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

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)

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

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

2008-05-02 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I searched for NROFF in /etc/man-conf and found a note saying to add | -c if something had a specific version. I tried that and it works | now. There may be otehr fixesm but that works for me. Just edit it | and look for

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

2008-05-02 Thread Wolf Canis
[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 those answers somewhere so

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

2008-05-02 Thread Wolf Canis
Brandon Mintern wrote: ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the checking for lines (the configuration step). Yes, you are right, but I thought that ccache cached parts of the configuration too. That's what

[gentoo-user] Only a - in top column WCHAN since downgrade to gcc 4.1.2

2008-05-04 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, since I gcc downgraded to version 4.1.2 I have in the top column WCHAN only a -. This applies to all processes. The System.map is available in /usr/src/linux. It works after installation, that was late 2007, with gcc 4.1.2 and it works with gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Wolf Canis
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a year so that the saved startup time equalizes the time spent compiling it. I have to disagree. On my laptop Dell Inspiron 6400, Dual Core Pentium (T2130) 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Wolf Canis
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a year so that the saved startup time equalizes the time spent compiling it. ccache in make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Wolf Canis
Mick wrote: You people don't know what pain means! :-)) -- [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-bin-2.4.0 Estimated update time: 5 minutes. -- [ebuild N] app-office/openoffice-2.4.0 Estimated update time: 23 hours,

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Wolf Canis
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a year so

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Wolf Canis
Zdenek Travnicek wrote: I don't know a machine with the name thunderbird :-[ . But I started with Gentoo on a Toshiba Tecra 8100, that's a PIII Copermine 800MHz and 512 MB RAM. In this respect, I can say: Yes, I did. :-) An emerge -e world lasted 11 hours, without OOO, OOO alone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

2008-05-06 Thread Wolf Canis
Sven Köhler wrote: When you emerged grub-0.97-r5, this was displayed on your console: WARN: postinst *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but later stages will be the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error

2008-05-09 Thread Wolf Canis
Hello, I just experienced the same problem. Could you solve your problem? If so could you post the solution? Some data of mine: I'm in the groups: groups=10(wheel),11(floppy),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),85(usb),100(users),250(portage),443(plugdev),1000(rh),1001(wireshark) CD/DVD

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error

2008-05-10 Thread Wolf Canis
Ian Hilt wrote: On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 5:53pm +0200, Wolf Canis wrote: Hello, I just experienced the same problem. Could you solve your problem? If so could you post the solution? Some data of mine: I'm in the groups: groups=10(wheel),11(floppy),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),85

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-17 Thread Wolf Canis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just started to use layman tools and wondered if setting such things as /etc/portage/package.use would still be done in that same place and same way? I think yes. I want to install an overlay of emacs-cvs but with different use flags I would say there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

2008-05-24 Thread Wolf Canis
Robin Atwood wrote: grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong? You have to use back slashed versions of metacharacters. Following how would do that: $ grep -e '^[[:space:]]\+provide[[:space:]]\+[a-z]\+' /etc/init.d/*

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

2008-05-24 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin Atwood wrote: grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong? You have to use back slashed versions of meta characters. Following how would do that: $ grep -e

[gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-24 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, it seems that sometimes mails of mine doesn't go to the list. :-( I had this problem just a couple of hours ago. I send a reply to the thread Need help with a regex but the mail doesn't reach the list. I looked in the archive and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-24 Thread Wolf Canis
. and the second message: Message was signed by Wolf Canis (Common) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Key ID: 0xA174B705). The signature is valid, but the key is untrusted

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-25 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norberto Bensa wrote: Signed messages doesn't make any sense on a mailing list. I may ask you for a explanation, please? I think they make a lot of sense, because you or the mailing system are able to verify the message or rather the origin, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-25 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: This is a nice list with helpful people. No doubt about that. :-) There are other lists however, when it is not that rare for malicious (or unhinged) individuals to impersonate someone else and hijack their email address to publish

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-29 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 »Q« wrote: Wolf Canis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would know a message reach the ML with my Name but no signature or a different signature, could one relatively be sure about the fact that this particular message is not from the original Wolf Canis

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-29 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: [...] Absolutely. I just wonder how many people will choose not to use such kind of list in order not to sacrifice their anonymity. Exactly. [...] It also might be the same person signing with different keys or sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot problem

2008-05-29 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Humphrey wrote: I have no problem chrooting into a system on the hard disk if I've booted from an installation CD, but every time I try it after booting from another HD partition I get e.g. this: # chroot /mnt/rescue /bin/bash chroot:

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-30 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: Come ooon! :) The whole bet thing was of course a joke. What I had in mind is that you'd have to hack Gmail which I believe won't classify as relatively easy. Not to mention that even just for proof of concept this would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-30 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: Unfortunately many times one cannot control the reverse records, because the IP address pool belongs to the ISP. Nevertheless the SMTP server logs the IP address which the message came from. It doesn't matter if the message

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot problem

2008-05-31 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Humphrey wrote: [...] # cd /mnt/rescue # mount -tproc proc proc # mount -obind /dev dev I mean that the mount commands should be: # mount -tproc proc /mnt/rescue/proc # mount -obind /dev /mnt/rescue/dev I just build a mini chroot

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot problem

2008-05-31 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolf Canis wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: [...] # cd /mnt/rescue # mount -tproc proc proc # mount -obind /dev dev I mean that the mount commands should be: # mount -tproc proc /mnt/rescue/proc # mount -obind /dev /mnt/rescue/dev Ooops, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem

2008-07-20 Thread Wolf Canis
Ivan Alden wrote: Hi, My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem

2008-07-20 Thread Wolf Canis
Oh sorry, _very_ _important_ : Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub. W. Canis signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem

2008-07-20 Thread Wolf Canis
Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Oh sorry, _very_ _important_ : Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub. I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your grub.conf and carries on with its business . . . So far I that now, is that now

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem

2008-07-20 Thread Wolf Canis
Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Oh sorry, _very_ _important_ : Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub. I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your grub.conf and carries