 Thread Michael George
About a week ago I noticed a couple entries in /var/log/messages (as reported by logwatch) that seemed odd. They have appeared a couple times since, but they don't appear at the same time in the logfile, but I think they happen on the same day. One of the entries is a Usage: message from dhcp,

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about the Live CD

2009-01-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Christian christian8...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, The 2008 Live CD, does that include Gnome 2.24? Or is KDE being used? Many thanks for any info! The desktop started is xfce4

[gentoo-user] udept dead upstream

2009-01-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Anyone else here who is a udept user? I really like the dep tool but the last few upgrades have announced the it has been masked in preparation for being dropped. The reason given is `Dead upstream'. Anyone know why that is. Is the code in terrible shape or is it being eclipsed by something

Re: [gentoo-user] Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, connected, now what?

2009-01-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 09:23:45PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: I'm not sure how this will appear as far as threading. Gmail doesn't send me a copy of my own emails so I can't reply to myself. I found the solution to the previous problem. I didn't have acm compiled in my kernel so

[gentoo-user] dhcp and re-exec of init in log file

2009-01-03 Thread Michael George
That seems to be a poor subject for my question, so I reposted with something more descriptive... On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 07:17:41PM -0500, Michael George wrote: About a week ago I noticed a couple entries in /var/log/messages (as reported by logwatch) that seemed odd. They have appeared a

Re: [gentoo-user] Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, connected, now what?

2009-01-03 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 09:23:45PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: I'm not sure how this will appear as far as threading. Gmail doesn't send me a copy of my own emails so I can't reply to myself. I found the solution to the previous problem. I didn't have acm

[gentoo-user] Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-03 Thread Willie Wong
Before I file a bug, I want to see if this is reproducible by others: After I boot into the console, if I type anything and then hit tab for the bash completion, it gives an error -bash: _filedir: command not found The weird thing is that if I start X and try the same in an aterm, the tab

Re: [gentoo-user] Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, connected, now what?

2009-01-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:44:40PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: This is the device under preferences for mine: /dev/ttyACM0 After you set that, click the switch to p2k button. After that, close preferences and hit connect. Sometimes it will not connect the first time so you may have

[gentoo-user] chroot complain not able to find file/directory when it's actually there

2009-01-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. Sorry for stupid newbie question: # cp /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/sh # chroot /usr/local /bin/sh chroot: cannot run command `/bin/sh': No such file or directory In theory it should work, right? This is the first time I run chroot not for rescuing a broken system (which means /dev/ and /proc/

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp and re-exec of init in log file

2009-01-03 Thread Stroller
It might be helpful to post the EXACT error messages. I doubt if I'm able to help, but it seems to me that posting without them may be one of those people-may-tend-to-ignore-your-message mistakes. Stroller. On 4 Jan 2009, at 02:29, Michael George wrote: That seems to be a poor subject

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot complain not able to find file/directory when it's actually there

2009-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 04 January 2009 06:41:31 Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. Sorry for stupid newbie question: # cp /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/sh # chroot /usr/local /bin/sh chroot: cannot run command `/bin/sh': No such file or directory In theory it should work, right? This is the first time I run chroot not