Re: [gentoo-user] strange error during boot

2009-02-12 Thread John covici
on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(jo...@antarean.org) wrote On Thu, February 12, 2009 2:05 pm, John covici wrote: on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(jo...@antarean.org) wrote On Thu, February 12, 2009 10:52 am, John covici wrote: Hi. I just upgraded a gentoo system from

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error during boot

2009-02-12 Thread John covici
on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(jo...@antarean.org) wrote On Thu, February 12, 2009 3:21 pm, Momesso Andrea wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:44:15PM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, February 12, 2009 2:26 pm, John covici wrote: on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(jo

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error during boot

2009-02-12 Thread John covici
on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(jo...@antarean.org) wrote On Thu, February 12, 2009 2:26 pm, John covici wrote: on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(jo...@antarean.org) wrote On Thu, February 12, 2009 2:05 pm, John covici wrote: on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(jo

RE: [gentoo-user] Where can I download 2006.0 minimal LiveCD?

2009-02-01 Thread John Hawk
I have an old 2006.0 cd. I can make an ISO image if you have a place for me to upload it to. From: Grant [mailto:emailgr...@gmail.com] Sent: Sun 2/1/2009 4:09 PM To: Gentoo mailing list Subject: [gentoo-user] Where can I download 2006.0 minimal LiveCD? Does

[gentoo-user] a couple of openrt questions

2009-01-30 Thread John covici
it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem

2009-01-20 Thread John Smith
Hello, I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when clicking the Create a new virtual machine button. It gives no error nothing it just quits the program. The user is in the vmware group. Everything seems to work fine

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem

2009-01-20 Thread John Smith
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, John Smith tfn...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when clicking the Create a new virtual machine button. It gives no error

Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

2009-01-15 Thread John
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:38:57 +1030 Rick Harris rickhar...@mightylegends.org wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:32:31 am John wrote: Nothing in Xorg logs, system logs Lockup is complete - machine is totally unresposive even to ssh/ping x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82 Kernel version 2.6.27

[gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

2009-01-14 Thread John
. Tried various login managers and still the same issue. Use xfce. Machine shuts down ok but only happens when I logout and wish to change user. Any help would be appreciated -- John D Maunder j...@articwolf.myzen.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

2009-01-14 Thread John
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:41:25 -0500 Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:58:08PM +, John wrote: Whenever I logout my machine crashes to a black screen and is unresponsive. I cannot get into any terminals and have to reboot. It is a problem with my

Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

2009-01-14 Thread John
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:02:31 + John j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:41:25 -0500 Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:58:08PM +, John wrote: Whenever I logout my machine crashes to a black screen and is unresponsive. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't extend an LVM2 volume

2009-01-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:16:40PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:16:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Also have a look at the physical device the pv lives on. Do the device size and the pv data about it's size match? This isn't a size problem, in that case lvresize

[gentoo-user] Can't extend an LVM2 volume

2009-01-13 Thread John J. Foster
In trying to extend a volume I get the following error: mockingbird ~ # lvextend -v -L400G /dev/vg00/data Finding volume group vg00 Archiving volume group vg00 metadata (seqno 22). Extending logical volume data to 400.00 GB Creating volume group backup /etc/lvm/backup/vg00 (seqno

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't extend an LVM2 volume

2009-01-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:44:38PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2009 20:31:33 John J. Foster wrote: In trying to extend a volume I get the following error: mockingbird ~ # lvextend -v -L400G /dev/vg00/data Finding volume group vg00 Archiving volume group

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't extend an LVM2 volume

2009-01-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:53:02PM +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2009 19:31:33 schrieb John J. Foster: In trying to extend a volume I get the following error: mockingbird ~ # lvextend -v -L400G /dev/vg00/data Finding volume group vg00 Archiving volume

[gentoo-user] dispatch-conf problem

2009-01-01 Thread John covici
for any help. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] Re: dispatch-conf problem

2009-01-01 Thread John covici
on Thursday 01/01/2009 Nikos Chantziaras(rea...@arcor.de) wrote John covici wrote: Also, if I want to roll back, say, /etc/init.d/fsck, I am not sure which file to choose -- in the archive directory there is an /etc/init.d directory which contains fsck and fsck.dist. I would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dispatch-conf problem

2009-01-01 Thread John covici
happens if I update the same file again? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:32:26AM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: I think you're missing the point. I never asked the community to change its rules. I'm only saying that these particular rules were invisible, and there's no way to find out about it, and that's going to be a problem for any

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo vmware guest on winXP

2008-12-08 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:56:39PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I've been monkeying around with a vmware appliance of gentoo.2008.0 from July. Downloaded from bagvapp.com. It fired right up inside vmware running on winXP with no problems. But now updating I'm finding I cannot get a newer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo vmware guest on winXP

2008-12-08 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:56:06PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:56:39PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: However my attempts consistently break out with the message: /dev/sda3 is an invalid device Try appending noapic

[gentoo-user] Setting Putty window title to currently executing command

2008-12-06 Thread John J. Foster
I seem to remember ssh'ing into an old Gentoo box and having the window title change to the currently executing command. For instance, when emerging something that had 10 packages, the title would show something like emerging (4 of 10) perl_something_or_other I'm not sure whether I was using

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting Putty window title to currently executing command

2008-12-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:58:36PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:11 PM, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to remember ssh'ing into an old Gentoo box and having the window title change to the currently executing command. For instance, when emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp att woes

2008-12-05 Thread John Blinka
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On 5 Dec 2008, at 03:12, John Blinka wrote: ... I've run out of patience with this and am now relaying my mail to smtp.gmail.com via ssmtp. That worked immediately without any of the att pain. ... That will always change

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp att woes

2008-12-04 Thread John Blinka
unimplemented (#5.5.1) send-mail: Cannot open smtp.att.yahoo.com:587 Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 John

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp att woes

2008-12-04 Thread John Blinka
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, I suppose you use a wrong username. According to http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=287 you have to use the full mail address. Otherwise check your password for correctness. Tried that. Didn't help. I've been known

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp att woes

2008-12-04 Thread John Blinka
to everyone who responded! John

[gentoo-user] do we have the package ncurses-devel or something like that?

2008-12-03 Thread John covici
-- just ncurses. You might want to get a package called eix, where you can do quick searches for packages and have more fun. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

2008-12-01 Thread john stampe
Oops, a slight typo in the last message the boot option should be fbcon=font:name John From: john stampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 6:11:47 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

2008-12-01 Thread john stampe
option. Regards, John From: 7v5w7go9ub0o [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 8:29:48 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2008

[gentoo-user] ssmtp att woes

2008-12-01 Thread John Blinka
at either port 465 or 587 and get a response, so nothing is blocking either port. Any insights or suggestions? John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading

2008-11-26 Thread John covici
has changed along with a number of other things -- there is a migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml Hope this helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and att 2wire gateway

2008-11-23 Thread John Blinka
for this to be obvious to me. I assume that I would have to tell my wireless router not to encrypt, and that I would have to make some adjustment in /etc/conf.d/net or /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf to turn encryption off. Any advice on how to do this? John

Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor

2008-11-23 Thread john stampe
. Regards, John From: Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 8:07:07 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA --- On Sun, 11/23/08, Robert Bridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and att 2wire gateway

2008-11-22 Thread John Blinka
any enlightenment in web searches. Does anyone know what this means, where I'm stuck, and how to go forward? Thanks for any help, John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and att 2wire gateway

2008-11-22 Thread John Blinka
: wpa_passphrase AP_id password : that generate -- network={ ssid=AP_id #psk=password psk=993142399374b6d582da81a6d4887ef7a9283a0e00dd4678681aac5e0a2478e9 } copy into wpa_supplicant.conf. Thanks, but tried that without success. John

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install ghhhostscript ?

2008-11-17 Thread john stampe
are relicensed. John From: Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 1:25:16 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to install ghhhostscript ? Andrey Vul wrote: If you have eix installed, run the following: # eix

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install ghhhostscript ?

2008-11-17 Thread john stampe
Daniel, Thanks for the info. I am only using ghostscript-esp as it was pulled in as a dependency by cups. Looks like I need to upgrade. Best regards, John From: Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, November 17

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-14 Thread John covici
. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-14 Thread John covici
on Friday 11/14/2008 Dan Wallis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On 14/11/2008, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An eix on both dispatch-conf and etc-update yield no matches -- where can they be found? They both belong to sys-apps/portage on my systems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ qfile

[gentoo-user] How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

2008-11-08 Thread John covici
different packages, then those packages can not be installed simultaneously. Are they doing some kind of strange reorg or what? HOw can I fix this? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] win32codecs / realcodecs / amd64codecs (and the -real USE flag) was: Re: How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

2008-11-08 Thread John covici
on Sunday 11/09/2008 Stroller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On 9 Nov 2008, at 04:09, John covici wrote: In my latest update I have received the following message: !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot

[gentoo-user] 2.6.27 kernel can't find its map file?

2008-11-04 Thread John covici
_=/usr/bin/emerge -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] X and frame buffer not playing nicely

2008-11-02 Thread John covici
=nvidia VMHANDLE=sun-jdk-1.4 XSESSION=Gnome _=/usr/bin/emerge -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection

2008-10-21 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:42:04PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-10-21, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whatever and

[gentoo-user] apache and named mysteriously stopping on boot

2008-10-15 Thread John covici
a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] error in updating eix

2008-09-21 Thread John covici
it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] error in updating eix

2008-09-21 Thread John covici
-- will try the patch now. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] error in updating eix

2008-09-21 Thread John covici
on Sunday 09/21/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Sunday 21 September 2008 10:32:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2008 09:49:13 Johann Schmitz wrote: Same Problem here on amd64. John covici wrote: | I did an emerge --sync followed by update-eix

Re: [gentoo-user] [getting on-topic I think] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-16 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:32:54AM -0500, Dale wrote: For me, I have the following biggies: Inbox: ~660 Gentoo-dev: ~13,000 Gentoo-user: ~27,000 Kde-linux list: ~3,000 LVM: ~2,200 Hey Dale - just out of curiosity, why do you store mailing lists when they're all available online? festus

[gentoo-user] virtual consoles messed up after starting gnome

2008-09-02 Thread John covici
it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-01 Thread John covici
in python-updater, never heard of python bindings for that. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] package.use update

2008-08-30 Thread John covici
, but have now switched to conf-update after Alan recommended it. What is the advantage of conf-update over cfg-update which I have been using for quite a while? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] cannot compile net-fs/mount-cifs using gcc 4.3.1

2008-08-10 Thread John covici
life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Re: cannot compile net-fs/mount-cifs using gcc 4.3.1

2008-08-10 Thread John covici
on Monday 08/11/2008 Nikos Chantziaras([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici wrote: Hi. I tried to compile net-fs/mount-cifs because when I used smbfs I got a very prominent message from the kernel saying that smbfs would be removed in 2.6.27 and I should use cifs instead. However when

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

2008-08-03 Thread John covici
sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo _=/usr/bin/emerge -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[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

[gentoo-user] portage blocking bash -- how to fix?

2008-08-01 Thread John covici
it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blocking bash -- how to fix?

2008-08-01 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/01/2008 Justin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici schrieb: On my laptop, I did emerge sync and it said to emerge portage, however when I tried to do this I got the following: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blocking bash -- how to fix?

2008-08-01 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/01/2008 Kenneth Prugh([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:44:17 -0400 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Friday 08/01/2008 Justin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici schrieb: On my laptop, I did emerge sync and it said to emerge portage

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blocking bash -- how to fix?

2008-08-01 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/01/2008 John covici([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Friday 08/01/2008 Kenneth Prugh([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:44:17 -0400 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Friday 08/01/2008 Justin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici schrieb

[gentoo-user] unable to compile gnome-extra/gnome-user-docs-2.22.1

2008-07-23 Thread John covici
.. VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia VMHANDLE=sun-jdk-1.4 _=/usr/bin/emerge Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems compiling gcc 4.2.4 and 4.3.1-r1

2008-07-16 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 07/15/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:54:43 -0400, John covici wrote: Did you try updating glibc even though it's not a dependency with x86? Nope, because I was hesitant being this is an unstable version It is not unstable

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems compiling gcc 4.2.4 and 4.3.1-r1

2008-07-15 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 07/15/2008 Nikos Chantziaras([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici wrote: on Monday 07/14/2008 Joe User([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici schrieb: Hi, [snip] Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer, gcc-4.1.2, glibc

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems compiling gcc 4.2.4 and 4.3.1-r1

2008-07-15 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 07/15/2008 Nikos Chantziaras([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici wrote: on Tuesday 07/15/2008 Nikos Chantziaras([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici wrote: on Monday 07/14/2008 Joe User([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici schrieb: [snip

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems compiling gcc 4.2.4 and 4.3.1-r1

2008-07-14 Thread John covici
on Monday 07/14/2008 Joe User([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici schrieb: Hi, [snip] Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 i686) ^^ that's your major

[gentoo-user] Problems compiling gcc 4.2.4 and 4.3.1-r1

2008-07-13 Thread John covici
=env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal:env.d UUCPLOCK=/var/lock/LCK.. VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia VMHANDLE=sun-jdk-1.4 _=/usr/bin/emerge Thanks in advance for any ideas on how to solve this one. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems compiling gcc 4.2.4 and 4.3.1-r1

2008-07-13 Thread John covici
on Monday 07/14/2008 Nikos Chantziaras([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici wrote: Hi. I am having problems compiling gcc vrsions 4.2.4 or 4.3.1-r1. The errors are very similar -- here is what I am getting when compiling 4.3.1-r1. For GCC 4.3.x you need to update sys-libs/glibc

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade packages!

2008-07-10 Thread John covici
for any ideas on this. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade packages!

2008-07-10 Thread John covici
on Thursday 07/10/2008 Joshua D Doll([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici wrote: Hi. I just emerged the firefox 3.0 which required a new version also of xulrunner. Now if I run revdep-rebuild, it wants to downgrade both of these packages. A number of packages seem to depend

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-07-04 Thread John covici
it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-28 Thread John covici
on Saturday 06/28/2008 Mick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Thursday 26 June 2008, John covici wrote: on Thursday 06/26/2008 Joerg Schilling([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Then call: cdda2wav -e -N -B If everything is OK, then you will be able to listen to the music

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-26 Thread John covici
on Thursday 06/26/2008 Joerg Schilling([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like the two-wire cable between the CD ROM and your soundcard is missing or loose. I'd check this first. If this is a laptop, it might well be that the connection

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-26 Thread John covici
on Thursday 06/26/2008 Joerg Schilling([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recommend you to get a recent cdrtools (e.g. from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/) and install cdda2wav suid root. Then call: cdda2wav -e

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-26 Thread John covici
. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-25 Thread John covici
? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware autodetection at boot

2008-05-29 Thread John covici
, otherwise be sure to generate one using genkernel. Hope this helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Problem running gnome as a normal user

2008-05-02 Thread John covici
-if-ambiguout show-all-if-ambiguout: No such file or directory Anyone have an idea as to what is happening or even how to troubleshoot such a thing? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running gnome as a normal user

2008-05-02 Thread John covici
on Friday 05/02/2008 deface([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote can you verify the user is in the video group? grep video /etc/group deface Yep, the user is in the video group. On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 23:06 -0400, John covici wrote: Hi. I can run gnome as root or log into it as root

[gentoo-user] Blocking package is not actually installed

2008-05-01 Thread John covici
going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Ian Graeme Hilt([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:27:57 pm John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking dev-libs

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 John covici([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: OK, here is the requested output. These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote [nomerge ] media-sound/sound-juicer-2.22.0 [2.20.1-r1] USE=-debug -test (-flac%*) (-ogg

[gentoo-user] trouble emerging R and tcltk

2008-04-30 Thread John P. Burkett
for suggestions about diagnosing and solving the problem. Best regards, John -- John P. Burkett Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

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

2008-04-30 Thread John P. Burkett
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John P. Burkett wrote: On a x86 machine operating under Gentoo Linux, I'm having persistent difficulty in emerging R and tcltk in a manner that allows the former to find the latter. On this machine, in R version 2.6.1, the command library(tcltk

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

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

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

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tuesday 29 April 2008, John covici wrote: OK, what will I gain if I change the profile from /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0 (I don't even have

[gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
a couple of more like that as well. Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-28 Thread John Krukoff
://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-user-account-control-ua c-the-easy-way-on-windows-vista/ - John Krukoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread John covici
. I am using something close to the original gentoo configs, so it uses an initrd parameter also which you need separately in grub. Hope this helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] screen locks too frequently

2008-04-23 Thread John P. Burkett
for suggestions about how to discover what program is locking the system and how to change its behavior. -- John P. Burkett Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195 -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread John covici
time. Its not encrypted, however and I am not sure what happened to the developer, but it does seem to work. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-20 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:05:54AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:05 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy the portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed and working, you could use

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-19 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:29:57AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. You could unpack a stage 3 tarball

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread John J. Foster
Chris, Strong and Emil - most excellent suggestions, and I'd love to try them out as soon as someone helps me get portage working again! Thanks, festus pgpAMIgASTf6H.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread John J. Foster
Please !!! This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. Pointers and links greatly appreciated. TIA, festus On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 07:22:41PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see

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